bugle

1. Music. To sound a bugle.
2. To give forth a deep, prolonged sound similar to the bay of a hound.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin būculus, steer, diminutive of bōs, ox.]

[Origin unknown.]

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin būgula (perhaps influenced by būglōssa, bugloss), from Latin būgillō.]

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A copper or brass natural trumpet with a wide conical bore; in Britain it has a pitch of B♭ (on the Continent often C). In the USA, the British type of bugle is known as the ‘cavalry bugle’, the ordinary bugle being a trumpet-like instrument with a piston valve. The bugle is used in the armed forces of most countries, usually to sound a set of formalized calls. See also Keyed bugle.

The word bugle may refer to:

• Bugle (instrument), a horn in the "natural" brass musical instrument family
• Bugle (plant), an often cultivated plant of the family Lamiaceae
• The sound that an elk makes during the "rut" or mating season
• A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
• Bugle, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall
• BuGLe, a software tool for debugging applications which use OpenGL
• Bugles, a corn chip snack
• Bugle Rock, Bengaluru
• The Bugle (newspaper) or Bugle-American, a former underground newspaper in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin.
• The Black Country Bugle, an English newspaper
• The Daily Bugle, a fictitious newspaper in the Marvel Comics universe
• The Bugle, a satiric podcast hosted by John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman
• Bugler (tobacco), a brand of tobacco
• Bugler (rank), a military rank

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - signalhorn
v. intr. - blæse i signalhorn

2.
n. - krybende læbeløs

3.
n. - stråperle

Nederlands (Dutch)
bugel, jachthoorn, zenegroen, bugel blazen, signaal luiden

Français (French)
1.
n. - (Mus, Mil) clairon, joueur de clairon
v. intr. - sonner du clairon

2.
n. - perle (pour décorer), sequin

3.
n. - (Bot) bugle

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Bügelhorn, (Mil) Signalton
v. - auf dem Horn blasen

2.
n. - schwarze Glasperle

3.
n. - (Bot) Günsel

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σάλπιγγα, τρομπέτα

Italiano (Italian)
corno

Português (Portuguese)
n. - clarim (m), conta (f) alongada para adorno, búgula (f) (Bot.)

Русский (Russian)
горн

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - corneta, trompeta, clarín
v. intr. - tocar la corneta o el clarín

2.
n. - abalorio, cañutillo

3.
n. - (bot) planta rastrera de la familia de la menta

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - glaspärla, signalhorn

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 军号, 喇叭, 吹喇叭, 吹号

2. 匍匐筋骨草, 筋骨草属植物

3. 柱状玻璃小珠

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 柱狀玻璃小珠

2.
n. - 匍匐筋骨草, 筋骨草屬植物

3.
n. - 軍號, 喇叭
v. intr. - 吹喇叭, 吹號

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 군용 나팔
v. intr. - 나팔을 불다

2.
n. - 자난 초속의 식물

3.
n. - 원통 모양의 구슬

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - らっぱ
v. - らっぱを吹く

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بوق, نير‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חצוצרה‬
v. intr. - ‮חצצר‬
n. - ‮חרוז בצורת צינורית הנתפר לבגד לשם קישוט‬
n. - ‮צמח מטפס ממשפחת השפתניים‬

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