Trumpet vs Drum - What's the difference?
trumpet | drum |
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
A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it.
Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 631:
(architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola
(architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar
A drumfish.
(slang, UK) A person's home.
A tip, a piece of information.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, page 258:
To beat a drum.
(ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
* Washington Irving
To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
To throb, as the heart.
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for .
In intransitive terms the difference between trumpet and drum
is that trumpet is of an elephant, to make its cry while drum is to beat a drum.In transitive terms the difference between trumpet and drum
is that trumpet is to proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically while drum is to drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.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.
drum
English
Noun
(en noun)- The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums .
- Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum .
- ‘he is the darndest little speaker we got, so better sit there and listen to him while he gives you the drum and if you clean out your earholes you might get a bit of sense into your heads.’
Derived terms
* bass drum * drum and bass * drum beat * drum brake * drum kit * drummer * drum roll * drumstick * drum stick * hand drum * kettledrum * snare drum * tenor drumSee also
* percussionVerb
(drumm)- The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
- drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair
- He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
- (Dryden)
