Hin vs Ham - What's the difference?
hin | ham |
An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measurement, approximately 0.48 litre.
* Exodus 30:24 (NIV):
(anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
(countable) A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat.
(uncountable) Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food.
* (rfdate), Audra Lilly Griffeth, A King's Daughter (ISBN 146915532X):
The back of the thigh.
(internet, informal) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.
An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
An amateur radio operator.
To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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As nouns the difference between hin and ham
is that hin is an ancient hebrew unit of liquid measurement, approximately 048 litre while ham is haem / heme.hin
English
(Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement)Noun
(en noun)- 500 shekels of cassia — all according to the sanctuary shekel — and a hin of olive oil.
ham
English
(wikipedia ham)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hamme, from (etyl) . Compare gammon.Noun
(en noun)- a little piece of ham for the cat
- She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.
Derived terms
* ham-fisted * hambone * hammy, hamstringEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)Usage notes
* Persists in many old place names, such as (Buckingham).References
*Etymology 3
Shortened from , said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man ."ham", Online Etymology Dictionary