horn
1. a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it (Freq. 7)
• Topics:
game
• Hypernyms:
noisemaker
2. one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates (Freq. 3)
• Derivationally related forms:
horny
• Hypernyms:
process, outgrowth, appendage
• Hyponyms:
antler
• Part Holonyms:
ram, tup, goat, caprine animal, bull
• Substance Meronyms:
bone, os
3. a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
alarm, alert, warning signal, alarum
4. a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
saddle horn
• Hypernyms:
pommel, saddlebow
• Part Holonyms:
stock saddle, Western saddle
5. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone;
has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
cornet, trumpet, trump
• Derivationally related forms:
trump (for: trump), trumpet (for: trumpet), cornetist (for: cornet)
• Hypernyms:
brass, brass instrument
• Hyponyms:
serpent
6. any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
process, outgrowth, appendage
7. the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
• Derivationally related forms:
horny
• Hypernyms:
animal material
• Hyponyms:
whalebone, baleen, tortoiseshell
• Substance Meronyms:
keratin, ceratin
8. 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
• Hypernyms:
device
9. an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
• Hypernyms:
alarm, warning device, alarm system
• Hyponyms:
air horn, foghorn, klaxon, claxon, shofar, shophar
10. a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
• Syn:
French horn
• Hypernyms:
brass, brass instrument
11. a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
• Syn:
automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, hooter
• Derivationally related forms:
hoot (for: hooter)
• Hypernyms:
alarm, warning device, alarm system
• Part Holonyms:
car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar
• Part Meronyms:
horn button
stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
- the rhino horned the explorer
• Syn:
tusk
• Derivationally related forms:
tusk (for: tusk)
• Hypernyms:
pierce, thrust
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
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