📖 H — The English dictionary

ha — Everyday, meaning 1: Ha is a sound people make when they laugh, or a word said when they are surprised or have won.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Ha ha» written down shows laughing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: ha is a short way to write hectare, a unit of land area: 1 ha is 10000 square metres, a square 100 m by 100 m.↗ Example: «Ha!↗ I have more marbles,» said Tom.↗ · A farm of 5 ha.↗ · Ha, she found 3 more shells.↗ · «Ha ha, very funny,» said Mia.↗ · Aha, now I know the answer!↗ · The forest covers 200 ha.↗ · «Ha!↗ I win!» shouted my brother.↗ · The park is about 2 ha, the size of two football fields and a bit more.↗ · Ha! ha! ha!” he laughed again.↗ · The Hebrew version of Rabbi Judah Ha Levi concludes with the phrase, ** and said of him.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Thus Gedaliah Ibn Yahya, in his „Slialshelet ha-Kabbalah, says : (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · As is well-known, some old grammarians, among whom was the author of the "Dikduke ha-Teamim"" counted the final letters as separate letters, thus making the total number oi the letters of the alphabet twenty-seven.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · For the Leader; upon Aijeleth ha-Shahar.↗ (Writings PSA.22.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at Gibeath-ha-araloth.↗ (Prophets JOS.5.3, JPS 1917)↗ · As oft as he heareth the horn he saith: 'Ha, ha!' and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.↗ (Writings JOB.39.25, JPS 1917)↗

habiliment — Everyday, meaning 1: (old, formal, often plural) Clothes, especially special clothes worn for a job or ceremony.↗ Example: The knight put on his habiliments for battle.↗ · The actor wore the habiliments of a king.↗ · Toad dressed in the washerwoman's habiliments.↗ · «What strange habiliments!» laughed the Rat.↗ · The priest's habiliments were white and gold.↗ · The old book described the lady's fine habiliments.↗

habit — Everyday, meaning 1: A habit is something you do often and regularly, often without thinking about it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A good habit helps you, like brushing your teeth; a bad habit harms you or annoys others, like biting your nails.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A habit is also the long robe worn by a nun or a monk.↗ Example: Brushing your teeth every night is a good habit.↗ · Biting your nails is a bad habit.↗ · I'm trying to get into the habit of reading every day.↗ · It's hard to break a habit.↗ · Out of habit, he looked both ways before crossing.↗ · The nun wore a long black habit.↗ · Grandpa has a habit of humming while he cooks.↗ · Healthy habits help you grow strong.↗ · He had one very peculiar habit.↗

habitable — Everyday, meaning 1: Good enough for people or animals to live in, as in «a habitable house».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Able to support life, as in «a habitable planet» or «the habitable zone».↗ Example: Earth is the only habitable planet we know of.↗ · The old cottage is not habitable until the roof is fixed.↗ · Scientists look for planets in the habitable zone.↗ · Antarctica is not very habitable for people.↗ · After the flood, the houses were not habitable.↗ · Mars might once have been habitable for tiny microbes.↗ · Playing in His habitable earth, and my delights are with the sons of men.↗ (Writings PRO.8.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And they are turned round about by His guidance, that they may do whatsoever He commandeth them upon the face of the habitable world: (Writings JOB.37.12, JPS 1917)↗

habitat — Everyday, meaning 1: A habitat is the natural home of an animal or plant, where it finds the food, water, shelter and space it needs.↗ Example: A pond is a habitat for frogs.↗ · The polar bear's habitat is the icy Arctic.↗ · Cutting down trees destroys habitats.↗ · Rock pools are habitats for crabs.↗ · We made a mini habitat for bugs with logs.↗ · Each animal is suited to its habitat.↗ · Zoos try to copy the animals' natural habitats.↗ · The desert is a hot, dry habitat.↗

habitation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The act of living in a place: «The house was not fit for human habitation.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, literary) A house or home; a place where people live.↗ Example: The old cottage was unfit for human habitation.↗ · There was no sign of habitation for miles.↗ · Archaeologists found signs of early habitation in the cave.↗ · Badger's home was built among the ruins of an ancient city.↗ · Smoke from a chimney showed a habitation nearby.↗ · The island has no human habitation.↗ · He reached the side of Loch-Ness and made his habitation there.↗ · Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.'↗ (Torah EXO.35.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'↗ (Torah EXO.12.20, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession.↗ (Torah GEN.36.43, JPS 1917)↗ · These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.↗ (Writings 1CH.4.33, JPS 1917)↗ · For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.↗ (Writings PSA.79.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.'↗ (Writings PSA.83.13, JPS 1917)↗

habitual — Everyday, meaning 1: Done often, as a habit: his habitual walk after dinner.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Doing something often or regularly, especially something bad: a habitual liar.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Usual: her habitual seat.↗ Example: Grandpa took his habitual walk around the park.↗ · He is a habitual latecomer.↗ · She sat in her habitual place by the window.↗ · Habitual exercise keeps you healthy.↗ · Nobody trusts a habitual liar.↗ · His habitual smile made everyone feel welcome.↗

habitually — Everyday, meaning 1: Habitually means doing something regularly, as a habit, again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Usually or always, because that is how someone normally behaves.↗ Example: He is habitually late for school.↗ · She habitually reads before bed.↗ · The cat habitually sleeps on the sofa.↗ · People who habitually skip breakfast may feel tired.↗ · The shop is habitually busy on Saturdays.↗ · Grandpa habitually whistles while he works.↗

habituate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To habituate someone means to make them used to something by doing or meeting it again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) An animal becomes habituated when it stops reacting to something harmless that happens often, like birds ignoring a scarecrow.↗ Example: The birds soon habituated to the scarecrow and ate the seeds anyway.↗ · Don't feed the bears, or they will become habituated to people.↗ · We habituated to the noise of the trains after a week.↗ · The puppy was slowly habituated to the vacuum cleaner.↗ · Astronauts must habituate themselves to floating.↗ · Snails habituate to being touched and stop pulling in.↗

habitus — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A Latin word meaning a condition, bearing or state.↗ Here it is just part of a Latin sentence.↗ Example: Moses auditoribus in secundo divinse veritatis loco, hoc est in ratione quoe est posterior authoritate, habitus."↗ Parisiis, 1552.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Moses auditoribus in secundo divinæ veritatis loco, hoc est in ratione quœ est posterior authoritate, habitus."↗ Parisiis, 1552.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

habsburg — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) The Habsburgs were a royal family of Europe who ruled Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and other lands for hundreds of years, from the Middle Ages until 1918.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Habsburg is used as an adjective: the Habsburg Empire.↗ Example: The Habsburgs ruled Austria for more than six hundred years.↗ · Maria Theresa was a famous Habsburg empress.↗ · The Habsburg Empire ended after the First World War in 1918.↗ · Many Habsburgs married their cousins.↗ · Vienna was the capital of the Habsburg lands.↗ · Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a Habsburg.↗

hack — Everyday, meaning 1: To hack means to cut something roughly with hard, quick strokes, like with an axe or a big knife.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hack into a computer means to get into it without permission, to steal or change information.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hack (life hack) is a clever, quick trick that makes something easier.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A hacking cough is a rough, dry, repeated cough.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Can't hack it» (informal) means can't cope with something.↗ Example: They hacked their way through the thick jungle.↗ · Someone hacked into my brother's game account.↗ · Use a strong password so you don't get hacked.↗ · Here's a hack: roll your socks to save space.↗ · He had a hacking cough all week.↗ · The thief hacked the website to steal data.↗ · She hacked at the brambles with shears.↗ · Hacking into other people's computers is against the law.↗ · As he was hacking at one of the roots the axe struck on something hard.↗

hacker — Everyday, meaning 1: A hacker is a person who uses computer skills to get into computers or systems, often without permission, which is a crime.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hacker can also be a very skilled programmer who enjoys solving computer problems in clever ways.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An ethical hacker («white hat») is paid to find weak spots so they can be fixed.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) A hacker in sport is a poor player, especially in golf.↗ Example: A hacker tried to get into the school website.↗ · Use a strong password to protect your account from hackers.↗ · Ethical hackers help banks find weak spots.↗ · Hackers stole thousands of email addresses.↗ · My cousin is a hacker who builds robots in his garage.↗ · Logging into someone else's account without permission is a crime.↗ · The hackers at the competition fixed the bug in an hour.↗

hackles — Everyday, meaning 1: The hairs or feathers along the back of the neck of a dog, cat or bird that stand up when it is angry or frightened.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To raise someone's hackles (or make their hackles rise) means to make them angry.↗ Example: The dog's hackles rose when it saw the fox.↗ · Rude comments really raise my hackles.↗ · The cat arched its back and its hackles stood up.↗ · His bossy tone put my hackles up.↗ · A cockerel's hackles are long shiny neck feathers.↗ · Her hackles rose when someone called her a cheat.↗

hackney — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Hackney, a borough (area) in East London.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hackney carriage: the official name for a taxi in the UK, especially a black cab.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A breed of horse or pony with a high-stepping trot, once used to pull carriages.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Hackneyed» means used so often it has become boring: a hackneyed phrase.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: a horse-drawn carriage for hire, a cab.↗ Example: My cousin lives in Hackney in East London.↗ · The sign on the black cab said «Hackney Carriage».↗ · Hackney ponies lift their legs high when they trot.↗ · In Victorian times you could hire a hackney coach.↗ · «Once upon a time» is a hackneyed opening for a story.↗ · The writer avoided hackneyed phrases.↗ · Two minutes later, he was sitting in a hackney-coach and driving to Frederickshafen.↗ · Two minutes later, he was sitting in a hackney-coach and driving to Frederickshafen.↗ (Andersen's Fairy Tales) · Never had his age, with which, however, he was always grumbling, seemed so miserable as on this evening.↗ “I'll take a hackney-coach!” thought he.↗ (Andersen's Fairy Tales) · “By your leave!” said the Councillor to the Hostess, who came bustling towards him.↗ “I've felt so queer all of a sudden; would you have the goodness to send for a hackney-coach to take me to Christianshafen?”↗ (Andersen's Fairy Tales)

haddock — Everyday, meaning 1: A haddock is a sea fish of the North Atlantic, related to cod, with a black line along its side and a dark spot near its fins; it is a popular food fish.↗ Example: I had haddock and chips at the seaside.↗ · Mum made a fish pie with smoked haddock.↗ · Haddock have a dark spot just behind the head.↗ · The trawler caught cod and haddock.↗ · In Scotland we have smoked haddock for breakfast.↗ · Haddock lives in cold waters of the North Atlantic.↗

hadrosaur — Everyday, meaning 1: A hadrosaur is a duck-billed dinosaur: a large plant-eating dinosaur with a wide, flat mouth like a duck's beak.↗ Example: A hadrosaur is a duck-billed dinosaur.↗ · Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaur with a long crest on its head.↗ · Hadrosaurs had hundreds of teeth for chewing plants.↗ · The museum has a complete hadrosaur skeleton.↗ · Maiasaura hadrosaurs looked after their babies in nests.↗ · Hadrosaurs walked on two or four legs.↗

hadst — Early Modern English, meaning 1: you had.↗ Example: For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased abundantly; and the LORD hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned.↗ (Torah GEN.30.30, JPS 1917) · I threw away the gift thou hadst vouchsafed to me, I left my mission unfulfilled.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth.↗ (Torah EXO.9.15, JPS 1917)

haemoglobin — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The red substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs around the body and gives blood its red colour.↗ Example: Haemoglobin carries oxygen around the body.↗ · Blood is red because of haemoglobin.↗ · Haemoglobin needs iron, so eat your beans and greens.↗ · The doctor checked her haemoglobin with a blood test.↗ · Low haemoglobin can make you feel tired.↗ · Haemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs and drops it off in the muscles.↗

haemorrhage — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) A lot of bleeding from a broken blood vessel, inside or outside the body; a serious emergency.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To bleed heavily.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, money) To lose a lot of something very fast: the club is haemorrhaging money.↗ Example: The footballer was rushed to hospital with an internal haemorrhage.↗ · A brain haemorrhage is a medical emergency.↗ · Press firmly on a wound to slow a haemorrhage.↗ · The shop was haemorrhaging money and had to close.↗ · Doctors stopped the haemorrhage during the operation.↗ · The team was haemorrhaging players to bigger clubs.↗

haft — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The handle of a knife or sword.↗ Example: And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, for he drew not the sword out of his belly; and it came out behind.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.22, JPS 1917)↗