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pɪt noun
1.
Music.
a.
any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other.
b.
an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet.
c.
a trumpeter.
2.
something used as or resembling a trumpet, especially in sound.
3.
a sound like that of a trumpet.
4.
the loud shrill cry of an animal, especially an elephant.
5.
verb (used without object)
7.
to blow a trumpet.
8.
to emit a loud, trumpetlike cry, as an elephant.
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verb (used with object)
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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| —n | |
| 1. | a valved brass instrument of brilliant tone consisting of a narrow tube of cylindrical bore ending in a flared bell, normally pitched in B flat. Range: two and a half octaves upwards from F sharp on the fourth line of the bass staff |
| 2. | any instrument consisting of a valveless tube ending in a bell, esp a straight instrument used for fanfares, signals, etc |
| 3. | a person who plays a trumpet in an orchestra |
| 4. | a loud sound such as that of a trumpet, esp when made by an animal: the trumpet of the elephants |
| 5. | an eight-foot reed stop on an organ |
| 6. | something resembling a trumpet in shape, esp in having a flared bell |
| 7. | short for ear trumpet |
| 8. | blow one's own trumpet to boast about oneself; brag |
| —vb , -pets, -peting, -peted | |
| 9. | to proclaim or sound loudly |
| [C13: from Old French trompette a little | |
| 'trumpet-like | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
trumpet
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.
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
trumpet definition
A brass instrument with a brilliant tone, much used in classical music, as well as in military music and jazz.
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Computing Dictionary
Trumpet definition
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/).
news:alt.winsock.trumpet.
[Author?]
(1995-01-12)
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
trumpet
in music, brass wind musical instrument sounded by lip vibration against a cup mouthpiece. Ethnologists and ethnomusicologists use the word trumpet for any lip-vibrated instrument, whether of horn, conch, reed, or wood, with a horn or gourd bell, as well as for the Western brass instrument. The technical distinction between trumpet and horn is that one-third of the tube length of a trumpet is conical and two-thirds is cylindrical, while the horn's tube is the opposite. Both types are found throughout the world. For example, non-Western long trumpets are as dispersed as the kakaki of West Africa, the Persian and Arab nafir, the laba of China, and the spectacular dung-chen of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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Example sentences
He has taught himself to play guitar, drums, piano and trumpet.
His voice, once a mighty trumpet of faith, was soft and thin.
Here a conical trumpet is attached to spectacle frames in an attempt to solve this problem.
The beasts trumpet loudly, flap their ears and turn in circles.
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