📖 H — The English dictionary · page 4

halo — Everyday, meaning 1: A ring or circle of light drawn around the head of a holy person or angel in pictures.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ring of light around the Sun or Moon, made by ice crystals in the sky.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Behaviour that makes someone seem perfectly good: «Her halo slipped» = she did something naughty.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A halo can also be a glowing ring of light around something other than a head.↗ Example: The angel in the painting has a golden halo.↗ · There was a halo around the Moon last night.↗ · Ice crystals high in the sky can make a halo around the Sun.↗ · My little brother acts like he has a halo, but he ate the cake!↗ · In nativity plays the angels wear tinsel haloes.↗ · Presently the background of the hall opened and the tree of knowledge appeared, surrounded by a halo of glory that almost blinded him.↗

halt — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) To stop, or to make something stop.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A stop: «come to a halt».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (interjection) «Halt!» — an order to stop at once, used by soldiers or guards.↗ Example: The bus came to a halt at the lights.↗ · "Halt!" shouted the guard.↗ · Rain halted the cricket match.↗ · The traffic ground to a halt.↗ · The train halted at the station.↗ · The teacher halted the race when a child fell.↗ · Stop! halt!” urged one of the singers.↗ · And they danced in halting wise about the altar which was made.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.26, JPS 1917)↗ · For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.↗ (Writings PSA.38.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The sons of the stranger fade away, and come halting out of their close places.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.46, JPS 1917)↗

haltere — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) One of the two tiny knob-shaped organs on flies and mosquitoes, in place of a back pair of wings, which help them balance and steer while flying.↗ Example: Flies have halteres instead of a second pair of wings.↗ · The halteres help a fly keep its balance.↗ · Under the microscope we saw the tiny halteres.↗ · Mosquitoes have halteres too.↗ · Halteres work a bit like a gyroscope.↗

halve — Everyday, meaning 1: To halve something is to cut or divide it into two equal parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To halve an amount is to make it half as big.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Halved means made half as big, or cut into halves.↗ Example: Halve the 12 apples between two boys.↗ · The price was halved to 20 dollars.↗ · She halves the recipe.↗ · If you halve 50, you get 25.↗ · Mum halved the sandwich for me and my sister.↗ · Halve the oranges and squeeze out the juice.↗ · Walking to school halved the time I spend in traffic.↗ · If we share the bill, we halve the cost.↗

ham — Everyday, meaning 1: Meat from the back leg of a pig, usually salted or smoked, often sliced for sandwiches.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) An actor who acts in a silly, too-dramatic way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (ham it up) To act or show off in an exaggerated way.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (ham radio) Radio sent and received by amateurs as a hobby.↗ Example: I had a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch.↗ · We eat a big ham at Christmas.↗ · Could I have two slices of ham, please?↗ · My little brother is a real ham in front of the camera.↗ · The actor hammed it up and everyone laughed.↗ · Keep the ham in the fridge so it stays safe to eat.↗ · Grandpa talks to people all over the world on his ham radio.↗ · It was placed in the provision basket with ham and cheese and sausages.↗ · And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.↗ (Torah GEN.6.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.↗ (Torah GEN.10.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.↗ (Torah GEN.5.32, JPS 1917)↗ · The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.↗ (Writings 1CH.1.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.↗ (Writings PSA.105.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.↗ (Writings PSA.106.22, JPS 1917)↗

hamburger — Everyday, meaning 1: A hamburger is a flat round cake of minced beef, fried or grilled and served in a bread bun, often with salad, cheese and sauce.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (USA) Hamburger can also mean the minced beef itself, before it is cooked.↗ Example: Can I have a hamburger with cheese, please?↗ · Dad grilled hamburgers at the barbecue.↗ · A hamburger costs £3, so three cost £9.↗ · My vegetarian friend had a veggie burger instead of a hamburger.↗ · The hamburger came with chips and ketchup.↗ · (USA) Mom bought two pounds of hamburger at the store.↗

hame — Everyday, meaning 1: Hame is an old Scots word for home: «brought hame the bull» means brought the bull home.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old Scots use) «hame» can also mean towards home, as in «went hame».↗ Example: They brought hame the bull.↗ · He went hame at night.↗ · The can was broken, so he brought hame little water.↗

hamlet — Everyday, meaning 1: A very small village, often with no church.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (proper noun) Hamlet, a famous play by Shakespeare, and its main character, a prince of Denmark.↗ Example: We drove through a tiny hamlet with just five houses.↗ · A hamlet is smaller than a village.↗ · Sort the settlements: hamlet, village, town, city.↗ · The hamlet sits at the bottom of the valley.↗ · Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet.↗ · Only a few families live in the hamlet.↗ · First you must call together your attendants, and order them to remain in a little hamlet close by until you want them.↗

hammer — Everyday, meaning 1: A tool with a heavy metal head on a handle, used for hitting nails into wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To hit something with a hammer or hit it hard again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To beat someone easily in a game (informal).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A heavy metal ball on a wire thrown in sport (the hammer throw).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A small part inside the ear or a piano that hits.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Hammer and tongs means working or fighting with great energy and noise.↗ Example: Dad used a hammer to put up the shelf.↗ · Hold the nail steady and tap it with the hammer.↗ · The rain hammered on the roof.↗ · Someone was hammering on the door.↗ · Our team got hammered 6–0.↗ · Watch your fingers when you use a hammer.↗ · The judge banged a small hammer called a gavel.↗ · “Odds, bobs, hammer and tongs, I hear you.”↗ · How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!↗ (Prophets JER.50.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.↗ (Writings PSA.74.6, JPS 1917)↗ · They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.↗ (Prophets JER.10.4, JPS 1917)↗

hammerhead — Everyday, meaning 1: A hammerhead (or hammerhead shark) is a shark whose head is wide and flat, shaped like the letter T or a hammer, with an eye at each end.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The head of a hammer, the heavy metal part you hit with.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hammerhead (hamerkop) is also an African wading bird with a crest at the back of its head.↗ Example: The hammerhead shark has eyes at both ends of its head.↗ · Hammerheads hunt stingrays on the sea floor.↗ · Divers saw a school of hammerheads.↗ · A hammerhead can sense the electricity made by hidden fish.↗ · The great hammerhead is the biggest kind.↗ · Many hammerheads are caught for their fins.↗ · The hammerhead's head is wide like a T.↗ · The metal hammerhead came loose from the wooden handle.↗

hammock — Everyday, meaning 1: A bed made of cloth or net hung between two trees or posts, which you lie in and can swing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use, ships) A bed hung between beams on a ship, used by sailors.↗ Example: Dad fell asleep in the hammock in the garden.↗ · Sailors slept in hammocks below deck.↗ · We hung a hammock between two trees at the campsite.↗ · The cat curled up in the swinging hammock.↗ · Getting out of a hammock is harder than it looks!↗ · Some sloths look like they are in a hammock when they hang from branches.↗ · So, without stopping to talk, the guests slung their hammocks, the monkey taking care to place his so high that no one could get at him.↗

hammy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Acting in an over-the-top, exaggerated, not natural way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tasting or smelling of ham.↗ Example: His acting in the school play was very hammy.↗ · The villain gave a hammy laugh.↗ · Don't be so hammy — just say the line.↗ · The film was fun but hammy.↗ · The soup had a hammy taste.↗ · She did a hammy faint on the sofa.↗

hamper — Everyday, meaning 1: A hamper is a large basket with a lid, used to carry food for a picnic or as a gift full of treats.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) A hamper is a basket for dirty clothes (laundry hamper).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To hamper means to get in the way of something and make it slower or harder.↗ Example: We packed sandwiches into the picnic hamper.↗ · Granny got a Christmas hamper full of cheese and chutney.↗ · Put your dirty socks in the hamper.↗ · Heavy snow hampered the rescue team.↗ · The broken wheel hampered our progress.↗ · A sore ankle hampered her running.↗ · The hamper had a little drawer for the knives and forks.↗ · As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff.’↗

