canary

canary englannista suomeksi

1. laulajatar

2. kanariankeltainen

3. visertäjä

4. kanarialintu

0. Substantiivi

1. kanarialintu

2. kanariankeltainen

3. Kanarian viini">Kanarian viini

4. vasikka

5. koe-eläin

5. Verbi

6. vasikoida

canary englanniksi

1. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus (taxfmt)), a songbird native to the Islands.

2. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.

3. A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.

4. An informer or snitch; a squealer.

5. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

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6. A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).

7. A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.

8. (quote-newsgroup) for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.|url=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.urban/browse_thread/thread/fa746a2ce0910619/c30d3731ce1ba01?hl=en&q=unroadworthy+%22canary%220c30d3731ce1ba01

9. (quote-newsgroup) they can slap a yellow canary on it, but then who cares you got rid of it.|url=http://groups.google.com/group/aus.motorcycles/browse_thread/thread/f1657e5c54924b51/eb711a9457daebcd?hl=en&q=unroadworthy+%22canary%22eb711a9457daebcd

10. (quote-newsgroup)

11. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)

12. A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.

13. A change that is tested by being out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.

14. A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

15. (RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives Q1)

16. (RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)

17. (RQ:Le Fanu House)

18. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called ''canaries'').

19. (RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse)

20. (RQ:Shakespeare All's Well) I haue ſeen a medicine / That's able to breath life into a ſtone, / Quicken a rocke, and make you dance Canari / With ſprightly fire and motion, (..)

21. A sovereign (gloss).

22. Of a light yellow colour.

23. To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).

24. (RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost)

25. To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.

26. To test a software change by out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.