trumpet as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
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trumpet
noun
1 trumpet
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves.
synonyms: cornet, horn, trump.
Roget 722:
warfare;
fighting
etc.
v.;
hostilities;
war,
arms,
the sword;
Mars,
Bellona,
grim visaged war,
horrida bella [Lat.];
bloodshed.
appeal to arms,
appeal to the sword;
ordeal of battle;
wager of battle;
ultima ratio regum [Lat.],
arbitrament of the sword.
battle array,
campaign,
crusade,
expedition,
operations;
mobilization;
state of siege;
battlefield,
theater of operations
etc.
(arena)
728;
warpath.
art of war,
tactics,
strategy,
castrametation†;
generalship;
soldiership;
logistics;
military evolutions,
ballistics,
gunnery;
chivalry.
gunpowder,
shot.
battle,
tug of war
etc.
(contention)
720;
service,
campaigning,
active service,
tented field;
kriegspiel [G.],
Kriegsspiel [G.];
fire cross,
trumpet,
clarion,
bugle,
pibroch†,
slogan;
war-cry,
war-whoop;
battle cry,
beat of drum,
rappel,
tom-tom;
calumet of war;
word of command;
password,
watchword;
passage d-armes [Fr.].
war to the death,
war to the knife;
guerre a mort [Fr.],
guerre a outrance [Fr.];
open war,
internecine war,
civil war.
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Roget 417:
musical instruments;
band;
string-band,
brass-band;
orchestra;
orchestrina†.
[Stringed instruments],
monochord†,
polychord†;
harp,
lyre,
lute,
archlute†;
mandola†,
mandolin,
mandoline†;
guitar;
zither;
cither†,
cithern†;
gittern†,
rebeck†,
bandurria†,
bandura,
banjo;
bina†,
vina†;
xanorphica†.
viol,
violin,
fiddle,
kit;
viola,
viola d'amore [Fr.],
viola di gamba [It];
tenor,
cremona,
violoncello,
bass;
bass viol,
base viol;
theorbo†,
double base,
contrabasso†,
violone†,
psaltery [Slang];
bow,
fiddlestick†.
piano,
pianoforte;
harpsichord,
clavichord,
clarichord†,
manichord†;
clavier,
spinet,
virginals,
dulcimer,
hurdy-gurdy,
vielle†,
pianino†,
Eolian harp.
[Wind instruments];
organ,
harmonium,
harmoniphon†;
American organ†,
barrel organ,
hand organ;
accordion,
seraphina†,
concertina;
humming top.
flute,
fife,
piccolo,
flageolet;
clarinet,
claronet†;
basset horn,
corno di bassetto [It],
oboe,
hautboy,
cor Anglais [Fr.],
corno Inglese†,
bassoon,
double bassoon,
contrafagotto†,
serpent,
bass clarinet;
bagpipes,
union pipes;
musette,
ocarina,
Pandean pipes;
reed instrument;
sirene†,
pipe,
pitch-pipe;
sourdet†;
whistle,
catcall;
doodlesack†,
harmoniphone†.
horn,
bugle,
cornet,
cornet-a-pistons,
cornopean†,
clarion,
trumpet,
trombone,
ophicleide†;
French horn,
saxophone,
sax [Slang],
buglehorn†,
saxhorn,
flugelhorn†,
althorn†,
helicanhorn†,
posthorn†;
sackbut,
euphonium,
bombardon tuba†.
[Vibrating surfaces]
cymbal,
bell,
gong;
tambour†,
tambourine,
tamborine†;
drum,
tom-tom;
tabor,
tabret†,
tabourine†,
taborin†;
side drum,
kettle drum;
timpani,
tympani†;
tymbal†,
timbrel†,
castanet,
bones;
musical glasses,
musical stones;
harmonica,
sounding-board,
rattle;
tam-tam,
zambomba†.
[Vibrating bars]
reed,
tuning fork,
triangle,
Jew's harp,
musical box,
harmonicon†,
xylophone.
sordine†,
sordet†;
sourdine†,
sourdet†;
mute.
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PERCEPTION OF SOUND
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Dutch: trompetist, cornet, cornet à pistons, kornet, trompet
verb
1 trumpet
Proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet.
Roget 884:
boast,
make a boast of,
brag,
vaunt,
Puff,
show off,
flourish,
crake†,
crack,
trumpet,
strut,
swagger,
vapor;
blague†,
blow,
four-flush [Slang],
bluff.
exult,
crow,
crow over,
neigh,
chuckle,
triumph;
throw up one's cap;
talk big,
se faire valoir [Fr.],
faire claquer son fouet [Fr.],
take merit to oneself,
make a merit of,
sing Io triumphe†,
holloa before one is out of the wood†.
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2 trumpet
Play or blow on the trumpet.
Dutch: trompetten
3 trumpet
Utter in trumpet-like sounds.
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