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hortum — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hose noun A flexible tube used to carry water or other liquid.
  • tornado noun A violently spinning column of air that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch the ground, capable of destroying almost everything in its path.
  • trunk verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.

Senses

hortum is used for these senses in English:

  • hose (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
  • tornado (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
  • trunk The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

hose — full definition

  1. noun A flexible tube used to carry water or other liquid.
  2. noun Stockings or tights worn on the legs.
  3. verb To spray water on something using a hose.
  4. verb Informal: to cheat, trick, or badly disadvantage someone.

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