# dict

Words: hard-earned
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   earned or achieved after a lot of effort//  hard-earned money/cash etc //  --Don’t be too quick to part with your hard-earned cash.//  --a hard-earned victory//


Words: hard-edged
Meaning:
adj   dealing with difficult subjects or criticizing someone severely in a way that may offend some people//  --a hard-edged collection of songs//


Words: hard-fought
Meaning:
adj   a hard-fought game, competition etc involves two opposing sides who are trying very hard to defeat each other//  a hard-fought battle/contest/game etc //  --one of the most hard-fought games this season//  --a hard-fought battle for the presidency//


Words: hard-headed
Meaning:
adj   practical and able to make difficult decisions without letting your emotions affect your judgment//  --a hard-headed business tycoon//


Words: hard-line
Meaning:
adj   having extreme political beliefs, and refusing to change them//  --a hard-line Marxist//    hard line at hard1 (21)//


Words: hard-luck story plural
Meaning:
hard-luck stories  n [C]   a story you tell someone about bad things that have happened to you, in order to get their sympathy or help//


Words: hard-nosed
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun]   not affected by emotions, and determined to get what you want//  --a hard-nosed businessman//


Words: hard-pressed
Meaning:
adj   having a lot of problems and not enough money or time//  --The new exams will only add to the workload of already hard-pressed teachers.//    be hard pressed to do sth at hard2 (5)//


Words: hard-wearing
Meaning:
adj  BrE   products that are hard-wearing will remain in good condition for a long time even when they are used a lot//  American Equivalent:  long-wearing//


Words: hard-wired
Meaning:
adj  technical   computer systems that are hard-wired are controlled by hardware rather than software and cannot be easily changed by the user//


Words: hard-won
Meaning:
adj   achieved only after a of lot effort and difficulty//  --The people were not prepared to give up their hard-won independence.//


Words: hardback
Meaning:
n  also hardcover  [C]   a book that has a strong stiff cover//  in hardback//  --His first novel sold over 40,000 copies in hardback.//  -- hardback adj //  --a hardback edition of ’The Joy of Cooking’//    paperback//


Words: hardball
Meaning:
n [U]  AmE   play hardball//   informal to be very determined to get what you want, especially in business or politics//


Words: harden
Meaning:
v [I and T] \n  1 to become firm or stiff, or to make something firm or stiff:  → soften//  --It will take about 24 hours for the glue to harden.//\n  2 if your attitude hardens, or if something hardens it, you become more strict and determined and less sympathetic:  → soften//  --Attitudes towards the terrorists have hardened even more since the attack.//\n  3  written if your face or voice hardens, or if something hardens it, you look or sound less sympathetic or happy:  → soften//  --His face hardened momentarily, then he looked away.//\n  4  harden your heart:  to make yourself not feel pity or sympathy for someone//


Words: hardened
Meaning:
adj \n  1  hardened criminal/police officer etc:  a criminal, police officer etc who has had a lot of experience of things that are shocking and is therefore less affected by them//\n  2  become hardened (to sth):  to become used to something shocking because you have seen it many times//


Words: hardly
Meaning:
adv \n  1 almost not:  --My parents divorced when I was six, and I hardly knew my father.//  --The children were so excited they could hardly speak.//  --I can hardly believe it.//  -- Hardly anyone  (=almost no one) writes to me these days.//  --Dad ate hardly anything  (=almost nothing) .//  --There was hardly any  (=very little) traffic.//  --She lives in Spain, so we hardly ever  (=almost never) see her.//  hardly a day/week/month etc goes by without/when (=used to say that something happens almost every day, week etc) //  --Hardly a month goes by without another factory closing down. see usage note  rarely//\n  2 used to mean ’not’, when you are suggesting that the person you are speaking to will agree with you:  --It’s hardly surprising that she won’t answer his calls after the way he’s treated her.//  --You can hardly blame Tom for not waiting.//  --My boss could hardly be described as handsome.//  hardly the time/place/person etc (=a very unsuitable time, place, person) //  --This is hardly the place to discuss the matter.//\n  3 used to say that something has only just happened:  --The serious building work has hardly begun.//  hardly ... when/before //  --She had hardly sat down when the phone rang.//  ----------//  GRAMMAR //  Do not use  hardly  with a negative word : I can hardly believe he said that (NOT I can’t hardly believe he said that). |  There’s hardly any milk left (NOT There’s hardly no milk left). //  Use  hardly  just before the main verb : He could hardly speak (NOT He hardly could speak). //  Do not use  hardly  at the beginning of a sentence, except in very formal writing : I had hardly got in the house when the phone rang  is the usual way to say this. It is possible to say| Hardly had I got in the house when the phone rang but this is very formal //  !!  Do not use  hardly  as the adverb of  hard . The adverb of  hard  is  hard : I tried hard to remember (NOT I tried hardly to remember). |  Students have to study very hard (NOT Students have to study very hardly). //  ----------//


Words: hardship
Meaning:
n [U and C]   something that makes your life difficult or unpleasant, especially a lack of money, or the condition of having a difficult life//  --an economic policy that caused great hardship for many people//  --Many students are suffering severe financial hardship .//  hardship of//  --the hardships of war//


Words: hardware
Meaning:
n [U] \n  1 computer machinery and equipment, as opposed to the programs that make computers work:    software//\n  2 equipment and tools for your home and garden:\n  3 the machinery and equipment that is needed to do something:  --tanks and other military hardware//


Words: hardy
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: hardi, from  hardir  ’to make hard, make brave’]//\n  1 strong and healthy and able to bear difficult living conditions:  --hardy mountain goats//\n  2 a hardy plant is able to live through the winter:  -- hardiness n  [U] //


Words: Hardy Boys
Meaning:
the   the main characters in a series of US books known as  The Hardy Boys Mysteries, the first of which was written in 1927. The Hardy Boys are two brave young brothers called Frank and Joe Hardy who are always getting involved in exciting, dangerous adventures in which they help to solve crimes.//


Words: hardy perennial
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 a hardy plant that produces flowers for several years:\n  2  BrE an idea that is often suggested or discussed:


Words: hare
Meaning:
n   plural  hare  or  hares  [C] //  [Language: Old English; Origin: hara]//  an animal like a rabbit but larger, which can run very quickly//\nhare 2 v [I always + adverb/preposition]    BrE  informal to run or go very fast//  hare off//  --He hared off down the road.//


Words: Hare Krishna
Meaning:
an international religious group that was started in the 1960s and is based on great love for the Hindu god Krishna. Its members wear loose yellow-orange robes and the men cut off most of their hair, and they often go around city streets in groups singing the words "Hare Krishna".//


Words: hare-brained
Meaning:
adj   a hare-brained plan or idea is very silly or unlikely to succeed//  --his latest hare-brained scheme //


Words: harelip
Meaning:
n [singular]  old-fashioned   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin:  Because it looks like a hare’s top lip]//  an offensive word for the condition of having your top lip divided into two parts because it did not develop correctly before birth//


Words: harem
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Arabic; Origin: harim  ’something forbidden’]//\n  1 the group of wives or women who lived with a rich or powerful man in some Muslim societies in the past:\n  2 part of a Muslim house that is separate from the rest of the house, where only women live:


Words: Hargreaves
Meaning:
James   (1720-78) a British inventor who invented machines such as the  spinning jenny, which was used for making cotton and wool into thread, and which he used in his factory in Nottingham//


Words: haricot
Meaning:
n  also haricot bean  [C]  BrE   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: French]//  a small white bean//  American Equivalent:  navy bean//


Words: hark
Meaning:
v   [Date: 1100-1200; Origin:  Probably from an unrecorded  Old English heorcian]//\n  1  hark at him/her/you!:   BrE  old-fashioned spoken used when you think someone is saying something stupid or acting as if they are more important than they really are//  --Hark at him! I bet he couldn’t do any better.//\n  2  hark!:   old use used to tell someone to listen//  hark back phr v//  to remember and talk about things that happened in the past//  hark back to//  --It’s useless to continually hark back to the past.//  hark back to [hark back to sth] phr v//  to be similar to something in the past//  --music that harks back to the early age of jazz//


Words: Harlem
Meaning:
an area of New York City in northeast Manhattan, where many African-American and Hispanic people live//


Words: Harlem Globetrotters
Meaning:
the   a black US  basketball team who travel around the world to play games in which they entertain people with their skill at basketball and their amusing style of playing//


Words: harlequin
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Italian; Origin: arlecchino, from early  French Helquin name of an evil spirit]//  a character in some traditional plays who wears brightly coloured clothes and plays tricks//\nharlequin 2 adj [only before noun]   a harlequin pattern is made up of diamond shapes in many different colours//


Words: Harlequin Romance
Meaning:
one of a US series of romantic novels about men and women who fall in love. The stories are usually simple, with a happy ending.//    Mills and Boon//


Words: Harley Street
Meaning:
a street in west central London where many well-known and expensive doctors have their offices//  --a Harley Street specialist//


Words: harlot
Meaning:
n [C]  old use   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: herlot  ’wanderer, beggar’]//  a prostitute//


Words: harm
Meaning:
S3   n [U]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hearm]//\n  1 damage, injury, or trouble caused by someone’s actions or by an event:  --Modern farming methods have  done  considerable  harm to  the countryside. //  --Socks that are too tight can  cause as much  harm  as badly fitting shoes.//  -- It is a parent’s responsibility to ensure that their children do not  suffer  any  harm . //  -- Criticizing people’s work often  does more harm than good . //  -- This won’t do his career  serious harm .//  -- protection from  physical harm //  -- There’s no  great harm in  taking something to relieve a headache. //  --I’m only trying to earn a bit of money.  Where’s the harm in that? //  -- It was a silly thing to do, but don’t worry.  No harm done .//    grievous bodily harm//\n  2  come to no harm/not come to any harm:  to not be hurt or damaged//  --She was relieved to see the children had come to no harm.//\n  3  mean no harm/not mean any harm:  to have no intention of hurting or upsetting anyone//  --She’s a terrible gossip but she means no harm.//\n  4  there’s no harm in doing sth/it does no harm to do sth:   spoken used to suggest something to someone//  --There’s no harm in trying.//  --It does no harm to ask.//\n  5  it wouldn’t do sb any harm to do sth:   spoken used to suggest that someone should do something that may be helpful or useful to them//  --It wouldn’t do you any harm to get some experience first.//\n  6  out of harm’s way:  a) if someone or something is out of harm’s way, they are in a place where they cannot be hurt or damaged//  --Copies of your documents should be kept in a safe place, well out of harm’s way.//  b) if something dangerous is out of harm’s way, it is in a place where it cannot hurt anyone or damage anything//  --If you have small children, make sure that you store all medicines out of harm’s way.//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  do harm (to something)/do something harm //  cause (somebody/something) harm //  suffer harm //  do more harm than good  (=cause more problems rather than improving the situation) //  serious harm //  physical harm //  psychological/emotional harm //  there is no harm in (doing) something  (=used to say that something seems reasonable) //  where’s the harm in that? spoken (=used when you think that something seems reasonable, although other people may not) //  no harm done spoken (=used to tell someone not to worry about something they have done) //  ----------//\nharm 2 v [T] \n  1 to damage something:  --chemicals that harm the environment//\n  2 to physically hurt a person or animal:  --The kidnappers didn’t harm him, thank God.//\n  3  harm sb’s image/reputation:  to make people have a worse opinion of a person or group//


Words: harmful
Meaning:
adj   causing or likely to cause harm//  --the harmful effects of smoking//  --harmful bacteria//  harmful to//  --chemicals that are harmful to the environment//


Words: harmless
Meaning:
adj \n  1 unable or unlikely to hurt anyone or cause damage:  --Her brother’s a bit simple, but he’s quite harmless.//\n  2 not likely to upset or offend anyone:  --It was just a bit of harmless fun .//  -- harmlessly adv //  --The spear whistled harmlessly over his head.//  -- harmlessness n  [U] //


Words: harmonic
Meaning:
adj  technical   relating to the way notes are played or sung together to give a pleasing sound//  --harmonic scales//


Words: harmonica
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1700-1800; Language: Italian; Origin: armonica, from  Latin harmonia;   HARMONY]//  a small musical instrument that you play by blowing or sucking and moving it from side to side near your mouth//


Words: harmonious
Meaning:
adj \n  1 harmonious relationships are ones in which people are friendly and helpful to one another:\n  2 sounds that are harmonious are very pleasant:\n  3 parts, colours etc that are harmonious look good or work well together:  --The decor is a harmonious blend of traditional and modern.//  -- harmoniously adv //


Words: harmonium
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: harmonie;   HARMONY]//  a musical instrument with a keyboard and metal pipes like a small organ//


Words: harmonize
Meaning:
also  harmonise BrE   v \n  1 [I] if two or more things harmonize, they work well together or look good together:  harmonize with//  --We want to make sure that the new offices harmonize with the other buildings in the area.//\n  2 [T] to make two or more sets of rules, taxes etc the same:  --the proposal to harmonize tax levels throughout the EU//\n  3 [I] to sing or play music in harmony:


Words: harmony
Meaning:
n   plural  harmonies //  [Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: harmonie, from  Latin harmonia, from  Greek,  ’joint, harmony’]//\n  1 [C usually plural, U] notes of music combined together in a pleasant way:  in harmony//  --a choir singing in perfect harmony//  --the gorgeous vocal harmonies on ’Mexicali Rose’//  --three-part harmonies//\n  2 [U] when people live or work together without fighting or disagreeing with each other:  --I do believe it is possible for different ethnic groups to live together in harmony.//  peace and harmony //  --an era of peace and harmony//  live/work etc in harmony //\n  3  be in harmony with sth:   formal to agree with another idea, feeling etc, or look good with other things//  --Your suggestions are not in harmony with the aims of this project.//\n  4 [U] the pleasant effect made by different things that form an attractive whole:  --the harmony of sea and sky//    discord//


Words: harness
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: herneis  ’bags, equipment’]//\n  1 a set of leather bands used to control a horse or to attach it to a vehicle it is pulling:  harness, rope//\n  2 a set of bands used to hold someone in a place or to stop them from falling:  --a safety harness//\n  3  in harness:   BrE doing your usual work//  --I felt glad to be back in harness.//\n  4  in harness (with sb):   BrE working closely with another person or group//\nharness 2 v [T] \n  1 to control and use the natural force or power of something:  --We can harness the power of the wind to generate electricity.//\n  2 to fasten two animals together, or to fasten an animal to something using a harness:\n  3 to put a harness on a horse:


Words: Harold II
Meaning:
King   (?1022-66) the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, who became king at the beginning of 1066 but later that year died in battle against  William the Conqueror at Hastings. He is supposed to have been killed by an arrow that hit him in the eye.//


Words: harp
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hearpe]//  a large musical instrument with strings that are stretched across a vertical frame with three corners, and that you play with your fingers//  -- harpist n  [C] //\nharp 2 v   harp on about [harp on about sth] phr v//  to talk about something continuously, especially in a way that is annoying or boring//  --My grandfather harps on about the war all the time.//


Words: Harper’s Ferry
Meaning:
a town in West Virginia, where the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers meet, that was the place of many battles during the American Civil War. Just before the war, an abolitionist (=someone who wants to stop slavery)  called John Brown took control of the government weapons that were kept there and tried to get  slaves to fight against their owners. He was caught and hanged for  treason (=actions against your country) .//


Words: harpoon
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin:  Probably from  Dutch harpoen, from  Old French harpon  ’fastener’]//  a weapon used for hunting whales//  -- harpoon v  [T] //


Words: harpsichord
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin: Italian  arpicorda, from  arpa  ’harp’ +  corda  ’string’]//  a musical instrument like a piano, used especially in the past//  -- harpsichordist n  [C] //


Words: harpy
Meaning:
n   plural  harpies  [C] //  [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Harpy name of a creature in ancient Greek stories with the head of a woman and the body of a bird  (16-21 centuries), from  Greek harpyia  ’seizer’]//\n  1  literary a cruel woman:\n  2  Harpy:  a cruel creature in ancient Greek stories, with the head and upper body of a woman and the wings and feet of a bird//


Words: harridan
Meaning:
n [C]  old-fashioned   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin:  Perhaps from  French haridelle  ’old horse, thin woman’]//  a bad-tempered unpleasant woman//


Words: Harrier jump jet
Meaning:
trademark   a British military plane that can take off and land by going straight up or down. The Royal Navy use the Sea Harrier which is very similar.//


Words: Harrison
Meaning:
Benjamin   (1833-1901) the twenty-third president of the US, from 1889 to 1893//\n George   (1943-2001) a British musician and songwriter who sang and played the  guitar in The  Beatles. After The Beatles separated, he made records on his own, including  My Sweet Lord.//\n William Henry   (1773-1841) a US politician who became President in 1841, but died a month later.//


Words: Harrow
Meaning:
a famous British  public school (=expensive private school)  for boys, in northwest London. Men who have been educated at Harrow are known as Old Harrovians.//    Eton//


Words: harrow
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old Norse; Origin: herfi]//  a farming machine with sharp metal blades, used to break up the earth before planting crops//  -- harrow v  [I and T] //


Words: harrowing
Meaning:
adj   very frightening or shocking and making you feel very upset//  --a harrowing experience //  --a harrowing story//


Words: Harry
Meaning:
Prince   (1984-) the younger son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. His official name is Prince Henry.//


Words: harry
Meaning:
v   past tense and past participle  harried present participle  harrying third person singular  harries  [T] //  [Language: Old English; Origin: hergian]//\n  1 to keep attacking an enemy:\n  2 to keep asking someone for something in a way that is upsetting or annoying:


Words: harsh
Meaning:
adj   ----------//\n   1 conditions:\n   2 treatment/criticism:\n   3 sound:\n   4 light/colour:\n   5 lines/shapes etc:\n   6 cleaning substance:  ----------//  [Date: 1300-1400; Origin:  Probably from a  Scandinavian language]//\n  1 CONDITIONS:  harsh conditions are difficult to live in and very uncomfortable//   severe//  --The hostages are being held in extremely harsh conditions .//  harsh winter/weather/climate //  --the harsh Canadian winters//  --a vulnerable young girl suddenly exposed to the harsh realities of life//\n  2 TREATMENT/CRITICISM:  severe, cruel, or unkind//  harsh criticism/treatment/punishment etc //  --His theory met with harsh criticism from colleagues.//  --the harsh measures taken against the protestors//  --’She’s an idiot!’ ’Aren’t you being a bit harsh?’//  --a harsh, authoritarian regime//  --He had harsh words  (=severe criticism) for the Government.//\n  3 SOUND:  unpleasantly loud and rough//  → soft//  harsh voice/laugh/tone etc //  --His voice was harsh and menacing.//\n  4 LIGHT/COLOUR:  unpleasantly bright//  → soft//  --She stood outside, blinking in the harsh sunlight.//\n  5 LINES/SHAPES ETC:  ugly and unpleasant to look at//  --the harsh outline of the factories against the sky//\n  6 CLEANING SUBSTANCE:  too strong and likely to damage the thing you are cleaning//  --My skin is quite sensitive and I find some soaps too harsh.//  -- harshly adv //  --’Shut up,’ Boris said harshly.//  -- harshness n  [U] //


Words: Hart
Meaning:
Lorenz Milton   (1895-1943) a US songwriter who worked with the  composer Richard  Rodgers to produce  musicals (=films or plays that use singing and dancing to tell a story) , such as  Babes in Arms and  Pal Joey//


Words: Harvard Harvard University
Meaning:
a famous and respected university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636, which is the oldest university in the US//    Yale//


Words: harvest
Meaning:
n   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]rfest]//\n  1 [U and C] the time when crops are gathered from the fields, or the act of gathering them:  at harvest/at harvest time//  --every year at harvest time//  wheat/rice/grape etc harvest //  --It rained for the potato harvest.//\n  2 [C] the crops that have been gathered, or the amount and quality of the crops gathered:  good/bumper harvest (=a lot of crops) //  --Plum growers are expecting a bumper harvest this year.//  poor/bad harvest (=few crops) //\n  3  reap a harvest:  to get good or bad results from your actions//  --The company is now reaping the harvest of careful planning.//\nharvest 2 v [I and T]   to gather crops from the fields//


Words: harvest festival
Meaning:
n [C]    especially BrE a church service held in the autumn to thank God for the harvest//    thanksgiving//


Words: Harvey
Meaning:
William   (1578-1657) an English doctor who discovered the  circulation of the blood, that is, the way the heart makes the blood move around the body//


Words: Harvey’s Bristol Cream
Meaning:
trademark   a popular and well-known type of sweet  sherry (=a type of strong, dark wine from Spain)  made by Harvey’s, a company based in Bristol in England//


Words: Harwell
Meaning:
a British government centre for atomic  research, near the village of Harwell in Oxfordshire, southern England//


Words: Harwich
Meaning:
a port in Essex, eastern England, from which ferries and other ships sail to ports in Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands //


Words: hash
Meaning:
n   [Sense: 1,3; Date: 1600-1700; Origin:  HASH2]//  [Sense: 2; Date: 1900-2000; Origin: hashish]//  [Sense: 4; Date: 1900-2000; Origin:  Probably from  hatching]//\n  1  make a hash of sth:   informal to do something very badly//  --I made a real hash of my exams.//\n  2 [U]  informal  hashish:\n  3 [U and C] a dish made with cooked meat and potatoes:  -- corned beef hash //\n  4 [U and C]  BrE the symbol #:\nhash 2 v   hash out [hash sth → out] phr v//  [Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: hacher  ’to cut up’, from  hache;   HATCHET]//  to discuss something very thoroughly and carefully, especially until you reach an agreement//  --The reorganization plan was hashed out September 16.//


Words: hasp
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]sp]//  a flat piece of metal used to fasten a door, lid etc//


Words: Hassam
Meaning:
Childe   (1859-1935) a US painter and maker of prints (=printed pictures) . His work was influenced by  impressionism.//


Words: Hasselblad
Meaning:
trademark   a very good quality type of camera made by the Swedish company Hasselblad, often used by professional photographers. Different  lenses can be fitted to the camera, which takes photos of larger than average size.//


Words: hassle
Meaning:
n   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Perhaps from  haggle +  tussle]//\n  1 [U and C]  spoken something that is annoying, because it causes problems or is difficult to do:  --I don’t feel like cooking tonight, it’s too much hassle.//  --It’s such a hassle not having a washing machine.//\n  2 [C]  AmE  informal an argument between two people or groups:  --hassles with the management//\nhassle 2   past tense and past participle  hassled present participle  hassling  v [T]  informal //  to annoy someone, especially by asking them many times to do something//  --Stop hassling me! I said I’ll call them tomorrow.//


Words: hassock
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hassuc  ’small thick mass of grass’]//\n  1 a small cushion for kneeling on in a church:\n  2  AmE a soft round piece of furniture used as a seat or for resting your feet on:  British Equivalent:  pouf//


Words: haste
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French]//\n  1 great speed in doing something, especially because you do not have enough time:   hurry//  --I soon regretted my haste.//  in your haste to do sth//  --In his haste to leave, he forgot his briefcase.//\n  2  in haste:   written  or  formal quickly or in a hurry//  --They left in haste, without even saying goodbye.//\n  3  make haste:   old use to hurry or do something quickly//\n  4  more haste less speed:   BrE haste makes waste  AmE used to say that it is better to do something slowly, because if you do it too quickly you will make mistakes//


Words: hasten
Meaning:
v  formal \n  1 [T] to make something happen faster or sooner:  --Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.//\n  2 [I] to do or say something quickly or without delay:   hurry//  hasten to do sth//  --I hastened to assure her that there was no danger.//\n  3  I hasten to add:  used when you realize that what you have said may not have been understood correctly//  --an exhausting course, which, I hasten to add, was also great fun//\n  4 [I always + adverb/preposition]  literary to go somewhere quickly:


Words: hastily
Meaning:
adv  written   quickly, perhaps too quickly//   hurriedly//  --a hastily arranged news conference//  --’Don’t worry,’ Jenny added hastily. ’I checked with Lizzie first.’//  --I may have acted hastily.//


Words: Hastings
Meaning:
a town on the southeast coast of England. The Battle of Hastings took place near there in 1066, when King  Harold II of England was defeated and killed by the French army of  William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy..//


Words: hasty
Meaning:
adj \n  1 done in a hurry, especially with bad results:   hurried//  --He soon regretted his hasty decision.//  --a hasty breakfast//\n  2  be hasty:  to do something too soon, without careful enough thought//  --Let’s not be hasty - sit down for a moment.//


Words: hat
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]t]//\n  1 a piece of clothing that you wear on your head:  --Maria was wearing a beautiful new hat.//  straw/cowboy/bowler etc hat //  in a hat//  --a man in a fur hat//  bowler-hatted/top-hatted etc (=wearing a bowler hat, top hat etc) //  --a bowler-hatted gentleman//\n  2  keep sth under your hat:   informal to keep something secret//\n  3  be wearing your teacher’s/salesman’s etc hat:   also  have your teacher’s/salesman’s etc hat on//   informal to be performing the duties of a teacher etc, which are not your only duties//  --I’m a manager now and only put my salesman’s hat on when one of our sales reps is having real problems.//\n  4  I take my hat off to sb:   also  hats off to somebody//   informal used to say you admire someone very much because of what they have done//  --I take my hat off to Ian - without him we’d have never finished this project on time.//\n  5  be drawn/pulled/picked out of the/a hat:  if someone’s name is drawn out of a hat, they are chosen, for example as the winner of a competition, because their name is the first one that is taken out of a container containing the names of all the people involved//  --The first correct entry out of the hat on September 2nd will win a prize.//\n  6  pass the hat around:  to collect money from a group of people, especially in order to buy someone a present//    hard hat//    old hat//    at the drop of a hat at drop2 (5)//    I’ll eat my hat at eat(8)//    hang up your hat at hang up(3)//    be talking through your hat at talk1 (29)//


Words: hat trick
Meaning:
n [C]   a series of three successes, especially in sports such as football when the same person scores three times//  --Saunders scored a hat trick in the final game of the series.//  hat trick of//  --a hat trick of victories//


Words: hatch
Meaning:
v   [Date: 1400-1500; Origin:  Origin unknown]//\n  1  also hatch out :   [I and T] if an egg hatches, or if it is hatched, it breaks, letting the young bird, insect etc come out//  --The eggs take three days to hatch.//\n  2  also hatch out :   [I and T] if a young bird, insect etc hatches, or if it is hatched, it comes out of its egg//  --All the chicks have hatched out.//\n  3  hatch a plot/plan/deal etc:  to form a plan etc in secret//\nhatch 2 n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]c]//\n  1 a hole in a ship or aircraft, usually used for loading goods, or the door that covers it:  escape hatch (=a hole in an aircraft etc through which you can escape) //\n  2  also hatchway :  a small hole in the wall or floor between two rooms, or the door that covers it//\n  3  down the hatch:   spoken  informal something you say before drinking an alcoholic drink quickly//


Words: hatchet
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: hachette, from  hache  ’ax’]//  a small axe with a short handle//    bury the hatchet at bury(9)//


Words: hatchet job
Meaning:
n [C]  BrE  informal   a newspaper article, television programme etc that criticizes someone severely and unfairly//  hatchet job on//  --They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job on them.//


Words: hatching
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin: hatch  ’to mark with lines’ (16-21 centuries), from  French hacher;   HASH2]//  fine lines drawn on or cut into a surface//


Words: hate
Meaning:
v [T not in progressive] \n  1 to dislike something very much:  → love//  --It’s the kind of movie you either love or hate.//  --He hates his job.//  --I hate the way I sound on tape.//  hate doing sth//  --Paul hates having his picture taken.//  hate to do sth//  --I hate to see you unhappy.//  hate it when//  --Pam hates it when Lee calls her at work.//  hate sb doing sth//  --Jenny’s mother hates her staying out late.//\n  2 to dislike someone very much and feel angry towards them:  → love//  --Why do you hate me so much?//  hate sb for (doing) sth//  --She hated him for being so happy.//  hate yourself//  --I hated myself for feeling jealous of her.//  hate sb’s guts  informal  (=hate someone very much) //\n  3  I’d hate (for) sb/sth to do sth:   spoken used to emphasize that you do not want something to happen//  --I’d hate you to go.//  --I’d hate for him to think I wasn’t interested.//\n  4  I hate to think what/how/where etc:   spoken used when you feel sure that something would have a bad result, or when an idea is unpleasant to think about//  --I hate to think what would have happened if you hadn’t called the police.//  --I hate to think how many women he has assaulted since then.//\n  5  I hate to say it, but.../I hate to tell you this, but...:   spoken used when saying something that you do not want to say, for example because it is embarrassing//  --I hate to say it, but I was glad when he went home.//\n  6  I hate to ask/interrupt/disturb etc:   spoken used to say that you are sorry that you have to ask etc//  --I hate to ask you this, but would you mind giving me a lift home?//  --I hate to interrupt, but it’s urgent.//  -- hated adj //  --the hated security police//  -- hater n  [C] //  --I’m not a man hater.//\nhate 2 n [U]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hete]//  an angry unpleasant feeling that someone has when they hate someone and want to harm them//   hatred//  → love//  --Her eyes were full of hate.//  hate for//  --Mrs Williams has spoken of her hate for her husband’s killers.//    pet hate at pet3 (2)//


Words: hate campaign
Meaning:
n [C]   a series of things that a person or group does in order to upset or harm someone they hate//


Words: hate crime
Meaning:
n [U and C]   a crime that is committed against someone only because they belong to a particular race, religion etc//


Words: hate mail
Meaning:
n [U]   letters that express a lot of hatred towards the person to whom they are sent//  --She complained to the police after receiving threatening phone calls and hate mail.//


Words: hateful
Meaning:
adj  old-fashioned   very bad, unpleasant, or unkind//  --It was all the fault of that hateful man!//


Words: hatred
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Date: 1100-1200; Origin: hate +  -red, from  Old English r[zB024]den  ’condition’]//  an angry feeling of extreme dislike for someone or something//  → love//  --A look of pure hatred flashed across her face.//  hatred of/for/towards//  --his intense hatred of all foreigners//  --Abby made no secret of her hatred for her father.//  passionate/intense/deep etc hatred //  --Ellis was a sick young man with a deep hatred of women.//  --the old hatreds and prejudices that simmered below the surface//


Words: haughty
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: haught  ’haughty’ (15-19 centuries), from  French haut  ’high’]//  behaving in a proud unfriendly way//    stuck up//  --a haughty laugh//  -- haughtily adv //  -- haughtiness n  [U] //


Words: haul
Meaning:
v [T]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: French; Origin: haler  ’to pull’]//\n  1 to pull something heavy with a continuous steady movement:  haul sth off/onto/out of etc sth//  --She hauled her backpack onto her back.//  --the steam locomotive which hauled the train//  --I hauled the door shut behind me.//\n  2  haul yourself up/out of sth etc:  a) to move somewhere with a lot of effort, especially because you are injured or tired//  --Patrick hauled himself painfully up the stairs.//  b) to succeed in achieving a higher position in society, in a competition etc//  --He is confident that the club can haul themselves further up the league.//\n  3  haul sb over the coals:   BrE to criticize someone severely because they have done something wrong//  American Equivalent:  rake somebody over the coals//\n  4  haul off and hit/punch/kick sb:   AmE  informal to try to hit someone very hard//\n  5  haul ass:   AmE  spoken  not polite to hurry//  haul off [haul sb off] phr v//  to force someone to go somewhere that they do not want to go, especially to prison//  --Police handcuffed him and hauled him off to jail.//  haul up [haul sb up] phr v//  to officially bring someone to a court of law to be judged//  haul somebody up before/in front of//  --Campbell was hauled up in front of the magistrate.//\nhaul 2 n [C] \n  1 a large amount of illegal or stolen goods:  --The gang escaped with a haul worth hundreds of pounds.//  haul of//  --A haul of stolen cars has been seized by police officers.//\n  2  long/slow haul:  something that takes a lot of time and effort//  --At last we’ve won our freedom but it’s been a long bitter haul .//\n  3 the amount of fish caught when fishing with a net:    long-haul,  short-haul//


Words: haulage
Meaning:
n [U]   the business of carrying goods in trucks or trains for other companies//  --the road haulage industry//


Words: haunch
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1100-1200; Language: French; Origin: hanche]//\n  1  haunches [plural] the part of your body that includes your bottom, your hips, and the tops of your legs:  on your haunches//  --They squatted on their haunches playing dice.//\n  2 one of the back legs of a four-legged animal, especially when it is used as meat:


Words: haunt
Meaning:
v [T not in progressive]   [Date: 1100-1200; Language: French; Origin: hanter]//\n  1 if the soul of a dead person haunts a place, it appears there often:  --The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.//\n  2 to make someone worry or make them sad:  --Clare was haunted by the fear that her husband was having an affair.//\n  3 to cause problems for someone over a long period of time:  --an error that would come back to haunt them for years to come//\nhaunt 2 n [C]   a place that someone likes to go to often//  haunt of//  --The Cafe Vienna was a favourite haunt of journalists and actors.//


Words: haunted
Meaning:
adj \n  1 a haunted building is believed to be visited regularly by the soul of a dead person:  --a haunted house //\n  2  haunted expression/look:  a very worried or frightened expression//


Words: haunting
Meaning:
adj   sad but also beautiful and staying in your thoughts for a long time//  --a haunting melody//  -- hauntingly adv //


Words: haute couture
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1900-2000; Language: French; Origin: ’high sewing’]//  the business of making and selling expensive and fashionable clothes for women//  -- haute couturier n  [C] //


Words: haute cuisine
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1900-2000; Language: French; Origin: ’high cooking’]//  cooking of a very high standard, especially French cooking//


Words: hauteur
Meaning:
n [U]  formal   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: haut  ’high’]//  a proud, very unfriendly manner//


Words: have
Meaning:
auxiliary v   past tense and past participle  had /d, [hA353]d, h[hA353]d strong  h[zB024]d/third person singular  has /z, [hA353]z, h[hA353]z strong  h[zB024]z///  [Language: Old English; Origin: habban]//\n  1 used with past participles to form perfect tenses:  --Our guests have arrived.//  --Has anyone phoned?//  --We’ve been spending too much money.//  --I hadn’t seen him for fifteen years.//  --’I hope you’ve read the instructions.’ ’Yes, of course I have.’//  --You haven’t done much, have you?//\n  2  sb had better/best do sth:  used to say that someone should do something//  --You’d better phone to say you’ll be late.//  --We’d better not tell Jim about our plans just yet.//\n  3  had sb done sth:   formal if someone had done something//  --Had we known about it earlier, we could have warned people of the danger.//\nhave 2 S1   v [T]   ----------//\n   1 quality/feature:\n   2 include/contain:\n   3 own:\n   4 carry/hold:\n   5 do something:\n   6 eat/drink/smoke:\n   7 experience:\n   8 idea/feeling:\n   9 disease/injury/pain:\n  10 receive:\n  11 amount of time:\n  12 have your hair cut/your house painted etc:\n  13 have something stolen/broken/taken etc:\n  14 have something ready/done/finished etc:\n  15 in a position or state:\n  16 family/friends:\n  17 job/duty:\n  18 employ/be in charge of:\n  19 goods/rooms available:\n  20 have (got) somebody with you:\n  21 hold somebody:\n  22 visitors/guests:\n  23 event:\n  24 effect:\n  25 opportunity:\n  26 baby:\n  27 make somebody do something:\n  28 have done with something:\n  29 rumour/legend/word has it:\n  30 have (got) something/somebody (all) to yourself:\n  31 sex:\n  32 have it off/away with somebody:\n  33 can/could/may I have:\n  34 I’ll have/we’ll have:\n  35 offering somebody something:\n  36 not allow:\n  37 somebody had (got) it coming:\n  38 I’ve got it:\n  39 you have me there:\n  40 I’ll have you know:\n  41 have (got) it in for somebody:\n  42 somebody/something has had it:\n  43 be not having any (of that):\n  44 somebody has been had:  Phrasal verbs//   have (got) something against somebody/something//   have (got) somebody in//   have on//   have something out//   have somebody over//   have somebody up//  ----------//\n  1 QUALITY/FEATURE:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE used to say what someone or something looks like, what qualities or features they possess etc//  --She has dark hair and brown eyes.//  --Sullivan’s music does have a certain charm.//  --You need to have a lot of patience to be a teacher.//  --Wild rice has a very nutty flavour.//  --He didn’t even have the courtesy to answer my letter.//  have it in you (=have the skill or special quality needed to do something) //  --You should have seen the way Dad was dancing - I didn’t know he had it in him!//\n  2 INCLUDE/CONTAIN:   also have got //   [not in progressive ]  especially BrE to include or contain something or a particular number of things or people//  --Japan has a population of over 120 million.//  --How many pages has it got?//  have sth in it/them//  --Check that the tank still has water in it.//\n  3 OWN:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  spoken  especially BrE used to say that someone owns something or that it is available for them to use//  --They used to have a Mercedes Benz.//  --Has your secretary got a fax machine?//  --Have you ever had your own business?//  --He’s a lovely dog - how long have you had him?//  --Can I have the car tonight, Dad?//\n  4 CARRY/HOLD:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE to be holding something or carrying it with you//  --Have you got a match?//  --Look out! He’s got a gun.//  have sth on/with you//  --Have you got any money on you?//  --I’m afraid I don’t have my address book with me.//\n  5 DO SOMETHING:   BrE to do something//  have a look/walk/sleep/talk/think etc //  --We were just having a look around.//  --Are you going to have a swim?//\n  6 EAT/DRINK/SMOKE:  to eat, drink, or smoke something//  --She sat down and had another drink.//  --Someone had been having a cigarette in the toilet.//  have lunch/a meal etc //  --I usually have breakfast at about seven o’clock.//\n  7 EXPERIENCE:  to experience something or be affected by something//  --We’ve been having a lot of difficulties with our new computer system.//  --I’m afraid your son has had a serious accident.//  --He is in hospital having treatment for a knee injury.//  --I hope you have a good holiday.//  have a good/terrible etc time //  --Thanks for everything - we had a great time.//  have sb doing sth//  --He found it quite natural to have people fussing over him.//\n  8 IDEA/FEELING:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE to think of something or to experience a particular feeling//  --If you have any good ideas for presents, let me know.//  --I have lots of happy memories of my time in Japan.//  --He had an awful feeling of guilt.//\n  9 DISEASE/INJURY/PAIN:   also have got //   [not in progressive ]  especially BrE to suffer from a disease, injury, or pain//  --Sarah’s got a cold.//  --One of the victims had a broken leg.//\n  10 RECEIVE:   also have got  especially BrE //  to receive something//  --I had lots of phone calls.//  have sth from sb//  --Have you had any news yet from Graham?//  --I expect he had some help from his father.//\n  11 AMOUNT OF TIME:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE if you have a particular amount of time, it is available for you to do something//  --You have just 30 seconds to answer the question.//  have time (to do sth)//  --I haven’t time to stop and talk just now.//\n  12  have your hair cut/your house painted etc:  to pay a professional person to cut your hair etc for you//  --Where do you normally have your hair done?//  --We’d only just had a new engine put in.//\n  13  have sth stolen/broken/taken etc:  if you have something stolen, broken etc, someone steals, breaks etc something that belongs to you//  --She had all her jewellery stolen.//  --Mullins had his nose broken in a fight.//\n  14  have sth ready/done/finished etc:  to have made something ready to be used, or have finished doing something//  --I should have the car ready by Monday.//\n  15 IN A POSITION OR STATE:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE used to say that your body or something else is in a particular position or state, because you moved or did something//  have sth open/closed/on etc //  --I had my eyes half-closed.//  --Janice likes to have the window open.//  --She had her back to the door.//  have sth doing sth//  --He’s always got the stereo playing full blast.//\n  16 FAMILY/FRIENDS:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE used to say that there is someone who is your relation or friend//  --She has an uncle who lives in Wisconsin.//  --It was very nice for Alice to have friends of her own age.//\n  17 JOB/DUTY:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE to be employed in a particular job or to be responsible for doing something//  --Her boyfriend has a well-paid job.//  --The headteacher has responsibility for the management of the school.//  have sth to do//  --I can’t stand here talking - I have work to do (=there is work that I must do) .//\n  18 EMPLOY/BE IN CHARGE OF:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE to employ or be in charge of a group of workers//  --Margaret Gillies currently has a team of 20 volunteers working for her.//\n  19 GOODS/ROOMS AVAILABLE:   also have got //   [not in progressive ]  especially BrE if a shop or a hotel has goods or rooms, they are available for you to buy or use//  --Do you have any single rooms?//  --They didn’t have any sweaters in my size.//\n  20  have (got) sb with you:  if you have someone with you, they are present with you//  --Luckily I had a friend with me who spoke German.//\n  21 HOLD SOMEBODY:   also have got //   [not in progressive]  especially BrE to hold someone violently by a part of their body//  --They had him by the throat.//\n  22 VISITORS/GUESTS:  if you have visitors or guests, they have come to your home, office etc//  --Sorry, I didn’t realize you had visitors.//  --We had friends to stay over the weekend.//\n  23 EVENT:  if you have an event such as a meeting, party, or concert, it happens because you have organized it//  --We’re having a party on Saturday - you’re very welcome to come.//\n  24 EFFECT:  to cause a particular result//  --a mistake that could have disastrous results//  --Cardew was having a bad influence on the other students.//\n  25 OPPORTUNITY:  used to say that an opportunity or choice is available for you//  --If you have the chance, you should go and see it - it’s a really good film.//  --Women managers have a choice as to whether they wear trousers or a skirt.//  --Last year I had the honour of meeting the Duke of Edinburgh.//\n  26 BABY:  if a woman has a baby, it is born from her body//  --Anna insisted on having the baby at home.//\n  27 MAKE SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING:   [not in progressive] //  a) to affect someone in a way that makes them start doing something//  have sb laughing/crying etc //  --Within minutes he had the whole audience laughing and clapping.//  b) to persuade or order someone to do something//  have sb doing sth//  --She had me doing all kinds of jobs for her.//  have sb do sth//   especially AmE //  --I’ll have Hudson show you to your room.//\n  28  have done with sth:  to finish or settle an argument or a difficult situation//  --I should throw you out now and have done with it.//\n  29  rumour/legend/word has it:  used when you are reporting what people say or what a story says//  --Rumour has it that Kim is not his child.//\n  30  have (got) sth/sb (all) to yourself:  if you have a place, time, or person all to yourself, you do not have to share them with anyone else//  --He couldn’t wait to have Beth all to himself.//  --It was the first time I’d had a room to myself.//\n  31 SEX:   informal to have sex with someone//  --I expect she’s had lots of men.//\n  32  have it off/away with sb:   BrE  informal to have sex with someone//\n  33  spoken  can/could/may I have:  say this to politely ask someone to give you something//  --Can I have the bill, please?//  --Could we have our ball back?//\n  34  spoken  I’ll have/we’ll have:  say this to ask for something that you have chosen in a restaurant or shop//  --I’ll have a T-bone steak and chips, please.//\n  35  spoken OFFERING SOMEBODY SOMETHING:  used to offer something to someone//  --Have another sandwich.//  --Won’t you have a drink before you go?//  --Please have a seat, and the doctor will be right with you.//\n  36  spoken NOT ALLOW:   won’t/can’t have sth//  used to say that someone will not allow something to happen//  --They’re trying to play tricks on me again, but I won’t have it.//  won’t/can’t have sb doing sth//  --I won’t have you walking home all by yourself.//  --We can’t have people wandering about on private land.//\n  37  spoken  sb had (got) it coming:  used to say that you are not sorry that something bad has happened to someone, because they deserved it//  --I’m not surprised his wife left him - he’s had it coming for years.//\n  38  spoken  I’ve got it:  used to say you have suddenly thought of the solution to a problem or that you suddenly understand a situation//\n  39  spoken  you have me there:   also you’ve got me there //  used to say that you do not know the answer to a question//  --’What makes you think women can’t do that kind of work?’ He scratched his head. ’Well, now, you’ve got me there.’//\n  40  spoken  I’ll have you know:  used to start to tell someone something when you are annoyed with them//  --I’ll have you know you’re insulting the woman I love.//\n  41  spoken  have (got) it in for sb:  to want to make life difficult for someone because you dislike them//  --Dean thinks his teachers have it in for him.//\n  42  spoken  sb/sth has had it:  a) if someone has had it, they are going to fail or die, or be in serious trouble//  --Press the wrong button and you’ve had it.//  b) if someone has had it, they are very tired or annoyed and cannot continue with something//  --I can’t believe he’s done it again. I’ve had it with him!//  c)  BrE if something has had it, it no longer works and cannot be repaired//  --The engine’s had it.//\n  43  spoken  be not having any (of that):  to refuse to agree to something, listen to someone etc//  --I tried to explain to her, but she just wasn’t having any of it.//\n  44  spoken  sb has been had:  used to say that someone has been deceived, for example by being tricked into paying too much//  --You paid [hA124]200? You’ve been had!//  have (got) against / [have (got) sth against sb/sth] phr v//  to dislike or be opposed to someone or something for a particular reason//  --I don’t know what it is, but Roger seems to have something against women.//  --I can’t see what you’ve got against the idea.//  --I have nothing against foreigners (=have no reason to dislike them) .//  have (got) in [have (got) sb in] phr v//  if you have someone in, they are doing some work in your home, for example building work//  --We’ve had the builders in all week, so everything’s in a mess.//  have on //\n  1  have (got) sth on:  to be wearing a piece of clothing or type of clothing//  --He had his best suit on.//  --Jimmy had nothing on but his socks.//\n  2  have (got) the TV/radio/washing machine etc on:  if you have your television, radio etc on, you have switched it on and it is working//  --Billie has the radio on all day long.//\n  3  be having sb on:   especially BrE to be trying to make someone believe something that is not true, especially as a joke//  --Don’t believe a word he says. He’s having you on!//\n  4  have (got) sth on:   BrE to have arranged to do something, go somewhere etc, especially when this means you cannot do something else//  --Sorry, I can’t help you this weekend - I’ve got too much on already.//\n  5  have (got) sth on sb:  to know about something bad that someone has done//  --What do the police have on him?//\n  6  have (got) nothing on sb/sth:   informal to not be nearly as good as someone or something else//  --Rock ’n’ roll has got nothing on these African rhythms.//  have out [have sth out] phr v//\n  1 to have a tooth etc removed by a medical operation:\n  2  have it out (with sb):   informal to settle a disagreement or difficult situation by talking to the person involved, especially when you are angry with them//  --I’m going round to his house to have it out with him.//  have over [have sb over] phr v//  if you have someone over, they come to your house for a meal, drink etc because you have invited them//  --We must have you over for dinner before we leave.//  have up [have sb up] phr v//  to make someone go to a court of law because you think they have committed a crime//  have sb up for sth//  --Last year he was had up for drunken driving.//\nhave 3 S1 v have to do sth  also have got to do sth  especially BrE \n  1 if you have to do something, you must do it because it is necessary or because someone makes you do it:  --We don’t have to rush - there’s plenty of time.//  --I hate having to get up early in the morning.//  --If you earn more than [hA124]5000, you will have to pay tax.//  --I’ve got to be at the hospital at 4 o’clock.//  --It’ll have to be on a Sunday. I’ll be working every other day.//\n  2 used to say that it is important that something happens, or that something must happen if something else is to happen:  --There has to be an end to the violence.//  --You’ve got to believe me!//  --There will have to be a complete ceasefire before the Government will agree to talks.//  --You have to be good to succeed in this game.//\n  3 used to tell someone how to do something:  --First of all you have to mix the flour and the butter.//\n  4 used to say that you are sure that something will happen or something is true:  --House prices have to go up sooner or later.//  --This has to be a mistake.//  --You have got to be joking!//  --No one else could have done it - it had to be Neville.//\n  5 used to suggest that someone should do something because you think it would be enjoyable or useful:  --You’ll have to come and meet my wife some time - she’d love to meet you.//\n  6  spoken used when something annoying happens in a way that things always seem to happen:  --Of course it had to happen on today, when all the shops are shut.//\n  7  spoken used to say that only one thing or person is good enough or right for someone:  --For Francesca it has to be the Ritz - nowhere else will do.//\n  8  do you have to do sth?:   spoken used to ask someone to stop doing something that annoys you//  --Lieutenant, do you have to keep repeating everything I’ve just said?//\n  9  I have to say/admit/confess:   spoken used to show that you are making an honest statement even though it may be embarrassing for you//  --I have to say I don’t know the first thing about computers.//    must1 //


