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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUK:
    • IPA: [ˈkɜː.tən]
  • Ääntäminen:
    • IPA: /ˈkɝ.tn̩/
  • ÄäntäminenUS:
    • IPA: [ˈkɝ.tn̩]
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /ˈkɜː.tn̩/
KäännösKonteksti
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Muut/tuntemattomat
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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
  2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  3. (theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
  4. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
  5. (euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death.
  6. (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
  7. (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
  8. The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.

Verbi

  1. (transitive) To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

Esimerkit

  • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  • “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[...]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[...]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.”
  • Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us,[...]caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles.
  • For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.

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