as in tube
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container
musketeers carrying their gunpowder in powder horns
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Recent Examples of horn
The metronome commands each step, each horn movement, each note.
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Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
Ancient rhino lacked horn Rhinoceroses have a vast 40-million-year evolutionary history, having once lived on every continent except South America and Antarctica.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
The faint clanking and horn blowing of a locomotive engine grows louder and beckons Moses and his crew to step back as the train reveals itself.
—Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
In this era of advanced statistics and probabilities and over-analysis of every nuance on every shift of a hockey game, the only numbers that really matter when the final horn blows are posted on the scoreboard.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
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Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
Ancient rhino lacked horn Rhinoceroses have a vast 40-million-year evolutionary history, having once lived on every continent except South America and Antarctica.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
The faint clanking and horn blowing of a locomotive engine grows louder and beckons Moses and his crew to step back as the train reveals itself.
—Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
In this era of advanced statistics and probabilities and over-analysis of every nuance on every shift of a hockey game, the only numbers that really matter when the final horn blows are posted on the scoreboard.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horn
Noun
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Mounted externally on the KSOT, the ‘Piranha’ torpedo was loaded into the starboard-side launch tube.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
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Acid reflux occurs when stomach acid travels back up from the stomach into the esophagus (tube connecting the throat to the stomach).—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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For the album, he's backed by Americana favorites including Gabe Witcher on violin (Punch Brothers, Rosanne Cash), Sebastian Steinberg on bass (Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers), and Charles De Castro on accordion and cornet (Keb' Mo').—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
15 Aug. 2025
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While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 July 2025
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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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