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trum·pet 
[truhm-pit] Pronunciation Key
[truhm-pit] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used without object)
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | Music.
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| 2. | something used as or resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound. |
| 3. | a sound like that of a trumpet. |
| 4. | the loud shrill cry of an animal, esp. an elephant. |
| 5. | ear trumpet. |
| 6. | trumpets, any of several pitcher plants of the southeastern U.S. |
| 7. | to blow a trumpet. |
| 8. | to emit a loud, trumpetlike cry, as an elephant. |
| 9. | to sound on a trumpet. |
| 10. | to utter with a sound like that of a trumpet. |
| 11. | to proclaim loudly or widely. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| trum·pet
(trŭm'pĭt) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. trum·pet·ed, trum·pet·ing, trum·pets v. intr.
v. tr. To sound or proclaim loudly. [Middle English trumpette, from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe, horn, from Old High German trumpa.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
trumpet (n.)
trumpet (n.)
c.1300, from O.Fr. trompette "trumpet," dim. of trompe (see trump (n.2)). The verb is recorded from 1530; fig. sense of "to proclaim, extol" is attested from 1581.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| trumpet | |
noun | |
| 1. | a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet] |
verb | |
| 1. | proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet; "Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty" |
| 2. | play or blow on the trumpet |
| 3. | utter in trumpet-like sounds; "Elephants are trumpeting" |
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
trumpet
trumpet
A brass instrument with a brilliant tone, much used in classical music, as well as in military music and jazz.
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
Trumpet
A news reader for Microsoft Windows, using the WinSock library. There is also an MS-DOS version. Trumpet is shareware from Australia.
(ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet).
(ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/stacks/trumpwsk/).
alt.winsock.trumpet.
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(1995-01-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Trumpet
Trump"et\, n. [F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet.]1. (Mus.) 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. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. --Dryden. 2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. --Clarendon. 3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. --Shak. That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. --Dryden. 4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. Ear trumpet. See under Ear. Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed (Ecklonia buccinalis) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes. Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. Trumpet animalcule (Zo["o]l.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] Trumpet conch (Zo["o]l.), a trumpet shell, or triton. Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. Trumpet fish. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. Trumpet fly (Zo["o]l.), a botfly. Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower. Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to "its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape." --Grove. Trumpet shell (Zo["o]l.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.
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Trumpet
Trump"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trumpeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumpeting.] [Cf. F. trompeter.] To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings. They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. --Bacon.
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Trumpet
Trump"et\, v. i. To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
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