Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (figuratively) Any pen.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
Verbit
Esimerkit
- He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
- He touched the tender stops of various quills.
- Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.
- Then one of my dogs got quilled, and it happened again a month later. After putting the dog in a headlock, yanking out several dozen quills, and spurting blood all over myself and the decking of the back porch, I at least understood his antiporcupine venom.
- Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.
- One has only to recall that Coleridge and Wordsworth one day were lounging by the sea shore, while nearby sat an English police agent on snitch patrol prepared to rush to headquarters to quill a report about the conversation.
- Another characteristic of Plains Indians was the fairly strict division between art made and used by men and art made and used by women. Although men and women sometimes cooperated, women usually painted or quilled very balanced, controlled geometric designs on dresses, moccasins, robes, bags, and containers.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | quilled |
| Imperfekti | quilled |
| Partisiipin preesens | quilling |
| Monikko | quills |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | quills |