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Definition: Horn |
HornNoun1. A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it. 2. One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates. 3. A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;. 4. A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather). 5. A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves. 6. Any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn. 7. The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails. 8. An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound. 9. A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves. 10. : a device on an automobile for making a warning noise. Verb1. Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; of animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "horn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Horn \Horn\, noun. [Anglo-Saxon horn; akin to Dutch horen, hoorn, German, Icelandic, Swedish, & Danish horn, Gothic ha['u]rn, Welsh, Gaelic, & Irish corn, Latin cornu, Greek, and perhaps also to English cheer, cranium, cerebral; compare to Sanskrit [,c]iras head. Compare to Carat, Cornon the foot, Cornea, Corner, Cor. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | A sharp point. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Aerospace | An antenna shaped like a horn. Also called horn radiator.A horn is usually designed as an extension of a waveguide whose sides flare from the original waveguide size to a larger aperture size. (references) |
Bible | Horn Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4,5). Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39). But the word is used also metaphorically to denote the projecting corners of the altar of burnt offerings (Ex. 27:2) and of incense (30:2). The horns of the altar of burnt offerings were to be smeared with the blood of the slain bullock (29:12; Lev. 4:7-18). The criminal, when his crime was accidental, found an asylum by laying hold of the horns of the altar (1 Kings 1:50; 2:28). The word also denotes the peak or summit of a hill (Isa. 5:1, where the word "hill" is the rendering of the same Hebrew word). This word is used metaphorically also for strength (Deut. 33:17) and honour (Job 16:15; Lam. 2:3). Horns are emblems of power, dominion, glory, and fierceness, as they are the chief means of attack and defence with the animals endowed with them (Dan. 8:5, 9; 1 Sam. 2:1; 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39; 22:11; Josh. 6:4, 5; Ps. 75:5, 10; 132:17; Luke 1:69, etc.). The expression "horn of salvation," applied to Christ, means a salvation of strength, or a strong Saviour (Luke 1:69). To have the horn "exalted" denotes prosperity and triumph (Ps. 89:17, 24). To "lift up" the horn is to act proudly (Zech. 1:21). Horns are also the symbol of royal dignity and power (Jer. 48:25; Zech. 1:18; Dan. 8:24). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you hear the sound of a horn, foretells hasty news of a joyful character. To see a broken horn, denotes death or accident. To see children playing with horns, denotes congeniality in the home. For a woman to dream of blowing a horn, foretells that she is more anxious for marriage than her lover. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | An elementary aerial consisting of a waveguide in which one or more transverse dimensions increase towards the open end ; a microwave antenna produced by flaring out the end of a circular or rectangular waveguide into the shape of a horn, for radiating radio waves directly into space. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A tubular or rectangular microwave aerial which is wider at the open end and through which radio waves are radiated into space. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The end of the bow. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The tube of varying section, larger at one end than the other, intended to achieve an acoustic impedance match and, possibly, to produce a directional effect. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Horn Logistilla gave Astolpho at parting a horn that had the virtue to appal and put to flight the boldest knight or most savage beast. (Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, book viii.) Astolpho's horn. (See above.) Cape Horn. So named by Schouten, a Dutch mariner, who first doubled it. He was a native of Hoorn, in north Holland, and named the cape after his native place. Drinking horn. Drinking cups used to be made of the rhinoceros's horn, from an Oriental belief that "it sweats at the approach of poison." (Calmet: Biblical Dictionary.) King Horn. The hero of a French metrical romance, and the original of our Horne Childe, generally called The Geste of Kyng Horn. The nominal author of the French romance is Mestre Thomas. Dr. Percy ascribes the English romance of King Horne to the twelfth century, but this is probably a century too early (See Ritson's Ancient Romances.) Horn ~~~Horns Horns PHRASES. My horn hath He exalted (l Sam. ii. 10; Ps. lxxxix. 24, etc.). Mr. Buckingham says of a Tyrian lady, "She wore on her head a hollow silver horn, rearing itself upwards obliquely from the forehead. It was some four inches in diameter at the root, and pointed at its extremity. This peculiarity reminded me forcibly of the expression of the Psalmist, `Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted' (Ps. lxxv. 5, 10)." Bruce found in Abyssinia the silver horns of warriors and distinguished men. In the reign of Henry V. the "horned head-gear" was introduced into England, and from the effigy of Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, at Arundel church, who is represented with two horns outspread to a great extent, we may infer that the length of the head-horn, like the length of the shoe-point in the reign of Henry VI., etc., marked the degree of rank. "To cut off" such horns would be to degrade; and to exalt or extend such horns would be to add honour and dignity to the wearer. To draw in one's horns. To retract, or mitigate, a pronounced opinion; to restrain pride. In French, "Rentrer les cornes. " The allusion is to the snail. To put to the horn. To denounce as a rebel, or pronounce a person an outlaw, for not answering to a summons. In Scotland the messenger-at-arms goes to the Cross of Edinburgh and gives three blasts with a horn before he heralds the judgment of outlawry. "A king's messenger must give three blasts with his horn, by which the person is understood to be proclaimed rebel to the king for contempt of his authority." - Erskine: Institutes, book ii. 5. To wear the horns. to be a cuckold. In the rutting season, the stags associate with the fawns: one stag selects several females, who constitute his harem, till another stag comes who contests the price with him. If beaten in the combat, he yields up his harem to the victor, and is without associates till he finds a stag feebler than himself, who is made to submit to similar terms. As stags are horned, and made cuckolds of by their fellows, the application is palpable. (See Cornette.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Operating arm of simple manual flight control surface to which cable is attached. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | 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. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | A device mounted on a unit similar to a sewing machine called an. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Acoustic emitter tube whose varying cross-section and final area control acoustic impedance and directivity. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Approaching Cape Horn from the SW
Larger versionCape Horn is the southernmost point of South America. It is located in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.
