trumpet

Definitions

• (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.
• Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
• The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
• (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
• A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
• 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.
• A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.