trombone

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/, /tɹəmˈbəʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/, /tɹəmˈboʊn/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -əʊn, (US) -oʊn

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.

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: […]

• IPA^(key): /trɔmˈbɔːnə/

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trombone c (plural trombones)

1. (music) trombone

Borrowed from Italian trombone.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃.bɔn/

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trombone m (plural trombones)

1. (music) trombone
2. paper clip

trombone

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

• “trombone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. (music) a trombone

   Synonym: trekkbasun

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

1. (music) a trombone

   Synonym: trekkbasun

Borrowed from Italian trombone.

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

trombone m (plural trombones)

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