keel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.

   “I hear the noise about thy keel; ⁠I hear the bell struck in the night: ⁠I see the cabin-window bright; I see the sailor at the wheel.”

2. isim A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
3. isim In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
4. isim The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.

   “The most important ice features are the frequency and extent of downward projections (bummocks and ice keels) from the underside of the ice canopy (pack ice and enclosed water areas from the point of view of the submariner)[…]”

5. isim A type of flat-bottomed boat.

   “The ladies remained at the house, while the men walked to the staith on the [River] Wear, and were shown the process of unloading the wagons into the keels by means of the coal-drop.”

6. isim The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
7. isim The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.

   “Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]”

8. fiil To collapse, to fall.

   “He keeled over after having a stroke.”

9. fiil To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
10. fiil To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
11. fiil To cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over.

    “A merrie note, / While greaſie Ione doth keele the pot.”

12. fiil To moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen.
13. fiil To become cool; cool down.
14. isim A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
15. isim Red chalk; ruddle.
16. fiil To mark with ruddle.
17. fiil Pronunciation spelling of kill.