Ham vs Trumpet - What's the difference?
ham | trumpet |
(anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
(countable) A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat.
(uncountable) Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food.
* (rfdate), Audra Lilly Griffeth, A King's Daughter (ISBN 146915532X):
The back of the thigh.
(internet, informal) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.
An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
An amateur radio operator.
To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat.
In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.
The cry of an elephant.
(figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
* Dryden
A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
To sound loudly, be amplified
To play the trumpet.
Of an elephant, to make its cry.
To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
* Francis Bacon
As nouns the difference between ham and trumpet
is that ham is haem / heme while trumpet is a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of b-flat.As a verb trumpet is
to sound loudly, be amplified.ham
English
(wikipedia ham)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hamme, from (etyl) . Compare gammon.Noun
(en noun)- a little piece of ham for the cat
- She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.
Derived terms
* ham-fisted * hambone * hammy, hamstringEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Usage notes
* Persists in many old place names, such as (Buckingham).References
*Etymology 3
Shortened from , said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man ."ham", Online Etymology Dictionary
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* radio amateur (amateur radio operator)Verb
Anagrams
*trumpet
English
(wikipedia trumpet)Noun
(en noun)- The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
- The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
- The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
- (Shakespeare)
- That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times to be the trumpet of his praises.
Synonyms
* (musical instrument) cornetDerived terms
* natural trumpet * straight trumpetVerb
(en verb)- The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
- Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
- ''The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet .
- Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
- They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.