Words: have-nots
Meaning:
n   the have-nots//  the poor people in a country or society//  --a country where the have-nots far outnumber the haves //    haves//


Words: haven
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]fen]//  a place where people or animals can live peacefully or go to in order to be safe//  haven for//  --The riverbanks are a haven for wildlife.//  --St Ives, a haven for artists and hippies//  a haven of peace/tranquillity/calm //  --In the middle of the city, this garden is a haven of tranquillity.//    safe haven,  tax haven//


Words: haversack
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1700-1800; Language: French; Origin: havresac, from  German habersack, from  haber  ’oats’ +  sack  ’bag’]//   BrE  old-fashioned a bag that you carry on your back//   backpack, rucksack//


Words: haves
Meaning:
n   the haves//  the rich people in a country or society//  --the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots //    have-nots//


Words: Havisham
Meaning:
Miss   a character in the book  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. She is a strange, rich old woman who hates men because her future husband left her on their wedding day. She still wears her wedding dress and everything in her house has been left exactly as it was on her wedding day, and is now covered in  cobwebs.//


Words: havoc
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1400-1500; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: Old French havot  ’destruction, disorder’]//  a situation in which there is a lot of damage or a lack of order, especially so that it is difficult for something to continue in the normal way//  cause/create havoc //  --A strike will cause havoc for commuters.//  --policies that would wreak havoc on the country’s economy//  --Rain has continued to play havoc with sporting events.//


Words: Hawaii
Meaning:
HI a US state in the Pacific Ocean which consists of eight main islands, known as the Hawaiian Islands. Its capital city, Honolulu, is on the island of Oahu.//  -- Hawaiian n  adj //


Words: hawk
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hafoc]//\n  1 a large bird that hunts and eats small birds and animals:\n  2 a politician who believes in using military force:  → dove//\n  3  watch sb like a hawk:  to watch someone very carefully//\n  4  have eyes like a hawk:  to be quick to notice things, especially small details//\nhawk 2 v   [Sense: 1; Date: 1500-1600; Origin: hawker]//  [Sense: 2; Date: 1500-1600; Origin:  Probably from the sound]//\n  1 [T] to try to sell goods, usually by going from place to place and trying to persuade people to buy them:\n  2 [I and T] to cough up phlegm:


Words: hawker
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Low German; Origin: h[hA177]ker, from  Middle Low German hoken  ’to go around selling things’]//  someone who carries goods from place to place and tries to sell them//


Words: Hawking
Meaning:
Stephen   (1942- ) a British scientist who has developed important new ideas about  relativity and  black holes. He has continued working even though he suffers from a serious disease of the  nervous system, and he uses a special computer system in order to talk. He wrote an extremely popular book called  A Brief History of Time (1988), in which he explains his ideas about how the universe and time began and how they have developed.//


Words: hawkish
Meaning:
adj   supporting the use of military force in order to deal with political problems//  -- hawkishness n  [U] //


Words: Hawksmoor
Meaning:
Nicholas   (1661-1736) an English architect (=someone who designs buildings)  who worked with Sir Christoper  Wren on St Paul’s Cathedral and built many churches in London. He combined the  classical style of ancient Rome with the  gothic style.//


Words: Haworth
Meaning:
a small village in West Yorkshire, in northern England, which many tourists visit because the  Bront[hA16C] family, a family of famous writers, lived there. The area around the village is described in Emily Bront[hA16C]’s famous novel  Wuthering Heights.//


Words: hawser
Meaning:
n [C]  technical   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: hauceour, from  Old French haucier  ’to lift’, from  Latin altus  ’high’]//  a thick rope or steel cable used on a ship//


Words: hawthorn
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hagathorn, from  haga  ’hedge’ +  thorn]//  a small tree with small white flowers, red berries, and sharp points//


Words: Hawthorne
Meaning:
Nathaniel   (1806-64) a US writer of novels and short stories, whose most famous novels are  The Scarlet Letter and  The House of the Seven Gables. His books are mainly concerned with subjects such as  sin (=doing wrong)  and punishment.//


Words: hay
Meaning:
n [U]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hieg]//\n  1 long grass that has been cut and dried, often used as food for cattle:\n  2  make hay (while the sun shines):  to take the opportunity to do something now, because you may not be able to do it later//\n  3  hit the hay:   informal to go to bed//    a roll in the hay at roll2 (10)//


Words: hay fever
Meaning:
n [U]   a medical condition, like a bad cold that is caused by breathing in pollen (=dust from plants) //


Words: Haydn
Meaning:
Joseph   (1732-1809) an Austrian  composer who wrote over 100  symphonies and the  oratorio The Creation//


Words: haystack
Meaning:
n  also hayrick  [C]   a large, firmly built pile of hay//    like looking for a needle in a haystack at needle1 (7)//


Words: Hayward Gallery
Meaning:
the Hayward Gallery//  an  art gallery which is part of the  South Bank centre, on the southern side of the River Thames in London//


Words: haywire
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin:  From the use of hay-tying wire for quick repairs]//  go haywire//   informal to start working in completely the wrong way//  --My computer’s gone haywire.//


Words: hazard
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: hasard  ’game of chance played with dice’, from  Arabic az-zahr  ’the chance’]//\n  1 something that may be dangerous, or cause accidents or problems:  hazard to/for//  --Polluted water sources are a hazard to wildlife.//  --That pile of rubbish is a fire hazard  (=something that is likely to cause a fire) .//  health/safety hazard //  --the health hazard posed by lead in petrol//\n  2 a risk that cannot be avoided:  the hazards of sth //  --the economic hazards of running a small farm//  occupational hazard (=a danger that exists in a job) //  --Divorce seems to be an occupational hazard for politicians.//\nhazard 2 v [T] \n  1 to say something that is only a suggestion or guess and that might not be correct:  --$50,000? I don’t know. I’m only hazarding a guess .//\n  2  formal to risk losing your money, property etc in an attempt to gain something:


Words: hazardous
Meaning:
adj   dangerous, especially to people’s health or safety//  hazardous to//  --The chemicals in paint can be hazardous to health .//  --the disposal of hazardous waste //


Words: haze
Meaning:
n [singular, U]   [Date: 1700-1800; Origin:  Probably from  hazy]//\n  1 smoke, dust, or mist in the air which is difficult to see through:  haze of//  --a haze of cigarette smoke//  --The sun was surrounded by a golden haze.//\n  2 the feeling of being very confused and unable to think clearly:  --a drunken haze//\nhaze 2 v [T]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Probably from  haze  ’to frighten, punish’ (17-19 centuries), from  Old French haser]//   AmE to play tricks on a new student or to make them do silly or dangerous things, as part of joining the school or a club at the school//  -- hazing n  [U] //  --bizarre hazing rituals//  haze over phr v//  to become hazy//  --The sky hazed over.//


Words: hazel
Meaning:
n   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]sel]//\n  1 [U and C] a small tree that produces nuts:\n  2 [U] the green-brown colour of some people’s eyes:\nhazel 2 adj   hazel eyes are a green-brown colour//


Words: Hazlitt
Meaning:
William   (1778-1830) a British writer and  critic known for his  essays on many subjects, especially literature. His best-known collection of essays is called  Table Talk.//


Words: hazmat
Meaning:
HazMat/h[zB024]zm[zB024]t/ n [U]   hazardous materials substances that are dangerous to people’s health//  --Paint and other chemicals can be taken to a HazMat center for disposal.//


Words: hazy
Meaning:
adj \n  1 air that is hazy is not clear because there is a lot of smoke, dust, or mist in it:  --hazy sunshine//\n  2 an idea, memory etc that is hazy is not clear or exact:  --My memories of the holiday are rather hazy.//  hazy about//  --She was a little hazy about the details.//  -- hazily adv //  -- haziness n  [U] //


Words: he
Meaning:
pron [used as the subject of a verb]   [Language: Old English; Origin:]//\n  1 used to refer to a man, boy, or male animal that has already been mentioned or is already known about:  --’Where’s Paul?’ ’He’s gone to the cinema.’//  --It was he who first suggested the idea.//\n  2 used when talking about someone who may be male or female. Some people think this use is old-fashioned:  --Everyone should do what he considers best.//\n  3  He:  used when writing about God//  ----------//  HINT sense 2 //  See also:  they//  ----------//\nhe 2   n [singular]  informal   a male person or animal//  --I discovered that Mel wasn’t a he, but a she.//


Words: he’d
Meaning:
1 the short form of ’he had’:  --By the time I got there he’d gone.//\n  2 the short form for ’he would’:  --I’m sure he’d help if he could.//


Words: he’s
Meaning:
1 the short form of ’he is’:  --He’s a writer.//  --He’s reading.//\n  2 the short form of ’he has’:  --He’s bought a new car.//


Words: head
Meaning:
n   ----------//\n   1 top of body:\n   2 mind:\n   3 calm/sensible:\n   4 person in charge:\n   5 front/leading position:\n   6 crazy:\n   7 a head/per head:\n   8 river/valley:\n   9 come to a head:\n   9 bring something to a head:\n  10 flower/plant:\n  11 height/distance:\n  12 coin:\n  13 laugh/shout/scream etc your head off:\n  14 have a good/fine/thick etc head of hair:\n  15 get/put your head down:\n  16 keep your head down:\n  17 as soon as your head hits the pillow:\n  18 be out of/off your head:\n  19 go to somebody’s head:\n  20 tool:\n  21 put your heads together:\n  22 go over somebody’s head:\n  23 can’t make head or/nor tail of something:\n  24 have your head in the clouds:\n  25 have a (good) head for figures/facts/business etc:\n  26 head for heights:\n  27 a big head:\n  28 keep your head above water:\n  29 be/stand head and shoulders above somebody:\n  30 hold up your head:\n  31 be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall:\n  32 bang/knock somebody’s heads together:\n  33 bite/snap somebody’s head off:\n  34 turn/stand something on its head:\n  35 give somebody their head:\n  36 be/fall head over heels in love:\n  37 heads will roll:\n  38 the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing:\n  39 on your own head be it:\n  40 do your head in:\n  41 be/get in over your head:\n  42 be over your head in debt:\n  43 go head to head with somebody:\n  44 heads up!:\n  45 beer:\n  46 electronics:\n  47 head of cattle/sheep etc:\n  48 head of water/steam:\n  49 land:\n  50 infection:\n  51 give (somebody) head:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: heafod]//\n  1 TOP OF BODY:   [C] the top part of your body that has your face at the front and is supported by your neck//  --He kissed the top of her head.//  -- He  turned  his  head  and looked at me. //  -- The men were whispering and  shaking  their  heads . //  -- ’You’re pregnant?’ She  nodded  her  head . //  -- Let us all  bow  our  heads  in prayer. //  -- I had no reason to  hang  my  head . I had nothing to be ashamed of. //  -- Her  head  was  cocked  to one side. //  --Tommy  scratched his  head  thoughtfully.//  -- My  head’s throbbing . I’m going to bed. //  --He was shaking  from head to foot .//  --Brian’s  bald head  glistened in the blazing sun.//  -- Wearing a helmet reduces the risk of  head injury . //\n  2 MIND:   [C] your mind or mental ability//  --The problem only exists inside his head.//  do sth in your head (=calculate something mentally) //  --I can’t do those figures in my head.//  -- Use your head to work out the answer.//  come into/pop into your head //  --Jackie said the first thing that came into her head.//  get sth into your head (=understand something) //  --’It’s over, Jake,’ she said. ’Try and get that into your head.’//  take/get it into your head (to do sth) (=decide to do something, especially something stupid) //  --At about two in the morning, Alan took it into his head to go for a swim.//  get/put sth out of your head (=stop thinking or worrying about something) //  --Try to put it out of your head for the time being.//  put sth into sb’s head (=make someone think or believe something) //  --What’s put that idea into her head?//  get your head round sth  British English  (=be able to understand something) //  --I just can’t get my head round what’s been going on here.//\n  3 CALM/SENSIBLE:  a)  keep your head//  to remain calm and sensible in a difficult or frightening situation//  --We need a candidate who can keep his or her head even when clients get aggressive.//  keep a clear/cool/calm head //  --Get to sleep early tonight - you’ll need to keep a clear head tomorrow at the trial.//  b)  lose your head//  to become unable to behave calmly or sensibly in a difficult or frightening situation//  --You’ll be OK as long as you don’t lose your head and forget he’s the real enemy.//  c)  have your head screwed on (straight/right)//   informal to be sensible and able to deal with difficult situations//  --He wondered what Gemma thought about it all. She seemed to have her head screwed on.//\n  4 PERSON IN CHARGE:   [C] //  a) a leader or person in charge of a group or organization//  head of//  --You should discuss the matter with your head of department.//  --A meeting of Commonwealth heads of state will be held next month.//  head waiter/chef/gardener etc (=the person in charge of a group of waiters etc) //  b)  also head teacher //   British English the person in charge of a school//  American Equivalent:  principal//  --From now on all violent incidents should be reported directly to the head.//    crowned head,  head boy,  head girl,  headmaster,  headmistress//\n  5 FRONT/LEADING POSITION:   [singular] the front or the most important position//  (at) the head of sth //  --Jenny marched proudly at the head of the procession.//  -- At the head of the table  (=the place where the most important person sits) sat the senior partners.//  at sth’s/sb’s head //  --The band of soldiers marched into the yard, their defeated captain at their head.//\n  6 CRAZY:   [C usually singular] used in particular phrases to talk about someone being crazy or very stupid//  --People going out in conditions like this need their heads examined .//  be off your head  British English //  --You must be off your head if you think that.//  --If I walk in looking like that, they’ll think I’m not right in the head .//\n  7  a head/per head:  for each person//  --Dinner works out at $30 a head.//  --average incomes per head//\n  8 RIVER/VALLEY:   [C usually singular] the place where a river, valley etc begins//\n  9  come to a head:   also  bring sth to a head//  if a problem or difficult situation comes to a head, or something brings it to a head, it suddenly becomes worse and has to be dealt with quickly//  -- Things came to a head in the summer of 1997.//\n  10 FLOWER/PLANT:   [C] the top of a plant where its flowers or leaves grow//  --She was outside cutting the dead heads off the roses.//  head of//  --a head of lettuce//\n  11 HEIGHT/DISTANCE:   [singular] the length of a head, used to measure height or distance//  --She saw her father, a head above the rest of the crowd.//  by a (short) head (=used to say that a horse won or lost a race but only by a small amount) //\n  12 COIN:   heads//  the side of a coin that has a picture of a person’s head on it//  heads or tails?  BrE  spoken  (=used to decide something, by asking someone which side of a coin they guess will be showing when you throw it in the air and it lands) //    tails at tail1 (5b)//\n  13  laugh/shout/scream etc your head off:   informal to laugh, shout etc very loudly//  --Fans were screaming their heads off.//\n  14  have a good/fine/thick etc head of hair:  to have a lot of hair on your head//\n  15  get/put your head down:   informal //  a) to start working in a quiet determined way//  --It’s time you got your head down and did some revision.//  b)  BrE to sleep//\n  16  keep your head down:  to try to avoid being noticed or getting involved in something//  --Do what you’re told and keep your head down.//\n  17  as soon as your head hits the pillow:  if you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow, you fall asleep as soon as you lie down//\n  18  be out of/off your head:   informal //  a) to not know what you are doing because you have taken drugs or drunk too much alcohol//  --He was off his head on various drugs.//\n  19  go to sb’s head:   informal //  a) if alcohol goes to your head, it quickly makes you feel drunk//  b) if success goes to someone’s head, it makes them feel more important than they really are//  --She never let fame go to her head.//\n  20 TOOL:   [C usually singular] the wide end of a long narrow tool or piece of equipment//\n  21  put your heads together:  to discuss a difficult problem together//  --The next morning, we all put our heads together to decide what should be done.//\n  22  go over sb’s head:  a) to be too difficult for someone to understand//  --The explanation went completely over my head.//  b) to do something without discussing it with a particular person or organization first, especially when you should have discussed it with them//  --The President went over the head of Congress and called a referendum.//\n  23  can’t make head or/nor tail of sth:   informal to be completely unable to understand something//\n  24  have your head in the clouds:  to think about something in a way that is not practical or sensible, especially when you think things are much better than they really are//\n  25  have a (good) head for figures/facts/business etc:  to be naturally good at doing calculations, remembering facts etc//\n  26  head for heights:  the ability to look down from high places without feeling ill or nervous//\n  27  a big head:   informal the opinion that you are much better, more important, more skilful etc than you really are//  --I suppose I did do OK, but I’d be silly to get a big head about it.//\n  28  keep your head above water:  to manage to continue to live on your income or keep your business working when this is difficult because of financial problems//  --For years they struggled to keep their heads above water.//\n  29  be/stand head and shoulders above sb:  to be much better than other people//  --One contestant stood head and shoulders above the rest.//\n  30  hold up your head:   also hold your head high //  to show pride or confidence, especially in a difficult situation//  --If you do this, you’ll never be able to hold your head up again.//\n  31  be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall:   spoken used to say that you are making no progress at all in what you are trying hard to do//  --I’ve tried to talk some sense into them, but it’s like banging my head against a brick wall.//\n  32  bang/knock sb’s heads together:   spoken used to say that two people or groups should be forced to stop arguing and start to behave sensibly//\n  33  bite/snap sb’s head off:  to talk to someone very angrily with no good reason//  --I offered to help her, but she just bit my head off.//\n  34  turn/stand sth on its head:  to make people think about something in the opposite way to the way it was originally intended//  --The attorney quickly turned his main defense argument on its head.//\n  35  give sb their head:  to give someone the freedom to do what they want to do//\n  36  be/fall head over heels in love:  to love or suddenly start to love someone very much//  --Sam was head over heels in love with his new bride.//\n  37  heads will roll:   spoken used to say that someone will be punished severely for something that has happened//  --Heads will roll for this!//\n  38  the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing:  used to say that two parts of an organization that should be doing the same thing are each doing different things without the other knowing//\n  39  on your own head be it:   spoken used to tell someone that they will be blamed if the thing they are planning to do goes wrong//\n  40  do your head in:   BrE  spoken  informal to make you feel confused and annoyed//  --Turn that noise down - it’s doing my head in!//\n  41  be/get in over your head:  to be or get involved in something that is too difficult for you to deal with//  --In business, start small and don’t get in over your head.//\n  42  be over your head in debt:   AmE to owe so much money that there is no possibility of paying it all back//\n  43  go head to head with sb:  to deal with or oppose someone in a very direct and determined way//  --Rather than go head to head with their main rivals, they decided to try a more subtle approach.//\n  44  heads up!:   AmE  spoken used to warn people that something is falling from above//\n  45 BEER:   [C] the layer of small white bubbles on the top of a glass of beer//\n  46 ELECTRONICS:   [C] a piece of equipment that changes information on a recording tape, a computer hard disk etc into electrical messages that electronic equipment can use//\n  47  head of cattle/sheep etc [plural] a particular number of cows, sheep etc:  --a farm with 20 head of cattle//\n  48  head of water/steam:  pressure that is made when water or steam is kept in an enclosed space//\n  49 LAND:   [singular]  BrE a high area of land that sticks out into the sea - used in names//  --Beachy Head//\n  50 INFECTION:   [C] the centre of a swollen spot on your skin//\n  51  give (sb) head:   informal to perform oral sex on someone//    bury your head in the sand at bury(8),  knock sth on the head at knock1 (16),  off the top of your head at top1 (18),  sb can do sth standing on their head at stand1 (40),  turn sb’s head at turn1 (18),  two heads are better than one at two(8)//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  turn your head //  shake your head  (=move it from side to side, especially to show disagreement) //  nod your head  (=move it up and down, especially to show agreement) //  raise/lift your head (=look up) //  bow/bend/lower your head  (=look downwards) //  hang your head  (=look downwards, especially because you are ashamed) //  cock your head  (=hold your head at an angle) //  scratch your head //  somebody’s head aches //  somebody’s head throbs  (=it aches badly) //  from head to foot/toe (=over your whole body) //  bald head  (=one with no hair on it) //  the crown of your head  (=the top of the back of your head) //  head injury //  ----------//\nhead 2 v   ----------//\n   1 go towards:\n   2 future:\n   3 be in charge:\n   4 at top:\n   5 at front:\n   6 football:  Phrasal verbs//   head off//  ----------//\n  1 GO TOWARDS:   also be headed //   [I always + adverb/preposition] to go or travel towards a particular place, especially in a deliberate way//  head for/towards/back etc//  --The ship was heading for Cuba.//  --It’s about time we were heading home .//  head north/south etc //  --We headed south towards the capital.//  --Where are you guys headed?//\n  2 FUTURE:   be heading//   also be headed //   [I always + adverb/preposition] if you are heading for a particular situation, especially a bad one, it seems likely to happen//  be heading for//  --Forecasters predict the region’s economy is heading for disaster.//  --Where is your life heading?//\n  3 BE IN CHARGE:   also head up //   [T] to be in charge of a team, government, organization etc//  --David was asked to head up the technical team.//  --an interim government headed by the former Prime Minister//\n  4 AT TOP:   [T] //  a) to be at the top of a list or group of people or things//  --The movie heads the list of Oscar nominations.//  b)  be headed//  if a page is headed with a particular name, title, image etc, it has it on the top//  --The page was headed ’Expenses’.//  --officially-headed writing paper//\n  5 AT FRONT:   [T] to be at the front of a line of people//  --a procession headed by the Queen//\n  6 FOOTBALL:   [I,T always + adverb/preposition] to hit the ball with your head, especially in football//  head off phr v//\n  1 to leave to go to another place:  --I’m heading off now.//\n  2  head sth → off:  to prevent something from happening, especially something bad//  --The President intervened to head off the conflict.//\n  3  head sb → off:  to stop someone going somewhere by moving in front of them//  --Soldiers headed them off at the border.//


Words: head count
Meaning:
n \n  1 [C] the act of counting how many people are present in a particular place at one time:  --The teachers did a headcount to check that none of the kids were missing.//\n  2 [U and C]  technical the number of people working for a company:


Words: head game
Meaning:
n [C usually plural]  AmE  informal   if you play head games with someone, especially someone you are in a romantic relationship with, you deceive them or try to get them to behave as you want them to//  --He’s obviously playing head games with you.//


Words: head of state plural
Meaning:
heads of state  n [C]   the main representative of a country, such as a queen, king, or president, who may not have duties in the country’s government//


Words: head start
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 an advantage that helps you to be successful:  give sb/get/have a head start //  --Give your children a head start by sending them to nursery school.//\n  2 a start in a race in which you begin earlier or further ahead than someone else:


Words: head table
Meaning:
n [C]   a table at a formal meal where the most important people sit, or the people who are giving speeches//


Words: head-first
Meaning:
headfirst/hedf[hA362][hA359]st[hA36B] $ -f[hA362][hA359]rst[hA36B]/ adv \n  1 if you fall headfirst, your head goes down first, and the rest of your body follows afterwards:  dive/fall/jump/plunge head-first //  --I fell head-first down the stairs.//\n  2 if you do something head-first, you become involved in it too quickly, without having time to think about it carefully:  --a remark that sent him tumbling head-first into another controversy//


Words: head-on
Meaning:
adv \n  1  crash/collide/smash etc head-on:  if two vehicles crash etc head-on, the front part of one vehicle hits the front part of the other//\n  2 if someone deals with a problem head-on, they do not try to avoid it, but deal with it in a direct and determined way:  face/tackle/meet sth head-on //  --The police are trying to tackle car crime head-on.//\n  3 if two people or teams meet head-on in an argument, competition etc, they compete against each other and try to win in a very determined way:  -- head-on adj //  --a head-on collision //


Words: head-to-head
Meaning:
adv   competing directly with another person or group//  --Courier companies are going head-to-head with the Post Office.//  -- head-to-head adj //  --a head-to-head contest//  -- head-to-head n  [C] //


Words: headache
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 a pain in your head:  --I had a really bad headache , and couldn’t go to work.//  a splitting/pounding headache (=a very bad headache) //\n  2  informal a problem that is annoying or difficult to deal with:  -- headachy adj //  --a headachy feeling//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not say that you ’have headache’. Say that you have a headache. //  ----------//


Words: headbanger
Meaning:
n [C]    informal someone who enjoys heavy metal music and moves their head around violently to the beat of the music//  -- headbanging n  [U] //  -- headbang v  [I] //


Words: headdress
Meaning:
n [C]   something that someone wears on their head, especially for decoration on a special occasion//  --The bride wore white with a pearl headdress.//


Words: headed
Meaning:
adj \n  1  red-headed/curly-headed etc:  having red hair, curly hair etc//  --a  bald-headed man   (=having no hair) in a shiny suit//\n  2  two-headed/three-headed etc:  having two heads etc//  --a two-headed monster//\n  3  headed notepaper/paper:   BrE paper for writing letters that has your name and address printed at the top//


Words: header
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 an action in football in which you hit the ball with your head:\n  2 information at the top of a page, especially things such as numbers that appear on each page of a document:\n  3 information at the beginning of an email message that shows when it was sent, who wrote it etc:    double-header//


Words: headhunter
Meaning:
n [C]   someone who finds people with the right skills and experience to do particular jobs, and who tries to persuade them to leave their present jobs//  -- headhunt v  [T] //


Words: heading
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 the title written at the beginning of a piece of writing, or at the beginning of part of a book:  --chapter headings//\n  2 a name that is given to a group of things or people, that helps to describe them as a group:  --writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers//


Words: headless
Meaning:
adj \n  1 without a head:  --a headless corpse//\n  2  run around like a headless chicken:   informal to be going from one place to another in a way that is not organized at all//


Words: Headless Horseman
Meaning:
the   a  ghost (=the spirit of a dead person)  with no head, who rides a horse. He appears in several ghost stories, the most famous of which is  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) by Washington  Irving.//


Words: headlight
Meaning:
n  also headlamp  [C usually plural]   fog lamp, headlight, indicator, mirror//\n  1 one of the large lights at the front of a vehicle, or the beam of light produced by this:  --Suddenly, a figure appeared in my headlights .//\n  2  like a rabbit/deer caught in headlights:  so frightened or confused that you do not know what to do//


Words: headline
Meaning:
S3   n [C] \n  1 the title of a newspaper report, which is printed in large letters above the report:  --a paper carrying the front-page headline: ’Space Aliens meet with President’//\n  2  the headlines:  the important points of the main news stories that are read at the beginning of a news programme on radio or television//\n  3  make/grab (the) headlines:   also be in/hit the headlines //  to be reported in many newspapers and on radio and television//  --a scandal that grabbed the headlines for weeks//  --The former MP found himself back in the headlines again.//\nheadline 2 v \n  1 [I and T] to appear as the main performer or band in a show:  --Eminem is headlining at the festival this year.//\n  2 [T usually passive] to give a headline to an article or story:


Words: headline-grabbing
Meaning:
adj   headline-grabbing news is important and reported in many newspapers and on radio and television//  --The story was headline-grabbing material in the nationals.//


Words: headlock
Meaning:
n [C]   a way of holding someone around their neck so that they cannot move//  --His opponent had him in a headlock .//


Words: headlong
Meaning:
adv   [Date: 1300-1400; Origin: headling  ’head-first’ (14-17 centuries), from  head +  -ling  ’in a particular direction’]//\n  1  rush/plunge headlong into sth:  if you rush headlong into something, you start doing it too quickly without thinking carefully//\n  2 with your head first and the rest of your body following:   headfirst//  --I fell headlong into a pool of icy water.//\n  3 very quickly, without looking where you are going:  --Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol.//  -- headlong adj //


Words: headman
Meaning:
n   plural  headmen /-men/ [C] //  the most important man in a village where a tribe lives//   chief//


Words: headmaster
Meaning:
n [C]  BrE   a male teacher who is in charge of a school//   head teacher//  American Equivalent:  principal//


Words: headmistress
Meaning:
n [C]  BrE   a female teacher who is in charge of a school//   head teacher//  American Equivalent:  principal//


Words: headphones
Meaning:
n [plural]   a piece of equipment that you wear over your ears to listen to the radio, music etc without other people hearing it//


Words: headquartered
Meaning:
adj   be headquartered//  to have your headquarters at a particular place//  --Many top companies are headquartered in northern California.//


Words: headquarters
Meaning:
W3   n  abbreviation HQ   plural  headquarters  [C] //\n  1 the main building or offices used by a large company or organization:  --the headquarters of the United Nations//\n  2 the place from which military operations are controlled:


Words: headrest
Meaning:
n [C]   the top part of a chair or of a seat in a car, plane etc that supports the back of your head//


Words: headroom
Meaning:
n [U] \n  1 the amount of space above your head, especially when you are in a car:\n  2  BrE the amount of space above a vehicle when it is under a bridge:


Words: headrush
Meaning:
n [C]   a sudden feeling of extreme pleasure and excitement, especially one that you get soon after using an illegal drug such as ecstasy or cocaine//


Words: headscarf
Meaning:
n   plural  headscarves /-sk[hA35A][hA359]vz $ -sk[hA35A][hA359]rvz/ [C] //  a square piece of cloth that women wear on their heads and tie under their chins//


Words: headship
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 the position of being in charge of an organization:\n  2  BrE the job of being in charge of a school:


Words: headstand
Meaning:
n [C]   a position in which you turn your body  upside down, with your head and hands on the floor and your legs and feet in the air//  --Can you do a headstand ?//


Words: headstone
Meaning:
n [C]   a piece of stone on a  grave, with the name of the dead person written on it//   gravestone, tombstone//


Words: headway
Meaning:
n   make headway//  a) to make progress towards achieving something - used especially when this is difficult//  make headway towards/in/with etc//  --Foreign firms have made little headway in the U.S. market.//  b) to move forwards - used especially when this is slow or difficult//  --Stormy weather stopped the ship from making headway.//


Words: heady
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun] \n  1 a heady smell, drink etc is pleasantly strong and seems to affect you strongly:  --a heady combination of wine and brandy//\n  2 very exciting in a way that makes you feel as if you can do anything you want to:  --the heady atmosphere of the early sixties//


Words: heal
Meaning:
v [I and T]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]lan]//\n  1  also heal up :  if a wound or a broken bone heals or is healed, the flesh, skin, or bone grows back together and becomes healthy again//  --It took three months for my arm to heal properly.//\n  2 to make someone who is ill become healthy again, especially by using natural powers or prayer:    cure//  --a preacher who claims that he can heal the sick//\n  3 to become mentally or emotionally strong again after a bad experience, or to help someone to do this:  --Ann says the only way to heal after rape is to talk about it.//  --The trauma of divorce can often be healed by successful remarriage.//\n  4 if an argument or disagreement between people heals or you heal it, the people stop arguing or disagreeing:  heal the wounds/breach/division/rift //  --Our main goal must be to heal the divisions in our society.//  --The rift between the two younger men never healed.//  heal over phr v//  if a wound or an area of broken skin heals over, new skin grows over it and it becomes healthy again//


Words: healer
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 someone who is believed to be able to cure people using natural powers, rather than by using medicine:    faith healer at faith healing//\n  2 something that makes a bad experience seem less painful:  --Time is a great healer.//


Words: healing
Meaning:
n [U] \n  1 the treatment of illness using natural powers or prayer rather than medicine:  --The medical establishment is taking healing increasingly seriously.//    faith healing//\n  2 the process of becoming healthy and strong again:  --the healing process//


Words: health
Meaning:
n [U]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]lth, from  hal;   WHOLE1]//\n  1 the general condition of your body and how healthy you are:  --I’m worried about my husband’s health.//  --Smoking can seriously  damage  your  health . //  -- things that can be done to  improve  the  health  of older people //  --I have always enjoyed  good health .//  --Sara had to leave her job due to ill health .//  -- He is 75 and  in poor health . //  -- A low-fat diet is  better for  your  health .//  -- The type of vitamin needed depends on  the state of health  of the individual. //  -- a young man with  mental health problems //  -- the  health benefits  of doing yoga //  --Air pollution is a serious  health hazard .//\n  2 the work of providing medical services to keep people healthy:  --The government has promised to spend more on health and education.//  --health insurance//  --nurses and other health workers//    public health//\n  3 when you have no illness or disease:  --Even if you haven’t got much money, at least you’ve got your health.//  --When we last met, he was  glowing with health  (=was clearly very healthy) .//\n  4 how successful something such as a business, an organization, or a country’s economy is:  --The monthly trade figures are seen as an indicator of the health of the economy.//    a clean bill of health at clean1 (13)//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  damage your health //  improve your health //  good/excellent health //  poor/ill health //  failing health  (=when someone is becoming more ill) //  be in good/excellent/the best of health //  be in poor health //  be good/bad for your health //  somebody’s state of health //  mental health //  health care //  health problem //  health benefits (of something) //  health risk/hazard  (=something that could damage your health) //  health warning (=a warning printed on a product that can harm you) //  HINT sense 1 //  Do not say that something is ’good for health’ or ’bad for health’. Say that it is good for your health or bad for your health. //  ----------//


Words: health and safety
Meaning:
n [U]   an area of government and law concerned with people’s health and safety, especially at work//  --health and safety regulations//


Words: Health and Safety at Work Act
Meaning:
the   a set of laws made in the UK in 1974 in order to protect people at work and make sure that they do not have to work in dangerous conditions, without the proper clothing or safety equipment etc//


Words: Health and Safety Executive
Meaning:
the   HSE  a British government organization that gives advice to companies about health and safety, and makes rules to prevent workers from being injured or becoming ill at work//    OSHA//


Words: health care
Meaning:
n [U]   the service that is responsible for looking after the health of all the people in a country or an area//  --The government has promised wide-ranging health care for all.//  --health care workers//


Words: health centre
Meaning:
BrE  health center AmE n [C]   a building where several doctors work, and where people can go for medical treatment//


Words: health farm
Meaning:
n [C]  BrE   a place where people pay to stay so that they can do physical exercise, eat healthy food, and have beauty treatments//  American Equivalent:  health spa//


Words: health service
Meaning:
n [C]   a public service that is responsible for providing people with medical care//  --reforms to the health service//    National Health Service//


Words: health spa
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE   a place where people pay to stay so that they can do physical exercise, eat healthy food, and have beauty treatments//  British Equivalent:  health farm//


Words: healthy
Meaning:
W3S3   adj   comparative  healthier superlative  healthiest //  ----------//\n   1 person/animal/plant:\n   2 good for your body:\n   3 showing good health:\n   4 behaviour/attitude:\n   5 company/relationship etc:\n   6 amount:  ----------//\n  1 PERSON/ANIMAL/PLANT:  physically strong and not likely to become ill or weak//  --a healthy baby boy//  --I’ve always been perfectly healthy until now.//\n  2 GOOD FOR YOUR BODY:  good for your body//  --a healthy lifestyle//  --a healthy diet //  --the importance of healthy eating //\n  3 SHOWING GOOD HEALTH:  showing that you are healthy//  --Her face had a healthy glow .//  --All of our kids have healthy appetites  (=they like to eat a lot) .//\n  4 BEHAVIOUR/ATTITUDE:  used to describe an attitude, feeling, or behaviour that is natural, normal, and sensible//  --I don’t think it’s healthy for her to spend so much time alone.//  healthy respect/disrespect/scepticism etc //  --a healthy disrespect for silly regulations//\n  5 COMPANY/RELATIONSHIP ETC:  a healthy company, society, relationship, economy etc is working effectively and successfully//  --a healthy economy with a well-trained workforce//\n  6 AMOUNT:  large and showing that someone is successful - used about amounts of money//  --a healthy profit//  --a healthy bank balance//  -- healthily adv //  -- healthiness n  [U] //


Words: Heaney
Meaning:
Seamus   (1939- ) an Irish poet. His collections of poems include  Death of a Naturalist,  The Haw Lantern and  Seeing Things. In 1995, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.//


Words: heap
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin:]//\n  1 a large untidy pile of things:  --a rubbish heap//  heap of//  --There was a heap of stones where the building used to be.//  in a heap//  --The envelopes for posting lay in a heap on her desk.//  --We piled the branches into heaps for burning.//\n  2  heaps:   informal a lot of something//  heaps of//  --The children have heaps of energy.//  heaps better/bigger etc (=much better, bigger etc) //\n  3  fall/collapse etc in a heap:  to fall down and lie without moving//  --They finally collapsed in a heap on the grass.//\n  4  humorous an old car that is in bad condition:\n  5  at the top/bottom of the heap:  high up and successful or low down and unsuccessful in an organization or in society//  --The very poor are at the bottom of the heap.//\n  6  be struck all of a heap:   BrE  old-fashioned  informal to be suddenly very surprised or confused//\nheap 2 v [T] \n  1  also heap up :  to put a lot of things on top of each other in an untidy way//   pile//  heap on//  --Jean heaped logs on the fire.//\n  2  heap sth with sth:  to put a lot of something on a surface//   pile//  --She gave him a glass of whisky and heaped his plate with food.//\n  3  heap praise/insults etc on sb:  to praise, insult etc someone a lot//  --He heaped all the blame on his secretary.//


Words: heaped
Meaning:
adj  BrE   heaped teaspoon/tablespoon etc//  an amount of something that is as much as a spoon can hold//  --Add three heaped teaspoons of sugar.//