The cape was first rounded on January 26, 1616 by a Dutch expedition of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire. They named it Kaap Hoorn after the city of Hoorn, Schouten's birthplace. The spanish name of the place is a degeneration of the dutch: Cabo de Hornos.
Cape Horn is famous for the weather conditions that made it difficult to round in the days of sailing ships. Even so, the open waters of the Drake Passage south of the Cape meant plenty of sea room for maneuvering, while the narrow Strait of Magellan through the Tierra del Fuego islands could be a slow and tortuous passage.
The area of the Cape is in Chile. A family lives at a small station maintained by the government, consisting of a main house, utility building, chapel, and lighthouse. A short distance off there is a large sculpture featuring the silhouette of an albatross. The terrain is entirely treeless, although quite lush due to the frequent precipitation.
Main building of Chilean station
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The French horn is a brass instrument consisting of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. It is also known as simply the horn, or, in other languages, cor, corno, etc.
History
The original French Horns were much simpler than current horns, which consist of complicated tubing and a set of 3 to 5 valves (depending on the type of horn). These early horns were simply brass tubing wound a few times and flared into a larger opening at the end (called the bell of the horn). They evolved from the early hunting horns and, as such, were meant to be played while riding on a horse. The hornist would grip the horn on the piping near the mouthpiece and rest the body of the horn across his arm so that only one hand was needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was to use the natural harmonics of that particular length of tubing by changing the speed at which the lips vibrated against the mouthpiece.Later, horns became interesting to composers, and were used to invoke an out-of-doors feeling and the idea of the chase. Even in the time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, however, the horn player (now a part of the early orchestra) still had a much simpler version of the horn; he carried with him a set of crooks, which were curved pieces of tube of different length which could be used to change the length of the horn by removing part of the tubing and inserting a different length piece. The player now held the horn with both hands, holding the tubing near the mouthpiece with one, and putting the other into the bell, which was either rested upon the right knee of the player or the entire horn was lifted into the air. Now the pitch played could be changed in several ways. First the player could change the harmonic series which the instrument as a whole had by removing and inserting different sized crooks into the instrument, changing the length of the horn itself. Less globally, given a particular crook, the vibration of the lips could be varied in speed, thus moving to a different pitch on the given harmonic series. Finally, now that the player had his hand in the bell, the hand became an extension on the length of the horn, and by closing and opening the space available for air to leave the bell, he could bend the pitch to interpolate between the elements of a harmonic series. This interpolation finally made the horn a true melodic instrument, not simply limited to a harmonic series, and some of the great composers started to write concerti for this new instrument. The Mozart Horn Concerti, for example, were written for this type of horn, called the natural horn in the modern literature.
Around 1815, the horn took on new form, as valves were introduced, which allowed the player to switch between crooks without the effort of manually removing one from the horn and inserting a new one. At this same time, the standard horn came to be the horn on the F harmonic series, and there were then three valves added to it. Using these three valves, the player could play all the notes reachable in the horn's range.
Types of horns
The single F horn, despite this improvement, had a rather irksome flaw. As the player played higher and higher notes, the distinctions a player had to make with his or her embouchure from note to note became increasingly precise. An early solution was simply to use a horn of higher pitch -- usually B-flat. The relative merits of F versus B-flat were a hotbed of debate between horn players of the late nineteenth century, until the German horn maker Kruspe produced a prototype of the "double horn" in 1897.
The double horn combines two instruments into one frame: the original horn in F, and a second, higher horn keyed in B-flat. By using a fourth valve operated by the thumb, the horn player can quickly switch from the deep, warm tones of the F horn to the higher, brighter tones of the B-flat horn (commonly called "sides"). In the words of Reginald Morley-Pegge, the invention of the double horn "revolutionized horn playing technique almost as much as did the invention of the valve." [Morley-Pegge, "Orchestral," 195]
Specialized horns
While most modern instruments are of the F/B-flat double horn variety, various special-purpose instruments are available (usually at a very high price).
