fanfare

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

   “They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.”

2. isim A show of ceremony or celebration.

   “The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.”

3. fiil To play a fanfare.

   “At this the trumpeters again most earnestly fanfared,”

4. fiil To embellish with fanfares.

   “Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow,”

5. fiil To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.

   “The name of the farm we were staying on was, tun-tun-tah,' I fanfared dramatically, 'Le Tomple, the temple. Spooky eh?'”

6. fiil To introduce with pomp and show.

   “Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.”

7. fiil To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.

   “The windows of his family's house had been blown in by the air raids that fanfared Desert Storm, and he'd been shaken awake by American cruise missile strikes in June 1993 and December 1998.”

8. fiil To publicize or announce.

   “So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?”

9. fiil To fan out.

   “Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools.”