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Definition: Het |
HetAdjective1. Made warm or hot; "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated' as in "he was all het up and sweaty"). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "het" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HET | English | High Energy Telescope | N/A |
HET | German | Bebrütetes Hühnerei-Test | Medicine |
HET | Italian | Prova su embrioni di uova di gallina | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HetSynonyms: heated (adj), heated up (adj), het up (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Het |
| English words defined with "het": heated, heated up, het up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "het": appeals tribunal ♦ block or day release, block or day release courses ♦ Central Population Registers Office ♦ personal reintegration budget ♦ Rotterdam Metropolitan Region ♦ Very Vulgar Vulgarisms ♦ Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land,Soil and Water Research. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Het" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (did, do have, have), Dutch (it, no translation, the, to the), Flemish (it, the), Norwegian (hot), Papago (ocre), Swedish (ardent, fervent, fervid, hot, sultry, torrid), Turkmen (boundary, limit), Welsh (hat). |
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Lyrics | I just gotta het through this ("Gotta Get Thru This"; performing artist: DANIEL BEDINGFIELD) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Het Huis der onbekenden (1974) Morgen is het beter (1974) Het Naspel (1974) Dik Trom knapt het op (1974) Het Machtig reservoir (1974) | |
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![]() | Figure 40. Liebert bacterial sampling apparatus invented by Francois Liebert in 1908 at the "Rijksinstituut voor het onderzoek der zee" and first used off the vessel WODAN in the North Sea. It sampled at depths from the surface to between 20 and 40 meters on this initial test.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Het Magnetismus. / Gedrukt by Mensing en Last.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Merkwaardige Gebuertenis van het verlossen van vier levendige und een dood kind, kniertje ... Sheveninge ... 1719.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Drinkwaterfluoridering : uwtandarts is er voor omdat het helpt!.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Amsterdam, Het Central Station--Amsterdam, La Station.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Amsterdam, Netherlands. Workers' houses of the "Het We Westen" Housing Association, on the Azznhof. Architect: H.J.N. Walenkamp.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Het Rode Kruis kent geen grenzen.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Amerikanen uit Vietnam : steun aan het Bevrijdingsfront.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | DS '70, lijst 7, Drees : met het oog op de toekomst.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | GPV : om het behoud van de natie : dr. J. Blokland, lijst 8.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Netherlands | Over 90 percent of the laboratory instrumentation suppliers are members of the trade association, FHI Het Instrument. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Het" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 35.00% of the time. "Het" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 35% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 35% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "het": het to know ♦ het up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "het": het-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "het"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i nevrikosur (frayed, het up, jumpy, rambunctious, rampageous), i acaruar (aggravated, embittered, het up, peeved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | силно възбуден (ablaze, boiling, het up), разстроен (distempered, het up, streaked, unglued, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | test på chorioallantoismembran (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | HET-CAM-test (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test), HET-CAM TEST (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test), Rijksmuseum Paleis het Loo (the Het Loo Palace National Museum), Raad van Toezicht Rijksmuseum Paleis Het Loo (Supervisory Board of Het Loo Palace National Museum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | korionallantoiskalvotesti (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test), kanan sikiön suonikalvotesti (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | test sur sac chorioallantoïde de l'oeuf embryonné (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | HET-CAM-Prüfung (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test), HET-CAM Prüfung (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test), Hühnerei-Chorionallantois-Membran-Prüfung (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βιοδοκιμή σε χωριο-αλλαντοϊκή μεμβράνη αυγού όρνιθας (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test), θυμωμένος (angry, het up, mad, stroppy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ideges (edgy, fazed, fidgety, flustered, have butterflies in one's stomach, have cold feet, have the needles, het up, high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, migraine, nervous, nervy, neurotic, restive, restless, skittish, stroppy, to be in a tantrum, to be on edge, to feel nervous, to feel rum, to jitter, uptight, vexed), felhevített (het up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | test su sacco corioallantoideo da uova di gallina (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test), saggio sulla membrana corioallantoidea dell'embrione di pollo (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test), prova HET-CAM (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethay teste do saco corioalantóide do ovo de galinha (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test), natural de hesse (het up), excitado (ablaze, astir, heartwarming, het up, horny, hot, jumpy, nervous, passionate, Randy, vibrant, warm), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fierceness, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm). (various references) возбужденный (ablaze, agitated, aglow, agog, astir, excited, exhilarating, feverish, heated, hectic, het up, narked, overwrought, revved up). (various references) prueba de la membrana corioalantoidea de huevos de gallina embrionados (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) test på chorioallantoismembranet i embryonerat hönsägg (Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM-test), komma underfund med (find out, get the hang of, het to know, realise). (various references) heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous). (various references) được nung nóng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | heth. