Barb

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.

   “Having two barbs or points.”

2. isim A hurtful or disparaging remark.

   “to trade barbs”

3. isim A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
4. isim A barbel on a fish's face.

   “The barbel is so called […]by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth.”

5. isim One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
6. isim Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
7. isim The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
8. isim A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
9. isim A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
10. isim Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
11. isim A bit for a horse.

    “His loftie steed with golden sell And goodly gorgeous barbes.”

12. isim A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
13. fiil To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.

    “[…] for this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, / But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.”

14. fiil To cut (hair).
15. fiil To shave or dress the beard of.
16. fiil To clip; to mow.

    “O thou pale ſober night, / […] / The ſtooping Sitheman that dooth barbe the field, / Thou makſt winke ſure: […]”

17. isim The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.

    “Why sends not the Bridegroom his promised gift, / Is his heart more cold, or his barb less swift?”

18. isim A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
19. isim A barbiturate.

    “The benzos, it turns out, are just as highly addicting as the barbs, but they do have a much lower potential to cause death by overdose. […] The barbs became one of the most widely abused classes of drugs in the 1960s and 1970s.”

20. isim Armor for a horse.

    “The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights ... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs.”

21. fiil To cover a horse in armor.

    “And now, in stead of mounting barbed steeds / To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, / He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber[…].”

22. özel isim A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
23. özel isim A surname.
24. isim A fan of American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj.

    “Minaj is thrilled to be returning to her legion of Aussie Barbz this October in a brand new full-scale arena show.”