The most common is the descant horn, which is a single horn pitched in F alto, one octave higher than the traditional F horn. The descant is used largely for extended playing in the high register, such as in Bach's Brandenburg Concerti. Single horns in F or B-flat still see use, notably in operatic settings. Their lighter weight renders them much more suitable for the extended and strenuous playing required of Wagnerian operas.
The triple horn is the result of merging an F/B-flat double horn with an F-alto descant, adding a fifth valve to an already complex instrument. While the horn is suitable for work in nearly every register of horn literature, the added weight makes it tiresome to play, and for this reason it is not widely used.
The mellophone is, in appearance, very different from any of the above types of horn, but it is nevertheless used in place of the horn in marching bands.
External Links
- How the valved horn emerged from the early Industrial Revolution
- Professor John Q. Ericson's Horn Page
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A horn is a pointed projection of the skin of various animals. In ruminant artiodactyls, the horns are paired and take various forms depending on the family:Some peoples use bovid horns as musical instruments, for example the shofar. These have evolved into brass instruments in which, unlike the trumpet, the bore gradually increases in width through most of its length - that is to say, it is conical rather than cylindrical. These are called horns, though made of metal. See French horn. In telecommunication, the term horn has the following meanings:
- Tragulidae: No horns.
- Antilocapridae: The horn has a prong.
- Giraffidae: There are bony bumps which look like they ought to have horns on them, but don't.
- Cervidae: Deer have antlers, which are made of bone and shed each year.
- Moschidae: ?
- Bovidae: The horns are made of horn (i.e. keratin) and are cones bent into spiral shapes.
1. In radio transmission, an open-ended waveguide, of increasing cross-sectional area, which radiates directly in a desired direction or feeds a reflector that forms a desired beam.
Note 1: Horns may have one or more expansion curves, i.e. , longitudinal cross sections, such as elliptical, conical, hyperbolic, or parabolic curves, and not necessarily the same expansion curve in each (E-plane and H-plane) cross section.
Note 2: A very wide range of beam patterns may be formed by controlling horn dimensions and shapes, placement of the reflector, and reflector shape and dimensions.
2. A portion of a waveguide in which the cross section is smoothly increased along the axial direction.
3. In audio systems, a tube, usually having a rectangular transverse cross section and a linearly or exponentially increasing cross-sectional area, used for radiating or receiving acoustic waves.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
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Horn is a small town in the so-called "Waldviertel" in Lower Austria.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Horn, Austria."
Synonyms: HornSynonyms: automobile horn (n), car horn (n), cornet (n), hooter (n), motor horn (n), saddle horn (n), trumpet (n), tusk (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin; vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage, fort-alice; lines. |
Distortion | Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic. |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
Repute | Make a noise, make some noise, make a noise in the world; leave one's mark, exalt one's horn, blow one's horn, star it, have a run, be run after; come into vogue, come to the front; raise one's head. |
Rotundity | Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution). |
School | School book, horn book, text book; grammar, primer, abecedary, rudiments, manual, vade mecum; encyclopedia, cyclopedia; Lindley Murray, dictionary, lexicon. |
Sharpness | Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca. |
Sufficiency | Fill; fullness; (completeness); plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness; Adjective:; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; " good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance; (fertility); affluence; (wealth); fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine; (stock). |
Support | Seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel. |
Writing | Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter. |
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Crosswords: Horn |
| English words defined with "horn": air horn ♦ Bugle horn ♦ Drinking horn ♦ Fossil unicorn's horn ♦ Horn block, horn button, Horn distemper, horn fly, Hunting horn ♦ Morsing horn ♦ Post horn, powder horn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "horn": Amalthea's Horn, Ammonian Horn, Anterior Horn Cells ♦ Corn ... Horn ♦ Giallar Horn, Golden Horn, Guarded Horn Clauses ♦ Heimdall's Horn, horn antenna, Horn clause, horn coal, HORN COLIC, HORN FAIR, HORN MAD, Horn of Plenty, Horn of Power, Horn of the Son of Oil, horn radiator, Horn with Horn, HORN WORK ♦ King Horn ♦ Lift not up your Horn on High ♦ miner's horn ♦ Oldenburg Horn ♦ Posterior Horn Cells ♦ sectoral horn. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "horn": Ward-corn. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Horn" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (hooter, horn, klaxon), Faeroese (angle, corner, hooter, horn, klaxon), German (bugle, bump, cornet, feeler, hooter, horn, klaxon, lump), Norwegian (horn), Romanian (chimney, flue), Swedish (antler, cusp, hooter, horn, klaxon). |
