Cramp

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.

   “He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.”

2. isim That which confines or contracts.

   “A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind.”

3. isim A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
4. isim A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
5. fiil (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
6. fiil To affect with cramps or spasms.

   “The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.”

7. fiil To prohibit movement or expression of.

   “You're cramping my style.”

8. fiil To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

   “You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.”

9. fiil To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
10. fiil To bind together; to unite.

    “The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.”

11. fiil To form on a cramp.

    “to cramp boot legs”

12. sıfat cramped; narrow

    “[…] the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting.”

13. özel isim A surname.