📖 H — The English dictionary · page 35

hub — Everyday, meaning 1: The centre of a wheel, where the spokes or axle are joined.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The busiest or most important centre of an activity or place, as in «a transport hub».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computing) A device that joins several cables or computers together.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) Short for «hubby» or «husband» — rare.↗ Example: The spokes meet at the hub of the wheel.↗ · The library is the hub of our school.↗ · London is a big transport hub.↗ · Plug the mouse into the USB hub.↗ · The town square is the hub of the market.↗ · The airport is a hub for flights to Asia.↗ · Grease the hub so the wheel turns smoothly.↗ · The horses could hardly drag the load through the deep mud, and at last came to a standstill when one of the wheels sank to the hub in a rut.↗

hubbub — Everyday, meaning 1: A hubbub is a loud confused noise made by many people or animals talking or moving at once.↗ Example: The hubbub in the market woke the whole village.↗ · There was a hubbub of voices in the hall.↗ · The children made a hubbub when the bell rang.↗

hubby — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A husband, said in a friendly, joking or loving way.↗ Example: I'll ask my hubby to fix the fence.↗ · Mrs Jones and her hubby went on holiday to Spain.↗ · «Hubby's cooking tonight,» said Mum with a wink.↗ · Her hubby always brings her flowers on Fridays.↗ · The hubbies were all watching the football.↗

huckleberry — Everyday, meaning 1: A huckleberry is a small dark-blue berry that grows on a bush, like a blueberry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Huckleberry is also a name given to a person, as in the tales, but the word itself is a fruit.↗ Example: We picked huckleberries in the woods.↗ · Huckleberry pie is sweet and purple.↗ · The bushes were full of ripe huckleberries.↗

huckster — Everyday, meaning 1: A huckster is a person who sells small goods, often from a cart or a little shop, usually in an eager way.↗ (old use).↗ Example: The huckster sold apples and jam from his shop.↗ · An old huckster stood at the corner with a basket.↗ · The huckster called out his prices all day.↗

huddle — Everyday, meaning 1: To huddle means to crowd close together, usually to keep warm, to feel safe or to talk secretly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To huddle can also mean to curl your body up small: «huddled under a blanket».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A huddle is a small, close group of people or animals; in sports, a team huddle is when players gather close to plan.↗ Example: The penguins huddled together to keep warm.↗ · We huddled round the campfire and told stories.↗ · The kittens huddled in a corner of the box.↗ · The team went into a huddle before the second half.↗ · She sat huddled under a blanket during the storm.↗ · The friends huddled in a corner to share a secret.↗ · Sheep huddle against a wall in heavy snow.↗

huddled — Everyday, meaning 1: Crowded closely together in a group, often to keep warm, feel safe or talk secretly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Curled up or hunched, with arms and legs pulled close to the body, often because of cold or fear.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Pressed close together: huddled houses, huddled sheep.↗ Example: The children huddled together under the blanket while the thunder roared.↗ · Emperor penguins huddled in a big group to keep warm.↗ · We huddled around the campfire telling stories.↗ · The puppy lay huddled in the corner, shaking.↗ · The team huddled to plan the last play of the game.↗ · She sat huddled in her coat at the bus stop.↗ · Sheep were huddled against the stone wall in the snow.↗ · The friends huddled over the map, whispering.↗ · She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.↗

hue — Everyday, meaning 1: A colour or shade of a colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A kind or type, as in «people of every political hue».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «hue and cry» — a loud noisy protest (old phrase).↗ Example: The sky turned a pink hue at sunset.↗ · Mix blue and yellow to get a green hue.↗ · The leaves change hue in autumn.↗ · The rainbow has seven main hues.↗ · Her cheeks took on a rosy hue.↗ · There was a great hue and cry when the park was closed.↗ · The woods glow with hues of red and gold and brown.↗

