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Definitioner

Engelsk > Engelsk

bone

1. n. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

2. n. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

3. n. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

4. n. A bonefish

5. n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

6. n. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

7. n. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

8. n. (figurative) The framework of anything.

9. n. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

(color panel, E4D4BA)

10. n. (US, informal) A dollar.

11. n. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.

12. n. (slang) A domino or dice.

13. adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

14. v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

15. v. To fertilize with bone.

16. v. To put whalebone into.

to bone stays

17. v. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

boning rod

18. v. (vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

19. v. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

20. v. (usually with "up") To study.

bone up

21. v. To polish boots to a shiny finish.

22. v. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

23. v. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

24. n. (slang) (clipping of trombone)

Svenska > Engelsk

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1. n-n. (anatomy) leg; a body part

2. n-n. leg; part of trousers which covers the legs

3. n-n. the part of a piece furniture on which it stands

4. n-n. (skeleton) bone; any of the components of an endoskeleton

5. n-n. (skeleton) bone; the material of the endoskeleton

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All the way down to the bone.
I've got a bone to pick with you,.
I'll make your father see reason, if I have to break every bone in his body.
Now me on the other hand, I do have good bone structure and it was not difficult to spend my money without people recognising me.
I'd like to try a glass of the wine, since it's such a bone of contention.

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