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vibes
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun vibes has 1 sense
- vibes(n = noun.artifact) vibraharp, vibraphone - a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound; Array is a kind of percussion instrument, percussive instrument
OXFORD DICTIONARY
vibes, n.pl. colloq.
1 vibrations, esp. in the sense of feelings or atmosphere communicated (the house had bad vibes).
2 = VIBRAPHONE.
1 vibrations, esp. in the sense of feelings or atmosphere communicated (the house had bad vibes).
2 = VIBRAPHONE.
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THESAURUS
vibes
battery, bells, bones, caring, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, chord, clappers, concern, crash cymbal, cymbals, echo, empathy, feelings, fellow feeling, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, handbells, identification, idiophone, involvement, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone, orchestral bells, pathos, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, rapport, rattle, rattlebones, relating, resonances, response, responsiveness, sensations, sharing, sizzler, snappers, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, tam-tam, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibraphone, vibrations, xylophone
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