| inglese > italiano | |
| shoulder | |
| 1. sost. spalla | |
| 2. sost. (viabilità) banchina, ciglio della strada | |
| 3. verb. addossarsi | |
| inglese > inglese | |
| shoulder | |
| 1. subst. The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket. |  |
| 2. subst. The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck. |  |
| The parrot was sitting on Steve's shoulder. |  |
| 3. subst. (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments. |  |
| 4. subst. A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle. |  |
| 5. subst. The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed. |  |
| 6. subst. Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder. |  |
| 7. subst. (topography) A shelf between two levels. |  |
| 8. subst. A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder. |  |
| He stopped the car on the shoulder of the highway to change the flat tire. |  |
| 9. subst. The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak. |  |
| 10. subst. A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain. |  |
| 11. subst. The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. |  |
| 12. subst. An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timbe |  |
| 13. subst. (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face. |  |
| 14. subst. (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body. |  |
| 15. subst. (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body. |  |
| 16. subst. The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body. |  |
| 17. subst. (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge. |  |
| 18. subst. (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support. |  |
| 19. subst. The part of a key between the cuts and the bow. |  |
| 20. v. To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder. |  |
| 21. v. To put (something) on one's shoulders. |  |
| 22. v. To place (something) against one's shoulders. |  |
| 23. v. (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation. |  |
| 24. v. (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for. |  |
| shoulder the blame |  |
| 25. v. To form a shape resembling a shoulder. |  |
| 26. v. (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders. |  |
| 27. v. To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail. |  |
| 28. v. (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave. |  |
| italiano > inglese | |
| spalla | |
| 1. subst. (anatomy, cut of meat, portion of a garment) shoulder |  |
| 2. subst. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. |  |
| 3. subst. (in the plural) back |  |
| 4. subst. back, rear |  |
| 5. subst. sidekick, second fiddle |  |
| 6. subst. (theatre, comedy) straight man, second banana, sidekick, foil |  |