Trumpet
['trʌmpɪt]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Samantha--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Tito
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Horn.
v. a. Proclaim, publish, announce, promulgate, advertise, blaze abroad, spread abroad, noise abroad, make known.
Editor: Will
Definition
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).
Edited by Arnold
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a trumpet, denotes that something of unusual interest is about to befall you. To blow a trumpet, signifies that you will gain your wishes.
Edited by Linda
Examples
- The use of a megaphone or speaking trumpet for conveying the sound of the voice to a distance is based on the same principle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This causes a sound of very great power, which the trumpet collects and compresses, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Put up 'A Voice from the Flames,' 'A Trumpet-warning to Jericho,' and the 'Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And he smiled as to the note of a trumpet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped; and there warn't a penny trumpet in the fair, as I couldn't hear the squeaking on. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- With a speaking-trumpet! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You have only to look at Keck, who manages the 'Trumpet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His warning voice was unheard, for the din which the knight himself occasioned by his strokes upon the postern would have drowned twenty war-trumpets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The trumpets sounded, and the knights charged each other in full career. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For many years after this episode, the modern lead-lead type of battery thus brought forward with so great a flourish of trumpets had a hard time of it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The trumpets then again flourished, and a herald, stepping forward, proclaimed aloud,--Oyez, oyez, oyez. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- When Tantor trumpeted, the great ape scurried with his fellows high among the trees of the second terrace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Typist: Yvette