Варианты произношения
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/hæk/
Глагол
To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
Употребление- переходный глагол
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They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
Другие примеры (2)
Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
The ruthless practices of the Ontario Film Censor Board are by now the laughing stock of most of the world. Scenes that contain more flesh or affection than they find savoury are simply hacked out of the film before it is released.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
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Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
Другие примеры (1)
New Yorkers have been fleeing for months. But the fear some residents have of the violent reactions to the protests here is adding a new challenge to those asking themselves whether they can hack the city. Many are deciding not to return.
To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
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I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
To accomplish a difficult programming task.
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He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
Другие примеры (1)
The police said that officers belonging to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime unit searched an office in the Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood on Friday afternoon on the suspicion that computers at the institute had been hacked, leading to a leak of personal information.
To work with something on an intimately technical level.
Употребление- сленг
- переходный глагол
- Примеры
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I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
Употребление- broadly
- разговорное
- переходный глагол
- Примеры
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I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
Употребление- сленг
- переходный глагол
- Синонимы
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FACT: The People’s Republic of China (China) and their proxies bought, stole, or hacked as many as 220 million Americans’ voter registration data.
To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
Употребление- broadly
- сленг
- переходный глагол
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When I logged in to the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.
To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
Употребление- непереходный глагол
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That player must be hacking, they got so many kills last game.
To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
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He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
Jensen gets a 5 minute major penalty for hacking Orsov in the back.
To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
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There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
To swing at a pitched ball.
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He went to the batter's box hacking.
To kick (a player) on the shins.
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Другие примеры (1)
Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.
To strike in a frantic movement.
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Другие примеры (1)
Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out.
To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
Употребление- переходный глагол
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[…] laterally from and then towards the spine, and continued downwards from the shoulders until the whole back has been hacked.
Существительное
A tool for chopping.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
A hacking blow.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
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Look you what hacks are on his helmet !
A try, an attempt.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- переносное
- неисчисляемое
The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- вышедшее из употребления
- неисчисляемое
An improvised device or solution to a problem.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неофициальное
- неисчисляемое
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Luckily for us J company picked us up in their hack — two snowmobiles with a big inflatable raft strapped between them.
An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
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Другие примеры (1)
Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.
A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- устаревающее
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.
A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- устаревающее
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!
An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.
A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
Употребление- разговорное
- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.
Другие примеры (1)
Woebot was full of tasks and tricks — little mental health hacks — which at first made me roll my eyes. One day Woebot asked me to press an ice cube to my forehead, to feel the sensation as a way of better connecting with my body.
One of my go-to side dish hacks is sprinkling crunchy, cracked whole spices onto a pan of vegetables before roasting.
The illegal accessing of a computer network.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
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Другие примеры (1)
[…] found out a discarded sex mini-game in the code, and made it available again in the modified PC version of the game that they nicknamed “Hot Coffee.” This hack of the game created a controversy, since the inclusion of sexual content would change its age rating, […]
A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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Zersky is still down after that nasty hack by Lenner.
A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.
A kick on the shins in football of any type.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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Wales are awarded a free kick after a minor hack by Järvinen on Llewellyn.
Другие примеры (2)
“Ain't there just fine scrummages then! and the three trees you see there which come out into the play, that's a tremendous place when the ball hangs there, for you get thrown against the trees, and that's worse than any hack.”
Liverpool left-back Robertson had been excellent but was sent off for a reckless hack on Emerson Royal, a decision given after Paul Tierney reviewed the decision on the pitch-side monitor.
Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
Употребление- сленг
- неисчисляемое
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Другие примеры (1)
You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!
“Lieutenant Cauthen, you've got ten seconds to explain yourself before I put you in hack!”
An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- сленг
- неисчисляемое
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Другие примеры (2)
Henebry's planes returned to Japan to reload, and early in the morning brought almost 3,000 more troopers to Korea […] Before sunrise next day, all troops in the maneuver had been picked up again and airlifted in “Henebry Hacks” back to Japan.
[…] so that he had to make the 300-mile journey in a “hack” plane which had spluttering engines, which did not conduce to an easy mind nor to a comfortable journey; […]
Существительное
A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
A food-rack for cattle.
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
A grating in a mill race.
Глагол
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
Существительное
A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
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Другие примеры (1)
A cold wind, a piercing rain, and a bad road, with a worse hack (for his own horses had been knocked up), rendered more acute the misery which he, as a parted lover, was bound to feel.
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
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I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
Другие примеры (1)
[W]e know how the life of any hack, legal or literary, in a curacy, or in a marching regiment, or at a merchant’s desk, is dull of routine, and tedious of description.
Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
Употребление- пренебрежительное
The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
Употребление- сленг
A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
Употребление- Canada
- употребление в США
- разговорное
- Примеры
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On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
Другие примеры (1)
The interurban wasn't running because of the holiday, and the hacks, if there were any, would have been clustered round the Post Tavern at the other end of town.
A hearse.
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Другие примеры (1)
1920s, Jimmie Rodgers, Frankie and Johnny Bring out the rubber-tired buggie/Bring out the rubber-tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
An untalented writer.
Употребление- пренебрежительное
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Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.
He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
Употребление- пренебрежительное
A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
Употребление- пренебрежительное
A political agitator.
A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
Употребление- британское употребление
- пренебрежительное
A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Употребление- вышедшее из употребления
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Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack.
A procuress.
Употребление- вышедшее из употребления
Глагол
To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
Употребление- устаревающее
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Употребление- вышедшее из употребления
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Poor madam , now condemn'd to hack The rest of life with anxious Jack
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
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The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
To drive a hackney cab.
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When I was hacking in Brooklyn, I used to run him over to the Court Street restaurants, where he'd sit in Nick and Tony's Pizzeria […]
Глагол
To cough noisily.
Употребление- непереходный глагол
- Примеры
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This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
Существительное
A dry cough.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
- Примеры
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he speaks to this very question: which he does with so many hacks and hesitations
Междометие
An onomatopoeia for coughing.
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Haaaack... Oooooooog... A-CHOO! That was terrible.. I gotta get in shape...
Существительное
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
Глагол
To play hackeysack.
Существительное
one who works hard at boring tasks
- Более общие понятия
a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- Более общие понятия
a mediocre and disdained writer
- Синонимы
a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- Более общие понятия
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- Более общие понятия
an old or over-worked horse
- Более общие понятия
a horse kept for hire
- Более общие понятия
a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- Более общие понятия
Глагол
cut with a hacking tool
- Синонимы
- Более общие понятия
be able to manage or manage successfully
- Синонимы
- Примеры
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I can't hack it anymore
she could not cut the long days in the office
cut away
- Более общие понятия
- Примеры
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he hacked his way through the forest
kick on the arms
- Более общие понятия
kick on the shins
- Более общие понятия
fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- Синонимы
- Примеры
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I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best
significantly cut up a manuscript
- Синонимы
cough spasmodically
- Синонимы
- Более общие понятия
- Примеры
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The patient with emphysema is hacking all day