All English words - page 1688

Meanings of Hobnail:

noun

A short heavy-headed nail used to reinforce the soles of boots.

Usage examples:

When douglas hadow's boots were examined, it was found that the hobnails on their soles were worn a…

Meanings of Hobnailed:

noun

A heavy boot or shoe that has nails fixed into the bottom to make it last longer

Usage examples:

The soldiers walk and fight, often for days, in hobnail boots., he heard the sound of hobnailed boo…

Meanings of Hobnob:

verb

Mix socially, especially with those of perceived higher social status.

Usage examples:

He was hobnobbing with the great and good

Meanings of Hobnobbed:

verb

Mix socially, especially with those of perceived higher social status.

Usage examples:

He was hobnobbing with the great and good

Meanings of Hobnobbing:

verb

Mix socially, especially with those of perceived higher social status.

Usage examples:

He was hobnobbing with the great and good

Meanings of Hobnobs:

verb

Mix socially, especially with those of perceived higher social status.

Usage examples:

He was hobnobbing with the great and good

Meanings of Hobo:

noun

A homeless person; a tramp or vagrant.

Usage examples:

Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars …

Meanings of Hobos:

noun

A homeless person; a tramp or vagrant.

Usage examples:

Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars …

Meanings of Hoc:

adjective

For a particular purpose or need, esp. for an immediate need

Usage examples:

The ad hoc committee will meet next week., unfortunately, we deal with problems ad hoc.

Meanings of Hock:

noun

The joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backwards.

Usage examples:

These diseases can affect the shoulder, elbow, knee, or hock joints in animals.

verb

Deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.

Usage examples:

The enlisted servicemen and women hock stuff in the pawn shops and borrow against payday.

Meanings of Hocked:

verb

Deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.

Usage examples:

The enlisted servicemen and women hock stuff in the pawn shops and borrow against payday.

noun

Variant spelling of hawk3.

Meanings of Hocket:

noun

A spasmodic or interrupted effect in medieval and contemporary music, produced by dividing a melody between two parts, notes in one part coinciding with rests in the other.

Usage examples:

It is based on a plainsong tenor, treated isorhythmically and incorporating some hocketing, while t…

Meanings of Hockey:

noun

A team game played between two teams of eleven players each, using hooked sticks with which the players try to drive a small hard ball towards goals at opposite ends of a field. in north america it is called field hockey to distinguish it from ice hockey.

Usage examples:

He was educated at the local college, where he excelled at hockey

Meanings of Hocus:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

noun

Tricks used to deceive or words used to hide what is happening, esp. by making the actual situation difficult to understand

Usage examples:

Like so many politicians, he relies on a lot of statistical hocus-pocus.

Meanings of Hocus-pocus:

noun

Tricks used to deceive or words used to hide what is happening, esp. by making the actual situation difficult to understand

Usage examples:

Like so many politicians, he relies on a lot of statistical hocus-pocus.

Meanings of Hocused:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocuses:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocusing:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hocussing:

verb

Deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

It is designed to hocus the people

Meanings of Hod:

noun

A builder's v-shaped open trough on a pole, used for carrying bricks and other building materials.

Usage examples:

It was like dropping an entire hod of bricks that you've been carrying with you over your shoulder …

Meanings of Hodgepodges:

noun

A confused mixture; a hotchpotch.

Usage examples:

Rob's living room was a hodgepodge of modern furniture and antiques

Meanings of Hodgkin:

noun

A serious form of cancer that makes the lymph nodes, liver, and spleen become larger, resulting in anaemia (= not enough red blood cells in the blood) and a decreased ability to fight infection

Meanings of Hodmen:

noun

A labourer who carries a hod.

Usage examples:

He was considered ‘the best hodman in dublin.’

Meanings of Hodograph:

noun

A curve the radius vector of which represents in magnitude and direction the velocity of a moving object.

Usage examples:

Look at hodographs derived from 8 a.m. wind speed and direction data for flint and peoria.

Meanings of Hodometer:

noun

An instrument for measuring the distance travelled by a wheeled vehicle.

Usage examples:

In other words, ‘spinning out’ will cause a wheel-driven odometer to measure more distance between …