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plank
(mass) | plank
- doska |
plank
(encz) | plank,deska n: |
plank
(encz) | plank,fošna n: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_plank kavol |
plank
(encz) | plank,prkénko n: Zdeněk Brož |
Plank
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, n. [OE. planke, OF. planque, planche, F. planche,
fr. L. planca; cf. Gr. ?, ?, anything flat and broad. Cf.
Planch.]
1. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only
in being thicker. See Board.
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2. Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a
swimmer.
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His charity is a better plank than the faith of an
intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. --Southey.
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3. One of the separate articles in a declaration of the
principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the
national platform. [Cant]
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Plank road, or Plank way, a road surface formed of
planks. [U.S.]
To walk the plank, to walk along a plank laid across the
bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls
into the sea; -- a method of disposing of captives
practiced by pirates.
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Plank
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Planking.]
1. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a
ship. "Planked with pine." --Dryden.
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2. To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash;
as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]
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3. To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
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4. (Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of
wool, for subsequent drawing.
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Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and
roasted before a wood fire.
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plank
(wn) | plank
n 1: a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of
sizes and used for many purposes [syn: board, plank]
2: an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party
v 1: cover with planks; "The streets were planked" [syn:
plank, plank over]
2: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
"He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into
the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk,
plump down, plunk down, plump]
3: cook and serve on a plank; "Planked vegetable"; "Planked
shad" |
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plank
(mass) | plank
- doska |
plankbed
(mass) | plank-bed
- posteľ bez matracov |
aerial plankton
(encz) | aerial plankton,aeroplankton [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
aeroplankton
(encz) | aeroplankton,aeroplankton [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
anemoplankton
(encz) | anemoplankton,anemoplankton [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
gangplank
(encz) | gangplank,lávka n: Zdeněk Brož |
garboard plank
(encz) | garboard plank, n: |
phytoplankton
(encz) | phytoplankton,fytoplankton n: Zdeněk Brož |
plank
(encz) | plank,deska n: plank,fošna n: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_plank kavolplank,prkénko n: Zdeněk Brož |
plank down
(encz) | plank down, v: |
plank over
(encz) | plank over, v: |
plank-bed
(encz) | plank-bed, n: |
planking
(encz) | planking, n: |
plankton
(encz) | plankton,plankton n: Zdeněk Brož |
planktonic
(encz) | planktonic,planktonový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
planktonic algae
(encz) | planktonic algae, n: |
potamoplankton
(encz) | potamoplankton,potamoplankton n: [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
walk the plank
(encz) | walk the plank,jít po prkně, námořnická poprava utopením Starý způsob
trestu smrti na námořních lodích. Z paluby se vysunulo prkno končící nad
hladinou a potrestaný po něm musel se zavázanýma očima přejít. tata |
zooplankton
(encz) | zooplankton,živočišný plankton Zdeněk Brož |
aeroplankton
(czen) | aeroplankton,aerial plankton[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačaeroplankton,aeroplankton[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
anemoplankton
(czen) | anemoplankton,anemoplankton[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
fytoplankton
(czen) | fytoplankton,phytoplanktonn: Zdeněk Brož |
plankton
(czen) | plankton,krilln: Zdeněk Brožplankton,planktonn: Zdeněk Brož |
planktonový
(czen) | planktonový,planktonicadj: Zdeněk Brož |
potamoplankton
(czen) | potamoplankton,potamoplanktonn: [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
živočišný plankton
(czen) | živočišný plankton,zooplankton Zdeněk Brož |
Gang plank
(gcide) | Gang \Gang\, n. [Icel. gangr a going, gang, akin to AS., D., G.,
& Dan. gang a going, Goth. gaggs street, way. See Gang, v.
i.]
1. A going; a course. [Obs.]
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2. A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number
of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of
laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of
sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
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3. A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by
acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang
of saws, or of plows.
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4. (Naut.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang
of stays.
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5. [Cf. Gangue.] (Mining) The mineral substance which
incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
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6. A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or
less formalized group associating for social purposes, in
some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen
gang; a youth gang; a street gang.
Note: Youth gangs often associate with particular areas in a
city, and may turn violent when they feel their
territory is encroached upon. In Los Angeles the
Crips and the Bloods are large gangs antagonistic
to each other.
[PJC]
7. A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a
criminal organization; as, the Parker gang.
[PJC]
Gang board, or Gang plank. (Naut.)
(a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a
bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel.
(b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's
waist, for the sentinel to walk on.
Gang cask, a small cask in which to bring water aboard
ships or in which it is kept on deck.
Gang cultivator, Gang plow, a cultivator or plow in which
several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make
two or more furrows at the same time.
Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating
parishes. See Gang week (below).
Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills
driven from a common shaft.
Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen.
Gang plank. See Gang board (above).
Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above).
Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of
objects separated by intervening plates.
