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单词 trombone
释义

trombonen.

Brit. /trɒmˈbəʊn/, /ˈtrɒmbəʊn/, U.S. /trɑmˈboʊn/, /trəmˈboʊn/
Etymology: < Italian trombone ‘a bace or great sackbut, a great trump’ (Florio, 1598), also, a blunderbuss, augmentative of tromba trumpet. Compare French trombon (16th cent. in Godefroy).
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).
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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.
attributive.1886 Academy 16 Oct. 267/1 Why..are Handel's trombone parts persistently ignored?1893 ‘B. Abbotsford’ But vii. 40 The ‘it’ [man] with the trombone voice.1906 P. Kropotkin Mem. of Revolutionist (1908) I. viii. 47 Behind each one of us a violinist or a trombone player stands.1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 4/2 It does not concern them whether the [motor-engine] cylinders are as big as beer-barrels, or the stroke as elongated as a trombone-slide.
b. One who plays this instrument.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Etymology: < trombone n.
1. transitive. To move to and fro as in playing the trombone (humorous). rare.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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