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trompa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • horn noun A hard, pointed growth on the head of certain animals, such as cattle, goats, or rhinos.
  • mashed adj Crushed into a soft, pulpy state.
  • snout noun The projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a pig.
  • squinch noun A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.
  • trunk verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.

Senses

trompa is used for these senses in English:

  • French horn A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
  • horn (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • mashed (informal) intoxicated
  • snout The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
  • snout The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
  • squinch (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.
  • trunk The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

horn — full definition

  1. noun A hard, pointed growth on the head of certain animals, such as cattle, goats, or rhinos.
  2. noun A brass wind instrument, or an instrument used to signal.
  3. noun A device on a vehicle that makes a loud warning sound.
  4. verb To sound a vehicle's horn.

mashed — full definition

  1. adj Crushed into a soft, pulpy state.
  2. adj (informal) Very drunk.

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