hedgehog

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked, native to Afro-Eurasia.

   “[L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […]”

2. isim Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
3. isim Ellipsis of Czech hedgehog (“an antitank obstacle constructed from three steel rails”).

   “Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.”

4. isim A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
5. isim A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.

   “2005, Paul Mitchell, The Favourite, Frank Moorhouse, The Best Australian Stories 2005, page 145, There are hedgehogs with sultanas as well as breadcrumbs, carrot cakes and fruitcakes and banana walnut loaves.”

6. isim A form of dredging machine.
7. isim Medicago intertexta, the pods of which are armed with short spines.
8. isim Retzia capensis of South Africa.
9. isim The edible fungus Hydnum repandum.

   “Hedgehogs fruit from autumn until late spring. Many consumers are still unfamiliar with hedgehogs, and they have a relatively small commercial trade.”

10. isim A kind of electrical transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance.
11. isim A way of serving food at a party, consisting of a half melon or potato etc. with individual cocktail sticks of cheese and pineapple stuck into it.
12. isim A type of plane curve; see Hedgehog (geometry).
13. isim Someone who has one big overarching personal philosophy or worldview.

    “Austin was patiently and painstakingly concerned with truth within limitations. He was a hedgehog, not a fox.”

14. fiil To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.

    “Hedgehogging means — let us call a spade a spade — that we're were encircled: It's something that has been forced upon us, a predicament from which we ought to try to escape as fast as possible.”

15. fiil To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog.

    “All around were styrofoam cups hedgehogged with butts, and the threebar electric heater was encrusted with bits of charcoaled tobacco and frazzled stands of hair where people had stooped down to spark up.”

16. fiil To curl up into a defensive ball.

    “You try for his head, but he's hedgehogged round now, elbows beside his ears and you can't get him.”