Horn vs. Siren — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Horn and Siren
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Horn
A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.
Siren
Greek Mythology One of a group of sea nymphs who by their sweet singing lured mariners to destruction on the rocks surrounding their island.
Horn
The substance of which horns are composed
Powdered rhino horn
Siren
Siren A woman regarded as irresistibly alluring.
Horn
A horn-shaped projection or object.
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Siren
A device in which compressed air or steam is driven against a rotating perforated disk to create a loud, often wailing sound as a signal or warning.
Horn
A wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration.
Siren
An electronic device producing a similar sound as a signal or warning
A police car siren.
Horn
A device sounding a warning or other signal
A car horn
Siren
Any of several slender aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae of eastern North America, having external gills, small forelimbs, and no hind limbs.
Horn
(of an animal) butt or gore with the horns
The bull horned him out of the way
Siren
(Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
Horn
Be unfaithful to (one's husband or wife)
All the time he was horning his wife
Siren
One who sings sweetly and charms.
Horn
One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
Siren
A dangerously seductive woman.
Horn
A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
Siren
(biology) A member of an order of mammals of Sirenia.
Horn
The hard smooth keratinous material forming the outer covering of the horns of cattle or related animals.
Siren
(biology) A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species subsumed under the family of Sirenidae.
Horn
A natural or synthetic substance resembling this material.
Siren
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.
Horn
A container, such as a powder horn, made from a horn.
Siren
A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).
Horn
A horn of plenty; a cornucopia.
Siren
(music) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
Horn
Either of the ends of a new moon.
Siren
An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
Horn
The point of an anvil.
Siren
An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.
Horn
The pommel of a saddle.
Siren
To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
Horn
An ear trumpet.
Siren
Relating to or like a siren.
Horn
A device for projecting sound waves, as in a loudspeaker.
Siren
One of three sea nymphs, - or, according to some writers, of two, - said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.
Next where the sirens dwell you plow the seas;Their song is death, and makes destruction please.
Horn
A hollow, metallic electromagnetic transmission antenna with a circular or rectangular cross section.
Siren
An enticing, dangerous woman.
Horn
A wind instrument made of an animal horn.
Siren
Something which is insidious or deceptive.
Consumption is a siren.
Horn
A brass instrument, such as a trombone or tuba.
Siren
A mermaid.
Horn
A French horn.
Siren
Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidæ, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.
Horn
A wind instrument, such as a trumpet or saxophone, used in a jazz band.
Siren
An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.
Horn
A usually electrical signaling device that produces a loud resonant sound:an automobile horn.
Siren
Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.
Horn
Any of various noisemakers operated by blowing or by squeezing a hollow rubber ball.
Siren
A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived;
Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song
Horn
(Slang)A telephone.
Siren
A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
Horn
To join without being invited; intrude. Used with in.
Siren
A warning signal that is a loud wailing sound
Horn
(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
Siren
An acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning
Horn
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.
Siren
Eel-like aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills
Horn
An antler.
Horn
(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
Horn
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
Horn
The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
Horn
(architectural element) The Ionic volute.
Horn
(nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
Horn
(carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
Horn
One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
Horn
(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
Horn
An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
Hunting horn
Horn
A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
Horn
A sound signaling the expiration of time.
The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
Horn
(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
Antenna horn
Loudspeaker horn
Horn
Generally, any brass wind instrument.
Horn
A telephone.
Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
Horn
An erection of the penis.
Horn
A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
To navigate around the horn
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 ơ and ư.
Horn
(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Horn
(military) 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.
Horn
To assault with the horns.
Horn
(transitive) To furnish with horns.
Horn
To cuckold.
Horn
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
Horn
The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
Horn
Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form;
Horn
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Horn
Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
Horn
One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
The moonWears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
Horn
The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
Sharpening in mooned hornsTheir phalanx.
Horn
The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
Horn
A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
The Lord is . . . the horn of my salvation.
Horn
An emblem of a cuckold; - used chiefly in the plural.
Horn
The telephone; as, on the horn.
Horn
A body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul.
Horn
To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
Horn
To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
Horn
A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
Horn
One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
Horn
A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
Horn
A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
Horn
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
Horn
Any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn
Horn
The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
Horn
An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
Horn
A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
Horn
A device on an automobile for making a warning noise
Horn
Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk;
The rhino horned the explorer
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