Mustard

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
2. isim Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.

   “When the waitress brought the food, I asked whether she had any Dijon mustard.”

3. isim The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

   “Mustard and cress sandwiches.”

4. isim Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
5. isim One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
6. isim The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
7. isim Ellipsis of mustard gas.
8. isim Energy, power (when throwing a baseball).

   “He's left-handed and in his adulthood didn't have a baseball glove to call his own. He borrowed one of mine and just out of the car, still wearing his lab coat having worked an overnight shift, he taught himself to throw right-handed and put plenty of mustard on it.”

9. sıfat Of a dark yellow colour.
10. sıfat Very good, or very skilled.

    “My expectations of public services were nil, so any time within a month was fine by me. They did it in less than a week, which was mustard.”

11. özel isim A surname.