Pronunciation Noun
trombone (plural trombones)
- 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.
- This trombone is very expensive.
- The common European bittern.
- French: trombone
- German: Posaune
- Italian: trombone
- Portuguese: trombone
- Russian: тромбо́н
- Spanish: trombón
trombone (trombones, present participle tromboning; past and past participle tromboned)
- (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
- (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: […]
- 2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine (page 357)
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