different between heck vs hectare

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.

Interjection

heck

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

   What the heck are you doing?

Translations

Noun

heck (uncountable)

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

   You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.

Synonyms

• See under hell.

Derived terms

• oh my heck

Translations

Etymology 2

See hatch (“a half door”).

Alternative forms

• hack

Noun

heck (plural hecks)

1. The bolt or latch of a door.
2. A rack for cattle to feed at.
3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
6. A bend or winding of a stream.

Derived terms

• at heck and manger

References

Further reading

• heck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• heck in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• heck at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• chek

German

Pronunciation

Verb

heck

1. singular imperative of hecken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of hecken

Middle English

Noun

heck

1. Alternative form of hacche

English

Alternative forms

• hektare (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ?????? (hekatón, “hundred”) + are.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?k.t??/, /?h?k.t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?k.t??/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?hekta?/

Noun

hectare (plural hectares)

1. A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.

Synonyms

• (SI unit): (rare) square hectometre

Translations

See also

• acre
• Not to be confused with hector.

References

Anagrams

• cheater, rechate, recheat, reteach, teacher

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hectare. Equivalent to hecto- +? are.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?ta?.r?/
• Hyphenation: hec?ta?re
• Rhymes: -a?r?

Noun

hectare f (plural hectaren or hectares, diminutive hectaretje n)

1. hectare

Synonyms

• ha

Synonyms

• (dialectal) bunder (symbol b)

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: hektare

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.ta?/

Noun

hectare m (plural hectares)

1. hectare

Verb

hectare

1. first-person singular present indicative of hectarer
2. third-person singular present indicative of hectarer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of hectarer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of hectarer
5. second-person singular imperative of hectarer

Further reading

• “hectare” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

hectare m (plural hectares)

1. hectare (unit of surface area)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hek?tare]

Noun

hectare n

1. indefinite plural of hectar