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Screenplays | Where is the horn that was blowing (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Too late, I'm already on the 40's, gotta go around the horn, it's faster (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) Now if you boys will excuse us, I'm going to toot Mr. Birdman's horn! (Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law; writing credit: Dave Cummings; Paul Whitehouse) Come on, Trader Horn, let's hear it. What'd you give the krauts for that egg (Stalag 17; writing credit: Donald Bevan; Edmund Trzcinski) | |
Lyrics | I'll bring my horn with me ("Blueberry Hill"; performing artist: Fats Domino) I was there at the Little Big Horn (I Ain't Marching Anymore; performing artist: Phil Ochs) | |
Clever | The horn of plenty is usually the one behind you in traffic! (references; author: unknown) I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rund um Kap Horn (1973) Trader Horn (1973) Big Horn (1970) Förster Horn (1967) Come Blow Your Horn (1963) | |
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 | Histology of normal anterior horn neurons of cervical spinal cord. Cresyl violet stain. Credit: CDC. |  | The poliovirus has an affinity for the anterior horn motor neurons of the cervical and lumbar regions of the spinal cord. Death of these cells causes muscle weakness of those muscles once innervated by the now dead neurons. Credit: CDC. |
 | Oyster setting tanks at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership, oyster larvae are placed in these tanks for two days, allowing them to set on shells where they stay and continue to grow for the rest of their lives. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "Buy boat" ROBERT LEE docked at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership to transplant oyster spat to permanent oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | 2 osprey - Pandion haliaetus - on nest and gulls in the background lining the jetty at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Four osprey - Pandion haliaetus - on nest off of the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Channel leading out from Punta Arenas, Chile, towards Cape Horn. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Donald Merrit, a research biologist for the University of Maryland's Horn Point Center for Environmental Studies, pilots a boat from which ARS chemists Laura McConnell (left) and Jennifer Harman-Fetcho collect samples of oysters,water, and sediment from the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Rocky Mountain big horn sheep. Credit: Unknown. |  | 10 Big Horn Sheep standing on rocky ledge. Credit: Academy of Natural Science. |
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| "Galata Tower with Golden Horn" by William J. Ray Commentary: "This was taken from the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey." | "Horn player" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "A man plays a horn outside Union Station in Washington DC." |
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 | Groove-based dance piece with synthesized horn hits. | | A slow blues style excerpt featuring a flugal horn melody. |
| Minor key excerpt with repetitive piano, high bells, and horn. | | Flugal horn solo in a sultry blues style. |
| A string and French horn short introduction typical of a Hollywood film. | | Machine turning off then horn beeping repeatedly. |
| Police siren and fire truck horn. | | Imitation of a ship's horn blowing by violins. |
| Electronic ship's horn. | | Synthetic low-pitched tanker horn blowing. |
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Desiderius Erasmus | They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. |
Henry Morgan | A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Travellers have a better chance of catching a thrust of a horn when there are bulls in the road than when there are none |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al blew his horn and pulled the car to the side of the road |
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Health | Negri bodies may vary in size from 0.25 to 27 µm. They are found most frequently in the pyramidal cells of Ammon's horn, and the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum. (references) | |
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic, motor neuron disease characterized by wasting of the skeletal muscles caused by progressive degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. The disorder causes weakness and atrophy of the voluntary muscles. (references) | ||
