prick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
2. isim An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
3. isim A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
4. isim A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
5. isim A small pointed object.

   “Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary.”

6. isim The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.

   “I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.”

7. isim A feeling of remorse.

   “1768–1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued the pricks of conscience”

8. isim The penis.

   “Patriarchal attitudes have made a society where men rule and women obey, where "you'd-better-know-your-place-boy," where gay men actually play husband-and-wife (my lover and I did it for four years, until it became intolerable), where king prick lays down the law.”

9. isim Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
10. isim A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
11. isim The footprint of a hare.
12. isim A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.

    “the prick of noon”

13. isim The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

    “they that shooten nearest the prick”

14. fiil To pierce or puncture slightly.

    “John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.”

15. fiil To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
16. fiil To shoot without killing.

    “They had shot at old Tom, the hare, too, but he is still alive; at least I pricked him yesterday morn across the path into the turnip field.”

17. fiil To form by piercing or puncturing.

    “to prick holes in paper”

18. fiil To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.

    “c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Some who are pricked for sheriffs.”

19. fiil To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
20. fiil To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
21. fiil To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.

    “The cooks [...]prick it [a slice] on a prog of iron.”

22. fiil To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.

    “A sore finger pricks.”

23. fiil To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.

    “The dog's ears pricked up at the sound of a whistle.”

24. fiil Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.

    “Seed should be sown thinly and evenly to enable seedlings to be pricked out without disturbing those that have just emerged. If there is space, seedlings should be pricked out individually, either into small pots or module trays.”

25. fiil To incite, stimulate, goad.

    “My duty pricks me on to utter that.”

26. fiil To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.

    “At last, as through an open plaine they yode, They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre [...].”

27. fiil To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

    “Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.”

28. fiil To make acidic or pungent.

    “For then their late Attracts decline, And turn as eager as prick'd Wine”

29. fiil To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
30. fiil To aim at a point or mark.

    “This prayse belongeth to stronge shootinge and drawinge of mightye bowes, not to prickinge, and nere shootinge.”