The difference between Flugelhorn and Horn
When used as nouns, flugelhorn means a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same b-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. a bugle with valves, whereas horn means a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
Horn is also verb with the meaning: to assault with the horns.
check bellow for the other definitions of Flugelhorn and Horn
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Flugelhorn as a noun:
A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
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Horn as a noun (countable):
A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
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Horn as a noun:
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.
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Horn as a noun:
An antler.
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Horn as a noun (uncountable):
The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
Examples:
"synonyms: keratin"
"an umbrella with a handle made of horn'"
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Horn as a noun (architecture):
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. The Ionic volute. 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. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
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Horn as a noun (countable):
Any of several musical wind instruments.
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Horn as a noun (countable, musical instrument):
An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
Examples:
"hunting horn'"
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Horn as a noun (countable, automotive):
A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
Examples:
"synonyms: hooter klaxon"
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Horn as a noun (chiefly, sports):
A sound signaling the expiration of time.
Examples:
"The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count."
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Horn as a noun (countable):
A conical device used to direct waves.
Examples:
"synonyms: funnel"
"antenna horn'"
"loudspeaker horn'"
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Horn as a noun (informal, musical instrument, countable):
Generally, any brass wind instrument.
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Horn as a noun (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes):
A telephone.
Examples:
"synonyms: [[blower]] q UK [[dog and bone]] q Cockney rhyming slang phone"
"Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this."
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Horn as a noun (uncountable, coarse, slang, definite article):
An erection of the penis.
Examples:
"synonyms: [[boner]] q US hard-on stiffy"
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Horn as a noun (countable, geography):
A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
Examples:
"synonyms: peninsula"
"to navigate around the horn'"
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Horn as a noun (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.
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Horn as a noun (botany):
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed ().
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Horn as a verb (of an animal):
To assault with the horns
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Horn as a verb (slang, obsolete):
To cuckold