Economic History | Malawi | Human remains at a site dated about 8000 BC show physical characteristics similar to peoples living today in the Horn of Africa. (references) |
Somalia | Somalia is located on the east coast of Africa on and north of the Equator and, with Ethiopia and Djibouti, is often referred to as the Horn of Africa. (references) | |
Rwanda | According to folklore, Tutsi cattle breeders began arriving in the area from the Horn of Africa in the 15th century and gradually subjugated the Hutu inhabitants. (references) | |
Human Rights | Somalia | The Horn of Africa Human Rights Watch Committee monitored human rights in Somaliland. (references) |
Somalia | Several local human rights groups were active during the year, including the Mogadishu-based Ismail Jumale Center for Human Rights and the Hargeisa-based Horn of Africa Human Rights Watch Committee. (references) | |
Cambodia | The investigation of some cases proceeded very slowly, and, in one case, the authorities did not question a village chief who had advance knowledge of plans to kill the victim but failed to report or act to prevent it. In October a provincial court convicted the confessed killer and an accomplice in the June murder of SRP activist Uch Horn, sentencing them to 15 and 14 years in prison respectively. (references) | |
Trade | Yemen | While a definitive list of restrictions does not exist, pork and pork products, coffee, alcohol, narcotics, a very limited list of fresh fruits and vegetables during their local production season, weapons and explosives, and rhinoceros horn are prohibited. (references) |
Kenya | The country allows export of all items except for the following which are considered either of aesthetic value to the country or have national security importance: military equipment and munitions; antiques and works of art; bullion and coins; archives; live animals other than livestock and pets; wood charcoal and lumber; ivory, rhino horn and other products related to endangered species; human bones; and specially built transport equipment and automotive vehicles (e.g. armored cars and tanks). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We are pledged to work with our sister republics to free the Americas of all such foreign domination and all tyranny, working toward the goal of a free hemisphere of free governments, extending from Cape Horn to the Arctic Circle. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The United States has taken the lead among a group of donor countries who are providing relief to some two million refugees in the Horn of Africa who have been displaced by fighting in Ethiopia. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Horn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.39% of the time. "Horn" is used about 866 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.39% | 774 | 8,902 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.57% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.58% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.35% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 866 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "horn" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Horn | Last name | 20,000 | 581 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "horn". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Cornelia | N/A | Ancient Roman | Of a horn |
| Cornelius | N/A | Biblical | Of a horn |
| Keren-happuch | N/A | Biblical | The horn or child of beauty |
| Kornel | N/A | Czech | Of a horn |
| Cornelia | N/A | Dutch | Of a horn |
| Cornelis | N/A | Dutch | Of a horn |
| Kees | N/A | Dutch | Of a horn |
| Kerneels | N/A | Dutch | Of a horn |
| Cornelia | N/A | English | Of a horn |
| Cornell | N/A | English | Of a horn |
| Keren | N/A | English | The horn or child of beauty |
| Cornelia | N/A | German | Of a horn |
| Kornél | N/A | Hungarian | Of a horn |
| Cornelia | N/A | Italian | Of a horn |
| Kornel | N/A | Polish | Of a horn |
| Cornélio | N/A | Portuguese | Of a horn |
| Cornel | N/A | Romanian | Of a horn |
| Cornelia | N/A | Romanian | Of a horn |
| Corneliu | N/A | Romanian | Of a horn |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "horn": acoustic horn ♦ air horn ♦ Anterior Horn Cells ♦ automobile horn ♦ baritone horn ♦ bass horn ♦ Basset horn ♦ big Horn County ♦ blow one's own horn ♦ blow the horn ♦ blowing the horn ♦ Bugle horn ♦ cape horn ♦ car horn ♦ chemical horn ♦ Drinking horn ♦ Elk Horn ♦ English horn ♦ Fog horn ♦ Fossil unicorn's horn ♦ french horn ♦ golden horn ♦ guarded Horn Clauses ♦ horn aerial ♦ horn antenna ♦ horn balance ♦ Horn block ♦ horn button ♦ horn clause ♦ Horn distemper ♦ Horn drum ♦ horn fly ♦ horn in ♦ horn in on ♦ horn knot ♦ Horn Lake ♦ Horn lead ♦ Horn maker ♦ horn mercury ♦ horn music ♦ Horn of a dilemma ♦ horn of Africa ♦ horn of Amalthaea ♦ horn of plenty ♦ horn owl ♦ horn pill ♦ horn plate ♦ horn player ♦ horn poppy ♦ Horn pout ♦ Horn pox ♦ horn quicksilver ♦ Horn shell ♦ Horn silver ♦ horn skin ♦ Horn slate ♦ hunter's horn ♦ hunting horn ♦ huntsman's horn ♦ little Horn ♦ Morsing horn ♦ motor horn ♦ post horn ♦ Posterior Horn Cells ♦ powder horn ♦ prong horn ♦ Ram's horn ♦ saddle horn ♦ sectoral horn ♦ shoe horn ♦ signal horn ♦ sound the horn ♦ spindle horn ♦ switch horn ♦ the horn ♦ to horn ♦ to lift the horn ♦ to raise the horn ♦ To take a horn ♦ toot one's horn ♦ van horn ♦ warning horn ♦ wind the horn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "horn": horn-balanced, horn-bearing, horn-blowing, horn-book, horn-calls, horn-coloured, horn-cores, horn-effect, horn-fly, horn-gate, horn-glazed, horn-handled, horn-led, horn-like, Horn-mad, horn-notes, horn-plate, horn-player, horn-riffed, horn-rim, horn-rimmed, horn-rimmed spectacles, horn-rims, horn-shaped, horn-sounding, horn-tethered. | |
