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单词 bugle
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bugle1

noun ˈbjuːɡ(ə)lˈbjuɡəl
  • A brass instrument like a small trumpet, typically without valves or keys and used for military signals.

    the bugle sounded the charge
    as modifier a bugle call
    Example sentencesExamples
    • By the end of the Civil War the artillery, cavalry, and infantry were sounding bugle calls.
    • Deployed in open order, often across broken terrain and beyond the immediate supervision of their commanders, the manoeuvres of these soldiers were controlled by signals relayed by bugles and horns.
    • There is just less than half an hour of music, beginning with an introductory movement depicting dawn at a tranquil camp of Confederate troops, broken by the Assembly bugle calls and the march north.
    • He had a weakness for everything grand, powerful and gleaming - military uniforms, brass bugles, banners and lances glinting in the sun, royal palaces and coats of arms.
    • While the living comrades of those buried in a New Caledonia cemetery stand at salute, a bugle sounds ‘Taps’ - voicing the promise that they have not died in vain.
    • For years, Mason led Star of Indiana, a world champion drum and bugle corps.
    • Traditional musical instruments include a bugle made from buffalo horn, a circular piece of iron with a string stretched across it that vibrates to produce sound, and a drum.
    • The ability to play only notes of the harmonic series is the characteristic feature of such simple instruments as the bugle or posthorn.
    • In Winchester a single bugle player sounded the Last Post before the cathedral grounds fell silent.
    • He was awoken before dawn by the strange lilting sound of Ottoman bugles, and after prayers and a breakfast of melons he set off behind the Mutawwif towards the Sacred Mosque.
    • The bugle was essential to all military communication until its displacement by electronics.
    • The bugle that sounded the Charge of the Light Brigade will today be presented to the regiment that carried it into the valley where hundreds of men died.
    • I was on duty in the submarine lookout position when I heard the ‘double’ sounded on our bugles and I immediately ran to my action station in Q turret, midships between the two funnels.
    • With the deep tones of a bugle signalling the end of the remembrance service in the background, Emmett said in a trembling voice that his journey back to the camp brought closure for him.
    • This military role was later assumed by the bugle or trumpet in the west.
    • It can be ranked with the trumpet, the bugle, and the drum as a military instrument.
    • Now we have barracks for the soldiers but the bugle is an extremely important instrument for our regiment and we like to carry on the tradition.
    • In Lancashire, the bugle sounded at the stroke of midday as riders and hunt followers toasted the Holcombe Hunt with a drop of brandy or port.
    • Call out the fifes, sound the bugles, strike on the drums.
    • From beyond the canyon's ridge, a wonderful bugle call charged the air, pounding hooves, belonging to the stalwart super troopers of Holt's Rangers raced to The Alamo in all their red, white and blue glory.
verb ˈbjuːɡ(ə)lˈbjuɡəl
[no object]
  • 1Sound a bugle.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All day long, upon the grass-grown ramparts of the town practising soldiers trumpeted and bugled; all day long, down in angles of dry trenches, practising soldiers drummed and drummed.
    • Until the mid-1800s, the best technology was shouting, bugling, or messengers on foot or on horseback.
    • In fact, in response to George's protests, the first confederate, Henry Longshackle, began bugling even more loudly.
    1. 1.1with object Sound (a note or call) on a bugle.
      he bugled a warning
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sharp notes fill the afternoon like gun smoke as Mr. Fish bugles the students back on the bus.
      • Gunga Din was climbing the tower to bugle a warning and the Scottish bagpipers were on the way.
      • Thanks to the sailor who bugled a tune for the group as well as the several songs we heard over the radio.

Derivatives

  • bugler

  • noun ˈbjuːɡləˈbjuɡlər
    • With the glinting medieval spires of Bayeux cathedral as a backdrop, a bugler sounded the Last Post and the massed congregation paused for a minute's silence, many overcome with emotion.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But apparently, as the years have gone by, military buglers have become something of a dying breed.
      • All members of the branch wish to extend their thanks to everyone who helped in any way, and especially the members of the Boys' Brigade (1st Kendal Company) and to the buglers and cadets of the Kendal Sea Cadets.
      • A second bugler, about 100 yards down the road, picked up the tune.
      • Yesterday, the Fife stadium resounded to a new tune within the bugler's repertoire, the strains of the French national anthem being heard in deference to the inspired double signing during the week of two players from France.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos 'ox'. The early English sense was 'wild ox', hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting.

