📖 H — The English dictionary · page 33

hostility — Everyday, meaning 1: Unfriendly, angry behaviour or feelings towards someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strong opposition to an idea or plan.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (plural, hostilities, formal) Fighting in a war.↗ Example: There was hostility between the two rival teams.↗ · The new boy felt the hostility of the older children at first.↗ · The plan to close the park met with hostility from the town.↗ · Hostilities ended when both sides signed a peace treaty.↗ · The cat looked at the puppy with hostility.↗ · Kindness can slowly melt hostility.↗ · "Why is there always this hostility between us?" they said.↗

hot — Everyday, meaning 1: Having a high temperature; very warm.↗ e.g. "hot soup".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Making your mouth burn because of spices.↗ e.g. "hot sauce".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Feeling too warm.↗ e.g. "I'm hot."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Very popular or new (informal).↗ e.g. "the hot toy this year".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Hot can also mean very keen or eager about doing something (informal).↗ Example: The soup is too hot to eat.↗ · Don't touch the hot pan.↗ · It is a hot day, so drink water.↗ · Hot air rises.↗ · This sauce is very hot and spicy.↗ · The sand was hot under our feet.↗ · Run the hot tap carefully.↗ · Summer is the hottest season.↗ · He hot fer true, ain't he?"↗ · And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted.↗ (Torah EXO.16.21, JPS 1917)↗ · For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you.↗ (Torah DEU.9.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And Aaron said: 'Let not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil.↗ (Torah EXO.32.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?↗ (Writings PRO.6.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.↗ (Writings LAM.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · What time they wax warm, they vanish, when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.↗ (Writings JOB.6.17, JPS 1917)↗

hotdog — Everyday, meaning 1: A hot sausage, usually a frankfurter, served in a long soft bread roll, often with ketchup or mustard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, mainly US) A person who shows off, especially in a sport, doing risky or flashy tricks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, US) To hotdog is to show off with daring tricks, for example on skis, a skateboard or a surfboard.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old-fashioned US) «Hot dog!» is a happy shout meaning «great!».↗ Example: We bought two hotdogs at the baseball game.↗ · Dad put ketchup and mustard on my hotdog.↗ · The hotdog stand at the fair had a long queue.↗ · If one hotdog costs $3, how much do four hotdogs cost?↗ · Grandpa sliced the hotdog so the baby would not choke.↗ · Stop hotdogging on the slopes and ski safely!↗ · He is a bit of a hotdog on the skateboard, always doing tricks for the crowd.↗ · «Hot dog!↗ We won!» shouted Uncle Joe.↗

hotel — Everyday, meaning 1: A hotel is a building where people pay to sleep and eat when they are travelling or on holiday.↗ Example: We stayed at a hotel near the beach.↗ · The hotel room had two beds and a view of the sea.↗ · We checked in at the hotel reception.↗ · A room at the hotel costs 80 dollars a night, so three nights cost 240 dollars.↗ · Always find the fire exit when you arrive at a hotel.↗ · The hotel had a swimming pool on the roof.↗ · We are in the midst of Paris, in a great hotel.↗

hothouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A hothouse is a warm glass building where plants grow that could not live outside in cold weather.↗ Example: The gardener kept orchids in the hothouse.↗ · Tender plants need a hothouse in winter.↗ · The flowers in the hothouse were bright and rare.↗ · Our teacher grows tomatoes in a hothouse.↗ · We walked through a hothouse full of tropical trees.↗

hotly — Everyday, meaning 1: With strong feeling, angrily or sharply: «I am back,» he said hotly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: With great energy and speed, as in «hotly pursued».↗ Example: "That's not fair!" she said hotly.↗ · The hunter chased the deer hotly through the woods.↗ · He denied it hotly.↗ · The two boys argued hotly about the game.↗ · The fox was hotly pursued by the hounds.↗ · Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.↗ (Writings PSA.10.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?↗ (Torah GEN.31.36, JPS 1917)↗

