(n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
(n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
(a.) Jet black.
(n.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every morning, we were were woken by a bugle and hurriedly changed into our gym attire for the exercise session '.
(2) He took his cameras to a school run by Save the Children in Kenya, for homeless boys from Nairobi, for instance, that was set up along the lines of a British public school; the children are shown blowing bugles, marching, reading books including The Inimitable Jeeves and Tom Brown's Schooldays.
(3) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
(4) Complaints to Ryanair were down 40% to 80,000 letters a year, O’Leary said, adding that many of those were about the landing bugle, played to herald an on-time arrival, the theme tune of which was recently modified to “some Spanish dribble”.
(5) The supporters' band emerged from the terraces at Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday's ground, when – following Hemmingham's decision to smuggle a bugle into the ground in 1993, which met with a favourable response – then manager Trevor Francis asked him to form a club band.
(6) In the mating season, mid-September to mid-October, the sound of bull elk bugling fills the air.
(7) Three hundred and ninety-nine infantry, little toy men, ran about when the bugle sounded, and formed up in stiff lines below the black building till there was no more bugling: then they scattered, and after a few minutes the smoke of cooking fires went up.
(8) They created an underground satirical newspaper, the Bletchley Bugle, with headlines such as "Nasa photo of Earth’s most inhospitable place is Bletchley Park Management Offices" and "Park to replace staff with docile clones".
(9) A full-length black gown with long sleeves and a bugle-beaded shoulder detail was surely a sartorial shout out to Jolie come Oscar night.
(10) Suddenly there was a roar that became a bugle call for the charge.
(11) "Win, lose or draw, Italy will still need a result against Uruguay to advance," bugles Mark Weiner.
(12) "If I were supreme leader, I'd simply keep those awkward foreigner teams out of my World Championships," bugles Justin Kavanagh.
(13) A bugle call is the signal for a Korean marching band to strike up, trumpeting the arrival of the country’s futuristic white space-blob, just as an Argentinian drumming troop thunders into action next door.
(14) The English have no need to beat the drum or blow the bugle.
(15) Entrapped between the bubbles is a horn- or bugle-shaped fluid collection that we theorize emits a continuous sound wave back to the transducer when struck by an ultrasound pulse.
(16) Many of the C-17 cargo planes were towed into position because they can no longer fly, fuelling accusations that the ceremonies, which include bugles and bagpipes, were misleading theatre.
(17) The Bugle is available for free at soundcloud.com and iTunes .
(18) In the stones, and statues, and archives, and exhibitions, and, on Remembrance Day, in the notes of bugles calling from sad shires.
(19) Moving to New York forced him to cancel an Edinburgh run with another good friend, the comedian Andy Zaltzman , but the two now co-present a weekly podcast, The Bugle , which they record down the line, Oliver in New York and Zaltzman in Britain.
Reveille
Definition:
(n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
Example Sentences:
(1) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(2) The Shine Group has expanded rapidly over the past couple of years, with a string of overseas purchases including US Ugly Betty producer Reveille, and has launched or bought programme-making operations in Australia, Germany and Scandanavia.
(3) She used that money to help buy a string of production companies, including Kudos, home to Ashes to Ashes and Reveille, the maker of Ugly Betty.
(4) In the past couple of years the Shine Group has really come into its own, with a string of overseas purchases including the $125m (then worth £76m) buy-up of Reveille, the US company behind Ugly Betty and the American version of The Office, and expansion this year into Australia, Germany and Scandinavia.
(5) The company has expanded through acquisitions, buying UK indies Kudos (Ashes to Ashes, Spooks), Princess (The Wright Stuff, Got To Dance) and Dragonfly (One Born Every Minute, The Family) in late 2006 for £65m; and Reveille, the US producer of The Office, for about £100m in 2008.
(6) The former Sky managing director who quit the Murdoch family business a decade ago has built up a production base responsible for Merlin and MasterChef and home to Ashes to Ashes producer Kudos and Reveille, maker of the US version of The Office.
(7) More than 60% of the company's revenues come from overseas after a spate of acquisitions from Ugly Betty's producer, Reveille, in the US to Metronome in Sweden.