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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- Food, especially snack food.
- The beat of a drum.
- (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
- (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A curled position.
- (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
Verbit
- (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- (intransitive, often, with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
- (ergative) To fit neatly.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To full, as cloth.
- (LGBT, of a drag queen, transwoman, etc.) To conceal one’s genitals, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
Esimerkit
- Tuck in your shirt. I tucked in the sheet. He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket.
- It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
- The sofa tucks nicely into that corner. Kenwood House is tucked into a corner of Hampstead Heath.
- The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.
- to tuck a dress
- Honey, have you tucked today? We don’t wanna see anything nasty down there.
- [...] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck [...]
- He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.
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