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hose

/həʊz/US/hoʊz/

hose noun: a flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.

hose: a flexible tube conveying water or other fluid
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Noun

hose (countable and uncountable, plural hoses or hosen)

  1. (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
  2. (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
  3. (historical) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
    • Theſe men were bound in their coates, their hoſen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caſt into the midſt of the burning fierie furnace.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:21
    • His youthful hoſe, vvell ſaved, a vvorld too vvide / For his ſhrunk ſhank, […]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Verb

hose (third-person singular simple present hoses, present participle hosing, simple past and past participle hosed)

  1. (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
    • Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed.1995, Vivian Russell, Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny, →ISBN, page 83
  2. (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
    • His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.2003, John R. Bruning, Jungle ace, Brassey's, →ISBN, page 136
  3. (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
    • He had just finished hosing gasoline into his tank, a short man, burly, needing a shave, and wearing greasy coveralls.2003, Tony Hillerman, The Sinister Pig, →ISBN, page 57
  4. (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
    • The mighty mass of many a mingled race,
      Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
      The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed-
      Nose and eyes only to the day exposed1834 July to December, Pierce Pungent, “Men and Manners”, in Fraser's magazine for town and country, volume X, page 416
  5. (transitive) To trick or deceive.
    • Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him.1995, Keath Fraser, Popular anatomy, The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 458
    • Poutine? A better McMuffin? A bigger Big Mac?? We've been hosed.2023 September 7, Adam Chandler, “Americans Should Feel Humiliated by Canadian McDonald's”, in Slate, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2023
  6. (slang, transitive) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
    • There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.2006 Spring, Joel Durham Jr., “Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI”, in Maximum PC, Future US, Inc., →ISSN, page 63
  7. (transitive) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

Proper noun capitalized: Hose

Hose

  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Clawson, Hose and Harby parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7329).

hose meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hose in Hindi

flexible tube
नली nalī

hose in Tamil

குழாய், நெளிகுழாய்

hose in Marathi

flexible tube
रबरी नळी rabrī naḷī

hose in Urdu

flexible tube
نَلی nalī
More languagesFewer languages
hose in Bengali
আঁটো পাজামাবিশেষ ãṭō pajamabiśeś
hose in Telugu
గొట్టము goṭṭamu
hose in Malayalam
ഹോസ്, കുഴൽ, പ്രണാളി, ജലവാഹിനിക്കുഴൽ
hose in Kannada
ಕೊಳವೆ, ಕಾಲ್ಚೀಲ
hose in Tagalog
diligan, gomang pandilig
hose in Arabic
خُرْطُوم مَاءٍ ḵurṭūm māʔin, خُرْطُوم ḵurṭūm
hose in Indonesian
selang
hose in Thai
ท่อยาง tɔ̂ɔ-yaang, ท่อ tɔ̂ɔ
hose in Vietnamese
ống vòi
hose in Myanmar
ရေပိုက် repuik, ပိုက် puik

Examples of hose in a sentence

  • I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.
  • We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
  • We'll wash it down with a garden hose and just a touch of soap.

All 40 example sentences with hose

Forms of hose

Noun
pluralhoses
pluralhosen
Verb
third-person singular presenthoses
present participlehosing
past participlehosed
pasthosed

Past tense of hose: hosed

Plural of hose: hoses

Origin of hose

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky. The clothing senses were the original meaning, from which is derived the sense of a tube for fluids.

* As an English, Scottish, and German surname, from the noun hose (“leggings”). * Also as a German surname, from the Czech personal name Hos, shortened from Johannes, or from host (“guest”), see Hosack. * Also as an English surname, from Old English hās, side form of hǣse (“underwood”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *haistr (“young tree”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Howes. * Also as an English surname, shortened from Hussey.

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Questions about hose

What does hose mean?
Hose means a flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
What is hose in Hindi?
Hose in Hindi is नली (nalī). See Hose meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hose?
Hose can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hose?
Hose is pronounced /həʊz/ (UK).
What is the plural of hose?
The plural of hose is hoses.

Words near hose in the dictionary

  1. hosaphones
  2. Hoscar
  3. Hosch
  4. Hoschander
  5. Hoschton
  6. hose
  7. hose barb
  8. hose barbs
  9. hose bridge
  10. hose bridges
  11. hose clamp

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hose (page history and authors); Hose (page history and authors); hose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hose (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hose (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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