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BUGLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bugle" is a kind of...):
brass; brass instrument (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)
Derivation:
bugle (play on a bugle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bugle" is a kind of...):
bead (a small ball with a hole through the middle)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
Synonyms:
bugle; bugleweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bugle" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bugle"):
Ajuga reptans; creeping bugle (low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in parts of United States)
Ajuga genevensis; blue bugle; erect bugle (upright rhizomatous perennial with bright blue flowers; southern Europe)
Ajuga pyramidalis; pyramid bugle (European evergreen carpeting perennial)
Ajuga chamaepitys; ground pine; yellow bugle (low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa)
Holonyms ("bugle" is a member of...):
Ajuga; genus Ajuga (bugle)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Play on a bugle
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "bugle" is one way to...):
play; spiel (replay (as a melody))
Domain category:
music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
bugle (a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares)
bugler (someone who plays a bugle)
Context examples:
Shortly after mid-day, a great uproar of shouting and cheering broke out in the camp, with mustering of men and calling of bugles.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A blast upon the bugle summoned the bowmen to counsel, and they gathered in little knots and groups around a great fallen tree which lay athwart the glade.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I would station a score of archers here in the pass, with all our pennons jutting forth from the rocks, and as many nakirs and drums and bugles as we have with us, so that those who follow us in the fading light may think that the whole army of the prince is upon them, and fear to go further.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At five in the cold winter's morning the bugles were blowing in the hamlet of St. Jean Pied-du-Port, and by six Sir Nigel's Company, three hundred strong, were on their way for the defile, pushing swiftly in the dim light up the steep curving road; for it was the prince's order that they should be the first to pass through, and that they should remain on guard at the further end until the whole army had emerged from the mountains.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A yell of exultation, and a forest of waving steel through the length and breadth of their column, announced that they could at last see their entrapped enemies, while the swelling notes of a hundred bugles and drums, mixed with the clash of Moorish cymbals, broke forth into a proud peal of martial triumph.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So for five long minutes the gallant horsemen of Spain and of France strove ever and again to force a passage, until the wailing note of a bugle called them back, and they rode slowly out of bow-shot, leaving their best and their bravest in the ghastly, blood-mottled heap behind them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Englishman leaped upon his horse and made for the hill, at the very instant that a yell of rage from a thousand voices and the clang of a score of bugles announced the Spanish onset.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having sounded his call, he thrust the bugle into his belt, and, pushing his way betwixt the groups of English and of Gascon knights, he reined up within a spear's length of the royal party.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The gentle rustle of the branches and the distant cooing of pigeons were the only sounds which broke in upon the silence, save that once Alleyne heard afar off a merry call upon a hunting bugle and the shrill yapping of the hounds.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The serf was about to reply, when the clear ringing call of a bugle burst from the wood close behind them, and Alleyne caught sight for an instant of the dun side and white breast of a lordly stag glancing swiftly betwixt the distant tree trunks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
