Synonyms of the word horn


HORNALARM - ALARUM - ALERT - APPENDAGE - BRASS - CORNET - HOOTER - NOISEMAKER - OUTGROWTH - PIERCE - POMMEL - PROCESS - SADDLEBOW - THRUST - TRUMP - TRUMPET - TUSK

horn

  • n. (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually…
  • n. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk…
  • n. An antler.
  • n. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material…
  • n. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder…
  • n. (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • n. (countable) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  • n. (countable) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  • n. (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
  • n. (informal, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  • n. (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A…
  • n. (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
  • n. (countable) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn.".
  • n. (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when…
  • n. (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
  • v. (of an animal) To assault with the horns.
  • v. (slang, obsolete) To cuckold.

alarm

  • n. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
  • n. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention;…
  • n. A sudden attack; disturbance.
  • n. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly,…
  • n. A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
  • n. An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
  • v. (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
  • v. (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger.
  • v. (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
  • v. (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil;…
  • v. (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

alarum

  • n. (archaic) A danger signal or warning.
  • n. A call to arms.
  • v. (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.

alert

  • adj. Attentive; awake; on guard.
  • adj. (obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  • n. An alarm.
  • n. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
  • v. To give warning to.

appendage

  • n. an external body part that projects from the body.
  • n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
  • n. a part that is joined to something larger.

brass

  • n. (uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
  • n. (countable, music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations…
  • n. Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been…
  • n. (uncountable) The colour of brass.
  • n. (uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, military, metonymically) High-ranking officers.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude.
  • n. (slang, dated) Money.
  • n. Inferior composition.
  • adj. Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
  • adj. Of the colour of brass.
  • adj. (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
  • adj. (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
  • adj. Of inferior composition.
  • v. to coat with brass.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Brass in pocket; money.
  • n. (countable, slang) A brass nail; a prostitute.
  • adj. (slang) Brass monkey; cold.

cornet

  • n. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key…
  • n. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
  • n. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone.
  • n. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
  • n. A kind of organ stop.
  • n. The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
  • n. (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
  • n. (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to…

hooter

  • n. A horn in a motor vehicle.
  • n. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
  • n. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breast.
  • n. An owl.

noisemaker

  • n. A person or device that produces a great deal of noise, especially one used in a celebration or sporting…
  • n. A device comprising a handle with a ratchet at one end, with the ratchet end contained within a box that…

outgrowth

  • n. Anything that grows out of something else.

pierce

  • v. (transitive) to puncture; to break through.
  • v. (transitive) to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
  • v. (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly.
  • v. (figuratively) To penetrate; to affect deeply.

pommel

  • n. The upper front brow of a saddle.
  • n. A rounded knob or handle.
  • n. (sports, obsolete) The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.
  • v. (transitive) To pound or beat.

process

  • n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
  • n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
  • n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
  • n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
  • n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
  • n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
  • n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
  • n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
  • v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
  • v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
  • v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
  • v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

saddlebow

  • n. Alternative form of saddle bow.

thrust

  • n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
  • n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
  • n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
  • n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
  • v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
  • v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
  • v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
  • v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
  • v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

trump

  • n. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  • n. (card games) A playing card of that suit.
  • n. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
  • n. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
  • n. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
  • n. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
  • v. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
  • v. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
  • v. (transitive) To supersede.
  • n. (archaic) A trumpet.
  • n. (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
  • n. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
  • v. To blow a trumpet.
  • v. (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
  • n. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.

trumpet

  • n. (music) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension,…
  • n. In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.
  • n. The cry of an elephant.
  • n. (figuratively) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  • n. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
  • v. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified.
  • v. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
  • v. (intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
  • v. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically.

tusk

  • n. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant…
  • n. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  • n. A tusk shell.
  • n. (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed…
  • v. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  • v. (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.
  • n. A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).

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