HOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hose mean? 

• HOSE (noun)
  The noun HOSE has 3 senses:

1. socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)

2. man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet

3. a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

  Familiarity information: HOSE used as a noun is uncommon.

• HOSE (verb)
  The verb HOSE has 1 sense:

1. water with a hose

  Familiarity information: HOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hose; hosiery

Hypernyms ("hose" is a kind of...):

footwear (clothing worn on a person's feet)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hose"):

sock (hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee)

stocking (close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural))

leotards; tights (skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hose" is a kind of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hose; hosepipe

Hypernyms ("hose" is a kind of...):

tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hose"):

air hose; airline (a hose that carries air under pressure)

fire hose (a large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire)

garden hose (a hose used for watering a lawn or garden)

radiator hose (a flexible hose between the radiator and the engine block)

water cannon; watercannon (a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters))

Derivation:

hose (water with a hose)

• HOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hose    ... he / she / it hoses   
Past simple: hosed   
Past participle: hosed   
-ing form: hosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water with a hose

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hose; hose down

Context example:

hose the lawn

Hypernyms (to "hose" is one way to...):

irrigate; water (supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

hose (a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas)

 Context examples 

Franky Zapata also invented the original Flyboard, which is propelled by jets of water drawn up by a hose, unlike the Flyboard Air, which uses jets of air.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

The youth was not clad in monastic garb, but in lay attire, though his jerkin, cloak and hose were all of a sombre hue, as befitted one who dwelt in sacred precincts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The German gentlemen embroider, I know, but darning hose is another thing and not so pretty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to!—when I was here last, I went into the kitchen-garden and examined the clothes drying on the line; there was a quantity of black hose in a very bad state of repair: from the size of the holes in them I was sure they had not been well mended from time to time.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Beth opened her lips to say something, but could only point to the pile of nicely mended hose which lay on Mother's table, showing that even in her last hurried moments she had thought and worked for them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Having stripped his robe, I had no choice but to let him have the wearing of my good leathern jerkin and hose, for, as he said, it was chilling to the blood and unseemly to the eye to stand frockless whilst I made my orisons.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)