corkscrew
corkscrew
englanti
korkkiruuvi
Synonyymisanakirja: corkscrew
corkscrew
pullonavaaja, korkkiruuvi, kääntyä, kiertyä kierteelle, kiertyä spiraaliksi, kiemurrella.
Käännökset: corkscrew
corkscrew suomeksi
kiemurrella, kiertyä kierteelle, korkkiruuvi
corkscrew englanniksi
An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
I opened the wine with a corkscrew.
{{quote-book|1720|w:Nicholas Amhurst|Nicholas Amhurst|chapter=The Bottle-Scrue|Poems on Several Occasions|page=113|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Uw8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113
{{quote-journal|1999|James Lighthill|Biofluiddynamics: A Survey|Contemporary Mathematics|volume=141|page=11|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=nCvG2t02114C&pg=PA11
{{quote-book|2006|Costas Katsigris & Chris Thomas|The Bar and Beverage Book|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=gtKOyU9ci1MC&pg=PA152|page=152|edition=4th ed.
The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
{{quote-book|1898|w:Herbert Spencer|Herbert Spencer|First Principles of a New System of Philosophy|url=http://www.archive.org/details/firstprincipleso00spenrich
puhekieltä A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
{{quote-book|2002|Darin Strauss|The Real McCoy|page=42|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=w1JbAAAAMAAJ|isbn=0525946519
puhekieltä A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
{{quote-journal|1987|September|Tim Cole|Killer Coasters|Popular Mechanics|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zeQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56|page=56
Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.
(quote-text)|title=s:The King of the Golden River|The King of the Golden River|chapter=I|passage=Then the old gentleman spun himself round with velocity in the opposite direction, continued to spin until his long cloak was all wound neatly about him, clapped his cap on his head, very much on one side (for it could not stand upright without going through the ceiling), gave an additional twist to his corkscrew mustaches, and replied with perfect coolness.
1885, w:Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling, s:"The City of Dreadful Night"|"The City of Dreadful Night"
puhekieltä To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
(quote-text)|title=s:The Pickwick Papers|The Pickwick Papers|chapter=35|passage=Into the tea–room Mr. Pickwick turned; and catching sight of him, Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd and welcomed him with ecstasy.
(quote-text)|title=s:Greenmantle Greenmantle|chapter=10|passage=The street corkscrewed endlessly. Sometimes it seemed to stop; then it found a hole in the opposing masonry and edged its way in.
(quote-text)|title=s:The Rampa Story|The Rampa Story|chapter=5|passage=Far off to starboard an Atlantic liner, all lights blazing, came towards us, corkscrewing with a motion which must have left the passengers unhappy.
puhekieltä To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
(quote-text)|title=s:Moby-Dick Moby-Dick|chapter=134|passage=Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab’s boat.
(quote-text)
To extract information or consent from someone.
(quote-text)|title=s:Bleak House|Bleak House|chapter=55|passage=I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters I was to have brought to your ladyship were not destroyed when I supposed they were.
1922, w:James Thomas Heflin|James Thomas Heflin, in Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestryhttp://books.google.com/books?id=lFYQAAAAIAAJ, page 460: