| slovo | definícia |
barre
(mass) | barre
- palica |
barre
(encz) | barre,hůl n: Zdeněk Brož |
barre
(encz) | barre,tyč n: Zdeněk Brož |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
barrel
(mass) | barrel
- bubon |
barren
(mass) | barren
- prázdny |
barred
(encz) | barred,zamřížovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
barrel
(encz) | barrel,barel Pavel Machek; Gizabarrel,buben Zdeněk Brožbarrel,hlaveň Zdeněk Brožbarrel,soudek Zdeněk Brožbarrel,sud barrel,sud (barel) n: nádoba válcovitého tvaru Cheprerbarrel,válec n: Zdeněk Brožbarrel,velké množství Zdeněk Brož |
barrel of laughs
(encz) | barrel of laughs,hromada srandy [fráz.] Doslova: "sud zábavy (?)" tatabarrel of laughs,velká zábava [fráz.] Doslova: "sud zábavy (?)" tata |
barrel organ
(encz) | barrel organ,flašinet barrel organ,kolovrátek |
barrel-chested
(encz) | barrel-chested,robustní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
barrelhouse
(encz) | barrelhouse,putyka n: Zdeněk Brož |
barrelled
(encz) | barrelled,sudový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
barren
(encz) | barren,jalový adj: Zdeněk Brožbarren,neplodný Pavel Machekbarren,neúrodný adj: Zdeněk Brožbarren,prázdný adj: Zdeněk Brožbarren,pustý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
barrenness
(encz) | barrenness,prázdnota n: Zdeněk Brožbarrenness,pustota n: Zdeněk Brož |
barrett
(encz) | Barrett,Barrett n: [jmén.] příjmení, mužské křestní jméno Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
barrette
(encz) | barrette,sponka do vlasu Pavel Machek |
barretter
(encz) | barretter,stabilizátor proudu Zdeněk Brož |
cash on the barrelhead
(encz) | cash on the barrelhead,hotovost n: Zdeněk Brožcash on the barrelhead,placení v hotovosti Zdeněk Brož |
cracker-barrel
(encz) | cracker-barrel, adj: |
debarred
(encz) | debarred, |
double-barreled
(encz) | double-barreled, |
double-barrelled
(encz) | double-barrelled,dvouhlavňový Jaroslav Šedivý |
golden barrel cactus
(encz) | golden barrel cactus, n: |
gun barrel
(encz) | gun barrel, n: |
lock stock and barrel
(encz) | lock stock and barrel,celkově [fráz.] [id.] doslova části muškety -
zámek, pažba a hlaveň Michal Ambrožlock stock and barrel,sakumprásk [fráz.] [id.] doslova části muškety -
zámek, pažba a hlaveň Michal Ambrožlock stock and barrel,sakumprdum [fráz.] [id.] sakumperdum sakumpikum
sakumprask Michal Ambrožlock stock and barrel,se vším všudy [fráz.] [id.] doslova části muškety
- zámek, pažba a hlaveň Michal Ambrož |
no holds barred
(encz) | no holds barred, |
pickle barrel
(encz) | pickle barrel, n: |
pine-barren sandwort
(encz) | pine-barren sandwort, n: |
pork barrel
(encz) | pork barrel, |
pork-barreling
(encz) | pork-barreling, n: |
rain barrel
(encz) | rain barrel, n: |
rear of barrel
(encz) | rear of barrel, n: |
scrape the bottom of the barrel
(encz) | scrape the bottom of the barrel, |
shooting fish in a barrel
(encz) | shooting fish in a barrel, |
single-barreled
(encz) | single-barreled, adj: |
single-barrelled
(encz) | single-barrelled, adj: |
trash barrel
(encz) | trash barrel, n: |
unbarred
(encz) | unbarred, |
unbarreled
(encz) | unbarreled, adj: |
unbarrelled
(encz) | unbarrelled, adj: |
wine barrel
(encz) | wine barrel, n: |
barrett
(czen) | Barrett,Barrettn: [jmén.] příjmení, mužské křestní jméno Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
like shooting fish in a barrel
(czen) | Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel,LSFIAB[zkr.] |
Barred
(gcide) | Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]
1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
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2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to
obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance
of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars
my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the
plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
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He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened
to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne.
