different between hockey vs hotkey

English

Etymology 1

Unknown origin, 16th century, possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick.

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?k'i, IPA^(key): /?h?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

hockey (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
2. (Britain) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
3. A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.

Synonyms

• ice hockey
• field hockey
• (Canada) shinny, shinny hockey

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

hockey (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) Faeces, excrement.
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”

   • 2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone:

     My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.

Etymology 3

See oche.

Noun

hockey (plural hockeys)

2. (darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.

References

• “hockey” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Anagrams

• chokey

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English hockey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ki/
• Hyphenation: hoc?key
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

hockey n (uncountable)

1. hockey, usually field hockey

Derived terms

• hockeybal
• hockeyen
• hockeymasker
• hockeystick
• hockeyveld
• ijshockey
• unihockey
• zaalhockey

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hok?ei?/, [?ho?k?e?i?]

Noun

hockey

1. hockey

Declension

French

Etymology

From English hockey

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /?.k?/
• Rhymes: -?
• Homophones: hoquet, hoquets

Noun

hockey m (uncountable)

1. hockey
2. (Canada) ice hockey

Synonyms

• (ice hockey): hockey sur glace

Derived terms

• hockeyeur
• hockeyeuse
• hockey sur gazon
• hockey sur glace
• hockey sur luge
• hockey sur table

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From English hockey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.kej/, /??.kej/

Noun

hockey m (uncountable)

1. hockey

Derived terms

• hockey su ghiaccio
• hockey su pista/hockey a rotelle
• hockey su prato

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hockey

Noun

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

Derived terms

• hockeykølle
• ishockey

References

• “hockey” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hockey

Noun

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

Derived terms

• hockeykølle
• ishockey

References

• “hockey” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hockey.

Alternative forms

jóquey (rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xokei/, [?xo.kei?]

Noun

hockey m (plural hockey)

1. hockey

Derived terms

• hockey sobre hielo
• hockey sobre césped, hockey sobre hierba, hockey sobre pasto

Swedish

Etymology

From English hockey

Noun

hockey c (definite singular hockeyn)

1. (sports) hockey

Derived terms

• hockeybild c
• hockeyklubba c
• hockeyspelare c
• ishockey c
• landhockey c

English

Alternative forms

• hot key

Etymology

hot +? key

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?tki?/
• Hyphenation: hot?key

Noun

hotkey (plural hotkeys)

1. (computing) A keyboard shortcut.

Translations

Verb

hotkey (third-person singular simple present hotkeys, present participle hotkeying, simple past and past participle hotkeyed)

1. (computing, intransitive) To navigate by means of a keyboard shortcut.
   • 1988, PC Mag (volume 7, number 21, page 183)

     All of the sales talk about hotkeying between 3270 sessions and DOS applications sounds great until you try to squeeze the DOS applications into the PC while it's emulating a terminal.

Anagrams

• yoketh