📖 H — The English dictionary · page 39

husbandry — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: old use: the work of farming, caring for crops and animals.↗ Example: Good husbandry keeps the farm healthy.↗ · The old man was known for his husbandry.↗

hush — Everyday, meaning 1: To hush someone is to make them be quiet or calm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a command, «Hush!» means «Be quiet!».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hush is a sudden quiet, when everyone stops talking.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To hush something up is to keep it secret so people do not find out, often something bad.↗ Example: «Hush now, the baby's asleep,» whispered Dad.↗ · A hush fell over the hall when the head teacher walked in.↗ · Mum hushed us when the phone rang.↗ · The company tried to hush up the accident.↗ · «Hush, little baby, don't say a word» is an old lullaby.↗ · The plan is all very hush-hush, so don't tell anyone.↗ · In the hush of the forest we heard a woodpecker.↗ · "Hush," said John, and he told her some more.↗ · The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.↗ (Writings JOB.29.10, JPS 1917)↗

husk — Everyday, meaning 1: A husk is the dry outer covering of some seeds or fruits, like corn, coconuts or rice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A husk is the dry, empty shell of something when the inside has gone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To husk means to remove the husk.↗ Example: We pulled the husks off the corn cobs.↗ · The coconut husk is hairy and tough.↗ · In the Bible story, the lost son was so hungry he wished he could eat the pigs' husks.↗ · After the illness he was a husk of his old self.↗ · Rice husks are removed at the mill.↗ · The moment he got into his own house he took a great handful of rice, and began to shell off the husks, with the help of his wife.↗

husky — Everyday, meaning 1: noun.↗ e.g. A husky is a strong dog with thick fur, used in cold northern lands to pull sleds.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective.↗ e.g. A husky voice is low and rough, as if the person has a sore throat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: adjective (US, informal).↗ e.g. Husky means big and strong; for children's clothes it means a larger size.↗ Example: The huskies pulled the sled across the ice.↗ · Our neighbour's husky has blue eyes.↗ · After shouting at the match, his voice was husky.↗ · She spoke in a soft, husky voice.↗ · Huskies love cold weather.↗ · A team of 8 huskies can pull a heavy sled.↗

hussar — Everyday, meaning 1: A soldier who rides a fast horse in a light cavalry unit of an old European army.↗ Example: The prince rode off with his hussars.↗ · Two hundred hussars rode forward.↗

hussy — Everyday, meaning 1: old use, now rude: a bold or cheeky girl or woman, used as an insult.↗ Example: "You shall go, hussy!" said the mother.↗ · The pert hussy answered back.↗

hustle — Everyday, meaning 1: To push or hurry people along quickly, sometimes roughly.↗ Example: The officers hustled him away to jail.↗ · Hustle, or we will miss the train!↗

hut — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, simple building, often made of wood, mud or metal, used for shelter or storage.↗ Example: The woodcutter lived in a small hut in the forest.↗ · We sheltered from the rain in a mountain hut.↗ · Stone Age people built huts from wood and animal skins.↗ · Our family rents a beach hut in the summer.↗ · The tools are kept in a hut at the end of the garden.↗ · The hut had one room and a tiny window.↗ · Soon the straw hut was ready.↗

hutch — Everyday, meaning 1: A hutch is a wooden box or cage with a wire front, where pet rabbits, guinea pigs or other small animals are kept.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In American English, a hutch is also a cupboard with open shelves on top, for dishes.↗ Example: Our rabbit lives in a hutch in the garden.↗ · I clean out the hutch every Saturday.↗ · Put fresh hay in the guinea pig's hutch.↗ · The hutch needs to be out of the hot sun.↗ · A small hutch is not enough; rabbits need room to run.↗ · We moved the hutch into the shed in winter.↗ · Grandma keeps her best plates in the kitchen hutch.↗ · The rabbit hopped out of its hutch and into the run.↗ · She never slapped her hippopotamus when it broke her dolls in its playful gambols, and she never forgot to feed her rhinoceroses in their little hutch in the backyard.↗

