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Oboe
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OBOE
Oboe and OBOE have several meanings: ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBOE
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oboe
[n] - a slender double-reed instrument Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=oboe
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Oboe
Code name for British radio-navigational aid used by RAF bombers Found op http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/glosso.html
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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... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688
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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... Found op http://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/Oral_History/Talking_About_Technology/radar
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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,... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/4
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oboe
hautboy noun a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=oboe
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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. Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/oboe/
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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 ... Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/3
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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] Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/3
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oboe
oboe An English tramp, a hobo. Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2978/6
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Oboe
[navigation] Oboe was a British aerial blind bombing targeting system in World War II, based on radio transponder technology. Oboe accurately measured the distance to an aircraft, and gave the pilot guidance on whether or not they were flying along a pre-selected circular route. The route wa... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe_(navigation)
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Oboe
The oboe (oʊ) is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" (French compound word made of haut ("high, loud") and bois ("wood, woodwind"), "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca. 1770... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe
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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... Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0836290.html
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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... Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/VO.HTM
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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-... Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/FO.HTM
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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 ...... Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0011348.html
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OBOE
Object-code Buffer Overrun Evaluator Found op http://foldoc.org/OBOE
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oboe
1) .. d'amore 2) ... d'amore 3) ... d'amore (instrument) 4) ... da caccia 5) ... family, including bassoons and english horns 6) ..... d'amore (baroque instrument) 7) ...d'amour 8) 'bolero' instrument 9) 'ill wind that no one blows good'... Found op nash 10) 'o' in a phonetic alphabet 11) 'o' in old radio lin
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