Limbo

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A speculative place or state, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately.

   “Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.”

2. isim Chiefly preceded by in: any in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion which results in deadlock, delay, or some other unresolved status.

   “My passport application has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.”

3. isim Jail, prison; (countable) a jail cell or lockup.

   “Adr[iana]. VVhere is thy Maſter Dromio? Is he vvell? / S. Dro. [Dromio of Syracuse] No, he's in Tartar limbo, vvorſe then hell: […] / S. Dro. I doe not knovv the matter, hee is reſted [i.e., arrested] on the caſe. / Adr. VVhat is he arreſted? tell me at vvhoſe ſuite?”

4. isim Synonym of Hades or Hell.

   “Nor quite of future Povv'r himſelf bereft, / But Limbo's large for Unbelievers left.”

5. isim Synonym of pawn (“the state of something being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge”).

   “[…] I let him have all my ready Mony to redeem his great Svvord from Limbo— […]”

6. isim A type of antisubmarine mortar installed on naval vessels.
7. fiil To place (someone or something) in an in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion which results in deadlock, delay, or some other unresolved status.

   “[A]s your doctrine is exceedingly evil, by Yamjamma's theory it follows, that you must be proportionably bedeviled; and since it harms others, your devil is of the number of those whom it is best to limbo; and since he is one of those that can be limboed, limboed he shall be in you.”

8. isim A competitive dance originating from Trinidad and Tobago in which dancers take turns to cross under a horizontal bar while bending backwards. The bar is lowered with each round, and the competition is won by the dancer who passes under the bar in the lowest position without dislodging it or falling down.

   “Every limbo boy and girl / All around the limbo world / Gonna do the limbo rock / All around the limbo clock / Jack be limbo, Jack be quick / Jack go under limbo stick / All around the limbo clock / Hey, let's do the limbo rock”

9. fiil To dance the limbo (etymology 2, noun etymology 2, noun sense 1).

   “After each player goes under once, the bar is lowered about an inch. Players keep limboing under the limbo stick as it gets lower and lower. If you touch the stick with any part of your body, you're out. The last person left is the winner.”

10. fiil Often followed by under: to pass under something, especially while bending backwards.

    “How low can you go? Technology stocks limboed lower and lower last week as investors danced to the profit-taking beat.”

11. isim Alternative letter-case form of limbo (“a type of antisubmarine mortar installed on naval vessels”).