Words: hear
Meaning:
v   past tense and past participle  heard /h[hA362][hA359]d $ h[hA362][hA359]rd///  ----------//\n   1 hear sounds/words etc:\n   2 listen to somebody/something:\n   3 be told something:\n   4 in court:\n   5 have heard of somebody/something:\n   6 not hear the last of somebody:\n   7 you could hear a pin drop:\n   8 won’t/wouldn’t hear of it:\n   9 I/he etc will never hear the end of it:\n  10 be hearing things:\n  11 (do) you hear?:\n  12 you can’t hear yourself think:\n  13 now hear this!:\n  14 hear! hear!:\n  15 have you heard the one about...:\n  16 I’ve heard that one before:  Phrasal verbs//   hear from somebody//   hear somebody out//  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hieran]//\n  1 HEAR SOUNDS/WORDS ETC:   [I,T not in progressive] to know that a sound is being made, using your ears//  --Blanche heard a crash as the back door was flung open.//  --Did anyone see or hear anything last night?//  --Old Zeke doesn’t hear too well any more.//  hear sb/sth doing sth//  --Jenny could hear them arguing outside.//  hear sb do sth//  --She heard Tom go upstairs.//  hear what/who etc//  --I couldn’t hear what they were saying most of the time.//  be heard to do sth//  --She didn’t want to be heard to criticize him.//\n  2 LISTEN TO SOMEBODY/SOMETHING:   [T not in progressive] to listen to what someone is saying, the music they are playing etc//  --Maggie did not wait to hear an answer.//  --Did you hear that programme on whales the other night?//  hear what//  --I want to hear what the doctor has to say.//  I hear what you say/what you’re saying  spoken  (=used to tell someone that you have listened to their opinion, but do not agree with it) //  --I hear what you say, but I don’t think we should rush this decision.//\n  3 BE TOLD SOMETHING:   [I,T not usually in progressive] to be told or find out a piece of information//  --I heard a rumor that he was getting married soon.//  hear (that)//  --I’m so sorry to hear he died.//  --She’ll be pleased to hear that she can leave hospital tomorrow.//  hear about//  --Teresa heard about the decision later.//  hear of//  --I’ve heard of a job which would be just right for you.//  --This was the first I’d heard of any trouble in the area (=I had just heard news of trouble for the first time) .//  --He was last heard of in Washington (=he was in Washington the last time someone had information about him) .//  hear anything/much of sb/sth //  --We don’t hear anything of him these days.//  so I hear/so I’ve heard  spoken  (=used to say that you have been told something or know it already) //  --There’s a nasty infection going round, so I hear.//  hear what/how/who etc//  --Did you hear what happened to Julia?//  --I’ve heard it said that they met in Italy.//\n  4 IN COURT:   [T] to listen to all the facts in a case in a court of law in order to make a legal decision//  --The Supreme Court heard the case on Tuesday.//\n  5  have heard of sb/sth:  to know that someone or something exists because they have been mentioned to you before//  --’Do you know Jill Marshall?’ ’No, I’ve never heard of her.’//\n  6  not hear the last of sb:  used to say that someone will continue to complain about something or cause problems//  --I’ll sue him. He hasn’t heard the last of me yet.//\n  7  you could hear a pin drop:  used to emphasize how quiet a place is//  --You could have heard a pin drop in there.//\n  8  spoken  won’t/wouldn’t hear of it:  used to say that you refuse to agree with a suggestion or proposal//  --I said we should go back, but Dennis wouldn’t hear of it.//\n  9  spoken  I/he etc will never hear the end of it:  used to say that someone will continue to talk about something for a long time//  --If my Mum finds out, I’ll never hear the end of it.//\n  10  spoken  be hearing things:  to imagine you can hear a sound when really there is no sound//  --There’s no one there. I must be hearing things.//\n  11  spoken  (do) you hear?:  used to emphasize that you are giving someone an order and they must obey you//  --I want you to leave right now. Do you hear?//\n  12  spoken  you can’t hear yourself think:  used to emphasize how noisy a place is//  --Just shut up, Tom. I can’t hear myself think.//\n  13  spoken  now hear this!:   AmE  old use used to introduce an important official announcement//\n  14  spoken  hear! hear!:  used in a discussion or meeting to say that you agree with what the speaker is saying//\n  15  spoken  have you heard the one about...:  used when asking someone if they know a joke//\n  16  spoken  I’ve heard that one before:  used when you do not believe someone’s excuse or explanation//    unheard of//  hear from [hear from sb] phr v//\n  1 to receive news or information from someone:  --Do you ever hear from Jack?//  --Police want to hear from anyone who has any information about the attack.//  --I look forward to hearing from you  (=hope to receive news from you) .//\n  2 to listen to someone giving their opinion in a radio or television discussion programme:  --a chance to hear from some of the victims of violent crime//  hear out [hear sb out] phr v//  to listen to all of what someone wants to tell you without interrupting them//  --Just hear me out, will you?//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not confuse hear with listen to , which means ’hear and pay attention to’: You should listen to my advice (NOT You should hear my advice). //  ----------//


Words: hearing
Meaning:
W2S3   n \n  1 [U] the sense which you use to hear sounds:  have good/bad etc hearing //  --She has remarkable hearing for a lady of her age.//  --a child with a hearing disability//    hard of hearing//\n  2 [C] a meeting of a court or special committee to find out the facts about a case:  --a court hearing//  --a disciplinary hearing//\n  3 [C usually singular] an opportunity for someone to explain their actions, ideas, or opinions:  --Let’s give both sides a fair hearing .//\n  4  in/within sb’s hearing:  if you say something in someone’s hearing, you say it where they can hear you//  --There are some words we don’t use in the children’s hearing.//


Words: hearing aid
Meaning:
n [C]   a small object which fits into or behind your ear to make sounds louder, worn by people who cannot hear well//


Words: hearing-impaired
Meaning:
adj   a) not able to hear well//   hard of hearing//    deaf//  b)  the hearing-impaired//  people who are not able to hear well//


Words: hearken
Meaning:
harken/h[hA35A][hA359]k[hA353]n $ h[hA35A][hA359]r-/ v [I + to]   [Language: Old English; Origin: heorcnian]//   literary to listen//


Words: hearsay
Meaning:
n [U]   something that you have heard about from other people but do not know to be definitely true or correct//  --I wouldn’t take any notice of it - it’s just hearsay.//


Words: hearse
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: herce  ’frame for holding candles, farm tool for breaking up soil’, from  Latin hirpex]//  a large car used to carry a dead body in a coffin at a funeral//


Words: heart
Meaning:
n   artery, brain, fatty, tissue, heart, kidney, intestine, intestine2, small, large, liver, lung, muscles, stomach, vein, throat//  ----------//\n   1 body organ:\n   2 emotions/love:\n   3 your chest:\n   4 shape:\n   5 from the (bottom of your) heart:\n   6 in your heart (of hearts):\n   7 important part of something:\n   8 encouragement:\n   9 at heart:\n  10 the centre of an area:\n  11 close/dear to somebody’s heart:\n  12 by heart:\n  13 somebody’s heart sinks:\n  14 with all your heart:\n  15 take something to heart:\n  16 somebody’s heart goes out to somebody:\n  17 card games:\n  18 do something to your heart’s content:\n  19 somebody’s heart misses/skips a beat:\n  20 set your heart on something:\n  21 a man/woman etc after my own heart:\n  22 cry/sing etc your heart out:\n  23 your heart’s desire/everything your heart could desire:\n  24 not have the heart to do something:\n  25 somebody’s heart isn’t in it:\n  26 do something out of the goodness of your heart:\n  27 take somebody to your heart:\n  28 vegetable:\n  29 give/lose your heart to somebody:\n  30 my heart was in my mouth:\n  31 somebody’s heart is in the right place:\n  32 it does your heart good to see/hear something:\n  33 somebody’s heart leaps:\n  34 be in good heart:\n  35 have a heart!:\n  36 know the way to somebody’s heart:\n  37 my heart bleeds (for somebody):  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: heorte]//\n  1 BODY ORGAN:   [C] the organ in your chest which pumps blood through your body//  --Regular exercise is good for the heart.//  --Can you  hear  my  heart beating ? //  -- Her cheeks were hot and her  heart was pounding . //  -- My  heart raced . Were we going to land safely? //  -- Daniel had no history of  heart problems . //  -- She suffers from a rare  heart condition . //  -- His breathing and  heart rate  were now normal. //\n  2 EMOTIONS/LOVE:   [C] the part of you that feels strong emotions and feelings//  --His heart was full of anger and grief.//  --The plight of the refugees had tugged at the nation’s heart.//  --The doctor had an extremely kind heart.//  --She could hardly speak for the ache in her heart .//  --It would break Kate’s heart  (=make her extremely sad) to leave the lovely old house.//  --He left the country with a heavy heart  (=great sadness) .//  --Edith loved her boy with all her heart and soul .//  --I was still pretty innocent then when it came to affairs of the heart  (=matters relating to love and sex) .//  --a woman with a heart of gold  (=very kind character) //  --Sometimes I think he’s got a heart of stone  (=very cruel character) .//  --I’m glad I followed my heart rather than my head for once.//  kind-hearted/cold-hearted/hard-hearted etc (=having a kind, unkind, cruel etc character) //  --He thinks of himself as a warm-hearted and caring human being.//\n  3 YOUR CHEST:   [C usually singular] the part of your chest near your heart//  --He put his hand on his heart.//\n  4 SHAPE:   [C] a shape used to represent a heart//\n  5  from the (bottom of your) heart:  with great sincerity and strength of feeling//  --Leonard spoke from the heart.//  --I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.//  --She sang the songs straight from the heart .//\n  6  in your heart (of hearts):  if you know, feel, or believe something in your heart, you are secretly sure about it although you may not admit it//  --In her heart she knew she would never go.//  -- Deep in his heart , he wanted Laura back.//\n  7 IMPORTANT PART OF SOMETHING:   [singular] the most important or central part of a problem, question etc//  the heart of sth//  --difficult issues at the heart of science policy//  --We must get to the heart of the problem.//\n  8 ENCOURAGEMENT:   [U] confidence and courage//  --This inspiring service gave us new heart .//  --We mustn’t lose heart when people complain.//  --We’ve got to take a bit of heart from the fact that we won.//\n  9  at heart:  if you are a particular kind of person at heart, that is the kind of person that you really are even though you may appear or behave differently//  --He may be a working class boy at heart, but his lifestyle has been transformed.//  --Let’s face it, we’re all romantics at heart.//    have sb’s (best) interests at heart at interest1 (5)//    young at heart at young1 (5)//\n  10 THE CENTRE OF AN AREA:   [C] the middle part of an area furthest from the edge//  in the heart of sth//  --You’re lucky to live in a house like this in the heart of London.//  at the heart of sth//  --an old house at the heart of an ancient forest//\n  11  close/dear to sb’s heart:  very important to someone//  --The President liked to go to Williamsburg, a place close to his heart.//  --Money is dear to Kathleen’s heart.//\n  12  by heart:  when you know something by heart, you remember all of it exactly//  --After a few days of phoning Stephanie, he knew her number by heart.//  --Actors have to learn their lines by heart.//\n  13  sb’s heart sinks:  used to say that someone suddenly lost hope and began to feel unhappy//  --Her heart sank when she saw the number of books she had to read.//\n  14  with all your heart:  with all your strength, energy, or emotion//  --He hates Los Angeles with all his heart.//  --We sang the hymn with all our hearts.//\n  15  take sth to heart:  to consider what someone says to you very seriously, often because it upsets you//  --Anne took his criticisms very much to heart.//  --We took Stephen’s warnings to heart.//\n  16  sb’s heart goes out to sb:  used to say that someone feels a lot of sympathy towards another person//  --My heart goes out to the families of the victims.//\n  17 CARD GAMES:  a)  [C] a heart shape printed in red on a playing card//  b)  hearts [plural] the suit (=set)  of playing cards that have these shapes on them//  --the ace of hearts//  c)  [C] one of the cards in this set//  --Have you got any hearts?//\n  18  do sth to your heart’s content:  to do something as much as you want//  --She had lazed around the pool to her heart’s content.//  --The dog can run to its heart’s content out there.//\n  19  sb’s heart misses/skips a beat:  used to say that someone suddenly feels a moment of fear or excitement//  --His heart missed a beat as he saw the body of a small child at the water’s edge.//\n  20  set your heart on sth:  to want something very much//  --His father bought him the bike he had set his heart on.//  --She had set her heart on becoming a hairdresser.//\n  21  a man/woman etc after my own heart:  someone who likes the same things or behaves in the same way that you do//  --Geoff really is a man after my own heart.//\n  22  cry/sing etc your heart out:  if you cry, sing etc your heart out, you do it with all your energy or emotion//  --He found me crying my heart out and was so kind.//    eat your heart out at eat(4),  pour your heart out at pour//\n  23  your heart’s desire/everything your heart could desire:  the one thing you want most, or everything that you could possibly want//  --To have a baby was her heart’s desire.//\n  24  not have the heart to do sth:  to be unable to do something because it will make someone unhappy//  --I didn’t have the heart to tell her that her beautiful vase was broken.//\n  25  sb’s heart isn’t in it:  used to say that someone does not really want to do something//  --She’s getting bored with the job and her heart’s not in it.//\n  26  do sth out of the goodness of your heart:  to do something out of kindness, not because you have been asked or expect a reward//  --All these people were helping us out of the goodness of their hearts.//\n  27  take sb to your heart:  if people take someone to their hearts, they like them very much//  --The fans have taken Hudson to their hearts.//\n  28 VEGETABLE:   [C] the firm middle part of some vegetables//  --artichoke hearts//\n  29  give/lose your heart to sb:  to start to love someone very much//\n  30  my heart was in my mouth:  used to say that you suddenly felt very afraid//\n  31  sb’s heart is in the right place:   informal used to say that someone is really a kind person and has the right feelings about something important//  --I don’t think his idea will work, though his heart’s in the right place.//\n  32  it does your heart good to see/hear sth:  used to say that something makes you feel happy//\n  33  sb’s heart leaps:   literary used to say that someone suddenly feels happy and full of hope//  --’I couldn’t live without you,’ he said and Jane’s heart leapt.//\n  34  be in good heart:   formal to feel happy and confident//  --The team are in good heart and ready for the season’s matches.//\n  35  have a heart!:  used to tell someone not to be too strict or unkind - used humorously//\n  36  know the way to sb’s heart:  to know the way to please someone - used humorously//\n  37  my heart bleeds (for sb):  used to say that you do not really feel any sympathy towards someone//    a broken heart at broken2 (9)//    cross my heart at cross1 (11)//    have a change of heart at change2 (1)//    sick at heart at sick1 (9)//    strike at the heart of sth at strike1 (7)//    wear your heart on your sleeve at wear1 (8)//    win sb’s heart at win1 (3)//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  somebody’s heart beats //  somebody’s heart pounds/thuds/thumps  (=it beats very strongly) //  somebody’s heart races  (=it beats very fast) //  a weak heart  (=an unhealthy heart) //  heart trouble/problems //  a heart condition  (=something wrong with your heart) //  somebody’s heart rate  (=the number of times their heart beats per minute) //  ----------//


Words: heart attack
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 a sudden serious medical condition in which someone’s heart stops working normally, causing them great pain:  have/suffer a heart attack //\n  2  give sb/have a heart attack:   informal to make someone suddenly feel frightened, surprised, or shocked, or to suddenly feel this way//  --You almost gave me a heart attack there!//


Words: heart failure
Meaning:
n [U]   a serious medical condition in which someone’s heart stops working properly, often resulting in death//   heart attack//


Words: Heart of Darkness
Meaning:
(1902) a book by Joseph  Conrad in which the main character, Marlow, travels on a river through Africa until he meets Kurtz, an educated white man who has stopped accepting Western values and has become the violent, powerful ruler of an African community//


Words: heart-searching
Meaning:
n [U]   the process of examining very carefully your feelings about something or your reasons for doing something//


Words: heart-to-heart
Meaning:
n [C]   a conversation in which two people say honestly and sincerely what they really feel about something//  --Why don’t you have a heart-to-heart with him and sort out your problems?//  -- heart-to-heart adj //  --a heart-to-heart talk//


Words: heartbeat
Meaning:
n [U and C] \n  1 the action or sound of your heart as it pumps blood through your body:\n  2  be a heartbeat away from sth:  to be very close to a situation or position//\n  3  in a heartbeat:   AmE very quickly, without delay//  --Things can change in a heartbeat.//\n  4  the heartbeat of sth:   AmE the main origin of activity or excitement in a place or organization//


Words: heartburn
Meaning:
n [U]   an unpleasant burning feeling in your stomach or chest caused by acid from your stomach//    indigestion//


Words: hearten
Meaning:
v [T usually passive]   to make someone feel happier and more hopeful//  → dishearten//  -- heartening adj //  -- hearteningly adv //


Words: hearth
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: heorth]//\n  1 the area of floor around a fireplace in a house:\n  2  hearth and home:   literary your home and family//


Words: heartily
Meaning:
adv \n  1 with energy and enjoyment:  --’Great to see you,’ she said heartily.//  --Hugh laughed heartily at the joke.//\n  2 completely or very much:  --This is a book I heartily recommend to all hill walkers.//  --Madge had become heartily sick of the city//\n  3  eat heartily:  to eat a large amount//


Words: heartland
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1  the heartland:  the central part of a country or area of land//\n  2 the most important part of a country or area for a particular activity, or the part where a political group has most support:  --the Democratic heartlands of the Deep South//


Words: heartless
Meaning:
adj   cruel and not feeling any pity//  --How can you be so heartless?//  -- heartlessly adv //  -- heartlessness n  [U] //


Words: heartrending
Meaning:
adj   making you feel great pity//   heartbreaking//  --heartrending stories of children being taken from their parents//


Words: heartwarming
Meaning:
adj   making you feel happy because you see other people being happy or kind to each other//  --a heartwarming sight//  -- heartwarmingly adv //


Words: hearty
Meaning:
adj \n  1 happy and friendly and usually loud:  --a hearty laugh//\n  2  old-fashioned strong and healthy:    hale and hearty at hale//\n  3 a hearty meal is very large:\n  4  especially  BrE with a friendly, noisy, and happy manner that is not sincere:  -- heartiness n  [U] //    heartily//


Words: heat
Meaning:
n   ----------//\n   1 warmth:\n   2 the heat:\n   3 in cooking:\n   4 strong feelings:\n   5 pressure:\n   6 system to heat building:\n   7 in a race:\n   8 on heat:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]tu]//\n  1 WARMTH:   [U] warmth or the quality of being hot//  --Ice needs heat to melt.//  --Insulating the attic is a good way to reduce heat loss.//\n  2  the heat:  very hot weather or a high temperature//  --The heat was making them tired.//  --Angela liked to rest during the heat of the day  (=the hottest part of the day) .//  --Firefighters were beaten back by the intense heat and smoke.//\n  3 IN COOKING:   [C usually singular, U] the level of temperature used when cooking or heating something//  (a) low/medium/high heat //  --Cook the chicken portions over a high heat.//  turn off/down/up the heat //  --When the milk comes to the boil, turn off the heat.//  --Now reduce the heat and cover the pan.//\n  4 STRONG FEELINGS:   [U] strong feelings, especially anger or excitement//  --Reconciliation services can take the heat out of  (=reduce the anger in) the dispute.//  in the heat of sth //  --Quick decisions had to be made in the heat of the negotiations.//  -- In the heat of the moment  (=when feelings were very strong) Nick threatened to resign.//\n  5 PRESSURE:   [U] strong pressure on someone//  -- The heat is on  (=there is a lot of pressure) as schools struggle to finish their entries by the deadline.//  --The team turned up the heat  (=used more effort against their opponents) in the last few minutes to score two more goals.//  --There was a lot of heat, and it affected our relationship.//\n  6 SYSTEM TO HEAT BUILDING:   [U]  AmE the system in a house or other building that keeps it warm in the winter, or the warmth from this system//  British Equivalent:  heating//  --Can you turn up  the heat ?//\n  7 IN A RACE:   [C] a part of a race or competition whose winners then compete against each other in the next part//  --Bill finished second in his heat.//\n  8  on heat:   BrE in heat  AmE if a female animal is on heat, her body is ready to have sex with a male//    dead heat,  white heat,  if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen at stand1 (16)//\nheat 2 v [T]   to make something become warm or hot//   warm up//  --Heat the milk until it boils.//  heat up phr v//\n  1 to become warm or hot, or to make something become warm or hot:  --The stove takes a while to heat up.//  heat sth → up//  --I heated up the remains of last night’s supper.//\n  2 if a situation heats up, it becomes dangerous or full of problems:  heat through [heat sth through] phr v//  to heat food thoroughly//


Words: heat wave
Meaning:
n [C]   a period of unusually hot weather, especially one that continues for a long time//  → cold spell//


Words: heat-seeking
Meaning:
adj   a heat-seeking weapon is able to find and move towards the hot gases from an aircraft or rocket and destroy it//


Words: heated
Meaning:
adj \n  1 a heated swimming pool, room etc is made warm using a heater:\n  2  heated argument/debate/discussion etc:  an argument etc that is full of angry and excited feelings//  -- heatedly adv //


Words: Heath
Meaning:
Sir Edward   (1916-) a British politician in the Conservative Party, who was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. He disagreed with Margaret Thatcher, who followed him as Conservative leader, and supported the European Union and the idea of a single European currency (=system of money) .//


Words: heath
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]th]//  an area of open land where grass, bushes, and other small plants grow, especially in Britain//


Words: Heath Robinson
Meaning:
adj  BrE   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin:  William  Heath Robinson (1872-194), English humorous artist who drew pictures of very complicated machines]//  a Heath Robinson machine, system etc is very complicated in an amusing way but not at all practical//


Words: Heathcliff
Meaning:
one of the main characters in the book  Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily  Bront[hA16C]. He is an attractive, proud, and often angry man with very strong emotions. He loves Catherine Earnshaw and she loves him, but they are prevented from marrying. As a result, he decides to punish the other members of her family because he believes that they are responsible for his unhappy life.//


Words: heathen
Meaning:
adj  old-fashioned   not connected with or belonging to the Christian religion or any of the large established religions//\nheathen 2   plural  heathen  n [C]  old-fashioned //  [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]then]//\n  1 someone who is not connected with the Christian religion or any of the large established religions - used to show disapproval:    pagan//\n  2 someone who refuses to believe in something - often used humorously:


Words: heather
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1700-1800; Language: Northern and Scottish English; Origin: haddir,  hathir  (14-18 centuries); influenced by heath]//  a low plant with small purple, pink, or white flowers which grows on hills//


Words: Heathrow Airport
Meaning:
also Heathrow   an international airport in London. Heathrow is the largest airport in the UK, and it is 20 miles to the west of London.//


Words: heating
Meaning:
S2   n [U]    especially BrE a system for making a room or building warm//  American Equivalent:  heat//    central heating//


Words: heatstroke
Meaning:
n [U]   fever and weakness caused by being outside in the heat of the sun for too long//    sunstroke//


Words: heave
Meaning:
v   ----------//\n   1 pull/lift:\n   2 throw:\n   3 heave a sigh:\n   4 move up and down:\n   5 vomit:\n   6 heave in sight/into view:  Phrasal verbs//   heave to//  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hebban]//\n  1 PULL/LIFT:   [I and T] to pull or lift something very heavy with one great effort//  heave sb/sth out of/into/onto etc sth//  --Alan heaved his suitcase onto his bed.//  --Mary heaved herself out of bed.//  heave on/at//   BrE //  --He heaved on the steering wheel and swung the car into a side street.//\n  2 THROW:   [T] to throw something heavy using a lot of effort//  --John heaved the metal bar over the fence.//\n  3  heave a sigh:  to breathe in and then breathe out noisily and slowly once//  --Rebecca heaved a sigh of relief .//\n  4 MOVE UP AND DOWN:   [I] to move up and down with very strong movements//  --Michael’s shoulders heaved with silent laughter.//  --The sea heaved up and down beneath the boat.//\n  5 VOMIT:   [I]  informal to vomit//\n  6 :  past tense and past participle  hove  heave in sight/into view//   literary to appear, especially by getting closer from a distance//  --A few moments later a large ship hove into view.//    heaving//  heave to phr v//  if a ship heaves to, it stops moving//\nheave 2 n \n  1 [C] a strong pulling, pushing, or lifting movement:  --He gave the door a good heave.//\n  2 [U]  literary a strong rising or falling movement:


Words: heave-ho interjection
Meaning:
n \n  1  old-fashioned used as an encouragement to a person or group of people who are pulling something, especially on ships:\n  2  give someone the (old) heave-ho:   informal to end a relationship with someone, or to make someone leave their job//


Words: heaven
Meaning:
S3   n   ----------//\n   1 place of god:\n   2 enjoyable situation:\n   3 for heaven’s sake:\n   4 heaven (only) knows:\n   5 heaven help somebody:\n   6 heaven forbid:\n   7 what/how/why etc in heaven’s name:\n   8 the heavens:\n   9 move heaven and earth:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: heofon]//\n  1  also Heaven :  PLACE OF GOD//   [singular] the place where God is believed to live and where good people are believed to go when they die//    paradise//  in heaven//  --He believed that he and his wife would one day be together again in heaven.//\n  2 ENJOYABLE SITUATION:   [U]  informal an extremely enjoyable situation or place//   paradise//  --Sitting by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven.//  in heaven//  --Put a baseball in his hand and he’s in heaven.//  --Living on the farm for Jim was heaven on earth .//  a match/marriage made in heaven (=a happy and successful marriage) //\n  3  spoken  for heaven’s sake:  a) used to show that you are annoyed or angry//  --Oh, for heaven’s sake, Mark, do you have to make everything into a joke?//  b) used to emphasize a question, request, order, or opinion//  --For heaven’s sake, let’s all get to sleep.//\n  4  spoken  heaven (only) knows:  a) used to emphasize that you do not know something//  --He won’t tell me what he thinks. Heaven knows why.//  b) used to emphasize what you are saying//  --Sue can’t take a holiday yet, though heaven knows she needs a rest.//\n  5  spoken  heaven help sb:  a) used to express sympathy for someone who is in a dangerous or difficult situation//  --’The two boys are going to the dentist on Thursday.’ ’Heaven help the dentist.’//  b) used to say that you will be very angry with someone if they do something//  -- Heaven help him if he ever comes back here again!//\n  6  spoken  heaven forbid:  used to say that you very much hope something will not happen//  --What would you do financially if, heaven forbid, your husband died?//\n  7  spoken  what/how/why etc in heaven’s name:  used when asking a surprised and angry question//  --Where in heaven’s name have you been?//\n  8  the heavens:   literary the sky//  --He looked up towards the heavens.//  --Just then, the heavens opened  (=it started to rain heavily) .//\n  9  move heaven and earth:  to try very hard to achieve something//  --I would move heaven and earth to help her.//    be in seventh heaven at seventh1 (2)//    thank heaven(s) at thank(2)//


Words: heavenly
Meaning:
adj \n  1  old-fashioned extremely pleasant, enjoyable, or beautiful:  --That smells heavenly.//  --We found a tiny hotel in a heavenly spot with a beautiful bay.//\n  2 [only before noun]  biblical existing in or belonging to heaven:  --God’s heavenly kingdom//  heavenly Father (=God) //  the Heavenly Host (=all the angels) //\n  3  literary existing in or relating to the sky or stars:  -- heavenly bodies  (=the moon,planets and stars) //


Words: Heavens!
Meaning:
interjection  also Good Heavens!, Heavens above!   used to express surprise, especially when you are annoyed//  --Good Heavens, what a mess!//


Words: heavily
Meaning:
W3   adv \n  1 in large amounts, to a high degree, or with great severity:   very//  --I became heavily involved in politics.//  --The report was heavily criticized in the press.//  --a heavily populated area//  --thousands of heavily armed troops//  --His wife was heavily pregnant at the time.//  it rains/snows heavily //  --It’s been raining heavily all day.//  drink/smoke heavily //  --Paul was drinking heavily by then.//  heavily dependent/reliant/influenced //  --Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.//\n  2  sleep heavily:  if you sleep heavily, you cannot be woken easily//\n  3  breathe heavily:  to breathe slowly and loudly//  --Breathing heavily, I stopped and sat down to rest.//\n  4  heavily built:  having a large broad body that looks strong//\n  5 if you do or say something heavily, you do it slowly and with a lot of effort, especially because you are sad or bored:  --He was walking heavily, his head down.//  --Emily sighed heavily.//  --’I suppose so,’ she said heavily.//\n  6  be heavily into sth:   informal to do something a lot or be very interested in it//  --Sid was heavily into drugs by the time he left school.//


Words: heaving
Meaning:
adj  BrE  informal   very busy or full of people//  heaving with//  --The city was heaving with shoppers.//


Words: heavy
Meaning:
adj   comparative  heavier superlative  heaviest //  ----------//\n   1 weight:\n   2 amount/degree/severity:\n   3 needing physical effort:\n   4 needing mental effort:\n   5 heavy going:\n   6 be heavy on something:\n   7 heavy with something:\n   8 heavy schedule/timetable/day etc:\n   9 heavy breathing:\n  10 make heavy weather of something:\n  11 weapons/machines:\n  12 materials/clothes etc:\n  13 food:\n  14 eyes:\n  15 body/face:\n  16 with force:\n  17 ground:\n  18 smell:\n  19 air:\n  20 emotions:\n  21 get heavy (with somebody):\n  22 heavy silence/atmosphere:\n  23 heavy sky/clouds:\n  24 heavy sleeper:\n  25 heavy irony/sarcasm:\n  26 heavy seas:\n  27 with a heavy heart:\n  28 heavy date:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hefig]//\n  1 WEIGHT:  weighing a lot//  → light//  --The wardrobe was too heavy for me to move on my own.//  --a heavy suitcase//  --The males are seven times heavier than the females on average.//  -- How heavy is the parcel (=how much does it weigh?) ?//\n  2 AMOUNT/DEGREE/SEVERITY:  great in amount, degree, or severity//  --The traffic going into London was very heavy .//  -- Heavy rain  has caused flooding in many areas.//  -- Heavy fighting was reported near the border.//  -- Heavy drinking during pregnancy can damage your baby.//  --I used to be a heavy smoker .//  --the  heavy burden  of taxation//  --If found guilty, they face  heavy fines  or even prison.//  --There were heavy casualties on both sides.//  --England’s heavy defeat in yesterday’s match//  --She’s in bed with a heavy cold .//  --the film’s  heavy use  of special effects//\n  3 NEEDING PHYSICAL EFFORT:  needing a lot of physical strength and effort//  --My son does most of the heavy outdoor work .//  --She has a bad back and can’t do any heavy lifting .//\n  4 NEEDING MENTAL EFFORT:  not easy or entertaining and needing a lot of mental effort//  --I want something to read on holiday - nothing too heavy.//\n  5  heavy going:  difficult to understand or deal with//  --I found his latest novel a bit heavy going .//\n  6  be heavy on sth:   informal to use a lot or too much of something//  --The car’s rather heavy on oil.//\n  7  heavy with sth:   literary full of something//  --The apple trees were heavy with fruit.//  --The garden was heavy with the scent of summer.//  --’Of course,’ she said, her voice heavy with sarcasm.//\n  8  heavy schedule/timetable/day etc:  a time in which you have a lot to do//  --Let’s go to bed. We’ve got a heavy day tomorrow.//\n  9  heavy breathing:  breathing that is slow and loud//    heavy breather//\n  10  make heavy weather of sth:   BrE to make something that you are doing seem more difficult or complicated than it really is - used to show disapproval//  --Why does he need to make such heavy weather of a simple task?//\n  11 WEAPONS/MACHINES:   [only before noun] large and powerful//  --tanks and other heavy weapons//  -- heavy artillery  (=large powerful guns) //  --a company which manufactures heavy machinery //\n  12 MATERIALS/CLOTHES ETC:  heavy materials, clothes, shoes, or objects are thick or solidly made//  --a heavy winter coat//  --the sound of heavy boots//  --Melt the butter in a heavy pan over a medium heat.//  --heavy velvet curtains//\n  13 FOOD:  solid and making your stomach feel full and uncomfortable//  → light//  --a heavy meal//  --heavy fruitcake//\n  14 EYES:  if your eyes are heavy, it is difficult to keep them open, usually because you are tired//  --His eyes felt heavy with fatigue.//\n  15 BODY/FACE:  a) large, broad, and solid//  --his heavy features//  --Kyle is a tall man with a heavy build  (=a large broad body) .//  b)  AmE used to politely describe someone who is fat//   large//\n  16 WITH FORCE:  hitting something or falling with a lot of force or weight//  --the sound of heavy footsteps in the hall//  --Ali caught him with a heavy blow to the jaw.//\n  17 GROUND:  a) soil that is heavy is thick and solid//  b) a sports ground or race track that is heavy is muddy//  --a very heavy pitch//  -- The going was heavy  (=it was muddy for the horse races) at Cheltenham yesterday.//\n  18 SMELL:  strong and usually sweet//  heavy scent/perfume etc //  --the heavy scent of the lilies//\n  19 AIR:  too warm and not at all fresh because there is no wind//  --Even at dusk the air was still heavy.//\n  20 EMOTIONS:   informal a relationship or situation that is heavy involves serious or strong feelings//  --She didn’t want things to get too heavy at such an early stage in their relationship.//\n  21  get heavy (with sb):   informal to start behaving in a threatening or strict way//  --He came round and started getting heavy about the money I owed him.//\n  22  heavy silence/atmosphere:  a situation in which people do not speak and feel sad, anxious, or embarrassed//  --A heavy silence fell upon the room.//\n  23  heavy sky/clouds:  clouds that look dark and grey as though it will soon rain//\n  24  heavy sleeper:  someone who does not wake easily//\n  25  heavy irony/sarcasm:  remarks that very clearly say the opposite of what you really feel//\n  26  heavy seas:  sea with big waves//  --The ship went down in heavy seas off the coast of Scotland.//\n  27  with a heavy heart:   literary feeling very sad//  --It was with a heavy heart that Kate said goodbye.//\n  28  heavy date:   AmE a very important date (=an occasion when you meet someone you like in a romantic way) with a boyfriend or girlfriend - usually used humorously//  -- heaviness n  [U] //  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 2 //  heavy traffic //  heavy rain/snow //  heavy fighting //  heavy drinking also  heavy drinker //  heavy smoking also  heavy smoker //  heavy burden/demands/pressure //  heavy fine //  heavy casualties (=a lot of deaths or injuries) //  heavy losses //  heavy defeat //  heavy cold //  heavy use of something //  ----------//\nheavy 2 adv \n  1  time hangs/lies heavy on your hands:  if time hangs or lies heavy on your hands, it seems to pass slowly because you are bored or have nothing to do//\n  2  be heavy into sth:   AmE  spoken  informal to be very involved in an activity, especially one that is not good for you//  --Eric was real heavy into drugs for a while.//\nheavy 3   plural  heavies  n [C] //   informal a large strong man who is paid to protect someone or to threaten other people//


Words: heavy breather
Meaning:
n [C]   a man who telephones a woman and does not speak, but breathes loudly, in order to get sexual pleasure//  -- heavy breathing n  [U] //


Words: heavy hitter
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE \n  1 a person or company that has a lot of power, especially in business or politics:\n  2 a baseball player who hits the ball very hard:


Words: heavy industry
Meaning:
n [U]   industry that produces large goods such as cars and machines, or materials such as coal, steel, or chemicals//    light industry//


Words: heavy metal
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U] a type of rock music with a strong beat, played very loudly on electric guitars:\n  2 [C]  technical a metal that has a high density, such as gold, mercury, or lead. Many heavy metals are poisonous.:


Words: heavy-duty
Meaning:
adj \n  1 heavy-duty materials are strong and thick and not easily damaged:  --heavy-duty canvas//\n  2 heavy-duty machines or equipment are designed to be used for very hard work:\n  3  informal  especially AmE very complicated, serious, or extreme:  --Today, she was going to do some heavy-duty cleaning.//


Words: heavy-handed
Meaning:
adj   taking too much action or extreme action, especially without thinking about other people’s feelings//  --a heavy-handed style of management//  -- heavy-handedness n  [U] //


Words: heavyweight
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 someone or something that is very important or has a lot of influence:  --one of the heavyweights of the movie industry//\n  2 a boxer who weighs more than 86.18 kilograms, and who belongs to the heaviest weight class of boxers:


Words: Hebraic
Meaning:
adj  formal   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: Hebraicus, from  Greek Hebraios;   HEBREW]//  connected with the Hebrew language or people//  --Hebraic literature//


Words: Hebrew
Meaning:
n   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: Ebreu, from  Late Latin Hebraeus, from  Greek Hebraios, from  Aramaic ’Ebrai]//\n  1 [U] the language traditionally used by the Jewish people:\n  2 [C] a member of the Jewish people in ancient times:  -- Hebrew adj //


Words: Hebrides
Meaning:
the Hebrides//  a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, consisting of the  Inner Hebrides and  Outer Hebrides//  -- Hebridean adj //


Words: heck
Meaning:
interjection  informal   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hell]//\n  1 used to show that you are annoyed or to emphasize what you are saying:  --Oh heck! I’ve lost my keys!//  --’Do you believe him?’ ’Heck, no.’//\n  2  did he heck/will it heck etc:   BrE used to say in a strong way that someone did not do something, something will not happen etc//  --’Did he offer to pay for it?’ ’Did he heck.’//\nheck 2 n [singular, U]  spoken  informal \n  1 used like ’hell’ to emphasize what you are saying:  --It cost a heck of a lot of money.//  where/how/who etc the heck //  --Where the heck are we?//  --He sure as heck didn’t tell me.//\n  2  what the heck:  used to say that you will do something even though you really should not do it//  --It’s rather expensive, but what the heck.//\n  3  for the heck of it:  for fun, or for no particular reason//


Words: heckle
Meaning:
v [I and T]   [Date: 1300-1400; Origin: hackle;   HACKLES]//  to interrupt and try to embarrass someone who is speaking or performing in public//  -- heckler n  [C] //  -- heckling n  [U] //


Words: hectare
Meaning:
n [C]  written abbreviation ha   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: hect-  ’hundred’ (  HECTO-) +  are  ’area of 100 square meters’ (from  Latin area)]//  a unit for measuring area, equal to 10,000 square metres//    acre//


Words: hectic
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: etique, from  Greek hektikos  ’done as a habit, suffering from tuberculosis’, from  exis  ’state of body or mind’]//\n  1 very busy or full of activity:  --I’ve had a pretty hectic day.//  --a hectic social life//\n  2  written if your face is a hectic colour, it is very pink:  --the hectic flush on her cheeks//


Words: Hector
Meaning:
in ancient Greek stories, the leader of the Trojans in the  Trojan War. He was killed by the Greek  Achilles, who then tied his body to the back of his  chariot and drove around the walls of  Troy to show the Trojans that he had killed their leader.//    Iliad, the//


Words: hector
Meaning:
v [I and T]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin: Hector a brave soldier in the ancient Greek story of Troy]//  to speak to someone in an angry threatening way//  --a hectoring tone of voice//


Words: Hecuba
Meaning:
in ancient Greek stories, the wife of  Priam and the mother of  Hector and  Paris. She appears in ancient Greek literature as a typical example of an unlucky mother who experiences suffering.//    Iliad, the//


Words: hedge
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hecg]//\n  1 a row of small bushes or trees growing close together, usually dividing one field or garden from another:\n  2 something that protects you against possible problems, especially financial loss:  hedge against//  --Buying a house will be a hedge against inflation.//    look as if you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards at drag1 (13)//\nhedge 2   past tense and past participle  hedged present participle  hedging  v [I and T] //\n  1 to avoid giving a direct answer to a question:  --You’re hedging again - have you got the money or haven’t you?//  --’That depends on my partner,’ she hedged.//\n  2  hedge your bets:  to reduce your chances of failure or loss by trying several different possibilities instead of one//  --It’s a good idea to hedge your bets by applying to more than one college.//  hedge against [hedge against sth] phr v//  to try to protect yourself against possible problems, especially financial loss//  --Smart managers will hedge against price increases.//  be hedged in phr v//\n  1 to be surrounded or enclosed by something:  --The building was hedged in by trees.//\n  2 if you feel hedged in by something, you feel that your freedom is restricted by it:


Words: hedgehog
Meaning:
n [C]   a small brown European animal whose body is round and covered with sharp needle-like spines//


Words: hedonist
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Greek; Origin: hedone  ’pleasure’]//  someone who believes that pleasure is the most important thing in life//  -- hedonism n  [U] //  -- hedonistic/hi[hA359]d[hA368]n[hA366]st[hA366]k[hA36B]/ adj //


Words: heed
Meaning:
v [T]  formal   [Language: Old English; Origin: hedan]//  to pay attention to someone’s advice or warning//  --If she had only heeded my warnings , none of this would have happened.//\nheed 2 n   pay heed to sth/take heed of sth//   formal to pay attention to something, especially something someone says, and seriously consider it//  --The government was taking little heed of these threats.//  --Tom paid no heed to her warning.//


Words: heedless
Meaning:
adj   heedless of sth//   literary not paying attention to something//  --O’Hara rode on, heedless of danger.//  -- heedlessly adv //


Words: heel
Meaning:
n [C]   heel, upper, toe, lace, lining, sole//  ----------//\n   1 of your foot:\n   2 of a shoe:\n   3 of a sock:\n   4 of your hand:\n   5 heels:\n   6 at somebody’s heels:\n   7 :\n   8 bring somebody to heel:\n   9 come to heel:\n  10 take to your heels:\n  11 turn/spin on your heel:\n  12 under the heel of somebody/something:\n  13 bad man:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]la]//\n  1 OF YOUR FOOT:  the curved back part of your foot//    toe//\n  2 OF A SHOE:  the raised part on the bottom of a shoe that makes the shoe higher at the back//  --black boots with high heels//  high-heeled/low-heeled/flat-heeled etc //  --her low-heeled blue shoes//\n  3 OF A SOCK:  the part of a sock that covers your heel//\n  4 OF YOUR HAND:  the part of your hand between the bottom of your thumb and your wrist//  --Using the heel of your hand, press the dough firmly into shape.//\n  5  heels [plural] a pair of women’s shoes with high heels:  --Whenever she wore heels she was taller than the men she worked with.//\n  6  at sb’s heels:  if a person or animal is at your heels, they are following closely behind you//  --He could hear the dog trotting at his heels.//  --Omar hurried inside with the boy at his heels.//\n  7 :  a)  (hard/hot/close) on the heels of sth//  very soon after something//  --The decision to buy Peters came hard on the heels of the club’s promotion to Division One.//  b)  (hard/hot/close) on sb’s heels//  following closely behind someone, especially in order to catch or attack them//  --With the enemy army hard on his heels, he crossed the Somme at Blanche-Taque.//\n  8  bring sb to heel:  to force someone to behave in the way that you want them to//\n  9  come to heel:   BrE //  a) if a dog comes to heel, it comes back to its owner when the owner calls it//  b) if someone comes to heel, they start to behave in the way that you want them to//\n  10  take to your heels:   written to start running away//  --As soon as he saw me he took to his heels.//\n  11  turn/spin on your heel:   written to suddenly turn away from someone, especially in an angry or rude way//  --Before anyone could say a word, he turned on his heel and walked out of the room.//\n  12  under the heel of sb/sth:  completely controlled by a government or group//  --a people under the heel of an increasingly dictatorial regime//\n  13 BAD MAN:   old-fashioned a man who behaves badly towards other people//    Achilles’ heel,  down-at-heel,  well-heeled,  click your heels at click1 (1),  cool your heels at cool2 (4),  dig your heels in at dig1 (4),  drag your heels at drag1 (8),  be/fall head over heels in love at head1 (36),  kick your heels at kick1 (9)//\nheel 2 v \n  1  heel!:   spoken used to tell your dog to walk next to you//\n  2 [T] to put a heel on a shoe:  heel over phr v//  if something heels over, it leans to one side as if it is going to fall//  --The ship was heeling over in the wind.//


Words: Heep
Meaning:
Uriah   a character in the book  David Copperfield (1850) by Charles  Dickens, who is a  clerk (=someone who keeps records in an office)  working for a lawyer. He pretends to be very helpful, and he is known for often saying how "’umble" (=humble)  he is. But in fact he is clever and dishonest, and only interested in getting advantages for himself.//


Words: heft
Meaning:
v [T]   [Date: 1400-1500; Origin: heave]//\n  1 to lift something heavy:  heft sth onto/into etc sth//  --He hefted his bag into the car.//\n  2 to lift or hold something in order to judge how heavy it is:  --Quinn hefted the package in his hands.//


Words: hefty
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun] \n  1 big and heavy:  --a tall, hefty man//  --a hefty tome  (=large thick book) //  --hefty camera equipment//\n  2 a hefty amount of something, especially money, is very large:  --a hefty fine//\n  3  BrE a hefty blow, kick etc is done using a lot of force:  --He aimed a hefty kick at the door.//  --a hefty shove//


Words: Hegel
Meaning:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich   (1770-1831) a German  philosopher who had great influence on European and US philosophy with books such as  The Phenomenology of the Mind//


Words: hegemony
Meaning:
n [U]  formal   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Greek; Origin: hegemonia, from  hegemon  ’leader’]//  a situation in which one state or country controls others//


Words: Hegira calendar
Meaning:
the Muslim system of dividing a year of 354 days into 12 months and starting to count the years from the Hegira//


Words: Heidi
Meaning:
a little girl who is the main character in the children’s book  Heidi by the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri (1827-1901). She makes the lives of people around her much happier and better.//


Words: heifer
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: heahfore]//  a young cow that has not yet given birth to a calf//    bullock, ox, steer//