hotspot — Everyday, meaning 1: A hotspot is a place where there is a lot of a certain activity, such as a tourist hotspot or a crime hotspot.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Wi-Fi hotspot is a place or device that lets you connect to the internet without wires.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) A hotspot is a place where hot rock rises from deep in the Earth, making volcanoes, as under Hawaii or Iceland.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A biodiversity hotspot is an area with very many different kinds of plants and animals that are in danger.↗ Example: The Hawaiian islands formed over a volcanic hotspot.↗ · The café has a free Wi-Fi hotspot.↗ · Mum turned her phone into a hotspot for my tablet.↗ · The beach is a tourist hotspot in summer.↗ · Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot.↗ · Be careful what you share on public hotspots.↗

hound — Everyday, meaning 1: A dog used for hunting, such as a foxhound or bloodhound, with a strong sense of smell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Any dog.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To chase or bother someone again and again: «hounded by reporters».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, in compounds) A person who is very keen on something: «a news hound».↗ Example: The hounds followed the scent through the woods.↗ · A bloodhound can follow a trail many hours old.↗ · Our old hound sleeps by the fire.↗ · The famous singer was hounded by photographers.↗ · He hounded his dad for weeks until he got a new bike.↗ · The detective story is about a giant hound on the moor.↗ · The Hound immediately turned tail and fled.↗ · By the "hounded line" and "unbounded line" trom which according to the Pythagoreans everything originated (Diels H. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

hour — Everyday, meaning 1: An hour is a length of time; it has sixty minutes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An hour can mean a time of day: «at this hour».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Hours can mean the time when something is open or when someone works: «school hours».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (casual) «Hours» can mean a long time, not counted: «I waited for hours!»; «hrs» and «hr» are short forms in texts and timetables.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «The small hours» are the hours after midnight; «on the hour» means at 1:00, 2:00 and so on.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (formal) Exams and notices say «per hour», «hourly», «a duration of», «hours of operation» and «elapsed time».↗ Example: How many minutes are in 3 hours?↗ · Max sleeps 9 hours each night.↗ · An hour has 60 minutes.↗ · A day has 24 hours.↗ · The car drove at 60 kilometres per hour.↗ · The roads are busy at rush hour.↗ · We waited for half an hour.↗ · The bus comes every hour, on the hour.↗ · back in an hr, chicken's in the oven↗ · I've been waiting a bloody hour for this bus!↗ · A vehicle proceeds at a uniform rate of 60 kilometres per hour for a duration of 3 hours.↗ Compute the distance travelled.↗ · The library's hours are 9 to 5.↗ · He waited one hour, two hours.↗ · With them He carved the Seven Firmaments and the Seven Earths and the Seven Hours; for this reason, He loved the Seventh Day more than any object under the heavens.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'↗ (Writings DAN.3.6, JPS 1917)↗ · In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.↗ (Writings DAN.5.5, JPS 1917)↗

hourglass — Everyday, meaning 1: A glass timer with two bulbs joined by a narrow neck, where sand runs from the top to the bottom in a set time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shape narrow in the middle and wide at top and bottom, as in «an hourglass figure».↗ Example: Turn the hourglass over and start drawing.↗ · When the sand runs out, your turn is over.↗ · The wizard's hourglass was almost empty.↗ · Our egg timer is a little three-minute hourglass.↗ · A wasp has an hourglass shape.↗ · Time ran out like sand in an hourglass.↗

hourly — Everyday, meaning 1: Hourly means happening every hour, once an hour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hourly means counted or paid by the hour: an hourly wage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adverb) Hourly can mean very often, any time now: «expected hourly».↗ Example: The bus to town runs hourly.↗ · Her hourly pay is £12.↗ · She earns £12 an hour, so for 5 hours she earns £60.↗ · The weather app shows an hourly forecast.↗ · The nurse checked his temperature hourly.↗ · The news is on hourly.↗ · They expect the baby to arrive hourly!↗

