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weir
(mass) | weir
- jedz |
weir
(encz) | weir,jez n: |
weir
(encz) | weir,splav n: Zdeněk Brož |
weir
(encz) | weir,stupeň n: [sport.] (schod na řece - jez bez propusti) kavol |
Weir
(gcide) | Weir \Weir\ (w[=e]r), Wear \Wear\,n. [OE. wer, AS. wer; akin to
G. wehr, AS. werian to defend, protect, hinder, G. wehren,
Goth. warjan; and perhaps to E. wary; or cf. Skr. v[.r] to
check, hinder. [root]142. Cf. Garret.]
1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the
purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond,
or the like.
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2. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a
stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
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3. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a
vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, --
used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
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weir
(wn) | weir
n 1: a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or
divert its flow
2: a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain
fish |
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eat weir
(mass) | eat! weir
- jedz |
weir
(mass) | weir
- jedz |
weird
(mass) | weird
- tajomný, zvláštny |
eat! weir
(encz) | eat! weir,jez |
get weird
(encz) | get weird,chovat se divně [frsl.] Pinoget weird,chovat se výstředně [frsl.] Pino |
needle weir
(encz) | needle weir,hradlový jez [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
stop-log weir
(encz) | stop-log weir,hradidlový jez [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
the three weird sisters
(encz) | the Three Weird Sisters, n: |
the weird sisters
(encz) | the Weird Sisters, n: |
wasteweir
(encz) | wasteweir, n: |
weir
(encz) | weir,jez n: weir,splav n: Zdeněk Brožweir,stupeň n: [sport.] (schod na řece - jez bez propusti) kavol |
weird
(encz) | weird,divný adj: weird,nadpřirozený lukeweird,podivný adj: weird,tajemný adj: Zdeněk Brožweird,tajuplný adj: Zdeněk Brožweird,výstřední Zdeněk Brožweird,záhadný adj: weird,zvláštní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
weird sisters
(encz) | weird sisters,sudičky luke |
weirder
(encz) | weirder,divnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
weirdest
(encz) | weirdest,nejdivnější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
weirdie
(encz) | weirdie, |
weirdly
(encz) | weirdly,divně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
weirdness
(encz) | weirdness,divnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
weirdo
(encz) | weirdo,exot n: Pinoweirdo,podivín n: PetrV |
weirdy
(encz) | weirdy, n: |
just plain weird
(czen) | Just Plain Weird,JPW[zkr.] |
Fish weir
(gcide) | Fish \Fish\, n.; pl. Fishes (f[i^]sh"[e^]z), or collectively,
Fish. [OE. fisch, fisc, fis, AS. fisc; akin to D. visch,
OS. & OHG. fisk, G. fisch, Icel. fiskr, Sw. & Dan. fisk,
Goth. fisks, L. piscis, Ir. iasg. Cf. Piscatorial. In some
cases, such as fish joint, fish plate, this word has prob.
been confused with fish, fr. F. fichea peg.]
1. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of
diverse characteristics, living in the water.
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2. (Zool.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having
fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means
of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See
Pisces.
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Note: The true fishes include the Teleostei (bony fishes),
Ganoidei, Dipnoi, and Elasmobranchii or Selachians
(sharks and skates). Formerly the leptocardia and
Marsipobranciata were also included, but these are now
generally regarded as two distinct classes, below the
fishes.
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3. pl. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
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4. The flesh of fish, used as food.
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5. (Naut.)
(a) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(b) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish,
used to strengthen a mast or yard.
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Note: Fish is used adjectively or as part of a compound word;
as, fish line, fish pole, fish spear, fish-bellied.
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Age of Fishes. See under Age, n., 8.
Fish ball, fish (usually salted codfish) shared fine, mixed
with mashed potato, and made into the form of a small,
round cake. [U.S.]
Fish bar. Same as Fish plate (below).
Fish beam (Mech.), a beam one of whose sides (commonly the
under one) swells out like the belly of a fish. --Francis.
Fish crow (Zool.), a species of crow (Corvus ossifragus),
found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It feeds
largely on fish.
Fish culture, the artifical breeding and rearing of fish;
pisciculture.
Fish davit. See Davit.
Fish day, a day on which fish is eaten; a fast day.
Fish duck (Zool.), any species of merganser.
Fish fall, the tackle depending from the fish davit, used
in hauling up the anchor to the gunwale of a ship.
Fish garth, a dam or weir in a river for keeping fish or
taking them easily.
Fish glue. See Isinglass.
