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Horn vs Meep - What's the difference?

horn | meep |

As a proper noun horn

is one of the names of freyja.

As an interjection meep is

a nonsense word, imitating an animal's cry, or a car's horn.

As a noun meep is

an endearing term of affection between lovers.

As a verb meep is

to make a high-pitched exclamation.

horn

English

Noun

  • (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.
    • an umbrella with a handle made of horn
  • An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
  • * Thomson
    • The moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns .
  • * Mason
    • horns of mead and ale
  • # 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.
  • #* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 28
  • Joab caught hold on the horns of the altar
  • (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • (countable) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
    • hunting horn
  • (countable) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  • (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
    • antenna horn
    loudspeaker horn
  • (informal, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  • (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
  • (uncountable, coarse, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
  • (countable) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn ."
  • (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".

    Synonyms

    * (growth on the heads of certain animals) * (hard substance from which horns are made) keratin * (any of several musical wind instruments) * (instrument used to signal others) * hooter, klaxon * (conical device used to direct waves) funnel * * blower (UK''), dog and bone (''Cockney rhyming slang ), phone * boner (US ), hard-on, stiffy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of an animal) To assault with the s
  • (slang, obsolete) To cuckold

    • Derived terms

    * blowhorn * bullhorn * French horn * have the horn * horned * horn in * hornist * horn of plenty * hornless * hornworm * hornwort * horny * lock horns * pull in one's horns * shoehorn * take the bull by the horns * toot one's own horn ----

    meep

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • a nonsense word, imitating an animal's cry, or a car's horn
  • * ???', , ''Meep the Baby Martin'', published in ''Soviet Literature: Issues 7-12'' in ' 1983 :
    • "Meep, meep, meep! " echoed his brothers and sisters. They all felt pleased with themselves for having learnt to call their mother [...]
  • * 2006 , Dave Bidini, The Five Hole Stories , page 62:
    • "We gave him three nervous breakdowns, you know," he says, waving his fingers in the rear view.
    "Listen, I..."
    "I've heard this kind of thing before. The English think the French are little blind dogs. Meep meep meep meep meep ," he says, performing a talking pantomime with his hand.

    Synonyms

    * beep

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an endearing term of affection between lovers
  • * 2012 , B. E. Josephman, Lilium Love Stories , page 607:
    • Brett poked Erica on the nose and said, "You are my little meep!"

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make a high-pitched exclamation
  • * 2005 , John Gardner, October Light , page 126:
    • He cried out, as if he meant it as a joke, "When I was Richard's age I nearly died of pneumonia." "Darling, it is cold," Ariah meeped , and put her mitten on his.
  • * 2005 , Rachel Caine, Chill Factor , page 103:
    • "See that guy down there?" Jonathan asked, and tilted my chair up on its front legs to give me a better view. I meeped and clutched the chair arms harder. "No? Well, okay, granted, they all look alike from up here. Here, I'll help." My forehead touched the glass. It rippled like water, and I melted right through the slick, cold surface, [...]
  • * 2007 , Pat Schmatz, Circle the Truth , page 188:
    • Rith stayed where he was, watching the silhouette of the cat in the darkness. She sat perfectly still and watched him back. Then she meeped and looked at the stairs.

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