📖 H — The English dictionary · page 21

hewn — Everyday, meaning 1: Cut or chopped with an axe, pick or other sharp tool, especially wood or stone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Shaped roughly by cutting, as in «rough-hewn».↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Cut or shaped with an axe, tool or saw.↗ Example: The steps were hewn out of solid rock.↗ · The cottage had a rough-hewn wooden table.↗ · Stone for the cathedral was hewn from a nearby quarry.↗ · Miners hewed coal deep underground.↗ · The ancient tomb was hewn into the cliff.↗ · The beams were hand-hewn by carpenters long ago.↗ · The churches there are almost entirely built of hewn blocks of stone, each like a piece of rock.↗ · And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.↗ (Torah EXO.20.25, JPS 1917)↗ · and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou the didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied — (Torah DEU.6.11, JPS 1917)↗ · nB3 mynp nna ni2isn hpa graved by the voice, hewn out :mDipD nti-ens in the air, and fixed in the moutli in five places.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars; (Writings PRO.9.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.↗ (Writings LAM.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.↗ (Torah EXO.20.25, JPS 1917) · Fail in this, and you shall be hewn in a thousand pieces.’↗ (The Pink Fairy Book) · and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou the didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied —↗ (Torah DEU.6.11, JPS 1917)

hexad — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A group of six things.↗ Example: Note the subdivision of the Decad into the Tetrad — four elements ; and the Hexad — six dimensions of space.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

hexagon — Everyday, meaning 1: A hexagon is a flat shape with 6 straight sides and 6 corners.↗ A hexagon has 6 sides.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A regular hexagon has all 6 sides the same length and all 6 angles the same size (120 degrees each).↗ Example: A hexagon has 6 sides.↗ · Each side of the hexagon is 4 cm.↗ · What is its perimeter?↗ · How many sides do 3 hexagons have?↗ · The cells of a honeycomb are hexagons.↗ · The bathroom floor is covered with little white hexagons.↗ · A nut has a hexagon shape so a spanner can grip it.↗ · Draw a hexagon and join opposite corners to make 6 triangles.↗ · A regular hexagon fits together with others without gaps.↗

hexagonal — Everyday, meaning 1: Hexagonal means shaped like a hexagon: having six straight sides and six corners.↗ Example: Bees build hexagonal cells in their honeycomb.↗ · This pencil is hexagonal so it does not roll off the desk.↗ · The Giant's Causeway is made of hexagonal rock columns.↗ · A hexagonal shape has six sides.↗ · The snowflake had a hexagonal pattern.↗ · Hexagonal tiles fit together without gaps.↗ · A hexagonal prism has two hexagonal faces and six rectangle faces.↗

hi — Everyday, meaning 1: Hi is a friendly word you say when you meet someone.↗ It means hello.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Say hi to» someone means give them a friendly greeting from you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Hi can also be shouted to get someone's attention, as when calling people to hurry.↗ Example: Hi, I have 5 apples.↗ · Sam says hi to his friends.↗ · «Hi», said the teacher.↗ · Hi!↗ How many sweets do you have?↗ · Hi Grandma, how are you?↗ · Say hi to your mum for me.↗ · Hi there, can I help you?↗ · She waved and called «Hi!» across the playground.↗ · Hi! comrades, make haste! make haste!’↗ · Out of two let ers") two biliteral words are formed as : 2N, X3 Out of three letters six triliteral words are formed as: :i3K, 3:s, 3X3, Hi2, axJ, X2i.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

hibernate — Everyday, meaning 1: Of an animal: to spend the winter in a deep sleep-like state, with the body slowed down and cold, to save energy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a computer) To switch to a power-saving state that keeps your work.↗ Example: Hedgehogs hibernate in piles of leaves.↗ · Before they hibernate, animals eat lots of food.↗ · Bats hibernate in caves and lofts.↗ · A hibernating animal breathes very slowly.↗ · Don't disturb a hibernating hedgehog in a bonfire pile — check before lighting it!↗ · Bears sleep through the winter, but not as deeply as true hibernators.↗ · Some frogs hibernate in mud at the bottom of ponds.↗ · I wish I could hibernate until the summer!↗

