trombone
IPA: trɑmbˈoʊn
noun
- A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
- The common European bittern.
- (film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
verb
- (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
- (film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
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Examples of "trombone" in Sentences
- The trombone developed from the trumpet.
- I like music and I play the trombone and the piccolo.
- According to Trombone there exists a piccolo trombone.
- For works for trombone post 1800, please see trombone.
- David Weins acted as the boisterous trombone playing ruffian.
- In particular, the slide design of the trombone necessitates this.
- The instrument is the ancestor of both the trumpet and the trombone.
- He developed a condition that's being called trombone player's lung.
- Trombones found a place besides trumpets, making the sound more brassy.
- Try playing the lute or the trombone without a slide or the harpsichord.
- The tone of the alto is more brilliant than that of the tenor or bass trombone.
- The trombone is a very portable instrument, but remember, there’s always room for cello.
- They are really members of one family, as the name trombone -- big trumpet -- implies, and blend well together.
- MR. MARSALIS: Please welcome jazz authority and scholar -- and he'll sneak a trombone out and play it if you don't watch him -- Dr. David Baker.
- "No doubt the trombone is a little cracked and brassy, so to speak, because of a hinfluenza as has wonted him for some weeks; but there's good stuff in 'im, sir, and plenty o' lungs.
- The trombone is a wind instrument, and this ordinary fact still draws Globokar's special attention, as he tries to see how many of the breath's activities - speech, in particular - he can bring into play.
- After ever-increasing amounts of verbal diarrhoea from Kinnear culminated in his new contract codswallop, the best thing he can do now is keep his trap shut in public and get on the "trombone" to try and pull us out of the proverbial.
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