Het

Het or HET can refer to:

Hall Effect Thruster, an electric propulsion device for space applications

Heavy Equipment Transporter, a military vehicle

Historical Enquiries Team, set up to review unsolved murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles

Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas McDonald Observatory

Holocaust Educational Trust, a UK charity

Hoofdklasse Eerste Klasse Tweede Klasse a Dutch covenant founded in 1946 dedicated to the interest of the top amateur football leagues in the Netherlands.

HighEnd Teen, a Indonesian magazine.

IATA airport code for Hohhot Baita International Airport

Ticker symbol on the NYSE for Harrah's Entertainment

A heterosexual person (American English slang)

The Het people, an indigenous people, living in the Pampas area of Argentina, or their language

Heth, the eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets

Short for Heterozygote

Short for Hexaethyl tetraphosphate

Heth

Ḥet or H̱et (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ḥēt , Hebrew Ḥēt ח, Aramaic Ḥēth , Syriac Ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic Ḥā' ح.

Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/ (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite). In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾ ح represents /ħ/, while ḫāʾ خ represents /x/.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Eta Η, Etruscan , Latin H and Cyrillic И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent vowel sounds.

Origins

The letter shape ultimately goes back to a hieroglyph for "courtyard",

(possibly named ḥasir in the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, while the name goes rather back to ḫayt, the name reconstructed for a letter derived from a hieroglyph for "thread",

. In Arabic "thread" is خيط xajtˤ or xeːtˤ

The corresponding South Arabian letters are ḥ and ḫ, corresponding to Ge'ez Ḥauṭ ሐ and Ḫarm ኀ.

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Wat

A wat (Thai: วัด wat Lao: ວັດ vad, Khmer: វត្ត wōat) is a buddhist-temple in Thailand, Cambodia or Laos. The term is borrowed from pali vatta "which goes on or is customary, i. e. duty, service, custom, function".

Introduction

Strictly speaking a wat is a Buddhist sacred precinct with a vihara (quarters for bhikkhus), a temple, an edifice housing a large image of Buddha and a structure for lessons. A site without a minimum of three resident bhikkhus cannot correctly be described as a wat although the term is frequently used more loosely, even for ruins of ancient temples. As a transitive or intransitive verb, wat means to measure, to take measurements; compare templum, from which temple derives, having the same root as template.

In everyday language in Thailand, a wat is any place of worship except a mosque (Thai สุเหร่า surao or มัสยิด masjid; a mosque may also be described as โบสถ์ของอิสลาม - bot khong itsalam, literally "Islam church") or a synagogue (Thai สุเหร่ายิว - surao yiw). Thus a wat chin is a Chinese temple (either Buddhist or Taoist), wat khaek is a Hindu temple and wat khrit or wat farang is a Christian church, though Thai โบสถ์ (โบสถ์ bot) may be used descriptively as with mosques.

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Waté

Waté is a village in southwestern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Doba, San-Pédro Department, San-Pédro Region, Bas-Sassandra District.

Waté was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

Notes

Coordinates: 4°56′N 6°47′W / 4.933°N 6.783°W / 4.933; -6.783

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Wat (food)

Wat, we̠t’, wot (Amharic: ወጥ^?, IPA: [wətʼ]) or tsebhi (Tigrinya: ጸብሒ^?, IPA: [sʼɐbħi]) is an Ethiopian and Eritrean stew or curry that may be prepared with chicken, beef, lamb, a variety of vegetables, spice mixtures such as berbere, and niter kibbeh, a seasoned clarified butter.

Overview

Several properties distinguish wats from stews of other cultures. Perhaps the most obvious is an unusual cooking technique: the preparation of a wat begins with chopped onions slow cooked, without any fat or oil, in a dry skillet or pot until much of their moisture has been driven away. Fat (usually niter kibbeh) is then added, often in quantities that might seem excessive by modern Western standards, and the onions and other aromatics are sautéed before the addition of other ingredients. This method causes the onions to break down and thicken the stew.

Wat is traditionally eaten with injera, a spongy flat bread made from the millet-like grain known as teff. Doro wat is one such stew, made from chicken and sometimes hard-boiled eggs; the ethnologist Donald Levine records that doro wat (Amharic: ዶሮ ወጥ^?dōrō we̠t’, Tigrinya: ደርሆ ጸብሒ^?derhō tsebhi) is the most popular traditional food in Ethiopia, often eaten as part of a group who share a communal bowl and basket of injera. Another is siga wat, (Ge'ez: ሥጋ śigā) made with beef.

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Stick

Stick or the stick may refer to:

Objects

A branch of a tree or shrub or flower

Stick, part of a bow used to play a string instrument

Breadstick, generally a pencil-sized stick of crisp, dry bread

Centre stick (center stick or control stick), an aircraft cockpit arrangement

Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument in the guitar family

Chopsticks, Asian eating utensils

Clapstick, a type of percussion mallet traditionally accompanying the didgeridoo

Dipstick, a measuring device used in automobiles

Drum stick, an object used to strike drums (for other meanings see Drumstick (disambiguation))

Glue stick, used to glue paper or card together

Hockey stick, used in the sport of hockey

Field hockey stick

Ice hockey stick

Joystick, an input device commonly used for video games, aircraft and large machinery

Lacrosse stick, used in the sport of lacrosse

Lipstick, a cosmetic product

Memory Stick can refer to a Sony flash memory card, computer RAM SIMMs/DIMMs, or to a USB flash drive

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Styx (album)

Styx is the self-titled debut album by Styx. It was released in 1972 on Wooden Nickel Records. The album was reissued in 1980 under the title Styx I with new artwork. In late 2012, it was re-released for CD and digital download, along with Styx II, The Serpent Is Rising, and Man of Miracles.