Ending with "horn": bugle-horn. | |
Containing "horn": hunt-the-missing-french-horn-part, Ike-horn-nia, ink-horn term, Stag-horn coral, Stag-horn fern, Stag-horn sumac, stag's-horn coral. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
horn | 529 | shirley horn | 59 |
french horn | 388 | long horn | 59 |
air horn | 322 | motorcycle horn | 52 |
flower horn | 312 | horn kimley | 51 |
little big horn | 307 | italian horn | 50 |
around the horn | 185 | dixie horn | 48 |
shoes horn | 155 | beth horn | 48 |
fish flower horn | 155 | van horn texas | 46 |
car horn | 143 | greg horn | 46 |
battle of little big horn | 136 | big horn mountain | 45 |
horn sam son | 124 | trader horn | 45 |
africa horn | 112 | fog horn | 45 |
cape horn boat | 104 | devil horn | 45 |
french horn lehigh sound | 103 | big horn | 44 |
cape horn | 95 | english horn | 44 |
train horn | 79 | keith van horn | 43 |
big horn saddle | 75 | tom horn | 40 |
bull horn | 68 | ram and horn | 39 |
powder horn | 62 | horn lake ms | 38 |
big horn sheep | 62 | horn speaker | 38 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "horn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | horing (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Albanian | bri (hooter, klaxon, prong, rib). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفير (bugle, partwork, trumpet), نطح (bunt, butt, gore, leak, ram, seep), قرن (conjugate, connection, connexion, couple, coupling, joint, pairing), قربوس السرج, تطفل (cadge, crash, gatecrash, impose, intrude, intrusion, meddle, mix in, nose, obtrude, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snoop, snooping), سلطة (arm, chicory, command, hold, influence, law, power, prerogative, rule, seigniory), زمر (toot), جزء من السندان, إعتبار (account, consideration, esteem, estimation, prestige, regard, respect, stature, status, thoughtfulness), أحد طرفي الهلال, بوق من القرن, بوق السيارة, بوق (blare, bugle, cornet, euphonium, honk, megaphone, proboscis, sound, toot, tootle, trump, trumpet), بوري. (various references) | |
Basque | adar (bough, branch, limb). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хорн, пипалца, пирамидален връх, ловджийски рог (bugle, hunting horn), алтов обой, муша (stick, thrust), мустачки (holdfast), надувам рог, намушвам с рога, валдхорна (waldhorn), издатина (burr, hump, jut, ledge, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, salient, set off, shelf, swell, tuber), корна, скъсявам рогата, ребро (arris, fin, hip, rib), рог (cusp), рогов (corneous, horny), рогово вещество (keratin), рупор (megaphone, speaking trumpet), ръкав (arm, sleeve), сигнална свирка (siren, syren), сирена (buzzer, hooter, siren, syren), слагам рога на (cuckold), свиря на рог, клаксон (buzzer, klaxon). (various references) | |
Chinese | 角 (angle, Chinese musical note, horn-shaped), 犄角 , 篥 (bamboos good for poles), 垫铁. (various references) | |
Czech | tykadlo (antenna, feeler, tentacle), roh (angle, corner). (various references) | |
Danish | signalhorn (hooter, klaxon), horn (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Dutch | hoorn (clarion, earphone, hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Esperanto | korno (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Faeroese | horn (angle, corner, hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیاله (Beaker, Calix, Chalice, Cup), نوک (Apex, Ascendant, Barb, Bill, End, Head, Jag, Peak, Point, Ridge, Summit, Tip, Top, Vertex), کرنا (Trumpet), شیپور (Bugle, Clarion, Trumpet), شاخ (Branch), بوق (Bugle, Trumpet). (various references) | |
Finnish | torvi (pipe, spout, trumpet, tube), sarvi (antler). (various references) | |
French | corne (hooter), trompe (hooter), klaxon (hooter), cornet (horn aerial, horn antenna), cor (french horn), avertisseur (hooter). (various references) | |
Frisian | hoarn (hooter, klaxon), klakson (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
German | horn (bugle, bump, cornet, feeler, hooter, klaxon, lump), signalhorn (bugle), hupe (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Greek | κόρνα (hooter), κέρατο (wing), κέρας (cornu, flare, horn aerial, horn antenna). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | bri (hooter, klaxon, rib). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לנגוח (butt, knock, lunge), שופר (ram's horn, shofar), קרן (beam, Ray), צופר (hooter, klaxon, signal horn, siren). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kürt (bugle, cornet, French horn, hooter, klaxon, siren, tooter), szarv (hertz-horn), autóduda (hooter), agancs (antler, stem). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terompet (bugle, trumpet), tanduk, slompret (trumpet (made of paper)). (various references) | |