Words: height
Meaning:
n   ----------//\n   1 how tall:\n   2 distance above the ground:\n   3 high place:\n   4 new/great/dizzy etc heights:\n   5 the height of something:\n   6 be at the height of your success/fame/powers etc:\n   7 be the height of fashion/stupidity/luxury etc:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hiehthu]//\n  1 HOW TALL:   [U and C] how tall someone or something is//  --Sam’s about the same height as his sister now.//  --State your age, height, and weight.//  --buildings of different heights//\n  6 feet/10 metres etc in height :  --None of these sculptures was less than three metres in height.//  a height of 6 feet/10 metres etc //  --Sunflowers can grow to a height of fifteen feet.//\n  2 DISTANCE ABOVE THE GROUND:   [U and C] the distance something is above the ground//  --It’s a miracle she didn’t break her neck falling from that height.//  a height of 2500 feet/10,000 metres etc //  --The aircraft was flying at a height of 10,000 metres.//  gain/lose height (=move higher or lower in the sky) //  --The plane was rapidly losing height.//\n  3 HIGH PLACE:  a)  [C] a place or position that is a long way above the ground//  from a height//  --a bird that opens shellfish by dropping them from a height onto rocks//  --Rachel had always been scared of heights .//  have a head for heights (=not be afraid of heights) //  b)  heights [plural] a particular high place - used especially in place names//  --the Golan Heights//\n  4  new/great/dizzy etc heights:  a) a very high level of achievement or success//  rise to/reach etc ... heights //  --He reached the dizzy heights of the national finals.//  --They took ice dancing to new heights .//  b) a very great level or degree//  --War fever had reached new heights.//\n  5  the height of sth:  the busiest or most extreme part of a period or activity//   peak//  --the height of the tourist season//\n  6  be at the height of your success/fame/powers etc:  to be more successful, famous etc than at any other time//  --The Beatles were at the height of their fame.//\n  7  be the height of fashion/stupidity/luxury etc:  to be extremely fashionable, stupid etc//  --Flared trousers were considered to be the height of fashion in those days.//


Words: heighten
Meaning:
v [I and T]   if something heightens a feeling, effect etc, or if a feeling etc heightens, it becomes stronger or increases//   intensify//    strengthen//  --There are fears that the march will heighten racial tension.//  --Increased levels of fat in the diet could heighten the risk of cancer.//  heighten (sb’s) awareness (of sth) (=make people realize something more clearly) //  --The case has heightened public awareness of the problem of sexual harassment.//


Words: Heine
Meaning:
Heinrich   (1797-1856) a German poet who also wrote political  satire (=books making fun of people in public life) . Some of his poems were set to music by  Schubert and  Schumann.//


Words: heinous
Meaning:
adj  formal   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: haineus, from  haine  ’hate’]//\n  1 very shocking and immoral:  --a heinous crime //\n  2  AmE  spoken  informal extremely bad:  --The food in the cafeteria is pretty heinous.//  -- heinousness n  [U] //


Words: heir
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin heres]//\n  1 the person who has the legal right to receive the property or title of another person when they die:  heir to//  --John was the sole heir to a vast estate.//  heir to the throne (=the person who will become king or queen) //\n  2 the person who will take over a position or job after you, or who does things or thinks in a similar way to you:  --Jonson was his political heir as leader of the Nationalist Party.//


Words: heir apparent plural
Meaning:
heirs apparent  n [C] \n  1 an heir whose right to receive the family property, money, or title cannot be taken away:\n  2 someone who seems very likely to take over a person’s job, position etc when that person leaves:


Words: heiress
Meaning:
n [C]   a woman who will receive or has received a lot of money or property when an older member of her family dies//


Words: heirloom
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1400-1500; Origin: heir +  loom  ’tool’ (10-19 centuries)]//  a valuable object that has been owned by a family for many years and that is passed from the older members to the younger members//  --a family heirloom//


Words: Heisenberg
Meaning:
Werner   (1901-76) a German  physicist who studied the behaviour of atoms, and won a  Nobel Prize. He is famous for developing the uncertainty principle.//


Words: Heisman Trophy
Meaning:
also  Heisman Memorial Trophy    a prize given each year to the best college football player in the US//


Words: heist
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hoist]//   AmE  informal an act of stealing something very valuable from a shop, bank etc//   robbery//  --a jewelry heist//  -- heist v  [T] //


Words: Helen of Troy
Meaning:
in ancient Greek stories, the wife of Menelaus, the king of  Sparta. Helen was famous for her great beauty, and she is often mentioned in literature as a typical example of a very beautiful woman. When Helen’s lover  Paris took her away to Troy with him, he caused the  Trojan War. The phrase "the face that launched a thousand ships" is often used about her, since the Greeks sailed to Troy to bring her back.//    Iliad, the//


Words: heli-skiing
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: helicopter +  skiing]//  the sport of flying a helicopter to a place in the mountains where you can ski on deep snow that no one else has skied on//


Words: helicopter
Meaning:
n [C]   rotor blade//  [Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: helicopt[hA169]re, from  Greek heliko- (from  helix;   HELIX) +  pteron  ’wing’]//  a type of aircraft with large metal blades on top which turn around very quickly to make it fly//   chopper//


Words: heliotrope
Meaning:
n   [Date: 1000-1100; Language: Latin; Origin: heliotropium, from  Greek heliotropion, from  helios  ’sun’ +  tropos  ’turn’; because its flowers turn toward the sun]//  [C] a garden plant with nice-smelling pale purple flowers//


Words: helium
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Greek; Origin: helios  ’sun’; because it was discovered in the sun’s spectrum]//  a gas that is lighter than air and is used to make balloons float. It is a chemical element: symbol He//


Words: helix
Meaning:
n   plural  helices /-l[hA369]si[hA359]z/ [C] //  [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: Greek]//   technical a line that curves and rises around a central line//   spiral//    double helix//


Words: hell
Meaning:
n   ----------//\n   1 when you die:\n   2 suffering:\n   3 unpleasant situation:\n   4 what/how/why/where etc the hell?:\n   5 a/one hell of a something:\n   6 go to hell!:\n   7 feel/look like hell:\n   8 beat/surprise/scare the hell out of somebody:\n   9 (just) for the hell of it:\n  10 what the hell!:\n  11 to hell with somebody/something:\n  12 run/hurt/fight etc like hell:\n  13 like hell/the hell:\n  14 the something/somebody from hell:\n  15 guilty/shy/mad/angry etc as hell:\n  16 sure as hell:\n  17 give somebody hell:\n  18 get the hell out (of somewhere):\n  19 there’ll be hell to pay:\n  20 go to hell and back:\n  21 all hell broke loose:\n  22 come hell or high water:\n  23 go to hell in a handbasket:\n  24 hell’s bells:\n  25 play (merry) hell with something:\n  26 raise hell:\n  27 run/go hell for leather:\n  28 hell on wheels:\n  29 when hell freezes over:\n  30 catch hell:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin:]//\n  1 WHEN YOU DIE:   also  Hell//   [U] the place where the souls of bad people are believed to be punished after death, especially in the Christian and Muslim religions//\n  2 SUFFERING:   [singular, U] a place or situation in which people suffer very much, either physically or emotionally//  --War is hell.//  --My mother made my life hell .//  --These past few days have been a living hell .//  --She must have gone through hell every day, the way we teased her about her weight.//  pure/absolute/sheer etc hell //  --They described the war zone as sheer hell.//  --He says his time in jail was hell on earth .//\n  3 UNPLEASANT SITUATION:   [singular, U]  informal a situation, experience, or place that is very unpleasant//  --The traffic was hell this morning.//  pure/absolute/sheer etc hell //  --’How was your exam?’ ’Sheer hell!’//\n  4  what/how/why/where etc the hell?:   spoken  not polite used to show that you are very surprised or angry//  --What the hell are you doing, wasting my time?//  --How the hell are we going to do that?//\n  5  a/one hell of a sth:   spoken  not polite used to emphasize the idea that something is very big, very good, very bad etc//  --I’ve come one hell of a long way to get here.//  --Envy like yours is a hell of a good motive for murder.//\n  6  go to hell!:   spoken  not polite used when you are very angry with someone//  --If John doesn’t like it, he can go to hell!//\n  7  feel/look like hell:   spoken  not polite to feel or look very ill or tired//  --I’ve been feeling like hell all week.//\n  8  beat/surprise/scare the hell out of sb:   informal  not polite to beat, surprise etc someone very much//  --We have only one aim: to beat the hell out of the opposition.//\n  9  (just) for the hell of it:   spoken  not polite for no serious reason, or only for fun//  --They shot people just for the hell of it.//\n  10  what the hell!:   spoken  not polite used to say that you will do something and not worry about any problems it causes//  --Elaine poured herself a large glass of whisky - what the hell, it was Christmas.//\n  11  to hell with sb/sth:   spoken  not polite used to say that you do not care about someone or something any more//  --I want to live for the present, and to hell with the consequences.//\n  12  run/hurt/fight etc like hell:   informal  not polite to run, fight etc very quickly or very much//  --My new shoes hurt like hell.//\n  13  like hell/the hell:   spoken  not polite used to say that you do not agree with what someone has said//  --’You keep out of this, Ma.’ ’Like hell I will.’//\n  14  the sth/sb from hell:   informal  not polite something or someone that is the worst you can imagine//  --She was the flatmate from hell.//  --It was the holiday from hell.//\n  15  guilty/shy/mad/angry etc as hell:   spoken  not polite very guilty,shy etc//  --If I had your problems, I’d be mad as hell.//\n  16  sure as hell:   spoken  not polite used to emphasize that something is true//  --I don’t scare easily, but I was sure as hell scared.//\n  17  give sb hell:   informal  not polite to treat someone in an unpleasant or angry way//  --She didn’t like him, and gave him hell at the slightest opportunity.//\n  18  get the hell out (of somewhere):   informal  not polite to leave a place quickly and suddenly//  --Let’s get the hell out of here!//\n  19  there’ll be hell to pay:   spoken  not polite used to say that people will be very angry//  --If they find us there’ll be hell to pay.//\n  20  go to hell and back:  to go through a very difficult situation//  --I’d go to hell and back for that boy.//\n  21  all hell broke loose:   informal  not polite used to say that people suddenly become very noisy or angry//  --Journalists woke him with the news and all hell broke loose.//\n  22  come hell or high water:   informal  not polite in spite of any problems or difficulties//  --I decided I would get the job done by Friday, come hell or high water.//\n  23  go to hell in a handbasket:   AmE  informal  not polite if a system or organization has gone to hell in a handbasket, it has stopped working well and is now working very badly//  --The education system in this country has gone to hell in a handbasket.//\n  24  hell’s bells:   spoken  old-fashioned  also hell’s teeth //   BrE used to express great annoyance or surprise//\n  25  play (merry) hell with sth:   BrE  informal to make something stop working or happening as it should//  --The cold weather played hell with the weekend sports schedule.//\n  26  raise hell:   informal  not polite to protest strongly and angrily about a situation//\n  27  run/go hell for leather:   informal  not polite to run as fast as possible//\n  28  hell on wheels:   AmE  informal  not polite someone who does exactly what they want and does not care what happens as a result.//\n  29  when hell freezes over:   informal  not polite used to say that something will never happen//\n  30  catch hell:   AmE  spoken  not polite to be blamed or punished//  --You’ll catch hell when your Mom comes home!//    not a hope in hell (of doing sth) at hope2 (3)//\nhell 2 interjection  not polite \n  1 used to express anger or annoyance:  --Oh hell! I’ve left my purse at home.//\n  2 used to emphasize a statement:  --Well, hell, I don’t know!//


Words: hell-bent
Meaning:
adj [not before noun]   very determined to do something, especially something that other people do not approve of//  hell-bent on (doing) sth//  --young people who are hell-bent on having a good time//


Words: hell-hole
Meaning:
n [C]   a very dirty, ugly, and unpleasant place//  --His son ran away from school, calling it a hell-hole.//


Words: Hellene
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Greek; Origin: Hellen]//   formal a Greek, especially an ancient Greek//


Words: hellish
Meaning:
adj  informal   extremely bad or difficult//  --I’ve had a hellish day at work.//  -- hellishly adv //  --a hellishly difficult exam//


Words: Hellman
Meaning:
Lillian   (1905-84) a US writer of plays, whose most famous works are  The Children’s Hour and  The Little Foxes. She is also remembered for refusing to name anyone as a Communist in front of the  huac.//


Words: hello
Meaning:
S1   interjection, n  also  hallo, hullo BrE  [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hollo a shout to call attention  (16-19 centuries)]//\n  1 used as a greeting when you see or meet someone:  --Hello, John! How are you?//  --Stanley, come and say hello to your nephew.//  --Well, hello there ! I haven’t seen you for ages.//\n  2 used when answering the telephone or starting a telephone conversation:  --Hello - may I speak to Anne?//\n  3 used when calling to get someone’s attention:  --Hello! Is there anybody home?//\n  4 used when you think someone is not acting sensibly or has said something stupid:  --You didn’t remember her birthday? Hello!//\n  5  BrE used to show that you are surprised or confused by something:  --Hello! What’s happened here?//\n  6  say hello:  to have a quick conversation with someone//  --Promise you’ll look in and say hello when you have time.//


Words: Hello!
Meaning:
trademark   a British magazine with pictures and articles about famous people, such as film actors, fashion  models, and members of the British  aristocracy//


Words: helluva
Meaning:
adj, adv  spoken   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: hell of a]//  used to emphasize that someone or something is very good, bad, big etc//  --He’s got a helluva temper.//  --He’s a helluva nice guy.//


Words: helm
Meaning:
n   [Sense: 1; Origin: Old English helma]//  [Sense: 2-3; Origin: Old English helm]//\n  1 [C] the wheel or control which guides a ship or boat:\n  2  at the helm:  a) in charge of something//  --We have a new prime minister at the helm.//  b) guiding a ship or boat//\n  3  take the helm:  a) to start being in charge of something such as a business or organization//  --Wright took the helm at the food retailer in December 2001.//  b) to start guiding a ship or boat//


Words: helmet
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: helme  ’helmet’]//  a strong hard hat that soldiers, motorcycle riders, the police etc wear to protect their heads//


Words: Helo[hA170]se
Meaning:
(1101-64) the pupil, lover, and wife of Peter  Abelard. The love between Helo[hA170]se and Abelard is one of the most famous love stories in history, and their love letters are well known.//


Words: help
Meaning:
v   [Language: Old English; Origin: helpan]//\n  1 [I and T] to make it possible or easier for someone to do something by doing part of their work or by giving them something they need:  --If there’s anything I can do to help, just give me a call.//  help sb (to) do sth//  --I helped her to carry her cases up the stairs.//  --She helped him choose some new clothes.//  --herbal products that help you to relax and sleep//  help (to) do sth//  --She was coming to help clean the machines.//  help sb with sth//  --Can I help you with the washing up?//  --My father said he’s going to help me with the fees.//  help sb on/off with sth//   (=help someone put on or take off a piece of clothing) //  --Here, let me help you on with your coat.//  help sb somewhere//   (=help someone get to a particular place, especially because they are old, ill, or hurt) //  --She helped the old man across the road.//\n  2 [I and T] to make a situation better, easier, or less painful:  --Crying won’t help.//  --If you get rid of your car you could be helping the environment.//  -- It helps my concentration if I listen to music while I’m working.//  -- It helped a lot to know that someone understood how I felt.//  --Eight hours of deep sleep helped enormously .//\n  3  help yourself (to sth):  a) to take some of what you want, without asking permission - used especially when offering food to someone//  --Please help yourself to some cake.//  b)  informal to steal something//  --Obviously he had been helping himself to the money.//\n  4  Help!:   spoken used to call people and ask them to help you when you are in danger//\n  5  sb can’t help (doing) sth:   also sb can’t help but do sth //  used to say that someone is unable to change their behaviour or feelings, or to prevent themselves from doing something//  --She couldn’t help it if she was being irrational.//  --’Stop biting your nails.’ ’I can’t help it .’//  --I can’t help the way I feel about you.//  --Lee could not help but agree with her.//  sb can’t help feeling/thinking/wondering etc sth //  --I can’t help feeling that there has been a mistake.//  --I couldn’t help thinking about the past.//\n  6  I couldn’t help myself/she couldn’t help herself etc:  to be unable to stop yourself from doing something you should not do//  --She knew she sounded just like her mother but she couldn’t help herself.//\n  7  it can’t be helped:   spoken used to say that there is nothing you can do to change a bad situation//  --She said she had to leave him for a while; it couldn’t be helped.//\n  8  sb is helping the police with their enquiries:   BrE the police are interviewing someone about a crime, especially because they believe that this person may have committed the crime//\n  9  a helping hand:  help and support//  give/lend/offer etc sb a helping hand //  --She’s been giving me a helping hand with the children.//\n  10  not if I can help it:   spoken used to say that you are not going to do something//  --’Are you going to watch the school play?’ ’Not if I can help it.’//\n  11  God help him/them etc:   spoken used to say that something bad may happen to someone//  --’Good luck.’ ’God help me. I think I’m going to need it.’//\n  12  so help me (God):  used when making a serious promise, especially in a court of law//  help along [help sth → along] phr v//  to make a process or activity happen more quickly or easily//  --She asked a few questions to help the conversation along.//  help out phr v//  to help someone because they are busy or have problems//  --Do you need anyone to help out in the shop?//  help sb → out (with sth)//  --I helped her out when Stella became ill.//  --She was helping him out with his mortgage repayments.//  ----------//  WORD CHOICE: help, assist, give somebody a hand, lend a hand, help out //  Help is the most general verb meaning ’to make it possible or easier for someone to do something’.: Note that in the patterns  help to do something //  or  help someone to do something  you can leave out the ’to’ and say  help do something  or  help someone do something : Cleaner water will help prevent disease.| money to help people build new homes. //  Assist  is a formal word, and means to help someone by doing part of the work for them, especially the things that are not very important : Would you be kind enough to assist me in a small experiment? //  !!  Do not say ’assist someone to do something’. Say  assist someone with something or  assist someone in doing something. //  !! Do not use assist to mean ’attend’ or ’be present at’.//  Give somebody a hand, lend a hand,  and  help out  are used in more informal English.  Give somebody a hand means to help someone, especially by carrying or lifting things : Can you give me a hand stacking up these boxes?  Lend a hand  and  help out  mean to help someone, especially when there are not enough people to do something : Police came from other areas to lend a hand. |  Their friends helped out with the fundraising. //  ----------//\nhelp 2 n \n  1 [U] things you do to make it easier or possible for someone to do something:  --Thank you for all your help.//  help with//  --Do you want any help with the washing-up?//  --Old people may need help decorating their homes.//  --Ask for help if necessary.//  with the help of sb/with sb’s help//  --We manage, with the help of a nurse who comes daily.//  --I get a lot of help and I’m really grateful.//  --She screamed at them to go and get help.//\n  2 [singular, U] if someone or something is a help to you, they are useful and make it easier for you to do something:  --That map isn’t much help.//  with the help of sth//  --I managed to make myself understood with the help of a phrase book.//  be of great/little/no/some etc help (to sb) //  --Let me know if I can be of any help to you.//  be a (great/big/tremendous/real etc) help (to sb) //  --Any information would be a great help.//  --You’ve been a real help to me, Carrie.//\n  3 [U] advice, treatment, information, or money which is given to people who need it:  --A lot of these children need professional help.//  help with//  --You may be able to ask for help with the rent.//  --We received no help from the police.//\n  4 [U] a part of a computer program that helps someone using it by giving additional information:\n  5  the help:   AmE someone’s servant or servants//


Words: help screen
Meaning:
n [C]   a screen that appears when you ask for help in using a computer program, showing extra information or advice//


Words: Help the Aged
Meaning:
a British  charity organization which collects money for old people and provides them with help and advice//


Words: helper
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 someone who helps another person:   assistant//  --I was a classroom helper at the local primary school.//\n  2  AmE someone who is employed to do some of the work in someone else’s home:


Words: helpful
Meaning:
W3S2   adj \n  1 providing useful help in making a situation better or easier:  --Thank you for your advice; it’s been very helpful.//  it is helpful (for sb) to do sth//  --It is helpful to discuss your problems with your friends.//  --It is helpful for family members to gain a basic understanding of the illness.//  -- It is helpful if we address a few key questions here.//  helpful in doing sth//  --We hope this leaflet has been helpful in answering your questions.//  helpful advice/hints/suggestions etc //  --Our sales staff are there to give you helpful advice.//\n  2 always willing to help people:  --She’s a helpful child.//  --I’m only trying to be helpful.//  -- helpfully adv //  -- helpfulness n  [U] //


Words: helping
Meaning:
n [C]   the amount of food that someone gives you or that you take//   serving//  --a double helping of pie//


Words: helpless
Meaning:
adj \n  1 unable to look after yourself or to do anything to help yourself:  --He began to feel depressed and helpless.//  --a vicious attack on a helpless victim//  --Newman threw out a hand in a helpless gesture.//\n  2 unable to control a strong feeling that you have:  helpless with//  --He was near to death, and I was helpless with fear.//  helpless laughter/rage/tears etc //  --We both collapsed into helpless giggles.//  -- helplessly adv //  -- helplessness n  [U] //


Words: helpmate
Meaning:
[C]   [Date: 1700-1800; Origin:  helpmate from  helpmeet  (17-20 centuries), from  help +  meet  ’suitable’; influenced by mate]//   literary a helpful partner, usually a wife//


Words: Helsinki Accords
Meaning:
the  also the Helsinki Agreement   an official agreement which encourages European countries to be peaceful and to make sure all their citizens are treated fairly and have basic  human rights. It was signed in 1975 by every European country except Albania, and also by the US and Canada.//


Words: hem
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin:]//  the edge of a piece of cloth that is turned under and stitched down, especially the lower edge of a skirt, trousers etc//\nhem 2 v   past tense and past participle  hemmed present participle  hemming //\n  1 [T] to turn under the edge of a piece of material or clothing and stitch it in place:\n  2  hem and haw:   AmE to keep pausing before saying something, and avoid saying it directly//  hem in [hem sb/sth → in] phr v//\n  1 to surround someone or something closely:  --They were hemmed in on all sides by the soldiers and the dogs.//  --The market place is hemmed in by shops and banks.//\n  2 to make someone feel that they are not free to do what they want to do:  --They hem in the child with endless rules and restrictions.//


Words: Hemingway
Meaning:
Ernest   (1899-1961) one of the great US writers of the 20th century, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954. He wrote many novels and short stories in a simple and direct style, and his books are often about typically male activities like war and hunting. His novels include  A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and  The Old Man and the Sea. He died by shooting himself. //


Words: hemisphere
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: hemisphaerium, from  Greek, from  hemi-  ’half’ +  sphairion  ’small sphere’]//\n  1 a half of the earth, especially one of the halves above and below the equator:  --the Northern hemisphere//\n  2 one of the two halves of your brain:\n  3 half of a sphere (=an object which is round like a ball) :  -- hemispherical/hem[hA369]sfer[hA369]k[hA368]l/ adj //


Words: hemlock
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hemlic]//  a very poisonous plant, or the poison that is made from it//


Words: Hemlock Society
Meaning:
the   an organization in the US which aims to change the law that prevents helping seriously ill people to die if they wish to. The organization gives advice to such people and their families. There is a similar organization in the UK called  Exit.//


Words: hemoglobin
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hematoglobulin  ’hemoglobulin’ (1800-1900), from  hemat- (  HEMATOLOGY) +  globulin]//  the American spelling of haemoglobin//


Words: hemophilia
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Modern Latin; Origin: hemo- +  -philia]//  the American spelling of haemophilia//


Words: hemorrhage
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: hemorrhagie, from  Latin haemorrhagia, from  Greek, from  haima (  HEMO-) +  -rrhagia  ’bursting out, flow’]//  the American spelling of haemorrhage//


Words: hemp
Meaning:
n [U]   [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]nep]//  a type of plant that is used to make rope and sometimes to produce the drug cannabis//


Words: hen
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: henn]//\n  1 an adult female chicken:\n  2 a fully grown female bird:


Words: hen party
Meaning:
n [C]    BrE  informal a party for women only, that happens just before one of them gets married//    stag party//


Words: hence
Meaning:
W2   adv  formal   [Date: 1200-1300; Origin: hen  ’hence’ (12-15 centuries) (from  Old English heonan) +  -s (as in backwards)]//\n  1 [sentence adverb] for this reason:  --The cost of transport is a major expense for an industry. Hence factory location is an important consideration.//\n  2  ten days hence/five months hence etc:  ten days from now, five months from now etc//


Words: henchman
Meaning:
n   plural  henchmen /-m[hA353]n/ [C] //  [Date: 1300-1400; Origin: hengest  ’male horse’ (12-14 centuries) (from  Old English) +  man]//  a faithful supporter of a political leader or a criminal, who is willing to do illegal things or use violence//


Words: Hendrix
Meaning:
Jimi   (1942-70) a US  guitar player and singer who played the guitar in a completely new way, and was famous for his exciting performances. He died as a result of taking drugs. His songs include  Purple Haze and  Voodoo Chile.//


Words: Henley Regatta
Meaning:
also Henley   a series of boat races for  rowing boats, held every year on the river Thames near the town of Henley in the south of England. Henley is also a fashionable social event, especially for rich and  upper-class people.//


Words: henna
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Arabic; Origin: hinna]//  a reddish-brown substance used to change the colour of hair or skin//  -- henna v  [T] //


Words: henpecked
Meaning:
adj   a man who is henpecked is always being told what to do by his wife, and is afraid to disagree with her//  --a henpecked husband//


Words: Henry
Meaning:
John   a character in US stories and  folk songs who worked on railways and was very strong//\n O.   (1862-1910) a US writer of short stories, whose real name was William Sydney Porter. His stories treat the everyday life of working people in a humorous way, and often have unexpected endings.//\n Patrick   (1736-99) a US politician who was one of the leaders of the fight for independence during the  American Revolutionary War. He is famous for saying "Give me liberty, or give me death".//\n Prince     Harry, Prince//


Words: Henry Hudson
Meaning:
(1565-1611) an English sailor and explorer who made several attempts to find the Northeast Passage (=along the northern coast of Russia)  and the Northwest Passage (=along the northern coast of Canada) . He discovered Hudson Bay in 1610.//


Words: Henry I
Meaning:
King   (1068-1135) the king of England from 1100 until his death. He was the youngest son of  William the Conqueror.//


Words: Henry II
Meaning:
King   (1133-89) the king of England from 1154 until his death. He tried to reduce the power of the Church, and as a result he quarrelled with Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Some of Henry’s soldiers killed Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.//


Words: Henry III
Meaning:
King   (1207-72) the king of England from 1216 until his death. He fought many wars in Europe, and this made him unpopular with the  barons (=men of the highest social class) . Led by Simon de Montfort, they fought against him but eventually lost.//


Words: Henry IV
Meaning:
King   (1366-1413) the king of England from 1399, when he took power from King Richard II, until his death. He spent much of his time as king fighting to gain control over Wales and Scotland, but he was unsuccessful in this. There are two plays by William Shakespeare about his life ( Henry IV, Part I, and  Henry IV, Part II).//


Words: Henry James
Meaning:
(1843-1916) a US writer of novels, who lived for many years in Europe and is famous especially for writing about the effect that Europe had on Americans who travelled there. His many books include  Washington Square,  The Portrait of a Lady, and the  ghost story  The Turn of the Screw.//  -- Jamesian adj //  --a Jamesian plot//


Words: Henry Morton Stanley
Meaning:
(1841-1904) a British  explorer. In 1871 he was sent by a US newspaper to find David  Livingstone in Africa, and is famous for saying "Dr Livingstone, I presume" when he found him. People sometimes say this as a joke when they meet someone.//


Words: Henry V
Meaning:
King   (1387-1422) the king of England from 1413 until his death, who is remembered especially for defeating the French at the Battle of Agincourt. The events surrounding this battle are described in Shakespeare’s play  Henry V.//


Words: Henry VI
Meaning:
King   (1421-71) the king of England from 1422 to 1461 and from  1470 to 1471. During Henry’s rule there was great dissatisfaction with the government. This led to the Wars of the Roses, in which Henry was finally murdered.//


Words: Henry VII
Meaning:
King  also  Henry Tudor   (1457-1509) the king of England from 1485. He defeated Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field, and married to unite the families of York and Lancaster and so ended the Wars of the Roses between the two families.//


Words: Henry VIII
Meaning:
King   (1491-1547) the king of England from 1509 until his death. The fact about Henry VIII which most British people know is that he had six wives. He tried to legally end his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon, because she did not produce any sons and he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn, but the Pope refused to allow this. Henry disobeyed the Pope and made himself the head of the church in England. This started the  Reformation in England, in which the Protestant church was established. His other wives were: Anne Boleyn, who had her head cut off; Jane Seymour, who died while giving birth to a child; Anne of Cleves, whom Henry  divorced; Catherine Howard, who had her head cut off; and Catherine Parr, who lived on after Henry’s death. During Henry’s time as king, many schools were established, and England became a more powerful country.//


Words: Henry Wood
Meaning:
Sir   (1869-1944) a British  conductor (=someone who directs a group of musicians)  who started the  Proms, a series of concerts which take place in London every summer//


Words: Henson
Meaning:
Jim   (1936-90) a US maker of  puppets, who invented the  Muppets, including characters such as Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and the Cookie Monster.//


Words: hepatic
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]  medical   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: hepaticus, from  Greek, from  hepar  ’liver’]//  relating to your liver//


Words: hepatitis
Meaning:
n [U]   a disease of the liver that causes fever and makes your skin yellow. There are several types of hepatitis: hepatitis A, which is less severe, and hepatitis B and C which are much more serious//


Words: Hepburn
Meaning:
Audrey   (1929-92) an actress, famous for being beautiful and graceful, who was born in Belgium and who appeared in both British and American films, such as  Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) and  My Fair Lady (1964). She also worked for  UNICEF, helping poor and sick children in places like Africa and Latin America.//\n Katharine   (1909- ) one of America’s greatest film and theatre actresses, known for appearing as strong, brave, and determined characters. She often worked with Spencer  Tracy, with whom she had a romantic relationship for many years. Her films include  The Philadephia Story (1940),  The African Queen (1951),  Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) and  On Golden Pond (1981).//


Words: Hephaestus
Meaning:
in Greek mythology, the god of fire and  metalwork (=making metal objects) , who made weapons for the gods. In Roman mythology his name is  Vulcan.//


Words: heptagon
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Greek; Origin: heptagonos, from  hepta  ’seven’ +  gonia  ’angle’]//  a shape with seven straight sides//  -- heptagonal/hept[zB024]g[hA353]n[hA368]l/ adj //


Words: heptathlon
Meaning:
n [singular]   [Date: 1900-2000; Language: Greek; Origin: hepta (  HAPTAGON) +  athlon  ’competition’]//  a women’s sports competition involving seven running, jumping, and throwing events//


Words: Hepworth
Meaning:
Barbara   (1903-75) a British  sculptor (=a person who makes art products out of stone, metal, and wood) who worked in an  abstract style//


Words: her
Meaning:
determiner [possessive form of ’she’] \n  1 belonging to or connected with a woman, girl, or female animal that has already been mentioned:  --She looked at her watch.//  --Her room was pleasant and airy.//  --She makes her own clothes.//\n  2  old-fashioned connected with a country, ship, car etc that has already been mentioned:  --Her top speed is about 110 miles an hour.//\nher 2 pron [object form of ’she’]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hiere]//\n  1 used to refer to a woman, girl, or female animal that has already been mentioned or is already known about:  --Jane? I don’t really know her.//  --Margaret wants me to go with her.//  --Give her the keys.//  --I think it was her, but I’m not sure.//\n  2  old-fashioned used to refer to a country, ship, car etc that has already been mentioned:  --God bless this ship and all who sail in her.//


Words: Hera
Meaning:
in Greek  mythology, the goddess of women and marriage. She was the wife of  Zeus. In Roman mythology her name is  Juno.//


Words: herald
Meaning:
v [T] \n  1 to be a sign of something that is going to come or happen soon:  --A flash of lightning and a peal of thunder heralded torrential rain.//  --Flashing blue lights heralded the arrival of the police.//\n  2 to say publicly that someone or something will be good or important:  be heralded as sth//  --When it opened, the hospital was heralded as a new way forward in nursing care.//\nherald 2 n   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: herault]//\n  1 [C] someone who carried messages from a ruler in the past:\n  2  herald of sth:  a sign that something is soon going to happen//  --a bowl of daffodils, the first bright heralds of spring//


Words: herb
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: erbe, from  Latin herba  ’grass, herb’]//  a small plant that is used to improve the taste of food, or to make medicine//  --Sprinkle the dish with chopped fresh herbs.//


Words: herbaceous border
Meaning:
n [C]   part of a garden where people grow plants that live for many years and do not need to be replaced//


Words: herbal medicine
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U] the practice of treating illness using plants:\n  2 [U and C] medicine made from plants:


Words: Herbert Hoover
Meaning:
(1874-1964) a US politician in the  Republican Party who was the President of the US from 1929 to 1933, during the first years of the  great depression, when many US citizens did not have jobs//\n J. Edgar   (1895-1972) the most important director of the  FBI, from 1924 until his death. He had very strong anti-Communist views, and he was later criticized for having too much power and for collecting information about people who were not criminals or enemies of the country.//


Words: herbivore
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Latin; Origin: herbivorus  ’plant-eating’, from  herba (  HERB) +  -vorus, from  vorare  ’to eat’]//  an animal that only eats plants//    carnivore, omnivore//  -- herbivorous/h[hA362][hA359]b[hA366]v[hA368]r[hA353]s $ h[hA362][hA359]r-, [hA362][hA359]r-/ adj //


Words: Hercules
Meaning:
in ancient Roman stories, a  hero known for his very great strength and for performing twelve very difficult and dangerous jobs known as the Labours of Hercules. People sometimes use the name "Hercules" to describe a man who is physically very strong. In ancient Greek stories, his name is  Herakles.//    Augean Stables, the//    Pillars of Hercules//


Words: herd
Meaning:
n   [Language: Old English; Origin: heord]//\n  1 [C] a group of animals of one kind that live and feed together:    flock//  herd of//  --a herd of cattle//  --herds of elephants//\n  2  the herd:  people generally, especially when thought of as being easily influenced by others//  --You have to be an individual; it’s no use running with the herd.//  --the herd instinct  (=the need to behave in the same way as everyone else does) //\nherd 2 v \n  1 [T always + adverb/preposition] to bring people together in a large group, especially roughly:  --The prisoners were herded together .//  --I don’t want to be herded around with a lot of tourists.//  herd sb into sth//  --The visitors were herded into two large halls.//\n  2 [T] to make animals move together in a group:  --It was Thomas’s duty to herd the cows.//


Words: here
Meaning:
adv   [Language: Old English; Origin: her]//\n  1 in this place:  --What are you doing here?//  --Shall we eat here?//  --Come here for a minute.//  --This switch here controls the lights.//  --My friend here will show you the way.//  up/down/in/out here//  --What was she doing up here in the woods?//  --Would you close the window? It’s cold in here.//  --Come on. I’m over here .//  --Will you be back here tonight?//  --There are no good pubs round here .//  --I’m resigning here and now .//\n  2 at this point in time:  --Spring is here at last.//  --Here is your chance to change your life.//  --Here is where the trouble starts.//\n  3  here and there:  scattered around or happening in several different places//  --The house just needs a bit of paint here and there.//\n  4  spoken  here is/are sth:   also here it is/here they are //  a) used when you are giving something to someone, or showing something to them//  --Here’s the money you lent me.//  --Here are some pictures of John when he was little.//  b) used when you have found something you were looking for//  --Have you seen my pen? Oh, here it is.//\n  5  spoken used when you are giving or offering something to someone:  --Here, have my chair. I don’t mind standing.//\n  6  spoken  here you are/here you go:  used when you are giving something to someone//  --Here you are, a boxful of tools.//  --’Here you go.’ Callum handed her a glass of orange juice.//\n  7  spoken at this point in a discussion:  --Here I’d like to add a note of caution.//  --There is no space to discuss this issue here.//  --I’m not sure what you mean here.//\n  8  spoken  here goes!:   also here we go //  used when you are going to try to do something difficult or dangerous, and you do not know what will happen//  --I’ve never ridden a motorbike before, so here goes!//\n  9  spoken  here we go:  used when you are starting to do something or when something is starting to happen//  --Right, here we go, the game’s starting.//\n  10  spoken  here’s to sb/sth:  used when you are going to drink something to wish someone good luck, show your respect for them etc//  --Here’s to the happy couple.//  --Here’s to your new job.//\n  11  spoken  here he/she etc is:   also sb/sth is here //  used to say that someone or something has arrived//  --Here they are, late as usual.//  --Ah, look - here’s the postman.//  --Tony’s here for his messages.//\n  12  spoken  here we are:  used when you have finally arrived somewhere you were travelling to//  --Here we are - home at last.//\n  13  spoken  here comes sb/sth:  used when you can see something or someone arriving//  --Here comes lunch.//\n  14  spoken  BrE used to get someone’s attention or to show that you are annoyed:  --Here! Just what do you think you’re doing?//\n  15  here we go again:   informal used when something unpleasant is beginning to happen again//  --Most of us are peaceful and decent, but here we go again, in our fifth war of this century.//\n  16  here to stay:  if something is here to stay, it has become a part of life and will continue to be so//  --Mobile phones are definitely here to stay.//\n  17  here, there, and everywhere:   informal in many different places//  --I spent the weekend driving the kids here, there, and everywhere.//\n  18  neither here nor there:  not important//  --You never liked him much, did you?’ ’What I think about him is neither here nor there. He’s your friend.’//\n  19  the here and now:  the present time//  in the here and now//  --To be able to live fully in the here and now, one must first learn how to honour the past.//\n  20  sb/sth is here to do sth:  used to say what someone or something’s duty or purpose is//  --We’re here to serve you.//\n  21  here he/she etc is (doing sth):  used to describe the present situation, especially one you did not expect to happen//  --I didn’t think I’d ever be able to afford it, but here I am sitting in my own fitted kitchen.//


Words: Here Comes the Bride
Meaning:
a piece of music which is often played at the beginning of a marriage ceremony, when the  bride begins to walk up the  aisle of the church//    Wedding March, the//


Words: hereafter
Meaning:
adv \n  1 [sentence adverb]  formal from this time:\n  2  formal after death:  --his belief in God and a life hereafter//\n  3  law in a later part of an official or legal document:  --the Ulster Democratic Unionist Party (hereafter DUP)//\nhereafter 2 n   the hereafter//  a life after death//  --Do you believe in the hereafter?//


Words: hereby
Meaning:
adv  law   as a result of this statement - used in official situations//  --I hereby agree to the conditions of this contract.//


Words: hereditary
Meaning:
adj \n  1 a quality or illness that is hereditary is passed from a parent to a child before the child is born:    genetic//\n  2  BrE a hereditary position, rank, or title can be passed from an older to a younger person in the same family, usually when the older one dies:  --a hereditary peer//


Words: heredity
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: heredite, from  Latin hereditas, from  heres;   HEIR]//  the process by which mental and physical qualities are passed from a parent to a child before the child is born//    genetics//


Words: Hereford
Meaning:
1 a small city with a  cathedral (=a large, important church)  in Herefordshire in western England:\n  2 a breed of red and white cattle, originally from Herefordshire, and used for producing beef:


Words: herein
Meaning:
adv  formal   in this place, situation, document etc//  --the conditions stated herein//  --Herein lies a problem.//    therein//


Words: hereinafter
Meaning:
adv  law   later in this official statement, document etc//  --the Council of the Law Society (hereinafter called the Council)//


Words: hereof
Meaning:
adv  formal  or  law   relating to or belonging to this document//  --This Agreement commences on the date of signature hereof.//    thereof//


Words: heresy
Meaning:
n   plural  heresies  [U and C] //  [Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: heresie, from  Late Latin haeresis, from  Greek hairesis  ’act of taking or choosing’]//\n  1 a belief that disagrees with the official principles of a particular religion:  --He was executed for heresy.//\n  2 a belief, statement etc that disagrees with what a group of people believe to be right:  --To come to work without a shirt and tie was considered heresy.//


Words: heretic
Meaning:
n [C]   someone who is guilty of heresy//  --Cranmer was put to death as a heretic.//  -- heretical/h[hA369]ret[hA366]k[hA368]l/ adj //


Words: heretofore
Meaning:
adv  formal   [Date: 1300-1400; Origin: here +  tofore  ’before’ (11-17 centuries) (from  Old English toforan)]//  before this time//  --In recent years we have seen greater emphasis than heretofore on the voice of the consumer.//


Words: herewith
Meaning:
adv  formal   with this letter or document//  --I enclose a copy of this report herewith for your information.//


Words: heritable
Meaning:
adj  law   property that is heritable can be passed from the older members of a family to the younger ones//


Words: heritage
Meaning:
n [singular, U]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: heriter;   INHERIT]//  the traditional beliefs, values, customs etc of a family, country, or society//    inheritance//  --the importance of preserving the national heritage//  --beautiful old buildings which are part of our heritage//  cultural/architectural/literary etc heritage //  --the cultural heritage of Italy//


Words: hermaphrodite
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: hermaphroditus, from  Greek Hermaphroditos, the son of the ancient Greek god Hermes and the goddess Aphrodite, who became joined in body with the female nature spirit Salmacis]//  a living thing that has both male and female sexual organs//  -- hermaphrodite adj //


Words: Hermes
Meaning:
in Greek  mythology, the god who is the  messenger (=someone who takes messages)  of the gods. He is usually shown in pictures with wings on his shoes and on his  helmet. In Roman mythology his name is  Mercury//


Words: hermetically
Meaning:
adv  technical   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Modern Latin; Origin: hermeticus, from  Hermes Trismegistus, a magician in ancient stories who invented a way of keeping air out of containers]//  hermetically sealed//  very tightly closed so that air cannot get in or out//   airtight//  -- hermetic adj //


Words: hermit
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: eremite, from  Greek eremites  ’living in the desert’, from  eremos  ’lonely’]//  someone who lives alone and has a simple way of life, usually for religious reasons//    recluse//


Words: Hermitage
Meaning:
the Hermitage//  a large  museum in St Petersburg in Russia, known especially for its collection of  Impressionist paintings//


Words: hernia
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin]//  a medical condition in which an organ pushes through the muscles that are supposed to contain it//   rupture//


Words: hero
Meaning:
W3   n   plural  heroes  [C] //  [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: heros, from  Greek]//\n  1 a man who is admired for doing something extremely brave:    heroine//  --He had dared to speak out against injustice, and overnight he became a  national hero . //  --His father was a  war hero  , a former fighter pilot.//  -- the  unsung heroes  who drove convoys of aid to Bosnia //  hero of//  --a hero of the Great War//  -- A man  hailed as a hero  for fifty years has been unmasked as a traitor.//\n  2 the man or boy who is the main character in a book, film, play etc:    heroine//  hero of//  --Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days//\n  3 a man who is admired very much for a particular skill or quality:    heroine//  sb’s hero//  --When I was small, Uncle Fred was my hero.//  hero of//  --Einstein is the hero of those who explore science at its deepest level.//\n  4  AmE a long thin sandwich filled with meat, cheese etc:  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  national hero  (=a hero in a particular country) //  local hero //  war hero  (=a soldier who was very brave in a war) //  unsung hero  (=someone whose bravery was not noticed or recognized) //  folk hero  (=an ordinary person who does something brave and becomes a hero in a particular place) //  accidental hero  (=someone who becomes a hero by chance) //  be hailed as a hero  (=be said to be a hero) //  ----------//


Words: hero worship
Meaning:
n [U]   great admiration for someone who is thought to be very brave, good, skilful etc - often used to show disapproval//  -- hero-worship v  [T] //


Words: Herod
Meaning:
1 Herod the Great :  (74-4 BC) the king of Judea at the time when Jesus Christ was born. according to the New Testament of the Bible, he ordered that all the male babies in Bethlehem should be killed because he wanted to kill the baby who ancient stories said would become king.//\n  2 Herod Antipas :  (21 BC-AD 39) a Roman  governor in Palestine, who was the son of Herod the Great. In the New Testament of the Bible, he ordered the killing of  John the Baptist, and later he refused to make a decision about whether Jesus should be killed or not.//


Words: heroic
Meaning:
adj \n  1 extremely brave or determined, and admired by many people:   courageous//  --her heroic efforts to save her family//  --Lawrence’s heroic struggle against his destiny.//  --She portrayed him as a heroic figure .//\n  2 a heroic story, poem etc has a hero in it, usually from ancient legends:\n  3  on a heroic scale/of heroic proportions:  very large or great//  --a battle on a heroic scale//  -- heroically/-kli/ adv //


