单词 | tuba |
释义 | tuban.1 1. (plural tubæ.) The straight bronze war-trumpet of the ancient Romans. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 A mythical tree growing in the Muslim paradise: see quots. Also tuba-tree. ΘΚΠ 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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