  • The early English sense was ‘wild ox’, hence the compound bugle-horn for the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally during hunting. The word comes via Old French from Latin būculus, ‘little ox’ from bōs ‘ox’.

Rhymes

frugal, fugal, google

bugle2

noun ˈbjuːɡ(ə)lˈbjuɡəl
mass noun
  • A creeping Eurasian plant of the mint family, with blue flowers held on upright stems.

    Genus Ajuga, family Labiatae: several species, especially the common A. reptans

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
    • Primrose, cowslip, lady's mantle, bugle, thrift, clustered bellflower are widely available in garden centres, but are all natives.
    • You can even plant periwinkle, bugle and ground ivy in the gaps in your log or rock pile - this could make a fun project for an older child.

Origin

Middle English: from late Latin bugula.

bugle3

noun ˈbjuːɡ(ə)lˈbjuɡəl
  • An ornamental tube-shaped glass or plastic bead sewn on to clothing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Towering stilettos from Sergio Rossi or Diego Dolcini are studded with Swarovski crystals, bugle beads or paillettes, often on luxurious fabrics such as satin or even alpaca.
    • It was made out of black polyester that looked very much like silk, floor length, with a kind of cowl neck, cut low to the back with straps fanning out across the back and bugle beading at the hips and collar.
    • On the cover of our December issue, Gwyneth Paltrow is wearing a beautiful satin/silk, bugle-beaded Ralph Lauren collection gown.
    • She believes in shimmer in bridal wear and embellishes the line with bugle beads, gold thread, sequins, embroidery, weave and print to create an almost futuristic look.
    • Sophie's more casual outfit consists of a black Powerline stretch sleeveless top, Kismet's own label sarong, and an orange, multi-strand bugle bead bracelet.

Origin

Late 16th century: of unknown origin.

 
 

