Inch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.

   “The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.”

2. isim Any very short distance.

   “Don't move an inch!”

3. isim Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
4. isim A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.

   “Let us consider what one inch of rain really means. If an acre of land were covered with water to the depth of only the tenth part of an inch, that layer of water would weigh more than 10 tons: thus 1 inch of rain is ten times that amount—in fact, very nearly 101 tons.”

5. isim A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
6. fiil To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).

   “Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.”

7. fiil To drive by inches, or small degrees.

   “He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.”

8. fiil To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
9. isim A small island; an islet.

   “The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.”

10. isim A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.

    “An ivy-clad farmhouse surrounded by trees, it stood on the sunny side of a sloping hill at the foot of which the Darigle river curved its way through gold-furzed inches to disappear under a stone bridge into the woods beyond.”

11. sıfat cocky and cheeky

    “I still remember Donald Duck sit next to him after NG dog being 'Done'd to F.2 building... he is still very Inch in Year 1983-4 teaching me RS”

12. fiil to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
13. özel isim A town in County Wexford, Ireland.