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Hike vs Hence - What's the difference?

hike | hence |

As verbs the difference between hike and hence

is that hike is to take a long walk for pleasure or exercise while hence is (obsolete) to send away.

As a noun hike

is a long walk.

As an adverb hence is

(archaic) from here, from this place, away.

hike

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long walk.
  • An abrupt increase.
  • The tenants were not happy with the rent hike .
  • (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
  • A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher
  • Verb

    (hik)
  • To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
  • Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
  • To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
  • (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
  • (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
  • To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
  • She hiked her skirt up.

    Synonyms

    * (to lean to the windward side) lean out, sit out

    Derived terms

    * hiker * hiking

    See also

    * hitchhike * hitchhiker * take a hike ----

    hence

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (archaic) from here, from this place, away
  • I'm going hence , because you have insulted me.
    Get thee hence , Satan!
  • * c.1599-1601 , , Act 4, Scene 1,
  • O Gertrude, come away! / The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, / But we will ship him hence :
  • * 1849 , ,
  • Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence , nor returning hither again?
  • (archaic, figuratively) from the living or from this world
  • ''After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence .
  • (archaic, of a length of time) in the future from now
  • ''A year hence it will be forgotten.
  • (conjunctive) as a result; therefore, for this reason
  • ''I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
    ''The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
  • * 1910 , , Section VI: Weak Points and Strong, 8,
  • Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
  • * 1910 , [1513], , Chapter VI,
  • Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
  • * 1731 May 27, ,
  • That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;
  • (temporal location) from this time, from now
  • ''The plane will leave two months hence .

    Synonyms

    * consequently

    Derived terms

    * henceforth * henceforward

    Verb

    (henc)
  • (obsolete) To send away.
  • (Sir Philip Sidney)
    English conjunctive adverbs English location adverbs English temporal location adverbs