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Trumpet vs. Clarion — What's the Difference?

Trumpet vs. Clarion — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Trumpet and Clarion

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B♭ or C Trumpet.

Clarion

A shrill narrow-tubed war trumpet.

Trumpet

(Music) A soprano brass instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell, the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch.

Clarion

Loud and clear
Clarion trumpeters

Trumpet

Something shaped or sounding like this instrument.
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Clarion

Loud and clear
A clarion call to resistance.

Trumpet

(Music) An organ stop that produces a tone like that of the brass instrument.

Clarion

A medieval trumpet with a shrill clear tone.

Trumpet

A resounding call, as that of the elephant.

Clarion

The sound of this instrument or a sound resembling it.

Trumpet

(Music) To play a trumpet.

Clarion

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.
The clarion’s call to action has been heard.

Trumpet

To give forth a resounding call.

Clarion

(by extension)

Trumpet

To sound or proclaim loudly.

Clarion

(poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.

Trumpet

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.
The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.

Clarion

(music) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).

Trumpet

Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.

Clarion

(heraldic charge) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.

Trumpet

The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.

Clarion

Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear.
Her clarion top notes

Trumpet

(figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

Clarion

(transitive)

Trumpet

A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Clarion

To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).

Trumpet

A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

Clarion

Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.

Trumpet

A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

Clarion

(intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.

Trumpet

Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.

Clarion

A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.

Trumpet

A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.

Clarion

A medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone

Trumpet

(intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.

Clarion

Blow the clarion

Trumpet

(intransitive) To play the trumpet.
Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.

Clarion

Proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion

Trumpet

(ambitransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.

Clarion

Loud and clear;
A clarion call

Trumpet

(ambitransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.

Trumpet

(transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.

Trumpet

A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
The trumpet's loud clangorExcites us to arms.

Trumpet

A trumpeter.

Trumpet

One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises.

Trumpet

A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Trumpet

To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

Trumpet

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Trumpet

A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Trumpet

Proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet;
Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty

Trumpet

Play or blow on the trumpet

Trumpet

Utter in trumpet-like sounds;
Elephants are trumpeting

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