BUGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bugle mean? 

• BUGLE (noun)
  The noun BUGLE has 3 senses:

1. a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares

2. any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover

3. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration

  Familiarity information: BUGLE used as a noun is uncommon.

• BUGLE (verb)
  The verb BUGLE has 1 sense:

1. play on a bugle

  Familiarity information: BUGLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUGLE (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:

Any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bugle; bugleweed

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)

Sense 3

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)

• BUGLE (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 

There was a cry in my being like bugles calling me to her.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Suddenly from out the sea of mist came the shrill sound of a neigh, followed by a long blast upon a bugle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Indian summer had dreamed on and on, and then, suddenly, with the sharpness of bugles, winter came.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Mars is on the way to help you, which is the equivalent to having the cavalry arriving on horseback with bugles blaring.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Many a summer evening have Boy Jim and I lain upon the grass, watching all these grand folk, and cheering the London coaches as they came roaring through the dust clouds, leaders and wheelers stretched to their work, the bugles screaming and the coachmen with their low-crowned, curly-brimmed hats, and their faces as scarlet as their coats.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His thin lips, like the dies of a machine, stamped out phrases that cut and stung; or again, pursing caressingly about the inchoate sound they articulated, the thin lips shaped soft and velvety things, mellow phrases of glow and glory, of haunting beauty, reverberant of the mystery and inscrutableness of life; and yet again the thin lips were like a bugle, from which rang the crash and tumult of cosmic strife, phrases that sounded clear as silver, that were luminous as starry spaces, that epitomized the final word of science and yet said something more—the poet's word, the transcendental truth, elusive and without words which could express, and which none the less found expression in the subtle and all but ungraspable connotations of common words.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The land of France!—the very words sounded as the call of a bugle in the ears of the youth of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he spoke the attendant cantered up the grassy enclosure, and pulling up his steed in front of the royal stand, blew a second fanfare upon his bugle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Blow the bugles!” cried Sir Hugh, with a scowling brow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A stern, clear bugle call had sounded close at hand to summon some following together for the night.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)