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trombone

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for trombone.

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A lot more girls play flute and clarinet while a lot more boys play sousaphone, trombone, and percussion.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

The common European bittern.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of trombone gathered in one view.

noun

The common European bittern.

noun

(film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.

verb

(telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trombone.

noun

The common European bittern.

noun

(film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.

verb

(telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.

verb

(film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.

Example sentences

1

A lot more girls play flute and clarinet while a lot more boys play sousaphone, trombone, and percussion.

2

Only a matter of time before someone makes this with a slide trombone.

3

I was on a domestic Delta flight recently and someone brought a trombone case and 1 personal item without issue.

4

Also played the trombone in school until I was kicked out for improvising all the time.

5

The biggest challenges with anycast are dealing with Asia (to make sure routes don't trombone) and traffic management since you can't control where traffic goes.

6

Being an old trombone myself, I find the learning curve to get proficient in any recent UI framework isn't worth my time.

7

I am an ex-trombone, bass singer, and arranger of the Gamer Symphony Orchestra, an 80-person student orchestra at UMD College Park that plays exclusively video game music.

8

Baker (jazz trombone), Evelyn Glennie (percussion) and Leon Fleisher (classical piano), who had different challenges but learned new instruments or kept playing when they were essentially unable to play their primary instruments.

9

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes.

10

I played trombone through college (jazz band).

11

/play trombone Whelp, it's been grand, Google.

12

This is taken to the extreme with the trombone, which is basically just a giant tuning slide with a mouthpiece and bell, allowing for effectively-unhindered tuning flexibility akin to that of a chamber instrument or a human voice.

Quote examples

1

For grins, _failing_ to press one results in my office speakerphone playing "sad-trombone-sound.wav" -- how I love to hear that sound.

2

It's as good as literally "any description"; science forum, racist feedback command center, gay hookup site, blog response community, 10th largest website in the solar system, click-bait blog-spam sales site, blue trombone weekly meetup organization, micro blogging community...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use trombone in a sentence?

A lot more girls play flute and clarinet while a lot more boys play sousaphone, trombone, and percussion.

What does trombone mean?

The common European bittern.

What part of speech is trombone?

trombone is commonly used as noun, verb.