speaking-trumpetn.

Forms: (Also unhyphened.)

Etymology: speaking n. Compounds 2.

A kind of trumpet (chiefly used at sea), so contrived as to carry the voice to a great distance, or to cause it to be heard above loud noises.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > speaking trumpet or tube

trunk1546

speaking-trumpet1671

stentorophonic tube1686

whispering-trumpet1688

stentorian trumpet1690

trumpet1696

voice pipe1839

voice tube1839

whispering-tube1857

speaking-tube1889

megaphone1896

meg1937

loudhailer1941

bullhorn1955

1671 S. Morland Tuba Stentoro-phonica (title page) The instruments (or speaking-trumpets) of all sizes.

1672 Philos. Trans. 1671 (Royal Soc.) 6 3056 An Account of the Speaking Trumpet, as it hath been contrived and published by Sir Sam. Moreland Knight and Baronet.

1680 London Gaz. No. 1520/1 The Twelfth at night, Captain St. Johns, by the help of the Speaking Trumpet, called to us.

1709 London Gaz. No. 4506/2 They were told (by a Speaking Trumpet from the Castle) that the Enemy had taken the Town.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 3 He sometimes whoops like a speaking trumpet.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 50 His voice was loud enough to have hailed a ship at sea, without the assistance of a speaking-trumpet.

1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. v. 60 A very old gentleman..with a speaking-trumpet under his arm.

figurative and in extended use.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 145 This is performing the contemptible office of a speaking-trumpet.1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. vii. 179 Reason..borrows the speaking-trumpet of Necessity, and her voice becomes lordly and imperative.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	speaking-trumpet
释义	speaking-trumpetn. Forms: (Also unhyphened.) Etymology: speaking n. Compounds 2. A kind of trumpet (chiefly used at sea), so contrived as to carry the voice to a great distance, or to cause it to be heard above loud noises. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > speaking trumpet or tube trunk1546 speaking-trumpet1671 stentorophonic tube1686 whispering-trumpet1688 stentorian trumpet1690 trumpet1696 voice pipe1839 voice tube1839 whispering-tube1857 speaking-tube1889 megaphone1896 meg1937 loudhailer1941 bullhorn1955 1671 S. Morland Tuba Stentoro-phonica (title page) The instruments (or speaking-trumpets) of all sizes. 1672 Philos. Trans. 1671 (Royal Soc.) 6 3056 An Account of the Speaking Trumpet, as it hath been contrived and published by Sir Sam. Moreland Knight and Baronet. 1680 London Gaz. No. 1520/1 The Twelfth at night, Captain St. Johns, by the help of the Speaking Trumpet, called to us. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4506/2 They were told (by a Speaking Trumpet from the Castle) that the Enemy had taken the Town. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 3 He sometimes whoops like a speaking trumpet. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 50 His voice was loud enough to have hailed a ship at sea, without the assistance of a speaking-trumpet. 1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. v. 60 A very old gentleman..with a speaking-trumpet under his arm. figurative and in extended use.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 145 This is performing the contemptible office of a speaking-trumpet.1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. vii. 179 Reason..borrows the speaking-trumpet of Necessity, and her voice becomes lordly and imperative. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1671
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