pith

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.

   “This ſvveete ſmelling Reede is of a darke dun colour, full of ioints and knees eaſie to be broken into ſmall ſplinters, hollovv and full of a certaine vvhite pith, cobvveb vviſe, ſomevvhat gummie in eating, and hanging in the teeth, and of a ſharpe bitter taſte.”

2. isim The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit.
3. isim The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs; specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a feather.
4. isim Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal marrow; also, the spinal cord itself.

   “Becauſe many do hold this opinion that this diſeaſe doth conſume the marrovv of the backe: […] [s]ome againe, do tvvine out the pith of the backe vvith a long vvire thruſt vp into the horſſes head, and ſo into his necke and backe, vvith vvhat reaſon I knovv not.”

5. isim Synonym of diploe (“the thin layer of soft, spongy, or cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull”).
6. isim The soft tissue of the brain.
7. isim The soft inner portion of a loaf of bread.

   “Buck Mulligan slit a steaming scone in two and plastered butter over its smoking pith. He bit off a soft piece hungrily.”

8. isim The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.

   “In these days folk still believed in witches and trembled at a curse; and this one, falling so pat, like a wayside omen, to arrest me ere I carried out my purpose, took the pith out of my legs.”

9. isim The essential or vital part of something; the essence.

   “The pith of my idea is that people should choose their own work hours.”

10. isim Physical power or strength; force, might.

    “But thy auld tail thou vvad hae vvhiſkit, / An' ſpread abreed thy vveel-fill'd briſket, / VVi' pith an' povv'r, […]”

11. isim A quality of courage and endurance; backbone, mettle, spine.
12. isim The energy, force, or power of speech or writing; specifically, such force or power due to conciseness; punch, punchiness.
13. isim Chiefly in of (great) pith and moment: gravity, importance, substance, weight.

    “For though my ryme be ragged, / Tattered and iagged, / Rudely rayne beaten, / Rusty and moughte eaten, / If ye take well therwith, / It hath in it some pyth.”

14. fiil To render insensate or kill (an animal, especially cattle or a laboratory animal) by cutting, piercing, or otherwise destroying the spinal cord.
15. fiil To extract the pith from (something or (figurative) someone).

    “And yet, instead of exclaiming "Send this inconceivable Satanist to the stake," the respectable newspapers pith me by announcing "another book by this brilliant and thoughtful writer."”

16. sıfat The ordinal form of the number pi (π; approximately 3.14159…).

    “The pith root of pi is approximately 1.439…”

17. isim One divided by pi, that is, 1/π (approximately 0.31831…).

    “not only that, but your "radian" axis can be labelled as *being* in units of pis, as opposed to the redundancy of 0pi, pi/2, pi etc.; conversely, your circumferential measure can be rational (or units) and your radius can be transcendental (or piths .-)”