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- Dictionaryhorn/hôrn/
noun
- 1. 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.
- 2. the substance of which horns are composed: "powdered rhino horn"
verb
- 1. (of an animal) butt or gore (someone or something) with the horns.
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a device on a vehicle that is used to make a loud noise as a warning or signal to other people: sound a horn The driver sounded her horn. blow a horn He pulled up in front of her house and blew the horn. honk a horn informal A car sped by honking its horn. See also. foghorn. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. horn noun (MUSIC) C2 [ C ]
The meaning of HORN is one of the usually paired bony processes that arise from the head of many ungulates and that are found in some extinct mammals and reptiles. How to use horn in a sentence.
A horn is an instrument that's made of metal and is played by blowing into it. Another type of horn comes out of an animal's head. Don't confuse the two and imagine a trombone sticking out of a water buffalo's head.
1. one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes. 2. a similar growth, sometimes of hair, as the median horn or horns on the snout of the rhinoceros, or the tusk of the narwhal.
Horn definition: one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain hooved mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.. See examples of HORN used in a sentence.
a piece of equipment used to make a loud sound as a warning or signal: a car horn. The taxi driver hooted his horn. horn noun [C] (MUSIC) a curved musical instrument that you blow into to make a sound: the French horn. (Definition of horn from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of horn.
horn meaning, definition, what is horn: the hard pointed thing that grows, usual...: Learn more.
in a situation in which you have to make a choice between things that are equally unpleasant. The medical profession’s eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
1. One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material. 2. A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
Zoology[ countable] one of the hard, permanent, hollow, and usually paired growths that stick out from the heads of cows, goats, sheep, etc. Zoology[ countable] a similar growth, as an antler. Zoology the hard substance of which horn growths are made:[ uncountable]a handle made of horn.
