quill
Kelime Anlamı :

1. quill pen tüy kalem.
2. kirpi oku.
3. mızrap.
4. teleke.
5. bobin.
6. içi oyuk şaft.
7. çalgıcının mızrabı.
8. içi boş olan tüy sapı.
9. fitilli dikmek.
10. ok.
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. to pluck out quills from.
2. to tap, as a barrel of liquor.
3. to wind thread or yarn on quills for the loom.
4. to flute; form with small rounded ridges.
5. to insert or adjust the quills of (a harpsichord or spiuet).
6. the stalk of a cane or reed.
7. A cane or reed pipe, such as those used in pan's pipes.
8. one of the large, strong feathers of geese, swans, turkeys, crows, etc., used for writing-pens and the like.
9. A quill pen; hence, by extension, any pen, especially considered as the characteristic instrument of a writer.
10. one of the comparatively large flight-feathers or remiges of any bird, without reference to the use of such feathers for making quill pens; a quill-feather: as, the quills and coverts of the wing; sometimes extended to include the similar feathers of the tail.
11. the hard, hollow, horny part of the scape of any feather, which does not bear barbs, and by which the feather is inserted in the skin; the calamus, as distinguished from the rachis.
12. one of the much enlarged and peculiarly modified hairs with which some animals, as porcupines, are provided; a large hollow spine.
13. A piece of small reed or other light slender tube, used by weavers to wind thread upon, and by manufacturers to hold the wound silk and other thread prepared for sale.
14. A plectrum of quill, as of a goose, for playing on musical instruments of the lute and zither families.
15. in the harpsichord, spinet, and virginal, a small piece of quill projecting from the jack of each key (digital), and so set that when the key was depressed the corresponding string was twitched or twanged by it. various other materials were used instead of quills.
16. in seal-engraving, the hollow shaft or mandril of the seal-engravers' lathe, in which the cutting-tools are secured to be revolved while the stones are held against them.
17. in mining, a train for igniting a blast, consisting of a quill filled with slow-burning powder: it is now superseded by the safety-fuse.
18. the faucet of a barrel.
19. in pharmacy, bark in a roll, such as is often formed in drying, as of cinnamon or cinchona.
20. A fold of a plaited or fluted ruff or ruffle.
21. in machinery, a hollow shaft: a cylinder; a pipe; specifically, in a turbine, the hollow shaft which carries the revolving blades or blade-wheels.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. the hollow spine of a feather
2. pen made from a bird's feather
3. any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
4. a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.