trombone
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”. The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/, /tɹəmˈbəʊn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/, /tɹəmˈboʊn/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -əʊn, (US) -oʊn
Noun
trombone (plural trombones or tromboni)
- A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
- Jim plays the trombone very well.
- This trombone is very expensive.
- The common European bittern.
- (film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
- 1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production, page 131:
- The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.
- 2013, Harry Box, Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, page 480:
- The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.
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Verb
trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)
- (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
- (film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
- 2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page 357:
- […] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]
- 2014, Henry K. Miller, The Essential Raymond Durgnat, page 71:
- He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]
Dutch
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Noun
trombone c (plural trombones)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian trombone.
Pronunciation
Noun
trombone m (plural trombones)
Verb
trombone
- inflection of tromboner:
Further reading
- “trombone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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Etymology
From tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
trombone m (plural tromboni)
- (music) trombone
- (by extension) trombonist
- Synonym: trombonista
- (figurative) an annoying and boring person, especially if arrogant, old or moralist
- (historical) arquebuse
- Synonym: archibugio
- a type of boot
- wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
- Synonym of tarabuso
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: trombone
- → Russian: тромбо́н (trombón) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: trombón (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- trombone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
trombone m (definite singular trombonen, indefinite plural tromboner, definite plural trombonene)
- (music) a trombone
- Synonym: trekkbasun
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
trombone m (definite singular trombonen, indefinite plural trombonar, definite plural trombonane)
- (music) a trombone
- Synonym: trekkbasun
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian trombone.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: trom‧bo‧ne
- Rhymes: -oni
Noun
trombone m (plural trombones)
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