Portuguese - English
Definition of chifre in Portuguese English dictionary
- horn
Cows are large and their horns are long; sheep are small and their horns are short.
-As vacas são grandes e seus chifres, longos; os carneiros são pequenos e seus chifres, curtos.
Horses don't have horns; cows and sheep have horns.
-Cavalos não têm chifres; vacas e carneiros têm chifres.
- A conical device used to direct waves
loudspeaker horn.
- An erection of the penis
- A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn."
- Generally, any brass wind instrument
- 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.
- 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
- {f} butt or gore with the horns
- On a vehicle such as a car, the horn is the device that makes a loud noise as a signal or warning. He sounded the car horn
- Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp
- A sharp pointed peak It is sometimes called a pyramidal peak because it is shaped like a pyramid See also peak
- Pyramidal peak that forms when several cirques erode a mountain from three or more sides
- stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"
- 1 An ancient wind instrument, originally made from animal horn, metal, or wood In the Medieval and Renaissance eras, the horn was used to signal in battles and in hunts The horn gradually evolved through a series of transformations: the horn for hunting became spiraled so its length would not interfere with its mobility, this natural horn became more refined and found its way into the early Classical orchestra as a character instrument, implying military or hunting scenes Eventually crooks, and then valves were invented for the horn, enabling it to be fully chromatic In America, it is often referred to as the French horn 2 A slang term referring to any wind instrument Search Google com for Horn
- n steep pyramid shaped mountains created when at least 3 glaciers flowing in opposite directions create three cirques and three aretes, includes the Matterhorn in Switzerland
- to take the bull by the horns: see bull. A headland of extreme southern Chile in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. The southernmost point of South America, it was first rounded in 1616 by the Dutch navigator Willem Schouten (died 1625), who named it after his birthplace, Hoorn. It is notorious for its storms and heavy seas. the Horn Cape Horn. horn in to interrupt or try to take part in something when you are not wanted = butt in horn in on. English horn French horn Horn of Africa Horn Cape
- the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
- Any of several musical wind instruments
- Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape
- The curved area at the front of a kufen