barrel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

   “a cracker barrel”

2. isim Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

   “Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.”

3. isim The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.

   “Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.”

4. isim A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case

   “the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.”

5. isim A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

   “You're shooting stars from the barrel of your eyes”

6. isim A venturi (in carburetion).
7. isim A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.

   “Moreover, it adds to difficulties in adjusting/servicing lamps located over high scenery, ceilings etc., where the barrel networks cannot be lowered or reached.”

8. isim Any tube.
9. isim The hollow basal part of a feather.
10. isim The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
11. isim A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
12. isim A waste receptacle.

    “Throw it into the trash barrel.”

13. isim The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
14. isim A jar.

    “And ſhe ſaid, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but an handfull of meale in a barrell, and a little oyle in a cruſe: [...]”

15. isim Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
16. isim A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.

    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:barrel.”

17. fiil To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
18. fiil To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

    “He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.”

19. fiil To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
20. fiil To bet consecutively on multiple streets.