hap — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • non numerabile

2. A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • numerabile

   Esempi

   Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield.

   Altri esempi (1)

   And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.

   Each day ſtill better others happineſſe, Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap, Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.

   Altri esempi (3)

   URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam. HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

   [I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]

   He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.

Verbo

1. To happen; to befall; to chance.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • intransitivo
   • letterario

   Sinonimi

   come to passoccurtranspire

   Esempi

   "But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,....

   "We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap."

2. To happen to.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • letterario
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   What meaneth June, to hap us every year.

Sostantivo

1. Happenings; events; goings-on.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • in-plural
   • gergo

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?" Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"

Sostantivo

1. A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.

   Uso

   • Pennsylvania
   • Scotland
   • uso britannico
   • Western
   • arcaico

Verbo

1. To wrap, clothe.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • dialectal

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   Bless thy pretty heart! The bairn’s sick. Come wi’ me, and I’ll hap thee up somewhere. If thou wert a bit cleaner I’d put thee in my own bed, for the Lord’s sake.

   The surgeon happed her up carefully.

   Altri esempi (1)

   The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot.

Sostantivo

1. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

   Uso

   • arcaico

Sostantivo

1. an accidental happening

   Termini più generali

   accidentstrokefortuitychance event

   Esempi

   he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life

Verbo

1. come to pass

   Sinonimi

   happengo onpass offoccurpassfall outcome abouttake place

   Esempi

   What is happening?

   The meeting took place without an incident

   Altri esempi (1)

   Nothing occurred that seemed important