Nose vs Hose - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between nose and hose

is that nose is a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell while hose is trousers.

As a verb nose

is to move cautiously.

nose

English

(wikipedia nose)

Noun

(en noun)

A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

A snout, the nose of an animal.

The tip of an object.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.

(horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.

The power of smelling.

* Collier

We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.

Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.

The skill in recognising bouquet.

(by extension) Skill at finding information.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* aquiline nose * bignose * bloody nose * blow one's nose * bottlenose * button nose * cut off one's nose to spite one's face * e-nose * * get up someone's nose * hawknose * in front of one's nose * I've got your nose * keep one's nose clean * look down one's nose * nasal * no skin off one's nose * nose candy * nose cap * nose cone * nose count * nose flute * nose job * nose out of joint * nose pad * nose-pick * nose poke * nose ring * nose test * nose to tail * nose to the grindstone * nosebag * noseband * nosebleed * nosed * nosedive * noseful * noseguard * noseless * noselike * nosepiece * noseplug * nosering * noseshot * noseweight * nosewheel * on the nose * parson's nose * pay through the nose * pick one's nose * plain as the nose on one's face * pope's nose * powder one's nose * pug nose * Red Nose Day * Roman nose * runny nose * snub-nose * socked on the nose * stick one's nose into * the nose knows * thumb one's nose * turn up one's nose * under one's nose * wax-nose * white nose syndrome

Verb

(nos)

To move cautiously.

The ship nosed through the minefield.

To snoop.

She was nosing around other people’s business.

To detect by smell or as if by smell.

* , Hamlet , act 4, sc. 3,

If you find him not within

this month, you shall nose him as you go up the

stairs into the lobby.

To push with one's nose.

* Tennyson

lambs nosing the mother's udder

To nuzzle.

To win by a narrow margin.

To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.

to nose a prayer

(Cowley)

Derived terms

* brown-nose * nosey * nose out

Anagrams

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hose

English

(wikipedia hose)

Noun

(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

These men were bound in their coats, their hosen , and their hats, and their other garments.

* Shakespeare

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 pantyhose

Derived terms

* hose clamp * hose clip

Verb

(hos)

To water or spray with a hose.

* {{quote-book

, year=1995 , author=Vivian Russell , title=Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny citation , isbn=9780711209886 , page=83 , passage=Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed.}}

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 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}}

To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.

* {{quote-book

, year=2003 , author=John R. Bruning , title=Jungle ace , publisher=Brassey's 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.}}

To trick or deceive.

* {{quote-book

, year=1995 , author=Keath Fraser , title=Popular anatomy , publisher=The Porcupine's Quill 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.}}

(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 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 hosed

Anagrams

* hoes * shoe English transitive verbs