English words starting with he - page 42

Meanings of Hetaera:

noun

A courtesan or mistress, especially an educated one in ancient greece.

Usage examples:

The scene shows the birth of aphrodite from the sea, and a hetaera, piping

Meanings of Hetaerae:

noun

A courtesan or mistress, especially an educated one in ancient greece.

Usage examples:

The scene shows the birth of aphrodite from the sea, and a hetaera, piping

Meanings of Hetaeras:

noun

A courtesan or mistress, especially an educated one in ancient greece.

Usage examples:

The scene shows the birth of aphrodite from the sea, and a hetaera, piping

Meanings of Hetaira:

noun

A courtesan or mistress, especially an educated one in ancient greece.

Usage examples:

The scene shows the birth of aphrodite from the sea, and a hetaera, piping

Meanings of Hetairai:

noun

A courtesan or mistress, especially an educated one in ancient greece.

Usage examples:

The scene shows the birth of aphrodite from the sea, and a hetaera, piping

Meanings of Hetairas:

noun

A courtesan or mistress, especially an educated one in ancient greece.

Usage examples:

The scene shows the birth of aphrodite from the sea, and a hetaera, piping

Meanings of Hetero:

adjective

Heterosexual.

Usage examples:

Hetero and gay couples

noun

A heterosexual person.

combining form

Other; different.

Usage examples:

Heteropolar

Meanings of Heteroaromatic:

adjective

Denoting an organic compound with a ring structure which is both heterocyclic and aromatic.

Usage examples:

Yeast oye forms charge transfer complexes with a variety of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds c…

Meanings of Heterocercal:

adjective

(of a fish's tail) having unequal upper and lower lobes, usually with the vertebral column passing into the upper.

Usage examples:

The tail is heterocercal, with the upper lobe containing long, thread-like filaments.

Meanings of Heterocercality:

adjective

(of a fish's tail) having unequal upper and lower lobes, usually with the vertebral column passing into the upper.

Usage examples:

The tail is heterocercal, with the upper lobe containing long, thread-like filaments.

Meanings of Heterochromatic:

adjective

Of several different colours or (in physics) wavelengths.

Meanings of Heterochromatin:

noun

Chromosome material of different density from normal (usually greater), in which the activity of the genes is modified or suppressed.

Usage examples:

The organization of dna into euchromatin and heterochromatin is implicated in gene silencing.

Meanings of Heterochromia:

noun

A condition in which the eyes are different colours

Usage examples:

The actor has heterochromia: her left eye is blue and her right eye is green., heterochromia can be…

Meanings of Heteroclite:

adjective

Abnormal or irregular.

Usage examples:

The book suffers from the heteroclite and ill-fitting nature of its various elements

noun

An abnormal thing or person.

Usage examples:

The most monomaniacal and extreme of berlin dadaists, johannes baader is to dada what byron is to r…

Meanings of Heterocyclic:

adjective

Denoting a compound whose molecule contains a ring of atoms of at least two elements (one of which is generally carbon).

Usage examples:

The majority of photosensitive molecules have a heterocyclic ring structure similar to that of chlo…

Meanings of Heterodox:

adjective

Not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.

Usage examples:

Heterodox views

Meanings of Heterodoxies:

noun

Deviation from accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.

Usage examples:

His work was marked by elements of theological heterodoxy

Meanings of Heterodoxy:

noun

Deviation from accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.

Usage examples:

His work was marked by elements of theological heterodoxy

Meanings of Heterodyne:

adjective

Relating to the production of a lower frequency from the combination of two almost equal high frequencies, as used in radio transmission.

Usage examples:

A heterodyne interferometer

verb

Combine (a high-frequency signal) with another to produce a lower frequency.

Usage examples:

Heterodyning converts incoming reference and test signals to 45 mhz

Meanings of Heterodyned:

verb

Combine (a high-frequency signal) with another to produce a lower frequency.

Usage examples:

Heterodyning converts incoming reference and test signals to 45 mhz

adjective

Relating to the production of a lower frequency from the combination of two almost equal high frequencies, as used in radio transmission.

Usage examples:

A heterodyne interferometer

Meanings of Heterodyning:

verb

Combine (a high-frequency signal) with another to produce a lower frequency.

Usage examples:

Heterodyning converts incoming reference and test signals to 45 mhz

adjective

Relating to the production of a lower frequency from the combination of two almost equal high frequencies, as used in radio transmission.

Usage examples:

A heterodyne interferometer

Meanings of Heteroerotic:

adjective

Relating to hybrid vigour (heterosis).

Usage examples:

These two strains are quite divergent for various qualitative and quantitative traits and produce h…

Meanings of Heterogametic:

adjective

Denoting the sex which has sex chromosomes that differ in morphology, resulting in two different kinds of gamete, e.g. (in mammals) the male and (in birds) the female.

Usage examples:

However, the sex chromosomes of birds contain a complement of genes different from those on the mam…

Meanings of Heterogamy:

noun

Marriage between people from different sociological or educational backgrounds.

Usage examples:

An examination of the relative social positions of spouses shows that heterogamy, the marriage of p…

Meanings of Heterogeneity:

noun

The quality or state of being diverse in character or content.

Usage examples:

The genetic heterogeneity of human populations