tuba

«tuba» in Mova's school dictionary: A very large brass musical instrument with a wide bell… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a tuba, tubas)

meaning for a pupil

A very large brass musical instrument with a wide bell, played by blowing into a mouthpiece; it makes the lowest notes in a brass band or orchestra. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music lessons the tuba is the biggest and lowest member of the brass family, along with the trumpet, trombone and French horn. It plays the "oom-pah" bass notes in marching bands. In stories a tuba often adds a funny or booming sound. Phrases: play the tuba, a tuba player.

examples

• The tuba plays the lowest notes in the brass band. tree →
• My brother plays the tuba in the school orchestra. tree →
• The tuba went "oom-pah, oom-pah". tree →
• A tuba has a lot of tubing coiled up inside. tree →
• The tuba player marched at the back of the parade. tree →
• It's hard to carry a tuba on the school bus! tree →

note

Countable: a tuba, tubas. Say "play THE tuba" for instruments. Pronounced TYOO-ba (UK) or TOO-ba (US). A sousaphone is a kind of tuba that wraps round the player's body.

In the corpora

• Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; the trumpet, trombone, horn and tuba are brass.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tuba» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.