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torvi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bugle noun A brass wind instrument without valves, used mainly for military calls, played by adjusting lip pressure to move between notes.
  • dimwit noun An informal, mildly insulting term for a stupid or slow-witted person.
  • horn noun A hard, pointed growth on the head of certain animals, such as cattle, goats, or rhinos.
  • pipe noun A rigid tube used to carry water, gas, or other fluids.
  • prat noun A foolish or contemptible person (British informal).
  • trumpet noun A brass musical instrument played by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece, typically with valves to change pitch.
  • windpipe noun The tube that carries air from the throat to the lungs; the trachea.

Senses

torvi is used for these senses in English:

  • bugle (brass instrument) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  • bugle A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
  • dimwit (pejorative) A person who is deficient in intelligence.
  • horn (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
  • horn (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • horn (countable, musical instrument) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  • horn (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  • pipe A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. [from 14th c.]

bugle — full definition

  1. noun A brass wind instrument without valves, used mainly for military calls, played by adjusting lip pressure to move between notes.
  2. verb To sound a call in the manner of a bugle, or to announce something loudly.

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