horn
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
Types & categories
- noisemaker hypernym
Related & opposite
- game domain topic
Sense 2 verb
stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
the rhino horned the explorer
Types & categories
- pierce hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
Related & opposite
Sense 4 noun
a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
Types & categories
- warning signal hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
Types & categories
- saddlebow hypernym
Parts & wholes
- stock saddle part holonym
Sense 6 noun
a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
Types & categories
- brass instrument hypernym
- serpent hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 7 noun
any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
Types & categories
- appendage hypernym
Related & opposite
- horn derivation
Sense 8 noun
the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
Types & categories
- animal material hypernym
- whalebone hyponym
- tortoiseshell hyponym
Parts & wholes
- keratin substance meronym
Related & opposite
- corneous derivation
Sense 9 noun
a device having the shape of a horn
horns at the ends of a new moon
Types & categories
- device hypernym
Sense 10 noun
an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
Types & categories
- warning device hypernym
- air horn hyponym
- foghorn hyponym
- klaxon hyponym
- shofar hyponym
Sense 11 noun
a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
Types & categories
- brass instrument hypernym
Sense 12 noun
a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
Types & categories
- warning device hypernym
Parts & wholes
- car part holonym
- horn button part meronym
Related & opposite
- hoot derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | game |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | noisemaker |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tusk |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tusk |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pierce |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | horny |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | bull |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | tup |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | goat |
| 3 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | bone |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | appendage |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | antler |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | warning signal |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | stock saddle |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | saddlebow |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | trumpeter |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | trumpet |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | trump |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | brass instrument |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | serpent |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | appendage |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | corneous |
| 8 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | keratin |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | animal material |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | whalebone |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | tortoiseshell |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | device |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | warning device |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | air horn |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | foghorn |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | klaxon |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | shofar |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | brass instrument |
| 12 | derivation | Related & opposite | hoot |
| 12 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | car |
| 12 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | horn button |
| 12 | hypernym | Types & categories | warning device |