cushion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.

   ““There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]””

2. isim A throw pillow.
3. isim A thin, flat pad used on hard chairs and sometimes toilet seats.
4. isim A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
5. isim A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
6. isim The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
7. isim The pillow used in making bone lace.
8. isim An engraver's pad.
9. isim The rubber of an electrical machine.
10. isim A pad supporting a woman's hair.
11. isim a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.

    “Wisla made a bright start to the second half and Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer was twice called into action, first saving Gervasio Nunez's deflected 20-yard effort and then smothering Gargula's free-kick. But Fulham soon had the cushion of a third goal after more outstanding build-up play.”

12. isim Money kept in reserve.

    “Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how much cushion a company has in making its interest payments.”

13. isim The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.

    “In reference to a nuptial feast, the cushion dance at weddings is thus mentioned in the Apophthegms of King James, the Earl of Worcester and others (1658): “At last when the Masque was ended and Time had brought in the Supper, the Cushion led the Dance out of the Parlour into the Hall;””

14. fiil To furnish with cushions.

    “to cushion a sofa”

15. fiil To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

    “How many doughty monarchs, in later and more polite ages, would have slept in cottages, and have worked in falls, instead of inhabiting palaces, and being cushioned up in thrones, if this rule of government had continued in force ?”

16. fiil To absorb or deaden the impact of.

    “to cushion a blow”

17. fiil To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.