different between hew vs incise

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hewen, from Old English h?awan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh?- (“to strike, hew, forge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hju?/, [çju?]
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: hue

Verb

hew (third-person singular simple present hews, present participle hewing, simple past hewed or (rare) hew, past participle hewed or hewn)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV Scene vii^[1]:

     Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder […]

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.

2. (transitive) To shape; to form.

   to hew out a sepulchre

   • Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.

   • December 19, 1734, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     rather polishing old works than hewing out new

3. (transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
   • 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography,^[2] Jennings & Graham, page 428

     Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.

   • 1998, Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines,^[3] Collectors Press, Inc., ?ISBN, page 103

     Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.

   • 2008, Chester E. Finn, Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik,^[4] Princeton University Press, ?ISBN, page 28

     Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties, […] These hewed to the recommendations of the Plowden Report, […]

   • King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."

Derived terms

• behew
• forhew
• hewer
• rough-hew

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews)

1. (obsolete) hue; colour

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

2. (obsolete) shape; form

   • Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.

3. (obsolete) Destruction by cutting down.

Anagrams

• weh

English

Alternative forms

• encise

Etymology

From Middle French inciser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?sa?z/

Verb

incise (third-person singular simple present incises, present participle incising, simple past and past participle incised)

1. (transitive) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• incised on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• scenii

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.siz/

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of proposition incise.

Noun

incise f (plural incises)

1. (grammar) A part of a sentence, set between em dashes.

Etymology 2

Verb

incise

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

Italian

Verb

incise

1. plural of inciso
2. third-person singular past historic of incidere

Anagrams

• censii
• cinesi, Cinesi

Latin

Participle

inc?se

1. vocative masculine singular of inc?sus

References

• incise in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incise in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

incise

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of incisar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of incisar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of incisar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of incisar