H
- noun
- /eɪtʃ/
- "Name the five presidents whose last names begin with the letter H."
- Subject H
- H-tree
Pain is beauty painful with an H painful.
- Pain is beauty painful with an H painful.
- M Eugenia The Salty Hamill S Eric H Oracle Amanda R.
- So this means you put X plus HS where all the XS are, right?
Examples
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I'm gonna call you H, if that's okay?
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No, it's got an "H."
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So we can put that H then in port B.
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What do you do with h?" She started to explain, but I cut her off.
Fiction book (1990) -
Not the square root of H, it's H, right?
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The "X" is an "H."
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Oh, you said "hourglass" with an "H".
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How many times have I said that fashion is spelt with an "H"?
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See, hearth is earth with an H, which stands for heaven, heaven in earth.
Fiction book (1995) -
The letter H comes after G in the alphabet.
Synonyms
The name of the letter H in English
Compounds
- Informal
A mild, funny phrase people say instead of swearing when surprised or angry
Surface Forms
Etymology
H began as an old sign called heth that meant 'fence'. Its shape still looks a bit like a gate and it marks the soft 'h' sound you hear at the start of 'house', which helps you remember it.