English Horn

Entertainment / Music / English Horn: Double-reed woodwind instrument, larger and lower in range than the oboe.
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Inkhorn Term

Entertainment / Literature / Inkhorn Term: A word--often experimental or pompous--introduced into English during the Renaissance, especially one used primarily in writing rather than everyday conversation. Thomas Wilson wrote in his Arte of Rh MORE

Late Modern English

Entertainment / Literature / Late Modern English: English as spoken from about the year 1800 to the present. MORE

Middle English

Entertainment / Literature / Middle English: The version of English spoken after the Norman Conquest from 1066 but before 1450 or so. Before the Norman Conquest, the common version of English was Old English or Anglo-Saxon, a Germanic language t MORE

Hornpipe

Entertainment / Music / Hornpipe: Country dance of British Isles, often in a lively triple meter: optional dance movement of solo and orchestral Baroque suite: a type of duple meter hornpipe remains popular in Irish traditional dance MORE

Hornfels

Science / Geology / Hornfels: A high-temperature, low-pressure metamorphic rock of uniform grain size showing no foliation. Usually formed by contact metamorphism. MORE

Hawthorne Effect

Business / Human Resources (HR) / Hawthorne Effect: A term produced as a result of an experiment conducted by Elton Mayo whereby he concluded that expressing concern for employees and treating them in a manner that fulfills their basic human needs and MORE