Look up: OBOE

1. oboe
   [n] - a slender double-reed instrument
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2. Oboe
   Code name for British radio-navigational aid used by RAF bombers
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3. Oboe
   British radar-based blind bombing system of World War II adopted by the RAF 1942. It used two transmitters based in the UK; one tracked the bomber, guiding it on a course across the target. The...
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4. OBOE
   This was another ingenious bombing guidance system but this was controlled from the ground. Radio beacons transmitted a 'guide-path' signal which the aircraft crew could receive as a series of morse codes; dashes if the plane was to the right of the exact flight path and dots if they were to the lef...
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5. oboe
   a radar navigational system used primarily for bomb-aiming.Two ground stations,known as cat and mouse,concurrently interrogate an airborne transponder,thus fixing the aircraft,which is directed to fly at a constant distance from cat.The bomb release signal is given from mouse Category: Defense
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6. Oboe
   O'boe noun [ Italian , from French 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,...
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7. oboe
   hautboy noun a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
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8. Oboe
   • (n.) 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.
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9. Oboe
   (from the article `air warfare`) From late 1943 the RAF used two radar-beam systems called Gee and Oboe to guide its Lancaster and Halifax bombers to cities on the Continent. In ...
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10. oboe
    treble woodwind instrument with a conical bore and double reed. Though used chiefly as an orchestral instrument, it also has a considerable solo ... [5 related articles]
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11. oboe
    oboe An English tramp, a hobo.
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12. oboe
    oboe (ō'bō, ō'boi) [Ital., from Fr. hautbois] or hautboy (ō'boi, hō'–) , woodwind instrument of conical bore, its mouthpiece having a double reed. The instruments possessing these general characteristics may be referred to as the oboe family, which...
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13. Oboe
    The oboe is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. It is a double-reed wind instrument with a wood body and narrow conical bore invented by the French musicians Jean Hotteterre and Michel Philidor, who modified the louder shawm (the prevailing double-reed instrument) for indoor use. Their oboe...
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14. Oboe
    Oboe was a British radar-based blind bombing system of the Second World War adopted by the RAF in 1942. It used two transmitters based in the UK; one tracked the bomber, guiding it on a course across the target. The other also tracked the bomber and ordered it to drop its bombs at the computed bomb-...
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15. oboe
    Double-reed woodwind instrument with a conical bore and moderately flared bell, descended from the shawm. It is one of the four instruments that make up the woodwind section of the orchestra. The oboe was developed by the Hotteterre family of instrument makers in about 1700 and was played in the ...
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16. OBOE
    Object-code Buffer Overrun Evaluator
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17. Oboe
    The `oboe` () is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" (French, meaning "high wood"), "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca. 1770...
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18. Oboe
    (navigation) `Oboe` was a British aerial blind bombing targeting system in World War II, based on radio transponder technology. The system was first used in December 1941, about the same time as pages=642-->--> used two stations at different and well-separated locations in England to transmit...
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