trombone
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Is trombone a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.Examples: "The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument."; "The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob."
verb (English)
1. (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
2. (film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.Examples: "[…] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]"; "He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]"slangtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary