📖 H — The English dictionary · page 22

hierarchy — Everyday, meaning 1: A system where people or things are arranged in levels, from the most important or powerful at the top to the least at the bottom.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The people in charge of an organisation, such as a church or company.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science, maths) Any ordering of things into levels, like groups inside groups.↗ Example: In the feudal hierarchy, the king was at the top.↗ · Wolves in a pack have a hierarchy.↗ · Living things are sorted in a hierarchy from kingdom to species.↗ · The Catholic Church has a hierarchy of bishops and priests.↗ · At school the hierarchy goes from the head teacher to the teachers and assistants.↗ · Chickens have a hierarchy called a pecking order.↗

hieroglyph — Everyday, meaning 1: A picture or symbol used for writing, especially in ancient Egypt, where little drawings of birds, eyes and other things stood for sounds or words.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Writing that is very hard to read.↗ Example: Ancient Egyptians wrote with hieroglyphs.↗ · The Rosetta Stone helped scholars read hieroglyphs.↗ · Each hieroglyph can stand for a sound or an idea.↗ · We wrote our names in hieroglyphs on paper scrolls.↗ · Hieroglyphs were carved on the walls of tombs.↗ · My brother's handwriting looks like hieroglyphs!↗ · The first of the stories actually written down, were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or on Babylonian cakes of clay, three or four thousand years before our time.↗

hieroglyphic — Everyday, meaning 1: Written in picture signs, as the ancient Egyptians wrote.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hard to read, like secret picture writing.↗ Example: The tomb had hieroglyphic signs on the wall.↗ · Hieroglyphic writing uses pictures for sounds and ideas.↗ · Its markings looked hieroglyphic to me.↗ · The linear characters in Egypt are earlier than the hieroglyphics, though a few of the forms may ultimately have been fused with the latter.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Did it spring from the Egyptian liioro- fflyphics, or from the cuneiform systems of the Assyrians, or from the hieroglyphics of the Hittites, or from the Syllabary (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

higgle — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) To haggle, to argue and bargain over a price.↗ Example: The traders higgled over the price of the cow.↗ · They higgled and haggled all morning.↗ · We will not higgle; the price is fixed.↗

high — Everyday, meaning 1: High means far up from the ground, or tall: a high wall, a high mountain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It tells how tall something is: a wall 3 metres high.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: High means big in amount or level, like a high price, a high score or a high temperature.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A high sound or voice is near the top of the notes, like a whistle.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: As a noun, a high is the top amount, like the high temperature of the day.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: High can also describe a person or animal of good breeding or noble birth.↗ Example: The wall is 2 metres high.↗ · The kite flew 40 metres high.↗ · Who got the highest score?↗ · The tower is 10 m higher than the house.↗ · The cat jumped up high onto the fence.↗ · Mum keeps the medicine on a high shelf.↗ · Prices are high at the airport shop.↗ · A mouse has a high squeaky voice.↗ · Today's high will be 25 degrees.↗ · We gave each other a high five.↗ · And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.↗ (Torah DEU.33.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth; (Torah GEN.14.19, JPS 1917)↗ · All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.↗ (Torah DEU.3.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Jonathan upon thy high places is slain!↗ (Prophets 2SA.1.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Both low and high, rich and poor together.↗ (Writings PSA.49.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And is there knowledge in the Most High?'↗ (Writings PSA.73.11, JPS 1917)↗

higher — Everyday, meaning 1: Higher means more high, further up from the ground than something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Higher means bigger in number or amount: a higher score, a higher price.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Higher means more important or more advanced: a higher level, higher maths.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A higher sound is a sharper, thinner one, like a whistle.↗ Example: The tower is 20 metres higher than the house.↗ · Her score was 15 points higher than Tom's.↗ · How much higher is the price this year?↗ · The kite flew higher than the balloon.↗ · The higher you climb up a mountain, the colder it gets.↗ · A short string makes a higher note.↗ · She jumped higher than anyone in the class.↗ · Prices are higher in the city.↗ · The water rose higher and higher.↗ · The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.↗ (Torah DEU.28.43, JPS 1917)↗ · Water shall flow from his branches, and his seed shall be in many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.↗ (Torah NUM.24.7, JPS 1917)↗ · "Every element has its source from a higher form, and all things have their common origin from the Word (Logos), the Holy Spirit.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.↗ (Writings JOB.35.5, JPS 1917)↗ · For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.↗ (Prophets ISA.55.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.↗ (Prophets 1SA.10.23, JPS 1917)↗

highland — Everyday, meaning 1: Highland is land that is high up, with hills and mountains.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) The Highlands are the mountainous north and west part of Scotland.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As an adjective, highland means from or to do with high land, especially the Scottish Highlands.↗ Example: We went on holiday to the Scottish Highlands.↗ · Highland cows have long shaggy hair and big horns.↗ · At the Highland games, a man tossed a huge log called a caber.↗ · Highland dancing is done to bagpipe music.↗ · Few people live in the highland areas.↗ · The highlands of Kenya are good for growing tea.↗ · In one of the least intelligible of the West Highland tales, there is a scene which somewhat resembles the "lykewake" in this skazka.↗

highlight — Everyday, meaning 1: A highlight is the best or most exciting part of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To highlight means to mark words with a bright colour pen so they stand out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To highlight means to point out or draw attention to something important.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Highlights are lighter streaks in hair or bright parts of a picture.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Highlights are short clips of the best moments of a match or event.↗ Example: The highlight of the trip was seeing the whales.↗ · Highlight the key words in yellow.↗ · We watched the match highlights on TV.↗ · The report highlights the need for more trees.↗ · She had blonde highlights in her hair.↗ · Add white highlights to make the apple shine.↗ · Use a highlighter pen to mark the verbs.↗ · Meeting the author was the highlight of my week.↗ · =Equals signs= are used to highlight changes made in the following passages.↗

