What's the difference between hack and heck?

Hack


Definition:

  • (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
  • (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
  • (v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
  • (v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
  • (n.) A notch; a cut.
  • (n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
  • (n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
  • (n.) A kick on the shins.
  • (n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
  • (n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
  • (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
  • (n.) A procuress.
  • (a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
  • (v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
  • (v. t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
  • (v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
  • (v. i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
  • (2) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
  • (3) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (4) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
  • (5) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
  • (6) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
  • (7) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (8) The remarks are the most direct official response on the issue, although the government has previously said that it "resolutely opposes" hacking and criticised "baseless" claims.
  • (9) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
  • (10) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
  • (11) Jowell said she was first told that her phone had been hacked "on 28 or 29 occasions" by the police in May 2006.
  • (12) The two men ran Rigby down in a car before hacking him to death in the street near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London .
  • (13) The promotion would come as News Corp continues to face legal investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (14) OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency Read more The full scale of the information the attackers accessed remains unknown but could include highly sensitive data such as medical records, employment files and financial details, as well as information on security clearances and more.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Karpeles, president of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, bows his head during a press conference in Tokyo after a $400m hack.
  • (16) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
  • (17) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
  • (18) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
  • (19) He said Coulson quite clearly knew hacking was a breach of the Press Complaints Commission code and there might be privacy issues, but never knew it was a crime.
  • (20) The regulator said it did not find the evidence provided a basis to conclude Rupert Murdoch had acted in a way that was inappropriate in relation to phone hacking, concealment or corruption by employees.

Heck


Definition:

  • (n.) The bolt or latch of a door.
  • (n.) A rack for cattle to feed at.
  • (n.) A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
  • (n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  • (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  • (n.) A bend or winding of a stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It might not work, heck it probably won’t work, but something had to change in the Knicks organization.
  • (2) But it seems a heck of a lot of money for just 54 days in post and after getting things so badly wrong."
  • (3) This could prevent a person from taking over if a car loses control, making it “even more important that the details of any accidents be made public so people know what the heck’s going on”.
  • (4) "It's a heck of a lot of money," said the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, who is an independent.
  • (5) Guardian staff JamieJackson 22 April 2014 10:48am That's what we're told on a consistent basis: that there is a heck of amount of money available if needed.
  • (6) "Heck, you folks even get Fozzie's jokes, but it was the great impresario Lord Lew Grade who gave us our first big break ... and we're forever grateful to him and to everyone here in England."
  • (7) Zito is looking for that double play to get the heck out of the inning, but is gifted a pop to left that shortstop Brandon Crawford is out to collect.
  • (8) Heck, maybe these early season struggles were the result of the Curse of the Orange Uniforms .
  • (9) An epizootic of focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) or Morbus Heck in a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) colony is described.
  • (10) Game five's mean a heck of a lot in North American series, and this one is no different.
  • (11) If a misfiring Manchester City can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?
  • (12) Better coordination of all teacher training routes will have to come, with some sort of middle tier at a local level to ensure supply and quality.” Husbands agrees: “You could get a heck of a long way if you went down the route of school-university alliances.
  • (13) Updated at 1.24am GMT 1.16am GMT Predictions please That is one heck of an act to follow, let me tell ya.
  • (14) Its amino acid composition and N-terminal sequence agree well with results derived from the sequence of the VRS gene [Heck, J.D., & Hatfield, G.W.
  • (15) The disorders mentioned include: eczematous processes, rosacea-like dermatitis, steroid rosacea, acne, especially the diagnosis and therapy of cystic acne, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, viral infection (Heck's disease) and circumscribed scleroderma versus systemic sclerosis and hemiatrophy of the face.
  • (16) Heck, if the Giants could do it a year ago, why not these Dodgers, who have even better pitching than San Francisco did, not to mention lineup that could wipe the floor with Buster Posey and his buddies on the Bay.
  • (17) The occurrence of focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck's Disease) in a 12-year-old Mexican-American female is presented.
  • (18) Heck, Davidson even won Edinburgh Central, a constituency where previously the Tory candidate had come fourth.
  • (19) Maybe she lingered over the first chart in the book: That's a heck of a chart.
  • (20) You don't have to approve the way he went about it, heck this writer doesn't approve of the way he went about it, but LeBron James has won his first ring, and there's a good chance it's not going to be his last.