hibernating — Everyday, meaning 1: Hibernating means spending the winter in a deep sleep-like rest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hibernating animal is one that is in this long winter rest.↗ Example: The hedgehog is hibernating under the leaves.↗ · Check bonfire piles for hibernating hedgehogs.↗ · Hibernating bats hang in caves all winter.↗ · A hibernating animal breathes very slowly.↗ · The bear is hibernating in its den.↗ · Frogs spend winter hibernating in the mud.↗

hibernation — Everyday, meaning 1: A very deep sleep-like rest that some animals go into during winter: their body cools, their heart slows and they live on stored fat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A long time of staying inside and resting.↗ Example: Hedgehogs go into hibernation in winter.↗ · Before hibernation, animals eat lots of food.↗ · Bats hang upside down during hibernation.↗ · Waking an animal from hibernation uses up its energy.↗ · The tortoise came out of hibernation in spring.↗ · After the holidays, I came out of hibernation and went outside.↗

hiccough — Everyday, meaning 1: An old spelling of «hiccup»: a sudden, sharp «hic» sound when a muscle under your lungs (the diaphragm) jerks and makes you breathe in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (hiccoughs / hiccups) A short spell of these sounds one after another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A small problem or delay: «a hiccough in our plans».↗ Example: I got hiccoughs after drinking my fizzy drink too fast.↗ · He hiccoughed all through the school assembly.↗ · The old book spells hiccup as «hiccough».↗ · My little brother tried to scare away my hiccoughs.↗ · There was a small hiccough with the bus, but we arrived on time.↗ · Hiccoughs happen when your diaphragm jerks.↗

hiccup — Everyday, meaning 1: A hiccup is a sudden, short "hic" sound you make when a muscle under your lungs jumps by itself.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hiccups (or the hiccups) is having many of these one after another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A hiccup is a small problem or delay.↗ e.g. "a small hiccup in our plans".↗ Example: I got the hiccups after drinking fizzy pop too fast.↗ · Hold your breath to stop your hiccups.↗ · The baby hiccuped after her milk.↗ · "Hic!" went the hiccup in the middle of the quiet test.↗ · There was a small hiccup: the bus was late.↗ · Apart from one hiccup, the play went perfectly.↗

hick — Everyday, meaning 1: (US, informal, rude) An insulting word for someone from the countryside, suggesting they are simple and old-fashioned.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective, informal) Small, rural and old-fashioned: a hick town.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A short sound like a hiccup.↗ Example: The city kids unkindly called him a hick.↗ · They grew up in a small hick town in Kansas.↗ · «Don't call people hicks,» said the teacher.↗ · In the film, the «hick» farmer turned out to be the cleverest character.↗ · Hick! went my little sister when she had hiccups.↗

hickory — Everyday, meaning 1: A North American tree of the walnut family, with hard nuts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The very hard, strong wood of this tree, used for tool handles and drumsticks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Smoke from hickory wood, used to flavour meat: hickory-smoked bacon.↗ Example: «Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock.»↗ · Squirrels love to eat hickory nuts.↗ · Axe handles are often made of hickory.↗ · Dad's barbecue sauce has a hickory-smoked flavour.↗ · Hickory wood is very hard and strong.↗ · The pioneers used hickory to make wagon wheels.↗

