HORN

'Horn' generally refers to:

★ Horn (anatomy), a hollow, stiff, pointed projection of the skin of various animals, as an organ or its material
'Horn' can also refer to things that are made from, and/or are shaped like, the anatomical object:

★ Horn (acoustic), an open-ended tapered sound-guide to match a sound-producing device to the characteristic impedance of free space

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★ Horn (instrument), sometimes called a "French horn," a brass musical instrument constructed of coiled tubing

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★ The brass and woodwind musicians in a jazz or R&B band are sometimes referred to collectively as the 'horn section'; "horn" can be a slang reference to any of those instruments

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★ A horn speaker incorporates this principle into a loudspeaker

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★ Alerting/alarm devices

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★ A common example is a 'car horn'; see also Klaxon

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★ A railway Train whistle.

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★ Foghorn

★ Drinking horn, an ancient drinking vessel

★ Anointing horn, used for the unction at a coronation

★ Horn (telecommunications), an open-ended radio waveguide of increasing cross-sectional area

★ Horn (telescope), a stationary radio telescope

★ Horn, a smoking pipe shaped like a bull's horn or as a bent cone (as known from 'Sherlock Holmes')

★ Horn (Chinese constellation), a constellation in Chinese astronomy

★ Glacial horn, a sharp mountain peak created by glacial erosion

★ Horn (diacritic), a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as ''o'' or ''u'' is to be pronounced unrounded

★ Horn of Plenty

★ Horn-rimmed
Related slang usages include:

★ "Horn" is military jargon for a telephone

★ "Horns" is a shortened version of "Longhorns", the name of the sports teams of the University of Texas

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★ Hook 'em Horns is a hand gesture expressing support for the above teams

★ Devil horns is a hand gesture with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries, also used in heavy metal.

★ "Horned" and variants can mean cuckolded.

★ In Baseball, a Horn is when a player strikes out six times in one game.
'Horn' can refer to one of the following places:

★ Horn of Africa, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti

★ Horn, Austria and the surrounding Horn district

★ Horn (Germany)

★ Horn (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Haelen

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★ Horne (county), a small historic countship of the Holy Roman Empire associated with the village, which was merged into the Prince-Bishopric of Liège

★ Horn, Rutland, a small civil parish in England

★ Horn, Sweden

★ Horn, Switzerland

★ Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America
'Horn' is also a surname: see Horn (surname).
'Horn' in fiction and mythology:

★ Gjallarhorn, the sounding horn of the god Heimdall and the drinking horn of Mímir, both from Norse mythology.

★ Hörn, another name for the goddess Freyja in Norse mythology.

★ ''King Horn'', a 13th century Middle English romance story.

★ The Horn of Gondor carried by Boromir in the Lord Of The Rings.
'Horn' may refer to a company:

★ The Horn Book is a publisher of journals in the field of children’s and young adults' literature

★ HORN is a sales force consulting firm

★ HORN or H.O.R.N. is an abbreviation for the Head On Radio Network

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★ Hoorn

★ Horn clause, a term in formal logic

★ Horne

★ Horny

★ ''Around the Horn''