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3. To except; to exclude by exception.
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Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night. --Shak.
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4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
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For the sake of distinguishing the feet more
clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney.
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Barred owl
(gcide) | Barred owl \Barred" owl"\ (Zool.)
A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from
the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.
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barred woodpecker
(gcide) | Tapper \Tap"per\, n. (Zool.)
The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); --
called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie,
barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and {pump
borer}. [Prov. Eng.]
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Barrel
(gcide) | Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob.
fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth,
and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with
hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker
barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical
container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies
for different articles and also in different places for
the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A
barrel of wine is 311/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196
pounds.
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3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel
of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the
spring is coiled.
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4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. --Knight.
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5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12.
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6. (Zool.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet,
used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical
tube.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler,
containing the flues.
Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic
cavity.
Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the
action of a revolving cylinder.
Barrel vault. See under Vault.
[1913 Webster]Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barreled
(-r[e^]ld), or Barrelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Barreling, or
Barrelling.]
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
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Barrel bulk
(gcide) | Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob.
fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth,
and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with
hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker
barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical
container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies
for different articles and also in different places for
the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A
barrel of wine is 311/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196
pounds.
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3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel
of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the
spring is coiled.
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4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. --Knight.
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5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12.
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6. (Zool.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet,
used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical
tube.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler,
containing the flues.
Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic
cavity.
Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the
action of a revolving cylinder.
Barrel vault. See under Vault.
[1913 Webster]Bulk \Bulk\ (b[u^]lk), n. [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk
lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b?lkast to be bulky.
Cf. Boll, n., Bile a boil, Bulge, n.]
1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size;
as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
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Against these forces there were prepared near one
hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a
more nimble motion, and more serviceable. --Bacon.
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2. The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion;
the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
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The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them,
"to obtain what by labor can be obtained." --J.
Morley.
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3. (Naut.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
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4. The body. [Obs.] --Shak.
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My liver leaped within my bulk. --Turbervile.
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Barrel bulk. See under Barrel.
To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the
cargo.
In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate
packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape
that any desired quantity may be taken or sold.
Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in
the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks.
Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight
or measure.
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Syn: Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness;
massiveness.
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barrel cacti
(gcide) | barrel cactus \bar"rel cac"tus\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l k[a^]k"t[u^]s),
n.; pl. barrel cacti (b[a^]r"r[e^]l k[a^]k"t[imac]).
any of several large cacti native to the southwestern U. S.
and Mexico, having a short cylindrical form with deep
vertical ribs and bearing sharp spines. They are classed in
the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus.
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barrel cactus
(gcide) | barrel cactus \bar"rel cac"tus\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l k[a^]k"t[u^]s),
n.; pl. barrel cacti (b[a^]r"r[e^]l k[a^]k"t[imac]).
any of several large cacti native to the southwestern U. S.
and Mexico, having a short cylindrical form with deep
vertical ribs and bearing sharp spines. They are classed in
the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus.
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Barrel drain
(gcide) | Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob.
fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth,
and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with
hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker
barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical
container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies
for different articles and also in different places for
the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A
barrel of wine is 311/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196
pounds.
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3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel
of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the
spring is coiled.
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4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. --Knight.
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5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12.
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6. (Zool.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet,
used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical
tube.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler,
containing the flues.
Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic
cavity.
Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the
action of a revolving cylinder.
Barrel vault. See under Vault.
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barrel fish
(gcide) | Rudder \Rud"der\, n. [OE. rother, AS. r[=o][eth]er a paddle;
akin to D. roer rudder, oar, G. ruder, OHG. roadar, Sw.
roder, ror, Dan. roer, ror. [root] 8. See Row to propel
with an oar, and cf. Rother. ]
1. (Naut.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a
vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad
and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank,
and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one
edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it
can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a
tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
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2. Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or
governor; that which guides or governs the course.
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For rhyme the rudder is of verses. --Hudibras.
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3. In an aircraft, a surface the function of which is to
exert a turning moment about an axis of the craft.
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Balance rudder (Naut.), a rudder pivoted near the middle
instead of at the edge, -- common on sharpies.
