单词 | trombone |
释义 | trombonen. 1. Music. a. A large loud-toned brass instrument of the trumpet kind, consisting of a long tube bent twice upon itself, and ending in a bell mouth; the U-shaped bend nearer the mouth-piece is of double telescoping tubes, sliding upon one another, so that the length of the sounding tube may be adjusted to produce the desired note.It is also made with valves and pistons instead of the slide ( valve-trombone). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trombone posaune1724 trombone1724 busaun1776 valve trombone1883 slush pump1913 slip-horn1923 slide1976 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Trombone, a very Large or Bass Trumpet, though more properly a Sackbut. 1813 Examiner 10 May 303/2 Every violin, bassoon, and trombone. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 151 There are four kinds of trombones, each of which bears the name of the human voice to which it bears the nearest resemblance in quality of tone and compass. 1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 234 The Trumpet..and the Trombone its natural bass. 1889 W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Music IV. 176 In a.d. 1520 there was a well-known Posaunenmacher named Hans Menschel, who made slide Trombones as good as, or perhaps better, than those of the present time. 1892 J. A. Symonds Life Michelangelo (1899) II. xi. 65 A sense-deafening solo on a trombone. b. One who plays this instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > trombone-player trombone1847 trombonist1891 valve trombonist1946 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxi. 310 An artful trombone, lurks and dodges round the corner. c. A reed-stop in the organ of similar tone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > reed-stop > specific regal1555 curtal1582 trumpet1659 cremona1660 cromorne1694 hautboyc1700 horn1722 serpent1730 dulcian1773 zinke1773 trumpet stop1795 musette1825 fagotto1832 oboe1834 trombone1837 physharmonica1838 cornopean1840 ophicleide1842 posaune1843 button regal1852 shawm1852 vox angelica1852 busaun1855 bombardon1856 tuba1858 bombard1876 clarinet1876 rackett1876 tenoroon1876 clarionet1880 krummhorn1880 1837 Stranger's Guide York (ed. 6) 78 Trombone..Wood open diapason. 2. /tromˈbone/, plural tromboni /-ni/ = blunderbuss n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > blunderbuss blunderbuss1654 trombone1754 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison (ed. 7) III. 258 I beat down his Trombone, a kind of Blunderbuss, just as he presented it at me. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 177 When we came up, we fired our tromboni, but missed. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. x. 356 He fired his trombone in the air, when every rock reverberated the sound. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. xv. 334 He then discharged his trombone just over my head. 3. A green or yellow pear-shaped pumpkin belonging to the Australian variety of this name. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fruits as vegetables > [noun] > pumpkins or squashes turquin1600 squanter-squash1634 pumpkin1647 cushaw1698 simlin1775 summer squash1801 zucca1818 summer crookneck1832 pattypan1855 trombone1946 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > pumpkin peponOE pompion1526 pompillion1598 turquin1600 pumpkin1647 calabash1658 potiron1658 winter squash1771 zucca1818 kabocha1884 sugared pumpkin1884 sugar-pumpkin1905 Ceylon pumpkin1913 trombone1946 Queensland blue1956 1946 Jrnl. Agric. (S. Austral.) Jan. 275 The trombone is not such a good cropper unless it can be watered in hot weather. 1969 Jrnl. Agric. (S. Austral.) Jan. 208 By far the most popular pumpkin variety in South Australia is the Trombone. It is typically pear-shaped with a curved neck. 1978 Guardian 10 Nov. 21/8 According to one reader, a trombone is a non-spherical pumpkin much used in chutneys and pickles. Another, equally well versed in Australian horticulture, tells me that it is a long-necked marrow with a bulbous end (hence the name) which is cooked and treated exactly like vegetable marrow. Derivatives colloquial, pertaining to or characterized by the trombone. trombonist n. = 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > trombone-player trombone1847 trombonist1891 valve trombonist1946 1891 Cent. Dict. Trombonist. 1897 Weekly Sun 19 Sept. 3/4 A trombonist in our tontine band. 1908 Times 8 July 7/2 Herr Steidl..showed us how a trombonist and a clarinetist ought to be educated. trombony adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [adjective] > trombone trombony1899 1899 A. Layard Musical Bogeys 44 The Trombony Bogey is terribly thin. 1913 Daily News 6 Sept. 6 The Prelude to Act III of ‘Lohengrin’..is a tromboney piece of music. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). trombonev. 1. transitive. To move to and fro as in playing the trombone (humorous). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] work1617 reciprocate1653 pump1803 gig1815 dodge1820 pumphandle1851 trombone1879 yo-yo1973 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight vi. 70 The age..when we commence to ‘trombone our newspaper’ in search of the receding near point of distinct vision. 1893 W. H. Hudson Idle Days Patagonia xi The redskin..is never observed to trombone his newspaper. 2. intransitive. To play the trombone; also transferred, to make a sound like a trombone. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (intransitive)] flitec900 beme?c1225 thunderc1374 full-sounda1382 claryc1440 reird1508 shout1513 to make the welkin ring1590 rally1728 din1798 alarm1839 trombone1866 clarion1885 blast1931 blare1955 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of hippo) trombone1866 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play trombone trombone1866 1866 J. Macgregor Thousand Miles in Rob Roy Canoe (ed. 2) iii. 48 Crowds of gaping peasants..jostled against bands drumming and tromboning.., and marching in a somewhat ricketty manner over the undoubtedly rough pavement. 1888 H. Drummond Trop. Afr. i. 18 The hippopotami..tromboning at us within pistol-shot kept us awake. 1960 New Oxf. Hist. Music III. xii. 426 ‘Die pusauner pusaunoten über einnander mit dreyen stymmen, als man sunst gewonlichen singet’ (‘the trombonists tromboned together in three parts as one is otherwise accustomed to sing’). 1967 Listener 26 Jan. 144/3 A contentious fugal start and imperious tromboning herald the story-telling with a piquant sense of expectation. Derivatives tromˈboning n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise > making noise-making1487 reirding1535 tromboning1864 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > playing trombone tromboning1864 1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. ix. 196 When standing here, the hoarse tromboning of the hippopotamus, wishing to come out to graze, echoed from out these rushes. 1958 R. Harris in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz iii. 44 There was one man..who created a legend of tail-gate tromboning—the one and only Kid Ory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1724v.1864 |
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