barnacle
A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged…A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
» They scraped barnacles off the hull of the ship.
Sie kratzten die Rankenfüßer vom Schiffsrumpf.
Они счистили ракушки с корпуса судна.
Значение
значений: 9A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
Rankenfüßer, Rankenfußkrebs, Seepocke
усоно́гий ракusonógij rak, морско́й жёлудьmorskój žóludʹ, баля́нусbaljánus
The barnacle goose.
(сленг)In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
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(сленг)A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
(сленг)A worldly sailor.
(во множественном числе, устаревшее)An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
(Британия, архаичное, во множественном числе, сленг)A pair of spectacles.
(устаревшее, сленг)A good job, or snack easily obtained.
- marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
- European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
Примеры
предложений: 4They scraped barnacles off the hull of the ship.
Они счистили ракушки с корпуса судна.
deSie kratzten die Rankenfüßer vom Schiffsrumpf.
Tom scraped the barnacles off the hull of the ship.
deTom kratzte die Seepocken vom Schiffsrumpf.
Gooseneck barnacles sweep the water with their feathery legs to catch plankton.
The barnacle is a marine organism that attaches itself to solid objects.
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake,Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish bairneach), from Proto-Celtic *barannīkos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
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Формы
мн. число: barnaclesСинонимы
синонимов: 7- marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces:cirripedcirripede
- European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north:barnacle gooseBranta leucopsis