spike
suomi-englanti sanakirjaspike englannista suomeksi
piikki
nousta, kohota jyrkästi
terästää
tähkä
tehdä tyhjäksi
kiskonaula
naulata
aueta
Substantiivi
Verbi
spike englanniksi
A sort of very large nail.
A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
(ux)
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
(RQ:Addison Medals)
A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
A sharp peak in a graph.
A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
(quote-journal)
The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
(synonyms)
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An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
An adolescent male deer.
(RQ:Orwell Down and Out)
(synonym of).
A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
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A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
(quote-book)|publisher=O'Reilly Media|isbn=9781491950418|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uq42DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT410&dq=%22spike%22+XP&hl=&cd=10&source=gbs_apiv=onepage&q=%22spike%22%20XP&f=false|text=An architectural spike is used to prove that a specific technical approach works. Teams will often do an architectural spike when they have a few different options for designing a specific technical solution, or if they don't know if a certain approach will work.
To set or furnish with spikes.
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
To fix on a spike.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1996|author=Christine Quigley|title=The Corpse: A History|page=144|publisher=McFarland
To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
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(quote-book)
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To increase sharply.
2017, Jennifer S. Holland, ''For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival.'', National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
- But the bigger threat is that people in Sulawesi have been eating macaque meat for centuries. Today it goes for about two dollars a pound (an adult macaque weighs 18 to 23 pounds), and demand spikes at holidays.
{{quote-text|en|year=2021|author=Glenda Young|title=The Miner's Lass
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(syn)
To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its hole.
(RQ:Marryat Peter Simple)
{{quote-text|en|year=1990|author=Peter Hopkirk|title=The Great Game|publisher=Folio Society|year_published=2010|pages=235–6
To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
(coi)