pincushion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.

   “Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.”

2. isim A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.

   “[S]ee how the knowledge of the climate tolerances of one South African shrub, the Saldana pincushion (Leucospermum tomentosum) is integrated with projections of a global circulation model applied to the southern tip of South Africa [...].”

3. isim A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.

   “Scabiosa, often called mourning bride, pincushion flower, and sweet scabious, is an easily grown, old-fashioned, half-hardy annual. It is very attractive and satisfactory both for cutting and for borders and beds.”

4. isim A coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
5. isim A dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.

   “An abundant wildflower following good winter rains, Fremont pincushion [Chaenactis fremontii] features heads composed entirely of white or pinkish disk flowers.”

6. isim A pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.

   “Alverson's pincushion cactus (Coryophantha vivipara var. alversonii), under status review by the USF&WS for possible listing as threatened or endangered, is reported to occur the along the northwest boundary of the WSA.”

7. isim A pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.

   “Marigold pincushion [Navarretia tagetina], however, is widespread throughout the region except along the coast. [...] In eastern Sacramento County, it grows together with downy pincushion (Navarretia pubescens) in small clearings in blue oak woodland.”

8. isim A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.

   “Insulin-dependent diabetics are human pincushions.”

9. fiil To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.

   “The target was pincushioned with arrows.”

10. fiil To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.

    “A monitor is pincushioning when the display appears to have curved sides.”