What does HOG mean?
Definitions for HOG
hɔg, hɒghog
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Princeton's WordNet
hog, pignoun
a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
hog, hogget, hoggnoun
a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofaverb
domestic swine
hogverb
take greedily; take more than one's share
Wiktionary
hognoun
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the wart hog, and the boar.
hognoun
A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
hognoun
A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
hogverb
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
hogverb
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
hogverb
To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
HOGnoun
Etymology: hwch, Welsh.
This will raise the price of hogs, if we grow all to be pork-eaters. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.
The hog, that plows not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this Lord of all. Alexander Pope.You have brought your hogs to a fair market. Spectator.
ChatGPT
hog
A hog is a general term for a domestic pig, especially a mature one that is typically kept for production of meat, for its bristles, or for the use of its fat. It is used primarily in North America but can also refer to any form of large mammal in a non-specific context. The term may also refer to certain machines or vehicles such as a motorcycle or a type of share in a plow.
Webster Dictionary
Hognoun
a quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow
Hognoun
a mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow
Hognoun
a young sheep that has not been shorn
Hognoun
a rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water
Hognoun
a device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made
Hogverb
to cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse
Hogverb
to scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom
Hogverb
to become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form
Etymology: [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. Haggis, Hogget, and Hoggerel.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hog
hog, n. a general name for swine: a castrated boar: a pig: formerly slang for a shilling: a low filthy fellow.—v.t. to cut short the hair of:—pr.p. hog′ging; pa.p. hogged.—ns. Hog′-back, Hog's′-back, a back rising in the middle: a ridge of a hill of such shape—also Horseback; Hog′gery, hoggishness of character: coarseness; Hog′get, a boar of the second year: a sheep or colt after it has passed its first year.—adj. Hog′gish, resembling a hog: brutish: filthy: selfish.—adv. Hog′gishly.—ns. Hog′gishness; Hog′hood, the nature of a hog; Hog′-mane, a horse's mane clipped short; Hog′-pen, a pig-sty; Hog′-plum, a West Indian tree of the cashew family, the fruit given to hogs; Hog′-reeve, -con′stable, an officer charged with the care of stray swine; Hog′-ring′er, one who puts rings into the snouts of hogs; Hog's′-bean, the henbane.—v.t. Hog′-shou′ther (Scot.), to jostle with the shoulder.—ns. Hog′-skin, leather made of the skin of swine; Hog's′-lard, the melted fat of the hog; Hog′-wash, the refuse of a kitchen, brewery, &c.—Bring one's hogs to a fine market, to make a complete mess of something; Go the whole hog, to do a thing thoroughly or completely, to commit one's self to anything unreservedly. [M. E. hogge, a gelded hog, prob. from hack, to cut; others derive from W. hwch, a sow, Bret. houch, hoch.]
Hog
hog, v.i. to droop at both ends.—n. Hog′-frame, a fore-and-aft frame serving to resist vertical flexure in a ship.—adj. Hogged, of a ship, having a droop at the ends.
Hog
hog, n. in curling, a stone which does not pass the hog-score.—v.t. to play such a shot with a curling-stone.—n. Hog′-score, a line drawn across the rink at a certain distance from the tees—to be cleared, else the shot does not count. [Prob. conn. with hog, a swine.]
Hog
Hogg, hog, n. a young sheep of the second year.—Also Hog′gerel.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
hog
1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive response. Not used of programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves. More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., memory hog, core hog, hog the processor, hog the disk. “A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires.” 2. Also said of people who use more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
hog
A kind of rough, flat scrubbing broom, serving to scrape a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping (which see); formed by inclosing a multitude of short twigs of birch, or the like, between two pieces of plank, which are firmly attached to each other; the ends of the twigs are then cut off even, so as to form a brush of considerable extent. To this is fitted a long staff, together with two ropes, the former of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the latter to guide and pull it up again close to the planks, so as to rub off all the dirt. This work is usually performed in the ship's boat.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of HOG in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of HOG in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of HOG in a Sentence
What they say and what they do can be two different things, we have to see some follow through on it to make sure there are purchases for the hog sector.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Austin took his hog,Millhouse, to the auction hoping to raise at least $1,000, but to his surprise, he was able to bring in more than $11,000. The initial bidders came in high at $12 a pound, bringing in a total of almost $3,000 but the auctioneer informed the eager crowd they were going to open up the bidding to anyone who wanted to donate an additional dollar per pound that would go directly to charity. Austins dad said he was shocked when he saw dozens of hands go up. It was a sea of cards that just came up.
I just tried not to go too big, because I can go so big and I have a lot of power and it's not always easy to control it, so I'm trying to play smart instead of going hog wild, which is extremely easy to do.
They were like kids in a candy store, they had about 40 minutes where they ran wild. They went hog wild downloading as much data (as they could) in about 25 minutes.
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- خنزيرArabic
- свінняBelarusian
- свиняBulgarian
- tacany, suid, marràCatalan, Valencian
- vepř, sviněCzech
- svinDanish
- Schwein, Hausschwein, sich selbstsüchtig aneignen, Sau, raffen, Vielfraß, in Beschlag nehhmenGerman
- racanear, rácano, puercoSpanish
- sigalaneEstonian
- rohmuta, sika, ahnehtia, harrikka, kitupiikkiFinnish
- cochonFrench
- mucIrish
- חזירHebrew
- सूअरHindi
- disznó, sertésHungarian
- խոզArmenian
- babi, mogeIndonesian
- ブタ, 豚Japanese
- ღორიGeorgian
- ជ្រូកKhmer
- 돼지Korean
- meitėlisLithuanian
- veprisLatvian
- свињаMacedonian
- schrokken, voor zichzelf opeisen, varkenDutch
- svinNorwegian
- bisóodiNavajo, Navaho
- świnia, wieprzPolish
- suínoPortuguese
- заграбастать, жадина, свинья, скряга, коротко подстригать, вепрь, боров, прибирать к рукам, мощный мотоцикл, заграбастывать, прибрать к рукамRussian
- svinja, свињаSerbo-Croatian
- sviňaSlovak
- svinjaSlovene
- roffa åt sig, hoj, svindjurSwedish
- свиняUkrainian
- svinVolapük
- 猪Chinese
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