billet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A short informal letter.

   “However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet[…]”

2. isim A written order to quarter soldiers.
3. isim A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
4. isim A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.

   “17 June 1940: Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet. Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.”

5. isim Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
6. isim An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.

   “The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.”

7. isim Berth; position.

   “His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle.”

8. fiil To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.

   “Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.”

9. fiil To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
10. fiil To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
11. isim A semi-finished length of metal.

    “The Saturday evening Cardiff-West Wales mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a train of steel billets.”

12. isim A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.

    “They shall beat out my brains with billets.”

13. isim A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
14. isim A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
15. isim An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
16. isim A strap that enters a buckle.
17. isim A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
18. isim Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”).