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
Older animals have a hardened boss, which is where the base of each horn meets on top of their heads, and these big, mature bulls are the ones that are typically hunted.
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Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2025
Morning Glory became a soundtrack for Nineties Britain–with Oasis famously locking horns with chart rivals Blur during the height of Britpop–and signalling a new golden age for British music, with Oasis fandom reaching similar giddy heights to Beatle-mania.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Two horns suddenly broke through, piercing the door.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 July 2025
There's a place for decidedly low-tech measures, too, like off-grid, old-school extraordinarily loud horns that can be installed in high-risk areas that can scream a warning of danger for miles with absolutely no digital components.
—Theresa Payton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
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Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2025
Morning Glory became a soundtrack for Nineties Britain–with Oasis famously locking horns with chart rivals Blur during the height of Britpop–and signalling a new golden age for British music, with Oasis fandom reaching similar giddy heights to Beatle-mania.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Two horns suddenly broke through, piercing the door.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 July 2025
There's a place for decidedly low-tech measures, too, like off-grid, old-school extraordinarily loud horns that can be installed in high-risk areas that can scream a warning of danger for miles with absolutely no digital components.
—Theresa Payton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horn
Noun
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There's a channel that runs down the bottom of the down tube that the cables sit in, held in place by a plastic cover that's screwed onto the frame.—
JOHN TIMMER,
ArsTechnica,
12 Aug. 2025
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An allied invention was the forming tube that compressed the yarns as the strand was made.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Flanking him, a cornet player and a percussionist bounced to the rhythm.—
Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon,
New York Times,
24 July 2025
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Hudson joined a family of musicians: his father played flute, drums, cornet and the saxophone, performing regularly in local dance bands, while his mother was a vocalist, who also played the accordion and piano.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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