Hose vs Hove - What's the difference?
hose | hove |
(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
* Bible, Daniel iii. 21
* Shakespeare
To water or spray with a hose.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Vivian Russell
, title=Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny
To provide with hose (garment)
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1834
, author=Pierce Pungent
, title=Men and Manners
, date=July to December
, volume=X
, page=416
, magazine=Fraser's magazine for town and country
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}} To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=John R. Bruning
, title=Jungle ace
, publisher=Brassey's
To trick or deceive.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Keath Fraser
, title=Popular anatomy
, publisher=The Porcupine's Quill
(computing) To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
* {{quote-magazine
, year=2006
, date=Spring 2006
, author=Joel Durham Jr.
, title=Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI
, page=63
, magazine=Maximum PC
, publisher=Future US, Inc.
, issn=1522-4279
To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.7:
*:As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before.
To wait, linger.
*:
To move (on) or (by).
To remain; delay.
To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
(transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
(intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To rise.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
(nautical) (heave)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) (heave)
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII:
As a noun hose
is trousers.As a verb hove is
to remain suspended in air, water etc; to float, to hover or hove can be (transitive|now|chiefly|dialectal) to raise; lift; hold up or hove can be (nautical) (heave).hose
English
(wikipedia hose)Noun
- These men were bound in their coats, their hosen , and their hats, and their other garments.
- His youthful hose , well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank.
Usage notes
* (garment covering legs ) Formerly a male garment covering the lower body, with the upper body covered by a doublet. By the 16th century hose had separated into two garments, stocken and breeches. Since the 1920's, hose refers mostly to women's stockings or pantyhoseDerived terms
* hose clamp * hose clipVerb
(hos)citation, isbn=9780711209886 , page=83 , passage=Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed.}}
citation, passage=The mighty mass of many a mingled race,
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}}
citation, isbn=9781574886948 , page=136 , passage=His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.}}
citation, isbn=9780889841499 , page=458 , passage=Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him.}}
citation, passage=There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.}}
Derived terms
* hose down * home and hosedAnagrams
* hoes * shoe English transitive verbshove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(hov)- Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes
Etymology 2
From (etyl) hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of ). More at (l).Verb
(hov)- Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe , / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.
Etymology 3
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)- Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.