oboe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: oboe	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for oboe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oboe n a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece Synonym(s): oboe, hautboy, hautbois
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. {[d8]Oboe d'amore} [It., lit., oboe of love], and {[d8]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hautboy \Haut"boy\, 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}. 2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry ({Fragaria elatior}).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
OBOE {Object-code Buffer Overrun Evaluator}