Trumpet

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trumpet \Trump"et\, v. i.
     To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a
     trumplike cry.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trumpet
       n : 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}, {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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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}.
       
          [Author?]
       
          (1995-01-12)