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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) +? -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??m?b??n/, /t??m?b??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??m?bo?n/, /t??m?bo?n/

Noun

trombone (plural trombones or tromboni)

1. (music) A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B?? (contra B?).

2. The common European bittern.
3. (film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
   • 1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production (page 131)

     The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.

   • 2013, Harry Box, Set Lighting Technician's Handbook (page 480)

     The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)

1. (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
2. (film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
   • 2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine (page 357)

     […] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]

   • 2014, Henry K. Miller, The Essential Raymond Durgnat (page 71)

     He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]

Further reading

• trombone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?m?b??n?/

Noun

trombone c (plural trombones)

1. (music) trombone

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian trombone

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???.b?n/

Noun

trombone m (plural trombones)

1. (music) trombone
2. paper clip

Verb

trombone

1. first-person singular present indicative of tromboner
2. third-person singular present indicative of tromboner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tromboner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tromboner
5. second-person singular imperative of tromboner

Further reading

• “trombone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

tromba (“trumpet”) +? -one (augmentative suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trom?bo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: trom?bó?ne

Noun

trombone m (plural tromboni)

1. (music) trombone
2. (by extension) trombonist

   Synonym: trombonista

3. (figuratively) An annoying and boring person, especially if arrogant, old or moralist
4. (historical) arquebuse

   Synonym: archibugio

5. A type of boot.
6. wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
7. Synonym of tarabuso

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: trombone
• ? Russian: ???????? (trombón) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Spanish: trombón (see there for further descendants)

References

• trombone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trombone m (definite singular trombonen, indefinite plural tromboner, definite plural trombonene)

1. (music) a trombone

   Synonym: trekkbasun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trombone m (definite singular trombonen, indefinite plural trombonar, definite plural trombonane)

1. (music) a trombone

   Synonym: trekkbasun

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian trombone.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t?õ.?b?.n?/
• Hyphenation: trom?bo?ne

Noun

trombone m (plural trombones)

1. (music) trombone (a musical instrument in the brass family)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?k??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?t?k??/
• Rhymes: -??k??
• Hyphenation: talk?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English talkynge, equivalent to talk +? -ing.

Noun

talking (countable and uncountable, plural talkings)

1. The action of the verb talk.
   • 1864-65, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

     He did not himself care for the loose little talkings, half flat and half sharp, of men when they meet together in idleness.

Etymology 2

From Middle English talkyng, talkynge, equivalent to talk +? -ing.

Verb

talking

1. present participle of talk

Derived terms

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