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/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/ · noun
(music) 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.
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.
The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […].
The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
I will the banner from a trumpet take
That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.
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.
Use trumpet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Trumpet means (music) 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..
Common synonyms include beme, cornet, flugelhorn, horn.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
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