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noun ˈkɔːnɪtˈkɔrnət 1Music
A brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider. Example sentencesExamples - Gravesham Borough Band is busy with its season of summer bandstand engagements but desperately needs a dedicated permanent conductor and cornet, trumpet and clarinet players.
- The cornet became the leading instrument of British and American brass bands.
- The rise of the brass band in England coincided with the development of valved brass instruments, particularly the cornet, allowing a wider chromatic range.
- Around five years ago Mr Winterflood, who teaches eight instruments ranging from the cornet to the tuba, decided that he wanted to do something to help needy children.
- Over the years, McPhee has become adept on alto and soprano saxes, value trombone, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, cornet, and various clarinets.
- 1.1 A compound organ stop with a powerful treble sound.
2British A cone-shaped wafer filled with ice cream. Example sentencesExamples - As I handed my coin to the vendor, a vision of 240 of Rossi's enormous overflowing cornets flashed in front of my eyes.
- He strode back to the van and returned with his largest cornet yet, four flakes poking out like the legs of an upturned chocolate chair buried in an avalanche of ice cream.
- Dejectedly they tuck into the strawberry cornets before the van is taken to a scrapyard.
- Then he crunched the last of his cornet, swarmed up onto the bench and laid his head lovingly on the boy's shoulder.
- The man leapt into action and soft ice cream cornets were soon being passed amongst us.
- But then if you're daft enough to not watch where you're going, you're just as likely to walk into a mess of discarded noodles, a heap of fallen chips or a slippery ice cream cornet.
- There are practical problems: for example, some ice cream cornets may be inappropriately rejected if their chocolate-containing tips overlap in the packaging.
- The edible ice-cream cornet is possibly her idea as we have no known earlier reference to it.
- An application for an ice-cream van selling hotdogs, sweets and crisps as well as cornets is to be considered by Kirklees Council today.
- At Burniston, feeling that seaside urge, I had a garden centre ice cream, a curious Nestlé creation, a Fab - think I prefer cornets.
- My daily treat was a giant cornet of delicious vanilla ice cream.
- She ran out to the ice cream van clutching her handful of change but was turned away in tears after the driver refused to sell her a cornet because she tried to pay with the copper.
- Stop me and have a look - there are no cornets or ice lollies, but there is plenty of local history on offer in Yorkshire's most unusual museum.
- ‘Oh well, you need some extra energy then,’ he'd say and he'd give me a double sized cornet with three flakes in it.
- At the restaurant, a bouquet of flowers shaped like an ice cream cornet awaited the hearse.
Derivatives noun kɔːˈnɛtɪst The cornettist's unbroken, dynamic swing and advanced bebop melodics are miles away from Don Cherry's fractured lyricism. Example sentencesExamples - Among the fantastic line-up of musicians are cornettist Jon-Erik Kellso, clarinettist Dan Levinson, trombonist Dan Barrett and pianists Mark Shane and Dick Hyman whose solo spin on ‘Clementine’ is one of many highlights.
- His later instrumental music explores new formal patterns as well as exploiting the virtuosity of cornettists and violinists.
- The Chicago Underground is made up of core duo cornettist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor which augments with guest players to become Trios, Quartets, even an Orchestra.
- The three cornetists work well together as a swinging section.
Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting a wind instrument made of a horn): from Old French, diminutive of a variant of Latin cornu 'horn'. noun ˈkɔːnɪtˈkɔrnət historical The fifth grade of commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours. It is still used in some British cavalry regiments for officers of the rank of second lieutenant.
Origin Mid 16th century: from French cornette, diminutive of corne (originally a collective term), based on Latin cornua 'horns'. The word originally denoted a kind of woman's headdress, or a strip of lace hanging down from a headdress against the cheeks; later it referred to the pennon of a cavalry troop, hence the officer who carried the colours. nounˈkɔrnətˈkôrnət 1Music
A brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider, played chiefly in bands. Example sentencesExamples - Gravesham Borough Band is busy with its season of summer bandstand engagements but desperately needs a dedicated permanent conductor and cornet, trumpet and clarinet players.
- Around five years ago Mr Winterflood, who teaches eight instruments ranging from the cornet to the tuba, decided that he wanted to do something to help needy children.
- The rise of the brass band in England coincided with the development of valved brass instruments, particularly the cornet, allowing a wider chromatic range.
- The cornet became the leading instrument of British and American brass bands.
- Over the years, McPhee has become adept on alto and soprano saxes, value trombone, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, cornet, and various clarinets.
- 1.1 A compound organ stop with a powerful treble sound.
2British A cone-shaped wafer, especially one filled with ice cream. Example sentencesExamples - But then if you're daft enough to not watch where you're going, you're just as likely to walk into a mess of discarded noodles, a heap of fallen chips or a slippery ice cream cornet.
- An application for an ice-cream van selling hotdogs, sweets and crisps as well as cornets is to be considered by Kirklees Council today.
- As I handed my coin to the vendor, a vision of 240 of Rossi's enormous overflowing cornets flashed in front of my eyes.
- The man leapt into action and soft ice cream cornets were soon being passed amongst us.
- The edible ice-cream cornet is possibly her idea as we have no known earlier reference to it.
- At the restaurant, a bouquet of flowers shaped like an ice cream cornet awaited the hearse.
- At Burniston, feeling that seaside urge, I had a garden centre ice cream, a curious Nestlé creation, a Fab - think I prefer cornets.
- She ran out to the ice cream van clutching her handful of change but was turned away in tears after the driver refused to sell her a cornet because she tried to pay with the copper.
- Stop me and have a look - there are no cornets or ice lollies, but there is plenty of local history on offer in Yorkshire's most unusual museum.
- ‘Oh well, you need some extra energy then,’ he'd say and he'd give me a double sized cornet with three flakes in it.
- My daily treat was a giant cornet of delicious vanilla ice cream.
- There are practical problems: for example, some ice cream cornets may be inappropriately rejected if their chocolate-containing tips overlap in the packaging.
- Dejectedly they tuck into the strawberry cornets before the van is taken to a scrapyard.
- He strode back to the van and returned with his largest cornet yet, four flakes poking out like the legs of an upturned chocolate chair buried in an avalanche of ice cream.
- Then he crunched the last of his cornet, swarmed up onto the bench and laid his head lovingly on the boy's shoulder.
Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting a wind instrument made of a horn): from Old French, diminutive of a variant of Latin cornu ‘horn’. nounˈkɔrnətˈkôrnət historical The fifth grade of commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colors. It is still used in some British cavalry regiments for officers of the rank of second lieutenant.
Origin Mid 16th century: from French cornette, diminutive of corne (originally a collective term), based on Latin cornua ‘horns’. The word originally denoted a kind of woman's headdress, or a strip of lace hanging down from a headdress against the cheeks; later it referred to the pennon of a cavalry troop, hence the officer who carried the colours. |