Dictionary Definition
hex adj : of or pertaining to a number system
having 16 as its base [syn: hexadecimal] n : an evil
spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the
whammy on me" [syn: jinx,
curse, whammy] v : cast a spell over
someone or something; put a hex on someone or something [syn:
bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -ɛks
Etymology 1
From etyl pdc hexe, from hexen. Noun appears later, in the early twentieth century. Compare German Hexe.Noun
Translations
an evil spell or curse
- Finnish: taika, loitsu, kirous
- German: Fluch, Verhexung
a witch
- Finnish: noita
- German: Hexe
rare: a spell
Verb
- To put a hex on.
Translations
to put a hex on
- Finnish: kirota, loitsia, taikoa
Etymology 2
Short for hexadecimal.Noun
- computing informal
Translations
hexadecimal
- Finnish: heksa
- Greek: δεκαεξαδικό
Extensive Definition
A hex is a curse or magical spell or a female
caster of such. The term is derived from the German word "Hexe" for
a witch. Hex is also the Greek root word denoting "six" as in
"hexagon", a six-sided
geometric figure. Hex may also mean:
Media
Television & Movies
- Hex (TV series)
- Hex (Doctor Who), a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the television series Doctor Who
- Hex, a Ben 10 villain.
- Hex (1973 movie), a 1973 film starring Keith Carradine, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, and Hillarie Thompson
Music
- Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method), an album by the band Earth
- Hex (song), a song by the British band Specimen
- Hex (album), an album by the band Bark Psychosis
- Hex (VJ group), a British-based multimedia group active in the 1990s, which later became Hexstatic
- Hex (album), an album by the British punk band Poison Girls.
- Hex (band), an alternative/progressive rock rock band from Warrnambool, Australia
- Hex (recording artist) Courtesy of 1134 Productions
Books & Comics
- Hex (Discworld), a fictional computer from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Hex (book), set in a future dystopia.
- Jonah Hex, a DC Comics character
- Dominic Destine, a Marvel Comics character from Clan Destine
Other
- Part of a hex map
- Hex (board game)
- Hexadecimal, a base-16 number system often used by programmers
- Intel HEX A computer file format
- Hex River, South Africa
- pow-wow (folk magic), the Pennsylvania German magical system of "hex work"
- Uranium hexafluoride - part of the nuclear fuel refinement process
- A Hexcentric, an item of climbing protection equipment
- Hex - the Legend of the Towers, an indoor amusement ride at Alton Towers, England
- A hex key, also known as an Allen, hex-head, zeta key, or wrench, is a tool used to drive fasteners
- Hex sign, a barn decoration originating in Pennsylvania Dutch Country of the Northeastern United States
- Heat exchanger, a device for heat transfer
hex in Danish: Hex
hex in German: Hex
hex in Spanish: Hex
hex in Italian: HEX
hex in Polish: Hex
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Jonah,
Weird Sisters, abuse,
accurse, afflict, aggrieve, anathema, anathematize, bad
influence, ban, bedevil, befoul, bewitch, blaspheme, blasphemy, blast, blight, bring bad luck, cantrip, charm, commination, condemn, confound, corrupt, coven, crucify, curse, damage, damn, damnation, darn, defile, demonize, denunciation, deprave, despoil, destroy, diabolize, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do
evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, enchant, enchantment, enchantress, envenom, evil eye, evil genius,
evil star, excommunicate, excommunication,
execrate, execration, exorcism, fulminate against,
fulmination, get
into trouble, glamour,
hag, harass, harm, hoodoo, hurt, ill wind, impair, imprecate, imprecation, infect, injure, jinx, lamia, magic spell, malevolent
influence, malison,
malocchio, maltreat, menace, mistreat, molest, obsess, outrage, overlook, persecute, play havoc with,
play hob with, poison,
pollute, possess, prejudice, proscription, savage, scathe, shamaness, sorceress, spell, taint, threaten, throw a whammy,
thunder against, thundering, torment, torture, violate, voodoo, wanga, weird, whammy, witch, witchwife, witchwoman, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong