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Meaning horn meaning

What does horn mean?
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horn Noun

— A horn is a long, sharp thing that grows on the head of some animals such as goats and sheep. The goat used its horn to break the fence. They used a cow's horn as a cup to drink out of. — A horn is a musical instrument that you blow and usually made of metal.

horn

— noun a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it — noun one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates — noun any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn — noun a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) — noun a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning — noun (= cornet) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves — noun a device having the shape of a horn horns at the ends of a new moon the hornof an anvil the cleat had two horns — noun an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound — noun the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails — verb (= tusk) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk the rhino horned the explorer — noun (= French horn) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves — noun (= automobile horn) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

Synonyms horn synonyms

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horn English » English

trumpet bugle antler klaxon hooter corner whistle tusk siren cornet French horn gore butt antlers wind instrument trump ear clarion signal saddle horn ram pipe motor horn jewelry ivory hunting horn horny horns hoot honk harmonica elbow cuckold cornu car horn brass automobile horn alarm wrist joint wrist wing valve horn tuba tocsin straw signal alarm saxophone saxhorn sax sap

Topics horn topics

What do people use horn to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument
Universe, creation Animal

Parts of an animal
Universe, creation Animal Parts of an animal

Parts of an insect
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Animal products
Work and occupation Occupation Crafts

Working with bone
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Vehicle
Language and thought Communication Say Praise

Boast

Conjugation horn conjugation

How do you conjugate horn?

horn · verb

Examples horn examples

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Simple sentences

Playing the English horn isn't easy.
The Van Horn family was rich.
The train slowed and blared its horn as it approached the railway crossing.
Tom spent a lot of time trying to learn how to play the French horn.
Tom played an old Irish song on his new French horn.
Tom played a Spanish folk tune on his English horn at a Chinese restaurant in France.
Suddenly, the unicorn approached to me majestically, touched me with its horn and. I woke up with this mark.
Tom continued to honk the horn.
Blow the horn so that car will let us pass.
Tom honked the horn.
Tom honked his horn at the kids playing in the street.
Tom put his shoes on with his shoe horn.
Tom wears horn-rimmed glasses.
Tom heard a fog horn in the distance.
Nobody likes him, because he is always blowing his own horn.
Make a spoon or spoil a horn.
Tom beeped the horn.
That sounds like our tugboat horn.
Tom heard a car horn beep.
Stop tooting your own horn.
The unicorn ran at the tree with all his might and penetrated the trunk so deeply with his horn that he couldn't pull it out and was thus stuck.
Tom honked the car's horn several times.

Movie subtitles

A devil pours the nasty sulfur oozing from a horn down a man's throat.
Now look, we'll go around Cape Horn to Tahiti.
Yes, but why risk going round the Horn?
Avoid the Horn altogether.
I hadn't expected this from the Horn.
But I've seen the Horn when the waves were as high as three houses one on top of the other.
You'll never make it round the Horn.
How long did you attempt to round the Horn?
At half-past twelve today, James Valentine departed this life as a result of illness and fatigue sustained at Cape Horn.
We shall go with the winds to Jamaica by way of Cape Horn.
We tried the Horn before. It was almost the end of us.
William, about your decision to go around the Horn. William?
Around the Horn is the easiest way. The better way.
So he will be lashed and we will go around the Horn.
The only thing missing in his life is a new horn.
Tahiti direct by Cape Horn.
England to Cape Horn, Africa, New Zealand Van Diemen's Land and the great South Seas.
Will you help me stop that horn?
I must ask you to stop that horn at once.
I tried to blow my horn but I'm afraid I must have pushed it too hard and now it's stuck.
That horn may get stuck again any minute.
I mean, to take care of the horn.
Don't thank me or I'll start your horn again.
Maybe when you were fixing the horn you accidentally broke something.
Custer's been ordered to move against Sitting Bull and the Sioux up in Big Horn country.
Thought these Big Horn Mountains was full of Indians.
I just heard the fella blowing his horn.
Just blow your horn and I'll come down.
Blow the horn.
Give her a horn.
Yes, and not counting that pbbt horn that you sold me yourself for 65 cents.
Lambert, sound your horn for Corrado to slow down.
I been waitin' a long time to catch up with that tin horn. Now go on home. Go on.
A hunting horn!
So now you're gonna horn in, and get shot. And get shot.
No, no, I'll blow my own horn.
Everything on that pile makes noise except the horn.
Blow your horn.
Good old Beelzebub, the boy with the horn!
I tremble at the thought that a honking horn or a ringing bell. or some idiot talking could wake me up and separate us forever.

News and current affairs

In the Horn of Africa, there is no leader of his stature who could ensure the stability and strong governance that the region so desperately needs.
In the Middle East, North Africa, and the region stretching from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, there are about 20 million displaced people; civil wars, widespread violence, and failed states are becoming the norm.
NAIROBI - Yet again, famine stalks the Horn of Africa.
Second, fertility rates and population growth in the Horn of Africa continue to be extremely high, even as children perish in the famine.
The countries of the Horn of Africa are now stepping forward to help themselves through this approach.
Britain has deviated from this principle only once, when it agreed to participate in the Atalanta anti-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa - probably because it was placed in command.
While it supported the fight against piracy off the Horn of Africa, that was more a policing operation than a military one, and it was guided by a shared interest in protecting trade routes from the Middle East and Asia.
Pastoralism has long been a harrowing existence in the Horn of Africa.
I don't know whether Obama's leadership might have found those votes, but I do know that the US has not mustered the national effort to respond effectively to the Horn of Africa's needs.
Unless and until widespread family planning and modern contraceptive services are established, expanding populations in the Horn of Africa will crash against a harsher future climate.
And, finally, regional politics is highly unstable, leaving the Horn extremely vulnerable to conflict.
Several countries in the Arabian Peninsula, just across the Red Sea from the Horn, are also showing an encouraging readiness to deploy their oil earnings for emergency relief and long-term development.
In the new century, refugees have come increasingly from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.
And yet he controversially but rightly held out a hand of friendship to the breakaway region of Somaliland, before it became fashionable, and went as far as he could short of formal re-recognition of that ray of democratic hope in the Horn of Africa.
The unfolding disaster in the Horn of Africa will not solve itself, and four factors make the situation potentially explosive.
Given the interests of all the world's great powers in stabilizing the Horn of Africa, there does seem to be movement toward accepting Somaliland's claims.

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