Castle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
2. isim An instance of castling.
3. isim A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
4. isim A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
5. isim A close helmet.

   “The castle was perhaps a figurative name for a close headpiece deduced from its enclosing and defending the head, as a castle did the whole body; or a corruption from the Old French word casquetel, a small or light helmet.”

6. isim Any strong, imposing, and stately palace or mansion.
7. isim A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
8. isim The wicket.

   “Nay, he was quite an adept, and was very effective as a change bowler, for in no time he demolished the castle of any batsman.”

9. fiil To house or keep in a castle.

   “...to encastle, to Castle.”

10. fiil To protect or separate in a similar way.

    “Castle me in the armes of thy everlasting strength.”

11. fiil To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
12. fiil To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.

    “He [i.e., the king] may change (or Castle) with this Rooke, that is, he may goe two draughts at once towards this Rooke... causing the Rooke to stand next to him on either side.”

13. fiil To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
14. fiil To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.

    “And the 23-year-old brought the crowd to their feet when he castled Gayle's stumps, signalling the direction of the pavilion to his friend for good measure.”

15. özel isim A surname transferred from the common noun referring to someone who lived in or worked in a castle
16. özel isim Castle class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR
17. özel isim The first part of the name of certain nuclear tests by the US: Castle Bravo, Castle Romeo, Castle Yankee etc. See Operation Castle.
18. özel isim University College, Durham, a constituent college located in Durham Castle
19. özel isim A hamlet in Bowerchalke parish, south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0122).
20. özel isim A community (without a council) in Cardiff, Wales; it includes Cardiff Castle.
21. özel isim A community (without a council) in Swansea, Wales; it includes Swansea Castle.
22. özel isim A town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States, derived from the surname.