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noun
- (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pick.
- A dry cough.
- (slang) A taxicab (hackney carriage) driver.
- (obsolete) An ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for the use in hackeysack.
- (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (pejorative) An untalented writer.
- Dason is nothing but a two-bit .
- (slang) A person incapable of completing a simple task. This person could be also referred to as someone who "sucks at life" (slightly derogatory)
- (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- (context, computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network. (Actually called a "crack" in computer parlance).
- (computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
- (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
- (slang) Time check (military usage).
- (curling) The foothold device from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (rfv-sense) (slang) A prison guard.
- (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory) <!-- This expression was used a lot in student politics in the 1980s. I'm not sure if it is still used much. publunch
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verb
- To cough noisily.
- This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- Can you it out here with no electricity or running water?
- To play hackeysack.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- He can like no one else and make the program work as expected.
- To work with on an intimately technical level.
- I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program.
- I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later..
- (sport) To be effective at a certain position or role within a sports game without being particularly graceful or with class.
- Their Defender is such a 'hack', but he gets the job done
- (slang) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to a computer system (e.g. website) or network by manipulating code; a "crack" in computer parlance.
adjective
- (literary) Having or requiring little talent.
- He's nothing but the typical writer.
- I got by on work for years before I finally published my novel.
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| halitosis |
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noun (halitoses)
- (pathology) The condition of having stale or foul-smelling breath.
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| hamstring |
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noun
- (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
verb (hamstrings, hamstringing, hamstrung)
- (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
- Quotations
- So have they <b>hamstrung</b> the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. - Milton
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| Hansen's disease |
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noun
- (disease) The disease leprosy.
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| harelip |
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noun
- (teratology) A congenital malformation of the upper lip, reminiscent of the mouth of a hare.
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| hay fever |
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noun
- An allergy to the pollen of grass or other plants that causes symptoms similar to those of a cold; pollinosis.
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| Head |
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proper noun
- An English surname.
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| headache |
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noun
- a pain or ache in the head.
- (figurative) a nuisance or unpleasant problem.
- The clumsy filing system has been a huge .
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| heart attack |
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noun
- (context, cardiology, pathology) Acute myocardial infarction that is the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis which obstructs the blood supply to the heart resulting in necrosis of heart muscle. It is characterised by sudden severe chest pain often radiating to the shoulder, arm, or jaw, shortness of breath, nausea, loss of consciousness, and sometimes resulting in death.
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| heartburn |
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noun
- (pathology) A burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet.
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| heart failure |
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noun
- (context, cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
- (context, cardiology, pathology) The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.
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| heatstroke |
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noun
- (pathology) hyperthermia
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| hematochezia |
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noun - (medicine) the passing of bloody stools
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| hematoma |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, haematoma)
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| hemicrania |
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noun
- (pathology) A headache affecting one side of the head.
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| hemochromatosis |
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noun (pl=hemochromatoses)
- (context, diseases) a metabolic disorder causing iron deposits in the body
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| hemorrhage |
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noun
- A heavy release of blood within or from the body.
- We got news that Jónas died of a .
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| hepatitis |
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noun (plural hepatitides)
- inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection
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| hepatitis A |
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noun
- an acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by the orofecal route.
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| hermaphrodite |
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noun
- An individual or organism possessing both male and female organs, typically including both types of gonads.
- An earthworm is a .
- A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
- (nautical) A hermaphrodite brig.
adjective
- Having both male and female organs, typically including both types of gonads, in one individual or organism.
- Combining two opposing qualities.
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| hernia |
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noun (pl2=herniae)
- (pathology) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.
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| herniate |
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verb (herniat, ing)
- The protrusion of a tissue, structure, or part of an organ through the muscular tissue or the membrane by which it is normally contained, causing a hernia.
- When small bowel herniates into the groin, one has an inguinal hernia.
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| herpes |
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noun - (medicine) A viral infection, caused by the Herpes simplex virus, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals
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| herpes zoster |
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noun
- (pathology) an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglion, ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and caused by reactivation of the poxvirus causing chicken pox.
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| hiccup |
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noun
- A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
- There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter
- A minor setback.
- There's been a slight hiccup in the processing of this quarter's results
verb to hiccup (past tense and past participle: hiccupped (UK), hiccuped or hiccupped (US)) (UK and US pt and pp need to be confirmed)
- To have the hiccups.
