ruff

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).

   “You a Captaine? you ſlaue, for what? for tearing a poore Whores Ruffe in a Bawdy-houſe? Hee a Captaine? hang him Rogue, hee liues vpon mouldie ſtew'd-Pruines, and dry'de Cakes.”

2. isim Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.

   “Fair from its humble bed I rear'd this flow'r; / Suckled, and chear'd, with air, and ſun, and ſhow'r; / Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I ſpread, / Bright with the gilded button tipt its head; […]”

3. isim A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of species Calidris pugnax (syn. Philomachus pugnax), of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).

   “During late spring and early summer it becomes difficult to detect Ruffs in their breeding habitat. The males no longer visit the leks, and most have left the area. Some of the females may still be sitting on their eggs, invisible to casual passers-by.”

4. isim A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.

   “In the ruffed grouse, the special "ruff" feathers are borne on the lateral branches of the lower cervical feather tract.”

5. isim A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.

   “The Afghan urial, which is smaller than the Transcaspian urial, is found in the mountains near Iran's eastern frontier, and is the wild sheep of Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Its ruff is black sprinkled with white hairs and its bib is white.”

6. isim A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.

   “The stroke of the cut-off valves is very short, and the ruffs on the parts, g, g, regulate its length.”

7. isim An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.

   “Nay, how many Emperours and Princes, that in the Ruff of all their Glory have been taken down from the Head of a Conquering Army, to the Wheel of the Victor's Chariot?”

8. isim Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.

   “Thou must not pill and poll thy tenant, that thou mayest have, as they say, Unde, and that thy never enough, to ruffle it out in a riotous ruff, and a prodigal, dissolute, and licentious living.”

9. fiil To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.

   “The Ladies too were carp’d at, and their Dreſs, / He wants ’em all ruff’d up like good Queen Beſs!”

10. fiil Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.

    “Instantly the keen-eyed hawk "stooped," or descended, with a rushing swoop, and struck one of the birds with her claws, but without killing it, which is called "rifling," or "ruffing" it.”

11. fiil To ruffle; to disorder.

    “Thenceforth the fether in her lofty creſt, / Ruffed of loue, gan lowly to auaile, / And her prowd portaunce, and her princely geſt, / VVith which ſhe earſt tryumphed, now did quaile: […]”

12. fiil Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.

    “"Scat," the crow said. I ignored him. He ruffed up his feathers, doubling his size.”

13. fiil To boast, to brag.
14. fiil To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.

    “[…] Mr Gillies ruffed and screamed out so loud in approbation, that he fell from his chair, and brought an American gentleman down with him.”

15. isim Alternative spelling of ruffe: a small freshwater fish of the genus Gymnocephalus; specifically a Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua or Gymnocephalus cernuus) which has spiny fins; the pope.

    “Of Fiſhes thoſe we feed on in England, are either ſcaled, as ſturgian, ſalmon, grailing, ſhuins, carps, breams, the barbel, mullet, pike, luce, perch, ruffs, herrings, ſprats, pilchers, roche, ſhads, dorry, gudgin, and umbers;[…]”

16. isim A fish of species Arripis georgianus, found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia
17. isim A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.

    “A Ruff, or Sea-bream. Melanurus.”

18. fiil To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).

    “Zia [Mahmood] ruffed the club return and then played the ace of hearts and a heart, leaving declarer with another spade loser for two down.”

19. fiil Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.

    “Then I played on diamonds, to ruff out the suit – but East had four diamonds and West none, so I had annoyingly to lose a trick to East's ♣K in the end.”

20. isim An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.

    “Take, for example, the axiom "Never give declarer a ruff-and-sluff."”

21. isim A game similar to whist and its predecessor.

    “[W]hat ſhall wee haue a game at Trumpe or Ruffe to driue away the time, how ſay you?”

22. isim A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.

    “I also used quite a few of the flat-fingered kind of ruff (as used before on the doumbek in the baladi section) to embellish some notes.”

23. fiil To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
24. fiil Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
25. ünlem The bark of a dog; arf, woof.

    “"Ruff, ruff!" Around the corner, a little light brown, short-haired dog came running. On seeing the little brown terrier, Annie and Marie looked at one another. Letting out a moan, Annie said, "Oh no, it's JB! I wish Joyce would take him to dog school and have him taught some manners."”

26. sıfat Alternative spelling of rough.

    “The Herb Pantagruelion hath a little Root somewhat hard and ruff, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt Point, and having some of its Veins, Strings or Filaments coloured with some spots of white, […]”