cornet vs trumpet

cornet

noun
  • A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat. 

  • A kind of organ stop. 

  • The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity. 

  • A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone. 

  • The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry). 

  • A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container. 

trumpet

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter. 

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

  • The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry. 

  • One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. 

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

  • A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one. 

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

verb
  • To play the trumpet. 

  • To sound loudly, be amplified 

  • Of an elephant, to make its cry. 

  • To give a loud cry like that of an elephant. 

  • To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically 

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