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# horn

«horn» in Mova's school dictionary: **A hard, pointed, often curved growth on the head of some…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a horn, horns; horn — uncountable as a material)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hard, pointed, often curved growth on the head of some animals, like cows, goats, rhinos and rams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#m1)

2) A device in a car, bus or bike that makes a loud warning sound (beep the horn). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#m2)

3) A brass musical instrument you blow into (French horn); also any simple instrument made from an animal horn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#m3)

4) The hard material that horns are made of. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, horns are adaptations for defence and for fighting for mates; rhinos are hunted for their horns, which is why they are endangered. In road safety, a car horn warns of danger — if you hear one, stop and look. In music, the horn is in the brass family of the orchestra. Phrases: honk/beep/sound the horn, the horns of a dilemma, lock horns (argue), blow your own horn (boast), take the bull by the horns (face a problem bravely).

### examples

- The goat has two curly horns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x1)
- The driver honked the horn to warn the cyclist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x2)
- Rhinos are in danger because people hunt them for their horns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x3)
- My brother plays the French horn in the school band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x4)
- When you hear a car horn, stop and look around. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x5)
- The bull lowered its horns and charged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x6)
- Stop blowing your own horn — let others speak too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x7)
- All had horns growing on their foreheads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/#x8)

### note

Countable: a horn, horns. «Horn» (on animals) is not «antler»: horns stay for life and are not shed; antlers (deer) fall off and grow back each year. Unicorns have one horn — but only in stories.

### In the corpora

- [Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; the trumpet, trombone, horn and tuba are brass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/9/)
- [In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks were sold in Europe as unicorn horns and were worth more than their weight in gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/8/)
- [Musk oxen form a ring facing outwards, with calves in the middle, so wolves meet only a wall of horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/17/)
- [The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/14/)
- [When wolves come, musk oxen stand in a ring with the calves in the middle and their horns pointing out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «horn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.