| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Hector.[Websters]
2. To be scared or affrighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have bullied, frightened, terrified, terrorized or appalled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be battered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have swaggered, bragged or blustered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be tarnished or polluted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have intimidated, overawed or daunted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have pestered, maltreated, manhandled, mishandled or persecuted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have brutalized or mistreated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have demolished, smashed, ripped, perished or severed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb hector.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hector) | 1. Be bossy towards.[Wordnet]. 2. To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.[Websters]. 3. To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: hectoring, hectored, hectors, hectorer, hectorers, hectoringly and hectoredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HECTORED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1535. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HECTORED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Bullied; teased.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] Past participle of hector. When is the last time before just now that you saw a liberal democrat hectored by people over traditional values? - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - net.motss - 5 Oct 1984 by arndt. (references) | 2: [Verb] Simple past of hector. They hectored their congressional representatives and, more important, gave summer jobs to the pols' kids. - misc.activism.progressive - 15 Mar 1993 by Kerry Miller. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: hector
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Captain Hector Macturk | Captain Hector Macturk is "the man of peace" in Scott's St. Ronan's Well. (references) | ||
| Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean of Duart, Baron Maclean | The Rt Hon Sir Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean, Baron Maclean of Duart (5 May 1916-8 February 1990), Bt KT GCVO KBE PC, was Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth II from 1971-1984. (references) | ||
| Francisco Luis Hector | Francisco Luis Hector, baron de Carondelet (1748-1807) was the governor of the states of Louisiana and West Florida from 1791 to 1797, at which time these were Spanish colonies. (references) | ||
| Hector (Ambrosia Mascot) | Hector D. Byrd is an African Grey parrot who serves as the office mascot of Ambrosia Software, making cameo appearances in many of the company's games. Hector is female, although this was not known at the time she was named. (references) | ||
| Hector (Fire Emblem) | Hector eventually acquires the legendary axe Armads (Almace), used by the legend Durbans the berserker in the Scouring. (references) | ||
| Hector acuña | This page has been edited due to some typo in the title. Please Search for Hector Acuña. With a capital A. (references) | ||
| Hector Archibald Macdonald | Hector Archibald Macdonald (1852-1903), British soldier, was born of humble parentage at Muir of Allan-Grange, Ross-shire, Scotland, in 1852. As a boy he was employed in a drapers shop at Dingwall, but in 1870 he enlisted in the 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders. (references) | ||
| Hector Berlioz | French composer of romantic works (1803-1869). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hector Boece | Hector Boece (or Hector Boyce) (1465-1536) was a Scottish philosopher. (references) | ||
| Hector Camacho Jr. | Hector Camacho Jr. (born 1978 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a professional boxer. He is the son of legendary three time world champion Hector Macho Camacho. (references) | ||
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: hector
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| HECTOR | English | Heated Experimental Carbon Thermal Oscillator Reactor | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
