Used in a Sentence

hodge

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hodge.

Editorial note

But when you throw them in with a hodge-podge of approaches, at some point the result is a hot mess.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hodge gathered in one view.

noun

A surname originating as a patronymic.

noun

A place name in the United States:

noun

An unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hodge.

noun

A surname originating as a patronymic.

noun

A place name in the United States:

noun

An unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.

noun

A village in Jackson Parish, Louisiana.

Example sentences

1

But when you throw them in with a hodge-podge of approaches, at some point the result is a hot mess.

2

Nothing else even comes close - not WebStorm, not Sublime and not Vim or some hodge-podge of other tools.

3

Australia's GST has been 10% since it was introduced in the mid-90s (replacing a confusing hodge-podge of existing sales taxes).

4

None of English is correct by that standard: it's a hodge-podge of a language with inconsistencies down to the root.

5

The web, to me, is a hodge-podge of kludgy technologies that have too many gotchas.

6

It's a hodge-podge of semi-accurate statements about very minor trends (minor in employment terms) and inaccurate statements that it's hard to critique.

7

Compared to that kind of hodge-podge, relativity is still a really simple theory.

8

Or would our easy use of language just encourage us to merge the best of all languages into some optimized hodge-podge general-use language?

9

There are a hodge-podge of plugins to do various things, but they don't necessarily share the same design principles or work well together.

10

I don't care too much for the signs in the linked article, but I hate even more the existing signs that are all hodge-podgy.

11

The services in question are built with a hodge-podge of shell scripts and build tools, so getting them all to compile locally is a challenge, let alone deploying them.

12

> it's a hodge-podge of a language with inconsistencies down to the root.

Quote examples

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Having a hodge-podge of 2000 line functions in one massive file is just as evil as "dirty" OOP code.

2

It looks very "Linux" from however long ago - that is, poor and inconsistent spacing, hodge-podge of icons (especially overcomplicated ones), frugal padding, etc.

3

Even if it were demonstrably not a hodge-podge mess of history, fiction, poetry, and teaching, would that even sway your seeming pre-commitment to the words you wrote: " Either way the Christian God is not the God I might believe in?" "Well if he was right in front of me I would obviously admit I was wrong." -- that seems to be the a realistic response.

Proper noun examples

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Sadly I can't really find much about it beyond Hodge's biography.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hodge in a sentence?

But when you throw them in with a hodge-podge of approaches, at some point the result is a hot mess.

What does hodge mean?

A surname originating as a patronymic.

What part of speech is hodge?

hodge is commonly used as noun.