hampshire — Everyday, meaning 1: Hampshire is a county on the south coast of England; its cities include Southampton, Portsmouth and Winchester.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: New Hampshire is a state in the north-east of the USA, named after the English county.↗ Example: Southampton and Portsmouth are big port cities in Hampshire.↗ · The New Forest in Hampshire has wild ponies.↗ · My cousins live in Hampshire, near the sea.↗ · New Hampshire is a state in the north-east of the United States.↗ · We drove through Hampshire on the way to the beach.↗ · Winchester is an old city in Hampshire.↗

hamster — Everyday, meaning 1: A hamster is a small furry animal with short legs, a short tail and big cheek pouches, often kept as a pet.↗ Example: Our class hamster is called Biscuit.↗ · The hamster stuffed seeds into its cheeks.↗ · Hamsters run on wheels at night.↗ · Hold the hamster gently with both hands.↗ · Clean the hamster's cage every week.↗ · My hamster sleeps all day.↗ · A hamster is a rodent like a mouse.↗ · Wash your hands after holding the hamster.↗

hamstring — Everyday, meaning 1: One of the strong tendons or muscles at the back of the thigh, above the knee.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To stop someone or something from working well: the team was hamstrung by injuries.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, old) To cut an animal's hamstring so it cannot run.↗ Example: Stretch your hamstrings before you run.↗ · The striker pulled a hamstring and was off for a month.↗ · Touch your toes to feel your hamstrings stretch.↗ · The project was hamstrung by a lack of money.↗ · Hamstring injuries are common in sprinters.↗ · The physio taped up her sore hamstring.↗

han — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) The Han dynasty was a family of emperors who ruled China for about four hundred years, a famous golden age of Chinese history.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in China and in the world, named after the Han dynasty.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Mandarin, pinyin) «hàn» is a Chinese syllable used in words like «Hànzì» (Chinese characters) and «Hànyǔ» (the Chinese language); it sounds like «hahn».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) Han is also a Korean family name, a river in Korea (the Han River in Seoul), and a first name, as in Han Solo from «Star Wars».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (old) A han was an inn for travellers in Turkey and the Middle East.↗ Example: Paper was invented in China during the Han dynasty.↗ · The Silk Road grew busy in the time of the Han.↗ · Most people in China are Han Chinese.↗ · Chinese characters are called «Hànzì» in Mandarin.↗ · Han emperors sent explorers far to the west.↗ · Han Solo flies the Millennium Falcon in «Star Wars».↗ · The Han River flows through Seoul in South Korea.↗ · We made a timeline of Chinese dynasties, from the Qin to the Han and beyond.↗ · “Han, my son!” answered the woman, taking the bowl.↗

hand — Everyday, meaning 1: A hand is the part of your body at the end of your arm, with four fingers and a thumb.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hand is to give something to someone with your hand.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The hands of a clock are the pointers that show the time.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To give someone a hand is to help them.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To be in good hands means to be in someone's care or possession.↗ Example: Mia hands 7 balloons to Sam.↗ · Tom hands Zoe 1 book.↗ · Anna handed out 12 sheets to the class.↗ · Please hand in your homework on Friday.↗ · Raise your hand if you know the answer.↗ · The minute hand points to 12.↗ · Can you give me a hand with these bags?↗ · We have 2 hands with 5 fingers on each, so 10 fingers.↗ · It will fall into good hands--"↗ · or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, (Torah LEV.21.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand — the earth swallowed them.↗ (Torah EXO.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (Torah EXO.21.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Or what receiveth He of thy hand?↗ (Writings JOB.35.7, JPS 1917)↗ · I lay my hand upon my mouth.↗ (Writings JOB.40.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands.↗ (Prophets 2KI.13.16, JPS 1917)↗