hidden — Everyday, meaning 1: Hidden means put in a place where it cannot easily be seen or found.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hidden can mean secret or not known by others: a hidden meaning.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Has hidden» or «was hidden» is the form of the verb «hide».↗ Example: The treasure was hidden under an old tree.↗ · My brother has hidden my shoes again!↗ · The cat stayed hidden under the bed during the storm.↗ · Can you find the hidden animals in this picture?↗ · There was a hidden message in the story.↗ · Rocks can be hidden under the water, so don't dive in.↗ · The sun was hidden behind the clouds.↗ · She kept her diary hidden in a drawer.↗ · Somewhere on it is hidden a rich treasure.↗ · They shall call peoples unto the mountain; there shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness; for they shall suck the abundance of the seas, and the hidden treasures of the sand.↗ (Torah DEU.33.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Both items refer to anatomical hiddenness: the word emerging from the tongue, hidden in the mouth, and circumcision of the genitals, the concealed lower organs revealed during circumcision.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The Eighth Path is called Absolute or Perfect, because it is the means of the primordial, which has no root by which it can cleave, nor rest, except in the hidden places Of GEDULAH.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Clear Thou me from hidden faults.↗ (Writings PSA.19.13, JPS 1917)↗ · How are his hidden places sought out!↗ (Prophets OBA.1.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.↗ (Writings PRO.27.5, JPS 1917)↗

hiddenness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The state of being hidden or out of sight.↗ Example: Both items refer to anatomical hiddenness: the word emerging from the tongue, hidden in the mouth, and circumcision of the genitals, the concealed lower organs revealed during circumcision.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

hide — Everyday, meaning 1: To hide means to put something where it cannot be seen or found.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hide is also to go where others cannot see or find you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To hide a feeling is to keep it secret.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A hide is an animal's skin, used to make leather.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A hide is also a small hut where people watch birds without being seen.↗ Example: She hid 12 eggs; the kids found 9.↗ How many are still hidden?↗ · Tom hides 3 coins in each box.↗ · 5 cats hide under the bed.↗ · How many did he hide in all?↗ · Let us play hide-and-seek.↗ · The pirates hid the treasure on an island.↗ · The chameleon hides by changing colour.↗ · He tried to hide his tears.↗ · We watched the ducks from the bird hide.↗ · Or is it his wrinkled hide?↗ · And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing; (Torah GEN.18.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before thee.↗ (Torah DEU.7.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother.↗ (Torah DEU.22.1, JPS 1917)↗ · How long wilt Thou hide Thy face from me?↗ (Writings PSA.13.2, JPS 1917)↗ · How long, O LORD, wilt Thou hide Thyself for ever?↗ (Writings PSA.89.47, JPS 1917)↗ · Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.↗ (Writings PSA.51.11, JPS 1917)↗

hideous — Everyday, meaning 1: Hideous means extremely ugly or horrible to look at.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hideous also means very unpleasant or shocking, like a hideous crime or a hideous noise.↗ Example: The troll had a hideous face covered in warts.↗ · Aunt Jo knitted me a hideous orange jumper.↗ · The machine made a hideous screech.↗ · The witch let out a hideous laugh.↗ · That was a hideous crime.↗ · I think the new car colour is hideous, but Dad loves it.↗ · ‘Who is that hideous old witch?’ said the king.↗

hideously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a very ugly, horrible or frightening way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Extremely, in a bad way, as in «hideously expensive» or «hideously embarrassing».↗ Example: The monster grinned hideously in the dark.↗ · The old house had been hideously painted orange and purple.↗ · The trainers were hideously expensive.↗ · It was hideously early when the alarm rang.↗ · The Duchess was hideously ugly in the old pictures of Alice.↗ · The weasels laughed hideously at Toad's misfortune.↗ · Her wicked brother stopped over her, and laughed hideously, as fiends only can laugh.↗

hie — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) To hurry or go quickly.↗ Example: Hie away, quick as the wind!↗ · The knight hied to the castle at dawn.↗ · Hie home before the storm!↗

hierarchical — Everyday, meaning 1: Arranged in levels or ranks, from the top to the bottom, with each level more important or powerful than the one below.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Arranged in groups inside bigger groups, like a family tree.↗ Example: The army is a hierarchical organisation, with generals at the top.↗ · Medieval society was hierarchical: the king, then the lords, then the peasants.↗ · Living things are classified in a hierarchical system.↗ · Folders on a computer are arranged in a hierarchical way.↗ · In the hierarchical world of Wonderland, the King and Queen of Hearts rule the cards.↗ · A family tree is a hierarchical diagram.↗