--- title: H — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 26 description: The 779 words of the English dictionary under H, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / H # H — The English dictionary · page 26 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · [E](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/E/) · [F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) · [G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) · [H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) · [I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) · [J](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/J/) · [K](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/K/) · [L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/L/) · [M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/) · [N](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) · [O](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/O/) · [P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) · [Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Q/) · [R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/R/) · [S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) · [T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/T/) · [U](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/U/) · [V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/V/) · [W](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) · [X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/X/) · [Y](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Y/) · [Z](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Z/) [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) … [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/25/) **26** [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/27/) … [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/40/) **hob** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A hob is the flat top part of a cooker with rings or plates where you put pans to heat food; in the USA and Canada it is called a stovetop or cooktop.[↗](../../hob/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A hob-nail is a short nail with a large head, hammered into the soles of heavy boots.[↗](../../hob/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Put the pan of water on the hob.[↗](../../hob/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The hob is still hot, don't touch it.[↗](../../hob/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Turn the pan handles away from the edge of the hob.[↗](../../hob/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our hob has four rings.[↗](../../hob/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A gas hob has a blue flame.[↗](../../hob/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Never leave cooking on the hob alone.[↗](../../hob/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum wiped the hob after cooking.[↗](../../hob/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The red light shows the hob is hot.[↗](../../hob/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **hobble** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To walk with short, slow, unsteady steps, often because you are hurt, tired or old.[↗](../../hobble/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old dog hobbled to his bed.[↗](../../hobble/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He hurt his foot and had to hobble home.[↗](../../hobble/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She hobbled off, grumbling.[↗](../../hobble/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **hobby** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Something you enjoy doing in your free time, not as a job, such as drawing, football, collecting or gardening.[↗](../../hobby/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A hobby-horse is a toy horse, made of a stick with a horse's head, that children pretend to ride.[↗](../../hobby/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My hobby is collecting stamps.[↗](../../hobby/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad's hobby is fishing at the lake.[↗](../../hobby/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · What are your hobbies?[↗](../../hobby/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She took up painting as a new hobby.[↗](../../hobby/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Building models is a fun hobby for rainy days.[↗](../../hobby/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa plays the violin as a hobby.[↗](../../hobby/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A hobby can help you relax after school.[↗](../../hobby/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The sweet children rode on their hobby-horses through all the rooms when they came to see the grandparents.[↗](../../hobby/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **hobgoblin** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A hobgoblin is a mischievous or wicked small creature in old tales, a kind of goblin.[↗](../../hobgoblin/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There was once a wicked hobgoblin in the wood.[↗](../../hobgoblin/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The hobgoblin laughed at the children.[↗](../../hobgoblin/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't wake the hobgoblin under the stairs.[↗](../../hobgoblin/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **hockey** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Hockey is a team game played with curved sticks and a ball or puck, where players try to hit it into the other team's goal.[↗](../../hockey/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Field hockey is played on grass with a ball.[↗](../../hockey/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Ice hockey is played on ice with skates and a flat rubber disc called a puck.[↗](../../hockey/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We play hockey on Wednesdays.[↗](../../hockey/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She scored a goal in the hockey match.[↗](../../hockey/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ice hockey is Canada's favourite winter sport.[↗](../../hockey/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep your hockey stick below your waist.[↗](../../hockey/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The puck slid across the ice.[↗](../../hockey/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He wears a helmet to play hockey.[↗](../../hockey/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our hockey team won the cup.[↗](../../hockey/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **hoe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A garden tool with a long handle and a flat blade, used to cut weeds and loosen the soil.[↗](../../hoe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To dig, weed or loosen soil with a hoe.[↗](../../hoe/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (rude, slang) A spelling of «ho», a very rude insulting word for a woman; not for school.[↗](../../hoe/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandad used a hoe to cut the weeds.[↗](../../hoe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We hoed the vegetable patch at school.[↗](../../hoe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Hoeing loosens the soil so water can sink in.[↗](../../hoe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer hoed between the rows of potatoes.[↗](../../hoe/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Leave the hoe in the shed when you finish.[↗](../../hoe/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The gardener rested on his hoe and smiled.[↗](../../hoe/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions.[↗](../../hoe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.[↗](../../hoe/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.1.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hoe/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **hog** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pig, especially a large one kept for meat (US) or a male pig (UK).[↗](../../hog/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A greedy or selfish person: a road hog.[↗](../../hog/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To hog something means to keep it all to yourself and not share: hog the remote.[↗](../../hog/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Go the whole hog means do something completely.[↗](../../hog/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer fed the hogs.[↗](../../hog/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop hogging the computer, it's my turn\![↗](../../hog/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He hogged the ball and never passed.