highlighter — Everyday, meaning 1: A pen with bright see-through ink, used to mark important words in a text.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A make-up product that makes parts of the face look brighter.↗ Example: Use a yellow highlighter to mark the key words.↗ · My pencil case has five different highlighters.↗ · She highlighted the main facts with a pink highlighter.↗ · Don't highlight every line, or nothing stands out.↗ · The highlighter ran out of ink halfway through the page.↗ · My big sister puts highlighter on her cheeks.↗

highly — Everyday, meaning 1: Highly means very or very much: highly dangerous, highly unlikely.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Highly means with great respect or praise: «think highly of someone».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Highly means at a high level, rank or amount: highly paid, highly skilled.↗ Example: That spray is highly flammable — keep it away from fire.↗ · It is highly unlikely to snow in summer.↗ · My teacher thinks highly of your work.↗ · I highly recommend this book.↗ · Surgeons are highly skilled.↗ · Some snakes are highly poisonous.↗ · It is highly likely we will win.↗ · Everyone speaks highly of the new coach.↗ · And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.↗ (Torah EXO.15.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.↗ (Torah EXO.15.1, JPS 1917)↗ · D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.↗ (Writings PSA.145.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, His holy mountain, (Writings PSA.48.2, JPS 1917)↗ · For great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.↗ (Writings PSA.96.4, JPS 1917)↗

highness — Everyday, meaning 1: A title used to address a prince, princess or other royal person, as in «Your Highness».↗ Example: Your Royal Highness, the feast is ready.↗ · How does your Highness feel today?↗ · The page bowed low to His Highness.↗

highroad — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A main public road for travel, a highway.↗ Example: The coach rode along the highroad.↗ · A wise man should not lie in the middle of the highroad.↗ · The thief waited by the highroad.↗

highway — Everyday, meaning 1: A main road, usually big and fast, that joins towns and cities.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old or formal) Any public road; «the Highway Code» is the UK book of road rules.↗ Example: We drove along the highway to the beach.↗ · The highway was busy with trucks.↗ · Never cross a highway on foot.↗ · The highway runs right across the country.↗ · Learn the rules in the Highway Code before you ride your bike on the road.↗ · Highway patrol officers stopped the speeding car.↗ · There was a traffic jam on the highway.↗ · A Rat was traveling along the King's highway.↗ · 'Let me pass through thy land; I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.↗ (Torah DEU.2.27, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.'↗ (Torah NUM.21.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway.↗ (Prophets 2SA.20.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Happy is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the highways.↗ (Writings PSA.84.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field.↗ (Prophets ISA.36.2, JPS 1917)↗

highwayman — Everyday, meaning 1: In the old days, a robber on horseback who stopped travellers on the road and took their money.↗ Example: The highwayman stopped the coach on the dark road.↗ · «Stand and deliver!» cried the highwayman.↗ · The poem tells of a highwayman and the landlord's daughter.↗ · Travellers were afraid of highwaymen on the lonely heath.↗ · The highwayman wore a mask and a three-cornered hat.↗ · In the play, I was the highwayman.↗ · Some highwaymen became famous in songs.↗

hijab — Everyday, meaning 1: A headscarf worn by many Muslim women and girls that covers the hair and neck, leaving the face open.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (wider) The idea in Islam of dressing modestly.↗ Example: My friend Amira wears a blue hijab to school.↗ · She pins her hijab neatly every morning.↗ · Some football players wear sports hijabs.↗ · The school sells hijabs in the uniform colour.↗ · Her hijab matched her dress.↗ · In RE we learned why some Muslim women wear the hijab.↗ · She chose to start wearing a hijab when she was older.↗

hike — Everyday, meaning 1: A hike is a long walk, often in hills, woods or mountains, done for fun or exercise.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hike is to go on such a walk.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hike is also a big sudden rise, like a price hike.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To hike up something is to pull it up, like hiking up your socks.↗ Example: They hike 6 miles on Saturday.↗ · The hike is 12 km long.↗ · She hikes 3 miles each day for 5 days.↗ · How long did the hike take?↗ · Our class went on a nature hike to the waterfall.↗ · Always tell an adult where you are hiking and take water.↗ · We hiked up the hill and ate lunch at the top.↗ · The bus company announced a fare hike of 50 cents.↗ · He hiked up his shorts before crossing the stream.↗

hiker — Everyday, meaning 1: A hiker is a person who goes on long walks in the country, hills or mountains, for fun or exercise.↗ Example: 15 hikers start up the hill.↗ · Each hiker carries 2 bottles of water.↗ · The hiker walks 3 miles an hour.↗ · 4 hikers turn back.↗ · The hikers stopped to look at the view.↗ · A lost hiker was found by the rescue team.↗ · Hikers should stay on the path and not feed the animals.↗ · The hiker checked her map at the fork in the trail.↗

hilarious — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely funny, making you laugh a lot: a hilarious joke.↗ Example: The clown was hilarious.↗ · We watched a hilarious film and couldn't stop laughing.↗ · My brother told a hilarious joke at dinner.↗ · «Oh, hilarious,» she said, when he hid her bag — she was not laughing.↗ · The dog's tricks were hilarious.↗ · It was hilarious when the cake slid off the plate.↗