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Hex vs Hez - What's the difference?

hex | hez |

As nouns the difference between hex and hez

is that hex is witch while hez is power.

hex

English

(wikipedia hex)

Etymology 1

First attested about 1830, from (etyl)

Verb

  • To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.

    • Noun

    (hexes)
  • An evil spell or curse.
  • A witch.
  • (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).

    • Etymology 2

    Short for hexadecimal.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing, informal)

    • Etymology 3

    Short for hexagon.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A hexagonal space on a game board.
  • a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.

    • See also

    (climbing) nut

    References

    English terms with multiple etymologies

    hez

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Bret Harte, title=In a Hollow of the Hills, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He's here with some of his folks az hez got inter trouble--I'm forgettin' to tell ye. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Harold Steele Mackaye, title=The Panchronicon, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Well, then, you c'n explain it to them as hez ben to high school, an' that's sister Phoebe. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Eugene Field, title=Second Book of Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Jim was visibly excited; he let go the telephone, and, turning around, full over against us, he said, "By ----, boys! the stage hez been robbed!" }}

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