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Trumpet vs Tucket - What's the difference?

trumpet | tucket |

As nouns the difference between trumpet and tucket

is that trumpet is a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of b-flat while tucket is (music) a fanfare played on one or more trumpets or tucket can be (obsolete) a steak; a collop.

As a verb trumpet

is to sound loudly, be amplified.

trumpet

Noun

(en noun)
  • A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat.
  • The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
  • In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.
  • The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
  • The cry of an elephant.
  • The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
  • (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
  • That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times to be the trumpet of his praises.
  • A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
  • Synonyms

    * (musical instrument) cornet

    Derived terms

    * natural trumpet * straight trumpet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sound loudly, be amplified
  • The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
  • To play the trumpet.
  • Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
  • Of an elephant, to make its cry.
  • ''The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet .
  • To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
  • Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

    tucket

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let the trumpets sound / The tucket sonance and the note to mount.

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A steak; a collop.
  • (Jeremy Taylor)
    (Webster 1913)