squeegee

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.

   “This machine, […] consists of a timber cylinder revolving on an axle, […] The cylinder is armed externally with diagonally-fixed scrapers, squeegees, or brushes.”

2. isim A long-handled tool with a blade used for cleaning and/or drying surfaces, or for levelling paths, roadways, etc.
3. isim A short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.
4. isim A long-handled tool with a blade used on ships for swabbing decks and spreading protective coatings.

   “As for holy-stoning the decks [of the yacht], I set my face against that from the first; it is the worst description of nervous torture of which I ever heard, excepting perhaps, the infliction of the squee gee, which, as its name almost implies, sets every tooth in one's head on edge for a week.”

5. isim A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller with blades pulled by a horse.
6. isim A tool used to press film into a mount, remove excess moisture from a print, etc.; a squeezer.

   “The transfer of the image from paper on to the glass is very easy. The paper is immersed in water, and placed in contact with a glass plate. The superfluous moisture being removed by a squeegee, the paper may then be stripped off, leaving the gelatine on the glass.”

7. isim A tool with a roller or blade used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing.
8. isim A person who uses a squeegee (noun sense 1.2); specifically, one who makes an unsolicited attempt to clean the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then requests payment; a squeegee bandit.
9. fiil Sometimes followed by down, out, together, etc.: to press or spread (a substance) using a squeegee (noun sense); also, to use a squeegee on (something, such as a surface).

   “By degrees the ship began to assume the appearance which one expects a British man-of-war to wear. […] The decks were persistently holystoned, scrubbed, ‘squeegéed’, and swabbed, till every speck was removed from them, with about a quarter of an inch of solid wood as well; […]”

10. fiil To use a squeegee.

    “Having regulated the temperature, the following articles will be required:– […] a rubber squeegee, and a piece of American cloth to protect the print while squeegeeing; […]”