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[syn: oboe, hautboy, hautbois]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hautboy \Haut"boy\ (h[=o]"boi), n. [F. hautbois, lit., high
wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high
tone. See Haughty, Bush; and cf. Oboe.]
1. (Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and
similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone.
Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Oboe \O"boe\, n. [It., fr. F. hautbois. See Hautboy.] (Mus.)
One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra,
yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality
of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more
slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
[1913 Webster]
Oboe d'amore [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di
caccia [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete
modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of
Bach and Handel.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
oboe
n 1: a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical
bore and a double-reed mouthpiece [syn: oboe, hautboy,
hautbois]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "oboe":
English horn, Pandean pipe, aulos, basset horn, basset oboe,
bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, cello, claribel, clarinet,
clarion, concert flute, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cornet,
cornopean, cromorna, cromorne, cymbel, diapason, double bassoon,
double reed, dulciana, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute,
flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn,
harmonic flute, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, hybrid stop,
koppel flute, larigot, licorice stick, melodia, mixture, musette,
mutation stop, nazard, oaten reed, oboe da caccia, ocarina, octave,
organ stop, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, plein jeu,
pommer, posaune, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket,
recorder, reed, reed instrument, reed stop, register, rohr flute,
sax, saxophone, sesquialtera, shawm, single reed,
single-reed instrument, sonorophone, spitz flute, stop,
stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop,
sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, tierce, tin-whistle,
tremolo, trombone, trumpet, twelfth, unda maris, vibrato, viola,
voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, whistle, woods, woodwind,
woodwind choir, woodwind instrument
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Object-code Buffer Overrun Evaluator
OBOE
(OBOE) A tool by R. Banfi,
D. Bruschi, and E. Rosti for the automatic detection of
buffer overflow vulnerabilities in object code. OBOE
can be applied to operating system components as well as
ordinary application programs. It was designed for the
system administrator to identify vulnerable programs before
they are exploited. Being automatic, OBOE can be run as a
background process for the analysis of all potentially
insecure programs installed on a Unix system. It runs on
HP-UX, Linux, and Sun Solaris.
(http://idea.sec.dsi.unimi.it/research.html).
(2003-10-25)