HE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does He mean? 

• HE (noun)
  The noun HE has 2 senses:

1. 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)

2. the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

  Familiarity information: HE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 2; He; helium

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)

Sense 2

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))

 Context examples 

He threw over a sheet of thick, pink-tinted notepaper which had been lying open upon the table.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am glad to stretch myself, Watson,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though alone, he was not lost.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“My name is Johnson, not Yonson,” he said, in very good, though slow, English, with no more than a shade of accent to it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This full moon is as sweet as sugar, and Mars will be supportive, for he is in Sagittarius, a fellow fire sign in ideal angle to your Sun and full moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The girl has sworn that as he spoke she noticed the corner of the little paper packet protruding from his closed hand.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“What, he spoilt you, I suppose?” returned Miss Betsey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)