📖 H — The English dictionary · page 3

halal — Everyday, meaning 1: (Islam) Halal means allowed by Islamic law; it is used especially for food, such as meat from animals killed in the correct way, and no pork or alcohol.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A halal shop or restaurant sells halal food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Islam) Halal can mean anything allowed in Islam; the opposite is haram (forbidden).↗ Example: My friend eats only halal meat.↗ · The school canteen has a halal option every day.↗ · Pork is never halal.↗ · We bought chicken at the halal butcher.↗ · Many Muslims check if sweets are halal because some gelatine comes from pigs.↗ · The restaurant sign says «Halal».↗ · In Islam, halal means what is allowed and haram means what is forbidden.↗

halberd — Everyday, meaning 1: An old weapon used from about the 1300s to the 1600s: a long wooden pole with an axe blade, a sharp spike on top and often a hook at the back.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Today a ceremonial weapon carried by some guards, for example the Swiss Guard at the Vatican.↗ Example: The guard at the castle gate held a long halberd.↗ · The Swiss Guard still carry halberds at the Vatican.↗ · Soldiers with halberds marched Toad down to the dungeon.↗ · A halberd could chop, stab and hook a rider off his horse.↗ · We saw a rusty halberd in the museum.↗ · The knight ducked under the halberd's blade.↗ · He could even see soldiers walking about with halberds.↗

halberdier — Everyday, meaning 1: A halberdier is an old soldier armed with a halberd, a long pole with an axe blade on top.↗ Example: Two halberdiers stood at the castle gate.↗ · The king's halberdiers marched in first.↗ · Twelve halberdiers guarded the door.↗

hale — Everyday, meaning 1: Hale means strong and healthy, usually said about an older person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) To hale someone means to pull or drag them, especially to court.↗ Example: Grandpa is still hale and hearty at ninety.↗ · The old farmer looked hale and strong.↗ · After the holiday, everyone came back hale and well.↗ · (old) The thief was haled before the judge.↗ · My nan is hale enough to walk five miles a day.↗ · Looking out, she saw the lad hale and hearty standing before her, and grew whiter than ever with rage and spite.↗

half — Everyday, meaning 1: A half is one of two equal parts of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Half as an adjective means one of two equal parts: «half an hour».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Half can mean partly: «half asleep».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Half past means 30 minutes after the hour.↗ Example: Max gives Sam half of his stickers.↗ · Ben has half as many cookies as Lily.↗ · Mia ate half of the 8 grapes.↗ · Cut the apple in half.↗ · Half an hour is 30 minutes.↗ · School ends at half past three.↗ · The score was 2–1 at half-time.↗ · The glass is half full.↗ · There was only half of him!↗ · And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred — (Torah NUM.31.42, JPS 1917)↗ · now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep, (Torah NUM.31.43, JPS 1917)↗ · Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.↗ (Torah EXO.36.21, JPS 1917)↗ · and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah; (Writings NEH.12.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, (Prophets JOS.22.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, and half of the Menuhoth.↗ (Writings 1CH.2.52, JPS 1917)↗

halfpenny — Everyday, meaning 1: A halfpenny is an old British coin worth half a penny.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A halfpenny's worth means a very small amount of something.↗ Example: He bought a sweet for a halfpenny.↗ · They lit a halfpenny's worth of coloured fire.↗ · Two halfpennies make one penny.↗

halfway — Everyday, meaning 1: Halfway means in the middle between two places or two times: halfway up the hill.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Halfway can mean partly, not fully: halfway finished.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To meet someone halfway means to agree to a compromise where both give up something.↗ Example: We stopped halfway up the mountain for a snack.↗ · We are halfway there!↗ · Halfway between 0 and 100 is 50.↗ · I am halfway through my book.↗ · The film stopped halfway because of a power cut.↗ · Let's meet halfway: you choose the game and I choose the snack.↗ · The ball crossed the halfway line.↗ · He fell asleep halfway through the story.↗ · Before he was halfway to the farther shore, a storm overtook him.↗ · And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.↗ (Torah EXO.27.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.↗ (Torah EXO.38.4, JPS 1917)↗

halibut — Everyday, meaning 1: A very large flat fish that lives in cold northern seas, such as the North Atlantic and North Pacific, eaten as food.↗ Example: A halibut has both eyes on one side of its head.↗ · Halibut can grow longer than a grown-up person.↗ · We had grilled halibut for dinner.↗ · Fishermen in Alaska caught a huge halibut.↗ · Atlantic halibut are now protected because of overfishing.↗ · Young halibut swim upright, then one eye moves across.↗

halite — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The mineral name for natural rock salt, the same chemical as table salt (sodium chloride), often found as clear or white cube-shaped crystals.↗ Example: Halite is the mineral name for rock salt.↗ · Halite crystals are shaped like little cubes.↗ · Halite forms when salty water evaporates.↗ · The council spread crushed halite on icy roads.↗ · We tasted a tiny piece of halite in science (with the teacher's permission).↗ · There are old halite mines in Cheshire.↗

halitosis — Everyday, meaning 1: Halitosis is the medical word for bad breath — breath that smells unpleasant.↗ Example: Halitosis means bad breath.↗ · Brushing your teeth twice a day helps stop halitosis.↗ · The dentist said his halitosis came from a bad tooth.↗ · Garlic and onions can cause short-term halitosis.↗ · The advert promised to cure halitosis.↗ · Dogs can get halitosis too, so vets check their teeth.↗

