| 单词 | bullhorn |
| 释义 | bullhorn (once / 44102 pages) n A bullhorn is a hand-held device that makes your voice sound much louder when you speak into it. You might address a crowd at a rally or protest by talking into a bullhorn. While in the US, most people know what a bullhorn is, in other places it's called a megaphone. Bullhorns amplify sound, sometimes simply using their cone-like shape, and in other cases using electricity. Anyone who needs to get the attention of a large or noisy group might use a bullhorn to be heard. The word may be based on the shape of a bull's horn, although experts aren't sure about its origin. WORD FAMILYbullhorn: bullhorns USAGE EXAMPLESOutside Caesars Palace, a group of people preaching Christianity yelled judgments at the pedestrians with bullhorns. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) White Lives Matter member and protest organizer Ken Reed said into a bullhorn that his group was concerned with “white people’s preservation”. The Guardian(Nov 20, 2016) An organizer with a bullhorn rebuked the Democratic Party, prompting wolf whistles and applause. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) n a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier Syn|Hyper loud hailer, loud-hailer loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
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