vibrating reed

1. 1.

   a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

   “the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece”

   Synonymsreed

   Broadervibrator

   Narrowerdouble reed

Questions about vibrating reed

What does vibrating reed mean?

vibrating reed means "a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it".

What is another word for vibrating reed?

Close synonyms include reed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vibrating reed a common word?

vibrating reed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.