peter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.
2. özel isim A male given name from Ancient Greek.

   “She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.”

3. özel isim The leading Apostle in the New Testament: Saint Peter.
4. özel isim The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
5. özel isim A surname originating as a patronymic.
6. özel isim A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah, United States, named after Peter Maughan.
7. isim The penis.

   “You smile, act polite, shake their hands, then cut off their peters and put them in your pocket.” “Yes, Mr. President,” answered O'Brien.”

8. isim A safe.

   “It used to be simple to 'crack a peter'. Safe-breaking (blowing or cracking a 'peter') in the past three or four years shows that the expert cracksman knows his job.”

9. isim A prison cell.

   “[…] the ceremony of 'slopping out', breakfast, across to the main library from nine till half-past eleven, back to my peter for the mid-day meal and two hours' break, then the library again till five o'clock when tea was brought round and the cell door locked for the night.”

10. fiil Chiefly followed by out: originally (mining), of a vein of ore: to be depleted of ore; now (generally), to diminish to nothing; to dwindle, to trail off.

    “I found a veinlet about 15 in. wide and very rich in gold. Trenching along its outcrop showed that it extended about 100 ft. and then pinched out altogether. A winze sunk on the veinlet showed that it "petered out" entirely at 25 or 30 ft.”

11. fiil Synonym of blue peter; to call for trump by throwing away a high card while holding a lower one.