trombone

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/, /tɹəmˈbəʊn/
• (America) IPA: /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/, /tɹəmˈboʊn/

Noun

trombone (plural trombones)

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.

   This trombone is very expensive.

2. The common European bittern.

Translations

• French: trombone
• German: Posaune
• Italian: trombone
• Portuguese: trombone
• Russian: тромбо́н
• Spanish: trombón

Verb

trombone (trombones, present participle tromboning; 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: […]

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