Words: heroic couplet
Meaning:
n [C]   a pair of lines in poetry which end with the same sound and that have five beats in each line//


Words: heroics
Meaning:
n [plural]   brave actions or words, often ones that are meant to seem impressive to other people//  --America’s present need is not heroics, but calm diplomacy.//


Words: heroin
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: German; Origin: Greek heros (  HERO); because taking it is said to make people feel heroic]//  a powerful and illegal drug made from morphine//  be on/use/take heroin //  --a heroin addict //


Words: heroine
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: heroina, from  Greek heroine, from  heros;   HERO]//\n  1 a woman who is admired for doing something extremely brave:    hero//  heroine of//  --a heroine of the French Resistance//\n  2 the woman or girl who is the main character in a book, film, play etc:    hero//  heroine of//  --Myra, the fictional heroine of The Women’s Room//\n  3 a woman who is admired very much for a particular skill or quality:    hero, idol//  sb’s heroine//  --Oprah is my heroine.//


Words: Heron
Meaning:
Patrick   (1920-99), a British painter famous for his abstract paintings. He is also well-known as an art critic.//


Words: heron
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: hairon]//  a large bird with very long legs and a long beak, that lives near water//


Words: herpes
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: Greek, from  herpein  ’to move slowly and quietly’]//  a very infectious disease that causes spots on the skin, for example on the sexual organs or face//


Words: herring
Meaning:
n   plural  herrings  or  herring  [C] //  [Language: Old English; Origin: h[zB024]ring]//  a long thin silver sea fish that can be eaten//    red herring//


Words: Herriot
Meaning:
James   (1916-95) the name that a British writer, James Alfred White, used to write stories about his life as a country  vet (=animal doctor) //


Words: hers
Meaning:
S3   pron [possessive form of ’she’]   used to refer to something that belongs to or is connected with a woman, girl, or female animal that has already been mentioned//  --He bent and touched his mouth to hers.//  --These are my gloves. Hers are in the drawer.//  --The idea was hers.//  of hers//  --Paul’s a friend of hers .//


Words: herself
Meaning:
W1S2   pron [reflexive form of ’she’] \n  1 used to show that the woman or girl who does something is affected by her own action:  --She cut herself on some broken glass.//  --She made herself a cup of coffee.//\n  2 :  a) used to emphasize that you are talking about one particular woman or girl//  --It must be true that she’s leaving because she told me so herself.//  --The ornate Town Hall was opened by Queen Victoria herself.//  b) used after ’like’, ’as’, or ’except’ instead of ’her’//  --She met other mothers in the same situation as herself.//\n  3  (all) by herself:  a) alone//  --Miss Bennet lives by herself.//  b) without help from anyone else//  --The little girl wrote the letter all by herself.//\n  4  not be/feel/seem herself:   informal if a woman or girl is not herself, she does not feel or behave as she usually does, for example because she is upset or ill//  --You must forgive her - she’s not herself at present.//\n  5  have sth (all) to herself:  if a woman or girl has something to herself, she does not have to share it with anyone else//  --Alice had the house to herself while her parents were away.//


Words: Hershey’s Kisses
Meaning:
trademark   a type of small chocolate wrapped in silver-coloured paper, made by the Hershey company and sold in the US//


Words: hertz
Meaning:
n   plural  hertz  [C]  written abbreviation Hz //  [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Heinrich  Hertz (1857-94), German scientist who worked on energy waves]//  a unit for measuring the frequency of sound waves//


Words: hesitant
Meaning:
adj   uncertain about what to do or say because you are nervous or unwilling//  --Gail gave me a hesitant little smile.//  hesitant about (doing) sth//  --They seemed hesitant about coming in.//  hesitant to do sth//  --She is hesitant to draw conclusions until the study is over.//  -- hesitantly adv //


Words: hesitate
Meaning:
v   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: , past participle of  haesitare  ’to stick firmly, hesitate’, from  haerere  ’to stick’]//\n  1 [I] to pause before saying or doing something because you are nervous or not sure:  --Kay hesitated for a moment and then said ’yes’.//  hesitate about/over//  --He was still hesitating over whether to leave or not.//\n  2  don’t hesitate to do sth:  used to tell someone that it is correct or right for them to do something and they do not have to worry about offending anyone//  --Don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any more information.//  -- hesitatingly adv //


Words: hesitation
Meaning:
n [U and C]   when someone hesitates//  --After some hesitation one of them began to speak.//  without hesitation//  --He agreed without hesitation.//  have no hesitation in doing sth//  --I would have no hesitation in recommending Philip for the position.//  a slight/brief/momentary etc hesitation //  --There was a slight hesitation in Jamie’s voice.//


Words: Hess
Meaning:
Rudolf   (1894-1987) a German  Nazi politician who was directly below  Hitler in rank. In 1941 he made a secret flight to Scotland to try to arrange a peace agreement, but he was caught and made a prisoner. In 1946 he was judged to be guilty of  war crimes, and was put in Spandau Prison in Berlin until his death.//


Words: Hesse
Meaning:
Hermann   (1877-1962) a German writer and poet. His novels include  Steppenwolf,  The Glass Bead Game, and  Siddhartha, and often deal with the deep struggles that go on in the human mind. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.//


Words: het up
Meaning:
adj [not before noun]  BrE  informal   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Old past participle of  heat]//  anxious, upset, or slightly angry//  het up about/over//  --Mike tends to get het up about silly things.//


Words: hetero-
Meaning:
prefix   [Language: Late Latin; Origin: Greek, from  heteros  ’different’]//  other; opposite; different//  heterosexual (=attracted to the opposite sex) //


Words: heterodox
Meaning:
adj  formal   heterodox beliefs, practices etc are not approved of by a particular group, especially a religious one//


Words: heterogeneous
Meaning:
formal   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: heterogeneus, from  Greek, from  hetero- (  HETERO-) +  genos  ’type’]//  consisting of parts or members that are very different from each other//  → homogeneous//  --a heterogeneous collection of buildings//  -- heterogeneously adv //  -- heterogeneity/het[hA368]r[hA353][hA35E]d[hA360][hA369]ni[hA359][hA369]ti $ -ro[hA35E]-/ n  [U] //


Words: heuristic
Meaning:
adj  formal   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: German; Origin: heuristisch, from  Greek heuriskein  ’to discover’]//\n  1 heuristic education is based on discovering and experiencing things for yourself:\n  2 helping you in the process of learning or discovery:  -- heuristically/-kli/ adv //


Words: heuristics
Meaning:
n [U]  formal   the study of how people use their experience to find answers to questions or to improve performance//


Words: hew
Meaning:
v   past tense  hewed past participle  hewed  also  hewn /hju[hA359]n/ literary //  [Language: Old English; Origin: heawan]//  [I and T] to cut something with a cutting tool//  --hewn stone//    rough-hewn//


Words: hex
Meaning:
n [C]    AmE an evil curse that brings trouble//  --I think he’s trying to put a hex on me.//  -- hex v  [T] //


Words: hexadecimal
Meaning:
adj  also hex  technical   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: hexa-  ’six’ (from  Greek, from  hex  ’six’) +  decimal]//  hexadecimal numbers are based on the number 16 and are mainly used on computers//


Words: hexagon
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Greek; Origin: hexagonos, from  hex  ’six’ +  gonia  ’angle’]//  a shape with six sides//  -- hexagonal/heks[zB024]g[hA353]n[hA368]l/ adj //


Words: hexameter
Meaning:
n [C]  technical   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: Greek, from  hexa- (  HEXADECIMAL) +  metron  ’measure’]//  a line of poetry with six main beats//


Words: hey
Meaning:
interjection   [Date: 1100-1200; Origin:  A natural shout]//\n  1 a shout used to get someone’s attention or to show surprise, interest, or annoyance:  --Hey, wait a minute!//\n  2  informal hello:  --Hey, what’s up?//


Words: hey presto
Meaning:
interjection  BrE   used to say that something happens so easily that it seems to be magic//  American Equivalent:  presto//


Words: heyday
Meaning:
n [C usually singular]   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: heyda a shout of happiness  (16-17 centuries); influenced by day]//  the time when someone or something was most popular, successful, or powerful//  in sb’s heyday//  --a picture of Greta Garbo in her heyday//


Words: Heysel Stadium Disaster
Meaning:
the   the death of 39 people at a football ground in Belgium in 1985, which happened when English football supporters started fights and caused a wall to fall down. Because of this, English teams were not allowed to play in European competitions for several years.//


Words: hi
Meaning:
S1   interjection  informal   [Date: 1100-1200; Origin:  A natural shout]//  hello//  --Hi! How are you?//  -- Hi there ! I haven’t seen you for ages.//


Words: hi-fi
Meaning:
n   plural  hi-fis  [C]  old-fashioned //  [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: high fidelity]//  a piece of high quality electronic equipment for playing recorded music//   stereo//  -- hi-fi adj //  --hi-fi speakers//


Words: hiatus
Meaning:
n [C usually singular]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: hiare  ’to yawn’]//\n  1  formal a break or interruption in an activity:  --Talks between the two countries have resumed after a six-year hiatus.//  hiatus in//  --a hiatus in research//  a brief/short/long hiatus //  --There was a brief hiatus in the war.//\n  2  technical a space where something is missing, especially in a piece of writing:


Words: Hiawatha
Meaning:
a Native American chief who, in the 16th century, helped to unite the  Iroquois tribes into a single group called the Five Nations. He is the subject of a long poem by  Longfellow called  The Song of Hiawatha (1855).//


Words: hibernate
Meaning:
v [I]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Latin; Origin: , past participle of  hibernare  ’to pass the winter’, from  hibernus  ’of the winter’]//  if an animal hibernates, it sleeps for the whole winter//  -- hibernation/ha[hA366]b[hA353]ne[hA366][hA35D][hA368]n $ -b[hA353]r-/ n  [U] //


Words: hibiscus
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Date: 1700-1800; Language: Latin]//  a tropical plant with large brightly coloured flowers//\nhiccup 1  hiccough/h[hA366]k[hA356]p, -k[hA353]p/ n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin:  From the sound]//\n  1 [usually plural] a sudden repeated stopping of the breath, usually caused by eating or drinking too fast:  get/have hiccups  BrE  //  ; get/have the hiccups  AmE //  --Don’t drink so fast - you’ll get hiccups.//\n  2 a small problem or delay:  hiccup in//  --a hiccup in the negotiations//\nhiccup 2   past tense and past participle  hiccupped present participle  hiccupping  v [I] //  to have hiccups//


Words: hick
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE  informal   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: Hick, a man’s name, from  Richard]//  someone who lives in the countryside, and is thought to be uneducated or stupid//  -- hick adj //  --hick towns//


Words: hickey
Meaning:
n [C]    AmE a red mark on someone’s skin caused by someone else sucking it as a sexual act//  British Equivalent:  lovebite//


Words: Hickok
Meaning:
Wild Bill   (1837-76) a US soldier who was one of the first white Americans who went to live in the western US, where he became a  marshal (=someone who controls a particular area and makes sure that laws are obeyed) . He was famous for his skill at shooting, and for his love of gambling (=playing card games for money) .//


Words: hickory
Meaning:
n   plural  hickories  [U and C] //  [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Algonquian; Origin: pawcohiccora  ’food made from crushed nuts’]//  a North American tree that produces nuts, or the wood that comes from this tree//


Words: hidden
Meaning:
the past participle of hide//\nhidden 2 adj \n  1 difficult to see or find:  --the use of hidden cameras//  --Some areas can hold hidden dangers for dogs.//  --the hidden meaning behind his words//  --Be on the lookout for hidden costs in hotel bills.//\n  2 not easy to notice or realize:  --He wants each pupil to have the chance to discover hidden talents .//\n  3  hidden agenda:  the secret purpose behind a plan or activity that you do not tell other people about - used to show disapproval//  --Voters suspected a hidden political agenda.//  --Was there a hidden agenda behind this decision?//


Words: hide
Meaning:
v   past tense  hid /h[hA366]d/past participle  hidden /h[hA366]dn///  [Language: Old English; Origin: hydan]//\n  1 [T] to deliberately put or keep something or someone in a place where they cannot easily be seen or found:  hide sth in/under/behind etc//  --Marcia hid the pictures in her desk drawer.//  --She keeps a bottle of gin hidden behind a stack of books.//  hide sth/sb from sb//  --He was accused of trying to hide evidence from the police.//\n  2 [T] to cover something so that it cannot be seen clearly:  --The church roof was half hidden by trees.//  --Her tangled hair hid her face.//\n  3 [I] to go or stay in a place where no one will see or find you:  --Quick, he’s coming! We’d better hide.//  hide in/under/behind etc//  --Harry hid under the bed.//  hide from sb//  --Weiss spent two years hiding from the Nazis.//\n  4 [T] to keep someone in a place where other people will not find them:  --The old woman hid him in her cellar for three days.//  hide sb from sb//  --We’ll have to hide him from the soldiers.//\n  5 [T] to keep your real feelings, plans, or the truth secret, so that they cannot be known by other people:  hide your disappointment/embarrassment/confusion etc //  --She laughed to hide her nervousness.//  --He took off his ring to hide the fact that he was married.//  --He told the jury that he is innocent and has nothing to hide.//  hide sth from sb//  --Don’t try to hide anything from me.//    hide your light under a bushel at bushel//\nhide 2 n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hyd]//\n  1  BrE a place from which you can watch animals or birds without being seen by them:  American Equivalent:  blind//\n  2 an animal’s skin, especially when it has been removed to be used for leather:  --ox hide gloves//\n  3  have/tan sb’s hide:   spoken to punish someone severely - used humorously//\n  4  sb’s hide:   spoken used to talk about someone when they are in a difficult situation//  --He would say anything in court to try and save his own hide  (=save himself) .//\n  5  not see hide nor hair of sb:   spoken to not see someone anywhere for a fairly long time//  --I haven’t seen hide nor hair of him for ages.//


Words: hide-and-seek
Meaning:
also hide-and-go-seek  AmE n [U]   a children’s game in which one player shuts their eyes while the others hide, and then goes to look for them//


Words: hidebound
Meaning:
adj   having old-fashioned attitudes and ideas - used to show disapproval//  --hidebound reactionaries//


Words: hideous
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: hidous, from  hide  ’terror’]//  extremely unpleasant or ugly//  --a hideous dress//  --hideous crimes//  --Dinnertime that day was hideous.//  -- hideously adv //  --Her face was hideously scarred.//  -- hideousness n  [U] //


Words: hiding
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U] when someone stays somewhere in secret, especially because they have done something illegal or are in danger:  be in/go into/come out of hiding //  --He went into hiding in 1973.//\n  2 [singular]  spoken  informal :  a) a severe physical punishment//   beating//  --You’ll get a good hiding when you come home!//  --You’re not too big for a hiding, you know.//  b) an occasion when you defeat someone in a sports game//\n  3  be on a hiding to nothing:   BrE  informal to be completely wasting your time trying to do something//


Words: hierarchical
Meaning:
adj   if a system, organization etc is hierarchical, people or things are divided into levels of importance//  hierarchical structure/organization/system etc //  --a hierarchical society//  -- hierarchically/-kli/ adv //


Words: hierarchy
Meaning:
n   plural  hierarchies //  [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: ierarchie, from  Latin, from  Greek hierarches, from  hieros  ’holy’ +  -arches  ’ruler’ (from  archein  ’to rule’)]//\n  1 [U and C] a system of organization in which people or things are divided into levels of importance:  --a rigid social hierarchy//  --She worked her way up through the corporate hierarchy to become president.//\n  2 [C] the most important and powerful members of an organization:  --the church hierarchy//


Words: hieroglyphics
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: hieroglyphique, from  Late Latin, from  Greek, from  hieros (  HIERARCHY) +  glyphein  ’to cut marks in a surface’]//  a system of writing that uses pictures to represent words//  -- hieroglyphic adj //  --hieroglyphic script//


Words: Higgins
Meaning:
Professor Henry   a character in the play  Pygmalion by George Bernard  Shaw and in the film  My Fair Lady, which is based on Shaw’s play, who teaches a poor girl called Eliza Doolittle how to speak and behave like an  upper-class lady.//


Words: higgledy-piggledy
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin:  Perhaps from  pig; because pigs gather closely together in groups]//  things that are higgledy-piggledy are mixed together in an untidy way//  -- higgledy-piggledy adv //


Words: high
Meaning:
adj   comparative  higher superlative  highest //  high, low//  ----------//\n   1 from bottom to top:\n   2 above ground:\n   3 large number:\n   4 good standard:\n   5 containing a lot:\n   6 rank/position:\n   7 advanced:\n   8 high opinion/regard/praise etc:\n   9 high priority:\n  10 high hopes/expectations:\n  11 sound:\n  12 high point:\n  13 high ground:\n  14 high spirits:\n  15 happy/excited:\n  16 drugs:\n  17 sea/river:\n  18 it is high time somebody did something:\n  19 time:\n  20 high wind:\n  21 high alert:\n  22 high life/living:\n  23 high drama/adventure:\n  24 end/finish/begin etc (something) on a high note:\n  25 high principles/ideals:\n  26 high and mighty:\n  27 be/get on your high horse:\n  28 food:\n  29 high days and holidays:\n  30 high complexion/colouring:\n  31 in high dudgeon:\n  32 language:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: heah]//\n  1 FROM BOTTOM TO TOP:  measuring a long distance from the bottom to the top//  → low//  --This is the highest mountain in Japan.//  --The camp was surrounded by a high fence.//\n  100 feet/30 metres etc high :  --Waves of up to 40 metres high were recorded.//  --a ten-foot high statue//  -- How high is the Eiffel Tower?//  chest/waist/knee etc high (=as high as your chest etc) //  --The grass was knee-high. see usage note  big1 //\n  2 ABOVE GROUND:  in a position that is a long way, or a longer way than usual, above the ground, floor etc//  → low//  --The apartment had spacious rooms with high ceilings.//  --a high shelf//  --high altitudes//  --The sun was already high in the sky.//  -- High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest.//\n  3 LARGE NUMBER:  a high amount, number, or level is large, or larger than usual//  → low//  --Temperatures remained high for the rest of the week.//  --Lower-paid workers often cannot afford the high cost of living in the capital.//  high level/degree/rate etc (of sth) //  --High levels of car use mean our streets are more congested than ever.//  --high crime rates//  --high interest rates//  high price/charge/tax etc //  --If you want better public services, you’ll have to pay higher taxes - it’s as simple as that.//  --The train was approaching at high speed .//  high proportion/percentage etc (of sth) (=a very large part of a number) //  --A high proportion of women with children under five work full-time.//\n  4 GOOD STANDARD:  a high standard, quality etc is very good//  → low//  --a high performance computer//  high quality //  --a range of high quality goods at low prices//  --Our aim is to provide the highest quality service to all our customers.//  high standard (=very good levels of work, achievement, behaviour etc) //  --The general standard of the entries was very high.//  --Our guests expect us to maintain high standards .//\n  5 CONTAINING A LOT:  containing a lot of a particular substance or quality//  → low//  high in sth //  --Choose foods that are high in fiber and low in calories.//  a high sugar/salt/fibre etc content //  --Red meat tends to have a high fat content.//\n  6 RANK/POSITION:  having an important position in society or within an organization//  → low//  --a high rank in the US Navy//  --the City’s highest honour//  high up (=in a powerful position) //  --someone high up in the CIA//  high office (=an important position) //  --Both of them held high office in the Anglican Church.//  high society (=rich people of the highest social class) //    high-class,  high-ranking,  high-up,  friends in high places at friend(11)//\n  7 ADVANCED:   [only before noun] advanced and often complicated//  --We can offer all the benefits of the latest high technology .//  --the world of high finance //  the higher animals/mammals/organisms etc (=animals etc that are more intelligent or advanced than others) //\n  8  high opinion/regard/praise etc:  strong approval of someone or something, or an expression of strong approval//  --I’ve always had a high opinion of her work.//  hold sb/sth in high esteem/regard (=respect them very much) //  --As an educationalist, he was held in very high esteem.//  --Romsey earned high praise from his boss.//\n  9  high priority:   also high on the list/agenda //  important and needing to be done or dealt with quickly//  --Most people feel that education needs to be given higher priority.//  --Arms control is high on the agenda.//\n  10  high hopes/expectations:  when someone hopes or expects that something will be very good or successful//  --My expectations of the place were never very high, but I didn’t think it would be this bad.//  have high hopes/expectations //  --Like many young actors, I had high hopes when I first started out.//\n  11 SOUND:  near or above the top of the range of sounds that humans can hear//  → low//  --I always had difficulty reaching the high notes (=when singing) .//  --a high squeaky voice//    high-pitched//\n  12  high point:   also high spot //   BrE an especially good part of an activity or event//  --The visit to the ancient capital city was one of the high points of the tour.//\n  13  high ground:  a) an area of land that is higher than the area surrounding it//  --Villagers herded the livestock to high ground to keep them safe during the floods.//  b) a better, more moral, or more powerful position in an argument or competition//  --Neither side in this conflict can claim the moral high ground .//\n  14  high spirits:  feelings of happiness and energy, especially when you are having fun//  --It was a bright sunny day and we set off in high spirits .//  --I don’t think they intended any harm - it was just high spirits.//\n  15 HAPPY/EXCITED:   [not before noun] happy and excited//  --I was still high from the applause they’d given me.//\n  16 DRUGS:   [not before noun] behaving in a strange and excited way as the result of taking drugs//  high on//  --Most people there were high on cocaine.//  get high (=take a drug to make yourself high) //  --Steve was as high as a kite  (=strongly affected by drugs or alcohol) .//\n  17 SEA/RIVER:  having risen to a high level//  → low//  --The river is at its highest in spring.//    high tide//\n  18  it is high time sb did sth:  used to say that something should be done now//  --It’s high time you got a job.//\n  19 TIME:  the middle or the most important part of a particular period of time//  --high summer//  high noon (=12 o’clock in the middle of the day) //    high season//\n  20  high wind:  a strong wind//\n  21  high alert:  a situation in which people are told to be ready because there is a strong possibility of an attack or of something dangerous happening//  put/place sb on high alert //  --Troops were put on high alert.//\n  22  high life/living:  the enjoyable life that rich and fashionable people have//  --We’re all stuck here, while he’s off living the high life in New York.//\n  23  high drama/adventure:  very exciting events or situations//  --a life with moments of high drama//\n  24  end/finish/begin etc (sth) on a high note:  to end, finish something etc in a successful way//  --The team finished their tour on a high note in Barbados.//\n  25  high principles/ideals:  ideas about personal behaviour based on the belief that people should always behave in an honest and morally good way//  --a man of high moral principles //\n  26  high and mighty:  talking or behaving as if you think you are better or more important than other people//  --Don’t get high and mighty with me.//\n  27  be/get on your high horse:  to give your opinion about something in a way that shows you think you are definitely right and that other people are wrong//  --If she’d get down off her high horse for a moment, she might realize there’s more than one point of view here.//\n  28 FOOD:   BrE cheese, meat etc that is high is not fresh and has a strong smell or taste//\n  29  high days and holidays:   BrE special occasions//\n  30  high complexion/colouring:   BrE a naturally pink or red face//\n  31  in high dudgeon:   formal in an angry or offended way - often used humorously//\n  32 LANGUAGE:  a)  high style/register//   BrE a very formal style of language, especially used in literature//  b)  high German/Dutch etc//  a form of a language used for formal purposes that is often different from the ordinary form used by most people//    highly//    stink to high heaven at stink1 (1)//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not use high to describe people, animals, trees, plants, and narrow things of above average height. Use tall: You’re getting very tall (NOT You’re getting very high).| tall buildings (NOT high buildings) //  ----------//\nhigh 2 adv   ----------//\n   1 above the ground:\n   2 value/cost/amount:\n   3 sound:\n   4 achievement:\n   5 (leave somebody/something) high and dry:\n   6 look/search high and low:  ----------//\n  1 ABOVE THE GROUND:  at or to a level high above the ground, the floor etc//  → low//  --He kicked the ball high into the air, over the heads of the crowd.//  high above/into etc//  --Hotel Miramar is situated high above the bay.//  --A ski lift whisks you high into the mountains.//\n  2 VALUE/COST/AMOUNT:  at or to a high value, cost, amount etc//  → low//  --If prices shoot up any higher, no-one be able to afford to live in the area.//  --Tom scored higher than anyone else in the class.//\n  3 SOUND:  with a high sound//  --A strange cry rang high into the night.//\n  4 ACHIEVEMENT:  at or to a high rank or level of achievement, especially within a company//  → low//  --It seems that the higher you rise, the less time you have to actually do your job.//  --My parents always encouraged me to aim high .//\n  5  (leave sb/sth) high and dry:  a) if someone is left high and dry, they are left without any help or without the things that they need//  b) if a boat, area etc is left high and dry, it is left on land because the water that surrounded it has gone down//  --The once-thriving port of Rye was left high and dry as sea levels retreated.//\n  6  look/search high and low:  to try to find someone or something by looking everywhere//  --We looked high and low for Sandy but couldn’t find her.//    hold your head high at hold1 (16)//    live high on the hog at live1 (26)//    be riding high at ride1 (6)//    run high at run1 (28)//\nhigh 3 n [C]   ----------//\n   1 number/amount:\n   2 excitement:\n   3 drugs:\n   4 weather:\n   5 school:\n   6 from on high:\n   7 on high:  ----------//\n  1 NUMBER/AMOUNT:  the highest price, number, temperature etc that has ever been recorded, or that has been recorded within a particular period of time//  --Highs of 40[hA131]C were recorded in the region last summer.//  a new/record/ten-year etc high //  --The price of oil reached a new high this week.//\n  2 EXCITEMENT:   informal a feeling of great happiness or excitement//  --They’re bound to be on a high after such an incredible victory.//  --the emotional highs and lows of a new romance//\n  3 DRUGS:  a feeling of pleasure or excitement produced by some drugs//\n  4 WEATHER:  an area of high pressure that affects the weather//\n  5 SCHOOL:  a short form of high school, used in the name of a school//  --Benjamin Franklin High//\n  6  from on high:  from someone in a position of authority - used humorously//  --An order came from on high.//\n  7  on high:   formal //  a) at a high temperature as measured by an electric oven etc//  --Microwave on high for 8 minutes.//  b)  formal in a high place or heaven//  --An angel came from on high.//


Words: High Church
Meaning:
n [singular]   the part of the Church of England that is closest in its beliefs to the Roman Catholic Church//  -- High Church adj //    Low Church//


Words: high command
Meaning:
n [singular]   the most important leaders of a country’s army, navy etc//  --the German High Command//


Words: high commission
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 a group of people working for a government or an international organization to deal with a specific problem:\n  2 a group of people with official duties concerning the relationship of one Commonwealth country with another:  -- High Commissioner n  [C] //


Words: High Court
Meaning:
n [C usually singular]   a court of law that is at a higher level than ordinary courts and that can be asked to change the decisions of a lower court//


Words: High Court of Justiciary
Meaning:
the   in the Scottish legal system, a court of law that is more important than a  sheriff court and deals with serious crimes such as murder//


Words: high fidelity
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun]   high fidelity recording equipment produces sound that is very clear//    hi-fi//


Words: high five
Meaning:
n [C]    especially  AmE the action of hitting someone’s open hand with your own above your heads to show that you are pleased about something//


Words: high jinks
Meaning:
also  hijinks AmE   n [plural]  old-fashioned   noisy or excited behaviour when people are having fun//  --youthful high jinks//


Words: high jump
Meaning:
n \n  1  the high jump:  a sports event in which someone runs and jumps over a bar that is raised higher each time they jump//\n  2  be (in) for the high jump:   BrE  informal if someone is for the high jump, they will be punished for something they have done wrong//  -- high jumper n  [C] //


Words: High Noon
Meaning:
a highly-praised film about the American Old West. A  newly-married town marshal discovers no-one will help him when a man he had once sent to prison returns with three gunmen to kill him. His bride, a  Quaker, who does not believe in violence, decides to leave him when he says he will stay and fight, but when she hears shooting she goes back to help her husband and kills one of the men.//


Words: high priest
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1  informal someone who is famous for being the best at a type of art, music etc, and whose ideas or work change the way that other people think about and make art, music etc:  high priest of//  --the high priest of modern jazz//\n  2 the most important priest in some religions:


Words: high priestess
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1  informal a woman who is famous for being the best at a type of art, music etc, and whose ideas or work change the way that other people think about and make art, music etc:\n  2 the most important priestess in some religions:


Words: high relief
Meaning:
n [U] \n  1 a form of art in which figures cut in stone or wood stand out from the surface:    bas-relief//\n  2  throw sth into high relief:  to make something very clear and easy to notice//


Words: high road
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1  old-fashioned a main road:\n  2  take the (moral) high road:   AmE to do what you believe is right according to your beliefs//  --Daley has taken the high road in his campaign.//


Words: high roller
Meaning:
n [C]    AmE  informal someone who spends a lot of money carelessly or risks a lot of money on games, races etc//


Words: high school
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U and C] a school in the US and Canada for children of 14 or 15 to 18 years old:    junior high school//  in high school//  --We were friends in high school.//  --high school students//  --high school graduates//\n  2 [singular] used in the names of some schools in Britain for children from 11 to 18 years old:  --Leytonstone High School for Girls//    secondary school//


Words: high seas
Meaning:
n   the high seas//   literary the areas of ocean around the world that do not belong to any particular country//


Words: high season n [singular
Meaning:
U]    especially  BrE the time of year when businesses make a lot of money and prices are high, especially in the tourist industry//   peak season//    low season//


Words: high street
Meaning:
n  BrE \n  1 [C] the main street of a town where most of the shops and businesses are:  --Camden High Street//  in/on the high street//  --A new bookshop had opened in the high street.//  high street banks/shops/stores etc //\n  2  the high street:  used to talk about shops and the money people spend in them//  --This year was exceptionally difficult on the high street.//


Words: high tide
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U and C] the point or time at which the sea reaches its highest level:  → low tide//  --High tide is at seven in the morning.//  at high tide//  --The waves became much more powerful at high tide.//\n  2 [singular] the time when something is at its best or most successful:  --the high tide in the party’s fortunes//


Words: high treason
Meaning:
n [U]   the crime of putting your country in great danger, for example by giving military secrets to the enemy//


Words: high water
Meaning:
n [U]   the period of time during which the water in a river or the sea is at its highest level because of the tide//    come hell or high water at hell1 (22)//


Words: high water mark
Meaning:
n [singular] \n  1 the mark that shows the highest level that the sea or a river reaches:\n  2 the time when someone or something is most successful:  high water mark of//  --the high water mark of Herrera’s presidency//


Words: high wire
Meaning:
n [C usually singular]   a tightly stretched rope or wire high above the ground that someone walks along as part of a circus performance//   tightrope//


Words: high-class
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun]   of good quality and style, and usually expensive//  → low-class//  --a high-class restaurant//


Words: high-end
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun]  AmE   relating to products or services that are more expensive and of better quality than other products of the same type//  --high-end computer memory chips//    low-end//


Words: high-flier
Meaning:
high flyer n [C]   someone who is extremely successful in their job or in school//  --a young businessman considered a highflyer by the media//  -- high-flying adj //


Words: high-handed
Meaning:
adj   using your authority in an unreasonable way//  --She resented his high-handed manner.//  --high-handed and insensitive management decisions//  -- high-handedly adv //  -- high-handedness n  [U] //


Words: high-level
Meaning:
adj [only before noun] \n  1 in a powerful position or job, or involving people who are in powerful positions or jobs:  --high-level executives//  high-level meetings/talks/negotiations etc //  --a high-level conference on arms control//\n  2 at a high degree or strength:  --The virus has shown high-level resistance to penicillin//\n  3 involving very technical or complicated ideas:\n  4 a high-level computer language is similar to human language rather than machine language:    low-level//


Words: high-minded
Meaning:
adj   having very high moral standards or principles//  --a high-minded sermon on charity//  -- high-mindedly adv //  -- high-mindedness n  [U] //


Words: high-performance
Meaning:
adj   high-performance cars/computers/tyres etc//  cars, computers etc that are able to go faster, do more work etc than normal ones//


Words: high-powered
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun] \n  1 a high-powered machine, vehicle, or piece of equipment is very powerful:  --a high-powered automobile//\n  2 very important or successful:  --a high-powered publisher//


Words: high-pressure
Meaning:
adj [only before noun] \n  1 a high-pressure job or situation is one in which you need to work very hard:   stressful//\n  2  high-pressure sales/selling methods etc:  very direct and often successful ways of persuading people to buy something//  --high-pressure sales techniques//\n  3 containing or using a very high pressure or force of water, gas, air etc:  --high-pressure hoses//


Words: high-priced
Meaning:
adj   costing a lot of money//  → low-priced, inexpensive//  --high-priced apartments//  --high-priced lawyers//


Words: high-profile
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   attracting a lot of public attention, usually deliberately//  → low profile//  --a high-profile public figure//  -- high profile n  [singular] //


Words: high-ranking
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   having a high position in a government or other organization//  → low-ranking//  --high-ranking officials//


Words: high-rise
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   high-rise buildings are tall buildings with many levels//  -- high rise n  [C] //  --They live in a high rise on the East Side.//    low-rise//


Words: high-risk
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   involving a risk of death, injury, failure etc//  → low-risk//  --high-risk investments//  high-risk patients/groups etc //  --cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups//


Words: high-sounding
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   high-sounding statements, principles etc seem very impressive but are often insincere//


Words: high-speed
Meaning:
adj [only before noun] \n  1 designed to travel or operate very fast:  --a high-speed train//  high-speed computer/network/modem etc //  --high-speed Internet access//\n  2  high-speed chase:  a situation when the police drive very fast to try to catch someone in a car//


Words: high-spirited
Meaning:
adj \n  1 someone who is high-spirited has a lot of energy and enjoys fun and adventure:\n  2 a high-spirited horse is nervous and hard to control:


Words: high-tech
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun] \n  1 using high technology:  --high-tech industries//  --a [hA124]1 million high-tech security system//  --high-tech weapons//    low-tech//\n  2 high-tech furniture, designs etc are made in a very modern style:  -- high tech n  [U] //


Words: high-tension
Meaning:
adj   high-tension wires/cables etc//  wires etc that have a powerful electric current going through them//


Words: high-tops
Meaning:
n [plural]  AmE  informal   sports shoes that cover your ankles//  -- high-top adj //  --high-top basketball shoes//


Words: highbrow
Meaning:
adj \n  1 a highbrow book, film etc is very serious and may be difficult to understand:\n  2 someone who is highbrow is interested in serious or complicated ideas and subjects:   intellectual//  -- highbrow n  [C] //    lowbrow,  middlebrow//


Words: higher-up
Meaning:
n [C]    informal someone who has a high rank in an organization//  --Rumour has it that the higher-ups want to push the schedule forward.//


Words: highfalutin
Meaning:
adj  informal   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: high +  falutin, perhaps from  fluting  ’making a high sound (as if) on the flute’]//  highfalutin language or behaviour seems silly although it is intended to be impressive - used to show disapproval//


Words: Highgate
Meaning:
an area of North London with many large expensive houses. Many famous people, including Karl  Marx, are buried in Highgate Cemetery.//


Words: highland
Meaning:
adj [only before noun] \n  1  also  Highland:  relating to the Scottish Highlands or its people//  --Highland pipers//\n  2 in or relating to an area with a lot of mountains:    lowland//  --the highland capital of Quito//


Words: Highland dress
Meaning:
a set of clothes worn by some Scottish men on special occasions, for example at a wedding. Highland dress consists of a short black jacket, a bow tie, a kilt and long socks with a small knife kept under the fold at the top of one of the socks.//


Words: Highland Games
Meaning:
also Highland Gathering   a special event held every year in Scottish towns, with traditional Scottish sports, dancing, and music. The sports include "tossing the caber" (=throwing a long, heavy wooden pole into the air) .//


Words: highlands
Meaning:
n [plural] \n  1  the Highlands:  an area in the north of Scotland where there are a lot of mountains//\n  2 an area of a country where there are a lot of mountains:  --forested highlands//    lowlands//


Words: Highlands and Islands
Meaning:
the Highlands and Islands//  the northern and northwestern areas of Scotland and the islands off its west coast//


Words: highlight
Meaning:
W3   v [T] \n  1 to make a problem or subject easy to notice so that people pay attention to it:  --Your resume should highlight your skills and achievements.//\n  2 to mark written words with a special coloured pen, or in a different colour on a computer:  --Use the cursor to highlight the name of the document you want to print.//\n  3 to make some parts of your hair a lighter colour than the rest:  -- highlighting n  [U] //\nhighlight 2 n \n  1 [C] the most important, interesting, or enjoyable part of something such as a holiday, performance, or sports competition:  highlight of//  --That weekend in Venice was definitely the highlight of our trip.//  highlight from//  --At 11.30 we’ll be showing highlights from the Third Round of the FA Cup.//\n  2  highlights [plural] areas of hair that have been made a lighter colour than the rest:\n  3 [C]  technical a light bright area on a painting or photograph:


Words: highly
Meaning:
adv \n  1 [+ adjective, adverb] very:  highly successful/effective/efficient //  --a highly successful politician//  --Tom’s mother was highly critical of the school’s approach.//  --highly competitive industries//  --a highly desirable neighborhood//  highly unlikely/likely/improbable/probable //  --It’s highly unlikely that the project will be finished on time.//  --T.S. Eliot’s highly influential poem, ’The Waste Land’//  --a highly controversial issue//\n  2 [+ adjective, adverb] to a high level or standard:  highly skilled/trained/educated //  --She is a highly educated woman.//  --highly paid experts//  --a highly developed economy//\n  3  highly placed:  in an important or powerful position//  --a highly placed government official//\n  4  highly strung:   especially BrE high-strung  AmE nervous and easily upset or excited//  --a highly strung child//\n  5 if you think highly of someone or something, you think they are very good and you admire them:  think/speak highly of sb //  --I’ve always thought very highly of Michael.//  --a highly regarded author//


Words: hightail
Meaning:
v   hightail it//   informal to leave a place quickly//  --kids hightailing it down the street on their bikes//


Words: highway
Meaning:
S2   n [C] \n  1  especially  AmE a wide main road that joins one town to another:  --Interstate Highway 75//    freeway,  expressway,  motorway//\n  2  the public highway:   BrE  law a road or roads that the public has the right to use//\n  3  highway robbery:   AmE  informal a situation in which something costs you a lot more than it should//  --It’s highway robbery, charging that much for gas!//


Words: highwayman
Meaning:
n   plural  highwaymen /-m[hA353]n/ [C] //  someone who stopped people and carriages on the roads and robbed them, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries//


Words: hijack
Meaning:
v [T] \n  1 to use violence or threats to take control of a plane, vehicle, or ship:    carjack//  --The airliner was hijacked by a group of terrorists.//\n  2 to take control of something and use it for your own purposes:  --Some people think the party has been hijacked by right-wing extremists.//  -- hijacker n  [C] //\nhijack 2 n [C]    BrE when a plane, vehicle etc is hijacked//


Words: hijacking
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U and C] the use of violence or threats to take control of a plane:  --the recent series of airplane hijackings//\n  2 [U] the act of stealing goods from vehicles:


Words: hike
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 a long walk in the mountains or countryside:  --a hike in the woods//\n  2  especially  AmE  informal a large increase in prices, wages, taxes etc:   rise//  hike in//  --The president has proposed a hike in the minimum wage.//  price/rate/tax etc hikes //  --Several airlines have proposed fare hikes, effective October 1.//\n  3  take a hike:   AmE  spoken used to tell someone rudely to go away//\nhike 2 v   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Perhaps from   HITCH1]//\n  1 [I and T] to take a long walk in the mountains or countryside:  hike sth//   AmE //  --His dream is to hike the Appalachian Trail.//\n  2  also hike up :   [T]  especially AmE to increase a price, tax etc by a large amount//   raise//  hike up [hike sth → up] //\n  1 to lift up a piece of your clothing:  --She hiked her skirt up to climb the stairs.//\n  2 to increase a price, tax etc by a large amount:


Words: hiking
Meaning:
n [U]   the activity of taking long walks in the mountains or country//    walking//  --We’re going to do some hiking this summer.//  --Utah is a great place to go hiking .//


Words: hilarious
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Latin; Origin: hilarus  ’cheerful’, from  Greek hilaros]//  extremely funny//  --a hilarious story//  -- hilariously adv //


Words: Hill
Meaning:
Joe   (1879-1915) a US  trade union leader, who tried to help workers to get better pay and more rights. He also wrote many songs on social subjects, including  Casey Jones.//


Words: hill
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hyll]//\n  1 an area of land that is higher than the land around it, like a mountain but smaller:    uphill, downhill//  --Their house is on a hill overlooking the sea.//  --the top of Sidbury Hill//  --A cart was making its way up the  steep hill  on which the village stood.//  -- In the spring, the  rolling hills  around Yakima Valley turn white with blossom. //  --the  hill towns  of central Italy//\n  2 a slope on a road:  --There’s a steep hill ahead.//    downhill,  uphill//\n  3  the Hill:   AmE  Capitol Hill//\n  4  over the hill:  no longer young, and therefore no longer attractive or good at doing things//  --Kathleen thinks she’s over the hill, but she’s only 32.//\n  5  it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans:   AmE  spoken it is not important//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  steep hill //  rolling hills  (=hills with long gentle slopes) //  wooded hill  (=one covered with trees) //  green hill  (=one covered with grass) //  climb a hill  (=walk or drive up a hill) //  brow/crest of a hill  (=the top part of a hill) //  hills and valleys //  hill farm/town //  hill country (=a rural area where there are a lot of hills) //  ----------//


Words: Hillary
Meaning:
Sir Edmund   (1919- ) a New Zealand mountain climber who was the first person, with Sherpa  Tenzing, to reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953. He also travelled by land to the  South Pole in 1958.//


Words: hillbilly
Meaning:
n   plural  hillbillies  [C] //  [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: hill +  Billy, a man’s name, from  William]//   AmE an insulting word meaning an uneducated poor person who lives in the mountains//


Words: hillock
Meaning:
n [C]  especially BrE   [Date: 1300-1400; Origin: hill +  -ock  ’small’ (from  Old English -oc)]//  a little hill//


Words: Hillsborough the Hillsborough Disaster
Meaning:
a serious accident which happened in 1989 during a football game at Hillsborough, in the city of Sheffield in northern England. 96 people died and several hundred were injured by being crushed when a large crowd of people moved into a small area and could not escape. This event led to changes in the design of football grounds and in the methods used for controlling large crowds safely.//


Words: hilly
Meaning:
adj   comparative  hillier superlative  hilliest //  having a lot of hills//  hilly region/area/terrain etc //


Words: hilt
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin:]//\n  1 the handle of a sword or knife, where the blade is attached:\n  2  to the hilt:  completely//  support/defend/back sb to the hilt //  --I’m backing the PM to the hilt on this.//


Words: Hilton Head
Meaning:
an island off the coast of South Carolina, US, which is popular for holidays, especially with wealthy tourists//


Words: him
Meaning:
pron [object form of ’he’]   [Language: Old English; Origin:]//\n  1 used to refer to a man, boy, or male animal that has already been mentioned or is already known about:  --Are you in love with him?//  --Why don’t you ask him yourself?//  --He repeated what she had told him.//  --I knew it was him as soon as I heard his voice.//\n  2 used when talking about someone who may be male or female. Some people think this use is old-fashioned:  --If you can convince a child you love him, you can teach him anything.//  ----------//  HINT //  See also:  they//  ----------//


Words: Himalayas
Meaning:
the Himalayas//  a long  range of mountains in southern Asia which includes the highest mountain in the world, Mount  Everest, and other mountains which only very experienced climbers try to climb//


Words: Himmler
Meaning:
Heinrich   (1900-45) a German  Nazi leader who was in charge of the  SS, and was responsible for organizing the killing of millions of Jews in  concentration camps//


