Meaning

4 senses

  1. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.

    Käfer

    жукžuk, жесткокры́лыйžestkokrýlyj

    жукžuk, джукdžuk, хрущxrušč

  2. (uncountable)A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.

  3. A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

    Holzhammer

    a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

  4. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.

Examples

252 sentences

  1. Beetles, butterflies and cockroaches are insects.

    Жуки, метелики і таргани - комахи. — rmdas

    ruЖуки, бабочки и тараканы - насекомые. — Biga

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  2. We raced our beetles.

    Ми влаштували перегони для наших жуків. — deniko

    ruМы пустили своих жуков бежать наперегонки. — Selena777

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  3. Sami caught a little blue beetle.

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  4. Some spruces are bark-beetle infested.

    deManche Fichten haben Borkenkäfer. — Yorwba

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  5. The beetle is on the table.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
insect:
Русский
By meaning 1
insect:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
insect:
mallet:

Origin

From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle

From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite + -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).

From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).

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Forms

plural: beetles
Singularbeetle

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms
insect:bugA2
Close in meaning
  • a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing:mallet

Word family

142 related words
Derivedambrosia beetleant beetleasparagus beetlebacon beetlebark beetlebean beetlebee beetlebeetle bankbeetlebrainbeetle browbeetle-browedbeetle bugbeetle drivebeetle grassbeetleheadbeetle-headedbeetlelikebeetle mitebeetlerbeetleskinbeetle-squasherbeetle-stickerbeetleweedbeetly

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
beeswaxbeetbeetrootbefall

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