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рожо́к — meaning in English

rozhok

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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.
  • clarion noun A medieval brass instrument with a narrow tube and a high, piercing sound, once used to signal in battle.
  • cornet noun A brass instrument similar to, but slightly smaller and mellower than, a trumpet.
  • horn noun A hard, pointed growth on the head of certain animals, such as cattle, goats, or rhinos.
  • macaroni adj (historical) Fashionable or stylish in an exaggerated, foppish way, especially describing 18th-century dandies.
  • prong noun A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool.

Senses

рожо́к 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
  • carob The fruit of that tree.
  • clarion (brass instrument, historical, or, poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
  • cornet A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
  • horn Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
  • horn An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
  • horn (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • horn (countable, musical instrument) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

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.

clarion — full definition

  1. noun A medieval brass instrument with a narrow tube and a high, piercing sound, once used to signal in battle.
  2. adj Loud, clear, and impossible to ignore — especially describing a message or call to action.

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