guillotine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.

   “For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive [Julius] Cæsar’s.”

2. isim A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
3. isim An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
4. isim A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
5. isim A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
6. fiil To execute (someone) with a guillotine.

   “Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.”

7. fiil To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
8. fiil To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
9. fiil To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.