Hi vs Him - What's the difference?
hi | him |
A friendly, informal, casual greeting said when meeting someone.
An exclamation to call attention.
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"Hi" or similar greeting.
# With dative effect or as an indirect object.
#* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
# Following a preposition.
#* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
# With accusative effect or as a direct object.
#* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
* '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
* '1765' (538 m)'',
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (be), or following a preposition.
* 'c. 1616' (493 m)'', (William Shakespeare), ''Macbeth , First Folio 1623, V.10:
* '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
As an interjection hi
is a friendly, informal, casual greeting said when meeting someone.As an adjective hi
is informal spelling of lang=en, often hyphenated.As a noun hi
is "Hi" or similar greeting.As an abbreviation HI
is hawaii, a state of the United States of America.As a pronoun him is
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.hi
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Interjection
(wikipedia hi) (en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi! ” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
Synonyms
* (friendly informal greeting) helloAdjective
(head)- Get hi- quality videos here!
- Next, set the burner to ''hi .
Derived terms
* hi-tech * hi-lo * hi-fiveNoun
hi (no attested plural)Synonyms
* greeting, helloAnagrams
* English two-letter words ----him
English
(wikipedia him)Pronoun
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
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- But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
- Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .