curtain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

   “He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.”

2. isim A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
3. isim The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

   “He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.”

4. isim The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

   “Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].”

5. isim Death, final curtain.

   “For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.”

6. isim That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
7. isim A flag; an ensign.

   “Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose”

8. isim The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
9. fiil To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

   “The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.”

10. fiil To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

    “And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;”