What does "hose" mean?
A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
Hose
/həʊz/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
- Grammar: hose is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: hosepipe, hosiery, adjutage, asperge.
- Useful contrasts: bare leg, desiccate, dry.
- Usage evidence: He was watering his garden with a hose.
How to use "hose"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid. countable
- 2 a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas wordnet
- 3 A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights. uncountable
- 4 man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet wordnet
- 5 Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee. countable, historical, uncountable
"Theſe men were bound in their coates, their hoſen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caſt into the midſt of the burning fierie furnace."
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- 6 socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) wordnet
Verb
- 1 To water or spray with a hose. transitive
"Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed."
- 2 water with a hose wordnet
- 3 To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity. transitive
"His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions."
- 4 To deliver using a hose. transitive
"He had just finished hosing gasoline into his tank, a short man, burly, needing a shave, and wearing greasy coveralls."
- 5 To provide with hose (garment) transitive
"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"
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- 6 To trick or deceive. transitive
"Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him."
- 7 To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content. slang, transitive
"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."
- 8 To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call. transitive
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A village in Clawson, Hose and Harby parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7329).
Example
"He was watering his garden with a hose."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "hose"?
Common synonyms include: hosepipe, hosiery, adjutage, asperge, bedew, bespatter.
How do you use "hose" in a sentence?
He was watering his garden with a hose.
How do you pronounce "hose"?
Pronounced /həʊz/.
Etymology
From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.