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Definition of hoar in English: hoaradjective hɔːhɔr archaic, literary Greyish white; grey or grey-haired with age. 灰白的；花白的，花白头发的 Example sentencesExamples - Gertrude does speak of a willow which ‘grows askant the brook / That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.’
- These depth hoar complexes, as they are called, can usually be counted as annual layers in the top portion of the GISP2 core.
Synonyms grey, greying, greyish, silver, silvery, snowy, snowy-white, white, whitish, grizzly, hoary, salt-and-pepper
noun hɔːhɔr mass nounarchaic, literary Hoar frost. 白霜 Example sentencesExamples - There is still some depth hoar on the ground, but fairly consistent, and more importantly, frozen layers above.
- Hector noticed spicules of rime adorning the packing-case shelves like fluffy moulds and hoar on his own beard.
- Summer temperatures are hot in the sheltered valleys, winter temperatures fall well below zero and hoar frosts are common.
- Depth hoar develops when a large, vertical temperature gradient causes vapour to sublime, diffuse and crystallize in a layer.
- Everything - the trees, the ground, Guiromélans's clothes - is covered with a thick coat of hoar.
OriginOld English hār, of Germanic origin; related to German hehr 'majestic, noble'. Rhymesabhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your Definition of hoar in US English: hoaradjectivehôrhɔr literary, archaic Grayish white; gray or gray-haired with age. 灰白的；花白的，花白头发的 Example sentencesExamples - These depth hoar complexes, as they are called, can usually be counted as annual layers in the top portion of the GISP2 core.
- Gertrude does speak of a willow which ‘grows askant the brook / That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.’
Synonyms grey, greying, greyish, silver, silvery, snowy, snowy-white, white, whitish, grizzly, hoary, salt-and-pepper
nounhôrhɔr literary, archaic Hoarfrost. 白霜 Example sentencesExamples - Summer temperatures are hot in the sheltered valleys, winter temperatures fall well below zero and hoar frosts are common.
- There is still some depth hoar on the ground, but fairly consistent, and more importantly, frozen layers above.
- Depth hoar develops when a large, vertical temperature gradient causes vapour to sublime, diffuse and crystallize in a layer.
- Hector noticed spicules of rime adorning the packing-case shelves like fluffy moulds and hoar on his own beard.
- Everything - the trees, the ground, Guiromélans's clothes - is covered with a thick coat of hoar.
OriginOld English hār, of Germanic origin; related to German hehr ‘majestic, noble’. |