Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 11
Harebrained (a.) 輕率的，欠考慮的，粗心的 Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow." -- North (Plutarch). [Written also {hairbrained}.]
Harebrained (a.) Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: {harebrained}, {insane}, {mad}].
Harebrained (a.) Very foolish. [syn: {insane}, {mad}].
// She devised a harebrained scheme to get her money back, but it ended up landing her in jail.
Harefoot (n.) A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.
Harefoot (n.) A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot.
Hare-hearted (a.) Timorous; timid; easily frightened.
Harehound (n.) See Harrier.
Hareld (n.) The long-tailed duck.
Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
Harem (n.) The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
Harem (n.) The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.
Harengiform (a.) Herring-shaped.
Hare's-ear (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium ); -- so named from the shape of its leaves.
Hare's-foot fern () A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.
Hare's-tail (n.) A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton.
Harfang (n.) The snowy owl.
Har Gobind Khorana (n.) 哈爾·葛賓·科拉納（Har Gobind Khorana，1922年1月9日－2011年11月9日）是一位出生於英屬印度的美國分子生物學家。他在1968年，因為解出了遺傳密碼，而與羅伯特·威廉·霍利以及馬歇爾·沃倫·尼倫伯格共同獲得了諾貝爾生理學或醫學獎。同年還獲得了拉斯克基礎醫學獎。科拉納還是美國科學院院士、美國麻省理工學院Alfred P. Sloan名譽退休教授 [4] 。
科拉納1922年生於英屬印度的賴布爾（現為巴基斯坦的格比爾瓦拉），1948年獲得英國利物浦大學博士學位。1960年在美國威斯康星大學麥迪遜分校任酶研究所共同所長，並在此期間發現RNA編碼蛋白質合成機制[4]。 2011年11月9日在美國麻省康科特市逝世 [4]。
Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) [4] [5] was an Indian American [6] biochemist.
He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year. [7] [8]
Khorana was born in Raipur, British India (today Kabirwala in Pakistan). He was the youngest of five children of Ganpat Rai Khorana, a taxation clerk, and Krishna Devi Khorana. He served on the faculty of the University of British Columbia from 1952-1960, where he initiated his Nobel Prize winning work. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, [9] and subsequently received the National Medal of Science. He co-directed the Institute for Enzyme Research, [10] became a professor of biochemistry in 1962 and was named Conrad A. Elvehjem Professor of Life Sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison. [11] He served as MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Emeritus [12] and was a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.
Hariali grass () The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.
Haricot (n.) A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.
Haricot (n.) The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.
Harier (n.) See Harrier.
Harikari (n.) See Hara-kiri.
Harioiation (n.) Prognostication; soothsaying.
Harish (a.) Like a hare.
Hark (v. i.) To listen; to hearken.
Harken (v. t. & i.) To hearken.
Harl (n.) A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.
Harl (n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies. [Written also herl.]
Harle (n.) (Zool.) The red-breasted merganser.
Compare: Merganser
Merganser (n.) (Zool.) Mergus + ({Merganser" >【鳥】秋沙鴨 Any bird of the genus Mergus ({Merganser), and allied genera of the subfamily Merginae. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill, eat fish, and dive for food. Also called fish duck.
Note: The red-breasted merganser ({Merganser serrator) inhabits both hemispheres. It is called also sawbill, harle, and sheldrake. The American merganser ({Merganser Americanus.) and the hooded merganser ({Lophodytes cucullatus) are well-known species.
White merganser, () 白秋沙鴨 The smew or white nun.
Harlech group, () (Geol.) A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.
Harlequin (n.) A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. -- Percy Smith.
As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. -- Johnson.
Harlequin bat (Zool.), An Indian bat ({Scotophilus ornatus), curiously variegated with white spots.
Harlequin beetle (Zool.), A very large South American beetle ({Acrocinus longimanus) having very long legs and antenn[ae]. The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray.
Harlequin cabbage bug. (Zool.) See Calicoback.
Harlequin caterpillar. (Zool.), The larva of an American bombycid moth ({Euch[ae]tes egle) which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair.
Harlequin duck (Zool.), A North American duck ({Histrionicus histrionicus). The male is dark ash, curiously streaked with white.
Harlequin moth. (Zool.) See Magpie Moth.
