bugle

Definition of bugle in English English dictionary: To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle; anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end; a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series; the often cultivated plant Lamiaceae; {n} a small piece of glass, bead, plant, bull; A sort of wild ox; a buffalo; a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover play on a bugle; a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration; play on a bugle; A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World; A horn used by hunters; {i} brass wind instrument (especially used for sounding military signals); {f} play the bugle (brass instrument); any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover; a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares; A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; called also the Kent bugle; A bugle is a simple brass musical instrument that looks like a small trumpet. Bugles are often used in the army to announce when activities such as meals are about to begin. a musical instrument like a trumpet, which is used in the army to call soldiers (bugle horn (13-16 centuries), from bugle (13-17 centuries), from , from buculus, from bos ). Soprano brass instrument historically used for hunting and military signaling. It developed from an 18th-century semicircular German hunting horn with widely expanding bore. In the 19th century the semicircle was reshaped into an oblong double loop. Natural bugles use only harmonics 2-6 (producing tones of the C triad) in their calls ("Reveille," "Taps," etc.). The keyed bugle, patented in 1810, has six sideholes and keys which give it a complete chromatic scale. In the 1820s valves were added to produce the flügelhorn and, in lower ranges, the baritone, euphonium, and saxhorns; An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black; Jet black; ajuga
bugle call: a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle
bugle call: {i} signal transmitted by the sound of a bugle
bugle horn: A bugle
bugle horn: A drinking vessel made of horn
bugles: plural form of bugle
bugles: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bulge
bugled: past of bugle
bugled: Ornamented with bugles
bugler: {i} bugle blower, one who plays a bugle
bugler: Someone who plays the bugle
bugler: someone who plays a bugle
bugler: A bugler is someone who plays the bugle
bugler: One who plays on a bugle
bugles: plural of bugle
bugling: present participle of bugle
creeping bugle: low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in parts of United States
erect bugle: upright rhizomatous perennial with bright blue flowers; southern Europe
kent bugle: A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; called also keyed bugle, and key bugle
pyramid bugle: European evergreen carpeting perennial