wring

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.

   “I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry.”

2. fiil To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.

   ““I feel I’ve been wrung through a wringer,” Maggie said.”

3. fiil Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.

   “Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl.”

4. fiil To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.

   “to wring someone’s hand”

5. fiil To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.

   “to wring one’s hands with worry”

6. fiil To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.

   “to wring a mast”

7. fiil To contort or screw up (the face or its features).

   “Then would I laugh to ſee my lady pout, / And ſmyle when moſt ſhe wroung her mouth awry; […]”

8. fiil To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
9. fiil Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.

   “Myselfe can tell best where my shooe doth wring mee.”

10. fiil To cause (someone or something) physical harm, injury, or pain; specifically, by applying pressure or by twisting; to harm, to hurt, to injure.

    “A Lorde God, howe the gowte wryngeth me by the too!”

11. fiil To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.

    “And art thou come, Horatio from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To vvring more teares from Iſabellas eyes: / VVhoſe lights are dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.”

12. fiil To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.

    “And if he had not too much cheriſh’d his natural conſtitution, and propenſity; and been too much griev’d, and wrung by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he would have been an excellent Man of buſineſs, […]”

13. fiil To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.

    “The police said they would wring the truth out of that criminal.”

14. fiil To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.

    “O noble ſir! / Your ouer kindneſſe doth vvring teares from me, […]”

15. fiil To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce compliance; to extort.

    “VVho can be bound by any ſolemne Vovv[…] To vvring the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d right, And have no other reaſon for this vvrong, But that he vvas bound by a ſolemne Oath?”

16. fiil To cause (someone) to do something or to think a certain way.

    “For men be ſo parciall alway to theim ſelfe, that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, that wringeth vs to the worſe.”

17. fiil To change (something) into another thing.
18. fiil To give (teachings, words, etc.) an incorrect meaning; to twist, to wrest.

    “Lord, how dare these men thus wring the scriptures?”

19. fiil To put (oneself) in a position by cunning or subtle means; to insinuate.

    “VVe vvring our ſelues into this vvretched vvorld, / To pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curſe and raile, / To fret, and ban the fates, to ſtrike the earth / As I doe novv.”

20. fiil To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.

    “For a given set of blocks with lengths in multiples of thousandths the lengths may be so selected as to make it possible, by combining different blocks in wringing contact end to end, to form a series having any desired length, measured in inches and thousandths; […]”

21. isim A powerful squeezing or twisting action.

    “I grasped his hand and gave it a grateful wring.”

22. isim Followed by down: the product of wringing, such as cider or wine.

    “She had just got off her mare to look at the last wring-down of cider for the year; […]”

23. isim A sharp physical pain, especially in the abdomen; also, mental pain or distress.

    “Hens dung ſvvallovved [by a horse] by hap, bringeth frets and vvrings in the bellie: […]”

24. isim A device for compressing or pressing, especially for making cheese, cider from apples, or wine from grapes.

    “Take any quantity of cider that is old, strong, harsh, or of an inferior quality, and add to it the same quantity of cider from the wring, or press; rouse it up well, and fix it in a warm place, or in the sun, which is certainly the best for its progress; […]”