Harlequin opal. See Opal.
Harlequin snake (Zool.), See harlequin snake in the vocabulary.
Harlequin (v. i.) To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
Harlequin (v. t.) To remove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.
And kitten, if the humor hit Has harlequined away the fit. -- M. Green.
Harlequin (n.) A clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte).
Harlequin (v.) Variegate with spots or marks; "His face was harlequined with patches".
Harlequinade (n.) A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. -- Macaulay.
Harlequinade (a.) Acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: buffoonery, clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank].
Harlock (n.) Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock. -- Drayton.
Harlot (n.) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. -- [Obs.]
He was a gentle harlot and a kind. -- Chaucer.
Harlot (n.) A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Harlot (n.) 妓女 [C] A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.
Harlot (a.) Wanton; lewd; low; base. -- Shak.
Harlot (v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness. -- Milton.
Harlot (n.) A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn: prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street].
Harlot,
() Heb. zonah (Gen. 34:31; 38:15). In verses 21, 22 the Hebrew word
used in _kedeshah_, i.e., a woman consecrated or devoted to
prostitution in connection with the abominable worship of Asherah or
Astarte, the Syrian Venus. This word is also used in Deut. 23:17; Hos.
4:14. Thus Tamar sat by the wayside as a consecrated kedeshah.
It has been attempted to show that Rahab,
usually called a "harlot" (Josh. 2:1; 6:17; Heb. 11:31; James 2:25),
was only an innkeeper. This interpretation, however, cannot be
maintained.
Jephthah's mother is called a "strange woman" (Judg. 11:2). This, however, merely denotes that she was of foreign extraction.
In
the time of Solomon harlots appeared openly in the streets, and he
solemnly warns against association with them (Prov. 7:12; 9:14. See
also Jer. 3:2; Ezek. 16:24, 25, 31). The Revised Version, following the
LXX., has "and the harlots washed," etc., instead of the rendering of
the Authorized Version, "now they washed," of 1 Kings 22:38.
To
commit fornication is metaphorically used for to practice idolatry
(Jer. 3:1; Ezek. 16:15; Hos. throughout); hence Jerusalem is spoken of
as a harlot (Isa. 1:21).
Harlot,
() Heb. nokriyah, the "strange woman" (1 Kings 11:1; Prov. 5:20; 7:5;
23:27). Those so designated were Canaanites and other Gentiles (Josh.
23:13). To the same class belonged the "foolish", i.e., the sinful,
"woman."
In
the New Testament the Greek pornai, plural, "harlots," occurs in Matt.
21:31,32, where they are classed with publicans; Luke 15:30; 1 Cor.
6:15,16; Heb. 11:31; James 2:25. It is used symbolically in Rev. 17:1,
5, 15, 16; 19:2.
Harlotize (v. i.) To harlot. [Obs.] -- Warner.
Harlotry (n.) 賣淫行為，淫婦，[總稱] 妓女 Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman. -- Chaucer.
Harlotry (n.) The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. -- Dryden.
Harlotry (n.) Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.
Harlotry (n.) A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage. [Obs.]
He sups to-night with a harlotry. -- Shak.
Harlotry (n.) Offering sexual intercourse for pay [syn: {prostitution}, {harlotry}, {whoredom}].
Harm (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
Harm (n.) That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms. -- Shak.
Syn: Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief.
Harmed (imp. & p. p.) of Harm
Harming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harm
Harm (v. t.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
Though yet he never harmed me. -- Shak.
No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. -- Milton.
Harm (n.) Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, hurt, harm, trauma].
Harm (n.) The occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment].
Harm (n.) The act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe].
Harm (v.) Cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system".
Harmaline (n.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.
Harmattan (n.) A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.
Harmel (n.) A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.
Harmful (a.) 有害的，傷害的 Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
Harmful (a.) Causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" [ant: {harmless}].
Harmine (n.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.
Harmless (a.) Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
Harmless (a.) Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.
Harmonic (a.) Alt. of Harmonical
Harmonical (a.) 【音】和聲的；和諧的；悅耳的 Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. -- Pope.
Harmonical (a.) (Mus.) Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.
Harmonical (a.) (Math.) Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like.
Harmonic interval (Mus.), The distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes.
Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), Certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical consonances.