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| hipshot |
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adjective
- Having a dislocated hip.
- (dated) clumsy, Clumsy, awkward.
- (US, colloquial) Standing with one hip lower than the other.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 686:
- :No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint
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| histoplasmosis |
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noun (plural: histoplasmoses)
- (pathology) A lung disease caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, often asymptomatic otherwise with symptoms similar to those of flu.
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| HIV positive |
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adjective
- Infected by the HIV virus
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| hock |
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noun - A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines.
verb - (transitive) (colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
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| Hodgkin's disease |
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noun
- (context, oncology, disease) The former name of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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| hookworm |
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noun
- Any of various parasitic bloodsucking worms which cause disease. They have hooked mouthparts and enter their hosts by boring through the skin.
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| humpback |
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noun
- A humped back
- A person with a humpback: hunchback
- A person who suffers from kyphosis
- A humpback whale
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| hunchback |
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noun
- One who is stooped or hunched over.
- A deformed back in the shape of a hump.
- A person with such a deformity, causing them to appear hunched over.
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| hunchbacked |
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adjective
- having an abnormally curved or hunched back
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| Huntington's chorea |
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noun
- (context, disease, neurology) A hereditary disorder of the basal ganglion, ganglia that leads to progressive loss of motor coordination.
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| hurt |
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noun
- (archaic) a wound or pain
- 1605, I have received a . " William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vii
verb (hurts, hurting, hurt)
- (intransitive) to be painful
- (transitive) to cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury
- (transitive) to cause (somebody) emotional pain
adjective
- wounded, physically injured
- pained
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| hydraemia |
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noun
- thinness of the blood
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| hydremia |
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noun
- thinness of the blood
- 1994: I suffer from . Perhaps that"s the reason why water draws me when I should draw water. " Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies
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| hydrocephalus |
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noun - (uncountable) (medicine) A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricle, ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue
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| hydrophobia |
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noun
- (pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; rabies itself.
- fear, Fear of water.
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| hyperacidity |
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noun
- The condition of containing more than the normal amount of acid.
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| hyperaesthesia |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, hyperesthesia)
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| hypercholesterolemia |
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noun - (medicine) an excess of cholesterol in the blood
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| hyperemia |
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noun
- excess of blood in a body part.
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| hyperesthesia |
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noun
- Unusual or pathological sensitivity of the skin or of a particular sense.
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| hyperglycemia |
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noun
- High blood sugar level
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| hyperhidrosis |
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noun
- A medical condition with the primary symptom of excessive sweating.
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| hyperkalemia |
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noun - (medicine) The condition of having an abnormally high concentration of potassium ions in the blood
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| hyperkinesia |
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noun
- hyperkinesis
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| hyperosmia |
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noun
- Hypersensitivity of the sense of smell.
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| hyperpnea |
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noun
- (medicine) Deep and rapid respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders.
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| hypertensive |
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noun
- a person with hypertension
- a drug that increases blood pressure
adjective
- of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension
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| hyperthermia |
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noun
- (pathology) The condition of having an abnormally high body temperature.
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| hyperthyroid |
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adjective
- of or pertaining to hyperthyroidism
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| hyperthyroidism |
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noun - (medicine) The excessive production of hormones by the thyroid.
- (pathology) The pathological condition resulting from these excess hormones.
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| hypertrichosis |
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noun (pl=hypertrichoses)
- A medical condition of excessive body hair, either affecting most of the torso and limbs, or localized to an area of skin. It may be mild or severe.
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| hypertrophy |
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noun (hypertroph, ies, -)
- (medicine) An increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells
- (bodybuilding) Increase in muscle size through increased numbers of muscle fibers; a result of strict diet, weightlifting, and other exercise.
verb (hypertroph, i, ed)
- (context, intransitive, of a tissue or organ): To increase in size
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| hypesthesia |
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noun
- (altspellpar, hypoesthesia)
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| hypocalcemia |
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noun - (medicine) The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of calcium ions in the blood.
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| hypoesthesia |
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noun
- partial loss of tactile sensation; numbness
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| hypoglycemia |
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noun
- (pathology) A low level of blood glucose.
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| hypotension |
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noun
- (pathology) The disease or disorder of abnormally low blood pressure.
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| hypothermia |
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noun
- (pathology) abnormally low body temperature; specifically, below 35°C
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| hypothyroidism |
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noun
- The disease state caused by insufficient production of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland.
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