Definition of "trumpet"

trumpet

/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/

noun
plural trumpets
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.
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  In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
  1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature‎, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501
2. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
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  Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […] .
  1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]
3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
4. (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  Quotations
  I will the banner from a trumpet take
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene ii]
  That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.
  1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  1974, O.T.A., Proceedings, page 4
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. (US, slang, often capitalized) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
verb
third-person singular simple present trumpets, present participle trumpeting, simple past and past participle trumpeted
1. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
2. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
3. (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
  Quotations
  The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.
  2017, Gerhard Gehrke, Nineveh's Child
5. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
  Quotations
  They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
  a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629

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