Irish | beann (hooter, klaxon), adharc (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Italian | tromba (bugle, hooter, klaxon, trumpet, well), corno (hooter, klaxon), clacson (klaxon). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 警笛 (alarm, foghorn, whistle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホーン , ホルン , つのぶえ (hunting horn), つの, らっぱ (bugle, trumpet), けいてき (alarm, edification, enlightenment, foghorn, formidable foe, guide, whistle). (various references) | |
Korean | 경적. (various references) | |
Manx | eairk (antler, cusp, peak), cayrn (bugle, hooter, play, trumpet). (various references) | |
Norwegian | horn. (various references) | |
Occitan | bana. (various references) | |
Papago | sihl mo'o (saddle horn). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kachu (hooter, klaxon), kacho (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ornhay.(various references) | |
Polish | róg (angle, corner, hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Portuguese | chifre (bone, hooter, klaxon), corno (cuckold, hooter, klaxon), buzina (honk, hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Romanian | trompetã (trumpet), tentacul (feeler, tentacle, tentaculum), strãpunge sau a rãni cu coarnele, se strecura (creep, edge, filter, glide, infiltrate, steal, strain, worm, worm one's way, worm oneself, wriggle oneself into), lua în coarne, lingurã de încãlţat, corn de vânãtoare, corn (antenna, bugle, Clarion, cracknel, Crescent), claxon (hooter, klaxon, peep), bucium (alpenhorn, alphorn, trumpet), antenã (aerial, antenna, antennae, feeler, tentacle), încornora (cuckold), încãlţãtor. (various references) | |
Russian | сигнал (beep, bells, call, signal). (various references) | |
Scottish | adharc (a horn, hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rog (antler, spar), nabiti rogove, bosti rogovima. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuerno (antler, cusp), bocina (hooter, klaxon, megaphone, speaking trumpet), trompa (loaded, top, trunk, tube), claxon (hooter, klaxon). (various references) | |
Swedish | horn (antler, cusp, hooter, klaxon), lur (earphone, nap, receiver). (various references) | |
Thai | แทง (ด้วยเขา), เครื่องเป่าในดนตรีแจ๊ส, เขา. (various references) | |
Turkish | boynuz (antler, hooter, kerato-, klaxon). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юah (horn (of an animal)). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рупор (megaphone, mouthpiece, speaking trumpet, speaking tube, trumpet, voice), ріг (beak, corner), роговий (corneous), гудок (beep, buzzer, hoot, hooter, siren, toot), горн (bugle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mào, gạc hươu. (various references) | |
Welsh | twlcio (butt, gore), cornio (butt), corn (corn, pipe, roll, tube). (various references) | |
Yucatec | baak (bone). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. si, ahi. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cornu. (various references) |
| Celtic | 400-Modern | corn. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | horn. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | corn. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 69 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai hgeiren keraV swthriaV hmin en tw oikw dabid tou paidoV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erexit cornu salutis nobis in domo David pueri sui |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And he us hæle horn arærde. on dauides huse hys cnihtes; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he hath rerid to vs an horn of heelthe in the hous of Dauid, his child. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And hath reysed vp an horne of salvacion vnto vs in the housse of his servaunt David. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us, in the house of his servant David: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Lifting up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 69 |
| Cebuano | ug alang kanato iyang gipatindog ang usa ka gamhaang Manluluwas diha sa kaliwatan ni David nga iyang alagad, |
| Chinese | 在 他 僕 人 大 衛 家 中 、 為 我 們 興 起 了 拯 救 的 角 、 |
| Croatian | Podiže nam snagu spasenja u domu Davida, sluge svojega, |
| Danish | og har oprejst os et Frelsens Horn" i sin Tjener Davids Hus, |
| Dutch | En heeft een hoorn der zaligheid ons opgericht, in het huis van David, Zijn knecht; |
| Finnish | ja kohottanut meille pelastuksen sarven palvelijansa Daavidin huoneesta |
| French | Et nous a suscité un puissant Sauveur Dans la maison de David, son serviteur, |
| German | und hat uns aufgerichtet ein Horn des Heils in dem Hause seines Dieners David, |
| Haitian Creole | Li voye yon moun avek gwo pouvwa pou delivre nou. Se nan laras David, sèvitè Bondye a, li soti. |