Drop rudder (Naut.), a rudder extending below the keel so
as to be more effective in steering.
Rudder chain (Naut.), one of the loose chains or ropes
which fasten the rudder to the quarters to prevent its
loss in case it gets unshipped, and for operating it in
case the tiller or the wheel is broken.
Rudder coat (Naut.), a covering of tarred canvas used to
prevent water from entering the rudderhole.
Rudder fish. (Zool.)
(a) The pilot fish.
(b) The amber fish (Seriola zonata), which is bluish
having six broad black bands.
(c) A plain greenish black American fish ({Leirus
perciformis}); -- called also black rudder fish,
logfish, and barrel fish. The name is also applied
to other fishes which follow vessels.
Rudder pendants (Naut.), ropes connected with the rudder
chains.
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Barrel of a boiler
(gcide) | Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob.
fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth,
and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with
hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker
barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical
container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies
for different articles and also in different places for
the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A
barrel of wine is 311/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196
pounds.
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3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel
of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the
spring is coiled.
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4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. --Knight.
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5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12.
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6. (Zool.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet,
used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical
tube.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler,
containing the flues.
Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic
cavity.
Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the
action of a revolving cylinder.
Barrel vault. See under Vault.
[1913 Webster]Boiler \Boil"er\, n.
1. One who boils.
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2. A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
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Note: The word boiler is a generic term covering a great
variety of kettles, saucepans, clothes boilers,
evaporators, coppers, retorts, etc.
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3. (Mech.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron
plates riveted together, or a composite structure
variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving
engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
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Note: The earliest steam boilers were usually spheres or
sections of spheres, heated wholly from the outside.
Watt used the wagon boiler (shaped like the top of a
covered wagon) which is still used with low pressures.
Most of the boilers in present use may be classified as
plain cylinder boilers, flue boilers, sectional and
tubular boilers.
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Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part containing the
flues.
Boiler plate, Boiler iron, plate or rolled iron of about
a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making
boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc.
Cylinder boiler, one which consists of a single iron
cylinder.
Flue boilers are usually single shells containing a small
number of large flues, through which the heat either
passes from the fire or returns to the chimney, and
sometimes containing a fire box inclosed by water.
Locomotive boiler, a boiler which contains an inclosed fire
box and a large number of small flues leading to the
chimney.
Multiflue boiler. Same as Tubular boiler, below.
Sectional boiler, a boiler composed of a number of
sections, which are usually of small capacity and similar
to, and connected with, each other. By multiplication of
the sections a boiler of any desired capacity can be built
up.
Tubular boiler, a boiler containing tubes which form flues,
and are surrounded by the water contained in the boiler.
See Illust. of Steam boiler, under Steam.
Tubulous boiler. See under Tubulous. See Tube, n., 6,
and 1st Flue.
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Barrel of the ear
(gcide) | Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob.
fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth,
and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with
hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker
barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical
container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies
for different articles and also in different places for
the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A
barrel of wine is 311/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196
pounds.
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3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel
of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the
spring is coiled.
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4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. --Knight.
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5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12.
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6. (Zool.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet,
used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical
tube.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler,
containing the flues.
Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic
cavity.
Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the
action of a revolving cylinder.
Barrel vault. See under Vault.
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Barrel organ
(gcide) | Organ \Or"gan\ ([^o]r"gan), n. [L. organum, Gr. 'o`rganon; akin
to 'e`rgon work, and E. work: cf. F. organe. See Work, and
cf. Orgue, Orgy.]
1. An instrument or medium by which some important action is
performed, or an important end accomplished; as,
legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are
organs of government.
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2. (Biol.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a
plant, capable of performing some special action (termed
its function), which is essential to the life or
well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are
organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are
organs of plants.
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Note: In animals the organs are generally made up of several
tissues, one of which usually predominates, and
determines the principal function of the organ. Groups
of organs constitute a system. See System.
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3. A component part performing an essential office in the
working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves,
crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
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4. A medium of communication between one person or body and
another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of
communication between the government and a foreign power;
a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party,
sect, etc. A newsletter distributed within an organization
is often called its house organ.
