hell — Английский словарь

Имя собственное

1. A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.

   Употребление

   • capitalized
   • often
   • in many religions

   Синонимы

   afterlife

   Антонимы

   heaven

   Примеры

   May you rot in hell!

   Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

   Другие примеры (4)

   Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

   Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

   Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

   'Cause this is a wasteland, my only retreat / With heaven above you, there's hell over me

Существительное

1. A place or situation of great suffering in life.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • excessive
   • переносное

   Примеры

   My new boss is making my job a hell.

   I went through hell to get home today.

   Другие примеры (4)

   callback hell; hell; hell

   1879, General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

   Why, am I dying? / Kill, have no fear / Lie, live off lying / Hell, hell is here

   So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.

2. A place for gambling.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое

   Примеры

   Here’s five-and-twenty for you. Don’t be losing it at the hells now.

   a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless

   Другие примеры (2)

   There's light behind here—a hole through the wall. I believe the place is a regular swindling hell.

   But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; […]

3. An extremely hot place.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • переносное
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.

   when hell freezes over

4. Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • mildly
   • неисчисляемое
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   She's got her arms down to her side, defiant. But just for the hell of it, she leans into him, wraps her arms around his neck, puts her head on his shoulder, and hangs on tight.

   I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

   What the hell is wrong with you?!

   Другие примеры (1)

   He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.

5. A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • вышедшее из употребления
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   This sturdy Squire, he had, as well As the bold Trojan Knight, seen Hell.

6. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

7. Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое
   • usually
   • with-on

   Примеры

   That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

Междометие

1. Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.

   O hell! what have we here? A carrion Death, within whose empty eye There is a written scroll! […]

2. Used to emphasize.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • idiomatic
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   Hell yeah!

3. Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!

Наречие

1. Very; used to emphasize strongly.

   Употребление

   • Australia
   • New-Zealand
   • разговорное
   • not-comparable
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Синонимы

   hella

   Примеры

   That was hell good!

   They're hell sexy.

Глагол

1. To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

2. To hurry, rush.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   I had already lost thirteen points, all because she had to come helling in there at twelve, worrying me about that letter.

3. To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • непереходный глагол
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.

Глагол

1. To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • редкое
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   To hell gold or gilt workː take two ounces of tartar, two ounces of sulfur.. and it will give it a fine luster.

Глагол

1. To pour.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • редкое
   • sometimes
   • вульгарное

   Примеры

   18th century, Josiah Relph, The Harvest; or Bashful Shepherd Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the bluid.

Существительное

1. any place of pain and turmoil

   Синонимы

   hell on earthhellholesnake pitthe pitsinferno

   Более общие понятия

   regionpart

   Примеры

   the hell of battle

   the inferno of the engine room

   Другие примеры (1)

   when you're alone Christmas is the pits

2. a cause of difficulty and suffering

   Синонимы

   blaze

   Более общие понятия

   trouble

   Примеры

   war is hell

   go to blazes

3. noisy and unrestrained mischief

   Синонимы

   blaze

   Более общие понятия

   mischiefmischief-makingmischievousnessdeviltrydevilrydevilmentrascalityrogueryroguishnessshenanigan

   Примеры

   raising blazes