bib vs horn

bib

noun
  • A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat. 

  • A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race. 

  • A bibb (bibcock). 

  • Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem. 

  • An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. 

  • The upper part of an apron or overalls. 

  • A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities. 

  • Shorts which are held up by suspenders. 

  • A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod. 

verb
  • To dress (somebody) in a bib. 

  • To beep (e.g. a car horn). 

horn

noun
  • A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. 

  • An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid. 

  • An antler. 

  • The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. 

  • A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. 

  • The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. 

  • A sound signaling the expiration of time. 

  • A conical device used to direct waves. 

  • An erection of the penis. 

  • 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 instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others. 

  • A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư. 

  • In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire. 

  • A telephone. 

  • One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. 

  • Generally, any brass wind instrument. 

  • An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). 

  • The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects. 

  • A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle. 

  • Any of several musical wind instruments. 

  • The Ionic volute. 

  • A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. 

verb
  • To assault with the horns. 

  • To furnish with horns. 

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