Synonym: French horn, automobile horn, car horn, cornet, hooter, motor horn, saddle horn, trump, trumpet, tusk. Similar words: suborn, scorn, born of, morning, attorney, short, around the corner, shorts. Meaning: [hɔrn /hɔːn] n. 1. a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it 2. one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates 3. a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning; 4. a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) 5. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves 6. any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn 7. the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails 8. an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound 9. a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves 10. a device on an automobile for making a warning noise. v. stab or pierce with a horn or tusk.
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(151) Oscar sounded his deafening horn three times and the gates to the yard swung open.
(152) The driver sounded his horn furiously as the taxi sped on.
(153) Composers have written a considerable amount of music for brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba.
(154) Six rows of horn players and drummers clap, play and sway from side to side in accompaniment.
(155) The flute adds brightness to oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn when it doubles them at the octave.
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(156) It is not permitted to sound a car horn after a certain hour.
(157) A horn hooted behind me. It was Don in his little red car.
(158) They would only be a minute, Ballantyne said, tooting the horn and parking.
(159) The horn in C sounded an octave lower than the written note.
(160) What was the trouble today? she wondered, as impatient horn blasts began to sound.
(161) A few yards away lay a tenor sax, its gleaming golden horn smeared with blood.
(162) We gathered round the boat with all the sense of adventure of Drake rounding the Horn.
(163) His hunting horn, title to his estate, is still in York Minster.
(164) Horn said during the 1992 games in Barcelona, Seiko raised its profile as an Olympic sponsor through heavy advertising.
(165) The previous warnings in the Horn were, like the present one, prompted by severe drought.
(166) The Trabant, for example, boasts textile floor covering and a two-tone horn.
(167) But on the trail Sheila rides there isn't a long horn or rattler in sight.
(168) A sound like a brief, deep blast from a motor horn was the only response.
(169) Outside in the lot, a car was honking its horn.
(170) Horn was beaten by a relatively unknown politician in the last election.
(171) After the death of Sigismund during the siege of Altdorf the horn passed into the keeping of the Temple of Sigmar.
(172) I blared my horn.
(173) There was the jabber of a car horn in his ear.
(174) I like the man who's playing this great big shiny thing like a fog horn.
(175) Santerre sounded the horn and led the excited hunters down the hill.
(176) An eerie blast on a horn signalled the start of the ceremony and the crowd became silent.
(177) Officials say about 1.4 tonnes of rhino horn stockpiled, but conservationists claim the real figure is up to 10 tonnes.
(178) Khan ji tooted the horn several times and everyone laughed and talked above everyone else.
(179) The horn part continues to be written entirely as for horn in F and its true character lies within the comfortable F-horn compass.
(180) Then the horn, and a hound yelped briefly as a whip cracked.