Mouthpiece
['maʊθpiːs] or ['maʊθpis]
Definition
(noun.) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly.
(noun.) the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth.
(noun.) an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks.
(noun.) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth.
(noun.) a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person; 'the mouthpiece of a respirator'.
(noun.) a spokesperson (as a lawyer).
Checked by Erwin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.
(n.) An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.
(n.) One who delivers the opinion of others or of another; a spokesman; as, the mouthpiece of his party.
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- It is a mere toss up whether I shall ever do more than keep myself decently, unless I choose to sell myself as a mere pen and a mouthpiece. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The mouthpiece A had adjacent to the cylinder a flexible diaphragm carrying a little point or stylus which bore against the tin foil on the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This mouthpiece had a diaphragm and stylus similar to the other one, only more delicately constructed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A diaphragm of soft iron is shown at D, and E is the mouthpiece. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The smoke had a vile taste, and the taste of a thousand infidel tongues that remained on that brass mouthpiece was viler still. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the oboe (Fig. 189, 2) the vibrating air column is set into motion by means of two thin pieces of wood or metal placed in the mouthpiece of the tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I wonder how many real amber mouthpieces there are in London? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They were long narrow cigarettes with pasteboard cylinders for mouthpieces. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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