[↗](../../hog/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A road hog drives in the middle of the road.[↗](../../hog/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We went the whole hog and had a three-course meal.[↗](../../hog/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Groundhog Day is in February in the USA and Canada.[↗](../../hog/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · At last he heard something--and there stood the hog.[↗](../../hog/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **hogg** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (a name) Hogg is a surname, a family name used in Scotland and England, for example the Scottish writer James Hogg.[↗](../../hogg/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (spelling) It is not the ordinary word «hog» (a pig), which has one g.[↗](../../hogg/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mrs Hogg is our new class teacher.[↗](../../hogg/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · James Hogg was a Scottish poet called «the Ettrick Shepherd».[↗](../../hogg/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The letter was signed «T. Hogg».[↗](../../hogg/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Is it Hogg with two g's?[↗](../../hogg/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") Yes, H-O-G-G.[↗](../../hogg/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **hogmanay** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (Scotland) The Scottish name for New Year's Eve, 31 December, and the parties and customs that celebrate the start of the new year.[↗](../../hogmanay/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We went to Edinburgh for Hogmanay.[↗](../../hogmanay/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · At Hogmanay, everyone sang «Auld Lang Syne».[↗](../../hogmanay/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran sets out shortbread for first-footers at Hogmanay.[↗](../../hogmanay/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The fireworks at Hogmanay lit up the castle.[↗](../../hogmanay/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In Scotland, Hogmanay is sometimes bigger than Christmas.[↗](../../hogmanay/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We stayed up until midnight on Hogmanay.[↗](../../hogmanay/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **hogshead** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old use) A hogshead is a large barrel, used for wine, beer or sugar, and an old measure of liquid.[↗](../../hogshead/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* They brought a hogshead of cider to the ship.[↗](../../hogshead/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The cellar held three hogsheads of wine.[↗](../../hogshead/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **hogweed** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Hogweed is a tall wild plant with big flat heads of tiny white flowers.[↗](../../hogweed/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Giant hogweed is a huge kind whose sap makes skin burn and blister badly in sunlight.[↗](../../hogweed/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't touch the giant hogweed by the river\![↗](../../hogweed/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Giant hogweed can grow taller than a person.[↗](../../hogweed/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Hogweed sap can burn your skin in sunlight.[↗](../../hogweed/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The park put up signs warning about hogweed.[↗](../../hogweed/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Common hogweed has white umbrella-shaped flowers.[↗](../../hogweed/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He got blisters after touching hogweed.[↗](../../hogweed/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your skin quickly if you touch hogweed sap.[↗](../../hogweed/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Giant hogweed has purple spots on its stem.[↗](../../hogweed/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **hoist** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To lift or pull something heavy up, often with ropes or a machine, as in «hoist the sails».[↗](../../hoist/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To raise a flag up a pole.[↗](../../hoist/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun) A machine for lifting heavy things or people, as in «a hospital hoist».[↗](../../hoist/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (informal) To lift yourself or someone else up, as in «Dad hoisted me onto his shoulders».[↗](../../hoist/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sailors hoisted the sails.[↗](../../hoist/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · They hoisted the flag on the school's sports day.[↗](../../hoist/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A crane hoisted the steel beams onto the roof.[↗](../../hoist/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad hoisted me onto his shoulders to watch the parade.[↗](../../hoist/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse used a hoist to lift the patient.[↗](../../hoist/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A pulley makes it easier to hoist a heavy bucket.[↗](../../hoist/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · His brothers hoisted the stone to a great height, and then cut the rope.[↗](../../hoist/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **hold** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To hold is to have something in your hand or arms: hold my hand.[↗](../../hold/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To hold is to have room for, to contain: the jar holds 10 sweets.[↗](../../hold/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To hold is to keep in a place or state: hold still, hold on.[↗](../../hold/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To hold a party or a meeting is to have it.[↗](../../hold/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* A hold is a grip.[↗](../../hold/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* The hold is the large space deep inside a ship where cargo is stored.[↗](../../hold/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mia buys 8 packs of cards.[↗](../../hold/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") A pack holds 3 cards.[↗](../../hold/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") How many cards does Mia buy?[↗](../../hold/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A jar holds 10 sweets.[↗](../../hold/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each tray holds 6 cupcakes.[↗](../../hold/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") How many trays are needed for 24 cupcakes?[↗](../../hold/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold my hand when we cross the road.[↗](../../hold/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you hold the baby for a minute?[↗](../../hold/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold on, I'm coming\![↗](../../hold/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The school will hold a concert in the hall.[↗](../../hold/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · This bottle holds one litre of water.[↗](../../hold/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · There was powder in the hold.[↗](../../hold/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.'[↗](../../hold/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.14.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hold/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, (Torah EXO.9.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hold/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.[↗](../../hold/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hold/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.[↗](../../hold/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.8.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hold/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · But he was as one that held his peace.[↗](../../hold/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.10.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hold/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · For then would I hold my peace and die.[↗](../../hold/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.13.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hold/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **holder** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A thing that holds or supports something: a pencil holder, a cup holder.[↗](../../holder/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person who owns or has something official: a ticket holder, a passport holder, an account holder.