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Bugle vs Trombone - What's the difference?

bugle | trombone |

As nouns the difference between bugle and trombone

is that bugle is a horn used by hunters while trombone is 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♭).

As a verb bugle

is to announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

As an adjective bugle

is jet-black.

bugle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A horn used by hunters.
  • (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  • An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
  • Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
  • Synonyms
    * (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnel
    Hypernyms
    * musical instrument
    Derived terms
    * bugler
    Coordinate terms
    * trumpet

    Verb

    (bugl)
  • To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
  • Synonyms
    * trumpet

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
  • * 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
  • With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • jet-black
  • * Shakespeare
  • Bugle eyeballs.

    Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    trombone

    Noun

    (en 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?? (contra B?).
  • Jim plays the trombone very well.
    This trombone is very expensive.
  • The common European bittern.
  • Derived terms

    * alto trombone * tenor trombone * bass trombone * slide trombone * valve trombone * tromboning * trombonist ----