Gang saw, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang
of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed
distances apart.
Gang tide. See Gang week (below).
Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were
made to survey the bounds of parishes. --Halliwell.
Live gang, or Round gang, the Western and the Eastern
names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the
round log into boards at one operation. --Knight.
Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from
two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick
beam.
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Hub plank
(gcide) | Hub \Hub\ (h[u^]b), n. [See 1st Hob.]
1. The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the
nave. See Illust. of Axle box.
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2. The hilt of a weapon. --Halliwell.
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3. A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub
in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.
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4. A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.
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5. (Diesinking) A hardened, engraved steel punch for
impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
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6. A screw hob. See Hob, 3.
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7. A block for scotching a wheel.
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8. The central location within which activities tend to
concentrate, or from which activities radiate outward; a
focus of activity.
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9. Hence: (Aeronautics) A large airport used as a central
transfer station for an airline, permitting economic air
transportation between remote locations by directing
travellers through the hub, often changing planes at the
hub, and thus keeping the seat occupancy rate on the
airplanes high. The hub together with the feeder lines
from remote locations constitute the so-called
hub and spoke system of commercial air passenger
transportation. A commercial airline may have more than
one such hub.
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10. The city of Boston, Massachusetts referred to locally by
the nickname The Hub.
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Hub plank (Highway Bridges), a horizontal guard plank along
a truss at the height of a wagon-wheel hub.
Up to the hub, as far as possible in embarrassment or
difficulty, or in business, like a wheel sunk in mire;
deeply involved. [Colloq.]
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Pile plank
(gcide) | Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[imac]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin;
but cf. also L. pila pillar.]
1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into
the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor
where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a
pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam,
etc.
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Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used.
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2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or
subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed
palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on
piles.
Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of
piles.
Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving
down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with
suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or
steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy
mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.
Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake.
Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in
sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling.
Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic.
Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by
rotation aided by pressure.
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Plank road
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, n. [OE. planke, OF. planque, planche, F. planche,
fr. L. planca; cf. Gr. ?, ?, anything flat and broad. Cf.
Planch.]
1. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only
in being thicker. See Board.
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2. Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a
swimmer.
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His charity is a better plank than the faith of an
intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. --Southey.
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3. One of the separate articles in a declaration of the
principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the
national platform. [Cant]
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Plank road, or Plank way, a road surface formed of
planks. [U.S.]
To walk the plank, to walk along a plank laid across the
bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls
into the sea; -- a method of disposing of captives
practiced by pirates.
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Plank way
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, n. [OE. planke, OF. planque, planche, F. planche,
fr. L. planca; cf. Gr. ?, ?, anything flat and broad. Cf.
Planch.]
1. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only
in being thicker. See Board.
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2. Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a
swimmer.
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His charity is a better plank than the faith of an
intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. --Southey.
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3. One of the separate articles in a declaration of the
principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the
national platform. [Cant]
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Plank road, or Plank way, a road surface formed of
planks. [U.S.]
To walk the plank, to walk along a plank laid across the
bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls
into the sea; -- a method of disposing of captives
practiced by pirates.
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Planked
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Planking.]
1. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a
ship. "Planked with pine." --Dryden.
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2. To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash;
as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]
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3. To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
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4. (Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of
wool, for subsequent drawing.
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Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and
roasted before a wood fire.
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Planked shad
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Planking.]
1. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a
ship. "Planked with pine." --Dryden.
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2. To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash;
as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]
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3. To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
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4. (Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of
wool, for subsequent drawing.
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Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and
roasted before a wood fire.
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Planking
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Planking.]
1. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a
ship. "Planked with pine." --Dryden.
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2. To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash;
as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]
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3. To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
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4. (Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of
wool, for subsequent drawing.
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Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and
roasted before a wood fire.
[1913 Webster]Planking \Plank"ing\, n.
1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a
series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the
frame of a vessel.
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2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
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Plank-sheer
(gcide) | Plank-sheer \Plank"-sheer`\, n. (Shipbuilding)
The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of
a vessel's frame.
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Plankton
(gcide) | Plankton \Plank"ton\ (pl[a^][ng]k"t[o^]n), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
plagto`n, neut. of plagto`s wandering, pla`zesqai to wander.]
(Biol.)
All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at
or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --
Plank*ton"ic, a.
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Planktonic
(gcide) | Plankton \Plank"ton\ (pl[a^][ng]k"t[o^]n), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
plagto`n, neut. of plagto`s wandering, pla`zesqai to wander.]
(Biol.)
All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at
or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --
Plank*ton"ic, a.
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Stop plank
(gcide) | Stop \Stop\, n.
1. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped;
hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression;
interruption; check; obstruction.
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It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything
to the stop of the infection. --De Foe.
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Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of
natural philosophy. --Sir I.
Newton.
