Beard

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
2. isim The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

   “At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.”

3. isim The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
4. isim The byssus of certain shellfish.
5. isim The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
6. isim The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
7. isim The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

   “the beard of grain”

8. isim Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.

   “While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.”

9. isim A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
10. isim The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
11. isim That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
12. isim That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
13. isim A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.

    “To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”.”

14. isim One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.

    “What are you talking about, I should be the beard? I don't wanna be a beard.”

15. isim A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.

    “One could also speculate that Linda also served as Cole's shield (or "beard") against his possibly being disinherited by his disapproving (of sissies) millionaire grandfather and doting mom, both of whom wanted him to be a lawyer.”

16. fiil To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
17. fiil To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

    “Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”

18. fiil To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
19. fiil To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
20. fiil Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
21. fiil Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.

    “Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]”

22. özel isim A surname transferred from the nickname.
23. özel isim An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States.
24. özel isim An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, named after Josiah Beard.
25. özel isim A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after ex-convict Timothy Beard.