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trombone

See also: Trombone and tromboné

English

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A tenor trombone

Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) +‎ -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”. The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/, /tɹəmˈbəʊn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/, /tɹəmˈboʊn/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: (UK) -əʊn, (US) -oʊn

Noun

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trombone (plural trombones or tromboni)

  1. 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.
  2. The common European bittern.
  3. (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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Translations

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Verb

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trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)

  1. (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
  2. (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: […]

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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trombone c (plural trombones)

  1. (music) trombone

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian trombone.

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Noun

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trombone m (plural trombones)

  1. (music) trombone
  2. paper clip

Verb

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trombone

  1. inflection of tromboner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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From tromba (“trumpet”) +‎ -one (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tromˈbo.ne/
  • Rhymes: -one
  • Hyphenation: trom‧bó‧ne

Noun

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trombone m (plural tromboni)

  1. (music) trombone
  2. (by extension) trombonist
    Synonym: trombonista
  3. (figurative) an annoying and boring person, especially if arrogant, old or moralist
  4. (historical) arquebuse
    Synonym: archibugio
  5. a type of boot
  6. wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
  7. Synonym of tarabuso

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → English: trombone
  • → Russian: тромбо́н (trombón) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Spanish: trombón (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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  • trombone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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trombone m (definite singular trombonen, indefinite plural tromboner, definite plural trombonene)

  1. (music) a trombone
    Synonym: trekkbasun

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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trombone m (definite singular trombonen, indefinite plural trombonar, definite plural trombonane)

  1. (music) a trombone
    Synonym: trekkbasun

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian trombone.

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  • Hyphenation: trom‧bo‧ne
  • Rhymes: -oni

Noun

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trombone m (plural trombones)

  1. (music) trombone (a musical instrument in the brass family)
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