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horn
English
Etymology
From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn? (compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn)), from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?-nó-m, from *?erh?- (“head, horn”).
Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin corn?, Ancient Greek ????? (kéras), Proto-Slavic *s?rna, Old Church Slavonic ????? (s?rna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”)[script needed], Persian ???? (sur), Sanskrit ????? (???ga, “horn”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôn, IPA(key): /h??n/
- (US) enPR: hôrn, IPA(key): /h??n/
- Rhymes: -??(r)n
Noun
horn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)
- (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- An antler.
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- Synonym: keratin
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- Synonyms: hooter, klaxon
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- Synonym: funnel
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
- Synonyms: blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
- (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
- Synonyms: boner (US), hard-on, stiffy
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
- Synonym: peninsula
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ? and ?.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Usage notes
When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either hunting horn or French horn, depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as English horn or basset horn.
Translations
Verb
horn (third-person singular simple present horns, present participle horning, simple past and past participle horned)
- (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
- (transitive) To furnish with horns.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- NRHO, Rohn
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Noun
horn n (singular definite hornet, plural indefinite horn)
- horn
Inflection
References
- “horn” in Den Danske Ordbog
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?tn/
- Rhymes: -?tn
Noun
horn n (genitive singular horns, plural horn)
- horn (of an animal)
- (music) horn
- corner
- speaker (on a telephone)
- angle
Declension
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?rtn/
- Rhymes: -?rtn
Noun
horn n (genitive singular horns, nominative plural horn)
- horn (of an animal)
- fin (of a cetacean or other marine animal)
- corner
- angle
- (music) horn
Declension
Derived terms
Middle English
Alternative forms
- horne, orn
Etymology
From Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nós (with change in gender).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?rn/
Noun
horn (plural hornes)
- A horn (keratinous growth on one's head):
- A horn or a similar growth in fantasy, religion, or mythology.
- Such keratinous growths used as a material or in crafts.
- (rare) The metaphorical horn of one who performs cuckoldry.
- (rare, heraldry) A heraldic depiction of a horn.
- A jutting or projecting extremity of something, especially one resembling a horn:
- One of the two points of a moon that is less than half waxed.
- One of the two points of a women's hairstyle involving projecting points.
- (rare, anatomy) A horn-shaped bodily passage or chamber.
- A horn (gently curved musical instrument)
- Any other hard bodily extension in humans or beasts (e.g. a claw)
- A horn-shaped container, especially one used like a glass.
- (rare) A half or section of an army, troop, or band.
- (rare) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.
- (rare) Bovids which are horned as a collective.
Related terms
- horned
- hornen
- hornepipe
- horner
- hornyng
- ynkhorn
Descendants
- English: horn
- Scots: horn
- Yola: hoorn
References
- “horn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Noun
horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna or hornene)
- (zoology) horn
- (music) horn
- (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
Derived terms
- hornhinne
- krutthorn
- ta tyren ved hornene
References
- “horn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?rn/, /h?rn/
Noun
horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna)
- (zoology) horn
- (music) horn
- (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
Derived terms
- hornhinne
- ta tyren ved horna
References
- “horn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er- (“horn, head, top”).
Compare Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn, horn), Dutch hoorn, Old High German horn (German Horn), Old Norse horn (Danish and Swedish horn), Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xorn/, [hor?n]
Noun
horn m (nominative plural hornas)
- horn
- (horn-shaped) gable
Declension
Derived terms
- hornb?re
- hornre?ed
Descendants
- Middle English: horn, horne
- English: horn
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Cognates include also Old Saxon horn, Old English horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Noun
horn n
- horn
Descendants
- German: Horn
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er- or Proto-Indo-European *?erh?-. Cognates include Old English horn (English horn, Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn, horn), Dutch hoorn, Old High German horn (German Horn), Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Noun
horn n (genitive horns, plural horn)
- horn (of an animal)
- horn (to drink from)
- horn (musical instrument)
- corner
- angle
Declension
Descendants
- Danish: horn n
- Faroese: horn n
- Icelandic: horn n
- Norwegian: horn n
- Swedish: horn n
References
- horn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Cognates include also Old English horn, Old Frisian horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Noun
horn n
- horn
Descendants
- Low German: Hoorn, horn
Romanian
Noun
horn n (plural hornuri)
- chimney
- Synonyms: c?min, co?, fumar
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?-.
Pronunciation
Noun
horn n
- horn (growth on animals' heads)
- horn (object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds)
- horn (object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car)
- (music) horn
Declension
Related terms
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branch
English
Alternative forms
- braunch (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, borrowed from Old French branche, brance, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”), of unknown origin, possibly from Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh?.
Indo-European cognates include Old Norse vró (“angle, corner”), Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (r?ka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bränch, IPA(key): /b???nt?/
- (US, Northern England) enPR: br?nch, IPA(key): /b?ænt?/
- Rhymes: -??nt?, -ænt?
Noun
branch (plural branches)
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
Synonyms
- (part of a tree): bough, limb, tillow, twig; see also Thesaurus:tree
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:
- The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
- His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
Related terms
- branch off
- branch out
Translations
References
Further reading
- branch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- branch (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French branche (“branch”).
Noun
branch
- branch
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
branch
- Alternative form of braunche
Etymology 2
Verb
branch
- Alternative form of braunchen
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