Trumpet vs. Trump

Trumpetnoun

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

Trumpetnoun

In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.

Trumpetnoun

The cry of an elephant.

Trumpetnoun

(figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

Trumpetnoun

A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Trumpetnoun

A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) To play the trumpet.

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.

Trumpetverb

(transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

Trumpetnoun

A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

Trumpetnoun

A trumpeter.

Trumpetnoun

One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

Trumpetnoun

A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Trumpetverb

To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

Trumpetverb

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Trumpetnoun

a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Trumpetverb

proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet;

Trumpetverb

play or blow on the trumpet

Trumpetverb

utter in trumpet-like sounds;

Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B♭ or C Trumpet.

Trumpnoun

(cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

Trumpnoun

(cards) A playing card of that suit.

Trumpnoun

(figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.

Trumpnoun

An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.

Trumpnoun

An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.

Trumpnoun

A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

Trumpnoun

(archaic) A trumpet.

Trumpnoun

Flatulence.

Trumpnoun

The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.

Trumpnoun

synonym of Jew's harp.

Trumpverb

To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

Trumpverb

To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.

Trumpverb

(transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.

Trumpverb

To impose unfairly; to palm off.

Trumpverb

(transitive) To supersede.

Trumpverb

To blow a trumpet.

Trumpverb

To flatulate.

Trumpnoun

A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; - used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.

Trumpnoun

A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.

Trumpnoun

An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; - called also ruff.

Trumpnoun

A good fellow; an excellent person.

Trumpverb

To blow a trumpet.

Trumpverb

To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.

Trumpverb

To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.

Trumpverb

To trick, or impose on; to deceive.

Trumpverb

To impose unfairly; to palm off.

Trumpnoun

a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps

Trumpnoun

a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Trumpverb

produce a sound as if from a trumpet

Trumpverb

get the better of;

Trumpverb

play a trump

Trumpverb

proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare

Trumpnoun

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) a playing card of the suit chosen to rank above the others, which can win a trick where a card of a different suit has been led

Trumpnoun

the suit of cards ranking above the others in a particular hand

Trumpnoun

(in a tarot pack) any of a special suit of 22 cards depicting symbolic and typical figures and scenes.

Trumpnoun

a valuable resource that may be used, especially as a surprise, in order to gain an advantage

Trumpnoun

a helpful or admirable person

Trumpnoun

a trumpet or a trumpet blast.

Trumpverb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump on (a card of another suit)

Trumpverb

surpass (something) by saying or doing something better

Trumpverb

break wind audibly.