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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("he" is a kind of...):
alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)
Holonyms ("he" is a member of...):
Hebraic alphabet; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew script (a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)
Synonyms:
atomic number 2; He; helium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("He" is a kind of...):
chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
argonon; inert gas; noble gas (any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table)
Context examples:
"They jes' swallowed 'm alive. I bet he was yelpin' as he went down their throats, damn 'em!"
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The driver, however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept turning his head to left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“You are sure he used a key?” he inquired at last.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the Downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I'll stay here a bit, he continued.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Such, then, was my mother; and as to my father, I can describe him best when I come to the time when he returned to us from the Mediterranean.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Springing forward, he hurled his unwieldy weapon at brother Ambrose, and, as desk and monk clattered on to the floor together, he sprang through the open door and down the winding stair.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The next step is making the device more efficient and making a physical computer that could work in the highest of temperatures, he added.
(Harnessing Heat to Power Computers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
