| sustaining pedal | |
| —n | |
| music Compare soft-pedal a foot-operated lever on a piano, usually the right one of two, that keeps the dampers raised from the strings when keys are released, allowing them to continue to vibrate | |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| Main Entry: | sustaining pedal |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See damper pedal |