He

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Personal \Per"son*al\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*al), a. [L. personalis: cf.
     F. personnel.]
     1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
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              Every man so termed by way of personal difference.


                                                    --Hooker.
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     2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or
        affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals;
        peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or
        general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
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              The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, --
              and so personal to Cain.              --Locke.
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     3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance;
        corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison.
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     4. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
        "Personal communication." --Fabyan.
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              The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White.
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     5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct,
        motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive
        manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
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     6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
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     {Personal action} (Law), a suit or action by which a man
        claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it;
        or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury
        to his person or property, or the specific recovery of
        goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.
  
     {Personal equation}. (Astron.) See under {Equation}.
  
     {Personal estate} or {Personal property} (Law), movables;
        chattels; -- opposed to {real estate} or {real property}.
        It usually consists of things temporary and movable,
        including all subjects of property not of a freehold
        nature.
  
     {Personal identity} (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous
        unity of the individual person, which is attested by
        consciousness.
  
     {Personal pronoun} (Gram.), one of the pronouns {I}, {thou},
        {he}, {she}, {it}, and their plurals.
  
     {Personal representatives} (Law), the executors or
        administrators of a person deceased.
  
     {Personal rights}, rights appertaining to the person; as, the
        rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and
        private property.
  
     {Personal tithes}. See under {Tithe}.
  
     {Personal verb} (Gram.), a verb which is modified or
        inflected to correspond with the three persons.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  He \He\, (Chem.)
     The chemical symbol for {helium}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  He \He\ (h[=e]), pron. [nom. {He}; poss. {His} (h[i^]z); obj.
     {Him} (h[i^]m); pl. nom. {They} ([th][=a]); poss. {Their} or
     {Theirs} ([th][^a]rz or [th][=a]rz); obj. {Them}
     ([th][e^]m).] [AS. h[=e], masc., he['o], fem., hit, neut.;
     pl. h[imac], or hie, hig; akin to OFries. hi, D. hij, OS. he,
     hi, G. heute to-day, Goth. himma, dat. masc., this, hina,
     accus. masc., and hita, accus. neut., and prob. to L. his
     this. [root]183. Cf. {It}.]
     1. The man or male being (or object personified to which the
        masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a
        pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a
        specified subject already indicated.
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              Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall
              rule over thee.                       --Gen. iii.
                                                    16.
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              Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou
              serve.                                --Deut. x. 20.
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     2. Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and
        usually followed by a relative pronoun.
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              He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. --Prov.
                                                    xiii. 20.
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     3. Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used
        substantively. --Chaucer.
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              I stand to answer thee,
              Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.  --Shak.
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     Note: When a collective noun or a class is referred to, he is
           of common gender. In early English, he referred to a
           feminine or neuter noun, or to one in the plural, as
           well as to noun in the masculine singular. In
           composition, he denotes a male animal; as, a he-goat.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  He
       n 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) [syn: {helium},
             {atomic number 2}]
       2: the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "he":
     I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, bloke, boy,
     buck, chap, ego, ethical self, fellow, gee, gent, gentleman, guy,
     her, herself, him, himself, his, hombre, homme, inner man,
     inner self, it, male, male being, male person, man, masculine, me,
     my humble self, myself, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves,
     self, she, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, them,
     themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  HE
       HoehenEinheit [1HE = 19"]