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σάλπιγγα — meaning in English

salpinga

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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.
  • trumpet noun A brass musical instrument played by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece, typically with valves to change pitch.

Senses

σάλπιγγα is used for these senses in English:

  • Fallopian tube (anatomy) Either of the two ducts through which ova pass from the ovaries to the uterus.
  • bugle (brass instrument) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  • trumpet (brass 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.

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.

trumpet — full definition

  1. noun A brass musical instrument played by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece, typically with valves to change pitch.
  2. verb To announce or praise something loudly and publicly.
  3. noun The loud, blaring cry made by an elephant.

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