waffle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.

   “The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.”

2. isim In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
3. isim A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.

   “Both joists and slab are cast in place to form a monolithic unit, integral with the supporting beams and columns. The joists form a characteristic waffle pattern on the underside. Structural design of joist construction: one-way or waffle flat slab […]”

4. isim A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
5. fiil To smash (something).

   “The cab was waffled in between the two, Marsh never having a prayer or even a full comprehension of what happened to him. He was crushed flat, never even hearing the deafening screech of metal.”

6. fiil To speak or write evasively or vaguely.

   “He waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price.”

7. fiil Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.

   “The geese waffled as they approached the water.”

8. fiil Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
9. fiil To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.

   “I waffled between going to the deposition and going to the doctor's. Wishing Barbara was there, I decided to call the doctor afterward.”

10. fiil Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.

    “Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ.”

11. fiil To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

    ““[…] You get anything useful on the background checks?” / He waffled his hand. “Nothing like what you brought back, but still some interesting notes.[…]””

12. isim (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.

    “This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.”

13. fiil Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
14. isim The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.