| Englisch > Deutsch | |
| harp | |
| 1. Verb: | |
| 2. [1] veraltet: auf einer Harfe spielen | |
| 3. [2] auf etwas herumreiten | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
| harp | |
| 1. subst. (musical instrument) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard |  |
| 2. subst. Any instrument of the same musicological type. |  |
| 3. subst. (colloquial) A harmonica. |  |
| 4. subst. (Scotland) A grain sieve. |  |
| 5. subst. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of the musical instrument used as a charge, as in the arms of Ireland. |  |
| 6. v. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject. |  |
| Why do you harp on a single small mistake? (US) |  |
| Why do you harp on about a single small mistake? (UK) |  |
| 7. v. To play on (a harp or similar instrument) |  |
| 8. v. To play (a tune) on the harp. |  |
| 9. v. To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon. |  |
| Deutsch > Englisch | |
| Harfe | |
| 1. n-f. (musical instruments) harp |  |