Trumpet

['trʌmpɪt]

解释:

(verb.) utter in trumpet-like sounds; 'Elephants are trumpeting'.

(verb.) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet; 'Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty'.

(verb.) play or blow on the trumpet.

手打:萨曼莎--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

(n.) A trumpeter.

(n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

(n.) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

(v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

(v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

录入:提托

同义词及近义词：

n. Horn.

v. a. Proclaim, publish, announce, promulgate, advertise, blaze abroad, spread abroad, noise abroad, make known.

手打:威尔

解释:

n. the most ancient of wind instruments formed of a long narrow straight tube bent twice on itself the last fifteen inches tapering into a bell and sounded by means of a cupped mouthpiece—much used in military signalling: in organs a powerful reed-stop having a trumpet-like sound: a cry resembling a trumpet-sound: (fig.) one who praises.—v.t. to publish by trumpet: to proclaim: to sound the praises of.—v.i. to sound a trumpet.—ns. Trum′pet-call a call or summons on the trumpet any call to action; Trum′peter one who sounds on the trumpet the regimental calls and signals: one who proclaims praises or denounces: a genus of crane-like birds of British Guiana &c.: one of the whistling swans: a kind of domestic pigeon: a large New Zealand food-fish; Trum′pet-fish also Snipe-fish a sea-fish so named from its trumpet-like or tubular muzzle; Trum′pet-flow′er the popular name of various plants which produce large trumpet-shaped flowers—as the genera Bignonia and Tecoma (Bignoniace) and Solandra (Solonace); Trum′pet-mā′jor a head-trumpeter in a band or regiment.—adj. Trum′pet-shaped formed like a trumpet.—ns. Trum′pet-shell a shell of the genus Triton; Trum′pet-tone the sound of a trumpet: a loud voice.—adj. Trum′pet-tongued having a voice or tongue loud as a trumpet.—n. Speak′ing-trum′pet (see Speak).—Blow one's own trumpet to sound one's own praises; Feast of trumpets a Jewish feast in which trumpets played an important part; Flourish of trumpets (see Flourish).

阿诺德手打