[
US
/ˈhɔɹn/
]
[ UK /hˈɔːn/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔːn/ ]
NOUN
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a device having the shape of a horn
horns at the ends of a new moon
the cleat had two horns
the horn of an anvil - an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
- a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
- a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
- the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
- one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
- a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
- a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
- any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
VERB
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stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
the rhino horned the explorer
How To Use horn In A Sentence
- He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
- He said residents of Thornhill had expressly asked for greater visibility of police on their estate.
- It seemed to have been shoehorned into the schedules as an afterthought.
- Unlike anything else in his catalog, Aura is a ten-part suite composed by Danish flugelhornist Palle Mikkelbourg as a tribute. Fulldls.com
- Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
- During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
- The Trabant, for example, boasts textile floor covering and a two-tone horn.
- In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
- They are indeed miniatures, as the entire set of eight take about eight minutes to perform by the pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, violins, violas, cellos and one horn.
- She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.