hit the books : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   had best
         v 1: act in one's own or everybody's best interest; "You will do
               well to arrive on time tomorrow!" [syn: {do well}, {had
               best}]

English Dictionary: hit the books	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hatbox n a round piece of luggage for carrying hats
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hautbois n a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece Synonym(s): oboe, hautboy, hautbois
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head of household n the head of a household or family or tribe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head of state n the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government Synonym(s): head of state, chief of state
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head voice n the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head Synonym(s): head register, head voice, head tone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headfast n a mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headfish n among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters Synonym(s): ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headpiece n the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head Synonym(s): headstall, headpiece a protective helmet for the head
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heat of condensation n heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid; "the heat of condensation is equal to the heat of vaporization"
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heat of fusion n heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature; "the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification"
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heat of solidification n heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point when it solidifies
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heat of solution n the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent
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heat of sublimation n heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heat-absorbing adj (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat Synonym(s): endothermic, endothermal, heat-absorbing Antonym(s): exothermal, exothermic, heat-releasing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hit the books v learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" Synonym(s): study, hit the books
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hotbox n a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Sao \[d8]Sa"o\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any marine annelid of the genus {Hyalin[91]cia}, especially {H. tubicola} of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hatbox \Hat"box`\, n. A box for a hat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hautboyist \Haut"boy*ist\ (-[icr]st), n. [Cf. F. hautbo[8b]ste.] A player on the hautboy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[a0]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[94]fu[?], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief}, {Cadet}, {Capital}), and its origin is unknown.] 1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. [bd]Their princes and heads.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. --Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. --Milton. 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. --Addison. 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. --Graunt. 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay. 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak. 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. --Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. --Addison. 12. Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. --Shak. 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. --Swift. 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. 16. The antlers of a deer. 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer. 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight. Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. {Head}, a. {A buck of the first head}, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak. {By the head}. (Naut.) See under {By}. {Elevator head}, {Feed head}, etc. See under {Elevator}, {Feed}, etc. {From head to foot}, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. [bd]Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.[b8] --Shak. {Head and ears}, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] {Head fast}. (Naut.) See 5th {Fast}. {Head kidney} (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros. {Head money}, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton. {Head pence}, a poll tax. [Obs.] {Head sea}, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. {Head and shoulders}. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. [bd]They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.[b8] --Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. {Head or tail}, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. {Neither head nor tail}, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] {Head wind}, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. {Out one's own head}, according to one's own idea; without advice or co[94]peration of another. {Over the head of}, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Voice \Voice\, n. [OE. vois, voys, OF. vois, voiz, F. voix, L. vox, vocis, akin to Gr. [?] a word, [?] a voice, Skr. vac to say, to speak, G. erw[84]hnen to mention. Cf. {Advocate}, {Advowson}, {Avouch}, {Convoke}, {Epic}, {Vocal}, {Vouch}, {Vowel}.] 1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice. He with a manly voice saith his message. --Chaucer. Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. --Shak. Thy voice is music. --Shak. Join thy voice unto the angel choir. --Milton. 2. (Phon.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper. Note: Voice, in this sense, is produced by vibration of the so-called vocal cords in the larynx (see Illust. of {Larynx}) which act upon the air, not in the manner of the strings of a stringed instrument, but as a pair of membranous tongues, or reeds, which, being continually forced apart by the outgoing current of breath, and continually brought together again by their own elasticity and muscular tension, break the breath current into a series of puffs, or pulses, sufficiently rapid to cause the sensation of tone. The power, or loudness, of such a tone depends on the force of the separate pulses, and this is determined by the pressure of the expired air, together with the resistance on the part of the vocal cords which is continually overcome. Its pitch depends on the number of a[89]rial pulses within a given time, that is, on the rapidity of their succession. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 146, 155. 3. The tone or sound emitted by anything. After the fire a still small voice. --1 Kings xix. 12. Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --Job xl. 9. The floods have lifted up their voice. --Ps. xciii. 3. O Marcus, I am warm'd; my heart Leaps at the trumpet's voice. --Addison. 4. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice. 5. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion. I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. --Gal. iv. 20. My voice is in my sword. --Shak. Let us call on God in the voice of his church. --Bp. Fell. 6. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote. Sic. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? 1 Cit. He has our voices, sir. --Shak. Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice Of holy senates, and elect by voice. --Dryden. 7. Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language. So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God. --Deut. viii. 20. 8. One who speaks; a speaker. [bd]A potent voice of Parliament.[b8] --Tennyson. 9. (Gram.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. {Active voice} (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as the agent or doer of the action expressed by it. {Chest voice} (Phon.), a kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other. {Head voice} (Phon.), a kind of voice of high pitch and of a thin quality ascribed to resonance in the head; voice of the thin register; falsetto. In producing it, the vibration of the cords is limited to their thin edges in the upper part, which are then presented to each other. {Middle voice} (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as both the agent, or doer, and the object of the action, that is, as performing some act to or upon himself, or for his own advantage. {Passive voice}. (Gram.) See under {Passive}, a. {Voice glide} (Pron.), the brief and obscure neutral vowel sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in able (a"b'l). See {Glide}, n., 2. {Voice stop}. See {Voiced stop}, under {Voiced}, a. {With one voice}, unanimously. [bd]All with one voice . . . cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.[b8] --Acts xix. 34.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Headfish \Head`fish"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The sunfish ({Mola}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Headpiece \Head"piece`\, n. 1. Head. In his headpiece he felt a sore pain. --Spenser. 2. A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages. 3. Understanding; mental faculty. Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains. --Prideaux. 4. An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Head Of Grassy, KY Zip code(s): 41135
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Hot Fix {Novell, Inc.}'s term for the feature of their network {file server} {operating system}, {Novell NetWare}, which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data block is written to a spare area on the disk. The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread use of hard disk drives with built-in {error correction} and {bad block} re-mapping. (1997-05-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
HTTP cookie A packet of information sent by an {HTTP server} to a {World-Wide Web} {browser} and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies can contain any arbitrary information the server chooses and are used to maintain {state} between otherwise stateless {HTTP} transactions. Typically this is used to authenticate or identify a registered user of a {web site} without requiring them to sign in again every time they access that site. Other uses are, e.g. maintaining a "shopping basket" of goods you have selected to purchase during a session at a site, site personalisation (presenting different pages to different users), tracking a particular user's access to a site. {(http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie)}. (1997-01-15)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
HTTP server (Or "web server") A {server} process running at a {web site} which sends out {web pages} in response to {HTTP} requests from remote {browsers}. If one site runs more than one server they must use different {port numbers}. Alternatively, several hostnames may be mapped to the same computer in which case they are known as "{virtual servers}". {Apache} and {NCSA} {HTTPd} are two popular web servers. There are many others including some for practically every {platform}. Servers differ mostly in the "server-side" features they offer such as {server-side include}, and in their {authentication} and access control mechanisms. All decent servers support {CGI} and most have some binary {API} as well. (1997-02-05)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
HTTPS {HyperText Transmission Protocol, Secure}