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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece;
[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]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

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)