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hawk·ing    Audio Help   [haw-king] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the sport of hunting with hawks or other birds of prey; falconry.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME; see hawk1, -ing1]
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–noun
Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
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hawk 1    Audio Help   (hôk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Any of various birds of prey of the order Falconiformes and especially of the genera Accipiter and Buteo, characteristically having a short hooked bill and strong claws adapted for seizing.
  2. Any of various similar birds of prey.
  3. A person who preys on others; a shark.
    1. One who demonstrates an actively aggressive or combative attitude, as in an argument.
    2. A person who favors military force or action in order to carry out foreign policy.

intr.v.   hawked, hawk·ing, hawks
  1. To hunt with trained hawks.
  2. To swoop and strike in the manner of a hawk: "It was fun to watch the scattered snail kites . . . lifting and falling in the wind as they hawked across the shining grass and water" (Peter Matthiessen).


[Middle English hauk, from Old English hafoc; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

hawk'ish adj., hawk'ish·ly adv., hawk'ish·ness n.
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hawk 2    Audio Help   (hôk)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   hawked, hawk·ing, hawks

v.   intr.
To peddle goods aggressively, especially by calling out.

v.   tr.
To peddle (goods) aggressively, especially by calling out.


[Middle English hauken, back-formation from hauker; see hawker.]

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hawk 3    Audio Help   (hôk)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   hawked, hawk·ing, hawks

v.   intr.
To clear or attempt to clear the throat by or as if by coughing up phlegm.

v.   tr.
To clear the throat of (phlegm).

n.   An audible effort to clear the throat by expelling phlegm.


[Imitative.]

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Haw·king    Audio Help   (hô'kĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
British theoretical physicist noted for his research into the origin of the universe. His work influenced the development of the big bang and black hole theories.

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hawking

noun
1. English theoretical physicist (born in 1942) 
2. the act of selling goods for a living [syn: vending

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Hawking    Audio Help   (hô'kĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
British physicist noted for his study of black holes and the origin of the universe, especially the big bang theory. His work has provided much of the mathematical basis for scientific explanations of the physical properties of black holes.

Our Living Language  : The world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking needs little introduction to those familiar with the bespectacled man who uses a wheelchair and lectures around the world with the aid of a computerized speech synthesizer. The condition that has left him all but totally paralyzed, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is usually fatal within a few years; but Hawking has beaten the odds by living with the disease for all his adult life, since its onset when he was a 20-year-old college student. Hawking's story is a testament to a determined person's ability to overcome unexpected adversity—his career in fact did not take off until after the disease had been diagnosed. Hawking partly credits the disease for giving him a sense of purpose and the ability to enjoy life. His academic position at Oxford is a chaired professorship in mathematics that was also held by Isaac Newton, in 1669. He originally set out to study mathematics, but it is for his discoveries in physics that he is best known. With his collaborator Roger Penrose, he theorized that Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicts that space and time have a definite origin and conclusion, providing mathematical support for the Big Bang theory. This led to further attempts to unify General Relativity with quantum theory, one consequence of which is the intriguing view that black holes are not entirely "black," as originally thought, but emit radiation and should eventually evaporate and disappear.

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