Hoyle

[ hoil ]

/ hɔɪl /

noun

Edmond,1672–1769, English authority and writer on card games.

Sir Fred,1915–2001, British astronomer, mathematician, and educator.

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transliterate

to remove or destroy all traces of.

to change (letters, words, etc.), into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language.

to explain in terms that can be more easily understood.

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Idioms for Hoyle

according to Hoyle, according to the rules or to the authority; correctly.

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Example sentences from the Web for hoyle

Ironically, in this dispute, the atheist Hoyle was on the side of the pope in seeing a linkage between the Big Bang and God.
Evangelicals Still Don’t Know What to Do With the Big Bang|Karl W. Giberson|March 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hoyle is at work on a new book about counterinsurgency and the U.S. military.
Obama's Afghanistan Surprise|Russ Hoyle|November 19, 2008|DAILY BEAST
But after dinner, David did not send Hoyle off to play the hour with Dorothy.
The Mountain Girl|Payne Erskine
You raised the tariff and I stood for it and it is up to you to make good some of your threats to play ball according to Hoyle.
The Fiction Factory|John Milton Edwards

Bill and I will need it this afternoon, and even if things go according to Hoyle, well be powerful busy.
Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin|Dorothy Wayne
The doctor had made an aquarium for Hoyle, using a great glass jar which he obtained from a druggist in Farington.
The Mountain Girl|Payne Erskine
After a short sleep and hurried breakfast, Hoyle took me to a point whence we looked down on a long reach of the river.
Border and Bastille|George A. Lawrence

British Dictionary definitions for hoyle (1 of 2)

Hoyle¹

/ (hɔɪl) /

noun

an authoritative book of rules for card games

Word Origin for Hoyle

after Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), English authority on games, its compiler

British Dictionary definitions for hoyle (2 of 2)

Hoyle²

/ (hɔɪl) /

noun

Sir Fred. 1915–2001, English astronomer and writer: his books include The Nature of the Universe (1950) and Frontiers of Astronomy (1955), and science-fiction writings

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Idioms and Phrases with hoyle

Hoyle

see according to Hoyle.