[↗](../../holder/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A person or team that currently has a title or record: the record holder, the title holder.[↗](../../holder/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Put your pencils back in the pencil holder.[↗](../../holder/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Only ticket holders may enter the stadium.[↗](../../holder/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Usain Bolt is the world record holder for the 100 metres.[↗](../../holder/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The car has a cup holder for my juice.[↗](../../holder/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The holders were knocked out of the cup in the first round.[↗](../../holder/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Every account holder gets a bank card.[↗](../../holder/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The candle holder was made of glass.[↗](../../holder/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table.[↗](../../holder/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.37.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../holder/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be holders for the staves.[↗](../../holder/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.38.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../holder/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.[↗](../../holder/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.36.34, JPS 1917)[↗](../../holder/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **holdeth** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «holdeth» means «holds», a form of «hold»: To hold is to have something in your hand or arms: hold my hand.[↗](../../holdeth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* and her father heareth her vow, or her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father holdeth his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.[↗](../../holdeth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.30.4, JPS 1917) **holdfast** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) The root-like part at the bottom of seaweed that holds it tightly to rocks.[↗](../../holdfast/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A clamp or hook that holds something firmly, for example to a workbench or wall.[↗](../../holdfast/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old) Something you can hold on to firmly.[↗](../../holdfast/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The seaweed's holdfast stuck tightly to the rock.[↗](../../holdfast/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A holdfast is not a root, because it does not take in water.[↗](../../holdfast/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Storms can tear kelp from its holdfast.[↗](../../holdfast/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The carpenter used a holdfast to clamp the wood to the bench.[↗](../../holdfast/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Tiny crabs hide inside kelp holdfasts.[↗](../../holdfast/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **holding** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Holding is the -ing form of "hold": having something in your hands or arms, or keeping it in place.[↗](../../holding/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A holding is land or property that someone owns, like a small farm.[↗](../../holding/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Holdings are things like money, shares or books that a person or group owns or keeps.[↗](../../holding/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In sport, holding is an unfair move where you grab another player.[↗](../../holding/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She is holding a kitten.[↗](../../holding/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep holding the rail on the stairs.[↗](../../holding/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We walked holding hands.[↗](../../holding/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The jug is holding 2 litres of water.[↗](../../holding/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He was holding his breath under water.[↗](../../holding/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The family has a small holding of land by the river.[↗](../../holding/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The library's holdings include rare maps.[↗](../../holding/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The referee called holding against the player.[↗](../../holding/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · "What's the matter?" he asked, holding her tighter.[↗](../../holding/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.[↗](../../holding/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.24.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../holding/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Bring no more vain oblations; it is an offering of abomination unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations — I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.[↗](../../holding/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.1.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../holding/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil; (Prophets ISA.33.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../holding/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **hole** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An empty space or opening in something solid: a hole in the ground, a hole in a sock.[↗](../../hole/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An animal's home underground: a rabbit hole.[↗](../../hole/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In golf: the small hole you hit the ball into, or one part of a golf course.[↗](../../hole/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A weak part or mistake: a hole in a plan.[↗](../../hole/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Informal: an unpleasant place.[↗](../../hole/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dog dug a hole in the garden.[↗](../../hole/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · There's a hole in my sock.[↗](../../hole/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A rabbit popped out of its hole.[↗](../../hole/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Watch out for holes in the field.[↗](../../hole/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The car hit a pothole in the road.[↗](../../hole/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A black hole pulls in even light.[↗](../../hole/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She got a hole-in-one at mini golf.[↗](../../hole/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Peep through the keyhole.[↗](../../hole/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · But the Mouse reached his hole in safety.[↗](../../hole/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.[↗](../../hole/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.39.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hole/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.[↗](../../hole/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.30.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hole/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him.[↗](../../hole/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.5.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hole/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.[↗](../../hole/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.8.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../hole/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **holey** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Holey means full of holes, like old socks or a sieve.[↗](../../holey/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My favourite socks are so holey that my toes poke out.[↗](../../holey/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad wears a holey old jumper in the garden.[↗](../../holey/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The moths made the blanket holey.[↗](../../holey/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Swiss cheese is famous for being holey.[↗](../../holey/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A colander is holey so water can drain away.[↗](../../holey/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His holey boots let the rain in.[↗](../../holey/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) … [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/25/) **26** [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/27/) … [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/40/) - ← previous: [page 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/page/25/) 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