Words: himself
Meaning:
pron [reflexive form of ’he’] \n  1 :  a) used to show that the man or boy who does something is affected by his own action//  --In despair, the young boy had hanged himself.//  --His name is James but he calls himself Jim.//  --He poured himself a glass of orange juice.//  b) used after words such as ’everyone’, ’anyone’, and ’someone’ to talk about people in general being affected by their own actions//  --Everyone should learn to respect himself.//\n  2 :  a) used to emphasize that you are talking about one particular man or boy//  --It was the President himself who opened the door.//  --It must be true - he said so himself.//  b) used after ’like’, ’as’, or ’except’ instead of ’him’//  --The other passengers were all refugees like himself.//\n  3  (all) by himself:  a) alone//  --He’s lived by himself since his wife died.//  --Winston was sitting all by himself.//  b) without help from anyone else//  --It was the first time he felt he had achieved something by himself.//\n  4  not be/feel/seem himself:   informal if a man or boy is not himself, he does not feel or behave as he usually does, for example because he is upset or ill//  --Rick hasn’t seemed himself lately.//\n  5  have sth (all) to himself:  if a man or boy has something to himself, he does not have to share it with anyone else//  --John at last had a bedroom all to himself.//


Words: hind
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   [Date: 1200-1300; Origin:  Probably from  Old English hinder  ’behind’]//  relating to the back part of an animal with four legs//  hind legs/feet/quarters/limbs //    talk the hind legs off a donkey at talk1 (10)//\nhind 2 n [C]  BrE   [Language: Old English; Origin:]//  a female deer//


Words: Hindemith
Meaning:
Paul   (1895-1963) a German  composer (=a writer of music)  who had great influence on 20th century  classical music// //  a German airship, which exploded when coming into land in  New Jersey, USA, after crossing the  Atlantic in 1937. All passengers and crew were killed, and businesses stopped using airships to carry people or goods.//


Words: hinder
Meaning:
v [T]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hindrian]//  to make it difficult for something to develop or succeed//  --His career has been hindered by injury.//  --policies that will hinder rather than help families//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not confuse hinder and prevent even though they have similar meanings. Hinder means to make the progress or development of something slow down or stop. Prevent means to make it impossible for someone to do something: His poor health prevented him from going to work (NOT His poor health hindered him from going to work). //  ----------//


Words: Hindi
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Hindi; Origin: Hind  ’India’, from  Persian]//  an official language in India//


Words: hindrance
Meaning:
n \n  1 [C] something or someone that makes it difficult for you to do something:  hindrance to//  --The floods have been a major hindrance to relief efforts.//  --A degree is more of a hindrance than a help in British industry.//\n  2 [U]  formal the act of making it difficult for someone to do something:  --Visitors are allowed to wander without hindrance.//    without let or hindrance at let2 (2)//


Words: hindsight
Meaning:
n [U]   the ability to understand a situation only after it has happened//    foresight//  with/in hindsight//  --With hindsight, I should have seen the warning signs.//  the benefit/wisdom of hindsight //  --With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to criticize.//


Words: Hindu
Meaning:
n   plural  Hindus  [C] //  [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Persian; Origin: ’Indian person’, from  Hind;   HINDI]//  someone whose religion is Hinduism//  -- Hindu adj //  --a Hindu temple//


Words: hinge
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1200-1300; Origin:  Probably from an unrecorded  Old English hencg, from  hon;   HANG1]//  a piece of metal fastened to a door, lid etc that allows it to swing open and shut//\nhinge 2 v   [T usually passive] to attach something, using a hinge//  -- hinged//  --a hinged lid//  hinge on/upon [hinge on/upon sth] phr v//  if a result hinges on something, it depends on it completely//  --His political future hinges on the outcome of this election.//  --The case against him hinged on Lewis’ evidence.//


Words: hint
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin:  Probably from  hent  ’act of seizing’ (16-17 centuries), from  Old English hentan  ’to seize’]//\n  1 something that you say or do to suggest something to someone, without telling them directly:  --There have been  hints that  he may take up coaching.//  --’Look, I can’t tell you.’ ’Oh, come on,  give  me  a hint  .’//  hint about/as to//  --Miles had been dropping heavy hints about the cost of petrol.//  -- I made it clear I wasn’t interested in him, but he didn’t  take the hint .//\n  2 a very small amount or sign of something:  hint of//  --’What time do we have to leave?’ he asked with a hint of impatience.//  --We shall have to turn back if there’s the slightest hint of fog.//\n  3 a useful piece of advice about how to do something:   tip//  helpful/handy hints //  hint on/about//  --helpful hints on looking after house plants//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  hint that //  give (somebody) a hint  //  drop a hint  (=give a hint) //  take/get a hint  also  take/get the hint  (=understand someone’s hint) //  broad/strong/heavy hint  (=one that is very easy to understand) //  subtle/vague/gentle hint  (=one that is not very easy to understand) //  ----------//\nhint 2 v [I and T]   to suggest something in an indirect way, but so that someone can guess your meaning//  hint at//  --What are you hinting at?//  hint (that)//  --He hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send troops in.//


Words: hinterland
Meaning:
n [singular]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: German; Origin: hinter  ’behind’ +  land  ’land’]//  an area of land that is far from the coast, large rivers, or the places where people live//  --the rural hinterland//


Words: hip
Meaning:
n [C]   [Sense: 1; Origin: Old English hype]//  [Sense: 2; Origin: Old English heope]//\n  1 one of the two parts on each side of your body between the top of your leg and your waist:  --She stood there with her hands on her hips glaring at him.//  --The old lady had fallen and broken her hip.//\n  2 the red fruit of some kinds of roses:   rose hip//\nhip 2 adj  informal   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin:  Origin unknown]//\n  1 doing things or done according to the latest fashion:   cool//  --McMillan’s novel gets my vote for hippest book of the year.//\n  2  be/get hip to sth:  to learn about a new product, idea etc//  --More and more people are getting hip to e-banking.//\nhip 3 interjection   [Date: 1700-1800; Origin:  Origin unknown]//  hip, hip, hooray!//  used as a shout of approval//


Words: hip-hop
Meaning:
n [U]   a type of popular culture among young people in big cities, especially African Americans, which includes rap music, dancing, and graffiti art//


Words: hippie
Meaning:
hippy/h[hA366]pi/ n [C]   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin:  HIP2]//  someone, especially in the 1960s, who opposed violence peacefully and often wore unusual clothes, had long hair, and took drugs for pleasure//


Words: Hippocrates
Meaning:
(?460-?377 BC) a doctor in ancient Greece who wrote many books about medicine and began the study of modern medicine//


Words: Hippocratic oath
Meaning:
n [singular]   the promise made by doctors that they will obey the principles of the medical profession//


Words: hippopotamus
Meaning:
n   plural  hippopotamuses  or  hippopotami /-ma[hA366]-/ [C] //  [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: Greek, from  hippos  ’horse’ +  potamos  ’river’]//  a large grey African animal with a big head and mouth that lives near water//    rhinoceros//


Words: hipster
Meaning:
n \n  1 [C]  informal someone who is considered fashionable:  --Legendary hipsters Stomp bring street theater to Boston this week.//\n  2  hipsters [plural]  BrE trousers that fit tightly over your hips and do not cover your waist:


Words: hire
Meaning:
S3   v [T] \n  1  BrE to pay money to borrow something for a short period of time:  American Equivalent:  rent//  --The best way to explore the island is to hire a car.//  --What does it cost to hire a boat for a week?//\n  2 :  a) to employ someone for a short time to do a particular job//  --Employers hire skilled people on fixed-term contracts.//  hire sb to do sth//  --A City lawyer has been hired to handle the case.//  b)  AmE to employ someone//  --Businesses may only hire foreign workers where an American cannot be found.//  --the power to hire and fire  (=employ and dismiss people) //  hire out [hire sth → out] phr v//\n  1 to allow someone to borrow something for a short time in exchange for money:  hire something → out to//  --a little company that hires out boats to tourists//\n  2  hire yourself out:  to arrange to work for someone//  --They were so poor they had to hire themselves out on the farms.//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Hire, lease, or rent? See also:  rent1 //  ----------//\nhire 2 n [U]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hyr]//   BrE an arrangement in which you pay a sum of money to borrow something for a short time//  --a car hire company//  for hire//  --boats for hire//  on hire//  --The crane is on hire from a local firm.//    ply for hire at ply1 (3)//


Words: hire purchase
Meaning:
n [U]    BrE HP a way of buying expensive goods by regularly paying small amounts over a period of time//  American Equivalent:  installment plan//


Words: hireling
Meaning:
n [C]  old-fashioned   someone who will work for anyone who will pay them - used to show disapproval//


Words: Hiroshima
Meaning:
a city in Japan which was destroyed in 1945 during World War II, when a US  nuclear bomb was dropped on it, killing very many people. It was rebuilt after the war, and is now a large industrial city again.//    Nagasaki//


Words: hirsute
Meaning:
adj  literary  humorous   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: hirsutus]//  having a lot of hair on your body and face//    hairy//


Words: his
Meaning:
determiner, pron [possessive form of ’he’]   [Language: Old English; Origin:]//\n  1 used to refer to something that belongs to or is connected with a man, boy, or male animal that has already been mentioned:  --Leo took off his coat and sat down.//  --I love his sense of humour, don’t you?//  --Even his own mother would not have recognized him.//  --My eyesight is better than his.//  --Lewis denies that the child is his.//  --My relatives all live in the States - his are in France.//  of his//  --Garry introduced us to some friends of his .//  --Perhaps he’s ashamed of that car of his.//\n  2 used to refer to something that belongs to or is connected with someone who may be male or female. Some people think this use is old-fashioned:  --Everyone had his own work to do.//  --the obligations of a doctor to his patients//  ----------//  HINT //  See also:  they//  ----------//


Words: Hispanic
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: hispanicus, from  Hispania  ’Spain’]//  from or relating to countries where Spanish or Portuguese are spoken, especially ones in Latin America//    Latino//  --Miami’s Hispanic community//  --Hispanic Studies//\nHispanic 2 n [C]   someone who comes from a country where Spanish or Portuguese is spoken, especially one in Latin America//    Latino, Latina//  --In California, Hispanics make up 19.2 percent of the population.//


Words: Hispaniola
Meaning:
an island in the Caribbean Sea, formerly called  Santo Domingo, and now divided into the countries of  Haiti and the  Dominican Republic//


Words: Hiss
Meaning:
Alger   (1904-1996) a US government official who was put in prison from 1950 to 1954 for being a Communist  spy. Many people believed he was not guilty, and documents from the former Soviet Union seemed to prove this, when they were made public in 1992.//


Words: hiss
Meaning:
v   [Date: 1300-1400; Origin:  From the sound]//\n  1 [I and T] to say something in a loud whisper:  --’Get out!’ she hissed furiously.//  hiss at//  --She hissed at me to be quiet.//\n  2 [I] to make a noise which sounds like ’ssss’:  --The cat backed away, hissing.//  --Snakes only hiss when they are afraid.//\n  3 [I and T] if a crowd hisses a speaker, they interrupt them with angry sounds to show that they do not like them:  --He was booed and hissed during a stormy meeting.//  -- hiss n  [C] //  --She heard a faint hiss as the metal struck the water.//


Words: hissy fit
Meaning:
n [C]  informal   a sudden moment of unreasonable anger and annoyance//   tantrum//  throw/have a hissy fit//  --Williams threw a hissy fit when she decided her hotel room wasn’t big enough.//


Words: histamine
Meaning:
n [U and C]  medical   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: histidine  ’type of amino acid’ (19-21 centuries) (from  Greek histos  ’web, tissue’) +  amine  ’type of chemical compound’ (19-21 centuries) (from  ammonia)]//  a chemical substance produced by your body during an allergic reaction//    antihistamine//


Words: historian
Meaning:
W3   n [C]   someone who studies history, or the history of a particular thing//  art/literary/military etc historian //


Words: historic
Meaning:
adj [usually before noun] \n  1 a historic place or building is very old:  --the restoration of historic buildings//  --ancient historic sites//  --our historic monuments//\n  2 a historic event or act is very important and will be recorded as part of history:  --a historic meeting of world leaders//  --’It is a historic moment ,’ he told journalists.//\n  3  formal having taken place or existed in the past:  --It’s unlikely that the share price will exceed historic levels.//\n  4 historic times are the periods of time whose history has been recorded:    prehistoric//  --Extinct volcanoes are those that have not erupted in historic times.//


Words: historic present
Meaning:
n [singular]  technical   the present tense, used in some languages to describe events in the past to make them seem more real//


Words: historical
Meaning:
W2   adj [usually before noun] \n  1 relating to the past:  --places of historical interest //  --It is important to look at the novel in its historical context .//\n  2 connected to the study of history:  historical evidence/research etc //\n  3 historical events, facts, people etc happened or existed in the past:  --Was King Arthur a real historical figure?//\n  4 describing or based on events in the past:  --a historical novel//  -- historically/-kli/ adv //  --How historically significant is this discovery?//


Words: history
Meaning:
W1S2   n   plural  histories //  ----------//\n   1 past events:\n   2 development of something:\n   3 subject:\n   4 account:\n   5 past life:\n   6 make history:\n   7 something will go down in history:\n   8 history repeats itself:\n   9 the history books:\n  10 ... and the rest is history:\n  11 that’s (past/ancient) history:  ----------//  [Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: historia, from  Greek, from  histor  ’knowing, learned’]//\n  1 PAST EVENTS:   [U] all the things that happened in the past, especially the political, social, or economic development of a nation//  -- Throughout history  the achievements of women have been largely ignored.//  history of//  --the post-war history of Europe//  -- No man in  recent history  has done more to rebuild the Democratic Party. //  --the  early history  of Scotland//  -- Other meteor storms have occurred in  recorded history . //  -- a museum devoted to  local history  //  -- one of the darkest episodes in  American history  //  --an interesting  period in  Egyptian  history //  --a decision that changed the course of history //  -- a college  steeped in history  //  -- History shows that  the usual response to violent protest is repression.//\n  2 DEVELOPMENT OF SOMETHING:   [singular, U] the events that took place from the beginning and during the development of a particular place, activity, institution etc//  history of//  --the worst disaster in the history of space travel//  long/brief/75-year etc history //  --The 1970s were the most successful in the theater’s long history.//\n  3 SUBJECT:   [U] the study of past events as a subject in school or university//  European/art/economic etc history //  --a degree in European history//  ancient/modern history //  --a history lesson//\n  4 ACCOUNT:   [C] an account of past events//  history of//  --a history of World War II//  --a potted history  (=very short) of Gielgud’s life BrE//\n  5 PAST LIFE:   [U and C] a record of something that has affected someone or been done by them in the past//  medical/employment/career etc history //  --Your doctor will ask for your medical history.//  history of//  --Is there any history of heart disease in your family?//  --The defendant had a history of violent assaults on women.//\n  6  make history:  to do something important that will be recorded and remembered//  --Lindbergh made history when he flew across the Atlantic.//\n  7  sth will go down in history:  used to say that something is important enough to be remembered and recorded//  --This day will go down in history as the start of a new era in South Africa.//\n  8  history repeats itself:  used to say that things often happen in the same way as they did before//\n  9  the history books:  the record of past events//  --Mozart’s genius earned him a place in the history books.//\n  10  ... and the rest is history:   informal used to say that everyone knows the rest of a story you have been telling//\n  11  that’s (past/ancient) history:   spoken  informal used to say that something is not important any more//    natural history,  case history//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  throughout history //  recent/modern history //  early/ancient history //  recorded history (=history since people wrote facts down) //  local history //  American/British etc history //  human history //  period in/of history //  the first time in history (=the first time that something has ever happened) //  change the course of history (=do something that has a lot of important effects) //  steeped in history  (=closely connected with important events in history) //  history shows/tells (that) //  ----------//


Words: histrionics
Meaning:
n [plural]   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Late Latin; Origin: histrionicus, from  histrio  ’actor’]//  very loud and emotional behaviour that is intended to get sympathy and attention - used to show disapproval//  -- histrionic adj //


Words: hit
Meaning:
v   past tense and past participle  hit present participle  hitting //  ----------//\n   1 touch somebody/something hard:\n   2 crash into something:\n   3 hurt yourself:\n   4 sport:\n   5 press:\n   6 attack:\n   7 affect badly:\n   8 have problems:\n   9 reach a level/number:\n  10 realize:\n  11 smell/sight etc:\n  12 arrive:\n  13 hit the road/trail:\n  14 hit the shops/streets:\n  15 hit the headlines:\n  16 hit the bottle:\n  17 hit the dirt/the deck:\n  18 hit a (brick) wall:\n  19 hit the buffers/skids:\n  20 hit somebody when they are down:\n  21 hit somebody where it hurts:\n  22 hit it off (with somebody):\n  23 hit the big time:\n  24 hit the ground running:\n  25 hit the jackpot:\n  26 hit the nail on the head:\n  27 hit home:\n  28 hit the spot:\n  29 hit the roof/ceiling:\n  30 hit the sack:  Phrasal verbs//   hit back//   hit on somebody/something//   hit out//   hit out at somebody/something//   hit somebody with something//   hit somebody up for something//  ----------//  [Date: 1000-1100; Language: Old Norse; Origin: hitta  ’to find, hit’]//\n  1 TOUCH SOMEBODY/SOMETHING HARD:   [T] to touch someone or something quickly and hard with your hand, a stick etc//  --He raised the hammer and hit the bell.//  hit sb/sth with sth//  --The robbers hit him over the head with a baseball bat.//\n  2 CRASH INTO SOMETHING:   [T] to move into something or someone quickly and with force//  --The tanks exploded as the plane hit the ground.//  --He was taken to hospital after being hit by a car.//\n  3 HURT YOURSELF:   [T] to move a part of your body quickly against something accidentally, causing pain//   bang//  --The ceiling’s low, so be careful you don’t hit your head.//  hit sth on/against sth//  --She slipped and hit her head on the sidewalk.//\n  4 SPORT:   [T] //  a) if you hit a ball or other object, you make it move forward quickly by hitting it with a bat, stick etc//   strike//  -- Hit the ball as hard as you can.//  b) to get points by hitting a ball in a game such as baseball or cricket//  --Last year, Griffey hit 49 home runs.//\n  5 PRESS:   [T]  informal to press a part in a machine, car, etc to make it work//  --Maria hit the brakes just in time.//\n  6 ATTACK:   [T] to attack something or wound someone with a bomb, bullet etc//  --Our ship was badly hit and sank within minutes.//  --A second shot hit her in the back.//  --The bomb failed to hit its target .//\n  7 AFFECT BADLY:   [I and T] if something bad hits a place or a person, it suddenly happens and affects people badly//  --The village has been hit by a devastating drought.//  --Hurricane Louis is expected to hit at the weekend.//  be badly/severely/hard hit //  --The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence.//  --The south of the country is the worst hit by the recession.//\n  8 HAVE PROBLEMS:   [T] to experience trouble, problems etc//  hit a snag/problems/a bad patch etc //  --My father hit a bad patch, he had to sell the house.//\n  9 REACH A LEVEL/NUMBER:   [T] to reach a particular level or number//  --Sales have hit the 1 million mark .//  hit a peak/an all-time high etc //  --Earnings hit a peak in the early 1980s.//  hit rock-bottom/an all-time low etc //  --Oil prices have hit rock-bottom.//\n  10 REALIZE:   [T] if a fact hits you, you suddenly realize its importance and feel surprised or shocked//  --It’s impossible to pinpoint a moment when it hit me that I was ’a success’.//  --He was gone before they knew what had hit them (=realized what had happened) .//\n  11 SMELL/SIGHT ETC:   [T] if a smell or sight hits you, you suddenly smell or see it//  --The smell of stale smoke hit him as he entered.//\n  12 ARRIVE:   [T]  informal to arrive at a place//  --They hit the main road two kilometres further on.//  hit town  AmE //  --I’ll look for work as soon as I hit town.//\n  13  hit the road/trail:   informal to begin a journey//\n  14  hit the shops/streets:  if a product hits the shops, it becomes available to buy//  --I managed to get a copy of the book before it hit the shops.//\n  15  hit the headlines:  to be reported widely on television, in newspapers etc//  --The couple hit the headlines last year when their relationship broke down.//\n  16  hit the bottle:   informal to start drinking too much alcohol regularly//  --After his marriage failed, he hit the bottle big time.//\n  17  hit the dirt/the deck:   informal to fall to the ground in order to avoid something dangerous//  --My first instinct was to hit the dirt.//\n  18  hit a (brick) wall:   informal to suddenly not be able to make any progress//  --I felt I’d hit a wall with my playing.//\n  19  hit the buffers/skids:   informal if a plan, project etc hits the buffers, it fails//  --Croft’s comeback hit the skids yesterday when she lost in the quarter-finals.//\n  20  hit sb when they are down:   informal to upset or harm someone when they are already defeated//\n  21  hit sb where it hurts:   informal to do something that you know will upset someone in the most damaging way//  --You should hit your husband where it hurts - in his wallet!//\n  22  hit it off (with sb):   informal if two people hit it off, they like each other as soon as they meet//  --I knew you’d hit it off with Mike.//\n  23  hit the big time:  hit it big  AmE  informal to suddenly become very famous, successful, and rich//  --The 25-year-old painter hopes to hit it big in New York.//\n  24  hit the ground running:  to start doing something successfully without any delay//  --Law graduates are expected to hit the ground running.//\n  25  hit the jackpot:  a) to win a lot of money//  b) to have a big success//  --Owens hit the jackpot in his first professional game with the Cowboys.//\n  26  hit the nail on the head:   informal used to say that what someone has said is exactly right//  --You’ve hit the nail on the head there, David.//\n  27  hit home:  a) if a remark, criticism etc about you hits home, you realize that it is true//  --Graham didn’t reply, but she could see her words had hit home.//  b) if a blow or kick hits home, it hits the thing it is aimed at//\n  28  hit the spot:   informal to have exactly the good effect that you wanted, especially when you are hungry or thirsty//\n  29  hit the roof/ceiling:   informal to be very angry//  --Ranieri returned, saw the mess, and hit the roof.//\n  30  hit the sack:  hit the hay  AmE  informal to go to bed//    the shit hits the fan at shit2 (17)//    hit/strike paydirt at paydirt//  hit back phr v//  to attack or criticize a person or group that has attacked or criticized you//   retaliate//  hit back at//  --The actress hit back at claims that she had threatened a member of staff.//  hit back with//  --United were a goal down, but hit back with an equalizer.//  hit back by doing sth//  --He hit back by calling his critics ’lazy’.//  hit on / [hit on sb/sth] phr v//\n  1  also hit upon sth :  to have an idea or discover something suddenly or unexpectedly//   come up with//  --Then we hit on the idea of asking viewers to donate money over the Net.//\n  2  AmE  informal to talk to someone in a way that shows you are sexually attracted to them:  --Dave has hit on most of the women in the department.//  hit out phr v//  to try to hit someone//  --When he felt someone grab him, he hit out wildly.//  hit out at / [hit out at sb/sth] phr v//   also hit out against sb/sth //  to express strong disapproval of someone or something//   attack//  --The bishop hit out at the government’s policy on the homeless.//  hit with [hit sb with sth] phr v//\n  1 to tell someone something interesting, exciting, or shocking:  --The next morning, Steve hit me with the truth.//\n  2  AmE to punish or try to harm someone by doing something that will cause problems for them:  --The next day, we found they’d hit us with a lawsuit.//  hit up for [hit sb up for sth] phr v//  to ask someone for money//  --Did he hit you up for cash again?//  ----------//  WORD FOCUS: hit //  with your fist: punch,  thump,  bash //  with your open hand as a punishment: smack,  spank,  slap //  with a hammer: bang,  hammer //  in order to get attention: bang,  knock,  tap,  hammer //  accidentally: bump into,  crash into,  strike,  bang,  knock,  collide (with) //  ----------//\nhit 2 S3 n [C]   ----------//\n   1 successful:\n   2 hit something:\n   3 computer:\n   4 :\n   5 :  ----------//\n  1 SUCCESSFUL:  something such as a film, play, song etc that is very popular and successful//  a hit single/show/record etc //  --the hit musical ’Phantom of the Opera’//  a big/smash/number 1 etc hit //  --the Beatles’ greatest hits//  --Which band had a hit with ’Bohemian Rhapsody’?//  be a hit with sb//   (=be liked by them) //  --It’s hoped the new museum will be a big hit with families.//\n  2 HIT SOMETHING:  an occasion when something that is aimed at something else touches it, reaches it, or damages it//  --Our ship took a direct hit and sank.//\n  3 COMPUTER:  a) an occasion when someone visits a website//  --The site had 2,000 hits in the first week.//  b) a result of a computer search, especially on the Internet//  --thousands of irrelevant hits//\n  4  informal a feeling of pleasure obtained from taking an illegal drug:\n  5  informal a murder that has been arranged to happen:    hit man//


Words: hit list
Meaning:
n [C]    informal the names of people, organizations etc that a person or group plans to harm//  on sb’s hit list//  --He was on a terrorist’s hit list.//  hit list of//  --The company drew up a hit list of shops it expects to close.//


Words: hit parade
Meaning:
n   the hit parade//   old-fashioned a list that shows which popular records have sold the most copies//


Words: hit-and-miss
Meaning:
adj  also hit-or-miss   done in a way that is not planned or organized//    random//  --The campaign was rather a hit-and-miss affair.//


Words: hit-and-run
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   a hit-and-run accident is one in which a car driver hits someone and does not stop to help//  hit-and-run driver //


Words: hitch
Meaning:
v \n  1 [I and T]  informal to get free rides from the drivers of passing cars by standing at the side of the road and putting a hand out with the thumb raised:   hitchhike//  hitch across/around/to//  --He plans to hitch right round the coast of Ireland.//  hitch a ride/lift (with sb) //  --We hitched a ride with a trucker.//\n  2 [T]  also hitch up :  to move a piece of clothing you are wearing so that it is higher than it was before//  --She hitched her skirt above her knees and knelt down.//\n  3  get hitched:   informal to get married//  --They got hitched without telling their parents.//\n  4 [T]  also hitch up :  to lift yourself into a higher position by pushing with your hands//  hitch yourself (up) onto/on sth//  --Gail hitched herself up onto the high stool.//\n  5 :  a)  [T always + adverb/preposition] to fasten something to something else, using a rope, chain etc//  hitch sth to sth//  --He hitched our pickup to his trailer.//  --a goat hitched to a rickety fence//  b)  [T]  also hitch up //  to fasten an animal to something with wheels so that the animal can pull it forwards//  --I hitched up the horse and drove out into the fields.//\nhitch 2 n [C] \n  1 a small problem that makes something difficult or delays it for a short time:  technical/slight/last-minute hitch //  --In spite of some technical hitches, the first program was a success.//  --The whole show went without a hitch .//\n  2 a type of knot:  --a half hitch//


Words: Hitchcock
Meaning:
Sir Alfred   (1899-1980) a British film  director who made films in the UK and then in Hollywood for almost 50 years. He made  thrillers (=films that tell exciting stories about crime and murder)  such as  The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935),  Psycho (1960), and  The Birds (1963). He is famous for his use of  suspense (=a feeling of fear and excitement that you have when you expect that something bad is going to happen) . People sometimes use the word "Hitchcockian" to describe a story or situation in which there is a lot of suspense.//


Words: hitchhike
Meaning:
v  also hitch  [I]   to travel to places by getting free rides from drivers of passing cars//  hitchhike around/to/across etc//  --She spent her gap year hitchhiking around the world.//  -- hitchhiker n  [C] //  --I picked up a hitchhiker on our way back.//


Words: Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy
Meaning:
The   a humorous British radio programme written by Douglas Adams, which later became a book and a television programme. It is a  science fiction story about an Englishman called Arthur Dent who gets on a  spaceship just before the Earth is destroyed, and the adventures he has in space with the other characters on this spaceship.//


Words: hither
Meaning:
adv  old use   [Language: Old English; Origin: hider]//  here//  --Coloured fish darted hither and thither  (=backwards and forwards) .//


Words: Hitler
Meaning:
Adolf   (1889-1945) the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1921. He was born in Austria and was the ’Fuhrer’ (=leader) of Germany from the mid-1930s until his death. He allowed no opposition, and attempted to establish a pure race of German people through a policy of  anti-semitism, as a result of which millions of Jewish people were killed in  concentration camps. He started World War II by ordering his armies to enter Poland in 1939, and killed himself in 1945, just before Germany lost the war. His name is now sometimes used to describe someone who uses their authority in a cruel or unfair way, or someone who wants to control everything.//


Words: Hitler Youth
Meaning:
an organization established by Adolf  Hitler in 1933 to train German boys according to the ideas and principles of the  Nazi Party//


Words: HIV
Meaning:
n [U]   a type of virus (=a very small living thing that causes disease)  that enters the body through blood or sexual activity, and can develop into AIDS//  HIV positive/negative (=having or not having HIV in your body) //


Words: hive
Meaning:
n   [Sense: 1-2; Origin: Old English hyf]//  [Sense: 3; Origin:  Origin unknown]//\n  1 [C]  also beehive :  a small box where bees are kept, or the bees that live in this box//\n  2  a hive of industry/activity etc:   BrE a place that is full of people who are very busy//  --This marketplace was once a hive of activity.//\n  3  hives [U] a skin disease in which a person’s skin becomes red and sore:\nhive 2 v   hive off [hive sth → off] phr v//  to sell one part of a business//  --the trend for television companies to hive off their advertising departments//


Words: hiya
Meaning:
interjection  informal   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin:  Probably from  how are you; influenced by hi]//  used to say hello//


Words: HMI
Meaning:
n   His/Her Majesty’s Inspector a British government official, employed by  Ofsted whose job is to check the standards of education in schools in the UK. HMIs visit schools and watch lessons, then they make reports about the teachers, the lessons, and the general character of the school.//


Words: HMSO
Meaning:
His/Her Majesty’s Stationery Office a British government organization which prints government documents, books etc//    GPO, the(2)//


Words: HNC
Meaning:
n [C]   Higher National Certificate a British college or university examination, usually in a technical or business subject. HNCs are lower in level than HNDs//


Words: HND
Meaning:
n [C]   Higher National Diploma a British college or university examination, usually in a technical or business subject//


Words: ho
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE  spoken  informal   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: whore]//\n  1 a prostitute:\n  2  not polite an offensive word for a woman or girl who you do not respect because she is too willing to have sex with many different people:   slut//


Words: Ho Chi Minh
Meaning:
(1892-1969) the president of North Vietnam during the first part of the  Vietnam War until his death. //


Words: Ho Chi Minh City
Meaning:
a city in the southern part of Vietnam. It was formerly known as  Saigon, and was the capital of South Vietnam when the country was divided.//


Words: ho-hum
Meaning:
interjection  informal   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: ho-hum an expression of being bored]//  used to say that you are bored//


Words: hoard
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hord]//  a collection of things that someone hides somewhere, especially so they can use them later//  hoard of//  --the discovery of a hoard of gold coins//\nhoard 2  also hoard up  v [T]   to collect and save large amounts of food, money etc, especially when it is not necessary to do so//  --families who hoarded food during the strike//  -- hoarder n  [C] //  --I’m a hoarder when it comes to clothes.//


Words: hoarding
Meaning:
n [C]  BrE \n  1 a large board fixed high on a wall outside on which large advertisements are shown:  American Equivalent:  billboard//  --advertising hoardings//\n  2 a high fence around a piece of land where something is being built:


Words: hoarfrost
Meaning:
n [U]  formal   [Date: 1200-1300; Origin: hoar  ’gray, white’ (11-20 centuries) (from  Old English har) +  frost]//  a thin layer of ice that forms on objects outside when it is very cold//   frost//  --A light hoarfrost covered the fields.//


Words: hoarse
Meaning:
adj   [Language: Old English; Origin: has]//  if you are hoarse, or if your voice is hoarse, you speak in a low rough voice, for example because your throat is sore//  --He was hoarse from laughing.//  hoarse voice/whisper/groan etc //  -- hoarsely adv //  -- hoarseness n  [U] //


Words: hoary
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: hoar;   HOARFROST]//\n  1 [usually before noun] a hoary joke, remark etc is so well-known that people no longer find it amusing or interesting:  --Not that hoary old chestnut  (=old idea, joke, remark etc) again.//\n  2  old-fashioned grey or white in colour, especially through age:


Words: hoax
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1700-1800; Origin:  Probably from  hocus;   HOCUS-POCUS]//\n  1 a false warning about something dangerous:  --a bomb hoax //  -- hoax calls  (=telephone calls giving false information) to the police//\n  2 an attempt to make people believe something that is not true:  --an elaborate hoax //


Words: Hobbes
Meaning:
Thomas   (1588-1679) an English political  philosopher. In his book  Leviathan he expressed the opinion that, since people think only of themselves and behave badly, it is best if they are ruled by one powerful authority.//


Words: Hobbit
Meaning:
The   (1937) a very popular book by J.R.R.  Tolkien. It describes the exciting and magical adventures of Bilbo  Baggins, who is a  hobbit, in a place called Middle Earth.//    Lord of the Rings, the//


Words: hobble
Meaning:
v   [Date: 1200-1300; Origin:  Probably from  Dutch or  Low German]//\n  1 [I always + adverb/preposition] to walk with difficulty, especially because your legs or feet hurt:    limp//  --He hobbled into the room on crutches.//\n  2 [T usually passive] to deliberately make sure that a plan, system etc cannot work successfully:  --Many start-ups are hobbled by a lack of sufficient capital.//\n  3 [T] to loosely fasten two of an animal’s legs together, to stop it from running away:


Words: hobby
Meaning:
S3   n   plural  hobbies  [C] //  [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hobbyhorse]//  an activity that you enjoy doing in your free time//    interest, pastime//  --What are your hobbies?//  --Susan’s hobbies include reading, cooking, and drama.//  --Retirement gave him the time to pursue his hobbies.//  -- hobbyist n  [C] //  --keen wine hobbyists//


Words: hobbyhorse
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: hobby  ’small horse’ (14-19 centuries) (probably from  Hobbin, a man’s name, from  Robin) +  horse]//\n  1 a subject that someone has strong opinions about and that they talk about too much:  --I’m afraid safe driving isn’t Jaqui’s only hobbyhorse.//  be on your hobbyhorse//  --Vicky was on her hobbyhorse again.//\n  2 an old-fashioned toy made of a horse’s head on a stick:


Words: hobgoblin
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: hob  ’bad spirit’ (15-19 centuries) (from  Hob, a man’s name, from  Robert) +  goblin]//  a goblin//


Words: hobnailed
Meaning:
[only before noun]  especially BrE  old-fashioned   hobnailed boots have large nails fastened to the bottom to make them last longer//


Words: hobnob
Meaning:
v   past tense and past participle  hobnobbed present participle  hobnobbing  [I] //  [Date: 1700-1800; Origin: drink hobnob  ’to take turns in drinking’ (18-19 centuries), from  habnab  ’in one way or another’ (16-19 centuries), probably from  Old English habban  ’to have’ and  nabban  ’to have not’]//   informal to spend time talking to people who are in a higher social position than you//  hobnob with//  --He spent the first day hobnobbing with the management.//


Words: hobo
Meaning:
n   plural  hobos  [C]  AmE //  [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Perhaps from the greeting  ho, boy!]//  someone who travels around and has no home or regular job//  British Equivalent:  tramp//


Words: Hobson’s choice
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin:  Probably from Thomas  Hobson (1554-1631), who rented out horses and would only let his customers take the horse nearest the door]//  a situation in which there is only one thing you can do, so you do not really have any choice at all//


Words: hock
Meaning:
n   [Sense: 1; Date: 1600-1700; Language: German; Origin: Hochheimer  ’of Hochheim’, from the name of the place in Germany where it was originally made.]//  [Sense: 2; Date: 1800-1900; Language: Dutch; Origin: hok  ’prison’]//  [Sense: 3-4; Origin: Old English hoh  ’heel’]//\n  1 [U]  BrE a German white wine:  --a glass of hock//\n  2  in hock:   informal //  a) in debt//  be in hock to sb//  --The fashion chain is still in hock to the banks.//  b) something that is in hock has been sold temporarily because its owner needs some money//  --He’s a musician, but his guitar is in hock.//\n  3 [C] a piece of meat from above the foot of a pig:  --pork hocks//\n  4 [C] the middle joint of an animal’s back leg:\nhock 2 v [T]    informal to sell something temporarily because you need some money//   pawn//


Words: hockey
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin:  Perhaps from  Old French hoquet  ’curved stick used by shepherds’, from  hoc  ’hook’]//\n  1  BrE a game played on grass by two teams of 11 players, with sticks and a ball:  American Equivalent:  field hockey//  glove, ice skate, puck//\n  2  AmE a game similar to hockey, but played on ice:  British Equivalent:  ice hockey//


Words: hocus-pocus
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin: hax pax max Deus adimax, a pretended Latin phrase used by people doing magic tricks]//  a method or belief that you think is based on false ideas//  --He thinks psychology is a load of hocus-pocus.//


Words: hod
Meaning:
n [C]  BrE   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin:  Probably from  Middle Dutch hodde]//  a box with a long handle, used for carrying bricks//


Words: hodge-podge
Meaning:
n [singular]  AmE  informal   a lot of things mixed up together in no order//   jumble//  British Equivalent:  hotch-potch//


Words: hoe
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: houe]//  a garden tool with a long handle, used for removing weeds (=unwanted plants) from the surface of the soil//  -- hoe v  [I and T] //  --Hoe the ground in spring.//


Words: Hoffa
Meaning:
Jimmy   (1913?-1975) the president of the  Teamsters, a powerful  trade union in the US, who was  put in prison in 1967 for financial crimes. He left prison in 1971, but disappeared in 1975 and many people believe that he was murdered, though his body was never found.//


Words: hog
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hogg]//\n  1  especially AmE a large pig that is kept for its meat:    boar, sow//\n  2  go the whole hog:   informal to do something thoroughly//  --Let’s go the whole hog and order champagne.//\n  3  go hog wild:   AmE  informal to suddenly do an activity in an uncontrolled way//\n  4  informal someone who takes too much of something that should be shared:   pig//  --You greedy hog!//    road hog//\nhog 2   past tense and past participle  hogged present participle  hogging  v [T] //   informal to keep, use, or have all of something that should be shared//  --How much longer are you going to hog the bathroom?//  --He’s been hogging the limelight (=having all the attention, praise etc) .//


Words: Hogarth
Meaning:
William   (1697-1764) a British artist who painted very detailed pictures showing the immoral pleasures of his time, such as ’The Rake’s Progress’ and ’Marriage ... la Mode’//


Words: Hogmanay
Meaning:
n [U]  BrE   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin:  Perhaps from  Old French acceuillis l’an neuf  ’welcome the new year’]//  New Year’s Eve and the parties that take place at that time in Scotland//


Words: hoi polloi
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Greek; Origin: ’the many’]//  an insulting word for ordinary people//


Words: hoick
Meaning:
v  also hoick up  [T]  BrE  informal   to lift or pull something up with a sudden movement//  --She hoicked her skirt up and began to dance.//


Words: hoist
Meaning:
v  also hoist up  [T]   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: hoise  ’to lift’ (15-19 centuries), probably from  Middle Dutch hischen]//\n  1 to raise, lift, or pull up something, especially using ropes:  --The crew hurried to hoist the flag.//\n  2  be hoist with/by your own petard:   formal to be harmed or embarrassed by the plans you had made to hurt other people - often used humorously//\nhoist 2 n \n  1 [C] a piece of equipment used for lifting heavy objects with ropes:    crane//  --a boat hoist//\n  2 [usually singular] a movement that lifts something up:  --Give me a hoist onto your shoulders.//


Words: hokey
Meaning:
adj  AmE   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: hokum]//  expressing emotions in an old-fashioned or silly way//  --a hokey song//


Words: hokum
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin:  Probably from  hocus-pocus +  bunkum]//   informal something that seems true or impressive but that is wrong or not sincere//  --All that talk is just a bunch of hokum.//


Words: Holbein
Meaning:
Hans Hans Holbein the Younger   (1497-1543) a German artist during the  Renaissance, famous for his  portraits, especially one of Henry VIII//


