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Trumpet   /trˈəmpət/   Listen
noun
Trumpet  n.  
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. "The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms."
2.
(Mil.) 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."
4.
(Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
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."
Trumpet shell (Zool.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2.
Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.


verb
Trumpet  v. t.  (past & past part. trumpeted; pres. part. trumpeting)  To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings. "They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish."


Trumpet  v. i.  To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.





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"Trumpet" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Doom, summons them from the four winds! On his head, like the Pope, he has three Hats,—a real triple tiara; on either hand are the similitude of wings, whereon the summoned Garments come to alight; and ever, as he slowly cleaves the air, sounds forth his deep fateful note, as if through a trumpet he were proclaiming: "Ghosts of Life, come to Judgment!" Reck not, ye fluttering Ghosts: he will purify you in his Purgatory, with fire and with water; and, one day, new-created ye shall reappear. O, let him in whom the flame of Devotion is ready to go out, who has never worshipped, ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... dissolution of all that belongs to our present life, when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, with his holy angels; for he "shall come, and shall not keep silence," when he shall come to judge the living and the dead, and to render to every man according to his work; when the trumpet, with its loud and terrible echo, shall awaken those who have slept from the beginning of the world, and they shall come forth, they that have done good to the resurrection of the life, and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation. Remember ...
— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various
... Horse His glorious strength, and clothed his arching neck With thunder? At the armed host he mocks,— The rattling quiver, and the glittering spear. Prancing and proud, he swalloweth the ground With rage, and passionate desire to rush Into the battle. At the trumpet's sound, And shouting of the captains, he exults, Drawing the stormy terror with delight Into his fearless spirit. Doth the Hawk In her migrations counsel ask of Thee? Mounts the swift Eagle up at thy command? Making her nest among the star-girt cliffs, ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney
... Poet without pere, Heavenly Trumpet, orloge, and regulere, In Eloquence, Baulme, Conduct, and Dyal, Milkie Fountaine, Cleare Strand, and Rose Ryal, Of fresh endite through Albion Island brayed In his ...
— The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) • William Winstanley
... pine in my fetters here! With the wild wave's foam and the free bird's flight, And the tall spears glancing on my sight, And the trumpet in ...
— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman


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