hall — Everyday, meaning 1: A hall is a big room for meetings, concerts, plays or school assemblies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hall, or hallway, is a passage inside a building, or the space by the front door of a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Some big buildings are called halls, like a town hall or a hall of residence.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A Hall of Fame honours famous people.↗ Example: The hall has 20 rows of 15 chairs.↗ · 300 people came to the hall.↗ · The school hall is 30 m long.↗ · How many seats are empty in the hall?↗ · We sang at assembly in the hall.↗ · The bathroom is down the hall on the left.↗ · Leave your wet boots in the hall.↗ · You need a hall pass to leave the class.↗ · The banqueting hall was in tumult.↗

hallelujah — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A Hebrew word meaning "Praise God!".↗ Example: Hallelujah; for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.↗ (Writings PSA.147.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting, and let all the people say: 'Amen.'↗ Hallelujah.↗ (Writings PSA.106.48, JPS 1917)↗

halloo — Everyday, meaning 1: To halloo is to shout loudly to call hunters or dogs, or to get attention.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A halloo is that loud shout.↗ Example: The huntsman gave a loud halloo.↗ · The hunters hallooed to the dogs.↗ · We heard a halloo from the top of the hill.↗

hallow — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To make holy, to set apart as holy, or to treat as holy.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: to make something holy, or to honour it as holy.↗ Example: And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you, (Torah LEV.22.32, JPS 1917)↗ · and hallow My sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.↗ (Prophets EZK.20.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.↗ (Torah LEV.16.19, JPS 1917)↗ · neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work; but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers; (Prophets JER.17.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to Mine ordinances shall they judge it; and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed seasons, and they shall hallow My sabbaths.↗ (Prophets EZK.44.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.↗ (Torah NUM.5.10, JPS 1917) · And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.↗ (Torah GEN.2.3, JPS 1917) · And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you,↗ (Torah LEV.22.32, JPS 1917)

hallowed — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) Hallowed means holy, made holy, or treated with great respect for God.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hallowed means greatly respected and honoured because of its history, as a hallowed football ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible, old) To hallow is to make holy or to honour as holy, as in the Lord's Prayer: «hallowed be thy name».↗ Example: «Hallowed be thy name,» we said together in assembly.↗ · The cemetery is hallowed ground.↗ · Playing at the hallowed stadium was the player's dream.↗ · The old church felt hushed and hallowed.↗ · Halloween comes from «All Hallows' Eve», the night before All Saints' Day.↗ · The poem is one of the hallowed classics of English literature.↗ · And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.↗ (Torah NUM.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.↗ (Torah GEN.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you, (Torah LEV.22.32, JPS 1917)↗ · The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.↗ (Writings LAM.4.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God, and over the treasuries of the hallowed things.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.20, JPS 1917)↗ · What hath My beloved to do in My house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the hallowed flesh is passed from thee?↗ (Prophets JER.11.15, JPS 1917)↗

halloween — Everyday, meaning 1: A festival held in the evening at the very end of October, when children dress up in costumes, carve pumpkins and go trick-or-treating.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Its old meaning: the evening before All Saints' Day (All Hallows' Eve).↗ Example: We carved a pumpkin for Halloween.↗ · At Halloween I dressed up as a witch.↗ · Children go trick-or-treating on Halloween night.↗ · Carry a torch when you go out at Halloween.↗ · Halloween began long ago in Ireland and Scotland.↗ · Our class had a Halloween party with apple bobbing.↗ · Only knock on doors with a pumpkin or lights on.↗

hallucinate — Everyday, meaning 1: To see, hear or feel things that are not really there, for example because of high fever, illness, lack of sleep or drugs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing, informal) Of an AI chatbot: to make up facts that sound true but are false.↗ Example: With a very high fever, some people hallucinate.↗ · The lost explorer was so thirsty he hallucinated a lake.↗ · After three nights without sleep, he began to hallucinate.↗ · The chatbot hallucinated a book that doesn't exist.↗ · Am I hallucinating, or is that a kangaroo in the garden?↗ · Drugs can make people hallucinate and are dangerous.↗

hallucination — Everyday, meaning 1: A hallucination is seeing, hearing, feeling or smelling something that is not really there, as if it were real.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can be caused by high fever, some illnesses, lack of sleep, some medicines or drugs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computers) An AI hallucination is when a computer program confidently says something false or made up.↗ Example: With a high fever, he had hallucinations of spiders on the wall.↗ · A hallucination feels real to the person having it.↗ · Lack of sleep can cause hallucinations.↗ · The explorer in the desert saw a hallucination of a lake.↗ · Some drugs cause dangerous hallucinations.↗ · The chatbot gave a hallucination: it invented a book that does not exist.↗ · Always check facts, because AI can produce hallucinations.↗ · The doctor asked if she had any hallucinations.↗

hallux — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The big toe, the first and largest toe of the foot; in birds, the toe that points backwards.↗ Example: The hallux is the scientific name for your big toe.↗ · A perching bird uses its hallux to grip the branch.↗ · The doctor said the bunion was on her hallux.↗ · Your hallux helps you balance when you walk.↗ · Apes have a hallux that can grab like a thumb.↗

hallway — Everyday, meaning 1: A hallway is a long narrow passage inside a building, with doors to rooms.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hallway is also the space just inside the front door of a house.↗ Example: The hallway is 12 metres long.↗ · There are 8 lockers on each side of the hallway.↗ · They put a carpet 2 m wide along the hallway.↗ · 6 doors open onto the hallway.↗ · No running in the hallway!↗ · My classroom is at the end of the hallway.↗ · Hang your coat in the hallway.↗ · The hallway was dark, so I switched on the light.↗