“horn”在英语中的释义

noun

1. (countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

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.

3. An antler.

4. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

   • an umbrella with a handle made of horn

5. A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.

6. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.

7. (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.

8. (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

   • hunting horn

9. (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

10. (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.

    • The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.

11. (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.

    • antenna horn
    • loudspeaker horn

12. (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.

13. (slang, countable) A telephone.

    • Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.

14. (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.

15. (countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.

    • to navigate around the horn

16. (countable) 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.

17. (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

18. (military) 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.

verb

1. (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.

2. (transitive) To furnish with horns.

3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.

4. (intransitive, Singapore, India) To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.