horn
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Definitions ofhorn
- A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- An antler.
- The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
Synonyms: keratin
Example: "an umbrella with a handle made of horn"
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
- Any of several musical wind instruments.
- An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
Example: "hunting horn"
- A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- A sound signaling the expiration of time.
Example: "The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count."
- A conical device used to direct waves.
Synonyms: funnel
Example: "antenna horn"
- Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- (from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
Synonyms: "blower (UK)", "dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang)", phone
Example: "Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this."
- (definite article) An erection of the penis.
Synonyms: "boner (US)", "hard-on", stiffy
- A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
Synonyms: peninsula
Example: "to navigate around the horn"
- A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- (of an animal) To assault with the horns.
- To furnish with horns.
- To cuckold.
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