hyacinth — Everyday, meaning 1: A hyacinth is a spring plant that grows from a bulb and has a thick spike of small, sweet-smelling, bell-shaped flowers, often blue, purple, pink or white.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hyacinth is a purplish-blue colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (myth) In Greek stories Hyacinthus was a young man loved by the god Apollo; after he died a flower grew from his blood.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A water hyacinth is a floating plant that can cover rivers and lakes.↗ Example: We planted hyacinth bulbs in autumn and they flowered in March.↗ · The hyacinths on the windowsill made the whole room smell sweet.↗ · Our teacher grew a hyacinth in a jar so we could watch its roots.↗ · Water hyacinth can block rivers so boats cannot pass.↗ · Gran's favourite flowers are pink hyacinths.↗ · The bridesmaids wore hyacinth-blue dresses.↗ · Wear gloves when handling hyacinth bulbs, because they can make your skin itchy.↗ · Rose, lily, and hyacinth--yes, I saw them all three.↗

hyades — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name, astronomy) The Hyades are a cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, shaped like a V, the closest star cluster to Earth (about 150 light years away).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (myth) In Greek myths, the Hyades were nymphs, daughters of Atlas, linked with rain.↗ Example: The Hyades form the V-shaped face of Taurus the Bull.↗ · You can see the Hyades with your eyes on a dark winter night.↗ · The Hyades are close to the Pleiades in the sky.↗ · Aldebaran looks as if it is in the Hyades but it is much nearer to us.↗ · In Greek myths the Hyades were rain nymphs.↗ · Through binoculars the Hyades look like a scatter of jewels.↗

hybrid — Everyday, meaning 1: A hybrid is a plant or animal whose parents are two different kinds (species or varieties), like a mule, whose parents are a horse and a donkey.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hybrid is anything that mixes two different things, like a hybrid car that uses both petrol and electricity.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Hybrid means mixed, as in «hybrid learning» (some at school and some online) or «hybrid working».↗ Example: A mule is a hybrid of a horse and a donkey.↗ · Our new car is a hybrid, so it uses less petrol.↗ · The gardener grew a hybrid rose with orange and pink petals.↗ · Some lessons were hybrid, with half the class at home on video.↗ · A liger is a hybrid of a lion and a tiger.↗ · The film is a hybrid of comedy and horror.↗ · Hybrid plants can be stronger than their parents.↗

hydra — Everyday, meaning 1: A monster from Greek stories: a huge snake with many heads, where cutting one off lets more grow.↗ Also a tiny water creature.↗ Example: The hero had to slay the hydra.↗ · The hydra had nine heads.↗

hydrangea — Everyday, meaning 1: A garden bush with large round heads of small flowers in blue, pink, purple or white.↗ Example: Gran's hydrangeas are bright blue this year.↗ · Hydrangeas like shade and lots of water.↗ · In acid soil, hydrangeas turn blue; in chalky soil, they turn pink.↗ · We picked a big pink hydrangea for the table.↗ · The hydrangea flowers are dry and papery in autumn.↗ · Hydrangea leaves are poisonous if eaten.↗

hydrant — Everyday, meaning 1: A pipe in the street, often a short red or yellow post, where firefighters connect hoses to get water to put out fires; a fire hydrant.↗ Example: The firefighters attached their hose to the hydrant.↗ · Don't park in front of a fire hydrant.↗ · In the USA, many hydrants are red posts on the sidewalk.↗ · A yellow H sign shows where the hydrant is.↗ · Dogs like to sniff the hydrant.↗ · Never open a hydrant; firefighters need the water.↗

hydrate — Everyday, meaning 1: To give water to your body or skin so it has enough: drink water to hydrate.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) To add water to something, or for a substance to combine with water.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (chemistry) A hydrate is a substance that has water joined into its crystals, such as blue copper sulfate.↗ Example: Remember to hydrate during the football match.↗ · Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated in the heat.↗ · This cream hydrates dry skin.↗ · Blue copper sulfate is a hydrate; heating it drives out the water.↗ · Plants need to hydrate their cells to stand upright.↗ · After being sick, sip water slowly to rehydrate.↗

hydrated — Everyday, meaning 1: Having enough water in your body; not thirsty or dried out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, past) Given water or moisture: hydrated skin, hydrated plants.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (chemistry) Joined with water molecules in its structure, as in «hydrated copper sulphate», a blue crystal.↗ Example: Remember to stay hydrated on sports day.↗ · Drink water before, during and after football to keep hydrated.↗ · When you are well hydrated, your pee is pale yellow.↗ · The nurse made sure the sick child stayed hydrated.↗ · The cream keeps your skin hydrated in winter.↗ · Blue hydrated copper sulphate turns white when you heat it.↗ · Camels can go for days without water and still stay hydrated longer than us.↗

