horn
US: /ˈhɔɹn/
UK: /hˈɔːn/
UK: /hˈɔːn/
English Vietnamese dictionary
horn /hɔ:n/
- danh từ
- sừng (trâu bò...); gạc hươu, nai...)
- râu, anten (sâu bọ...), mào, lông (chim)
- (nghĩa bóng) sừng (tượng trưng cho sự cắm sừng chồng)
- chất sừng
- comb made of horn: lược làm bằng sừng
- đồ dùng bắng sừng
- tù và
- còi (ô tô...)
- (âm nhạc) kèn co
- đe hai đầu nhọn
- đầu nhọn trăng lưỡi liềm
- mỏm (vịnh)
- nhánh (sông)
- cành (hoa...)
- between (on) the horns of a dilemma
- (xem) delemma
- to draw in one's horns
- (xem) draw
- horn of plenty
- (xem) plenty
- to take the bull by the horns
- (xem) bull
- ngoại động từ
- làm thành hình sừng, sửa thành hình sừng
- cắt ngắn sừng, bẻ gãy sừng (súc vật...)
- húc bằng sừng
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) cắm sừng (chồng)
- nội động từ
- to horn in dính vào, can thiệp vào
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C] a hard pointed part that grows, usually in pairs, on the heads of some animals, such as sheep and cows. Horns are often curved.
2 [U] the hard substance of which animal horns are made: rhino horn
3 [C] a simple musical instrument that consists of a curved metal tube that you blow into: a hunting horn
4 [C] (especially BrE) = FRENCH HORN: a horn concerto
5 [C] a device in a vehicle for making a loud sound as a warning or signal: to honk your car horn + (BrE) to sound / toot your horn + Behind him, a horn blared.
see also FOGHORN
Idioms: blow / toot your own horn (AmE, informal) = blow your own trumpet at BLOW v.
draw / pull your horns in to start being more careful in your behaviour, especially by spending less money than before: Small businesses have had to pull their horns in during the recession.
on the horns of a dilemma 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.
more at BULL, LOCK v.
Collocation dictionary
1 part of an animal
ADJ.
buffalo, bull's, cow's, rhino, etc.
ornaments made of rhino horn
| curled, curved
a large bull with curved horns
| sharp
2 warning device on a vehicle
ADJ.
car
VERB + HORN
blow, honk, sound, toot
Passing motorists honked their horns.
HORN + VERB
beep, blare, hoot, sound
Another horn blared behind me.
HORN + NOUN
blast
Impatient horn blasts began to sound behind him.
PREP.
on a/the ~
He gave a furious blast on his horn.
3 musical instrument
VERB + HORN
blow
HORN + NOUN
section
> Special page at MUSIC
Concise English dictionary
horns|horned|horninghɔrn /hɔːn
noun
+a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
+one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
+a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
+a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
+a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
+any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
+the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
+an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
+a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
+a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
verb
+stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
