Значение

значений: 10
  1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.

    Kiel

    ство́л пера́stvól perá

  2. A pen made from a feather.

    Schreibfeder, Federkiel, Feder

    перо́peró, гуси́ное перо́gusínoje peró

    перо́peró

    pen made from a bird's feather

  3. (шире)Any pen.

    He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.

    Stift

  4. 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.

    Stachel

    иго́лкаigólka, игла́iglá

    го́лкаhólka

  5. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.

  6. The pen of a squid.

  7. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

  8. The tube of a musical instrument.

  9. 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.

  10. A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.

Примеры

предложений: 11
  1. Hedgehogs have quills.

    У ежей есть иголки. — Ooneykcall

    deIgel haben Stacheln. — Yorwba

  2. Porcupine quills are essentially modified hairs.

  3. Kalman was afraid of the hedgehog's quills.

  4. My quill ran out of ink this morning.

    deMeiner Feder ist heute Morgen die Tinte ausgegangen. — Yorwba

  5. My father will urge you to love your books and quills.

Переводы

языков: 9
Українська
По значениям 2
pen made of feather:
needle-like structure that grows on the skin:
Русский
По значениям 3
lower shaft of a feather:
pen made of feather:
needle-like structure that grows on the skin:
Deutsch
По значениям 4
lower shaft of a feather:
pen made of feather:
any pen:
needle-like structure that grows on the skin:

Происхождение

From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the

From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”).

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Формы

мн. число: quills
Ед. числоquill
Мн. числоquills

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 7
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Однокоренные

связанных слов: 18

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