WordCmp.com

xylophone vs percussive instrument

percussive instrument vs xylophone

xylophone and percussive instrument both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
xylophone Yes No No No
percussive instrument Yes No No No
As nouns, percussive instrument is a hypernym of xylophone; that is, percussive instrument is a word with a broader meaning than xylophone:
  • xylophone: a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
  • percussive instrument: a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another
Other hypernyms of xylophone include percussion instrument.
xylophone (noun) percussive instrument (noun)
a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another
Difference between xylophone and percussive instrument

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.