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hawking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hawk \Hawk\ (h[add]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hawked (h[add]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Hawking.]
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To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
A falconer Henry is, when Emma hawks.
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To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
--Dryden.A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. Action of the verb ''to hawk''. vb. (present participle of hawk English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Hawking may refer to:
- Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist
- Jane Hawking, first wife of physicist Stephen Hawking
- Hawking (2004 film), a 2004 film about Stephen Hawking
- Hawking (2013 film), a 2013 film about Stephen Hawking
- Hawking radiation, thought to be emitted from black holes
- For other people named Hawking, see Hawking (surname)
- Hawking, a Canadian Alternative Rock band
- Hawking (falconry), the sport of hunting with hawks
- Hawking (birds), in birds, catching flying insects
- 7672 Hawking, a minor planet
- Street hawking, hawking (vending merchandise) on the street
Hawking is a feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air. The term usually refers to a technique of sallying out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch. This technique is called “flycatching” and some birds known for it are several families of “flycatchers”: Old World flycatchers, monarch flycatchers, and tyrant flycatchers. Other birds, such as swifts, swallows, and nightjars, also take insects on the wing in continuous aerial feeding. The term “hawking” comes from the similarity of this behavior to the way hawks take prey in flight, although, whereas raptors may catch prey with their feet, hawking is the behavior of catching insects in the bill. Many birds have a combined strategy of both hawking insects and gleaning them from foliage.
Hawking is a BBC television film about Stephen Hawking's early years as a PhD student at Cambridge University, following his search for the beginning of time, and his struggle against motor neuron disease. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Hawking and premiered in the UK in April 2004.
The film received acclaim, with critics particularly lauding Cumberbatch's performance as Hawking. It was nominated for Best Single Drama in the BAFTA TV Awards in 2005. Cumberbatch won the Golden Nymph for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Film or Miniseries, and received his first nomination for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor.
Cumberbatch's portrayal of Hawking was the first ever portrayal of the physicist on screen.
Hawking is an English language surname with origin from falconry. Variations include Hawken and Hawkins. Notable people with the surname include:
- Fred Hawking (born 1909), Australian rules footballer
- Jane Wilde Hawking (born 1944), first wife of Stephen Hawking
- Lucy Hawking (born 1970), English journalist and novelist
- Stephen Hawking (born 1942), British theoretical physicist
Fictional characters:
- Jim Hawking, character from the anime series Outlaw Star
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Hawking is an Alternative Rock band from White Rock, British Columbia, Canada composed of vocalists and guitarists Tom Vanderkam and Saul Sitar, bassist and vocalist Chris Young, and drummer and vocalist Chartwell Kerr.
Hawking (also known as Hawking: Brief History of Mine) is a 2013 biographical documentary film about Stephen Hawking directed by Stephen Finnigan and features Stephen Hawking himself describing his life from childhood, his struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and his later recognition as a world-famous scientist.
Usage examples of "hawking".
The other green, Res Sandre, preferred to monitor propulsion and engineering, working with the reticent AI named Basho to use this time out of Hawking space to good advantage in taking stock.
He watched as a group of five people from the Hawking, Emo Tannan among them, beamed down to where three couples and seven children of varying ages waited.
Rachel Zlatopolsky had also gone out with the weeders, as Scotty had started to think of the people in the land vehicles-Rachel, and Emo Tannan, and others from the Hawking whom he had come to know before they had beamed down to their new home.
Gytha learned to play the gusli Sadko had given her for a wedding present, read and reread all the books in the corner room and bought more to go with them, rode out with Gleb and his household on hunting, hawking and fishing expeditions, and worked at her embroidery.
Solmev Scale, the first attempted terraforming, the first failed terraforming -- a world bypassed after the black-hole death of Old Earth because of the Hawking drive, because of the imperatives of the Hegira, because no one wanted to live on the rusty sphere of permafrost when the galaxy offered a near-infinite number of prettier, healthier, more viable worlds.
Behind him was a neady appointed living room, home-shopping show on a big screen hawking a pearl necklace with matching earrings, only 234 left.
Just when I had stopped dreaming of an early retirement, of cashing in, walking away, jetting off to Europe, and backpacking across Australia, just when I had resettled into my routine of covering stories and writing obits and hawking ads to every merchant in town, Mr.
The traffic sounds, roar of conversations on the veranda, motor scooters, and vendors hawking everything salable overpowered the band, reducing it to an occasional cymbal-clash, an oompah now and then.
Even hawking brandy or frozen peas, the voice was a powerful instrument That Welles had to compete with Welles imitators for gigs as a commercial pitchman was one of the tragedies of the modern age.
Mum returned exhausted from hawking, her face a mask of dust and shadows, that Dad suddenly pounced on me.
What coughing and gagging, what outrageous retching and hawking, what bursts and punctures of steam and gas, what eructations, what disgorgementsand the leaping plumes and flashes and pulsing brain-scans the flames made, until they relaxed and quieted, and began to breathe again.
Instead, Hawking showed that the remaining photon gets an energy boost from the gravitational force of the black hole and, as its partner falls inward, it gets shot outward, away from the black hole.
Hawking realized that to someone looking at the black hole from the safety of afar, the combined effect of this tearing apart of virtual photon pairs, happening over and over again all around the horizon of the black hole, will appear as a steady stream of outgoing radiation.
In a squillion years might the weed-hoppers amount to more than Einstein and Hawking and Mozart?
From the multitude of chirps, buzzes, and clicks coming from the leafy canopy overhead, Hawking picked out the faint noise of squirk claws on tree bark.