📖 H — The English dictionary · page 26

hob — Everyday, meaning 1: A hob is the flat top part of a cooker with rings or plates where you put pans to heat food; in the USA and Canada it is called a stovetop or cooktop.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hob-nail is a short nail with a large head, hammered into the soles of heavy boots.↗ Example: Put the pan of water on the hob.↗ · The hob is still hot, don't touch it.↗ · Turn the pan handles away from the edge of the hob.↗ · Our hob has four rings.↗ · A gas hob has a blue flame.↗ · Never leave cooking on the hob alone.↗ · Mum wiped the hob after cooking.↗ · The red light shows the hob is hot.↗

hobble — Everyday, meaning 1: To walk with short, slow, unsteady steps, often because you are hurt, tired or old.↗ Example: The old dog hobbled to his bed.↗ · He hurt his foot and had to hobble home.↗ · She hobbled off, grumbling.↗

hobby — Everyday, meaning 1: Something you enjoy doing in your free time, not as a job, such as drawing, football, collecting or gardening.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hobby-horse is a toy horse, made of a stick with a horse's head, that children pretend to ride.↗ Example: My hobby is collecting stamps.↗ · Dad's hobby is fishing at the lake.↗ · What are your hobbies?↗ · She took up painting as a new hobby.↗ · Building models is a fun hobby for rainy days.↗ · Grandpa plays the violin as a hobby.↗ · A hobby can help you relax after school.↗ · The sweet children rode on their hobby-horses through all the rooms when they came to see the grandparents.↗

hobgoblin — Everyday, meaning 1: A hobgoblin is a mischievous or wicked small creature in old tales, a kind of goblin.↗ Example: There was once a wicked hobgoblin in the wood.↗ · The hobgoblin laughed at the children.↗ · Don't wake the hobgoblin under the stairs.↗

hockey — Everyday, meaning 1: Hockey is a team game played with curved sticks and a ball or puck, where players try to hit it into the other team's goal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Field hockey is played on grass with a ball.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ice hockey is played on ice with skates and a flat rubber disc called a puck.↗ Example: We play hockey on Wednesdays.↗ · She scored a goal in the hockey match.↗ · Ice hockey is Canada's favourite winter sport.↗ · Keep your hockey stick below your waist.↗ · The puck slid across the ice.↗ · He wears a helmet to play hockey.↗ · Our hockey team won the cup.↗

hoe — Everyday, meaning 1: A garden tool with a long handle and a flat blade, used to cut weeds and loosen the soil.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To dig, weed or loosen soil with a hoe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude, slang) A spelling of «ho», a very rude insulting word for a woman; not for school.↗ Example: Grandad used a hoe to cut the weeds.↗ · We hoed the vegetable patch at school.↗ · Hoeing loosens the soil so water can sink in.↗ · The farmer hoed between the rows of potatoes.↗ · Leave the hoe in the shed when you finish.↗ · The gardener rested on his hoe and smiled.↗ · The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions.↗ · The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.↗ (Prophets JOL.1.17, JPS 1917)↗

hog — Everyday, meaning 1: A pig, especially a large one kept for meat (US) or a male pig (UK).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A greedy or selfish person: a road hog.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To hog something means to keep it all to yourself and not share: hog the remote.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Go the whole hog means do something completely.↗ Example: The farmer fed the hogs.↗ · Stop hogging the computer, it's my turn!↗ · He hogged the ball and never passed.↗ · A road hog drives in the middle of the road.↗ · We went the whole hog and had a three-course meal.↗ · Groundhog Day is in February in the USA and Canada.↗ · At last he heard something--and there stood the hog.↗

hogg — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Hogg is a surname, a family name used in Scotland and England, for example the Scottish writer James Hogg.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (spelling) It is not the ordinary word «hog» (a pig), which has one g.↗ Example: Mrs Hogg is our new class teacher.↗ · James Hogg was a Scottish poet called «the Ettrick Shepherd».↗ · The letter was signed «T. Hogg».↗ · Is it Hogg with two g's?↗ Yes, H-O-G-G.↗

hogmanay — Everyday, meaning 1: (Scotland) The Scottish name for New Year's Eve, 31 December, and the parties and customs that celebrate the start of the new year.↗ Example: We went to Edinburgh for Hogmanay.↗ · At Hogmanay, everyone sang «Auld Lang Syne».↗ · Gran sets out shortbread for first-footers at Hogmanay.↗ · The fireworks at Hogmanay lit up the castle.↗ · In Scotland, Hogmanay is sometimes bigger than Christmas.↗ · We stayed up until midnight on Hogmanay.↗

hogshead — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A hogshead is a large barrel, used for wine, beer or sugar, and an old measure of liquid.↗ Example: They brought a hogshead of cider to the ship.↗ · The cellar held three hogsheads of wine.↗

hogweed — Everyday, meaning 1: Hogweed is a tall wild plant with big flat heads of tiny white flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Giant hogweed is a huge kind whose sap makes skin burn and blister badly in sunlight.↗ Example: Don't touch the giant hogweed by the river!↗ · Giant hogweed can grow taller than a person.↗ · Hogweed sap can burn your skin in sunlight.↗ · The park put up signs warning about hogweed.↗ · Common hogweed has white umbrella-shaped flowers.↗ · He got blisters after touching hogweed.↗ · Wash your skin quickly if you touch hogweed sap.↗ · Giant hogweed has purple spots on its stem.↗

