Stonewall

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An obstruction.

   “That was what was causing the Government to hesitate in bringing down the Bill. There would be so many amendments proposed, and so many stonewalls erected, that much time would be occupied, and, that being so, he felt he must go on with other business first.”

2. isim A refusal to cooperate.

   “"Okay," I said sarcastically, while inside wondering what she was picking up on. / "Anyway," she said, sensing my stonewall, "I was just checking out the Pine Needlers' Facebook Page again, and you guys are killing it. Killing it with kindness as they say."”

3. isim An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky).

   “[W]e are at a loss to "calculate" the ingredients which enter into such mysterious compounds as "apple-jack," "white nose," "stonewall," chain-lightning," "railroad," "rattle-snake," "back-straightener," "corpse-reviver," "moral suasion," "bottomless-pit," "sabbath-calm," etc.”

4. isim Alternative form of stone wall (“wall made of stone”).

   “Stonewalls have been rebuilt along the piked portion of Taneytown road, along the east end of North Confederate avenue, and along Taneytown road south of Pleasonton avenue.”

5. fiil To obstruct.
6. fiil To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information.

   “At the press conference, the Prime Minister appeared to be stonewalling when asked about tax increases.”

7. sıfat Certain, definite.

   “Fortune favoured the fortunate when Martin Atkinson ignored a stonewall penalty.”

8. isim Alternative letter-case form of stonewall (“alcoholic drink”).

   “Try one of the inn's specialties from the old days — a Coow Woow (pronounced coo-woo), a 17th-century drink made with ginger brandy and rum on crushed ice; or a Stonewall, which is a century older — gin and applejack over ice cubes.”

9. özel isim A series of riots in 1969 New York City, beginning with the patrons of the gay bar "The Stonewall Inn" resisting police arrest, which marked the beginning of the militant gay rights movement.

   “Stonewall means fighting back.”

10. özel isim A nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
11. özel isim A formation in chess (a variation of the Queen's Pawn Game) in which white plays pawns to d4 and several other positions, requiring black to react energetically (see Stonewall Attack).

    “the Stonewall attack, a Stonewall setup, a Stonewall formation”

12. özel isim A town in Manitoba, Canada.
13. özel isim A former gold-mining town in California, in the Cuyamaca Mountains.
14. özel isim A town in Louisiana.
15. özel isim A town in Mississippi.
16. özel isim A town in North Carolina.
17. özel isim A town in Oklahoma.
18. özel isim An unincorporated community in Texas.
19. özel isim An unincorporated community in West Virginia.