📖 H — The English dictionary · page 18

helpdesk — Everyday, meaning 1: A helpdesk is a service, desk or phone line where people answer questions and fix problems, especially with computers.↗ Example: If you forget your password, contact the helpdesk.↗ · The library helpdesk is near the door.↗ · I called the helpdesk about my broken laptop.↗ · The helpdesk is open until five.↗ · She works on the helpdesk at the airport.↗ · The helpdesk said they would fix it tomorrow.↗

helper — Everyday, meaning 1: A helper is a person who helps someone do a job.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In school, a helper can be a teaching assistant, a parent who helps, or a child given a job, like «milk helper».↗ Example: Who wants to be today's helper?↗ · The parent helpers came on our school trip.↗ · She is a great helper in the kitchen.↗ · If you get lost, look for a helper like a police officer.↗ · Santa's helpers make the toys.↗ · The helper gave out the pencils.↗ · Thanks for being such a good helper!↗ · Our class helper waters the plants.↗ · He was a good friend of the king, and one of his strongest helpers.↗ · Hear, O LORD, and be gracious unto me; LORD, be Thou my helper.'↗ (Writings PSA.30.11, JPS 1917)↗ · God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.↗ (Writings JOB.9.13, JPS 1917)↗ · They break up my path, they further my calamity, even men that have no helper.↗ (Writings JOB.30.13, JPS 1917)↗

helpful — Everyday, meaning 1: Helpful describes someone who is willing to help others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Helpful describes something useful that makes a job easier.↗ Example: Thank you for being so helpful.↗ · Sam is helpful in the classroom.↗ · Drawing a picture is helpful in maths problems.↗ · The map was really helpful.↗ · Here's a helpful tip: check your answers.↗ · The shop assistant was very helpful.↗ · Being helpful at home makes everyone happier.↗ · That comment wasn't very helpful.↗

helping — Everyday, meaning 1: An amount of food served to one person at one time: a second helping of pudding.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Giving help: helping others is kind.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (phrase) «A helping hand» means some help.↗ Example: Can I have a second helping of lasagne, please?↗ · Thanks for giving me a helping hand with the boxes.↗ · Helping at the food bank made me feel good.↗ · Each helping of soup is 250 millilitres.↗ · If one cake makes 8 helpings, 3 cakes make 24 helpings.↗ · I'm helping Gran with her garden on Saturday.↗ · She took a small helping because she wasn't hungry.↗ · He thought only of helping the queen.↗ · Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.↗ (Writings EZR.5.2, JPS 1917)↗

helpless — Everyday, meaning 1: Helpless means not able to look after yourself or do things without help, like a newborn baby.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Helpless means unable to change a bad situation or stop something happening.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Helpless laughter is laughter you cannot stop.↗ Example: A newborn baby is completely helpless.↗ · Baby birds are helpless and need their parents to feed them.↗ · I felt helpless when I saw my kite stuck in the tree.↗ · The puppy lay helpless in the cold rain until we rescued it.↗ · They were helpless with laughter at the funny film.↗ · Without its shell, a tortoise would be helpless.↗ · I have to look after my grandmother, who is very helpless.’↗ · He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall into his mighty claws.↗ (Writings PSA.10.10, JPS 1917)↗ · He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in secret places doth he slay the innocent; his eyes are on the watch for the helpless.↗ (Writings PSA.10.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast seen; for Thou beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite them with Thy hand; unto Thee the helpless committeth himself; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.↗ (Writings PSA.10.14, JPS 1917)↗

helplessly — Everyday, meaning 1: Without being able to help yourself or do anything about a situation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Without being able to stop, as in «laughed helplessly».↗ Example: We watched helplessly as the balloon floated away.↗ · The kitten mewed helplessly at the top of the tree.↗ · Toad struggled helplessly in the water.↗ · The children laughed helplessly at the clown.↗ · Alice cried helplessly in the Pool of Tears.↗ · The boat drifted helplessly towards the weir.↗ · “I can’t either,” cried Pinocchio; and his laughter turned to tears as he stumbled about helplessly.↗

helplessness — Everyday, meaning 1: Helplessness is the state of being unable to act or help oneself.↗ Example: The baby's helplessness made us protect her.↗ · She felt helplessness as the storm grew.↗ · His helplessness turned to hope when a friend arrived.↗

helve — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The handle of a tool such as an axe or hammer.↗

hem — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) The edge of a piece of cloth, folded over and sewn so it does not fray, such as the bottom of a skirt or trousers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To sew a hem on something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, hem in) To surround someone or something so they cannot move or escape.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (interjection) «Hem!» or «Ahem!» is a little cough to get attention or show doubt.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (in «hem and haw») To hesitate and not decide.↗ Example: Mum took up the hem of my school trousers.↗ · We learned to hem a napkin in textiles class.↗ · The sheep were hemmed in by the fence.↗ · Toad felt hemmed in by the weasels on every side.↗ · «Ahem!» said the Mouse, with an important air.↗ · The skirt's hem was muddy from the field.↗ · Stop hemming and hawing and choose a flavour!↗ · He said, “Hem! hem!” but it was of no use.↗ · Thou hast hemmed me in behind and before, and laid Thy hand upon me.↗ (Writings PSA.139.5, JPS 1917)↗

hemisphere — Everyday, meaning 1: Half of a sphere (a ball shape).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Half of the Earth: the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere (divided by the equator), or the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: One of the two halves of the brain (left hemisphere, right hemisphere).↗ Example: Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere.↗ · Canada and the UK are in the Northern Hemisphere.↗ · When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere.↗ · The equator divides the Earth into two hemispheres.↗ · A hemisphere has one flat face and one curved face.↗ · Cut an orange in half and you have two hemispheres.↗ · The brain has a left and a right hemisphere.↗

hemlock — Everyday, meaning 1: Hemlock is a tall wild plant with small white flowers, and it is very poisonous.↗ Example: Never touch hemlock; it is deadly.↗ · Scarcely had she spoken when a golden hemlock sprang up from her.↗ · The witch brewed a drink of hemlock.↗ · They speak words, they swear falsely, they make covenants; thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.↗ (Prophets HOS.10.4, JPS 1917)↗

hemp — Everyday, meaning 1: Hemp is a tall plant whose strong stem fibres are used to make rope, cloth, paper and other things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hemp also means the fibre, seeds or oil from this plant, used in food, clothes and building.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Hemp is a kind of cannabis plant, but the hemp used for rope and food is grown so that it has very little of the drug in it.↗ Example: The sailors used hemp rope to tie the sails.↗ · Hemp grows very fast and tall.↗ · Mum puts hemp seeds on her salad.↗ · The bag is made of hemp fabric.↗ · Paper can be made from hemp.↗ · Hemp needs less water than cotton.↗ · This time Renelde was spinning not hemp, but flax.↗

hempen — Everyday, meaning 1: Hempen means made of hemp, a tough plant fibre used for rope and cloth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A hempen rope is a rope for hanging, in old songs and tales.↗ Example: The sailors tied the hempen rope to the mast.↗ · At last the hempen rope was almost worn out.↗ · The sack was made of coarse hempen cloth.↗

hen — Everyday, meaning 1: A hen is a female chicken, a farm bird that lays eggs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hen can also be the female of some other birds, like a hen pheasant.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hen party, or hen night, is a party for a woman before her wedding.↗ Example: Each hen lays 1 egg a day.↗ · The farmer has 12 hens.↗ · How many eggs in a week?↗ · Hens and cows have 40 legs in all.↗ · The hen sat on her eggs to keep them warm.↗ · We collected eggs from the hen house.↗ · The little red hen asked who would help her.↗ · A hen has two legs and two wings.↗ · THE HEN THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGGS.↗ · And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of the LORD.↗ (Prophets ZEC.6.14, JPS 1917)↗

hence — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Hence means «so» or «for this reason».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Hence means from now: «three weeks hence» means three weeks from now.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) Hence means from here, away.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: In the first two sentences it means away from this place.↗ In the third it means for this reason.↗ Example: It rained all night, hence the puddles.↗ · 3 × 4 = 12, hence 12 ÷ 4 = 3.↗ · (formal) Hence, find the area of the whole shape.↗ · The shop is called «Bob's», hence the big B on the sign.↗ · (formal) The results will be known two weeks hence.↗ · (old) «Get thee hence!» cried the wizard.↗ · But now go hence quickly with thy friends.↗ · And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.↗ (Torah EXO.33.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.↗ (Torah GEN.42.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.'↗ (Torah GEN.50.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'↗ (Writings PSA.39.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.↗ (Writings RUT.2.8, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.↗ (Prophets 1KI.17.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.↗ (Torah EXO.33.15, JPS 1917) · But now go hence quickly with thy friends.↗ (The Jungle Book) · Hence, God loves the number seven under the whole heaven.↗ [37] (In the whole nature.)↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)

henceforth — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) From now on; from this time into the future.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: From this time onwards.↗ Example: Henceforth, all pupils must wear their hats in the sun.↗ · The village, henceforth known as Riverbend, grew quickly.↗ · The king declared that henceforth there would be no more taxes.↗ · Henceforth, I will always check my answers.↗ · In the Bible Mary says that henceforth all generations will call her blessed.↗ · Henceforth you are at home here in my stead.”↗ · And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.↗ (Torah NUM.18.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.↗ (Torah DEU.19.20, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.'↗ (Torah GEN.4.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.'↗ (Writings 2CH.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; (Prophets JDG.2.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.↗ (Prophets ISA.52.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.↗ (Torah NUM.18.22, JPS 1917) · I cannot eat or smile henceforth.↗ (Celtic Fairy Tales) · And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.↗ (Torah DEU.19.20, JPS 1917)