bugle1

nounˈbyo͞oɡəlˈbjuɡəl
  • 1A brass instrument like a small trumpet, typically without valves or keys and used for military signals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This military role was later assumed by the bugle or trumpet in the west.
    • It can be ranked with the trumpet, the bugle, and the drum as a military instrument.
    • He was awoken before dawn by the strange lilting sound of Ottoman bugles, and after prayers and a breakfast of melons he set off behind the Mutawwif towards the Sacred Mosque.
    • With the deep tones of a bugle signalling the end of the remembrance service in the background, Emmett said in a trembling voice that his journey back to the camp brought closure for him.
    • He had a weakness for everything grand, powerful and gleaming - military uniforms, brass bugles, banners and lances glinting in the sun, royal palaces and coats of arms.
    • Now we have barracks for the soldiers but the bugle is an extremely important instrument for our regiment and we like to carry on the tradition.
    • Traditional musical instruments include a bugle made from buffalo horn, a circular piece of iron with a string stretched across it that vibrates to produce sound, and a drum.
    • For years, Mason led Star of Indiana, a world champion drum and bugle corps.
    • The bugle was essential to all military communication until its displacement by electronics.
    • In Winchester a single bugle player sounded the Last Post before the cathedral grounds fell silent.
    • In Lancashire, the bugle sounded at the stroke of midday as riders and hunt followers toasted the Holcombe Hunt with a drop of brandy or port.
    • The ability to play only notes of the harmonic series is the characteristic feature of such simple instruments as the bugle or posthorn.
    • From beyond the canyon's ridge, a wonderful bugle call charged the air, pounding hooves, belonging to the stalwart super troopers of Holt's Rangers raced to The Alamo in all their red, white and blue glory.
    • There is just less than half an hour of music, beginning with an introductory movement depicting dawn at a tranquil camp of Confederate troops, broken by the Assembly bugle calls and the march north.
    • The bugle that sounded the Charge of the Light Brigade will today be presented to the regiment that carried it into the valley where hundreds of men died.
    • Call out the fifes, sound the bugles, strike on the drums.
    • While the living comrades of those buried in a New Caledonia cemetery stand at salute, a bugle sounds ‘Taps’ - voicing the promise that they have not died in vain.
    • I was on duty in the submarine lookout position when I heard the ‘double’ sounded on our bugles and I immediately ran to my action station in Q turret, midships between the two funnels.
    • Deployed in open order, often across broken terrain and beyond the immediate supervision of their commanders, the manoeuvres of these soldiers were controlled by signals relayed by bugles and horns.
    • By the end of the Civil War the artillery, cavalry, and infantry were sounding bugle calls.
    1. 1.1 A loud sound resembling that of a bugle, as the mating call of a bull elk.
      the piercing bugle of adult bulls
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When Dudley hears the bull's bugle she loads her chamber and leaves our hiding place.
      • I listen for the screech of a circling hawk and the bugle of a bull elk.
      • The bulls arrange harems of as many as 50 cows, using a screeching bugle sound to make them swoon.
      • The haunting, squealing bugle of bull elks, echoing along high valleys in autumn, seems the voice of an unchanging wilderness.
verbˈbyo͞oɡəlˈbjuɡəl
[no object]
  • 1Sound a bugle.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All day long, upon the grass-grown ramparts of the town practising soldiers trumpeted and bugled; all day long, down in angles of dry trenches, practising soldiers drummed and drummed.
    • Until the mid-1800s, the best technology was shouting, bugling, or messengers on foot or on horseback.
    • In fact, in response to George's protests, the first confederate, Henry Longshackle, began bugling even more loudly.
    1. 1.1with object Sound (a note or call) on a bugle.
      he bugled a warning
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sharp notes fill the afternoon like gun smoke as Mr. Fish bugles the students back on the bus.
      • Thanks to the sailor who bugled a tune for the group as well as the several songs we heard over the radio.
      • Gunga Din was climbing the tower to bugle a warning and the Scottish bagpipers were on the way.
    2. 1.2 Issue a loud sound resembling that of a bugle, particularly the mating call of a bull elk.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Further back in the trees an unseen bull elk bugled the fluty fall mating cry that says nothing so much as ‘wild.’
      • The back-up orchestra consisted of bugling sandhill cranes, Eastern meadowlarks, and singing Savannah sparrows.
      • So when an elk bugles, everyone listens, males and females alike: females to assess the fitness of the bull, males to judge whether to challenge him for the right to mate.
      • His engraving of a bugling elk and waterfowl in flight are visually appealing and add greatly to the over-all aesthetics of the gun.
      • The bugling of the stags is a form of challenge and carries for about a kilometre on a clear day.
      • A bull elk, then, has to continually advertise - through bugling and antler display - his own fitness in order to counter the claims of others and to attract and hold his harem.
      • If any of them can howl like a coyote or bugle like an elk, Texas might have a chance.
      • Soaring golden eagles, bugling elk, ptarmigans, and other wildlife accompany us on this scenic and awe-inspiring journey.
      • Indeed, sandhill legions on this river, dancing and bugling in spring and fall, are by far the greatest crane assemblies on earth.
      • Reklesh bugled, a loud brassy call which resonated in the air around them.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos ‘ox’. The early English sense was ‘wild ox’, hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting.

bugle2

nounˈbyo͞oɡəlˈbjuɡəl
  • A creeping plant of the mint family with blue flowers held on upright stems.

    Genus Ajuga, family Labiatae: several species, especially the common A. reptans

    Also called bugleweed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Primrose, cowslip, lady's mantle, bugle, thrift, clustered bellflower are widely available in garden centres, but are all natives.
    • You can even plant periwinkle, bugle and ground ivy in the gaps in your log or rock pile - this could make a fun project for an older child.
    • We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.

Origin

Middle English: from late Latin bugula.

bugle3

nounˈbyo͞oɡəlˈbjuɡəl
also bugle bead
  • An ornamental tube-shaped glass or plastic bead used in beadwork for clothing and fashion accessories.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Towering stilettos from Sergio Rossi or Diego Dolcini are studded with Swarovski crystals, bugle beads or paillettes, often on luxurious fabrics such as satin or even alpaca.
    • Sophie's more casual outfit consists of a black Powerline stretch sleeveless top, Kismet's own label sarong, and an orange, multi-strand bugle bead bracelet.
    • On the cover of our December issue, Gwyneth Paltrow is wearing a beautiful satin/silk, bugle-beaded Ralph Lauren collection gown.
    • It was made out of black polyester that looked very much like silk, floor length, with a kind of cowl neck, cut low to the back with straps fanning out across the back and bugle beading at the hips and collar.
    • She believes in shimmer in bridal wear and embellishes the line with bugle beads, gold thread, sequins, embroidery, weave and print to create an almost futuristic look.

Origin

Late 16th century: of unknown origin.

 
 
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