hydration — Everyday, meaning 1: Taking in enough water so that your body works well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Putting water or moisture into something, such as skin, soil or a dry substance.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (chemistry) A reaction in which water joins with another substance.↗ Example: Good hydration helps your brain think clearly in tests.↗ · The race had hydration stations with cups of water every mile.↗ · Hydration is extra important on hot days.↗ · The coach talked to us about hydration before the match.↗ · This lotion is for skin hydration.↗ · Concrete hardens through a chemical reaction called hydration.↗ · Fruit like watermelon helps with hydration because it is mostly water.↗

hydraulic — Everyday, meaning 1: Worked by the pressure of a liquid, usually oil or water, pushed through pipes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To do with moving water, for example in dams, canals and pipes: hydraulic engineering.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of cement) Able to set hard under water.↗ Example: The digger's hydraulic arm lifted the heavy rocks.↗ · We made a hydraulic robot arm using syringes and coloured water.↗ · The mechanic raised the car on a hydraulic lift.↗ · Cars stop using hydraulic brakes.↗ · The dentist's chair moves up with a hydraulic pump.↗ · A hydraulic press can squash a can flat.↗ · The engineer studied hydraulics to design the dam.↗

hydraulics — Everyday, meaning 1: Hydraulics is the science and use of liquids, usually oil or water, pushed through pipes to move or lift things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The hydraulics of a machine are its parts that work by liquid pressure.↗ Example: Hydraulics lets a small digger lift huge rocks.↗ · We built a hydraulic arm from syringes, tubes and water.↗ · The pilot said there was a problem with the hydraulics.↗ · Car brakes use hydraulics to press the pads on the wheels.↗ · The engineer studied hydraulics at university.↗ · When the hydraulics failed, the drawbridge would not rise.↗ · A hydraulic jack can lift a car with one person pumping the handle.↗

hydroelectric — Everyday, meaning 1: Hydroelectric means making electricity from moving water, usually water rushing down from a dam through turbines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hydroelectric power station or dam is a place where this happens.↗ Example: Hydroelectric power uses falling water to make electricity.↗ · Much of New Zealand's electricity is hydroelectric.↗ · The hydroelectric dam flooded the valley behind it.↗ · Water spins the turbines inside a hydroelectric power station.↗ · Hydroelectric energy is renewable because rain refills the rivers.↗ · Building the hydroelectric scheme meant moving a whole village.↗ · Norway gets most of its electricity from hydroelectric stations.↗

hydrogen — Everyday, meaning 1: The lightest of all chemical elements; a gas with no colour, smell or taste that burns easily.↗ Its chemical symbol is H.↗ Example: Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen.↗ · Hydrogen is the lightest gas there is.↗ · The Sun is mostly hydrogen.↗ · Some buses run on hydrogen fuel.↗ · Hydrogen burns with a squeaky pop in a test tube.↗ · Hydrogen's symbol is H.↗ · Old airships were filled with hydrogen, which is dangerous because it burns.↗

hyena — Everyday, meaning 1: A hyena is a dog-like wild animal from Africa and parts of Asia with strong jaws, a sloping back and, in the spotted kind, a call that sounds like laughing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hyenas hunt in groups and also eat what other animals leave behind.↗ Example: The hyena's laugh echoed across the savanna at night.↗ · Spotted hyenas live in big groups called clans.↗ · Hyenas have jaws strong enough to crack bones.↗ · Lions and hyenas often fight over food.↗ · Hyenas hunt zebras and wildebeest as well as scavenging.↗ · In the cartoon, the hyenas were the villain's helpers.↗ · Female spotted hyenas are bigger than the males and lead the group.↗

hygiene — Everyday, meaning 1: Hygiene is keeping yourself and the things around you clean to stay healthy and stop germs spreading.↗ Example: Washing your hands is an important part of hygiene.↗ · Brushing your teeth twice a day is good dental hygiene.↗ · Food hygiene means keeping raw meat away from other foods.↗ · Cover your mouth when you cough; it is good hygiene.↗ · The nurse talked to us about personal hygiene.↗ · Good hygiene helps stop germs from spreading.↗

hygienic — Everyday, meaning 1: Clean and free of germs, so it is unlikely to spread illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Helping to keep things clean and healthy: a hygienic way of storing food.↗ Example: It is not hygienic to share a toothbrush.↗ · The school kitchen must be kept hygienic.↗ · Washing your hands with soap is the most hygienic thing to do before eating.↗ · Paper towels can be more hygienic than a shared cloth towel.↗ · The nurse put on gloves to keep things hygienic.↗ · Licking the spoon and putting it back in the jar is not hygienic!↗ · Cats are quite hygienic animals and wash themselves a lot.↗