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单词 tuba
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tuban.1

Brit. /ˈtjuːbə/, /ˈtʃuːbə/, U.S. /ˈt(j)ubə/
Etymology: Latin and Italian tuba.
1. (plural tubæ.) The straight bronze war-trumpet of the ancient Romans.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trumpet > types of
lilting-hornc1384
claranerc1410
clarinec1440
trumpet1440
sordine1591
sordine trumpet1616
clarion1621
alchemy1667
sourdinea1678
jubil-trumpet1715
lituus1776
sea-trumpet1776
penny trumpet1783
salpinx1865
principal1876
valve trumpet1877
tuba1882
kakaki1932
zugtrompete1978
vuvuzela2003
1882 Athenæum 8 Apr. 452/1 Two other musicians blow long straight trumpets, exactly like the Roman tuba.
1890 E. B. Custer Following Guidon Pref. 9 The tuba..was a kind of straight bronze clarion, about thirty-nine inches long.
2. Music.
a. (plural tubas.) A brass wind-instrument in the bass range of the saxhorn family; a sax-tuba or bombardon; cf. saxhorn n.; also, one who plays this instrument.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > tuba
tuba1852
bombardon1856
Wagner tuba1938
1852 Crystal Palace 285/1 The Sax-horns in alto, soprano, tenor, tuba, bass, &c.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Dec. 4/2 Three trombones and a tuba have..a free run for their money.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 July 3/1 In ‘Otello’ Verdi..has written important parts for piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet, a third bassoon, two cornets, and a tuba.
1889 W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Music IV. 184/1 Tubas are made in many keys, in F in Germany, in E♭ and B♭ in this country.
1909 Punch 20 Jan. 38/2 A..nonagenarian with a voice like a bass tuba.
b. An 8-foot high-pressure reed-stop in an organ.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > reed-stop > specific
regal1555
curtal1582
trumpet1659
cremona1660
cromorne1694
hautboyc1700
horn1722
serpent1730
dulcian1773
zinke1773
trumpet stop1795
musette1825
fagotto1832
oboe1834
trombone1837
physharmonica1838
cornopean1840
ophicleide1842
posaune1843
button regal1852
shawm1852
vox angelica1852
busaun1855
bombardon1856
tuba1858
bombard1876
clarinet1876
rackett1876
tenoroon1876
clarionet1880
krummhorn1880
1858 J. A. Symonds Let. Nov. (1967) I. 174 The stops of the organ were unusually fine—Tuba, [etc.].
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) x. 72 Tuba, Tuba Mirabilis, Ophicleide—a Trumpet stop (striking reed) of large scale and on a high pressure of wind.
1889 Sir J. Stainer in Grove Dict. Music IV. 184/1 The Tuba is not solely used as a Solo stop.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 15/3 The organ..soared and swelled.., a crash of trumpet and tuba that left a vibrant humming in the air.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

tuban.2

/ˈtuːba/
Forms: Also tooba.
Etymology: Arabic (in Koran xiii. 28) ṭūbah, supposed to be < Aramaic ṭūbā beatitude, Hebrew ṭobah. Some commentators suppose a tree to be meant, the opinion cited by Sale, and adopted in the quots.
A mythical tree growing in the Muslim paradise: see quots. Also tuba-tree.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > tree of life > in non-Christian heaven
tuba1817
heaven-tree1835
heaven-plant1865
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 622 My feast is now of the Tooba Tree, Whose scent is the breath of Eternity!
1833 A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. vii. 317 The Tooba, or tree of happiness, so large that the fleetest horse could not gallop in a hundred years from one end of its shadow to the other.
1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims viii. 206 In [a Persian] poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the tree of Life.
1894 W. R. Thayer Poems 26 The odors of blooming tuba-trees Thro' the gardens steal.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

tuban.3

/tuːˈbɑː//ˈtuːbə/
Etymology: < Malay tūba.
1. In the Malay archipelago, the Philippines, etc., the name of species of Derris from the roots of which an intoxicating juice is extracted; also, the juice itself, which is used as a fish-poison. Also applied to the berry of Anamirta cocculus (known as Cocculus indicus), and to the fruits of Jatropha Curcas and Croton tiglium, used for the same purpose. Also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > other plants yielding poison
Suriname poison1756
wolfwort1765
tuba1839
strophanthus1888
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [adjective]
wourali1769
urali1843
tuba1890
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisons from plants
aconitum?a1450
aconite1569
cocculus indicus1591
female-bane1601
timbo1725
Suriname poison1756
ipoh1779
upas1783
tanghin1788
picrotoxin1815
nicotine1817
strychnine1819
vauqueline1819
brucia1820
brucine1820
picrotoxia1823
strychnia1823
digitalin1824
dulcamara1828
conine1829
bikh1830
nicotia1830
atropine1836
menispermia1837
nicotina1838
solanine1838
strychnina1838
tanghicin1838
urari1838
conia1842
conicine1842
amanitine1847
oenanthin1848
menispermine1849
tetanine1857
hyoscyamine1858
barbasco1860
nicotylia1862
antiarin1863
xylostein1864
oleandrin1866
zebra poison1871
andromedotoxin1883
abrin1884
ouabain1888
strophanthus1888
toxiresin1890
manchineel1891
tuba1898
taxine1907
phytotoxin1909
oenanthotoxin1911
hypoglycin1954
1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca II. xii. 189 The Malays sometimes resort to unfair means of securing the finny tribe, by inserting at low water the roots of the Tuba..into the holes and fissures of the coral reefs.
1890 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 21 559/2 Derris elliptica. This plant was stated to afford the most important of several drugs passing under the name of ‘tuba root’..a resinous body with an acid reaction, to which the name ‘derrid’ has been given... In the root it exists together with a brown colouring matter called ‘derris red’, derived from the tannin of derris.
1894 N. B. Dennys Descr. Dict. Brit. Malaya 416 Tuba, the name of a creeping plant (dalbergia) the root of which..is used to stupefy fish for the purpose of capture.]
1895 F. A. Swettenham Malay Sketches 225 The water is poisoned with the juice of the tuba root.
1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 414/1 This is how we fished with the tuba six years ago.
1899 W. H. Furness Folk Lore Borneo 27 The people go Tuba fishing, poisoning the stream with the juice of the Tuba root.
2. The fermented sap of the unopened flowerbuds of various palms, esp. the coco-nut and Palmyra palms; palm-wine; also, the alcoholic liquor distilled from this; arrack.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > palm-wine
nipa1588
palmetto wine1589
palm wine1598
sura1598
date wine1603
toddy?1611
tuba1704
pardon1705
pardon-wine1705
Palm1712
sagwire1792
itaa1832
tembo1850
tuak1852
palm-toddy1857
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > other distilled liquor > [noun] > liquor from palm sap
rack1602
arrack1625
fool rack1698
tuba1704
vino1901
1704 tr. G. F. Gemelli Careri Voy. round World in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. IV. 447/2 Their Wine or Liquor is drawn from the Palm, or Coco-Tree... The Poor put into it some Bark of Trees which give it a Colour, and a hotter Tast, and then it is call'd Tuba.
1902 W. E. Safford in Amer. Anthropologist 4 728 He climbed a coconut-tree..and brought in a bamboo joint full of tuba, delicious as cider just beginning to turn sharp.
1912 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 560 Long tumblers of pink tuba.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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