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A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.
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Meaning of "wah-wah" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WAH-WAH

Of imitative origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WAH-WAH

wah-wah  [ˈwɑːˌwɑː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAH-WAH

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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wah-Wah is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAH-WAH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wah wah

Wah wah or wah-wah may refer to: ▪ Wah-wah, a musical special effect to produce voice-like tones ▪ Wah-wah pedal, a guitar effects pedal that produces these tones ▪ Wah Wah, a 1994 album by James ▪ Wah-Wah , a 2005 film by Richard E. Grant ▪ "Wah-Wah", a 1970 song by George Harrison from All Things Must Pass ▪ Wah Wah Mountains, a north-south trending range in west-central Utah ▪ Wah Wah Valley, an endorheic valley within the Basin and Range of west-central Utah...

Definition of wah-wah in the English dictionary

The definition of wah-wah in the dictionary is the sound made by a trumpet, cornet, etc, when the bell is alternately covered and uncovered: much used in jazz. Other definition of wah-wah is an electronic attachment for an electric guitar, etc, that simulates this effect.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WAH-WAH


Adowa
ˈɑːdʊˌwɑː
Aduwa
ˈɑːdʊˌwɑː
armoire
ɑːmˈwɑː
baignoire
ˈbenwɑː
boudoir
ˈbuːdwɑː
bourgeois
ˈbʊəʒwɑː
Chihuahua
tʃɪˈwɑːwɑː
Chippewa
ˈtʃɪpɪˌwɑː
devoir
ˈdevwɑː
Dubois
djuːˈbwɑː
fatwa
ˈfætwɑː
haniwa
ˈhɑːnɪˌwɑː
Kwa
kwɑː
memoir
ˈmɛmwɑː
noir
nwɑː
repertoire
ˈrɛpəˌtwɑː
reservoir
ˈrɛzəˌvwɑː
Seychellois
ˌseɪʃɛlˈwɑː
tous-les-mois
ˌtuːleɪˈmwɑː
wawa
ˈwɑːˌwɑː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAH-WAH

wagoner
wagonette
wagonful
wagonless
wagonload
wagons-lits
wagonwright
Wagram
wagtail
Wagyu
wah-wah pedal
Wahabi
Wahabism
Wahhabi
Wahhabism
wahine
wahoo
wai
waiata
waif

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAH-WAH

Abdullah
ah
Allah
dah
dawah
Deborah
Hannah
kajawah
lah
Leah
mwah
noah
Sabah
Sarah
Savannah
sawah
shah
Utah
yah
yeah

Synonyms and antonyms of wah-wah in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wah-wah» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAH-WAH

Find out the translation of wah-wah to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wah-wah from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wah-wah» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

哇哇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

wah - wah
570 millions of speakers

English

wah-wah
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वाह वाह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

واه واه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вау-вау
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wah -wah
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Wah-Wah
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

wah -wah
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wah wah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wah-Wah-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ワウワウ音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

와우
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wah-wah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wah-wah
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வா-வா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वहा-वाह
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

wah-wah
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wah - wah
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kaczka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вау - вау
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wah -wah
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wah - wah
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wah wah -
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wah - wah
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wah - wah
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wah-wah

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAH-WAH»

The term «wah-wah» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.629 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAH-WAH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wah-wah

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QUOTES WITH «WAH-WAH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wah-wah.
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Robin Trower
A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAH-WAH»

Discover the use of wah-wah in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wah-wah and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film
Ten years after the publication of With Nails, Richard E. Grants brilliant memoir of his years in Hollywood, Picador are proud to be publishing Wah-Wah, the very personal diaries of his debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his ...
Richard E. Grant, 2006
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Wah Wah Girls
Inspired by the world of the Mujra dancers, who for generations have entertained the rich and powerful with a spellbinding mix of dance and song, Wah!
Tanika Gupta, 2012
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Introduction to Digital Signal Processing: Computer ...
3.2 Bi-quadratic filter (a.k.a. Bi-quad filter) and the Wah-Wah filter A simple but great filter example in musical application is the wah-wah filter. This filter is commonly used by electric guitarists and sometimes by electric bassists as well as by ...
Tae Hong Park, 2010
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Boom Chicka Wah Wah
All night long, wah wah wah. Is that what you want, bro?” He looked at me seriously before focusing back on the road. “Well, I do like my sleep.” “No doubt, bro.” He punched the accelerator, and the 300 leaped past a school bus. “And you can ...
Kevin Zdrill, 2013
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Music Engineering
Wah-wah is a dramatic effect derived from passing the signal from the electric guitar's pick-up through a high-Q, low-pass filter, the turnover frequency of which is adjustable usually by means of the position of a foot-pedal as illustrated in Figure ...
Richard Brice, 2001
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Sorting of Components During Emplacement of the Wah Wah ...
INTRODUCTION The Wah Wah Springs Tuff Member of the Needles Range Formation was emplaced as a simple cooling unit about 30 mybp from the Indian Peak. Caldera near the southern Utah-Nevada border. The tuff is crystal-rich, ...
Robert L. Nusbaum, S. Kerry Grant, 1986
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The Book of Nero 7: CD and DVD Burning Made Easy
Wah-Wah The Wah-Wah effect was first used by jazz trumpet players such as Clyde McCoy to approximate the human voice saying “wah.” They obtained the effect by covering and then uncovering the horn opening with a mute. Later, electric ...
Wally Wang, 2006
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The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film. 3 CDs
With a lively rhyming text; bright, expressive illustrations; and a playful die-cut cover, this is one shark's tale that will be a hit either at story hour . . . or feeding time. Full color.
Peter Bently, 2008
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DAFX: Digital Audio Effects
The wah-wah effect is produced mostly by foot-controlled signal processors containing a bandpass filter with variable center frequency and a small bandwidth. Moving the pedal back and forth changes the bandpass center frequency.
Udo Zölzer, 2011
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Take Control of Recording with GarageBand
Auto Wah: This filter simulates classic wah-wah pedals, made famous in the 1960s by musicians like Jimi Hendrix. Wah-wah pedals allow you to manually sweep through the frequency spectrum, making your guitar (or whatever other ...
Jeff Tolbert, 2006

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAH-WAH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wah-wah is used in the context of the following news items.
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Del Casher invented the wah-wah pedal and changed rock and roll …
In the mid-'60s, Casher helped develop a device he envisioned as the new voice of the guitar. He called it the wah-wah pedal. The wah made it possible to take ... «89.3 KPCC, Oct 14»
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See Beck's Rousing George Harrison Cover, 'Wah-Wah,' From 'Conan'
Beck kicked off George Harrison Week on Conan with a rousing rendition of the jangly All Things Must Pass track "Wah-Wah." Somehow Beck, who's known for ... «RollingStone.com, Sep 14»
3
A Brief History of the Wah-Wah, a Musical Accident
The wah-wah pedal, which first hit its stride in the opening guitar solo of Jimi Hendrix's 1968 Voodoo Child (Slight Return), defined the trippier side of funk ever ... «Motherboard, Feb 13»
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Why Don't You Cry? The Top 10 Wah-Wah Solos
After tremolo, fuzz and reverb, wah-wah is one of the earliest effects, and certainly one of the most expressive. Its interactive nature means everyone uses the ... «Gibson, Apr 12»
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With a Flip of a Knob, He Heard the Future
He admired the bluesy tones that the trumpet and trombone players emitted, with the help of wah-wah mutes, on “Rhapsody in Blue,” George Gershwin's 1924 ... «New York Times, Aug 11»

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« EDUCALINGO. Wah-Wah [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wah-wah>. Apr 2024 ».
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