Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - hew
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Hew
hew
abbreviation Department of Health, Education, and Welfare HEW verb (~ed; ~ed or ~n; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English heawan; akin to Old High German houwan to ~, Lithuanian kauti to forge, Latin cudere to beat Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument 2. to fell by blows of an ax ~ a tree 3. to give form or shape to with or as if with heavy cutting blows ~ed their farms from the wilderness — J. T. Shotwell intransitive verb 1. to make cutting blows 2. conform, adhere ~ to tradition — often used in the phrase ~ to the line no pressure…on newspapers to ~ to the official line — New York Times Magazine • ~er noun
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v. (past part. hewn or hewed) 1 tr. a (often foll. by down, away, off) chop or cut (a thing) with an axe, a sword, etc. b cut (a block of wood etc.) into shape. 2 intr. (often foll. by at, among, etc.) strike cutting blows. 3 intr. US (usu. foll. by to) conform. Phrases and idioms hew one's way make a way for oneself by hewing. Etymology: OE heawan f. Gmc HEW abbr. US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский лингвострановедческий словарь
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1. рубить to hew trees —- рубить деревья 2. разрубать to hew asunder —- разрубить to hew to pieces —- разрубать на части (на куски) 3. прорубать to hew one's way (through dense jungle) —- прокладывать себе дорогу (сквозь заросли джунглей) to hew a passage through the crowd —- продираться сквозь толпу 4. тесать; гранить to hew timber —- тесать бревна to hew stone into a beautiful statue —- вытесать из камня прекрасную статую 5. (to) придерживаться (чего-л.); быть верным (чему-л.) to hew to the rules —- придерживаться правил, строго следовать правилам ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) рубить, разрубать to hew ones way - прорубать, прокладывать себе дорогу 2) срубать (часто hew down, hew off) The villagers are trying to prevent the ancient tree in the marketplace from being hewn down for safety reasons. 3) высекать, вытесывать (часто hew out) to hew out a career for oneself - сделать карьеру 4) mining отбивать (часто hew off) - hew out - hew to Syn: chop, cut, hack HEW out вырабатывать с трудом The committee had instructions to hew out a new method of organizing the firms accounts, even if it took them all night. HEW to следовать (принципам и т.д.) I have never been disloyal to the Party. I have always hewed to its political principles. ...Англо-русский словарь
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(hews, hewing, hewed, hewed, or hewn) 1. If you hew stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe. (OLD-FASHIONED) He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber. = chop VERB: V n 2. If something is hewn from stone or wood, it is cut from stone or wood. (LITERARY, OLD-FASHIONED) ...the rock from which the lower chambers and subterranean passageways have been hewn. ...medieval monasteries hewn out of the rockface. = cut VERB: usu passive, be V-ed from/out of n, V-ed 3. see also rough-hewn ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ v past tense hewedpast participle hewed or hewn literary 1 to cut something with a cutting tool (hewn stone) 2 hew a path/channel etc to cut a path etc through something (- see also roughhewn) - hewer n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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U.S. gov. abbr. Department of Health, Education, And Welfare ocean sc. abbr. Health, Education and Welfare food abbr. Hen Egg White educ. abbr. Department of Health, Education, And Welfare ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- O.E. heawan "to chop, hack, gash" (class VII strong verb; past tense heow, pp. heawen), earlier geheawan, from P.Gmc. *khawwanan. Seemingly contradictory sense of "hold fast, stick to" (in phrase hew to) developed from hew to the line "stick to a course," lit. "cut evenly with an axe or saw," first recorded 1891. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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