oboe
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Noun (1)
- a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpieceSynonyms: hautboyhautboisType of double-reed instrument, double reedKinds musette pipe, oboe d'amore, shawm, heckelphone, oboe da caccia
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: It., fr. F. hautbois. See Hautboy.
Music 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.
Oboe d'amore , 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<security, programming, tool> (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)