| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb Present Tense | 1. Seldom used present 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] | |
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Date "Hectors" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Hectors Street bullies and brawlers who delighted in being as rude as possible, especially to women. Robbery was not their object, but simply to get talked about. (See Hawkubites.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: HECTORS | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hectors Creek Township, Harnett County, North Carolina | 3 | Hectors Creek Township, Harnett County, North Carolina | 3 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 虚张声势的人 (four-flusher, hectors), 恃强凌弱的人 (bullies, bully, bullys, hectors). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, hectors. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | schüchtert ein (intimidates, frighten, frightens, intimidate, browbeats). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, hectors. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | schüchtert ein (intimidates, frighten, frightens, intimidate, browbeats). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, hectors. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | schüchtert ein (intimidates, frighten, frightens, intimidate, browbeats). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, hectors. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | schüchtert ein (intimidates, frighten, frightens, intimidate, browbeats). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, hectors. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
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