Cornet vs Bugle - What's the difference?
cornet | bugle |
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone.
(obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
* Clarendon
A kind of organ stop.
The white headdress worn by the (Sisters of Charity).
(obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
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.
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
As nouns the difference between cornet and bugle
is that cornet is a musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat while bugle is a horn used by hunters.As a verb bugle is
to announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.As an adjective bugle is
jet-black.cornet
English
(wikipedia cornet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cornet, diminutive of a popular reflex of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- A body of five cornets of horse.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) cornette, diminutive of corne, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cornetcyAnagrams
* ----bugle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnelHypernyms
* musical instrumentDerived terms
* buglerCoordinate terms
* trumpetVerb
(bugl)Synonyms
* trumpetEtymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- 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.