Words: hold
Meaning:
v   past tense and past participle  held /held///  ----------//\n   1 in your hand/arms:\n   2 event:\n   3 keep something in position:\n   4 job/title:\n   5 keep/store:\n   6 keep something available for somebody:\n   7 keep somebody somewhere:\n   8 opinion:\n   9 hold somebody responsible/accountable/liable (for something):\n  10 own something:\n  11 contain particular amount:\n  12 support:\n  13 stay at same level:\n  14 not change:\n  15 stop/delay:\n  16 hold your head up:\n  17 hold your breath:\n  18 hold (your) fire:\n  19 telephone:\n  20 army:\n  21 musical note:\n  22 future:\n  23 have a quality:\n  24 hold your own (against somebody):\n  25 not hold a candle to somebody/something:\n  26 be left holding the baby:\n  27 hold sway:\n  28 hold court:\n  29 hold your tongue:\n  30 hold all the cards:\n  31 hold fast (to something):\n  32 hold a conversation:\n  33 hold the fort:\n  34 hold the lead/advantage:\n  35 there’s no holding somebody (back):\n  36 can hold your drink/liquor/alcohol etc:\n  37 not hold water:\n  38 hold something/somebody dear:\n  39 hold the road:  Phrasal verbs//   hold something against somebody//   hold back//   hold somebody/something → down//   hold forth//   hold off//   hold on//   hold on to somebody/something//   hold out//   hold out for something//   hold out on somebody//   hold something over//   hold to something//   hold together//   hold up//   hold somebody/something up as something//   hold with something//  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: healdan]//\n  1 IN YOUR HAND/ARMS:  a)  [T] to have something in your hand, hands, or arms//  --Could you hold my bag for me?//  hold sth in your hand/arms //  --He was holding a knife in one hand.//  --I held the baby in my arms.//  hold hands (=hold each other’s hands) //  --They sat holding hands under a tree.//  hold sb close/tightly (=with your arms around someone) //  --Max held her close and wiped away her tears.//  b)  [T always + adverb/preposition] to move your hand or something in your hand in a particular direction//  hold sth out/up etc//  --He held out his hand to help her to her feet.//  --Hold the picture up so we can see it.//\n  2 EVENT:   [T] to have a meeting, party, election etc in a particular place or at a particular time//  --This year’s conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel.//  --A thanksgiving ceremony was held to mark the occasion.//  --The funeral was held on a grey day in November.//  --In April, the President held talks with Chinese leaders.//\n  3 KEEP SOMETHING IN POSITION:   [T] to make something stay in a particular position//  hold sth open/up etc//  --We used rolled-up newspapers to hold the windows open.//  --Remember to hold your head up and keep your back straight.//  hold sth in place/position //  --A couple of screws should hold it in place.//  --Lift your head off the floor and hold this position for five seconds.//\n  4 JOB/TITLE:   [T] //  a) to have a particular job or position, especially an important one//  --Do you really think he’s capable of holding such a responsible position?//  hold the post/position/office etc (of sth) //  --She was the first woman to hold the office of Australian state premier.//  --The governor had held the post since 1989.//  --Whoever is elected will hold office  (=have an important political position) for four years.//  b) to have a particular title or record, because you have won a competition, are the best at something etc//  --The programme still holds the record for the longest running TV series.//  --The last Briton to hold the title was Bert Nicholson.//\n  5 KEEP/STORE:   [T] to keep something to be used when it is needed//  --Further copies of the book are held in the library.//  --Weapons were held at various sites.//\n  6 KEEP SOMETHING AVAILABLE FOR SOMEBODY:   [T] to agree not to give something such as a ticket, a place at a restaurant, a job etc to anyone except a particular person//  --We can hold the reservation for you until next Friday.//  hold sth open//  --You can’t expect them to hold the job open for much longer - you’ll have to decide whether you want it or not.//\n  7 KEEP SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE:   [T] to keep someone somewhere, and not allow them to leave//  --Police are holding two men in connection with the robbery.//  hold sb prisoner/hostage/captive //  --A senior army officer was held hostage for four months.//  hold sb incommunicado (=keep someone somewhere and not allow them to communicate with anyone) //\n  8 OPINION:   [T not in progressive] to have a particular opinion or belief//  --Experts hold varying opinions as to the causes of the disease.//  be widely/generally/commonly held (=be the opinion of a lot of people) //  --This view is not widely held.//  be held to be sth//  --She was held to be one of the most talented actors of her time.//  hold that//  --The judge held that the child’s interests in this case must come first.//\n  9  hold sb responsible/accountable/liable (for sth):  to say or decide that someone should accept the responsibility for something bad that happens//  --If anything happens to her, I’ll hold you personally responsible .//  --He may have had a terrible childhood, but he should still be held accountable for his own actions.//\n  10 OWN SOMETHING:   [T] to officially own or possess money, a document, a company etc//  --He holds shares in ICI.//  --Do you hold a valid passport?//  --a privately held company//\n  11 CONTAIN PARTICULAR AMOUNT:   [T not in progressive] to have the space to contain a particular amount of something//  --The movie theater holds 500 people.//  --The tank should hold enough to last us a few days.//\n  12 SUPPORT:   [I and T] to be strong enough to support the weight of something or someone//  --Careful! I’m not sure that branch will hold you.//  --The bridge didn’t look as though it would hold.//\n  13 STAY AT SAME LEVEL:   [I and T] to stay at a particular amount, level, or rate, or to make something do this//  --The bank is holding interest rates at 4%.//  --Since then, the pound has held steady against the dollar.//  hold sb’s interest/attention (=make someone stay interested) //  --Colourful pictures help hold the students’ interest.//\n  14 NOT CHANGE:   [I] to continue to be true, good, available etc//  --What I said yesterday holds.//  --Does your invitation still hold?//  hold true/good //  --Twenty years on, his advice still holds good.//  weather/luck holds (out) (=continues to be good) //  --If our luck holds, we could reach the final.//\n  15 STOP/DELAY:   [T]  spoken used in particular phrases to tell someone to wait or not to do something//  --I’ll have a tuna fish sandwich please - and hold the mayo. (=do not give me any) //  hold it! //  --Hold it! We’re not quite ready.//  hold your horses! (=used to tell someone to do something more slowly or carefully) //\n  16  hold your head up:   also hold your head high //  to behave as if you are proud of yourself or respect yourself//  --They may have lost the game, but I still think they’ve earned the right to hold their heads high today.//\n  17  hold your breath:  a) to deliberately not breathe out for a short time//  --Hold your breath and count to ten.//  b) to not breathe out and try not to make a sound because you do not want to be noticed//  --Julie shrank back against the wall and held her breath.//  c)  not hold your breath//   spoken used to say that you do not expect something to happen, even though someone has said it will//  --He promised he’d phone, but I’m not holding my breath.//\n  18  hold (your) fire:  a) to not shoot at someone when you were going to//  b) to not criticize, attack, or oppose someone when you were going to//  --The president urged his party to hold fire on the issue a few days longer.//\n  19 TELEPHONE:   [I]  also  hold the line//   spoken to wait until the person you have telephoned is ready to answer//  --Mr Stevens is busy at the moment - would you like to hold?//  --Please hold the line while I transfer you.//\n  20 ARMY:   [T] if an army holds a place, it controls it or defends it from attack//  --The French army held the town for three days.//\n  21 MUSICAL NOTE:   [T] to make a musical note continue for a particular length of time//\n  22 FUTURE:   [T]  formal if the future holds something, that is what may happen//  --Thousand of workers are waiting to see what the future holds .//\n  23 HAVE A QUALITY:   [T]  formal to have a particular quality//  hold (little) interest/appeal/promise etc //  --Many church services hold little appeal for modern tastes.//\n  24  hold your own (against sb):  to successfully defend yourself or succeed in a difficult situation, competition etc//  --He was a good enough player to hold his own against the Americans.//\n  25  not hold a candle to sb/sth:  to be much worse than someone or something else//\n  26  be left holding the baby:   BrE be left holding the bag  AmE //  to be left as the only person responsible for dealing with a difficult situation, especially something someone else started//  --He was left holding the financial baby when his musical partner joined another band.//\n  27  hold sway:  to have a lot of influence or power//  --Among people here, traditional values still hold sway.//\n  28  hold court:  to get the attention of everyone while you are talking, especially when you are trying to entertain people//  --Joey would walk into the bar and hold court all night.//\n  29  hold your tongue:   spoken used to tell someone to stop talking or to not tell someone about something//  --I reckon you’ve just got to learn to hold your tongue.//\n  30  hold all the cards:  to have all the advantages in a situation in which people are competing or arguing//  --’There’s not much we can do. They seem to hold all the cards,’ said Dan gloomily.//\n  31  hold fast (to sth):  to keep believing strongly in something//\n  32  hold a conversation:  to have a conversation//\n  33  hold the fort:  to be responsible for something while the person usually responsible for it is not there//  --She’s holding the fort while the manager’s on holiday.//\n  34  hold the lead/advantage:  to be winning in a competition, game etc//  --Celtic held the lead in the first half.//\n  35  there’s no holding sb (back):   spoken used to say that someone is so determined to do something that you cannot prevent them from doing it//\n  36  can hold your drink/liquor/alcohol etc:  to be able to drink a lot of alcohol without getting drunk or ill//\n  37  not hold water:  if an excuse, a statement etc does not hold water, it does not seem to be true or reasonable//  --His explanation of where the money came from just doesn’t hold water.//\n  38  hold sth/sb dear:   formal to care about something or someone a lot//  --We were facing the loss of everything we held dear.//\n  39  hold the road:  if a car holds the road well you can drive it quickly around bends without losing control//    hold a course at course1 (8)//  hold against [hold sth against sb] phr v//  to continue to dislike someone or not forgive them because of something bad they have done in the past//  --You can’t still hold that against him, surely?//  hold back phr v//\n  1  hold sb/sth → back:  to make someone or something stop moving forward//  --Police in riot gear held back the demonstrators.//\n  2  hold sth → back:  to stop yourself from feeling or showing a particular emotion//  --She struggled to hold back her tears .//  --Anger flooded through her. She couldn’t hold it back.//\n  3  hold sb/sth → back:  to prevent someone or something from making progress//  --They felt the British economy was being held back by excessive government controls.//\n  4  hold (sb) back:  to be unwilling to do something, especially because you are being careful, or to make someone unwilling to do something//  --In the current situation many investors are holding back.//  --She wanted to tell him but pride held her back.//\n  5  hold sth → back:  to keep something secret//  --Tell me all about it - don’t hold anything back!//  hold down [hold sb/sth → down] phr v//\n  1 to make someone or something stay on something, and stop them from moving away or escaping:  --We had to hold the tent down with rocks to stop it blowing away.//  --It took three strong men to hold him down.//\n  2 to prevent the level of something such as prices from rising:  --We will aim to hold down prices.//\n  3  hold down a job:  to succeed in keeping a job for a period of time//  --He’s never held down a job for longer than a few weeks.//\n  4 to keep people under control or limit their freedom:  --The people were held down for centuries by their conquerors.//  hold forth phr v//  to give your opinion on a subject, especially for a long time//  hold forth on//  --The speaker was holding forth on the collapse of modern society.//  hold off phr v//\n  1 to delay doing something:  --Buyers have been holding off until the price falls.//  hold off (on) doing sth//  --Hold off making your decision until Monday.//\n  2  hold sb → off:  a) to prevent someone who is trying to attack or defeat you from succeeding//  --Not even a gun could hold him off forever.//  b) to prevent someone from coming towards you or succeeding in speaking to you//  --There’s already a crowd of reporters outside - I’ll try to hold them off for a while.//\n  3 if rain or bad weather holds off, it does not start, although it looked as if it would:  --The rain held off until after the game.//  hold on phr v//\n  1  spoken :  a) to wait for a short time//  --Hold on, I’ll just get my coat.//  b) used when you have just noticed, heard, or remembered something interesting or wrong//  --Hold on a minute! Isn’t that your brother’s car over there?//  c) used to ask someone on the telephone to wait until the person they want to talk to is available//  --Can you hold on? I’ll try to find her.//\n  2 to have your hands or arms tightly around something:  -- Hold on tight !//  hold on to//  --Hold on to my arm.//\n  3 to continue doing something that is very difficult to do:  --San Francisco held on to win 4-2.//  hold on to / [hold on to sb/sth] phr v//  to keep something rather than losing it, selling it, or giving it to someone else//  --The soldiers held on to the bridge for three more days.//  --I think I’ll hold on to these old records for now.//  hold out phr v//\n  1  hold out sth:  to think or say that something is possible or likely to happen, especially something good//  not hold out much hope/hold out little hope //  --Negotiators aren’t holding out much hope of a peaceful settlement.//  hold out the prospect/promise of sth //  --alternative methods which hold out the promise of improved health//\n  2 if a supply of something holds out, there is still some left:  --Water supplies won’t hold out much longer.//\n  3 to continue to successfully defend a place that is being attacked:  --The rebels held out for another night but then fresh forces arrived.//\n  4 to try to prevent yourself from doing something that someone is trying to force you to do:  hold out against//  --I didn’t know how much longer I could hold out against their relentless questioning.//  hold out for [hold out for sth] phr v//  to not accept anything less than you have asked for//  --Transport workers are holding out for a 20% pay rise.//  hold out on [hold out on sb] phr v//  to not tell someone about something important//  --She must have been holding out on him all these years.//  hold over [hold sth over] phr v//\n  1 [usually passive]  formal to do or deal with something at a later time:  --The matter was held over for further review.//    holdover//\n  2  hold sth over sb:  to use something bad that you know about someone to make them do what you want//  --He knows I’ve been in prison and is holding it over me.//\n  3  be held over:   especially AmE if a play, film, concert etc is held over, it is shown for longer than planned because it is very popular//  hold to [hold to sth] phr v//\n  1 if you hold to a belief, principle, promise etc, you believe it or behave according to it:  --He admitted he did not hold to the traditional view of God.//  --The Secretary of State must hold to his policy.//\n  2  hold sb to sth:  to make someone do what they have promised//  --’I’ll ask him tomorrow.’ ’OK, but I’m going to hold you to that.’//\n  3  hold sb to sth:   BrE to prevent your opponent in a sports game from getting more than a particular number of points//  --Norway held Holland to a 2-2 draw.//  hold together phr v//\n  1 if a group or organization holds together, or if something holds it together, it stays strong and does not separate into different parts or groups:  --Against all expectations, the coalition held together well.//  hold sth → together//  --In those days the Church held the community together.//\n  2 to remain whole and good enough to use, or to make something do this:  --Incredibly, the raft held together till we reached the opposite shore.//  hold sth → together//  --I wondered how the structure was held together.//  hold up phr v//\n  1  hold sth → up:  to support something and prevent it from falling down//  --The roof is held up by massive stone pillars.//\n  2  hold sb/sth → up [usually passive] to delay someone or something:  --Sorry I’m late - I was held up at work.//\n  3  hold up sth:  to rob or try to rob a place or person by using violence//  --Two armed men held up a downtown liquor store last night.//    hold-up//\n  4 to not become weaker:  --His physical condition has held up well.//  hold up as [hold sb/sth up as sth] phr v//  to use someone or something as a good example or as proof of something//  --The school is held up as a model for others.//  --This incident will be held up as proof that tougher controls are needed.//  hold with [hold with sth] phr v//   not hold with sth//   BrE used to say that someone does not approve of something//  --He says he doesn’t hold with all this politically correct stuff.//  not hold with doing sth//  --I don’t hold with hitting children in any circumstances.//  ----------//  WORD CHOICE: hold, take/get hold of, pick up //  Hold  means to have something in your hand, hands, or arms : He was holding a piece of paper. //  If you want to talk about someone putting their hands or fingers around something and starting to hold it, use  take/get hold of : She got hold of the knife and stabbed him. //  If you want to talk about someone putting their fingers around something and taking it, especially from the floor, use  pick up : I picked up all the toys from the floor. //  !!  Use  pick  not  pick up  when you are talking about pulling flowers off a plant : She was in the garden picking flowers (NOT She was in the garden picking up flowers). //  ----------//\nhold 2 W3S2 n   ----------//\n   1 holding something:\n   2 get hold of something:\n   2 get a hold of something:\n   3 get hold of somebody:\n   3 get a hold of somebody:\n   4 control/power:\n   5 on hold:\n   6 take (a) hold:\n   7 get hold of an idea/an impression/a story etc:\n   8 fight:\n   9 climbing:\n  10 ship:\n  11 no holds barred:  ----------//  [Sense: 1-9, 11; Origin:  HOLD1]//  [Sense: 10; Origin: hole]//\n  1 HOLDING SOMETHING:   [singular] the action of holding something with your hands//   grip//  hold on//  --She released her  tight hold on  the dog. //  -- He  tightened  his  hold , refusing to let her go. //  -- Make sure you  keep hold of  my hand when we cross the road. //  -- I  took hold of  her hand and gently led her away. //  -- Grab hold of  the rope and pull yourself up. //\n  2  get hold of sth:   also  get a hold of sth//   AmE to find or borrow something so that you can use it//  --I need to get hold of a car.//  --She managed to get a hold of a copy.//\n  3  get hold of sb:   also  get a hold of sb//   AmE to find and speak to someone about something//  --I must get hold of Vanessa to see if she can babysit.//\n  4 CONTROL/POWER:   [singular] control, power, or influence over something or someone//  get/keep a hold on/of sth //  --He struggled to get a hold of his emotions.//  --I’ve always kept a tight hold on our finances.//  --I realized that the woman had a hold over my father.//\n  5  on hold:  a) if something is on hold, it is going to be done or dealt with at a later date rather than now//  --The plans are on hold until after the election.//  --Since having the kids, my career has been put on hold .//  b) if you are on hold, you are waiting to talk to someone on the telephone//  --We try not to keep people on hold for more than a couple of minutes.//  --The agent put me on hold while she consulted a colleague.//\n  6  take (a) hold:  to start to have a definite effect//  --The fever was beginning to take hold.//\n  7  get hold of an idea/an impression/a story etc:  to learn or begin to believe something//  --Where on earth did you get hold of that idea?//\n  8 FIGHT:   [C] a particular position that you hold an opponent in, in a fight or a sport such as wrestling//\n  9 CLIMBING:   [C] somewhere you can put your hands or feet to help you climb something//  --The cliff was steep and it was difficult to find a hold.//\n  10 SHIP:   [C] the part of a ship below the deck1(1) where goods are stored//\n  11  no holds barred:  when there are no rules or limits on what you are allowed to do//  --It seems there are no holds barred when it comes to making a profit.//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  tight/firm hold (on something) //  tighten your hold (on something) //  loosen/release your hold (on something) //  have/keep hold of something  (=be holding something) //  get/take hold of something  (=start holding something) //  catch/grab/seize hold of something  (=take hold of something quickly and firmly) //  lose your hold (on something)  (=accidentally let go of something) //  ----------//


Words: hold-up
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 a situation that stops something from happening or making progress:   delay//  --traffic hold-ups on the highway//  --Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time.//\n  2  informal an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon:  --a bank hold-up//    hold up at hold1 //


Words: holder
Meaning:
W2S3   n [C] \n  1 someone who owns or controls something:  --the 800m world record holder//  --Season-ticket holders are furious at the rise in rail fares.//  --British passport holders//  holder of//  --holders of ordinary shares//\n  2 something that is used to hold an object:  candle/cigarette/test-tube etc holder //


Words: holding
Meaning:
W3   n [C]   something which a person owns, especially land or shares in a company//  holding in//  --The government has decided to sell its 21% holding in the firm.//  land/property/currency etc holding //  --companies with large property holdings//


Words: holding company
Meaning:
n [C]   a company that completely or partly owns other companies, as well as doing business itself//


Words: holding pattern
Meaning:
n [C usually singular] \n  1 the path that an aircraft flies along while it is waiting for permission to land:\n  2 a situation in which you cannot act because you are waiting for the result of something:  in a holding pattern//  --My career is in a holding pattern right now.//


Words: holdover
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE   an action, feeling, or idea that has continued from the past into the present//   hangover//  holdover from//  --Her terrible fear of dogs is a holdover from her childhood.//    hold over at hold1 //


Words: hole
Meaning:
n [C]   ----------//\n   1 space in something solid:\n   2 space something can go through:\n   3 empty place:\n   4 weak part:\n   5 animal’s home:\n   6 unpleasant place:\n   7 golf:\n   8 hole in one:\n   9 make a hole in something:\n  10 be in a hole:\n  11 be in the hole:\n  12 need/want something like a hole in the head:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hol]//\n  1 SPACE IN SOMETHING SOLID:  an empty space in something solid//  hole in//  --There was a huge hole in the road.//  --I began digging a hole for the plant.//\n  2 SPACE SOMETHING CAN GO THROUGH:  a space in something solid that allows light or things to pass through//  hole in//  --They climbed through a hole in the fence.//  --These socks are full of holes .//  --bullet holes (=made by bullets) //\n  3 EMPTY PLACE:  a place where someone or something should be, but is missing//  hole in//  --Their departure will leave a gaping hole in Grand Prix racing.//\n  4 WEAK PART:  a weak part or fault in something such as an idea or plan//  --The theory is full of holes .//  hole in//  --If you have holes in your game, work on them.//\n  5 ANIMAL’S HOME:  the home of a small animal//  --a rabbit hole//\n  6 UNPLEASANT PLACE:   informal an unpleasant place//  --I’ve got to get out of this hole.//\n  7 GOLF:  a) a hole in the ground that you try to get the ball into in the game of golf//  b) one part of a golf course with this kind of hole at one end//\n  8  hole in one:  when someone hits the ball in golf from the starting place into the hole with only one hit//\n  9  make a hole in sth:   informal to use a large part of an amount of money, food etc//  --Holidays can make a big hole in your savings.//\n  10  be in a hole:   informal to be in a difficult situation//\n  11  be in the hole:   AmE  spoken to owe money//  --I was something like $16,000 in the hole already.//\n  12  need/want sth like a hole in the head:   spoken used to say that you definitely do not need or want something//  --I need this conversation like a hole in the head.//    ace in the hole at ace1 (7),  black hole,  square peg in a round hole at square1 (12),  watering hole//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not say there is a hole  on something. Say there is a hole in something. //  ----------//\nhole 2 v \n  1 [I and T] to hit the ball into a hole in golf:  --He holed the putt with ease.//\n  2  be holed:  if a ship is holed, something makes a hole in it//  hole out phr v//  to hit the ball into a hole in golf//  hole up phr v//  to hide somewhere for a period of time//  hole up in/with/at//  --The gunmen are still holed up in the town.//


Words: hole-in-the-wall
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1  BrE  informal a machine in or outside a bank from which you can obtain money using a special card:   ATM, cash machine//\n  2  AmE a small dark shop or restaurant:


Words: Holiday
Meaning:
Billie   (1915-59) a US  jazz and  blues singer. She was one of the greatest jazz and blues singers ever, and was also called "Lady Day".//


Words: holiday
Meaning:
n   [Language: Old English; Origin: haligd[zB024]g  ’holy day’]//\n  1 [U and C]  BrE  also holidays :  a time of rest from work, school etc//  American Equivalent:  vacation//  --The school holidays start tomorrow.//  on holiday//  --I’m away on holiday until the 1st of June.//  --Won’t your business suffer if you take a holiday ?//\n  2 [U and C]  BrE  also holidays :  a period of time when you travel to another place for pleasure//  American Equivalent:  vacation//  --We’re going to Spain for our holidays. //  -- He caught malaria while  on holiday  in Africa. //  --When are you  going on holiday ? //  --  I didn’t  have a  proper  holiday  this year. //  -- This was his first  holiday abroad . //  -- her annual  summer holiday //  -- a popular Spanish  holiday resort  //  -- It was just a harmless  holiday romance . //\n  3 [C] a day fixed by law on which people do not have to go to work or school:  --The 4th of July is a national holiday in the US.//\n  4  the holiday season:  the holidays //  a)  AmE the period between Thanksgiving and New Year//  b)  BrE the period in the summer when most people take a holiday//    bank holiday,  public holiday//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 2 //  on holiday //  go on holiday  also  go on your holidays //  have/take a holiday //  holiday abroad //  summer holiday //  family holiday //  skiing/camping/walking etc holiday //  holiday resort  (=a place with many hotels where a lot of people go on their holidays) //  holiday brochure  (=a magazine that advertises holidays) //  holiday snaps  informal (=photographs taken while on holiday) //  holiday romance //  GRAMMAR //  British English speakers say  holiday  , not  holidays  in the structures  be on holiday, go on holiday  and  return/come back from holiday : something to read when you are on holiday (NOT when you are on holidays) |  When you come back from holiday, it’s hard to work (NOT When you come back from holidays). //  Holidays  is usually used after  the, my, your  etc : Soon it will be the holidays. |  Where do you want to go for your holidays? //  !!  Do not say ’be  in  (your) holidays’ or ’go  in  (your) holidays’. Say  go  on   holiday  or  go  on   your holidays  or  be  on   holiday  or  be  on   your holidays . //  !!  Do not say ’make a holiday’. Say  have a holiday . //  ----------//\nholiday 2 v [I]    BrE to spend your holiday in a place - used especially in news reports//  American Equivalent:  vacation//  holiday in/at//  --They’re holidaying in Majorca.//


Words: holiday camp
Meaning:
n [C]    BrE a place where people go for their holidays and where activities are organized for them//


Words: holidaymaker
Meaning:
n [C]    BrE someone who has travelled to a place on holiday//    tourist//  American Equivalent:  vacationer//


Words: holier-than-thou
Meaning:
adj   showing that you think you are morally better than other people - used to show disapproval//   self-righteous//


Words: holiness
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U] the quality of being pure and good in a religious way:\n  2  Your/His Holiness:  used as a title for talking to or about the Pope//


Words: holistic
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1900-2000; Language: Greek; Origin: holos  ’whole’]//\n  1 considering a person or thing as a whole, rather than as separate parts:  --a holistic approach to design//\n  2  holistic medicine/treatment/healing etc:  medical treatment based on the belief that the whole person must be treated, not just the part of their body that has a disease//    alternative medicine//  -- holistically/-kli/ adv //


Words: hollandaise
Meaning:
n  also hollandaise sauce  [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: sauce hollandaise  ’Dutch sauce’]//  a creamy sauce made with butter, eggs, and lemon//


Words: holler
Meaning:
v [I and T]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin: hollo  ’(to make) a shout to attract attention’ (16-19 centuries)]//   informal  especially  AmE to shout loudly//   yell//  holler at//  --I heard someone hollering at me.//  -- holler n  [C] //


Words: Holliday
Meaning:
John, "Doc"   (1849-1887), a friend of the US marshal Wyatt Earp. He fought on the side of Earp and his brothers in the gunfight at the OK Corral. He was a gambler and dentist, and one of the most dangerous gunfighters of the wild west. He died of tuberculosis.//


Words: hollow
Meaning:
adj   ----------//\n   1 empty inside:\n   2 hollow eyes/cheeks etc:\n   3 sound:\n   4 no value:\n   5 hollow laugh/voice etc:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: holh  ’hole, hollow place’]//\n  1 EMPTY INSIDE:  having an empty space inside//  --a hollow tree//\n  2  hollow eyes/cheeks etc:  eyes etc where the skin sinks inwards//  --He was short and thin, with a sharp nose and hollow eyes.//\n  3 SOUND:  a hollow sound is low and clear like the sound made when you hit something empty//  --There was a hollow thump as the cars collided.//\n  4 NO VALUE:  words, events, or people that are hollow have no real worth or value//  --They won, but it was a hollow victory .//  --Even as he spoke, Ivan was well aware of the hollow ring to his words.//\n  5  hollow laugh/voice etc:  a hollow laugh or voice makes a weak sound and is without emotion//  -- hollowly adv //  --Sam laughed hollowly.//  -- hollowness n  [U] //\nhollow 2 n [C]   a place in something that is at a slightly lower level than its surface//   dip//  --Make a slight hollow in the middle of each cake.//\nhollow 3 v [T usually passive]   to make the surface of something curve inwards//  --The steps were hollowed by centuries of use.//  hollow out [hollow sth → out] phr v//  to make a hole or empty space by removing the inside part of something//


Words: Holly
Meaning:
Buddy   (1936-59) a US  pop singer,  guitar player, and songwriter who, with his band  The Crickets, helped to make  rock ’n’ roll music popular in the 1950s. His songs include  That’ll be the Day and  Peggy Sue. He was killed in a plane crash.//


Words: holly
Meaning:
n   plural  hollies  [U and C] //  [Language: Old English; Origin: holegn]//  a small tree with sharp dark green leaves and red berries ( berry), or the leaves and berries of this tree used as a decoration at Christmas//


Words: hollyhock
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1200-1300; Origin: holy +  hock type of plant  (11-17 centuries) (from  Old English hoc)]//  a tall thin garden plant with many flowers growing together//


Words: Hollywood
Meaning:
n   a part of Los Angeles in California where films are made, often used to refer to the film industry in general//  --one of Hollywood’s major stars//


Words: Hollywood Bowl
Meaning:
the Hollywood Bowl//  a concert hall in Hollywood, California, which has a stage covered with a curved roof, and outdoor seats for people to watch and listen//


Words: Holmes
Meaning:
Mycroft   the elder brother of Sherlock Holmes, who appears in some of the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mycroft, who is older than Sherlock, is cleverer than his younger brother but too lazy to be a detective.//\n Sherlock   the main character in the stories by Sir Arthur  Conan Doyle. He is a very clever  detective (=someone whose job is to solve crimes and catch criminals)  and he always notices very small details and then uses them to guess what has happened.//


Words: holocaust
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: holocauste, from  Greek holokaustos  ’burnt whole’, from  holos  ’whole’ +  kaiein  ’to burn’]//\n  1 a situation in which there is great destruction and a lot of people die:  --a nuclear holocaust//\n  2  the Holocaust:  the killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during the Second World War//


Words: hologram
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1900-2000; Language: Greek; Origin: holos  ’whole’ +  English -gram]//  a kind of photograph made with a laser that looks as if it is not flat when you look at it from an angle//  -- holographic/h[hA361]l[hA353]gr[zB024]f[hA366]k[hA36B] $ ho[hA35E]l-, h[hA35A][hA359]l-/ adj //  -- holography/h[hA361]l[hA361]gr[hA353]fi $ ho[hA35E]-, h[hA35A][hA359]-/ n  [U] //


Words: Holstein
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Holstein, area of Germany]//  a black and white cow//  British Equivalent:  Friesian//


Words: holster
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Dutch]//  a leather object for carrying a small gun, that is worn on a belt//


Words: holy
Meaning:
W3   adj   comparative  holier superlative  holiest //  [Language: Old English; Origin: halig]//\n  1 connected with God and religion:    sacred//  --the holy city of Benares//\n  2 very religious:  --a holy man//\n  3  holy cow/mackerel etc:   spoken used to express feelings such as surprise or fear//\n  4  a holy terror:   informal someone, especially a child, who causes problems for other people//    take (holy) orders at order1 (18)//


Words: Holy Communion
Meaning:
n [U]   the Christian ceremony in which people eat bread and drink wine as signs of Christ’s body and blood//   Communion//


Words: Holy Ghost
Meaning:
n   the Holy Ghost//  God in the form of a spirit according to the Christian religion//   Holy Spirit//


Words: Holy Grail
Meaning:
n \n  1 [singular] something that people want very much, but which is very difficult or impossible to achieve:  Holy Grail of//  --Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.//\n  2  the Holy Grail:  the cup believed to have been used by Christ before his death//


Words: Holy Island
Meaning:
1 an island off the northeast coast of Northumberland, in northeast England. It is also known as Lindisfarne.:\n  2 an island off the island of Anglesey, North Wales, whose main town is the port of  Holyhead:


Words: Holy Land
Meaning:
n   the Holy Land//  the parts of the Middle East where most of the events mentioned in the Bible happened//


Words: Holy Loch
Meaning:
a narrow area of the Atlantic Ocean reaching into the land on the west coast of Scotland, northwest of Glasgow. The US Navy formerly had a base there for its  nuclear submarines.//


Words: holy of holies
Meaning:
n [singular] \n  1  humorous a special place where only a few people are allowed to go:\n  2  the Holy of Holies:  the most holy part of a Jewish temple//


Words: Holy Roman Empire
Meaning:
the   a group of European states which included parts of France, Germany, Austria, and Italy, and which were ruled by an  emperor. It was established by  Charlemagne in 800, and continued until 1806. For most of the period from the 13th century to the 19th century, its ruling family were the  Hapsburgs.//


Words: Holy Writ
Meaning:
n [U] \n  1 writing or instructions that people treat as if it were completely true in every detail:  --Lenin’s word was by no means accepted as holy writ.//\n  2  old-fashioned the Bible:


Words: Holyhead
Meaning:
a town and port on  Holy Island off the island of Anglesey, North Wales. Ships carrying passengers and cars sail from Holyhead to Ireland.//


Words: Holyrood Palace
Meaning:
also Holyrood House   a large building in Edinburgh, Scotland, owned by the British royal family. It was formerly the home of the Scottish royal family, and  Mary Queen of Scots lived there in the 16th century.//


Words: homage
Meaning:
n [singular]   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: hommage, from  homme  ’man, man who owes duty to a ruler’]//   formal something you do to show respect for someone or something you think is important//  --The film pays homage to Martin Scorsese’s ’Mean Streets’.//


Words: hombre
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE  informal   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Spanish; Origin: ’man’]//  a man, especially one who is strong//


Words: homburg
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Homburg, town in Germany]//  a soft hat for men, with a wide brim (=edge) //


Words: home
Meaning:
n   ----------//\n   1 place where you live:\n   2 family:\n   3 where you came from/belong:\n   4 your country:\n   5 be/feel at home:\n   6 property:\n   7 for taking care of somebody:\n   8 make yourself at home:\n   9 make somebody feel at home:\n  10 the home of something:\n  11 sports team:\n  12 home from home:\n  13 home sweet home:\n  14 dogs’/cats’ home:\n  15 find a home for something:\n  16 what’s that when it’s at home?:\n  17 games:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: ham  ’village, home’]//\n  1 PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE:   [U and C] the house, apartment, or place where you live//  --They have a beautiful home in California.//  --Good luck in your new home! //  at home//  --Last night we stayed at home and watched TV.//  away from home//  --He was spending more and more time away from home.//  work from/at home (=do your work at home instead of at a company office) //  --A family of birds made their home  (=started living) under the roof.//\n  2 FAMILY:   [U and C] the place where a child lived with his or her family//  --Jack left home when he was 16.//  --Were you still living at home  (=with your parents) ?//  -- Carrie moved out of the  family home  a year ago.//\n  3 WHERE YOU CAME FROM/BELONG:   [U and C] the place where you came from or where you usually live, especially when this is the place where you feel happy and comfortable//  --She was born in Italy, but she’s made Charleston her home .//  back home//  --The folks back home don’t really understand what life is like here.//\n  4 YOUR COUNTRY:   [U] the country where you live, as opposed to foreign countries//  at home//  --auto sales at home and abroad//  back home//  --Even though he’s been travelling around the world, he’s kept up with what’s going on back home.//\n  5  be/feel at home:  a) to feel comfortable in a place or with a person//  be/feel at home in/with//  --I’m already feeling at home in the new apartment.//  --After a while we began to feel at home with each other.//  b) to feel happy or confident about doing or using something//  be/feel at home with/in//  --Practise using the video until you feel quite at home with it.//\n  6 PROPERTY:   [C] a house, apartment etc considered as property which you can buy or sell//  --Attractive, modern homes for sale.//\n  7 FOR TAKING CARE OF SOMEBODY:   [C] a place where people who are very old or sick, or children who have no family are looked after//  --an old people’s home//  --I could never put Dad into a home .//    children’s home,  nursing home,  rest home//\n  8  make yourself at home:   spoken used to tell someone who is visiting you that they should relax//  --Sit down and make yourself at home.//\n  9  make sb feel at home:  to make someone feel relaxed by being friendly towards them//  --We like to make our customers feel at home.//\n  10  the home of sth:  a) the place where something was first discovered, made, or developed//  --America is the home of baseball.//  b) the place where a plant or animal grows or lives//  --India is the home of elephants and tigers.//\n  11 SPORTS TEAM:   at home//  if a sports team plays at home, they play at their own sports field//  → away//  at home to//  --Birmingham Bullets are at home to Kingston.//\n  12  home from home:   BrE home away from home  AmE a place that you think is as pleasant and comfortable as your own house//\n  13  home sweet home:  used to say how nice it is to be in your own home//\n  14  dogs’/cats’ home:   BrE a place where animals with no owners are looked after//\n  15  find a home for sth:   BrE to find a place where something can be kept//  --Can you find a home for the piano?//\n  16  what’s that when it’s at home?:   BrE  spoken used humorously to ask what a long or unusual word means//\n  17 GAMES:   [U] a place in some games or sports which a player must try to reach in order to win a point//    home plate,  home run//\nhome 2 adv \n  1 to or at the place where you live:  --Is Sue home from work yet?//  bring/take sb/sth home //  --They brought the baby home from the hospital on Friday.//  --We stayed home last night.//  --I’m going home now. See you tomorrow.//  come/get/reach etc home (=arrive at your home) //  --It was midnight by the time we got home.//  --What time are you coming home?//\n  2  take home [hA124]120 per week/$600 a month etc:  to earn a certain amount of money after tax has been taken off//  --The average worker takes home around $300 a week.//\n  3  hit/drive/hammer etc sth home:  a) to make sure that someone understands what you mean by saying it in an extremely direct and determined way//  --We really need to drive this message home.//  b) to hit or push something firmly into the correct position//\n  4  bring sth home to sb/come home to sb:  to make you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is//  --The episode has brought home to me the pointlessness of this war.//\n  5  hit/strike home:  if a remark, situation, or experience hits home, it makes you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is//  --She could see that her remark had hit home.//\n  6  be home and dry:   BrE  informal to have succeeded in doing something//\n  7  be home free:   AmE  informal to have succeeded in doing the most difficult part of something//  --If I last five years with no symptoms, I’ll be home free.//    close to home at close2 (19)//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not use a preposition (a word such as ’at’ or ’to’) before  home when it is an adverb: I travel home by bus (NOT I travel at home by bus). He returned home (NOT He returned to home). //  ----------//\nhome 3 adj [only before noun] \n  1 relating to or belonging to your home or family:  home address/number (=the address or telephone number of your house) //  --These children need a proper home life .//\n  2 done at home or intended for use in a home:  --good old-fashioned home cooking //  --a home computer//\n  3 played or playing at a team’s own sports field, rather than an opponent’s field:  home team/game/crowd/club etc //  --The home team took the lead after 25 minutes.//\n  4 relating to a particular country, as opposed to foreign countries:   domestic//  --The meat was destined for the home market.//\nhome 4 v   home in on [home in on sth] phr v//\n  1 to aim exactly at an object or place and move directly to it:  --The bat can home in on insects using a kind of ’radar’.//\n  2 to direct your efforts or attention towards a particular fault or problem:  --He homed in on the one weak link in the argument.//


Words: Home Alone
Meaning:
(1990) a US humorous film in which a young boy is accidentally left at home alone when his parents go on holiday, and has to prevent two criminals from getting into his home and stealing things from it//


Words: home base
Meaning:
n \n  1 [C, usually singular] the place that someone returns to in order to rest, learn new things, or exchange information:  --The band’s home base is Seattle.//\n  2 [C, usually singular] the main office of a company:   headquarters//\n  3 [singular]  AmE the place where you stand to hit the ball in baseball:   home plate//


Words: home economics
Meaning:
n [U]   the study of cooking, sewing, and other skills used at home, taught as a subject at school//


Words: home front
Meaning:
n [singular]   the people who stay and work in their own country while others go abroad to fight in a war//  on the home front//  --The film is set on the home front in 1943.//


Words: home movie
Meaning:
n [C]   a film you make, often of a family occasion, that is intended to be shown at home//   home video//


Words: Home Office
Meaning:
n   the Home Office//  the British government department which deals with keeping order in the country, controlling who enters the country etc//


Words: home office
Meaning:
n [C]   a room in someone’s home where that person works, which usually has equipment such as a computer,  fax machine etc//    study//


Words: Home on the Range
Meaning:
a popular US  folk song, which many people think of as a typical song that  cowboys would sing. It begins: O give me a home where the buffalo roam,/Where the deer and the antelope play;/Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,/And the skies are not cloudy all day.//


Words: home plate
Meaning:
n [singular]   the place where you stand to hit the ball in baseball and the last place the player who is running must touch in order to get a point//    home base//


Words: home run
Meaning:
n [C]   a long hit in baseball which allows the player who hits the ball to run around all the bases and get a point//  --I didn’t think I could hit a home run .//


Words: home stretch
Meaning:
n [singular] \n  1  also home straight  BrE the last part of a race where there is a straight line to the finish:\n  2 the last part of an activity or journey:  in/into the home stretch//  --as the election campaign headed into the home stretch//


Words: home town
Meaning:
especially BrE  also  hometown especially AmE   n [C]   the place where you were born and spent your childhood//  sb’s home town//  --He hired a car and drove up to his home town.//  --She’s written for her hometown newspaper.//


Words: home truth
Meaning:
n [C usually plural]   a true but unpleasant fact that someone tells you about yourself//  --It’s time someone told him a few home truths .//


Words: home video
Meaning:
n [C]  BrE   a film you make, often of a family occasion, that is intended to be shown at home//  American Equivalent:  home movie//


Words: homeboy
Meaning:
n [C]    AmE  informal a friend or someone from the same area or gang as you - used especially by young people//


Words: homecoming
Meaning:
n \n  1 [C] an occasion when someone comes back to their home after a long absence:\n  2 [U and C]  AmE an occasion when former students return to their high school or college:


Words: homegrown
Meaning:
adj \n  1 made or produced in your own country, town etc:  --homegrown rock stars//\n  2 homegrown vegetables and fruit are grown in your own garden:


Words: homeland
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 the country where someone was born:\n  2 a large area of land where a particular group of people can live:


Words: homeless
Meaning:
adj \n  1 without a home:  --Thousands of people have been made homeless .//\n  2  the homeless [plural] people who have nowhere to live, and who often live on the streets:  -- homelessness n  [U] //


Words: homely
Meaning:
adj \n  1  BrE simple in a way that makes you feel comfortable:  --a modern hotel with a homely atmosphere//\n  2  BrE a homely person is warm and friendly and enjoys home life:  --Mrs Keane is a comfortable, homely person.//\n  3  AmE not very attractive:  British Equivalent:  plain//


Words: homemaker
Meaning:
n [C]    especially  AmE a woman who works at home cleaning and cooking etc and does not have another job//   housewife//


Words: homeopathy
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: German; Origin: hom[hA177]opathie, from  Greek homoios (  HOMO-) +  pathos  ’suffering’]//  a system of medicine in which a disease is treated by giving extremely small amounts of a substance that causes the disease//  -- homeopathic/h[hA353][hA35E]mi[hA353]p[zB024][hA35F][hA366]k[hA36B] $ ho[hA35E]-/ adj //  -- homeopath/h[hA353][hA35E]mi[hA353]p[zB024][hA35F] $ ho[hA35E]-/ n  [C] //


Words: homepage
Meaning:
home page/h[hA353][hA35E]mpe[hA366]d[hA360] $ ho[hA35E]m-/ n [C]   the first page of a website, which often contains links to other pages on that website//


Words: Homer
Meaning:
a Greek poet who probably lived around 800 to 700 years BC. His two  epic poems, the  Iliad and the  Odyssey, which tell the stories of characters such as  Achilles and  Odysseus and the Greek war against Troy, have had great influence on European literature.//  -- Homeric adj //\n Winslow   (1836-1910) a US artist who painted many pictures of the sea and people connected with the sea//


Words: Homes & Gardens
Meaning:
trademark   a British magazine which contains articles and pictures about decorating your home,  gardening, and cooking. In the US there is a similar magazine called  Better Homes and Gardens.//


Words: homeschool
Meaning:
v [I and T]   to teach children at home instead of sending them to school//  --She and her husband homeschool their three kids.//  --Why did you decide to homeschool?//  --homeschooled students//  -- homeschooling n  [U] //  --information about homeschooling//  -- homeschool adj  [only before noun] //  --homeschool programs//  --a group of homeschool families//


Words: homestead
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hamstede  ’home-place’]//\n  1 a farm and the area of land around it:\n  2  AmE a piece of land, usually for farming, given to people in the past by the US government:\nhomestead 2 v [I and T]  AmE   to live and work on a homestead//  -- homesteader n  [C] //


Words: homeward
Meaning:
adv \n  1  also  homewards BrE towards home:  --She turned and made her way homeward.//\n  2  homeward bound:   literary going towards home//  -- homeward adj //  --his homeward trip//


Words: homework
Meaning:
S2   n [U] \n  1 work that a student at school is asked to do at home:    classwork//  do/start/finish your homework //  --Fiona was lying on the floor doing her homework.//  biology/history/German etc homework //  --I need to help Sam with his music homework.//\n  2 if you do your homework, you prepare for an important activity by finding out information you need:    research//  --It’s worth doing a bit of homework before buying a computer.//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not say ’write your homework’ or ’make your homework’. Say do your homework. //  ----------//


Words: homey
Meaning:
adj  especially AmE   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: home]//  pleasant, like home//  British Equivalent:  homely//  --The restaurant has a relaxed, homey atmosphere.//\nhomey 2 n [C]  AmE  informal   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: homeboy]//  a friend or someone who comes from your area or  gang//


Words: homicide
Meaning:
n   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: French; Origin: Latin homicidium, from  homo  ’man’ +  caedere  ’to kill’]//\n  1 [U and C]  especially AmE the crime of murder:    manslaughter//\n  2 [U]  AmE the police department that deals with murders:


Words: homily
Meaning:
n   plural  homilies  [C] //  [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: omilie, from  Greek homilia  ’conversation’]//\n  1  formal advice about how to behave that is often unwanted:\n  2  literary a speech given as part of a Christian church ceremony:


Words: homing
Meaning:
adj   a bird or animal that has a homing instinct has a special ability that helps it find its way home over long distances//


Words: hominy
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Virginia Algonquian; Origin: uskatahomen]//  a food made from crushed dried  corn(2)//


Words: homo
Meaning:
n   plural  homos  [C]  informal  not polite //  [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: homosexual]//  a very offensive word for a homosexual//


Words: Homo sapiens
Meaning:
n  technical  [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: Modern Latin; Origin: ’intelligent man’]//  the type of human being that exists now//


Words: homo-
Meaning:
prefix  formal  or  technical   [Language: Latin; Origin: Greek, from  homos  ’same’]//  same//  homosexual (=sexually attracted to people of the same sex) //  homographs (=words spelt the same way) //


Words: homogeneous
Meaning:
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: homogeneus, from  Greek, from  homos (  HOMO-) +  genos  ’type’]//  consisting of people or things that are all of the same type//    heterogeneous//  --a homogeneous society//  -- homogeneously adv //


Words: homogenize
Meaning:
also  homogenise BrE   v [T]   to change something so that its parts become similar or the same//  --plans to homogenize the various school systems//


Words: homograph
Meaning:
n [C]  technical   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: homo- +  Greek -graphos  ’written’]//  a word that is spelled the same as another, but is different in meaning, origin, grammar, or pronunciation. For example, the noun ’record’ is a homograph of the verb ’record’//    homonym, homophone//


Words: homonym
Meaning:
n [C]  technical   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: homonymum, from  Greek, from  homos (  HOMO-) +  onyma  ’name’]//  a word that is spelt the same and sounds the same as another, but is different in meaning or origin. For example, the noun ’bear’ and the verb ’bear’ are homonyms//    homograph, homophone//


