barb

suomi-englanti sanakirja

barb englannista suomeksi

  1. väkänen

  2. ivallinen vihjaus, piikki

  3. väkä

  4. höyty

  5. varustaa väkäsin

  1. väkänen

  2. piikki, nälväisy, sivallus

  3. höytysäde, väkänen

  4. barbi

  5. kauluri

  6. nystyrä

  7. hevoshaarniska

  8. Substantiivi

barb englanniksi

  1. (senseid) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.

  2. {{quote-text|en|year=1545|author=Roger Ascham|title=Toxophilus

  3. (senseid) A hurtful or disparaging remark.

  4. (uxi)

  5. (quote-text)|title=Emily of New Moon|chapter=of New Moon/Chapter 8|Chapter 8

  6. (quote-book)

  7. (quote-journal)

  8. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.

  9. (RQ:Walton Compleat Angler)by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth.

  10. (senseid) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.

  11. (senseid) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.

  12. The sciaenid fish (taxlink), found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.

  13. (syn)|(vern)|(vern)|(vern)

  14. A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

  15. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.

  16. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.

  17. (syn)

  18. A bit for a horse.

  19. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

  20. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.

  21. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.

  22. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) for this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, / But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.

  23. {{quote-text|en|year=1777|author=Richard Brinsley Sheridan|title=The School for Scandal|section=IV.iii

  24. (RQ:Jefferies Amateur Poacher)

  25. {{quote-book|en|year=1944|author=Emily Carr|title=The House of All Sorts|chapter=Meg the Worker|pageurl=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100121h.html

  26. (label) To cut (hair).

  27. To shave or dress the beard of.

  28. To clip; to mow.

  29. (RQ:Marston Malcontent) / The ſtooping Sitheman that dooth barbe the field, / Thou makſt winke ſure: (..)

  30. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.

  31. (RQ:Byron Giaour)

  32. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

  33. A barbiturate.

  34. (cot)

  35. (quote-book)|passage=The benzos, it turns out, are just as highly addicting as the barbs, but they do have a much lower potential to cause death by overdose. (..) The barbs became one of the most widely abused classes of drugs in the 1960s and 1970s.

  36. Armor for a horse.

  37. {{quote-text|en|year=1786|author=Francis Grose|title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons|page=29

  38. To cover a horse in armor.

  39. (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3).

  40. barbel (gloss)

  41. blackhead (gloss)

  42. sharp, drastic

  43. cruel, rough

  44. sharp point, javelin