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What is the difference between amplified and trumpet?

amplified | trumpet |

As verbs the difference between amplified and trumpet

is that amplified is (amplify) while trumpet is to sound loudly, be amplified.

As a noun trumpet is

a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of b-flat.

amplified

English

Verb

(head)
  • (amplify)

    • amplify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
  • (rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
  • * Dryden
    • Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
  • To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

    • Related terms

    () * ample * amplifiable * amplification * amplifier * amplificatory * amplitude

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    trumpet

    English

    (wikipedia trumpet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat.
    • The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
  • In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.
    • The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
  • The cry of an elephant.
    • The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
  • (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
    • That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times to be the trumpet of his praises.
  • A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

    • Synonyms

    * (musical instrument) cornet

    Derived terms

    * natural trumpet * straight trumpet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sound loudly, be amplified
    • The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
  • To play the trumpet.
    • Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
  • Of an elephant, to make its cry.
    • ''The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet .
  • To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
    • Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

    Related terms

    * trumpet player * trumpeter * trumpetress