clutch
The claw of a predatory animal or birdThe claw of a predatory animal or bird.
» A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Утопающий хватается за соломинку.
Утопающий хватается и за соломинку.
Значение
значений: 11The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
(шире)A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
Kupplung
сцепле́ниеsceplénije, му́фтаmúfta
The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
Kupplungspedal
педа́ль сцепле́нияpedálʹ sceplénija
педа́ль зче́пленняpedálʹ zčéplennja
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
Clutch, Unterarmtasche, Autofahrertasche
клатчklatč, су́мка-клатчsúmka-klatč, ридикю́льridikjúlʹ
(США)An important or critical situation.
to come in clutch
переде́лкаperedélka, переплётperepljót
a tense critical situation
A difficult maneuver.
(собирательное)A brood of chickens or a sitting of bird, monotreme or reptile eggs; a sitting.
вы́водокvývodok
(собирательное)A group or bunch (of people or things).
Примеры
предложений: 66A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Утопающий хватается за соломинку.
Take your foot off the clutch.
Сними ногу со сцепления.
deNimm den Fuß von der Kupplung.
I broke the clutch.
Я сломал сцепление.
Put it in first and slowly let off the clutch while giving it a little gas.
Включи первую передачу и медленно приотпусти сцепление, чуть добавляя при этом газу.
He clutched his wallet in his hand.
Переводы
языков: 9По значениям 1
По значениям 5
По значениям 3
Происхождение
From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċanFrom Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Variant form of cletch, from Middle English cleken (“to hatch”), perhaps from Old Norse klekja (“to hatch”).
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Формы
мн. число: clutchesСинонимы
синонимов: 11- a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism:clutch pedal
- a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand:clutch bag
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together:batch
- the act of grasping:claspclenchclutchesgraspgriphold