Het

Het

Het or HET can refer to:

* acronyms:
** Heavy Equipment Transporter, a military vehicle
** Historical Enquiries Team, set up to review unsolved murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles
** Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas McDonald Observatory.
** Holocaust Educational Trust, a UK charity
** Human Enhancement Technologies
* codes:
** IATA airport code for Hohhot Baita International Airport
** ticker symbol on the NYSE for Harrah's Entertainment
* in variants of English:
** a heterosexual person (American English slang)
** a non-standard gender-neutral pronoun
* places:
** Het Bildt, a municipality of Friesland in the Netherlands
* in other languages:
* Het is the language of a group of indigenous South Americans who lived in the Pampas area of Argentina and is the name this ethnic group called themselves. Querandí was the name given them by the Guaraní people. They were also well-known as the "Pampas" by the Spanish, prior to the 19th Century. The Mapuche (or araucanos) called them Puelche.
** Heth, the eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets
** нет, "no" in Russian, written in the Cyrillic alphabet, and pronounced nyet—y as in "yes"
** the Dutch word for "it", and one of the Dutch words for "the" (more precisely the (gender) definite article)
** a common word in north west India for love, can also be a name like Hetul.
** In Swedish "het" is the word for "hot". [http://www.online-dictionary.biz/swedish/english/vocabulary/reference/het.asp]
* in music:
** Het (band), a Dutch band from the 1960s

See also

* Heth (disambiguation)

References


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  • Hét — Hét …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • HET — steht für: das Hobby Eberly Teleskop die Hilfseinschalttaste an Bahnübergängen Hormonersatztherapie Halleffekt Thruster, siehe Ionenantrieb den Fernwanderweg Harz Eichsfeld Thüringer Wald Het steht für: ein indigenes Volk, auch als Pampas bekannt …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Hét — Administration …   Wikipédia en Français

  • ḤET — (Heb. חֵת ;ח), the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; its numerical value is therefore 8. It is pronounced as a fricative pharyngeal. The earliest representation of the ḥet is in a pictograph of a fence ! …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • het up — /het/, Informal. 1. indignant; irate; upset: She was really het up about the new city tax. 2. enthusiastic: John is suddenly het up about racing cars. [1920 25; het, archaic or dial. ptp. of heat + UP] * * * …   Universalium

  • het up — [ˌhet ˈʌp] adj [not before noun] BrE informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Old past participle of heat] anxious, upset, or slightly angry het up about/over ▪ Mike tends to get het up about silly things …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • het up — ☆ het up [het ] n. [het, dial. pt. & pp. of HEAT] Slang excited or angry …   English World dictionary

  • het up — [ ,het ʌp ] adjective INFORMAL excited, worried, or angry about something: AGITATED …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • het up — het′ up′ [[t]hɛt[/t]] adj. Slang. 1) inf indignant; irate; upset 2) inf enthusiastic • Etymology: 1920–25; het, archaic or dial. ptp. of heat+up …   From formal English to slang

  • het up — ► ADJECTIVE informal ▪ angry and agitated. ORIGIN from dialect het «heated, hot» …   English terms dictionary

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