| Hungarian | És felemelte az üdvösségnek szarvát nékünk az õ gyermekének, Dávidnak házában, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia memberi kita penyelamat yang perkasa, keturunan Daud, hamba-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan membangunkan bagi kita suatu tanduk selamat di dalam isi rumah Daud hamba-Nya itu |
| Italian | e ha suscitato per noi una salvezza potente nella casa di Davide, suo servo, |
| Korean | 우 리 를 위 하 여 구 원 의 뿔 을 그 종 다 윗 의 집 에 일 으 키 셨 으 니 |
| Manx Gaelic | As t'eh er hroggal seose saualtys niartal er nyn son, ayns thie e harvaant David; |
| Maori | Kua whakaarahia ake e ia he haona whakaora mo tatou, i roto i te whare o Rawiri, o tana pononga; |
| Norwegian | Og han opreiste oss et frelsens horn i sin tjener Davids hus, |
| Russian | Й ЧПЪДЧЙЗ ТПЗ УРБУЕОЙС ОБН Ч ДПНХ дБЧЙДБ, ПФТПЛБ уЧПЕЗП, |
| Shuar | Yaunchu ii uuntri Tawit Yusa wakeramurijiai uunt akupin áchamkia. Tura ni ukurin ti kakaram Uwemtikkiartinian suramsaitji. |
| Swahili | Ametupatia Mwokozi shujaa, mzawa wa Daudi mtumishi wake. |
| Swedish | och som har upprättat åt oss ett frälsningens horn i sin tjänare Davids hus, |
| Uma | Nawai' -tamo Tadulako to mobaraka' to mpokeni kalompea'. Tadulako toei, muli Magau' Daud, batua-na owi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "horn": hornbeam, hornbeams, hornbill, hornbills, hornblende, hornblendes, hornblendic, hornbook, hornbooks, horned, hornedness, hornednesses, hornet, hornets, hornfels, hornier, horniest, hornily, horniness, horninesses, horning, hornist, hornists, hornito, hornitos, hornless, hornlessness, hornlessnesses, hornlike, hornpipe, hornpipes, hornpout, hornpouts, horns, hornstone, hornstones, hornswoggle, hornswoggled, hornswoggles, hornswoggling, horntail, horntails, hornworm, hornworms, hornwort, hornworts, horny. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "horn": alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, bethorn, bighorn, blackthorn, boxthorn, buckthorn, bullhorn, crumhorn, dehorn, firethorn, fluegelhorn, flugelhorn, foghorn, greenhorn, hartshorn, hawthorn, inkhorn, krumhorn, krummhorn, lanthorn, leghorn, longhorn, pronghorn, ramshorn, saxhorn, shoehorn, shorn, shorthorn, stinkhorn, thorn, tinhorn, unshorn. (additional references) | |
Words containing "horn": alpenhorns, alphorns, althorns, bethorned, bethorning, bethorns, bighorns, blackthorns, boxthorns, buckthorns, bullhorns, crumhorns, dehorned, dehorner, dehorners, dehorning, dehorns, firethorns, fluegelhorns, flugelhornist, flugelhornists, flugelhorns, foghorns, greenhorns, hartshorns, hawthorns, inkhorns, krumhorns, krummhorns, lanthorns, leghorns, longhorns, pronghorns, ramshorns, saxhorns, shoehorned, shoehorning, shoehorns, shorthorns, stinkhorns, thornback, thornbacks, thornbush, thornbushes, thorned, thornier, thorniest, thornily, thorniness, thorninesses, thorning. (additional references) | |
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"Horn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahorn, Chrohn, Ghofran, ghor, haran, Harn, Herrn, hiort, Hirn, Hjort, hlr, hoan, hocn, hoen, Hohn, hon, honn, honr, honre, honry, hoon, hoor, hoorn, hora, horan, horc, Hord, Horen, horf, hork, Horl, Hornak, hornd, horne, Hornn, Hornum, horra, hort, Horun, hory, Horyn, Houn, hown, hrn, huran, hurn, Ihor, jorn, khoren, norrn, ohr, orn, yorn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "horn" (pronounced hô"rn) |
| 3 | -ô" r n | adorn, born, borne, Bourn, Bourne, corn, forlorn, forsworn, lowborn, mourn, porn, reborn, scorn, shorn, stillborn, sworn, thorn, torn, unborn, warn, wellborn, worn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: hon, noh, nor, rho. | |
-2 letters: ho, no, oh, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: heron, honer, honor, horns, horny, north, rhino, shorn, thorn. | |
+2 letters: anchor, archon, dehorn, gorhen, hadron, hereon, heroin, herons, honers, honker, honors, honour, horned, hornet, norths, nosher, nother, onrush, orphan, rancho, rhinos, rhyton, senhor, shoran, thorns, thorny, thoron, throne, throng, thrown. | |
+3 letters: alphorn, althorn, anaphor, anchors, another, archons, bethorn, bighorn, bodhran, bronchi, broncho, chantor, chevron, chlorin, chorine, choring, chorion, chronic, chronon, cothurn, dehorns, dronish, foghorn, gorhens, gryphon, hadrons, hagborn, harmony, harpoon, heroine, heroins, heronry, hoarsen, honkers, honored, honoree, honorer, honours, hordein, hording, horizon, hormone, hornets, hornier, hornily, horning, hornist, hornito, horrent, horsing, hounder, hyperon, inkhorn, inshore, leghorn, menorah, monarch, moorhen, morphin, nephron, noirish, nomarch, nonhero, norther, noshers, notcher, nourish, nowhere, ochring, onshore, orphans, phonier, ranchos, reshone, reshown, rhonchi, rhytons, roughen, saxhorn, senhora, senhors, shorans, shoring, shorten, synchro, thereon, thorned, thorons, throned, thrones, throngs, tinhorn, torchon, unhorse, unrough, unshorn, whereon, whoring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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