trumpet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
  2. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
    — The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
  3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
    — The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
  4. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. figuratively
    — I will the banner from a trumpet take
  5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
  6. 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.
    — The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions.
  7. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
  8. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
  9. A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one. US,capitalized,often,slang
动词 v.
  1. To sound loudly, be amplified intransitive
    — The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
  2. To play the trumpet. intransitive
    — Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
  3. Of an elephant, to make its cry. ambitransitive
    — The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.
  4. To give a loud cry like that of an elephant. ambitransitive
    — The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.
  5. To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically transitive
    — Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.

词形变化

trumpets plural trumpets present,singular,third-person trumpeting participle,present trumpeted participle,past trumpeted past

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
trumpet player trumpeter trumpetress

词源

词源 1
From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.
词源 2
From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.
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