Talk:accordion
Verb
Is there a verb accordion? The first obvious meaning is "play the accordion", but there's a bunch of cites for "accordioning heart" - maybe used to describe some in-out movement. --Borganised 13:18, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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This claims to be an adjective, but has but one cite, which only shows attributive use, not good enough for a word that is also a noun. DCDuring TALK 23:24, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
- Move to RFV. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:27, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
- Delete. Nothing adjectival about it; looks like an attributive use of a noun. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:48, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
A noun modifier. Not really an adjective. Donnanz 23:40, 10 Dec 2013.
Sense deleted. bd2412 T 15:37, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
RFV discussion: May 2023–May 2025
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"(figurative) A set of items (concepts, links, or otherwise) that can be packed and unpacked cognitively, or their representation as a set of virtual objects. See also telescoping." There is nothing in GBooks for e.g. "accordion of ideas" or "accordion of concepts". Equinox ◑ 13:39, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
- "accordion of memories" or "memory" has a sufficient number of independent hits on GBook (; , in an extended metaphor; ; , in an extended metaphor; ). This probably can't be considered as a lexicalised metaphor, though, and I'm not sure if this is what the editor who added the sense had in mind. 蒼鳥 fawk. tell me if i did anything wrong. 16:23, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
- Century 1911 has an adjective sense: "Resembling in its folds the bellows of an accordion: as, an accordion camera (one that is extensible), accordion skirts, etc."
- I take this to be attributive use of a figurative sense of the noun "Something having folds or being extendable as an accordion." DCDuring (talk) 23:28, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- I wonder if "accordion camera" and "accordion skirts" are really primarily referring to extensibility, or simply to the similarly pleated appearance, in which case they might not belong to the same sense as the "accordion of..."-type cites. Assuming for a moment that they are the same sense, how's this? There are enough "accordion of..." cites to hold the sense up even without the "skirt" and "camera" cites (if we move/remove those). I was not sure whether "accordion of memories" et al. should really be taken as attesting a separate sense, as opposed to the phenomenon that anything can be used in a metaphor, but I must admit phrases with other instruments, like "violin of memories" and "piano of memories", do not seem to get any hits, and other dictionaries have had (semi-)comparable senses, as noted above... - -sche (discuss) 15:24, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- If there is no objection: RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 02:48, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
- I wonder if "accordion camera" and "accordion skirts" are really primarily referring to extensibility, or simply to the similarly pleated appearance, in which case they might not belong to the same sense as the "accordion of..."-type cites. Assuming for a moment that they are the same sense, how's this? There are enough "accordion of..." cites to hold the sense up even without the "skirt" and "camera" cites (if we move/remove those). I was not sure whether "accordion of memories" et al. should really be taken as attesting a separate sense, as opposed to the phenomenon that anything can be used in a metaphor, but I must admit phrases with other instruments, like "violin of memories" and "piano of memories", do not seem to get any hits, and other dictionaries have had (semi-)comparable senses, as noted above... - -sche (discuss) 15:24, 4 May 2025 (UTC)