fatigue

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.

   “My husband stayed for some days with the magistrate at Cardwell, recruiting his health and recovering from his fatigues, for the passage between Cape York and Cardwell had proved the most tedious and anxious part of the voyage.”

2. isim A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.

   “Moreover, the habits of business are the most enduring of any; and Lord Norbourne's most positive enjoyment was in what are called the fatigues of office.”

3. isim Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.

   “Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.”

4. isim Attributive form of fatigues (“military clothing worn when doing menial tasks”).

   “He reluctantly took the map from his camouflage fatigue pocket.”

5. fiil To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
6. fiil To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.

   “The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.”

7. fiil To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
8. fiil To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
9. fiil To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.

   “The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.”