Rabbit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)

   “The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.”

2. isim The meat from this animal.

   “She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.”

3. isim The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
4. isim A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
5. isim A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
6. isim A batsman who is frequently dismissed by the same bowler (said to be that player's rabbit).

   “Glenn McGrath dismissed Michael Atherton a record 19 times; hence Atherton is McGrath's rabbit.”

7. isim A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
8. isim Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.

   “The cheese mixture may be served with toast on the side or poured on top of toast and grilled until golden brown and bubbling. Other variations include Buck rabbit, a Welsh rabbit with a poached egg on top, and Yorkshire rabbit with bacon ...”

9. isim A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.

   “This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.”

10. isim A vibrator with a shaft and a clitoral stimulator usually shaped like a rabbit's ears.

    “Rabbits come in many forms/In colors, shapes and sizes./ They satisfy a lady's needs,/Indulging her sweet vices.”

11. fiil To hunt rabbits.
12. fiil To flee.

    “The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.”

13. fiil To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.

    “Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!”

14. fiil Confound; damn; drat.

    “LORD D. There, Dick, d'ye hear how the tutorer talks? oh rabbit it! he can ladle you out of latin by the quart;—and grunts greek like a pig.”

15. özel isim The fourth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.