horn

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /hɔːn/    美 /hɔɹn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. countable
  2. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar. countable,uncountable
  3. An antler. countable,uncountable
  4. The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects. uncountable
    — an umbrella with a handle made of horn
  5. A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc. countable,uncountable
    — horns of mead and ale
  6. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.; One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon countable,uncountable
    — [W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
  7. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.; The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. countable,uncountable
  8. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.; The Ionic volute. countable,uncountable
  9. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.; The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. countable,uncountable
  10. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.; A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. countable,uncountable
  11. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.; One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. countable,uncountable
    — Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar
  12. Any of several musical wind instruments. countable
  13. An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others. countable
    — hunting horn
  14. A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle. countable
  15. A sound signaling the expiration of time. countable,uncountable
    — The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
  16. A conical device used to direct waves. countable
    — antenna horn
  17. Generally, any brass wind instrument. countable,informal
  18. A telephone. countable,slang
    — Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
  19. An erection of the penis. countable,slang,uncountable,vulgar,with-definite-article
  20. A peninsula or projecting tract of land. countable
    — to navigate around the horn
  21. 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. countable
  22. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). countable,uncountable
  23. In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. Of an animal, to assault with the horns. transitive
  2. To furnish with horns. transitive
  3. To cuckold. obsolete,slang,transitive
  4. To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk. India,Singapore,intransitive
    — , His Precious Gem He horned five times but the man didn't moved his car away.

词形变化

horns plural horns present,singular,third-person horning participle,present horned participle,past horned past

词汇关系

衍生词
acoustic horn air horn airhorn Alpine horn alto horn Amalthea's horn Ammon's horn around the horn baritone horn basset horn bass horn bastard horn snake behorn bighorn Big Horn County blowhorn blow-horn blow horn blow one's horn blow one's own horn buckhorn buck's-horn buck's horn plantain bulb horn bull-horn bull horn bullhorn butterhorn chemical horn chrome horn clown horn coach horn collery horn cream horn deerhorn deer horn knife dehorn demihorn dishorn Dorset Horn drinking horn drinking-horn earhorn elkhorn English horn feed horn feedhorn feed-horn fire alarm horn fish-horn fish horn flowerhorn fog-horn fog horn foghorn French horn gate of horn Golden Horn grunt-horn hartshorn horn angle horn antenna hornbag hornball horn ball hornbeam horn-bearing hornbill Hornblower hornbook hornbug horn coral horncore horn-dog horn dog horn drum horned horner horn fair horn fly hornfoot hornful hornguide horn guide horn-helmeted hornification horn in hornish hornist hornless hornlet hornlike horn-mad horn mercury Horn of Africa horn of Amalthea horn of plenty Horn OK Please horn out hornowl hornpike hornpipe horn pipe horn-piper horn piper horn poppy hornpout hornpox horn-rimmed horn-rims hornrims horns and halo effect horn shark horn silver horn slate hornsman hornsnake hornstone horntail horn timber horn tipper horn-violin horn violin hornwork hornworm hornwort hornwrack horny hunting-horn iliac horn syndrome inkhorn knot-horn lock horns longhorn longhorned melodyhorn meringue horn nanohorn obtuse horn shell occipital horn syndrome off the horn on the horn on the horns of a dilemma oxhorn party horn paste-horn Pinard horn plenty's horn post-horn post horn posthorn powder horn powderhorn pronghorn pull in one's horns put to the horn raghorn ramshorn ram's horn ram's horn squid remote horn saddle horn saddlehorn saxhorn shoe-horn shoehorn shoeing-horn shorthorn slug-horn snuff-horn spikehorn stadium horn staghorn stag's horn stag's-horn clubmoss stinkhorn straighthorn switch horn take a horn take the bull by the horns tenor horn tinhorn tin-horn toot one's own horn uterine horn Vienna horn Viennese horn Vladimir horn war-horn war horn yellowhorn

词源

词源 1
From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu.
(telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
词源 2
From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu.
(telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
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