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Definitions: Hew |
HewVerb1. Make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock". 2. Strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (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 |
HEW | English | Hanford Engineering Works | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: HewSynonym: hew out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Depression | Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears. |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Form | Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct). |
Shortness | Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hew |
| English words defined with "hew": Chare, cut ♦ Forehew ♦ hew out, Hewed, Hewing ♦ roughcast, Roughhew, rough-hew ♦ snag ♦ Tohew ♦ Underhew. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hew": William. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hew": Dolabra ♦ Forehew ♦ Tohew. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Reorganizing Health in HEW.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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| Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1960) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Hew" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 41.18% of the time. "Hew" is used about 17 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.18% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 35.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hew" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hew | Last name | 200 | 37,825 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Germany | HEW - Hamburgische Electricitats-Werke A.G. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "hew": hew away ♦ hew down ♦ hew off ♦ hew one's way ♦ hew out ♦ hew out a career for oneself ♦ hew up. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hew": rough-hew. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hew | 70 |
hew federal credit union | 27 |
behead chief great head hew it like not seemly thief wound | 22 |
great head hew wound | 20 |
credit hew union | 10 |
general hew pike sir | 8 |
hampshire hew | 7 |
hew jennifer love | 4 |
haw hew | 4 |
fcu hew | 3 |
hew pike | 3 |
head hew | 3 |
hefner hew | 2 |
hew packard | 2 |
hew home | 2 |
hew holland | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hap rrugë me shpatë, pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), përmbahem (abstain, cleave, help, refrain, restrain oneself), latoj (carve, engrave, grave on wood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), حطب (chop, firewood, firing, log, wood), خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, knuckle under, kowtow, reclaim, reduce, steady, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, wash, yield), شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сека (chop, cut, fell, haggle, incuse, slash, slice, stamp, strike), очуквам (crush, hammer, knock about, lay flat), отсичам (chop, cut down, cut off, cut short, decide firmly, intercept, lop, slice off, snap, strike off, stump), одялвам (trim), нанасям удари, постигам с голямо усилие, повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, floor, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, run down, shoot down, stretch out, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap), издялвам (carve, chamfer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 成 (Hewed, Hewing, hewn), 伐 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tesat (carve, cut, sculpture), tít, skácet (cut down, hack down, overturn, upset), seknout (chuck, cut), sekat (chop, cut, hack, mow, scythe), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bearbejde groft (to hew, to rough-grind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | houwen (beat, chop, cut, hack, hit, strike, to chop, to hack, to hew), hakken (chipping, chop, chopped response, chopping, cut, felling, hack, hoeing, removal, timber-cutting, to chisel, to chop, to hack, to hew, tree felling), voorbewerken (to hew, to rough-grind), van erts (to chop, to hack, to hew), kool of gesteente (to chop, to hack, to hew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قطع کردن (Burst, Cross, Cut, Disconnect, Discontinue, Excise, Intercept, Leaveoff, Out, Retrench, Rupture, Stump, Traverse), ضربه (Brunt, Hack, Hook, Impact, Lash, Pelt, Sock, Strike, Stroke, Thud, Tit, Whop), ضربت (Bat, Bob, Buff, Buffet, Bump, Contusion, Coup, Crack, Hack, Impact, Jar, Jolt, Jow, Knock, Percussion, Plunk, Pounce, Pound, Slap, Stroke, Swat, Thump, Thwack, Whack, Yerk), ذبح (Slaughter), شکاف یاترک نتیجه , شقه , بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hakata (chop, cut, hack), veistää (build, build from wood, carve, chip, cut, whittle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tailler (to hew), se plier , creuser, couper, équarrir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hauen (bash, beat, belt, carve, chop, chuck, clap, clobber, clout, conk, cut, cutting, fling, hack, hewed, hit, hoes, knock, lash out, make a thrust, quarry, sculpture, shove, slap, slash, sock, strike, thump, to bash, to chop, to hack, to hew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πελεκώ (chip, chisel, chop, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפסל (carve, chisel, gouge, sculpt), לחטוב (chisel, chop), לחצוב (carve, chisel, quarry, tunnel), לכרות (ablate, cut down, lop, resect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vagdal (hewed, hewn, to chop, to gash, to hack, to hash, to hash up, to hew), vág (chip, chop, cut, hack, have a hang-dog look, saw, sawed, sawn, section, slice, to cant a beam, to carve, to cut, to hew, to laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, to saw, to slice off), farag (carve, chisel, grave, scrimshaw, sculpt, sculpture, shave, skive, to carve, to chip, to pare, to sculpt, to sculpture, to trim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menebang (cut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tagliare con l'ascia (adze), tagliare (blanking, blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut chiplessly, cut down, cut off, cut without stock removal, fell, get cut, hack, knife, mow, outline blanking, outline cutting, reap, shear, short cut, slice, snip, to burn, to cut, to hit, trim), sgrossare (chip, chip off, to hew, to rough-grind), fendere (cleave, Rive, slice through, slit, split, splitting, to split), dare colpi d'ascia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 自分の"'"く (to hew one's way out), 切り刻む (to chop up, to hew, to mangle, to mince). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きりきざむ (to chop up, to hew, to mangle, to mince), じぶ"のみち'ひらく (to hew one's way out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | speiy (bill, bill-hook, hack, hoe, mattock, pick), scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, spill, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | hogge (chop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewhay heuristico, desbastar (build, build from wood, chip, detruncate, dress type, hew down, lop, pare, prune, reducing, select, single, Spall, thin out, trim, Whittle), derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overset, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, put down, shoot down, subvert, throw, tumble, unbuild, upset), decepar (hew down, mutilate, removal of old vines), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut chiplessly, cut down, cut off, cut without stock removal, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lope, lumber, mow, pollack, pollen, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slicing, slit, strike off, strike out, to "blue pencil", to arrest, to cut, to hit, use the blue pencil, Whittle). (various references) toca (bother, chat, chop, hack, hash, melt, mince, squander), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off). (various references) рубить (chisel, chop, cut, cut down, fall, fell, hack, hackle, mangle, mince), тесать (adz, adze, char), высекать (carve, cut), прорубать. (various references) snaidh (chip, shape, whet). (various references) seći (chip, chop, clip, cut, pare), klesati (emboss). (various references) tallar a (carve, Whittle), tajar (chop, hack), labrar (carve, dress, farm, fashion, shape, till, to fabricate, to machine, to process, to work, work), cortar a hachazos. (various references) tillyxa, hugga (carve, chop, cut, grab, hack, nab, seize, strike, swish). (various references) ฟัน. (various references) yontmak (chip, chisel, cut, fair, fine away, fine down, hack, lick into shape, pare, pare off, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, skive, Whittle), yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), balta ile kesmek (chop, cut down with an axe, hew down), çentmek (chip, hack, indent, notch, snick). (various references) яylmamak. (various references) рубати (chaff, chop, cut down, fell, hack, hackle, mangle), розрубувати (rip), прорубувати. (various references) trychu (amputate, cut, lop, pierce), naddu (chip, whittle), cymynu (fell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit, caedam, caedant, caedat, caede, caedebant, caedebat, caedemus, caedendos, caedens, caedent, caedente, caedentem, caedentes, caedentibus, caedere, caederent, caederentur, caedes, caedet, caedetur, caedi, caedimur, caedis, caedite, caeditur, caesa, caesi, caesis, caesorum, caesos, caesum, caesuri, caesus, ceciderant, ceciderat, ceciderint, ceciderit, cecideritque, ceciderunt, cecideruntque, cecidi, cecidimus, cecidisse, cecidissent, cecidisset, cecidisti, cecidit, ceciditque, supercecidit. