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English Horn

Definition: English Horn

English Horn

Noun

1. A double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: English Horn

DomainDefinitions

Fine Arts

Alto oboe. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: English Horn

Synonym: cor anglais (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: English Horn

English words defined with "English horn": Corni di basseto, Corno di bassetto, Corno Inglese ♦ oboe da caccia. (references)
Etymologies containing "English horn": Hornet ♦ unicorn. (references)

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Commercial Usage: English Horn

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Make Doublereeds for Oboe, English Horn and Bassoon/No 151 (reference)

  • Soloistic English Horn Literature from 1736-1984 (Juilliard Performance Guides, No 4) (reference)

  • The Reed Maker's Manual: Step-By-Step Instructions for Making Oboe and English Horn Reeds (reference)

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Music

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Image Slideshow: English Horn

Illustrations:
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: English Horn

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

english horn

44

english horn picture

3

english horn sale

2
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Modern Translations: English Horn

Language Translations for "English horn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

engelskhorn (cor anglais). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

engelse hoorn (cor anglais), altohobo (cor anglais). (various references)

   

French

  

cor anglais. (various references)

   

German

  

Englischhorn (cor anglais). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγγλικό κόρνο (cor anglais). (various references)

   

Italian

  

corno inglese (cor anglais). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

イングランド銀行 (Bank of England, cor anglais, English breakfast, English grip, in-circuit tester, ingot, insert, inside corner, inside pitch, inside track, insider). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

イングリッシュホルン (cor anglais). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

englishay ornhay

   

Portuguese

  

corne inglês (cor anglais). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

английский рожок. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

corno inglés (cor anglais). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: English Horn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-i-l-n-n-o-r-s"

-3 letters: leghorns, negronis, resoling, shingler.

-4 letters: eloigns, english, eringos, ginners, glories, gorhens, heroins, hingers, horning, horsing, ignores, inshore, leghorn, legions, lensing, lingers, lingoes, longers, longies, longish, negroni, nerolis, noshing, ogreish, regions, ronnels, shingle, shoeing, shoring, signore, slinger, snoring, sorning.

-5 letters: eloign, eloins, enrols, ensign, eringo, genros, ginner, girons, goners, gorhen, grilse, grison, groins, helios, heroin, herons, higher, hinger, hinges, hirsel, hirsle, hoeing, holier, holies, holing, honers, honing, hosier, hosing, ignore, ingles, inners, insole, irones, isohel, legion, lesion, ligers, linens, liners, linger, logier, loners, longer, longes, lories, losing, neighs, nelson, neroli, nerols, nigher, nosher, nosier, nosing, oglers, ogrish, oilers, oleins, online, orgies, oriels, region, reigns, relish, renigs, renins, reoils, resign, rhinos, ronnel, rosing, senhor, senior, sering, shiner, shrine, sigher, signer, signor, singer, single, sinner, sleigh, soigne, soling, soring.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: English Horn


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 67 6C 69 73 68      48 6F 72 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110010 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#32 &#72 &#111 &#114 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0067 006C 0069 0073 0068      0048 006F 0072 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39807378758574242818480

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams 		9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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