Words: homophobia
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: homosexual +  -phobia]//  hatred and fear of homosexuals//  -- homophobic adj //


Words: homophone
Meaning:
n [C]  technical   a word that sounds the same as another but is different in spelling, meaning, or origin. For example, ’knew’ and ’new’ are homophones.//    homograph, homonym//


Words: homosexual
Meaning:
adj  formal   if someone, especially a man, is homosexual, they are sexually attracted to people of the same sex//   gay//  --One of Ruth’s brothers was homosexual.//  --homosexual men//  --a homosexual relationship//   bisexual, heterosexual//  -- homosexual n  [C] //  -- homosexuality/h[hA353][hA35E]m[hA353]sek[hA35D]u[zB024]l[hA369]ti, h[hA361]- $ ho[hA35E]-/ n  [U] //


Words: hon
Meaning:
pron  AmE  spoken   [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: honey]//  a short form of honey, used to address someone you love//  --I’m sorry, hon.//


Words: Hon.
Meaning:
also  Hon BrE \n  1 the written abbreviation of honourable :  --the Hon George Borwick//\n  2  BrE the written abbreviation of honorary , used in official job titles:  --the Hon. Treasurer//


Words: honcho
Meaning:
n   plural  honchos  [C]  informal //  [Date: 1900-2000; Language: Japanese; Origin: hancho  ’group leader’]//  an important person who controls something, especially a business//   boss//  --the head honcho //


Words: Honduras
Meaning:
a country in Central America between Guatemala and Nicaragua. Population: 6,406,000 (2001). Capital: Tegucigalpa.//  -- Honduran n  adj //


Words: hone
Meaning:
v [T]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hone  ’stone for making things sharp’ (14-19 centuries), from  Old English hon  ’stone’]//\n  1 to improve your skill at doing something, especially when you are already very good at it:  --He set about honing his skills as a draughtsman.//  -- finely honed  (=extremely well-developed) intuition//\n  2  formal to make knives, swords etc sharp:   sharpen//


Words: honest
Meaning:
adj   ----------//\n   1 character:\n   2 statement/answer etc:\n   3 to be honest (with you):\n   4 honest!:\n   5 honest to God:\n   6 work:\n   7 ordinary good people:\n   8 make an honest woman (out) of somebody:  ----------//  [Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: honeste, from  Latin honestus, from  honor;   HONOR]//\n  1 CHARACTER:  someone who is honest always tells the truth and does not cheat or steal//  → dishonest//  --He was a hard-working, honest man.//  --Ann had an honest face.//\n  2 STATEMENT/ANSWER ETC:  not hiding the truth or the facts about something//   frank//  --Do you want my honest opinion?//  --an honest answer//  -- Let’s be honest : the only reason she married him was for his money.//  honest with//  --At least he was honest with you.//  honest about//  --She was always very honest about her feelings.//\n  3  to be honest (with you):   spoken used when you tell someone what you really think//  --To be honest, I don’t like him very much.//\n  4  honest!:   spoken used to try to make someone believe you//  --I didn’t mean to hurt him, honest!//\n  5  honest to God:   spoken used to emphasize that something you say is true//  --Honest to God, I wasn’t there.//\n  6 WORK:  honest work is done using your own efforts and without cheating//  --I bet he’s never done an honest day’s work in his life!//  --I’m just trying to earn an honest living .//\n  7 ORDINARY GOOD PEOPLE:  honest people are not famous or special, but behave in a good, socially acceptable way//  --She came from a good, honest, working-class background.//\n  8  make an honest woman (out) of sb:   old-fashioned to marry a woman because you have had a sexual relationship with her//


Words: honestly
Meaning:
S2   adv \n  1 used to emphasize that what you are saying is true, even though it may seem surprising:  --I honestly don’t know how old my parents are.//  --I can honestly say that I never worry about him now.//\n  2  spoken used when you are shocked or annoyed by something someone has said or done:   really//  --Honestly! Do you ever listen?//\n  3  spoken used to try to make someone believe that what you have just said is true:  --It wasn’t me, honestly!//\n  4 in an honest way:   truthfully//  --Tell me honestly, Kate, what do you think of John?//  --We talked openly and honestly.//  --’No, I don’t,’ she answered honestly.//


Words: honesty
Meaning:
n [U] \n  1 the quality of being honest:  → dishonesty//  --a politician of rare honesty and courage//\n  2  in all honesty:  used when telling someone that what you are saying is what you really think//  --It was not, in all honesty, a very good start.//


Words: honey
Meaning:
n [U]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hunig]//\n  1 a sweet sticky substance produced by bees, used as food:\n  2  especially AmE  spoken used to address someone you love:   love//  --Hi, honey.//


Words: honeycomb
Meaning:
n [C]   1 a structure made by bees, which consists of many six-sided cells in which honey is stored//\n  2 something that is arranged or shaped in this pattern:


Words: honeydew
Meaning:
n \n  1 [U] a sticky substance that some insects leave on plants:\n  2  also honeydew melon :   [C] a type of melon with yellow skin and green flesh//


Words: honeyed
Meaning:
adj \n  1  literary honeyed words or honeyed voices sound soft and pleasant, but are often insincere:\n  2 tasting like honey or covered in honey:


Words: honeymoon
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Origin: honey +  moon; because the moon appears to get smaller, like the love of some newly married people]//\n  1 a holiday taken by two people who have just got married:  on your honeymoon//  --We went to Italy on our honeymoon.//\n  2  also honeymoon period :  the period of time when a new government, leader etc has just started and no one criticizes them//  --By 1987, the honeymoon was over .//\nhoneymoon 2 v [I always + adverb/preposition]   to go somewhere for your honeymoon//  -- honeymooner n  [C] //


Words: honeysuckle
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hunisuce, from  hunig  ’honey’ +  sucan  ’to suck’]//  a climbing plant with pleasant-smelling yellow or pink flowers//


Words: Hong Kong
Meaning:
an area on the south coast of China, consisting of Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories and 235 outlying islands. Population: 6,720,000 (mid-2001). Hong Kong was a British colony from 1842 to 1997, when it became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. Although it is part of China, it has its own government and financial system, and is an important financial and trade centre.//


Words: Honi soit qui mal y pense
Meaning:
the motto (=special saying)  of the  Order of the Garter. It is a French phrase which means "Let anyone who thinks bad things about it be ashamed."//


Words: honk
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  From the sound]//\n  1 a loud noise made by a car horn:\n  2 a loud noise made by a goose:\nhonk 2 v   [I and T] if a car horn or a goose honks, it makes a loud noise//  --Several drivers honked their horns and waved.//


Words: honky
Meaning:
honkie/h[hA361][hA26E]ki $ h[hA35A][hA359][hA26E]-, h[hA361][hA359][hA26E]-/ n   plural  honkies  [C]  AmE  taboo //  [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: hunky  ’white person’ (1900-2000), from  Hunk  ’East European person’ (19-20 centuries), probably from  Hungarian]//  a very offensive word for a white person, used by black people. Do not use this word.//


Words: Honolulu
Meaning:
the capital of Hawaii on the island of Oahu. It is a port and trade centre and is visited by many tourists.//


Words: honor
Meaning:
n [U and C]   [Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin]//  the American spelling of honour//


Words: honor system
Meaning:
n [singular]  AmE   an agreement between members of a group to obey rules, although no one checks to make sure that they are being followed//


Words: honorable discharge
Meaning:
n [C]  AmE   if you leave the army with an honorable discharge, your behaviour and work have been very good//  → dishonorable discharge//


Words: honorarium
Meaning:
n   plural  honoraria /-ri[hA353]/ [C]  formal //  [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: ’gift made to someone chosen for a post of honor’, from  honor;   HONOR]//  a sum of money offered to a professional for a piece of advice, a speech etc//


Words: honorary
Meaning:
adj \n  1 an honorary title, rank, or university degree is given to someone as an honour:  --Brown received an honorary doctorate from Seoul University.//\n  2 an honorary position in an organization is held without receiving any payment:\n  3 an honorary member of a group is treated like a member of that group but does not belong to it:


Words: honour
Meaning:
W3  BrE  honor AmE   n   ----------//\n   1 something that makes you proud:\n   2 respect:\n   3 in honour of somebody/something:\n   4 given to somebody:\n   5 moral principles:\n   6 at university/school:\n   7 Your/His/Her Honour:\n   8 place of honour:\n   9 with full military honours:\n  10 do the honours:\n  11 your word of honour:\n  12 be an honour to somebody/something:\n  13 be/feel honour bound to do something:\n  14 on your honour:\n  15 sex:  ----------//\n  1 SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU PROUD:   [singular]  formal something that makes you feel very proud//  --It is a  great honour , something I never expected. //  --Over 100 players competed for  the honour of  representing the county in the National Finals.//  -- Earlier this year, I  had the honor of  meeting the President. //  -- It is an honour to  have you here. //  -- Will you  do me the honour of  becoming my wife? //\n  2 RESPECT:   [U] the respect that you, your family, your country etc receive from other people, which makes you feel proud//  honour of//  --He was prepared even to die in order to defend the honour of his family.//  national/family/personal etc honour //  --For the French team, winning tomorrow’s game is a matter of national honour.//\n  3  in honour of sb/sth:  a) in order to show how much you admire and respect someone//  --The stadium was named in honour of the club’s first chairman.//  in sb’s honour//  --A special dinner will be held in her honour.//  b) to celebrate an event//  --An oak tree was planted in honour of the occasion .//\n  4 GIVEN TO SOMEBODY:   [C] something such as a special title or medal given to someone to show how much people respect them for what they have achieved//  --Reverend Peters was nominated for the honour by colleagues at Walworth Methodist Church.//  highest honour (=most important honour) //  --The medal is the highest honour the association can bestow  (=give) .//\n  5 MORAL PRINCIPLES:   [U] strong moral beliefs and standards of behaviour that make people respect and trust you//  --My father was a man of honour and great integrity.//  --Her actions were always guided by a deep sense of honour  (=strong desire to do what is morally right) .//  matter/point/question of honour (=something that you feel you must do because of your moral principles) //  --It had become a point of honour not to tell him about Lori.//\n  6 AT UNIVERSITY/SCHOOL:  a)  with honours//   BrE if you pass a university degree with honours, you pass it at a level that is higher than the most basic level//  b)  with honors//   AmE if you finish high school or college with honors, you get one of the highest grades//  c)  First Class/Second Class Honours//   BrE the highest or second highest level of degree at a British university//\n  7  Your/His/Her Honour:  used when speaking to or about a judge//  --No, Your Honour.//\n  8  place of honour:  the seat or place which is given to the most important guest or object//  --The vase she gave me occupies the place of honor in my living room.//\n  9  with full military honours:  if someone is buried with full military honours, there is a military ceremony at their funeral//\n  10  do the honours:   spoken to pour the drinks, serve food etc at a social occasion//  --Liz, would you do the honors?//\n  11  your word of honour:  a very serious promise that what you are saying is true//  --I won’t try to see you again. I give you my word of honour .//\n  12  be an honour to sb/sth:  to bring admiration and respect to your country, school, family etc because of your behaviour or achievements//  --He’s an honour to his family and his country.//\n  13  be/feel honour bound to do sth:   formal to feel that it is your moral duty to do something//  --We felt honor bound to attend their wedding.//\n  14  on your honour:  a) if you swear on your honour to do something, you promise very seriously to do it//  b)  old-fashioned if you are on your honour to do something, you are being trusted to do it//\n  15 SEX:   [U]  old use if a woman loses her honour, she has sex with a man she is not married to//    guest of honour at guest1 (1),  maid of honour//  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  great honour //  rare honour  (=a very special honour) //  dubious honour  (=something that you are not sure that you should be proud of) //  the honour of doing something //  have the honour of doing something //  it is an honour to do something  (=used as a polite way of saying that you are pleased to do something) //  do somebody the honour of doing something  (=make someone proud and happy by doing something for them) //  ----------//\nhonour 2  BrE  honor AmE v [T] \n  1  be/feel honoured (to do sth):  to feel very proud and pleased//  --I felt very honoured to be included in the team.//\n  2  formal to show publicly that someone is respected and admired, especially by praising them or giving them a special title:  honour sb with sth//  --He was honored with an award for excellence in teaching.//  honour sb for sth//  --Two firefighters have been honoured for their courage.//\n  3  honour a promise/contract/agreement etc:  to do what you have agreed to do//  --Once again the government has failed to honour its promises.//  --We pray that both sides will continue to honour their commitment to the peace agreement.//\n  4 to treat someone with special respect:  --In a marriage, you need to honour one another.//  --I was treated like an honored guest .//\n  5  honour a cheque:  if your bank honours a cheque that you have given someone, it pays the money to that person//\n  6  sb has decided to honour us with their presence:  used humorously when someone arrives late, or to someone who rarely comes to a meeting, class etc//


Words: Honourable
Meaning:
BrE  Honorable AmE   adj \n  1  written abbreviation Hon. :  used in Britain in the titles of children whose father is a lord and in the titles of judges and members of parliament//\n  2  written abbreviation Hon. :  used in the US when writing to or about a judge or important person in the government//\n  3  the Honourable Gentleman/the Honourable Lady/my Honourable Friend/the Honourable Member:  used by British members of parliament when talking to or about each other in the House of Commons//    Right Honourable//


Words: honourable
Meaning:
adj  BrE  honorable AmE \n  1 an honourable action or activity deserves respect and admiration:  --My father didn’t think acting was an honorable profession.//\n  2 behaving in a way that is morally correct and shows you have high moral standards:  --a principled and honourable man//\n  3 an honourable arrangement or agreement is fair to everyone who is involved in it:  -- honourably adv //


Words: honourable mention
Meaning:
BrE  honorable mention AmE n [C]   a special honour in a competition for work that was of high quality but did not get a prize//


Words: honours degree
Meaning:
n [C]   a British university degree that is above the basic level in one or two particular subjects//  first/second/third class honours degree //  joint honours degree (=a degree in two main subjects) //


Words: hoo-ha
Meaning:
n [singular, U]  BrE   [Date: 1900-2000; Language: Yiddish; Origin: hu-ha]//  noisy talk or excitement about something unimportant//   fuss//  --What’s all the hoo-ha about?//


Words: hooch
Meaning:
hootch/hu[hA359]t[hA35D]/ n [U]  especially AmE  informal   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hoochinoo  ’alcoholic drink made by the Hoochinoo people of Alaska’ (19-20 centuries)]//  strong alcohol, especially alcohol that has been made illegally//


Words: hood
Meaning:
n [C]   [Sense: 1-4; Origin: Old English hod]//  [Sense: 5; Date: 1900-2000; Origin: neighbourhood]//  [Sense: 6; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: hoodlum]//\n  1 :  a) a part of a coat, jacket etc that you can pull up to cover your head//  --Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold?//  b) a cloth bag that goes over someone’s face and head so that they cannot be recognized or cannot see//    balaclava//  --He was abducted by four men wearing hoods.//\n  2  AmE the metal covering over the engine on a car:  British Equivalent:  bonnet//  under the hood//  --Check under the hood and see what that noise is.//\n  3 a cover fitted above a cooker to remove the smell of cooking:    extractor (fan)//\n  4  BrE a folding cover on a car or pram, which gives protection from the rain:\n  5  also  ’hood:   AmE  informal a neighbourhood//\n  6  AmE  informal a hoodlum:


Words: hoodlum
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: German dialect; Origin: hudellump  ’lazy useless person’]//  a criminal, often a young person, who does violent or illegal things//   gangster//


Words: hoodwink
Meaning:
v [T + into]   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin: hoodwink  ’to cover the eyes with a hood’ (16-19 centuries), from  hood +  wink]//  to trick someone in a clever way so that you can get an advantage for yourself//


Words: hoof
Meaning:
n   plural  hoofs  or  hooves /hu[hA359]vz $ h[hA35E]vz, hu[hA359]vz/ [C] //  hoof, horn//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hof]//\n  1 the hard foot of an animal such as a horse, cow etc:\n  2  on the hoof:   BrE if you do something on the hoof, you do it quickly while doing something else at the same time//\nhoof 2 v   hoof it//   informal to run or walk quickly//


Words: hook
Meaning:
S3   n [C]   ----------//\n   1 hanging things:\n   2 catching fish:\n   3 let/get somebody off the hook:\n   4 leave/take the phone off the hook:\n   5 be ringing off the hook:\n   6 interest:\n   7 by hook or by crook:\n   8 hitting somebody:\n   9 hook, line, and sinker:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hoc]//\n  1 HANGING THINGS:  a curved piece of metal or plastic that you use for hanging things on//    peg//  --Tom hung his coat on the hook behind the door.//  2 CATCHING FISH//  a curved piece of thin metal with a sharp point for catching fish//\n  3  let/get sb off the hook:  to allow someone or help someone to get out of a difficult situation//  --I wasn’t prepared to let her off the hook that easily.//\n  4  leave/take the phone off the hook:  to leave or take the telephone receiver (=the part you speak into)  off the part where it is usually placed so that no one can call you//\n  5  be ringing off the hook:   AmE if your telephone is ringing off the hook, a lot of people are calling you//\n  6 INTEREST:  something that is attractive and gets people’s interest and attention//   draw//  --You always need a bit of a hook to get people to go to the theatre.//\n  7  by hook or by crook:  if you are going to do something by hook or by crook, you are determined to do it, whatever methods you have to use//  --The police are going to get these guys, by hook or by crook.//\n  8 HITTING SOMEBODY:  a way of hitting your opponent in boxing, in which your elbow is bent//    punch, jab//\n  9  hook, line, and sinker:  if someone believes something hook, line, and sinker, they believe a lie completely//    boat hook,  curtain hook,  sling your hook at sling1 (4)//\nhook 2 v [T]   ----------//\n   1 fish:\n   2 fasten:\n   3 bend your finger/arm etc:\n   4 interest/attract:\n   5 electronic equipment:\n   6 ball:  Phrasal verbs//   hook up with somebody/something//  ----------//\n  1 FISH:  to catch a fish with a hook//  --I hooked a 20-pound salmon last week.//\n  2 FASTEN:   [always + adverb/preposition] to fasten or hang something onto something else//  hook sth onto/to sth//  --Just hook the bucket onto the rope and lower it down.//\n  3 BEND YOUR FINGER/ARM ETC:   [always + adverb/preposition] to bend your finger, arm, or leg, especially so that you can pull or hold something else//  --Ruth hooked her arm through Tony’s.//  --He tried to hook his leg over the branch.//\n  4 INTEREST/ATTRACT:   informal to succeed in making someone interested in something or attracted to something//  --cigarette ads designed to hook young people//\n  5 ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT:   [always + adverb/preposition]  also hook up //  to connect a piece of electronic equipment to another piece of equipment or to an electricity supply//    hook-up//  --We’ve got a CD player, but it’s not hooked up yet.//  hook sth together//  --Computers from different manufacturers can often be hooked together.//\n  6 BALL:  to throw or kick a ball so that it moves in a curve//  hook up with / [hook up with sb/sth] phr v//\n  1 :  a) to start having a sexual relationship with someone//  b) to meet someone and become friendly with them//   meet up with//  --Did you ever hook up with Maisy while you were there?//  c) to agree to work together with another organization for a particular purpose//\n  2  hook sb up with sth:  to help someone get something that they need or want//   fix up with//  --Do you think you can hook me up with some tickets for tonight?//


Words: hook-up
Meaning:
n [C]   a temporary connection between two pieces of equipment such as computers, or between a piece of equipment and an electricity or water supply//


Words: hookah
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1700-1800; Language: Arabic; Origin: huqqah]//  a pipe for smoking drugs, that consists of a long tube and a container of water//


Words: hooked
Meaning:
adj \n  1 curved outwards or shaped like a hook:  --a hooked nose//\n  2 [not before noun]  informal if you are hooked on a drug, you feel a strong need for it and you cannot stop taking it:   addicted//  hooked on//  --I know a girl who got hooked on cocaine.//\n  3 [not before noun]  informal if you are hooked on something, you enjoy it very much and you want to do it as often as possible:  hooked on//  --I got hooked on TV when I was sick.//\n  4 having one or more hooks:


Words: hooky
Meaning:
n   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Probably from  hook,  hook it  ’to run away’ (19-20 centuries)]//  play hooky//   AmE  old-fashioned to stay away from school without permission//  British Equivalent:  truant//


Words: hooligan
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  Perhaps from Patrick  Hooligan, an Irish criminal in 19th-century London]//  a noisy violent person who causes trouble by fighting etc//  --football hooligans//  -- hooliganism n  [U] //


Words: hoop
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hop]//\n  1 a large ring made of wood, metal, plastic etc:\n  2 a large ring that children used to play with in the past, or that circus animals are made to jump through:\n  3 :  a) the ring that you have to throw the ball through to score points in basketball//  b)  hoops [plural]  AmE  informal the game of basketball//\n  4  jump/go through hoops:  if someone makes you jump through hoops, they make you do lots of difficult or boring things before you are allowed to do what you want to do//\n  5  also  hoop earrings:  an earring that is shaped like a ring//    cock-a-hoop,  hula hoop//


Words: hooped
Meaning:
adj  BrE   in the shape of a hoop, or containing something in the shape of a hoop//  --hooped earrings//


Words: hoopla
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: houp-la, a word expressing sudden movement]//\n  1  especially AmE excitement about something which attracts a lot of public attention:  --all the hoopla that surrounded the trial//\n  2  BrE a game in which prizes can be won by throwing a ring over an object from a distance:


Words: hooray
Meaning:
interjection   [Date: 1600-1700; Origin:  Perhaps from  German hurra]//  shouted when you are very glad about something//  -- hooray n  [C] //    hip hip hooray at hip3 //


Words: hoot
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1 a shout or laugh that shows you think something is funny or stupid:  hoot of laughter/derision etc //  --Hoots of laughter rose from the audience.//\n  2 a sound that an owl makes:\n  3 a short clear sound made by a vehicle or ship, as a warning:\n  4  be a hoot:   spoken to be very funny or amusing//\n  5  don’t give a hoot/don’t care two hoots:   spoken to not care at all about someone or something//  don’t give a hoot/don’t care two hoots about//  --It was clear that Owen didn’t care two hoots about her.//\nhoot 2 v   [Date: 1100-1200; Origin:  From the sound]//\n  1 [I and T] if a vehicle or ship hoots, it makes a loud clear noise as a warning:  hoot at//  --The car behind was hooting at me.//\n  2 [I] if an owl hoots, it makes a long ’oo’ sound:\n  3 [I and T] to laugh loudly because you think something is funny or stupid:  hoot with laughter/glee/mirth etc //  --He had the audience hooting with laughter.//


Words: hooter
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1  BrE a piece of equipment that makes a loud noise and is used on cars, ships, or in factories:   horn//\n  2  BrE  informal a nose:\n  3  hooters [plural]  AmE  informal  not polite an offensive word for a woman’s breasts:


Words: hoover
Meaning:
v [I and T]  BrE   to clean a floor, carpet etc using a vacuum cleaner (=a machine that sucks up dirt) //   vacuum//


Words: Hoover Dam
Meaning:
a  dam on the  Colorado River on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It supplies electricity and water to several states, and is one of the tallest dams in the world. It was formerly known as Boulder Dam.//


Words: hop
Meaning:
v   past tense and past participle  hopped present participle  hopping //  ----------//\n   1 jump:\n   2 :\n   3 :\n   4 hop a plane/bus/train etc:\n   5 hop it!:\n   6 hopping mad:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin: hoppian]//\n  1 JUMP:   [I] to move by jumping on one foot//  --The little girl ran off, hopping and skipping as she went.//\n  2 [I] if a bird, an insect, or a small animal hops, it moves by making quick short jumps:\n  3 [I always + adverb/preposition]  informal to move somewhere quickly or suddenly:  --Hop in - I’ll drive you home.//  --Patrick hopped out of bed and quickly got dressed.//\n  4  hop a plane/bus/train etc:   AmE  informal to get on a plane, bus, train etc, especially after suddenly deciding to do so//  --So we hopped a bus to Phoenix that night.//\n  5  hop it!:   BrE  old-fashioned used to rudely tell someone to go away//\n  6  hopping mad:   informal very angry//   furious//\nhop 2 n [C]   ----------//\n   1 catch somebody on the hop:\n   2 jump:\n   3 plant:\n   4 flight:\n   5 dance:  ----------//  [Sense: 1-2, 4-5; Date: 1500-1600; Origin:  HOP1]//  [Sense: 3; Date: 1400-1500; Language: Middle Dutch; Origin: hoppe]//\n  1  catch sb on the hop:  to do something when someone is not expecting it and is not ready//\n  2 JUMP:  a short jump//\n  3 PLANT:  a)  hops [plural] parts of dried flowers used for making beer, which give the beer a bitter taste//  b) the tall plant on which these flowers grow//\n  4 FLIGHT:  a single short journey by plane//  --It’s just a short hop from Cleveland to Detroit.//\n  5 DANCE:   old-fashioned a social event at which people dance//    hip-hop//


Words: Hop o’ My Thumb
Meaning:
also Little Thumb   a French  fairy tale (=a children’s story in which magical things happen) . Hop o’My Thumb is the youngest of seven children, and he protects his brothers and sisters after their parents leave them in the forest because they have no money. He steals some magic boots from an  ogre, and uses them to make money which he gives to his parents.//


Words: hope
Meaning:
v [I and T]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hopian]//\n  1 to want something to happen or be true and to believe that it is possible or likely:  hope (that)//  --We hope that more women will decide to join the course.//  --I do hope everything goes well.//  --It was hoped that the job would be filled by a local person.//  -- Let’s just hope someone finds her bag.//  -- I hope to God I haven’t left the car window open.//  hope to do sth//  --Joan’s hoping to study law at Harvard.//  hope for//  --We were hoping for good weather.//  --Liam decided to ignore the warning and just hope for the best  (=hope that a situation will end well when there is a risk of things going wrong) .//  --I rang my parents, hoping against hope  (=hoping for something that is very unlikely to happen or be true) that they hadn’t left yet.//\n  2  I hope so:   spoken used to say that you hope something that has been mentioned happens or is true//  --’Do we get paid this week?’ ’I certainly hope so!’//\n  3  I hope not:   spoken used to say that you hope something that has been mentioned does not happen or is not true//  --I don’t think I’m busy that day, or at least I hope not.//\n  4  I’m hoping:   spoken used to say that you hope something will happen, especially because you are depending on it//  I’m hoping (that)//  --I’m hoping the car will be fixed by Friday.//  I’m hoping to do sth//  --We were hoping to see you today.//\n  5  I hope (that):   spoken used when you want to be polite and to make sure that you are not interrupting or offending someone//  --I hope I’m not interrupting you.//  -- I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why are you moving?//\n  6  I should hope so (too)/I should hope not:   BrE  spoken used to say that you feel very strongly that something should or should not happen//  --’They’ll get their money back.’ ’I should hope so too, after being treated like that.’ see usage note  wish1 //  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not say that you ’hope something would happen’. Say that you hope something will happen: I hope the weather will be nice (NOT I hope the weather would be nice). //  ----------//\nhope 2 W2 n   ----------//\n   1 feeling:\n   2 something you hope for:\n   3 chance:\n   4 have high/great hopes:\n   5 raise (somebody’s) hopes:\n   6 dash/shatter (somebody’s) hopes:\n   7 get/build somebody’s hopes up:\n   8 be somebody’s last/only/best hope:\n   9 be beyond hope:  ----------//\n  1 FEELING:   [U and C] a feeling of wanting something to happen or be true and believing that it is possible or likely//  --The President has expressed the  hope that  relations will improve.//  hope for//  --She hadn’t told Julie about her hopes for a reconciliation with Ross.//  --Rita has hopes of eventually studying to be a nurse.//  --The people  are full of hope  for the future. //  -- This new treatment  offers hope to  thousands of cancer patients. //  -- Michael’s parents had almost  given up hope of  ever seeing him again. //  --We haven’t had any success yet, but we live in hope .//  -- We could try asking them, but I  don’t hold out much hope . //  -- Should they sell now or hang on  in the hope that  the shares will soon be worth serious money?//  --We came to the island  in the hope of  finding a simpler way of life.//  -- Such a lie is unkind because it keeps  false hope  alive. //  --She said the unemployment figures were a  glimmer of hope . //\n  2 SOMETHING YOU HOPE FOR:   [C] something that you hope will happen//  sb’s hope//  --She told him all her secret hopes and fears.//  --My hope is that by next summer I’ll have saved enough money to go travelling.//\n  3 CHANCE:   [U and C] a chance of succeeding or of something good happening//  hope of//  --It was rush hour, and there was no hope of getting a seat.//  --It was a desperate plan, with little hope of success.//  hope (that)//  --There’s still a faint hope  (=small hope) that the two sides will reach an agreement.//  not a hope!  spoken  (=used to say that there is no chance of something happening) //  not a hope in hell (of doing sth)  spoken  (=not even the smallest chance of success) //  --They don’t have a hope in hell of winning.//  some hope/what a hope!  BrE  spoken  (=used humorously to say that there is no chance that something will happen) //  --’Your dad might lend you the car.’ ’Some hope!’//\n  4  have high/great hopes:  to be confident that someone or something will be successful//  have high/great hopes of//  --We have great hopes of her - she’s very talented.//  have high/great hopes for//  --Parents often have such high hopes for their children.//\n  5  raise (sb’s) hopes:  to make someone feel that it is likely that what they want to happen will happen//  --It wouldn’t be fair to raise her hopes of success.//\n  6  dash/shatter (sb’s) hopes:  to disappoint someone by making something that they want to happen seem impossible//  --The report dashes hopes of an early improvement in the economy.//\n  7  get/build sb’s hopes up:  to allow someone to believe that what they want to happen is likely to happen//  -- Don’t get your hopes up . There’ll be a lot of people applying for the job.//\n  8  be sb’s last/only/best hope:  to be someone’s last, only etc chance of getting the result they want//  --Please help me. You’re my last hope.//  be somebody’s last/only/best hope of//  --Joshua’s only hope of survival was a heart transplant.//\n  9  be beyond hope:  if a situation is beyond hope, it is so bad that there is no chance of any improvement//  be beyond hope of//  --Some of the houses were beyond hope of repair.//    pin your hopes on sb/sth at pin2 //  ----------//  COLLOCATES for sense 1 //  hope that //  (have) hopes of (doing) something //  be full of hope //  give/offer hope to somebody  (=make it possible for people to have hope) //  lose/give up/abandon hope (of something)  (=stop hoping) //  live in hope  (=keep hoping for something) //  not hold out any/much hope  (=have very little hope) //  in the hope that  (=because you hope that something will happen) //  in the hope of doing something  (=because you hope that you will do it) //  a vain/forlorn hope also  false hope (=when what you hope for will not happen) //  glimmer/ray of hope  (=a little hope, or something that gives you a little hope) //  a symbol/beacon of hope  (=something that makes people have hope) //  ----------//


Words: hoped-for
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]  written   used to describe something that you want to happen and think is possible or likely//  --I was at home when the desperately hoped-for call came through.//


Words: hopeful
Meaning:
adj \n  1 believing that what you hope for is likely to happen:   optimistic//  hopeful about//  --Everyone’s feeling pretty hopeful about the future.//  hopeful (that)//  --I’m hopeful that we can find a solution.//  be hopeful of (doing) sth//   BrE //  --He is still hopeful of playing in Saturday’s game.//\n  2 making you feel that what you hope for is likely to happen:   promising//  --The vote is a hopeful sign that attitudes in the church are changing.//  --Things might get better, but it doesn’t look very hopeful right now.//  -- hopefulness n  [U] //\nhopeful 2 n [C]  written   someone who is hoping to be successful, especially in acting, sports, politics etc//  --Thousands of young hopefuls were auditioned for the role.//  --Republican presidential hopefuls//


Words: hopefully
Meaning:
S1   adv \n  1 [sentence adverb] a way of saying what you hope will happen, which some people think is incorrect:  --Hopefully, I’ll be back home by ten o’clock.//  --By then the problem will hopefully have been solved.//\n  2 in a way that shows that you are hopeful:  --’Will there be any food left over?’ he asked hopefully.//


Words: hopeless
Meaning:
S3   adj \n  1 if something that you try to do is hopeless, there is no possibility of it being successful:  --We tried to stop the flames from spreading, but we knew it was hopeless.//  --Getting your work published often seems a hopeless task .//  --I kept on struggling forward, even though I knew it was hopeless .//\n  2 a hopeless situation is so bad that there is no chance of success or improvement:  --The situation is not as hopeless as it might seem.//  --the millions who live in hopeless poverty//\n  3  especially BrE  informal very bad:   terrible//  --I’m a hopeless cook.//  hopeless at (doing) sth//  --My brother was always pretty hopeless at ball games.//  hopeless with//  --I’m hopeless with machinery.//  --I’ve got a hopeless memory.//  --The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.//\n  4 feeling no hope:  --I began to feel lonely and hopeless.//\n  5 used, often humorously, to say that someone’s bad behaviour cannot be changed:  --Oh, James, you really are a hopeless case  (=it seems impossible to change your behaviour) !//  hopeless romantic/materialist/drunk etc //  --She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.//  -- hopelessness n  [U] //


Words: hopelessly
Meaning:
adv \n  1 used when emphasizing how bad a situation is, and saying that it will not get better:  --We found ourselves hopelessly outnumbered by the enemy.//  --She felt hopelessly confused.//  --I was trying to find the museum, but I got hopelessly lost.//\n  2  be/fall hopelessly in love (with sb):  to have or develop very strong feelings of love for someone//\n  3 feeling that you have no hope:  --’When will I see you again?’ he asked hopelessly.//


Words: Hopkins
Meaning:
Gerard Manley   (1844-89) a British poet who was also a Catholic priest, and whose poems are mostly about religious ideas and the beauty of nature //


Words: hopped-up
Meaning:
adj  AmE  informal \n  1 happy and excited, especially after taking drugs:\n  2 a hopped-up car, engine etc has been made much more powerful:


Words: Hopper
Meaning:
Edward   (1882-1967) a US artist who painted  realistic paintings of everyday life. His work influenced the development of  pop art.//


Words: hopscotch
Meaning:
n [U]   [Date: 1800-1900; Origin:  HOP1 +  scotch  ’line marked in a surface’ (15-19 centuries)]//  a children’s game in which each child has to jump from one square drawn on the ground to another//


Words: Horace
Meaning:
(65-8 BC) a Roman poet and writer of  satire (=literature making fun of stupid or evil people) , whose work greatly influenced English poetry. His full Latin name was Quintus Horatius Flaccus.//


Words: horde
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin:  and  German, from  Polish horda]//  a large crowd moving in a noisy uncontrolled way//  horde of//  --There were hordes of people inside the station.//


Words: horizon
Meaning:
n   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: Greek, from  horizein  ’to limit’]//\n  1  the horizon:  the line far away where the land or sea seems to meet the sky//  on the horizon//  --We could see a ship on the horizon.//\n  2  horizons [plural] the limit of your ideas, knowledge, and experience:  broaden/expand sb’s horizons //  --a course of study that will broaden your horizons//\n  3  on the horizon:  to seem likely to happen in the future//  --Business is good now, but there are a few problems on the horizon.//  ----------//  HINT sense 1 //  Do not say ’in the horizon’. Say on the horizon. //  ----------//


Words: horizontal
Meaning:
adj   flat and level//  --a horizontal surface//  -- horizontally adv   diagonal, vertical//\nhorizontal 2 n \n  1 [C] a horizontal line or surface:\n  2  the horizontal:  a horizontal position//  --eleven degrees below the horizontal//


Words: hormone
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1900-2000; Language: Greek; Origin: hormon, from  horman  ’to cause to move around’]//  a chemical substance produced by your body that influences its growth, development, and condition//  -- hormonal/h[hA350][hA359]m[hA353][hA35E]n[hA368]l $ h[hA350][hA359]rmo[hA35E]-/ adj //  --hormonal changes//


Words: horn
Meaning:
n   hoof, horn//  ----------//\n   1 animal:\n   2 on a car:\n   3 musical instrument:\n   4 drinking horn/powder horn etc:\n   5 draw/pull in your horns:\n   6 be on the horns of a dilemma:  ----------//  [Language: Old English; Origin:]//\n  1 ANIMAL:  a)  [C] the hard pointed thing that grows, usually in pairs, on the heads of animals such as cows and goats//    antlers//  b)  [U] the substance that animals’ horns are made of//  --a knife with a horn handle//  c)  [C] a part of an animal’s head that sticks out like a horn, for example on a snail//\n  2 ON A CAR:   [C] the thing in a vehicle that you use to make a loud sound as a signal or warning//  sound/toot/honk/blow your horn (=make a noise with your horn) //\n  3 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT:   [C] //  a) a musical instrument like a long metal tube that is wide at one end, that you play by blowing//  b)  informal a trumpet//  c) a French horn//  d) a musical instrument made from an animal’s horn//    English horn//\n  4  drinking horn/powder horn etc:  a container in the shape of an animal’s horn, used in the past for drinking from, carrying gunpowder etc//\n  5  draw/pull in your horns:  to reduce the amount of money you spend//\n  6  be on the horns of a dilemma:  to be in a situation in which you have to choose between two equally unpleasant or difficult situations//    blow your own trumpet/horn at blow1 (21)//    lock horns at lock1 (6)//    take the bull by the horns at bull1 (3)//\nhorn 2 v   horn in phr v//  to interrupt or try to take part in something when you are not wanted//   butt in//  horn in on//  --Don’t try and horn in on our fun.//


Words: Hornblower
Meaning:
Horatio   the chief character in the  Hornblower stories by C.S.  Forester. He is an officer in the British navy.//


Words: horned
Meaning:
adj [only before noun]   having horns or something that looks like horns//  --horned cattle//  --a horned toad//


Words: hornet
Meaning:
n [C]   [Language: Old English; Origin: hyrnet]//\n  1 a large black and yellow flying insect that can sting:    wasp//\n  2  hornets’ nest:  a situation in which there is a lot of trouble and quarrelling//  --The new production targets have stirred up a hornet’s nest .//


Words: horny
Meaning:
adj \n  1  informal sexually excited:  --feeling horny//\n  2  informal sexually attractive:  --I think he’s horny.//\n  3 skin that is horny is hard and rough:\n  4 made of a hard substance like horn:  --the bird’s horny beak//


Words: horoscope
Meaning:
n [C]   [Date: 1000-1100; Language: French; Origin: Greek horoskopos, from  hora  ’hour’ +  skopein  ’to look at’]//  a description of your character and the things that will happen to you, based on the position of the stars and planets at the time of your birth//    zodiac//


Words: horrendous
Meaning:
adj   [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: horrendus, from  horrere;   HORROR]//\n  1 frightening and terrible:   horrific//  --a horrendous experience//  --She suffered horrendous injuries.//\n  2  informal extremely unreasonable or unpleasant:  --horrendous debts//  --The traffic was horrendous.//  -- horrendously adv //


Words: horrible
Meaning:
S2   adj   [Date: 1200-1300; Language: French; Origin: Latin horribilis, from  horrere;   HORROR]//\n  1 very bad - used for example about things you see, taste, or smell, or about the weather:  --The weather has been really horrible all week.//  --a horrible smell//  --The food looked horrible, but it tasted OK.//\n  2 very unpleasant and often frightening, worrying, or upsetting:  --a horrible dream//  -- I have a horrible feeling that  we’re going to miss the plane.//\n  3 rude and unfriendly:  --She’s a horrible person.//  --What a horrible thing to say!//  be horrible to sb//  --Why are you being so horrible to me?//  -- horribly adv //  --Her face was horribly scarred.//  --The whole plan had gone horribly wrong .//  ----------//  WORD FOCUS: horrible //  taste or smell: nasty,  not very nice,  revolting,  disgusting,  foul,  unpleasant,  gross (informal) //  experience, situation, or feeling: nasty,  not very nice,  terrible,  unpleasant //  person: nasty,  not very nice,  obnoxious,  mean (AmE),  unpleasant,  objectionable //  ----------//


Words: horrid
Meaning:
adj  especially BrE   [Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: horridus  ’rough, hairy’, from  horrere;   HORROR]//\n  1  informal very unpleasant:   nasty//  --a horrid smell//\n  2  old-fashioned behaving in a nasty unkind way:  --Don’t be so horrid!//


Words: horrific
Meaning:
adj   extremely bad, in a way that is frightening or upsetting//   horrifying//  horrific crash/accident/attack etc //  --a horrific plane crash//  --His injuries were horrific.//  -- horrifically/-kli/ adv //


Words: horrify
Meaning:
v   past tense and past participle  horrified present participle  horrifying third person singular  horrifies  [T] //  to make someone feel very shocked and upset or afraid//  --Henry was horrified by what had happened.//  horrified to see/hear/find etc //  --She was horrified to discover that he loved Rose.//


Words: horrifying
Meaning:
adj   extremely bad, especially in a way that is frightening or upsetting//   horrific//  --murder, rape and other horrifying crimes//  --It’s horrifying to see how much poverty there is here.//  -- horrifyingly adv //


Words: horror
Meaning:
W3   n   [Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: horrour, from  Latin horror, from  horrere  ’to raise one’s hair stiffly, shake with fear’]//\n  1 [U] a strong feeling of shock and fear:  in horror//  --Staff watched in horror as he set himself alight.//  with horror//  --Many people recoil with horror when they see a big spider like this.//  to sb’s horror (=making someone shocked or afraid) //  --To my horror, I realised my shirt was wet with blood.//  --You should have seen the look of horror on his face.//\n  2 [C usually plural] something that is very terrible, shocking, or frightening:  horror of//  --the horrors of war//\n  3  the horror of sth:  when a situation or event is very unpleasant or shocking//  --Dense smoke surrounded them, adding to the horror of the situation.//  --Only when the vehicle was lifted did the full horror of the accident become clear.//\n  4  have a horror of sth:  to be afraid of something or dislike it very much//  --He has a horror of snakes.//\n  5  little horror:   BrE a young child who behaves badly//\n  6  give sb the horrors:  to make someone feel unreasonably frightened or nervous//\n  7  horror of horrors:   BrE used to say how bad something is - often used humorously when you think something is not really very bad//


Words: horror movie
Meaning:
especially AmE  also horror film  BrE n [C]   a film in which strange and frightening things happen//


Words: horror story
Meaning:
n [C] \n  1  informal a report about bad experiences, bad conditions etc:  --horror stories about patients being given the wrong drugs//\n  2 a story in which strange and frightening things happen:


Words: hors d’oeuvre
Meaning:
n   plural  hors d’oeuvres /-d[hA362][hA359]vz $ -d[hA362][hA359]rvz/ [C] //  [Date: 1700-1800; Language: French; Origin: ’outside of work’]//  food that is served in small amounts before the main part of the meal//    entree, main course//


Words: horse
Meaning:
n   [Language: Old English; Origin: hors]//\n  1 [C] a large strong animal that people ride and use for pulling heavy things:    pony, equine, equestrian//  --a horse and cart//  --Lee had never ridden a horse before.//\n  2  the horses:   BrE  informal horse races//  --Jim likes a bet on the horses.//\n  3 [C] a piece of sports equipment in a gymnasium that people jump over:\n  4  (straight/right) from the horse’s mouth:  if you hear or get information straight from the horse’s mouth, you are told it by someone who has direct knowledge of it//\n  5  horses for courses:   BrE the process of matching people with suitable jobs or activities//\n  6  a two/three/four etc horse race:  a competition or an election that only two etc competitors can win//\n  7  a horse of a different color:  a horse of another color  AmE //  something that is completely different from another thing//\n  8  horse sense:   old-fashioned sensible judgement gained from experience//   common sense//\n  9 [U]  old-fashioned  informal  heroin:    dark horse,  never/don’t look a gift horse in the mouth at gift(7),  be flogging a dead horse at flog(3),  hold your horses at hold1 (15),  put the cart before the horse at cart1 (4),  stalking horse,  white horses//\nhorse 2 v   horse around/about phr v//   informal to play roughly//    horseplay//  --Stop horsing around - you’ll break something!//


