1.
[syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump]
VERB (3)
1. proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet;
- Example: "Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty"
2. play or blow on the trumpet;
3. utter in trumpet-like sounds;
- Example: "Elephants are trumpeting"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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The trumpet's loud clangor
Excites us to arms. --Dryden.
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2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. --Clarendon.
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3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the
instrument of propagating it. --Shak.
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That great politician was pleased to have the
greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet
of his praises. --Dryden.
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4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide
or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
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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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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. (Zool.)
(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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the
reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
--Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trumpet \Trump"et\, v. i.
To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a
trumplike cry.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
trumpet
n 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, horn, trumpet, trump]
v 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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
257 Moby Thesaurus words for "trumpet":
English horn, adulate, advertise, air, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn,
alto horn, apotheosize, bagpipe, ballad horn, ballyhoo, baritone,
bark, bass horn, bassoon, bawl, bay, beep, belaud, bell, bellow,
bepraise, blare, blare forth, blast, blat, blaze, blaze abroad,
blazon, blazon about, blazon forth, bless, block flute, blow,
blow a horn, blow the horn, blow up, blubber, boast of, bombard,
boom, bourdon, brag about, brandish, brass choir, brass wind,
brass-wind instrument, brasses, bray, breathe, bugle, bugle horn,
buzz, cackle, carillon, celebrate, cello, chant, chirp, claribel,
clarinet, clarion, concert flute, coo, cornet, cornet-a-pistons,
corno di caccia, cornopean, cromorna, crow, cry, cry out, cry up,
cymbel, dangle, declaim, deify, demonstrate, diapason, display,
doodle, double-bell euphonium, double-tongue, drawl, dulciana,
emblazon, eulogize, euphonium, exalt, exclaim, exhibit, extol,
fanfare, fife, flash, flatter, flaunt, flourish,
flourish of trumpets, flute, flute stop, foundation stop,
fourniture, gamba, gasp, gedeckt, gemshorn, glorify, growl, grunt,
harmonic flute, helicon, herald, herald abroad, hero-worship, hiss,
hold up, honk, horn, hunting horn, hybrid stop, idolize, keen,
key trumpet, koppel flute, larigot, laud, lilt, lionize, lip,
lituus, lur, magnify, make much of, manifest, mellophone, melodia,
mixture, mumble, murmur, mutation stop, mutter, nazard, oboe,
octave, ophicleide, orchestral horn, organ stop, overpraise,
panegyrize, pant, parade, pay tribute, peal, piccolo, pipe,
plein jeu, pocket trumpet, porter aux nues, posaune, post horn,
praise, principal, proclaim, promulgate, puff, puff up, put forth,
put forward, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, reed stop, register,
roar, rohr flute, rumble, sackbut, salute, saxhorn, saxtuba,
scream, screech, serpent, sesquialtera, shawm, shout, shriek,
sibilate, sigh, sing, slide trombone, sliphorn, snap, snarl, snort,
sob, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, sousaphone, spitz flute,
sport, squall, squawk, squeal, stop, stopped diapason,
stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, tantara, tantarara,
taps, tarantara, tattoo, tenor tuba, thunder, thunder forth,
tierce, tongue, toot, tootle, tremolo, triple-tongue, tromba,
trombone, trumpet blast, trumpet call, trumpet forth, tuba, twang,
tweedle, twelfth, unda maris, valve trombone, valve trumpet, vaunt,
vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, wail,
warble, wave, whine, whisper, whistle, wind, wind the horn, yap,
yawp, yell, yelp
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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/).
news:alt.winsock.trumpet.
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(1995-01-12)