hile

See also: Hile and hilé

English

Etymology 1

Noun

hile (plural hiles)

  1. (botany) hilum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology 2

Noun

hile (plural hiles)

  1. (old South-West England dialect) A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.

Verb

hile (third-person singular simple present hiles, present participle hiling, simple past and past participle hiled)

  1. (old South-West England dialect) To form sheaves into a hile.

Anagrams

Albanian

Noun

hile f (indefinite plural hile, definite singular hilja, definite plural hilet)

  1. trick, cheat

Finnish

Noun

hile

  1. small ice crystal (usually in plural), often found floating in air
  2. glitter

Declension

Inflection of hile (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative hile hileet
genitive hileen hileiden
hileitten
partitive hilettä hileitä
illative hileeseen hileisiin
hileihin
singular plural
nominative hile hileet
accusative nom. hile hileet
gen. hileen
genitive hileen hileiden
hileitten
partitive hilettä hileitä
inessive hileessä hileissä
elative hileestä hileistä
illative hileeseen hileisiin
hileihin
adessive hileellä hileillä
ablative hileeltä hileiltä
allative hileelle hileille
essive hileenä hileinä
translative hileeksi hileiksi
instructive — hilein
abessive hileettä hileittä
comitative — hileineen

Derived terms

  • hileinen

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Latin hilum

Noun

hile m (plural hiles)

  1. hilum

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

hile (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of yle

Spanish

Verb

hile

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of hilar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of hilar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of hilar.
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