deathwatch
Kelime Anlamı :
1. tahtakurdu.
2. idam mahkumu bekçisi.
3. ölüm bekleyiş.
4. (isim) tahtakurdu.
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Tanımlar :
1.
A vigil kept beside a dying or dead person.
2. one who guards a condemned person before execution.
3. A deathwatch beetle.
2. one who guards a condemned person before execution.
3. A deathwatch beetle.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A vigil beside a dying person
2. one who guards a condemned person before execution.
3. A deathwatch beetle.
2. one who guards a condemned person before execution.
3. A deathwatch beetle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
2. A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). by forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
3. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
4. the guard set over a criminal before his execution.
2. A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). by forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
3. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
4. the guard set over a criminal before his execution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A vigil beside a dying person.
2. A guard set over a condemned criminal for some time prior to his execution.
3. the popular name of several small beetles which make a ticking or clicking sound, supposed by superstitious persons to be ominous of death
4. A minute, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insect, atropos pulsatorius, of the family Psocidæ, a great pest in botanical and entomological collections. it also makes a ticking sound.
2. A guard set over a condemned criminal for some time prior to his execution.
3. the popular name of several small beetles which make a ticking or clicking sound, supposed by superstitious persons to be ominous of death
4. A minute, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insect, atropos pulsatorius, of the family Psocidæ, a great pest in botanical and entomological collections. it also makes a ticking sound.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia