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▪ I. oboe, n.
(ˈəʊbəʊ, formerly also ˈəʊbɔɪ, ‖ ˈoboe)
[a. It. oboe (ˈoboe), adapted spelling of F. hautbois: see hautboy.]
1. A wooden double-reed wind-instrument, forming the treble to the bassoon: = hautboy, 1.
[1724Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks. 51 Oboe, or Oboy, is a Hautboy, or Hoboy. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 105 Hoboy. The name of this instrument is from the French Hautbois; and not from the Italian Oboe... Oboe has no meaning, as the French name has.] 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, With the tender accents of his oboe. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 244 They played upon fiddles, oboes, &c. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such ix. 160 The trumpet breaking in on the flute, and the oboë confounding both.
attrib. and Comb.1881J. T. Slugg Remin. Manch. xxvi. 298 Gregory, violinist; Hughes, oboe player.
2. Name of a reed-stop in an organ, with metal pipes, giving a penetrating tone.
[c1700,1829: see hautboy 1 c.] 1834Specif. Organ York Minster in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 600 Swell Organ... 42. Horn. 43. Trumpet. 44. Oboe.
3. (With capital initial.) The name of a radar system for guiding military aircraft in which two ground stations interrogate a transponder in the aircraft to identify it and determine its position, which information is then transmitted to the aircraft. Also attrib. and Comb.
1945Daily Mirror 15 Aug. 4/2 Next came ‘Gee’, the bombing beam which guided our radar-equipped bombers on to their targets, and the even more accurate ‘Oboe’. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 169 ‘Oboe’-controlled Mosquito aircraft were assigned to the marking of targets. 1947Crowther & Whiddington Science at War i. 59 The Oboe pathfinders started later and were faster... The pathfinder was under Oboe control, while approaching the target, for about ten minutes. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 371/1 The extreme accuracy of Oboe, H, or Shoran was not needed for guiding a plane between airfields on a friendly mission.
▪ II. oboe, v. rare.|ˈəʊbəʊ|
[f. the n.]
trans. To sound in the tone of an oboe.
1923A. Huxley Antic Hay i. 8 Like an oboe, Mr. Pelvey intoned: ‘The Lord be with you.’..those words, good Lord! that Mr. Pelvey was oboeing out of existence. |