How to pronounce“trombone”in English
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Definitions of “trombone”
A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
“Jim plays the trombone very well.”
The common European bittern.
To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
“[…] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]”