About The Word Cornet
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Cornet
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What's The Definition Of Cornet?
[n] a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cornet: horn | trumpet Related Terms | Find terms related to Cornet: alpenhorn | alphorn | althorn | alto horn | ballad horn | baritone | bass horn | bassoon | block flute | bombard | bourdon | brass choir | brass wind | brasses | brass-wind instrument | bugle | bugle horn | cello | claribel | clarinet | clarion | complex cone | concert flute | cone | conelet | conoid | cop | cornet-a-pistons | corno di caccia | cornopean | cromorna | cymbel | diapason | double-bell euphonium | dulciana | English horn | euphonium | flute stop | foundation stop | fourniture | funnel | gamba | gedeckt | gemshorn | harmonic flute | helicon | horn | hunting horn | hybrid stop | ice-cream cone | key trumpet | koppel flute | larigot | lituus | lur | mellophone | melodia | mixture | mutation stop | nazard | oboe | octave | ophicleide | orchestral horn | organ stop | piccolo | pine cone | plein jeu | pocket trumpet | posaune | post horn | principal | quint | quintaten | rank | ranket | reed stop | register | rohr flute | sackbut | saxhorn | saxtuba | serpent | sesquialtera | shawm | slide trombone | sliphorn | sousaphone | spitz flute | stop | stopped diapason | stopped flute | string diapason | string stop | tenor tuba | tierce | tremolo | tromba | trombone | trumpet | tuba | twelfth | unda maris | valve trombone | valve trumpet | vibrato | viola | voix celeste | vox angelica | vox humana Cornet In Webster's Dictionary \Cor"net\ (k?r"n?t), n. [F. cornet, m. (for senses 1 &
2), cornette, f. & m. (for senses 3 & 4), dim. of corne horn,
L. cornu. See {Horn}.]
1. (Mus.)
(a) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the
oboe family.
(b) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and
furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands,
and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See
{Cornet-[`a]-piston}.
(c) A certain organ stop or register.
2. A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to
inclose small wares. --Cotgrave.
3. (Mil.)
(a) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being
accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] ``A body of
five cornets of horse.'' --Clarendon.
(b) The standard of such a troop. [Obs.]
(c) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British
cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office
was abolished in 1871.
4. A headdress:
(a) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain
professions.
(b) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
5. [Cf. {Coronet}.] (Far.) See {Coronet}, 2.
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