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| 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. |
| trum·pet (trŭm'pĭt) n.
v. intr.
To sound or proclaim loudly. [Middle English trumpette, from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe, horn, from Old High German trumpa.] |
A brass instrument with a brilliant tone, much used in classical music, as well as in military music and jazz.
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)
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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