ALL meanings of horn
horn
H h - noun horn bony protrusion on animal's head 1
- noun plural horn music: brass instruments 1
- noun horn automobile's warning hooter 1
- noun horn french horn 1
- noun horn horn, hoof, antler 1
- noun horn protrusion 1
- noun horn sth made from horn 1
- noun horn loud noisemaker 1
- noun horn landmass 1
- noun horn horn instrument 1
- noun horn A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc., and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin. 1
- noun horn loudspeaker 1
- noun horn Cape. Cape Horn. 1
- verb with object horn to cuckold. 1
- verb with object horn to butt or gore with the horns. 1
- verb with object horn Shipbuilding. to set up (a frame or bulkhead of a vessel being built) at a proper angle to the keel with due regard to the inclination of the keel on the ways; plumb. 1
- adjective horn made of horn. 1
- idioms horn blow / toot one's own horn, Informal. to publicize or boast about one's abilities or achievements: He's a bright fellow, but likes to blow his own horn too much. 1
- idioms horn draw / pull in one's horns, to restrain oneself or become less belligerent; retreat: Since he lost so much gambling, he's drawn in his horns a bit. 1
- idioms horn horn in, Informal. to thrust oneself forward obtrusively; intrude or interrupt: Every time we try to have a private conversation, the boss horns in. 1
- idioms horn lock horns, to conflict, quarrel, or disagree: The administration and the staff locked horns over the proposed measures. 1
- idioms horn on the horns of a dilemma, confronted with two equally disagreeable choices. 1
- noun horn An antler. 0
- noun horn (Uncountable Noun) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects. 0
- noun horn An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid. 0
- noun horn (Countable Noun) Any of several musical wind instruments. 0
- noun horn (Countable Noun) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others. 0
- noun horn (Countable Noun) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle. 0
- noun horn (Countable Noun) A conical device used to direct waves. 0
- noun horn (Informal) NC Generally, any brass wind instrument. 0
- noun horn (Slang) NC (from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone. 0
- countable noun horn On a vehicle such as a car, the horn is the device that makes a loud noise as a signal or warning. 0
- noun horn (Uncountable Noun) (vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis. 0
- countable noun horn The horns of an animal such as a cow or deer are the hard pointed things that grow from its head. 0
- noun horn (Countable Noun) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn.". 0
- uncountable noun horn Horn is the hard substance that the horns of animals are made of. Horn is sometimes used to make objects such as spoons, buttons, or ornaments. 0
- noun horn (Countable Noun) 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. 0
- countable noun horn A horn is a musical instrument of the brass family. It is a long circular metal tube, wide at one end, which you play by blowing. 0
- noun horn (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). 0
- countable noun horn A horn is a simple musical instrument consisting of a metal tube that is wide at one end and narrow at the other. You play it by blowing into it. 0
- verb horn (of an animal) To assault with the horns. 0
- countable noun horn A horn is a hollow curved object that is narrow at one end and wide at the other. 0
- verb horn (Slang) OBS To cuckold. 0
- noun horn either of a pair of permanent outgrowths on the heads of cattle, antelopes, sheep, etc, consisting of a central bony core covered with layers of keratin 0
- noun horn the outgrowth from the nasal bone of a rhinoceros, consisting of a mass of fused hairs 0
- noun horn any hornlike projection or process, such as the eyestalk of a snail 0
- noun horn the antler of a deer 0
- noun horn the constituent substance, mainly keratin, of horns, hooves, etc 0
- noun horn (in combination) 0
- noun horn a container or device made from this substance or an artificial substitute 0