spade
A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for diggingA garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
» Tom flipped over the card and saw that it was the ace of spades.
Том перевернув карту і побачив, що це був виновий туз.
Meaning
5 sensesA garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
Spaten
штыкова́я лопа́таštykovája lopáta, лопа́таlopáta, за́ступzástup
лопа́таlopáta, за́ступzástup
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
I've got only one spade in my hand.
Pik
пи́каpíka, пи́киpíki
пі́каpíka, вино́vynó, пі́киpíky
a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
(ethnic, offensive, slur)A black person.
Examples
17 sentencesTom flipped over the card and saw that it was the ace of spades.
Том перевернув карту і побачив, що це був виновий туз.
Tom asked Mary if he could borrow one of her spades.
I have the ace of spades.
ruУ меня пиковый туз.
deIch habe das Pikass.
Tom held up the queen of spades.
The Ace of Spades is missing from this deck of cards.
deDas Kreuzas fehlt bei diesen Karten.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
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Origin
From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-GermFrom Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spắthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.
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