house — Everyday, meaning 1: A house is a building where a family lives.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A house can mean the people in it: «The whole house woke up».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In some schools, a house is a team that pupils belong to.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To house is to give a place to live or keep: «The museum houses old toys».↗ Example: There are 6 houses on the street.↗ · Each house has 4 windows.↗ · He visited 3 houses.↗ · How many rooms are in the house?↗ · We built a tree house in the garden.↗ · My house number is 12.↗ · Our house won the most points on sports day.↗ · Know your address and how to call for help from your house.↗ · And now when shall I provide for mine own house also?'↗ (Torah GEN.30.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And he was honoured above all the house of his father.↗ (Torah GEN.34.19, JPS 1917)↗ · and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house; (Torah LEV.14.55, JPS 1917)↗ · And Nathan departed unto his house.↗ (Prophets 2SA.12.15, JPS 1917)↗ · But the house of Judah followed David.↗ (Prophets 2SA.2.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Do I change, O house of Jacob?↗ (Prophets MIC.2.7, JPS 1917)↗

housebound — Everyday, meaning 1: Not able to leave your home, usually because you are ill, very old, disabled or looking after someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stuck indoors for a while because of bad weather, an injury or rules such as a lockdown.↗ Example: My great-grandmother is housebound, so we visit her every Sunday.↗ · The snowstorm left the whole village housebound for three days.↗ · After breaking his leg, Tom was housebound and very bored.↗ · Our class wrote cards for housebound people in the town.↗ · The library delivers books to housebound readers.↗ · Being housebound can make someone feel lonely, so a phone call helps.↗ · Mum does the shopping for our housebound neighbour.↗

housedog — Everyday, meaning 1: A housedog is a dog kept in a house or yard to guard it, not one used for hunting.↗ Example: The housedog barked at the stranger at the gate.↗ · Our housedog sleeps by the back door.↗ · A housedog guards the home at night.↗ · The farmer kept a hound for hunting and a housedog for the house.↗ · The housedog was given meat to keep it quiet.↗

housefly — Everyday, meaning 1: A common small grey fly that lives near people and buzzes around houses, food and rubbish.↗ Example: A housefly landed on my sandwich.↗ · Houseflies spread germs, so cover your food.↗ · A housefly has two wings and six legs.↗ · Maggots grow into houseflies.↗ · The housefly buzzed against the window.↗ · A housefly tastes with its feet.↗

household — Everyday, meaning 1: A household is all the people who live together in one home.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, household means used in or about the home (household chores, household goods).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A household name is someone or something that almost everyone knows.↗ Example: There are five people in our household.↗ · Bleach and other household cleaners can be poisonous.↗ · Everyone in the household helps with the chores.↗ · The survey asked how many pets each household has.↗ · Spoons, plates and towels are household items.↗ · That cartoon character is a household name.↗ · "Very interesting, indeed," said the mistress of the household.↗ · Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff?↗ (Torah GEN.31.37, JPS 1917)↗ · And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him.↗ (Torah GEN.26.14, JPS 1917)↗ · NOW THESE are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household: (Torah EXO.1.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Then David returned to bless his household.↗ (Prophets 2SA.6.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king went forth, and all his household after him.↗ (Prophets 2SA.15.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the porters called, and they told it to the king's household within.↗ (Prophets 2KI.7.11, JPS 1917)↗

householder — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who owns or rents a house and is responsible for it.↗ Example: The council sent a letter to every householder about recycling.↗ · Householders must keep the footpath outside their house clear.↗ · Each householder pays a water bill.↗ · The householder came out to see why the dog was barking.↗ · Many householders put solar panels on their roofs.↗ · "Good, my son!" replied the prince, "thou wilt make a careful householder."↗

househusband — Everyday, meaning 1: A man who stays at home to look after the house and children while his partner goes out to work.↗ Example: My uncle is a househusband and cooks amazing dinners.↗ · Dad became a househusband when the twins were born.↗ · The househusband did the washing and the shopping.↗ · Being a househusband is hard work.↗ · Many families have a stay-at-home dad or househusband.↗