Parola del giorno in inglese

Definizioni

inglese > italiano
bone
1. sost. (anatomia) osso, spina
bad to the bone: cattivo fino alle ossa, al midollo
inglese > inglese
bone
1. subst. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. subst. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. subst. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
4. subst. A bonefish
5. subst. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
6. subst. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
7. subst. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
8. subst. (figurative) The framework of anything.
9. subst. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
(color panel, E4D4BA)
10. subst. (US, informal) A dollar.
11. subst. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
12. subst. (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. subst. (slang) (clipping of trombone)
italiano > inglese
osso
1. subst. (anatomy) bone
bagnato fino all'osso - drenched to the skin
2. subst. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)

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Esempi d'uso

I almost choked on a piece of chicken bone.      Io mi sono quasi soffocato con un pezzo d'osso di pollo. She gave her dog a bone.      Ha dato un osso al suo cane. It looks like a fish bone got stuck in my throat.      Sembra che mi si sia piantata in gola una lisca di pesce. I got a fish bone stuck in my throat.      Mi si è piantata una lisca di pesce in gola. They gave their dog a bone.      Hanno dato un osso al loro cane.

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