Pearl

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
2. isim Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
3. isim Something precious.

   “I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl.”

4. isim A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for, e.g., medicinal application.
5. isim A whitish speck or film on the eye.

   “Boast not of your eyes; it is feared you have Balaam's disease, a pearl in your eye, Mammon's prestriction.”

6. isim A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
7. isim A light-colored tern.
8. isim One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
9. isim A fringe or border.
10. isim A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.

    “clinical pearls”

11. isim The clitoris.

    “My mouth and tongue finally find her pearl. Her clitoris.”

12. isim Ellipsis of pearl tapioca.
13. isim Argent, in blazoning by precious stones.

    “(1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks.”

14. isim The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.
15. isim A jewel or gem.

    “There is gold, and multitude of pearles: but a precious vessel the lips of knowledge.”

16. fiil To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.

    “Syed Omar began to walk to the airport. Sweat pearled his tough brown skin, his fat bounced in rhythm.”

17. fiil To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.

    “to pearl barley”

18. fiil To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.

    “A Teaching Company Scheme developing new technology for pearling light bulbs was established in October […]”

19. fiil To resemble pearl or pearls.
20. fiil To bead; to form droplets.

    “I'm left here with the memory of all their shining words, like drops of water pearling on the window-pane”

21. fiil To hunt for pearls

    “to go pearling”

22. fiil To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.

    “Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts.”

23. fiil Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.

    “He couldn't even turn the board or raise the nose. Consequently, the board pearled, nose-dived into the water, throwing Lee off almost like being thrown from a horse. But he persisted.”

24. fiil Of aquatic plants: to produce visible bubbles on the stems and leaves during photosynthesis, usually in a simulated environment like an aquarium.
25. fiil To use an ender pearl to teleport by throwing it.
26. özel isim A female given name from English.

    “Her Pearl!—For so had Hester called her; not as a name expressive of her aspect, which had nothing of the calm, white, unimpassioned lustre that would be indicated by the comparison. But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price,—purchased with all she had,—her mother's only treasure!”

27. özel isim A male given name from English.
28. özel isim A surname from English.
29. özel isim A major river in Guangdong, China; in full, the Pearl River.

    “The only news of interest brought by the Calcutta and China mail is that the river Pearl, in Southern China, had been explored by a party of the British to the distance of 195 miles.”

30. özel isim Short for Pearl River (Etymology 2): a river in Mississippi and Louisiana, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico,