| trumpet | 1. 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. "The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms." (Dryden) 2. A trumpeter. 3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. "That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . To be the trumpet of his praises." (Dryden) 4. <machinery> A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. Ear trumpet. See Ear. <botany> Sea trumpet See Trumpetwood. Origin: F. Trompette, dim. Of trompe. See Trump a trumpet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| trumpet sign | <radiology> Enlargement of the nerve root secondary to oedema, seen in disc herniation (HNP) (12 Dec 1998) |
| trumpeter | 1. One who sounds a trumpet. 2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. "These men are good trumpeters." (Bacon) 3. <ornithology> Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. Crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik. A variety of the domestic pigeon. An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note. 4. <zoology> A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trumpeting | <chemical> A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trumpets | <botany> A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trumpetweed | <botany> An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads. The sea trumpet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trumpetwood | <botany> A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments. Synonym: snakewood, and trumpet tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea trumpet | 1. <botany> A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long. 2. <zoology> Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| trumpet | a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone |
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| trumpet | utter in trumpet-like sounds |
| trumpet | proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet |
| trumpet | play or blow on the trumpet |
| trumpet | a conical squinch |
| trumpet | a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers |
| trumpet | evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers |
| trumpet | woody flowering vine of southern United States |
| trumpet | Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat |
| trumpet | evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers |
| trumpet | the section of a band or orchestra that plays trumpets or cornets |
| trumpet | tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems |
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