hoist — Everyday, meaning 1: To lift or pull something heavy up, often with ropes or a machine, as in «hoist the sails».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To raise a flag up a pole.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A machine for lifting heavy things or people, as in «a hospital hoist».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) To lift yourself or someone else up, as in «Dad hoisted me onto his shoulders».↗ Example: The sailors hoisted the sails.↗ · They hoisted the flag on the school's sports day.↗ · A crane hoisted the steel beams onto the roof.↗ · Dad hoisted me onto his shoulders to watch the parade.↗ · The nurse used a hoist to lift the patient.↗ · A pulley makes it easier to hoist a heavy bucket.↗ · His brothers hoisted the stone to a great height, and then cut the rope.↗

hold — Everyday, meaning 1: To hold is to have something in your hand or arms: hold my hand.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hold is to have room for, to contain: the jar holds 10 sweets.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To hold is to keep in a place or state: hold still, hold on.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To hold a party or a meeting is to have it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A hold is a grip.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: The hold is the large space deep inside a ship where cargo is stored.↗ Example: Mia buys 8 packs of cards.↗ A pack holds 3 cards.↗ How many cards does Mia buy?↗ · A jar holds 10 sweets.↗ · Each tray holds 6 cupcakes.↗ How many trays are needed for 24 cupcakes?↗ · Hold my hand when we cross the road.↗ · Can you hold the baby for a minute?↗ · Hold on, I'm coming!↗ · The school will hold a concert in the hall.↗ · This bottle holds one litre of water.↗ · There was powder in the hold.↗ · The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.'↗ (Torah EXO.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, (Torah EXO.9.2, JPS 1917)↗ · The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.↗ (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917)↗ · They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.↗ (Prophets JER.8.5, JPS 1917)↗ · But he was as one that held his peace.↗ (Prophets 1SA.10.27, JPS 1917)↗ · For then would I hold my peace and die.↗ (Writings JOB.13.19, JPS 1917)↗

holder — Everyday, meaning 1: A thing that holds or supports something: a pencil holder, a cup holder.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who owns or has something official: a ticket holder, a passport holder, an account holder.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A person or team that currently has a title or record: the record holder, the title holder.↗ Example: Put your pencils back in the pencil holder.↗ · Only ticket holders may enter the stadium.↗ · Usain Bolt is the world record holder for the 100 metres.↗ · The car has a cup holder for my juice.↗ · The holders were knocked out of the cup in the first round.↗ · Every account holder gets a bank card.↗ · The candle holder was made of glass.↗ · Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table.↗ (Torah EXO.37.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be holders for the staves.↗ (Torah EXO.38.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.↗ (Torah EXO.36.34, JPS 1917)↗

holdeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «holdeth» means «holds», a form of «hold»: To hold is to have something in your hand or arms: hold my hand.↗ Example: and her father heareth her vow, or her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father holdeth his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.↗ (Torah NUM.30.4, JPS 1917)

holdfast — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The root-like part at the bottom of seaweed that holds it tightly to rocks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clamp or hook that holds something firmly, for example to a workbench or wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) Something you can hold on to firmly.↗ Example: The seaweed's holdfast stuck tightly to the rock.↗ · A holdfast is not a root, because it does not take in water.↗ · Storms can tear kelp from its holdfast.↗ · The carpenter used a holdfast to clamp the wood to the bench.↗ · Tiny crabs hide inside kelp holdfasts.↗

holding — Everyday, meaning 1: Holding is the -ing form of "hold": having something in your hands or arms, or keeping it in place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A holding is land or property that someone owns, like a small farm.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Holdings are things like money, shares or books that a person or group owns or keeps.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In sport, holding is an unfair move where you grab another player.↗ Example: She is holding a kitten.↗ · Keep holding the rail on the stairs.↗ · We walked holding hands.↗ · The jug is holding 2 litres of water.↗ · He was holding his breath under water.↗ · The family has a small holding of land by the river.↗ · The library's holdings include rare maps.↗ · The referee called holding against the player.↗ · "What's the matter?" he asked, holding her tighter.↗ · And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.↗ (Torah GEN.24.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Bring no more vain oblations; it is an offering of abomination unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations — I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.↗ (Prophets ISA.1.13, JPS 1917)↗ · He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil; (Prophets ISA.33.15, JPS 1917)↗

hole — Everyday, meaning 1: An empty space or opening in something solid: a hole in the ground, a hole in a sock.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An animal's home underground: a rabbit hole.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In golf: the small hole you hit the ball into, or one part of a golf course.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A weak part or mistake: a hole in a plan.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Informal: an unpleasant place.↗ Example: The dog dug a hole in the garden.↗ · There's a hole in my sock.↗ · A rabbit popped out of its hole.↗ · Watch out for holes in the field.↗ · The car hit a pothole in the road.↗ · A black hole pulls in even light.↗ · She got a hole-in-one at mini golf.↗ · Peep through the keyhole.↗ · But the Mouse reached his hole in safety.↗ · and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.↗ (Torah EXO.39.23, JPS 1917)↗ · In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.↗ (Writings JOB.30.6, JPS 1917)↗ · My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him.↗ (Writings SNG.5.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.↗ (Prophets EZK.8.7, JPS 1917)↗

holey — Everyday, meaning 1: Holey means full of holes, like old socks or a sieve.↗ Example: My favourite socks are so holey that my toes poke out.↗ · Grandad wears a holey old jumper in the garden.↗ · The moths made the blanket holey.↗ · Swiss cheese is famous for being holey.↗ · A colander is holey so water can drain away.↗ · His holey boots let the rain in.↗