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It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires
to give this stop to them. --Locke.
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2. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an
impediment; an obstruction.
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A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.
--Daniel.
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So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal
to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. --Rogers.
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3. (Mach.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc.,
for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the
position to which another part shall be brought.
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4. (Mus.)
(a) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or
pressure of the finger upon the string, of an
instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence,
any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical
instrument are regulated.
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The organ sound a time survives the stop.
--Daniel.
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(b) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side
of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off
any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as,
the vox humana stop.
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5. (Arch.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate
piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window
shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a
rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from
sliding too far.
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6. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to
distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or
clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
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7. (Opt.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut
off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing
through lenses.
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8. (Zool.) The depression in the face of a dog between the
skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the
bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
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9. (Phonetics) Some part of the articulating organs, as the
lips, or the tongue and palate, closed
(a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice
through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a
lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.),
or
(b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the
passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants
so formed. --H. Sweet.
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Stop bead (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of
a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile,
completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.
Stop motion (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the
motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is
completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its
performance or product, or in the material which is
supplied to it, etc.
Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort
of dam in some hydraulic works.
Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will,
as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a
liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is
operated by the action of the fluid it restrains.
Stop watch, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in
order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in
timing a race. See Independent seconds watch, under
Independent, a.
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Syn: Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance;
impediment; interruption.
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To walk the plank
(gcide) | Plank \Plank\, n. [OE. planke, OF. planque, planche, F. planche,
fr. L. planca; cf. Gr. ?, ?, anything flat and broad. Cf.
Planch.]
1. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only
in being thicker. See Board.
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2. Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a
swimmer.
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His charity is a better plank than the faith of an
intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. --Southey.
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3. One of the separate articles in a declaration of the
principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the
national platform. [Cant]
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Plank road, or Plank way, a road surface formed of
planks. [U.S.]
To walk the plank, to walk along a plank laid across the
bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls
into the sea; -- a method of disposing of captives
practiced by pirates.
[1913 Webster]Walk \Walk\, v. t.
1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to
perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
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As we walk our earthly round. --Keble.
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2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow
pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. " I will
rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding."
--Shak.
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3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.] To
subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to
full. [Obs. or Scot.]
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4. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train
(puppies) in a walk. [Cant]
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5. To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making
it use first one and then the other of its own
spindling legs to achieve progression rather than
lifting it by main force. --C. E.
Craddock.
To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave.
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and
be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of
pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and
compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the
water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion.
--Bartlett.
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Wrest plank
(gcide) | Wrest \Wrest\, n.
1. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence,
distortion; perversion. --Hooker.
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2. Active or moving power. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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3. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
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The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver
chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which
he tuned his harp. --Sir W.
Scott.
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4. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the
buckets is determined.
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Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), one of the pins around which the
ends of the wires are wound in a piano. --Knight.
Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest
pins are inserted.
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gangplank
(wn) | gangplank
n 1: a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at
dockside [syn: gangplank, gangboard, gangway] |
garboard plank
(wn) | garboard plank
n 1: the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship [syn:
garboard, garboard plank, garboard strake] |
phytoplankton
(wn) | phytoplankton
n 1: photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly
unicellular algae |
plank
(wn) | plank
n 1: a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of
sizes and used for many purposes [syn: board, plank]
2: an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party
v 1: cover with planks; "The streets were planked" [syn:
plank, plank over]
2: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
"He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into
the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk,
plump down, plunk down, plump]
3: cook and serve on a plank; "Planked vegetable"; "Planked
shad" |
plank down
(wn) | plank down
v 1: drop heavily [syn: plonk down, plump down, {plank
down}] |
plank over
(wn) | plank over
v 1: cover with planks; "The streets were planked" [syn:
plank, plank over] |
plank-bed
(wn) | plank-bed
n 1: a bed of boards (without a mattress) |
planking
(wn) | planking
n 1: planks collectively; a quantity of planks
2: (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as
on a ship)
3: the work of covering an area with planks |
plankton
(wn) | plankton
n 1: the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that
float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water |
planktonic
(wn) | planktonic
adj 1: of or relating to plankton |
planktonic algae
(wn) | planktonic algae
n 1: unicellular algae |
zooplankton
(wn) | zooplankton
n 1: animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans
and fish larvae |
plankalkül
(foldoc) | Plankalkül
(Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have
umlauts). The first programming language, designed by {Konrad
Zuse}, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur"
in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included
arrays and records and used a style of assignment in
which the new value appears on the right.
Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before
1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work
may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of
World War II.
{ESR Plankalkül
(http://tuxedo.org/~esr/retro/plankalkuel/)}.
["The Plankalkül of Konrad Zuse", F.L. Bauer et al, CACM
15(7):678-685, Jul 1972].
(2002-05-28)
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