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词汇 hex
释义 hex
noun[ C ]
uk /heks/ us /heks/
an evil spell, bringing bad luck and trouble: 魔法,符咒
put a hex oninformal Someone's put a hex on my computer this morning - it keeps crashing.今天早上我的计算机大概被人施魔法了——不停地死机。
Children's stories tell of witches who cast hexes and fly on broomsticks.
Synonyms
curse
jinx
whammy
How can the hex be broken?
Witches don't really curse people with hexes by wrinkling their noses.
Residents of this community believe she is a witch who can talk to animals and put hexes on anyone who displeases her.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Magic
abracadabra
alchemy
bewitch
bezoar
black magic
escapology
evil
faerie
hocus-pocus
magical
magically
mugwort
mystic
mystical
the evil eyeidiom
wand
whammy
white magic
witchcraft
wizardry
hex
verb[ T ]
uk /heks/ us /heks/
to put an evil spell on someone or something in order to bring them bad luck and trouble:
I think I've been hexed.
The team claimed it lost the competition because it was hexed by psychics hired by its rivals.
After the witches hexed her, she left town.
The story starts with a village girl stealing a traveller's pearls and being hexed.
I once had a patient who believed his wife had been hexing him.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Magic
abracadabra
alchemy
bewitch
bezoar
black magic
escapology
evil
faerie
hocus-pocus
magical
magically
mugwort
mystic
mystical
the evil eyeidiom
wand
whammy
white magic
witchcraft
wizardry
hex
adjective
 informaluk /heks/ us /heks/
short forhexagonal: having a shape with six straight sides:
Pry off the circular plastic insert on top of the enclosure and remove the hex nut.
You will need a hex wrench or a power tool with hexagonal bits.
short forhexadecimal: relating to or expressed in a system of counting based on the number 16 rather than the number 10:
A hex (hexadecimal) key is a mixture of numbers and letters from AF and 09.
All hex digits are required to be lower case.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geometrical shapes
-cornered
circularly
congruently
conic
cylindrically
lozenge
ovally
ovoid
parallelogram
pentagon
polyhedron
polytope
prism
pyramid
pyramidical
quadrilateral
rectangle
rectangular
rhombus
three-dimensional

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Numbering & counting
Computer concepts

Examples of hex


hex
They have certainly put the hex on him.
From the
Hansard archive

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She is often shown concocting various potions, spells and hexes for a multitude of purposes, and even dabbles in fortune-telling.
From
Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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