Fish joint, a joint formed by a plate or pair of plates
fastened upon two meeting beams, plates, etc., at their
junction; -- used largely in connecting the rails of
railroads.
Fish kettle, a long kettle for boiling fish whole.
Fish ladder, a dam with a series of steps which fish can
leap in order to ascend falls in a river.
Fish line, or Fishing line, a line made of twisted hair,
silk, etc., used in angling.
Fish louse (Zool.), any crustacean parasitic on fishes,
esp. the parasitic Copepoda, belonging to Caligus,
Argulus, and other related genera. See Branchiura.
Fish maw (Zool.), the stomach of a fish; also, the air
bladder, or sound.
Fish meal, fish desiccated and ground fine, for use in
soups, etc.
Fish oil, oil obtained from the bodies of fish and marine
animals, as whales, seals, sharks, from cods' livers, etc.
Fish owl (Zool.), a fish-eating owl of the Old World genera
Scotopelia and Ketupa, esp. a large East Indian
species (K. Ceylonensis).
Fish plate, one of the plates of a fish joint.
Fish pot, a wicker basket, sunk, with a float attached, for
catching crabs, lobsters, etc.
Fish pound, a net attached to stakes, for entrapping and
catching fish; a weir. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
Fish slice, a broad knife for dividing fish at table; a
fish trowel.
Fish slide, an inclined box set in a stream at a small
fall, or ripple, to catch fish descending the current.
--Knight.
Fish sound, the air bladder of certain fishes, esp. those
that are dried and used as food, or in the arts, as for
the preparation of isinglass.
Fish story, a story which taxes credulity; an extravagant
or incredible narration. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
Fish strainer.
(a) A metal colander, with handles, for taking fish from a
boiler.
(b) A perforated earthenware slab at the bottom of a dish,
to drain the water from a boiled fish.
Fish trowel, a fish slice.
Fish weir or Fish wear, a weir set in a stream, for
catching fish.
Neither fish nor flesh, Neither fish nor fowl (Fig.),
neither one thing nor the other.
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Lock-weir
(gcide) | Lock-weir \Lock"-weir`\, n.
A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
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Wasteweir
(gcide) | Wasteweir \Waste"weir`\, n.
An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of
superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
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weirangle
(gcide) | Wariangle \War`i*an"gle\, n. [OE. wariangel, weryangle; cf. AS.
wearg outlaw, criminal, OHG, warg, warch, Goth. wargs (in
comp.), G. w["u]rgengel, i. e., destroying angel, destroyer,
killer, and E. worry.] (Zool.)
The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also
w["u]rger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also
warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Weird
(gcide) | Weird \Weird\, v. t.
To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
[1913 Webster]Weird \Weird\ (w[=e]rd), n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate,
fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weor[eth]an to be, to become;
akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. ur[eth]r. [root]143.
See Worth to become.]
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1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a
prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
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2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
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2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting,
magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a
weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
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Myself too had weird seizures. --Tennyson.
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Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird
incantation. --Longfellow.
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Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas.
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Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in
Macbeth.
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The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land. --Shak.
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Weird sisters
(gcide) | Weird \Weird\, a.
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1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
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2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting,
magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a
weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
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Myself too had weird seizures. --Tennyson.
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Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird
incantation. --Longfellow.
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Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas.
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Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in
Macbeth.
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The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land. --Shak.
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Weirdness
(gcide) | Weirdness \Weird"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being weird.
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wasteweir
(wn) | wasteweir
n 1: a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or
other obstruction [syn: spillway, spill, wasteweir] |
weir
(wn) | weir
n 1: a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or
divert its flow
2: a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain
fish |
weird
(wn) | weird
adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"-
John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the
unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry
Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny,
unearthly]
2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some
weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
n 1: fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters [syn:
Wyrd, Weird] |
weird sister
(wn) | weird sister
n 1: (Norse mythology) any of the three goddesses of destiny;
identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae
and Roman Parcae [syn: Norn, weird sister] |
weirdie
(wn) | weirdie
n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep,
weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook] |
weirdly
(wn) | weirdly
adv 1: in a weird manner; "she was dressed weirdly" |
weirdness
(wn) | weirdness
n 1: strikingly out of the ordinary [syn: outlandishness,
bizarreness, weirdness] |
weirdo
(wn) | weirdo
n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep,
weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook]
2: someone deranged and possibly dangerous [syn: crazy,
loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo] |
weirdy
(wn) | weirdy
n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep,
weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook] |
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