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | heawan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 5, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai nun anepause kurioV o qeoV mou emoi kukloqen ouk estin epibouloV kai ouk estin apanthma ponhron |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quos dolaverunt cementarii Salomonis et cementarii Hiram porro Biblii praeparaverunt ligna et lapides ad aedificandam domum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the masouns of Yram, han ouerscorchide. Forsothe the cyteseynys of Biblis maden redi the trees and stonus, to the hows to be beeldid. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Solomon's builders, and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone-squarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 5, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga magtutukod ni Salomon, ug ang mga magtutukod ni Hiram, ug ang mga Gebalhanon maoy nanaghulma kanila ug nanag-andam sa kahoy ug sa mga bato aron sa pagtukod sa balay. |
| Croatian | Sada mi je Jahve, Bog moj, dao mir posvuda unaokolo: nemam neprijatelja ni zlih udesa. |
| Danish | og Salomos og Hiroms Bygmestre og Folkene fra Gebal huggede dem til, og de gjorde Træstammerne og Stenene i Stand til Templets Opførelse. |
| Dutch | En de bouwlieden van Salomo, en de bouwlieden van Hiram, en de Giblieten behieuwen ze, en bereidden het hout toe, en de stenen, om dat huis te bouwen. |
| Finnish | Niin Salomon ja Hiiramin rakentajat ja gebalilaiset hakkasivat niitä ja valmistivat puut ja kivet temppelin rakentamiseksi. |
| French | Les ouvriers de Salomon, ceux de Hiram, et les Guibliens, les taillèrent, et ils préparèrent les bois et les pierres pour bâtir la maison. |
| German | Und die Bauleute Salomos und die Bauleute Hirams und die Gebaliter hieben aus und bereiteten zu Holz und Steine, zu bauen das Haus. |
| Hungarian | Melyeket kifaragának a Salamon kõmívesei és a Hírám ácsai és a Gibleusok; és elkészíték a fákat és a köveket a ház építéséhez. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Demikianlah para pekerja Salomo dan para pekerja Hiram serta orang-orang dari kota Gebal menyiapkan batu dan kayu untuk pembangunan Rumah TUHAN itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka segala tukang raja Sulaiman dan segala tukang raja Hiram dan segala orang Jibelipun memahatkan dia, dan ditarakannya segala kayu dan batu akan perusahaan rumah itu. |
| Maori | Na taraia ana e nga kaihanga a Horomona, e nga kaihanga a Hirama, e nga Kipiri, whakapaia ana e ratou nga rakau me nga kohatu hei hanga mo te whare. |
| Portuguese | Lavraram-nas, pois, os edificadores de Salomão, e os de Hirão, e os gebalitas, e prepararam as madeiras e as pedras para edificar a casa. |
| Rumanian | Lucrqtorii lui Solomon, ai lui Hiram, wi Ghibliyii, le-au cioplit, wi au pregqtit lemnele wi pietrele pentru zidirea casei. |
| Russian | п'ФЕУЩЧБМЙ ЦЕ ЙИ ТБ'ПФОЙЛЙ уПМПНПОПЧЩ Й ТБ'ПФОЙЛЙ иЙТБНПЧЩ Й зЙЧМЙФСОЕ, Й ТЙЗПФПЧМСМЙ "ЕТЕЧБ Й ЛБНОЙ "МС УФТПЕОЙС "ПНБ. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hew": hewable, hewed, hewer, hewers, hewing, hewn, hews. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hew": cashew, chew, clerihew, eschew, fitchew, grandnephew, nephew, phew, rechew, roughhew, shew, thew, whew. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hew": cashews, chewable, chewed, chewer, chewers, chewier, chewiest, chewing, chewink, chewinks, chews, chewy, clerihews, eschewal, eschewals, eschewed, eschewing, eschews, fitchews, grandnephews, nephews, rechewed, rechewing, rechews, roughhewed, roughhewing, roughhewn, roughhews, shewbread, shewbreads, shewed, shewer, shewers, shewing, shewn, shews, thewier, thewiest, thewless, thews, thewy, unchewable, unchewed, unhewn, whews. (additional references) | |
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"Hew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahew, Dhew, ehk, eww, hawf, hea, heb, hec, hee, hef, heg, heh, hei, hej, hek, Helwa, heuw, hev, hewd, Hewo, hewt, hewy, hez, hoew, houw, howf, howm, hseq, hwe, hwel, hwer, hwet, hwp, Iew, pheew, Phewa, phewf, phewy, thwe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hew" (pronounced hyuw") |
| 3 | h y uw" | hue. |
| 2 | -y uw" | askew, cue, debut, ewe, few, fondue, imbue, mew, miscue, pew, phew, Pugh, queue, review, revue, skew, spew, view, yew, you. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-w" | |
-1 letter: eh, he, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-w" | |
+1 letter: chew, hewn, hews, howe, phew, shew, thew, whee, when, whet, whew, whey. | |
+2 letters: chews, chewy, hawed, hawse, hewed, hewer, howes, shewn, shews, shrew, thews, thewy, threw, wecht, weigh, welch, welsh, wench, whale, wheal, wheat, wheel, wheen, wheep, whelk, whelm, whelp, whens, where, whets, whews, wheys, while, whine, white, whole, whore, whose, withe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 77 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0077 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427189 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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