| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Hough.[Websters]
2. To have crippled or maimed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be hocked or mortgaged.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb hough.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hough) | 1. To cut with a hoe.[Websters]. 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: houghing, houghed, houghs, hougher, houghers, houghingly and houghedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HOUGHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1534. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hough
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] hok. . | 2: [Noun] The lower part of the thigh; the ham; the joint of the hind leg of a beast that connects the thigh with the leg.. | 3: [Noun] An adz; a hoe. [Not in use.]. | 4: [Verb] hok. To hamstring; to disable by cutting the sinews of the ham.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Bible | Hough to hamstring, i.e., sever the "tendon of Achilles" of the hinder legs of captured horses (Josh. 11:6; 2 Sam. 8:4; 1 Chr. 18:4), so as to render them useless. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Geography | 1: Hough is geographically located in Ireland. Its features include a locality (a minor area or place of unspecified or mixed character and indefinite boundaries). Its geographic coordinates are 52.626944 degrees North latitude and 7.928889 degrees West longitude. (references) | 2: Hough is geographically located in United Kingdom. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 53 degrees North latitude and 0.616667 degrees West longitude. (references) | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] the hollow behind the knee 1922: In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the houghs of the knees. — James Joyce, Ulysses. (references) | 2: [Verb] To hamstring. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: hough
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Augustus Edward Hough Love | Augustus Edward Hough Love (17 April 1863 in Weston-super-Mare - 5 June 1940 in Oxford) was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems in Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. (references) | ||
| Charlie Hough | Charles Oliver (Charlie) Hough (born January 5, 1948 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a former knuckleballer pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1970 trough 1994, Hough played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1970-80), Texas Rangers (1980-90), Chicago White Sox (1991-92), and the Florida Marlins (1993-94), pitching in their inaugural game on April 5, 1993. He batted and threw right handed. (references) | ||
| Hough function | The Hough functions in applied mathematics are the eigenfunctions of Laplace's tidal equations which govern fluid motion on a rotating sphere. As such, they are important in geophysics and meteorology where they form part of the solutions for atmospheric and ocean waves. (references) | ||
| Hough Green | Hough Green is a residential area of the town of Widnes, in the UK borough of Halton. (references) | ||
| Hough Green railway station | Hough Green railway station is a railway station in the Halton unitary authority in the north west of England. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Northern Rail. Although this station is not within the Merseyside Metropolitan county, it classes as a station within that county for ticketing purposes, marking the eastern boundary of the area where the range of rail tickets produced by Merseytravel can be used. (references) | ||
| Hough Riots | The Hough Riots occurred from July 18 - 24, 1966 and began from a disagreement between café owner and the surrounding predominantly black community. Hough is one of the original neighborhoods in Cleveland. (references) | ||
| Hough transform | The Hough transform is a feature extraction technique used in digital image processing. The classical transform identifies lines in the image, but it has been extended to identifying positions of arbitrary shapes. The transform universally used today was invented by Richard Duda and Peter Hart in 1972, who called it a "generalized Hough transform" after the related 1962 patent of Paul Hough. (references) | ||
| James Hough | James Hough is a fictional character created by the author Charley Haddock. The James Hough character appeared in the humourous comic entitled “Fly Baby” published by Underground Art in 1999. A semi literate superhero blessed by unnatural powers of persuasion and super human whit James was sent by a higher power to fight the corrupt underground forces of the “Grogin”, a race of beings intent on disrupting with morality of society. (references) | ||
| Stephen Hough | Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British classical pianist. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: hough
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Generalised Hough transform | Post & Telecom | Method for detecting, in images, lines and other shapes characterisable by analytic functions, recently extended to handle the correlation of 2D and 3D shapes which have no analytic description. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Hough C. M. | Law | Hough on Courts Martial. (references) | |
| Hough transform | Post & Telecom | A procedure for detecting and finding within a noisy image straight lines, curves, parabolas, and other curves that can be specified by a small number of parameters. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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