huff — Everyday, meaning 1: To breathe out loudly and heavily, often because you are tired or annoyed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, informal) A bad mood, usually after being offended: «in a huff».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «Huff and puff»: to breathe hard, or to complain and make a fuss without doing much.↗ Example: She went off in a huff because she lost the game.↗ · The wolf huffed and puffed and blew the house down.↗ · He was huffing and puffing by the top of the hill.↗ · Don't get in a huff; it was only a joke.↗ · Grandpa huffed and turned back to his newspaper.↗ · My little sister is in a huff because she can't stay up late.↗ · So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.↗

huffily — Everyday, meaning 1: In a sulky, annoyed and offended way.↗ Example: «Fine, I'll play by myself,» she said huffily.↗ · The Mouse swam off huffily when Alice mentioned her cat.↗ · He folded his arms huffily.↗ · The cat stalked off huffily when we laughed at it.↗ · «I'm not talking to you,» said Toad huffily.↗ · She huffily slammed the door.↗

huffy — Everyday, meaning 1: Easily offended; quick to sulk.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sulky and annoyed because your feelings are hurt.↗ Example: Don't get huffy just because you lost the game.↗ · My sister gets huffy when we tease her.↗ · The Caterpillar was very huffy with Alice.↗ · He's in a huffy mood today.↗ · Toad got huffy when his friends laughed at him.↗ · The huffy cat refused to come in.↗

hug — Everyday, meaning 1: To hug someone means to put your arms around them and hold them close, to show love, comfort or friendship.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hug is that action.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To hug something can mean to stay very close to it: the path hugs the coast.↗ Example: Grandma gave me a big hug.↗ · Can I have a hug?↗ · He hugged his teddy bear and fell asleep.↗ · It's okay to say no if you don't want a hug.↗ · The team had a group hug after they won.↗ · She hugged her friend who was crying.↗ · Ask before you hug someone.↗ · The boat hugged the coast to stay out of the storm.↗

huge — Everyday, meaning 1: Huge means very, very big in size, amount or importance.↗ Example: An elephant is a huge animal.↗ · The Sun is huge compared with the Earth.↗ · There was a huge queue at the ice cream van.↗ · Thanks a lot, that's a huge help!↗ · We had a huge thunderstorm last night.↗ · The giant had huge feet.↗ · A blue whale is huger than any dinosaur.↗ · He was carrying a huge basket of vegetables.↗ · Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, He delivered them into thy hand.↗ (Writings 2CH.16.8, JPS 1917)↗

hugely — Everyday, meaning 1: Very much; to a very great degree.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a very big way, as in «hugely popular».↗ Example: The new game is hugely popular.↗ · I was hugely grateful for your help.↗ · Exercise is hugely important for your health.↗ · The show was hugely successful.↗ · Prices rose hugely last winter.↗ · He enjoyed the trip hugely.↗ · He got good feeding this night, meat and drink without stint, and the king was hugely pleased that he had caught such a herd.↗

hugging — Everyday, meaning 1: Hugging means holding someone close in your arms to show love, comfort or friendship.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hugging can mean staying very close to something, like a road hugging the coast.↗ Example: The friends were hugging at the airport.↗ · She was hugging her teddy bear.↗ · Ask before hugging someone.↗ · The road keeps hugging the coastline.↗ · The twins stood hugging each other.↗ · Hugging a pet can make you feel calm.↗

hulking — Everyday, meaning 1: Very big, heavy and bulky, often in a clumsy or slightly frightening way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used of things too: a hulking building, a hulking old ship.↗ Example: A hulking figure stood in the doorway of the cave.↗ · The hulking tractor rumbled down the lane.↗ · Despite his hulking size, the giant was gentle with the children.↗ · A hulking old warehouse stood by the river.↗ · The dog was a hulking Saint Bernard with a soft heart.↗ · A hulking great lorry blocked the road (UK).↗ · The hulking robot in the film could hardly fit through the door.↗ · But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked out his knotty legs and twisted his long clumsy neck.↗

