What is the difference between machine and trumpet?
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A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
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(archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
(computing) A computer.
(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
* Landor
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
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to make by machinery.
to shape or finish by machinery.
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 machine and trumpet
is that machine is a mechanical or electrical device that performs or assists in the performance of human tasks, whether physical or computational, laborious or for entertainment while trumpet is a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of b-flat.As verbs the difference between machine and trumpet
is that machine is to make by machinery while trumpet is to sound loudly, be amplified.machine
English
(wikipedia machine)Noun
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- The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
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Synonyms
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(Derived terms) * finite state machine * jet machine * machine bolt * machine code * machinegun * machine-gun * machine gun * machine instruction * machine language * machine learning * machine-made * machine of government * machine pistol * machine-readable * machine room * machine screw * machine shop * machine tool * machine-translation * machine translation * machine-washable * pinball machine * sewing machine * simple machine * slot machineVerb
(machin)Derived terms
* machinistExternal links
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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.
