trombone

Meaning of trombone

noun
  1. 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♭ˌ (contra B♭).
    Jim plays the trombone very well.
  2. The common European bittern.
verb
  1. To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
  2. To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.

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Hyphenation of trombone

trom-bone

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • trombone is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of trombone

Words that rhyme with trombone

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