Trumpet

Word TRUMPET
Character 7
Hyphenation trump et
Pronunciations /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Trumpet"

What do we mean by trumpet?

A soprano brass instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell, the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch. noun

Something shaped or sounding like this instrument. noun

An organ stop that produces a tone like that of the brass instrument. noun

A resounding call, as that of the elephant. noun

To play a trumpet. intransitive verb

To give forth a resounding call. intransitive verb

To sound or proclaim loudly. intransitive verb

To publish by sound of trumpet; hence, to blaze or noise abroad; proclaim; celebrate.

To form with a swell or in the shape of a bell or funnel.

To sound a trumpet; also, to emit a loud trumpet-like sound or cry, as an elephant.

A musical wind-instrument, properly of metal, consisting of a cup-shaped mouthpiece, a long cylindrical or a short conical tube, and a flaring bell. noun

In organ-building, a powerful reed-stop, having a tone somewhat resembling that of a trumpet. noun

A trumpeter; one who sounds a trumpet, either literally or figuratively. noun

A sound like that of a trumpet; a loud cry, especially that of the elephant. noun

A funnel- or trumpet-shaped conductor or guide used in many forms of drawing, doubling, spinning, or other machines to guide the slivers, rovings, yarns, wire, or other materials to the machine, and at once to compact them. It is made in many shapes, but in all the flaring trumpet-mouth is suggested. noun

The flaring mouth of a draw-head of a railway-car, serving to guide the coupling to the pin or other fastening. noun

A trumpet-shell or sea-trumpet; a triton. See cuts under chank and Triton. noun

One of the pitcher-plants, Sarracenia flava. See trumpetleaf. noun

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry. intransitive verb

A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.

The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.

One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Trumpet

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The word "trumpet" in example sentences

A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The trumpet is still sounding, and we still hear the call. ❋ Skzbrust (2009)

The allamanda, or golden trumpet, is one of many tropical flowers that flourish in La Peñita de Jaltemba on Mexico's Nayarit Riviera. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wordsworth's image of the cataracts blowing their trumpet from the steep hearkens to another trumpet image, one which sounded its notes in a far different context — that of Italian opera — but whose lore would have been almost impossible to avoid in ❋ Unknown (2005)

A small bandy-legged man was George, wi 'a jolly face and a squint, and as he drives up he toots on a tin trumpet wi' red tassels on it. ❋ Unknown (1922)

We knew, as if it had been proclaimed to us in trumpet tones, that Mr. Malcolm MacPherson must be Aunt Olivia's beau, and the knowledge took away our breath. ❋ Lucy Maud (1912)

Elijah Lovejoy's innocent blood spoke in trumpet tones to the reformer from his quiet grave by the rolling river. ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)

"What sloop is that?" shouts an officer through a speaking trumpet from the American's decks. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Thus this fifth trumpet is proved to follow the sealing in Re 7: 1-8, under the sixth seal. ❋ Unknown (1871)

When our visible pets died, we buried them with much pomp, to the sound of a drum and a tin trumpet, in a piece of ground by the cabbage-bed; but in the present instance that ceremony was impossible. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Let the glorious voice of Freedom, calling in trumpet-tongue from the grave of Abraham Lincoln, and ascending, in the immortal proclamation of emancipation, to the very heavens with his marching soul -- let this speak for you, and, in the name of the ❋ Unknown (1865)

This trumpet is spoken of, 1 Cor.xv. 52, and 1 Thess. iv. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The trumpet is blown in the city (Amos iii. 6), and the watchmen on the walls cry, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet, Jer. vi. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Beth-aven, or Bethel, which place seems to be already seized upon by the enemy, and therefore the trumpet is not sounded there, but you hear the outcries of those that shout for mastery, mixed with theirs that are overcome. ❋ Unknown (1721)

His music on the word trumpet would be beautiful (it is in "Bonduca"); and if (as he did) he sent the bass plunging headlong from the top to the bottom of a scale to illustrate "they that go down to the sea in ships," that headlong plunge would be beautiful too -- so beautiful as to be heard with as great pleasure by those who know what the words are about as by those who don't. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)

"where fine music on the word trumpet" will be remembered. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)

a trumpet from the borders of Virginia through the length of Kentucky to the River. ❋ Unknown (1865)

The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel’s Army. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A trumpet is a brass instrument which is played by blowing air into the mouthpiece and causing vibrations with the lips, while operating piston or rotary valves. ❋ Michael James (2010)

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