The difference between Bugle and Trumpet

When used as nouns, bugle means a horn used by hunters, whereas trumpet means a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of b-flat.

When used as verbs, bugle means to announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle, whereas trumpet means to sound loudly, be amplified.


Bugle is also adjective with the meaning: jet-black.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bugle and Trumpet

  1. Bugle as a noun:

    A horn used by hunters.

  2. Bugle as a noun (music):

    a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series

  3. Bugle as a noun:

    A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, , and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

  4. Bugle as a noun:

    Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.

  1. Bugle as a verb:

    To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

  1. Bugle as a noun:

    a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim

  1. Bugle as an adjective:

    jet-black

  1. Bugle as a noun:

    A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek E. Phillips"

  1. Trumpet as a noun (musical instrument):

    A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

    Examples:

    "The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival."

  2. Trumpet as a noun:

    In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician who plays the trumpet.

    Examples:

    "The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit."

  3. Trumpet as a noun:

    The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.

    Examples:

    "The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters."

  4. Trumpet as a noun (figurative):

    One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  5. Trumpet as a noun:

    A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

  6. Trumpet as a noun:

    A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

  7. Trumpet as a noun:

    A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

  1. Trumpet as a verb (intransitive):

    To sound loudly, be amplified

    Examples:

    "The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears."

  2. Trumpet as a verb (intransitive):

    To play the trumpet.

    Examples:

    "Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway."

  3. Trumpet as a verb (ambitransitive):

    Of an elephant, to make its cry.

    Examples:

    "The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet."

  4. Trumpet as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.

  5. Trumpet as a verb (transitive):

    To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

    Examples:

    "Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment."