cul-de-sac

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A blind alley or dead end street.

   “Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them. It was a watery cul de sac.”

2. isim A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic.

   “And in suburbs known for new development, preservationists are often battling a general perception that there is nothing historic or worth saving among the cul-de-sacs.”

3. isim An impasse.

   “Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.”

4. isim A sacklike cavity, a tube open at one end only.