Hoyle

[ hoil ]

/ hɔɪl /

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noun

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

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

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Idioms about Hoyle

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

Words nearby Hoyle

Hoxie, hoy, hoya, hoyden, Hoylake, Hoyle, Hoyt, hp, HPD, HPV, H.Q.

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How to use Hoyle in a sentence

We sit in with Hoyle and colleagues while they discuss a horror film, Dead of Night, whose circular timeline inspired their ideas about an eternal universe.
‘Flashes of Creation’ recounts the Big Bang theory’s origin story|Christopher Crockett|August 24, 2021|Science News
Hoyle, in his waning decades, embraced outlandish ideas, suggesting that epidemics come from space and that a dinosaur fossil had been tampered with to show an evolutionary link to birds.
‘Flashes of Creation’ recounts the Big Bang theory’s origin story|Christopher Crockett|August 24, 2021|Science News
To pull in all the other characters and side plots that drove 20th century cosmology, Gamow and Hoyle sometimes get forgotten about for long stretches.
‘Flashes of Creation’ recounts the Big Bang theory’s origin story|Christopher Crockett|August 24, 2021|Science News
Hoyle balked at the notion of a moment of creation, convinced that the universe has always existed — and always will exist — in pretty much the same state we find it today.
‘Flashes of Creation’ recounts the Big Bang theory’s origin story|Christopher Crockett|August 24, 2021|Science News

However, pesticides are unlikely to be the only cause for the monarchs’ decline, Halsch and Hoyle note.
Pesticides contaminate most food of western U.S. monarchs|Rebecca E. Hirsch|August 17, 2020|Science News For Students
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
The same evening she went to the shop of John Hoyle, of Woodend, to buy groceries, and offered the unsigned note in payment.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events|S. Baring-Gould
The survivor was named "Hoyle" (a cognomen for our old friend Hurley) and his doings gave us a new fund of entertainment.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
Hoyle, as a pup, was treated benevolently by all the others, and entered the fellowship of the other three when he grew up.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
Next Hoyle led Carley down off the knoll to the wide cedar valley adjacent to the lake.
The Call of the Canyon|Zane Grey
Her alleged phenomena fit into the scheme, her development is according to the spiritualistic Hoyle.
The Tyranny of the Dark|Hamlin Garland

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with Hoyle

Hoyle

see according to Hoyle.