hull — Everyday, meaning 1: The hull is the main body of a ship or boat, the part that sits in the water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hull is the outer covering of some seeds, nuts or fruits, like the green leafy top of a strawberry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To hull is to remove the hull, such as taking the green top off strawberries.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Hull is also the name of a city in England.↗ Example: The hull of the ship was painted red below the waterline.↗ · Water poured through a hole in the hull.↗ · Help me hull the strawberries for the fruit salad.↗ · Rice grains have a hard hull that is removed before cooking.↗ · We built boats with different hull shapes and tested which held most coins.↗ · Barnacles grew on the old boat's hull.↗

hullabaloo — Everyday, meaning 1: A hullabaloo is a great noise and fuss, with shouting and excitement.↗ Example: There was a hullabaloo when the circus came to town.↗ · What is all this hullabaloo about?↗ · The party made a terrible hullabaloo.↗

hullo — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned, UK) Another spelling of hello, used to greet someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A way to show surprise: «Hullo, what's this?».↗ Example: «Hullo, Mole!» called Ratty from the riverbank.↗ · Hullo, what's this lying in the grass?↗ · The boy waved and shouted, «Hullo, you fellows!»↗ · She said hullo to everyone in the street.↗ · «Hullo!» said the policeman.↗ «What have we here?»↗ · Old books use hullo where we write hello.↗

hum — Everyday, meaning 1: To sing a tune with your lips closed, making a long «mmm» sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make a low, steady buzzing sound, like bees or a fridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A low, continuous sound: «the hum of traffic».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To be busy and lively: «The classroom was humming with activity».↗ Example: She hummed a happy song while she painted.↗ · Bees hum as they fly from flower to flower.↗ · I could hear the hum of the fridge in the quiet kitchen.↗ · Hum the tune if you forget the words.↗ · The computer makes a soft hum.↗ · The market was humming with people.↗ · The hummingbird got its name from the hum of its wings.↗ · The noisy hum of voices was hushed.↗

human — Everyday, meaning 1: A human is a person: a man, woman or child.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Human describes things to do with people: the human body, human rights.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Human can mean having normal feelings and weaknesses.↗ e.g. It is only human to make mistakes.↗ Example: Humans need food, water and sleep.↗ · The human body has 206 bones.↗ · Dogs can hear sounds that humans cannot.↗ · Making mistakes is only human.↗ · Every human has the right to be safe.↗ · The robot wanted to be human.↗ · Humans have lived on Earth for a very long time.↗ · Is that a human footprint?↗ · "Ah, wretch of a human being!↗ · The difference between the human and divine manner of thinking admits no comparison.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Seven double letters serve to signify the antithesis to which human life is exposed.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The only of the latter four terms found in humans is מָרָה marah ‘gall(bladder), bile’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

humane — Everyday, meaning 1: Kind and gentle, causing as little pain as possible to people or animals.↗ Example: The farmer uses a humane trap that does not hurt the mouse.↗ · Animals should always be treated in a humane way.↗ · The new law made prisons more humane.↗ · The vet is kind and humane.↗ · A humane society helps look after lost and hurt animals.↗ · It is humane to give injured birds water and quiet.↗ · But in future be mild and humane to all who are in trouble."↗

humanely — Everyday, meaning 1: Humanely means in a kind way that causes as little pain or suffering as possible, especially to animals or prisoners.↗ Example: The mice were caught humanely and let go in a field.↗ · Farm animals should be treated humanely.↗ · The prisoners were treated humanely.↗ · The old dog was humanely put to sleep by the vet.↗ · Use a humane trap to catch the rat humanely.↗ · The rescue centre cares for animals humanely.↗

humanism — Everyday, meaning 1: Humanism is a way of thinking that says people can live good, meaningful lives using reason, kindness and science, without believing in God or a religion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) Humanism was a movement about six hundred years ago, in the Renaissance, that brought back the learning of ancient Greece and Rome and put people at the centre of study.↗ Example: Humanism is a way of living without religion.↗ · Humanists believe people should be kind because it helps others.↗ · My uncle had a humanist wedding.↗ · Renaissance humanism brought back interest in Greek writers.↗ · Our RE class compared humanism with Christianity.↗ · Humanism puts reason and science at the centre.↗ · Many humanists work for charities.↗