lunette

lunette

1. monikollinen silmälasit

2. kiikaritähtäin

Liittyvät sanat: fusil à lunette, lunette arrière, lunettes de soleil, lunettes de vue

Synonyymisanakirja

lunette

linnoitus, lynetti, lunetti, aukko, reikä.

Rimmaavat sanat

lunette rimmaa näiden kanssa:

ringette, raclette, vinaigrette, bourette...

Katso kaikki

Englannin sanakirja

lunette (englanti > suomi)

1. lunetti

lunette englanniksi

1. puhekieltä A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape. (defdate)

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3. 1982, (w), Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 820:

Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak.

4. puhekieltä A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door. (defdate) File:Rest-Pearce-Highsmith.jpeg right|thumb|a lunette in the Thomas Jefferson building of the US Library of Congress

5. 1930, Offner, Steinweg et al., A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, p. 49:

The decoration of a lunette discovered in the Duomo of Pistoia in the 1950s, which represents Christ blessing and Saints James and John, all bust-length, constitutes a more remarkable and stylistically more advanced approach to painting.

6. puhekieltä An image or other representation of a crescent moon. (defdate)

7. 1822, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historians Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences'', vol. 3, p. 245:

The lesser portions of the tablet has over this Mithras, a lunette or symbol of the moon, who, according to Porphyry's comment, is the queen of generation and as such was denominated by the ancients both a bee and a bull ....

8. puhekieltä A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks. (defdate) File:Lunetten.png right|thumb|two kinds of lunette fortification

9. 1863, Alexander William Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea, vol. VII, p. 185:

This Lunette, as we have seen, was confronted, and even in siege-form "approached", by a part of Canrobert's army ....

10. 2001, (w), translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 21:

In mid-December ..., the French succeeded in storming the half-ruined outwork of the St Laurent lunette and advancing to a position immediately beneath the walls with their breaching batteries.

11. puhekieltä A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. (defdate)

12. 2001, David Philippart, Basket, Basin, Plate, and Cup: Vessels in the Liturgy, p. 33:

On those occasions when lunettes, custodia and monstrances are used, the sacristan needs to be sure that the lunette fits into the given monstrance, that the host fits into the lunette, and that the host is put out before Mass for consecration.

13. A type of flattened glass used in watch-making. (defdate)

14. 2008, FJ Garrard, Watch Repairing, Cleaning and Adjusting: A Practical Handbook, p. 157:

Lunette and double lunette glasses are generally sized in quarters; crystals and thin flat lunettes for hunters in eighths.

15. The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed. (defdate)

16. 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 92:

some "future" events may be likelier than others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has already closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

17. puhekieltä A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia. (defdate)

18. 2003, (w), A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 403:

Sticking out of a crescent-shaped sand ridge of a type known as a lunette were some human bones.

19. 2006, John K Warren, Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons, p. 31:

These lunettes are relicts of a Late Pleistocene deflationary period, when the lacustrine hydrology changed from perennial water-filled lakes to dessicated mudflats.

20. puhekieltä A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.

21. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

22. An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

23. puhekieltä See lunettes.

24. puhekieltä telescope (refracting telescope)

25. puhekieltä English lunette

26. toilet seat

27. puhekieltä breastbone

28. puhekieltä eyeglasses, spectacles

29. (inflection of)

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