measles

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.

   “Maybe it's the 'measles. They say they're going around the neighborhood.”

2. isim Any disease causing red rashes.
3. isim Used as an intensifier.

   “Why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine...”

4. isim Synonym of cysticercosis: A disease of livestock or meat caused by the presence of tapeworm larvae.

   “The Swyne dyed of the Measils.”

5. isim Any disease causing a tree's bark to become rough and irregular.

   “Their fruit-trees are subject to two diseases, the Meazels... and lowsiness.”

6. isim plural of measle: a red spot forming part of a rash, (now) particularly those caused by M. morbillivirus.

   “Others take a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face when they are come forth.”

7. isim plural of measle: any similar-looking red spot, particularly (printing) foxing.

   “Measles. When prints are imperfectly fixed, the appearance presented is very similar to that of the same disease in the human subject. Hence the name.”

8. isim plural of measle: the individual cysts of cysticercosis.
9. isim plural of measle: the individual blisters in the surface of a diseased tree's bark.
10. isim A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.

    “[…] they would prefer having him "die of the measles," as wags at the CIA put it, than be punished by legal means. If there is no convenient way of administering the "measles," they may even favor simply letting him go.”

11. fiil third-person singular simple present indicative of measle
12. isim plural of measle
13. isim Alternative form of mesels: Leprosy.