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📖 Определения и значения для слова horn

📒 a hard pointed part that grows, usually in pairs, on the heads of some animals, such as sheep and cows. Horns are often curved.

  • a large bull with curved horns

📒 the hard substance of which animal horns are made

  • ornaments made of rhino horn

📒 a device in a vehicle for making a loud sound as a warning or signal

  • to honk your car horn
  • (British English) to sound/toot your horn
  • Behind him, a horn blared.

📒 a simple musical instrument that consists of a curved metal tube that you blow into

  • a hunting horn

📒 a brass musical instrument that consists of a long tube curled around in a circle with a wide opening at the end

  • a horn concerto

📒 to praise your own abilities and achievements

📒 to start being more careful in your behaviour, especially by spending less money than before

  • Small businesses have had to pull their horns in during the recession.

📒 to get involved in an argument with somebody

  • The company has locked horns with the unions over proposed pay cuts.

📒 in a situation in which you have to make a choice between things that are equally unpleasant

  • The medical profession’s eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
  • The dire economic situation had placed the prime minister on the horns of a dilemma.

📒 to face a difficult or dangerous situation directly and with courage

  • Nora decided to take the bull by the horns and organize things for herself.
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