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5. [Cf. AS. organ, fr. L. organum.] (Mus.) A wind instrument
containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds,
which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon
by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and
sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the
plural, each pipe being considered an organ.
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The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. --Pope.
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Note: Chaucer used the form orgon as a plural.
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The merry orgon . . . that in the church goon
[go].
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Barrel organ, Choir organ, Great organ, etc. See under
Barrel, Choir, etc.
Cabinet organ (Mus.), an organ of small size, as for a
chapel or for domestic use; a reed organ.
Organ bird (Zool.), a Tasmanian crow shrike ({Gymnorhina
organicum}). It utters discordant notes like those of a
hand organ out of tune.
Organ fish (Zool.), the drumfish.
Organ gun. (Mil.) Same as Orgue
(b) .
Organ harmonium (Mus.), an harmonium of large capacity and
power.
Organ of Corti (Anat.), a complicated structure in the
cochlea of the ear, including the auditory hair cells, the
rods or fibers of Corti, the membrane of Corti, etc. See
Note under Ear.
Organ pipe. See Pipe, n., 1.
Organ-pipe coral. (Zool.) See Tubipora.
Organ point (Mus.), a passage in which the tonic or
dominant is sustained continuously by one part, while the
other parts move.
[1913 Webster]Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob.
fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth,
and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with
hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker
barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical
container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies
for different articles and also in different places for
the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A
barrel of wine is 311/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196
pounds.
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3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel
of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the
spring is coiled.
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4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. --Knight.
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5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12.
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6. (Zool.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet,
used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical
tube.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler,
containing the flues.
Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic
cavity.
Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the
action of a revolving cylinder.
Barrel vault. See under Vault.
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Barrel process
(gcide) | Barrel process \Bar"rel proc"ess\ (Metal.)
A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in
a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide
solution, or other reagent.
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Barrel vault
(gcide) | Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt; see Note, below), n. [OE. voute, OF.
voute, volte, F. vo[^u]te, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio,
fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See
Voluble, and cf. Vault a leap, Volt a turn, Volute.]
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1. (Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling
or canopy.
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The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. --Gray.
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2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, used
for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the
like; a cell; a cellar. "Charnel vaults." --Milton.
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The silent vaults of death. --Sandys.
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To banish rats that haunt our vault. --Swift.
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3. The canopy of heaven; the sky.
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That heaven's vault should crack. --Shak.
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4. [F. volte, It. volta, originally, a turn, and the same
word as volta an arch. See the Etymology above.] A leap or
bound. Specifically:
(a) (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
(b) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard,
or the like.
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Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in
pronunciation.
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Barrel vault, Cradle vault, Cylindrical vault, or
Wagon vault (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel
abutments, and the same section or profile at all points.
It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see {Rampant
vault}, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the
apse of a church.
Coved vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t.
Groined vault (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one
in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one
another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.
Rampant vault. (Arch.) See under Rampant.
Ribbed vault (Arch.), a vault differing from others in
having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted
surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character.
Vault light, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement
or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.
[1913 Webster]Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob.
fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth,
and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with
hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker
barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical
container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies
for different articles and also in different places for
the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A
barrel of wine is 311/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196
pounds.
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3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel
of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the
spring is coiled.
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4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. --Knight.
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5. A jar. [Obs.] --1 Kings xvii. 12.
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6. (Zool.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet,
used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical
tube.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler,
containing the flues.
Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic
cavity.
Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the
action of a revolving cylinder.
Barrel vault. See under Vault.
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Barreled
(gcide) | Barreled \Bar"reled\, Barrelled \Bar"relled\, a.
1. Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a
double-barreled gun.
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2. put in or stored in a barrel;; as, barreled beer; --
opposite of unbarreled.
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3. tapered toward both ends; -- of an arrow.
[WordNet 1.5]Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barreled
(-r[e^]ld), or Barrelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Barreling, or
Barrelling.]
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
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barrelfish
(gcide) | barrelfish \barrelfish\ n.
A blackish fish (Hyperglyphe perciformis) of New England
waters.
Syn: black rudderfish.
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barrelful
(gcide) | barrelful \barrelful\ n.
The quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold.
Syn: barrel.
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