Harmonic motion, The motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two or more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion.
Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion.
Harmonic series or Harmonic progression. See under Progression.
Spherical harmonic analysis, A mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. --Thomson & Tait.
Harmonic suture (Anat.), An articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonia, and harmony.
Harmonic triad (Mus.), The chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord.
Harmonic (n.) (Mus.) 【音】泛聲；【物】諧波；諧音 A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.
Harmonic (a.) Of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"- Ralph Hill [ant: nonharmonic].
Harmonic (a.) Of or relating to harmonics.
Harmonic (a.) Of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds; "the sound of the resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the harmonic response".
Harmonic (a.) Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration" [syn: harmonic, sympathetic].
Harmonic (a.) Involving or characterized by harmony [syn: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonized, harmonised].
Harmonic (n.) A tone that is a component of a complex sound.
Harmonic (n.) Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental.
Harmonica (n.) A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
Harmonica (n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
Harmonically (adv.) 調和地；和聲地 In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.
Harmonically (adv.) In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct.
Harmonically (adv.) (Math.) In harmonical progression.
Harmonicon (n.) A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.
Harmonics (n.) 【音】和聲學 The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
Harmonics (n.) (pl.) (Mus.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.
Harmonics (n.) The study of musical sound.
Harmonious (a.) 調和的；和諧的；協調的；和睦的；友好的；悅耳的；和聲的 Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.
God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us. -- Locke.
Harmonious (a.) Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family.
Harmonious (a.) Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious. -- Har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Har*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
Harmonious (a.) Musically pleasing [ant: inharmonious, unharmonious].
Harmonious (a.) Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities [syn: harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical].
Harmonious (a.) Suitable and fitting; "the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing".
Harmonious (a.) Existing together in harmony; "harmonious family relationships".
Harmoniphon (n.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.
Harmonist (n.) One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.
Harmonist (n.) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.
Harmonist (n.) Alt. of Harmonite
Harmonite (n.) One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.
Harmonium (n.) A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
Harmonization (n.) The act of harmonizing.
Harmonized (imp. & p. p.) of Harmonize
Harmonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harmonize
Harmonize (v. i.) 協調，和諧 [（+with）]；以和聲唱（或演奏） To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
Harmonize (v. i.) To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
Harmonize (v. i.) To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.
Harmonize (v. t.) 使協調；使和諧；以和聲唱（或演奏） To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
Harmonize (v. t.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.
Harmonizer (n.) 使和諧協調者 One who harmonizes.
Harmonizer (n.) A musician who sings or plays in harmony [syn: {harmonizer}, {harmoniser}]
Harmonizer (n.) A mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another [syn: {harmonizer}, {harmoniser}].
Harmonometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.
Harmonies (n. pl. ) of Harmony
Harmony (n.) 和睦；融洽；一致 [U]；和諧；協調；調和 [U]；【語】和聲；和聲學 [C] [U] The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
Harmony (n.) Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.
Harmony (n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.
Harmony (n.) (Mus.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.
Harmony (n.) (Mus.) The science which treats of their construction and progression.
Ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelic harmonies. -- Milton.
Harmony (n.) (Anat.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
Close harmony, Dispersed harmony, etc. See under Close, Dispersed, etc.
Harmony of the spheres. See Music of the spheres, under Music.
Syn: Harmony, Melody.
Usage: Harmony results from the concord of two or more strains or sounds which differ in pitch and quality. Melody denotes the pleasing alternation and variety of musical and measured sounds, as they succeed each other in a single verse or strain.
Thorough bass (Mus.) The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
Harmony (n.) Compatibility in opinion and action [syn: harmony, harmoniousness].
Harmony (n.) The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords [syn: harmony, musical harmony].
Harmony (n.) A harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole [syn: harmony, concord, concordance].
Harmony (n.) Agreement of opinions [syn: harmony, concord, concordance].
Harmony (n.) An agreeable sound property [ant: dissonance].
Harmost (n.) A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.
Harmotome (n.) A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.
Harness (n.) [C] [U] 馬具，挽具；挽具狀帶子；降落傘背帶；保險帶；安全帶 Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
At least we'll die with harness on our back. -- Shak.
Harness (n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
{To die in harness}, To die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.
Harnessed (imp. & p. p.) of Harness
Harnessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harness