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 16, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eteken agar tw abram uion kai ekalesen abram to onoma tou uiou autou on eteken autw agar ismahl |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Peperitque Abrae filium qui vocavit nomen eius Ismahel |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Agar þa acende sunu Abrame, ond he het hys naman Ismahel. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Agar bare to Abram a sone, the which clepide the name of hym Ismael. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Hagar bare Abram a sonne and Abram called his sons name which Hagar bare Ismaell. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bore, Ishmael. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 16, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug nanganak si Agar kang Abram ug usa ka anak nga lalake; ug gihinganlan ni Abram ang iyang anak nga lalake, nga gianak ni Agar kaniya, si Ismael. |
| Croatian | Rodi Hagara Abramu sina, a Abram sinu što mu ga rodi Hagara nadjene ime Jišmael. |
| Danish | Og Hagar fødte Abram en Søn, og Abram kaldte Sønnen, Hagar fødte ham, Ismael. |
| Dutch | En Hagar baarde Abram een zoon; en Abram noemde den naam zijns zoons, die Hagar gebaard had, Ismael. |
| Finnish | Ja Haagar synnytti Abramille pojan, ja Abram antoi pojallensa, jonka Haagar oli hänelle synnyttänyt, nimen Ismael. |
| French | Agar enfanta un fils Abram; et Abram donna le nom d`Ismaël au fils qu`Agar lui enfanta. |
| German | Und Hagar gebar einen Sohn; und Abram hieß den Sohn, den ihm Hagar gebar, Ismael. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Aga fè yon pitit gason pou Abram. Abram rele pitit la Izmayèl. |
| Hungarian | És fiat szûle Hágár Ábrámnak, és nevezé Ábrám az õ fiának nevét, a kit Hágár szûl vala néki, Ismáelnek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Hagar melahirkan anak laki-laki, dan Abram ayahnya, menamakan anak itu Ismael. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Hagarpun beranaklah laki-laki seorang bagi Abram, lalu dinamai oleh Abram akan anaknya yang telah diperanakkan oleh Hagar itu, Ismail. |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka whanau te tama a Hakara raua ko Aperama: a huaina ana e Aperama te ingoa o tana tama, i whanau nei i a Hakara, ko Ihimaera. |
| Norwegian | Og Hagar fødte Abram en sønn; og Abram kalte den sønn som Hagar hadde født ham, Ismael. |
| Portuguese | E Agar deu um filho a Abrão; e Abrão pôs o nome de Ismael no seu filho que tivera de Agar. |
| Rumanian | Agar a nqscut lui Avram un fiu; wi Avram a pus fiului, pe care i l -a nqscut Agar, numele Ismael. |
| Swedish | Och Hagar födde åt Abram en son; och Abram gav den son som Hagar hade fött åt honom namnet Ismael. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "het": hetaera, hetaerae, hetaeras, hetaeric, hetaira, hetairai, hetairas, hetero, heteroatom, heteroatoms, heteroauxin, heteroauxins, heterocercal, heterochromatic, heterochromatin, heterochromatins, heteroclite, heteroclites, heterocycle, heterocycles, heterocyclic, heterocyclics, heterocyst, heterocystous, heterocysts, heterodox, heterodoxies, heterodoxy, heteroduplex, heteroduplexes, heterodyne, heterodyned, heterodynes, heterodyning, heteroecious, heteroecism, heteroecisms, heterogamete, heterogametes, heterogametic, heterogameties, heterogamety, heterogamies, heterogamous, heterogamy, heterogeneities, heterogeneity, heterogeneous, heterogeneously, heterogeneousness, heterogeneousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "het": brachet, cachet, crochet, crotchet, epithet, fitchet, freshet, hatchet, khet, latchet, manchet, nymphet, planchet, prophet, rachet, ratchet, ricochet, rochet, sachet, trebuchet, whet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "het": aesthete, aesthetes, aesthetic, aesthetical, aesthetically, aesthetician, aestheticians, aestheticism, aestheticisms, aestheticize, aestheticized, aestheticizes, aestheticizing, aesthetics, amphetamine, amphetamines, anaesthetic, anaesthetics, anesthetic, anesthetically, anesthetics, anesthetist, anesthetists, anesthetize, anesthetized, anesthetizes, anesthetizing, antipathetic, antipathetically, antithetic, antithetical, antithetically, apathetic, apathetically, aphetic, aphetically, archetypal, archetypally, archetype, archetypes, archetypical, athetoid, bathetic, bathetically, biosynthetic, biosynthetically, brachets, brochette, brochettes, cacheted, cacheting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eth, the. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-t" | |
-1 letter: eh, et, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-t" | |
+1 letter: beth, eath, etch, eths, haet, hate, heat, heft, hent, hest, heth, hets, hyte, khet, meth, teth, thae, thee, them, then, thew, they, whet. | |
+2 letters: bathe, berth, beths, cheat, chert, chest, cheth, chute, death, depth, doeth, earth, eight, ether, ethic, ethos, ethyl, fetch, haets, haste, hated, hater, hates, haute, heart, heath, heats, hefts, hefty, heist, helot, hents, hertz, hests, heths, hotel, ither, ketch, kheth, khets, kithe, kythe, lathe, letch, lethe, lithe, meths, neath, other, rathe, retch, sheet, shent, shote, shute, tache, teach, techy, teeth, tench, tenth, teths, teuch, teugh, thane, thebe, theca, theft, thegn, thein, their, theme, thens, there, therm, these, theta, thews, thewy, thief, thine, thole, those, three, threw, throe, thyme, tithe, tophe, tythe, vetch, wecht, wheat, whets, white, withe. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427186 |
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