inglese > italiano | |
horse | |
1. sost. (zoologia) cavallo | |
2. sost. eroina | |
3. sost. (araldica) cavallo | |
inglese > inglese | |
horse | |
1. subst. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
2. subst. A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
3. subst. (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
4. subst. (military, sometimes un) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
5. subst. (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Now just remind me how the horse moves again? | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
6. subst. (slang) A large person. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Every linebacker they have is a real horse. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
7. subst. (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
8. subst. Equipment with legs. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
9. subst. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
10. subst. A frame with legs, used to support something. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
a clothes horse; a sawhorse | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
11. subst. (nautical) Type of equipment. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
12. subst. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
13. subst. A breastband for a leadsman. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
14. subst. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
15. subst. A jackstay. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
16. subst. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
17. subst. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
18. subst. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a pl | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
19. subst. (dated, slang) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
20. subst. (dated, slang) horseplay; tomfoolery | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
21. v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
22. v. To provide with a horse. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
23. v. (obsolete) To get on horseback. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
24. v. To sit astride of; to bestride. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
25. v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
26. v. To take or carry on the back. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
27. v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment. | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
28. subst. (slang) Heroin (drug). | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
Alright, mate, got any horse? | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
italiano > inglese | |
cavallo | |
1. n-m. horse | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
2. n-m. horsepower (unit of measure) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
3. n-m. (chess) knight | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
4. n-m. crotch, fork | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |
5. n-m. seat (of trousers) | ![](https://www.lexisrex.com/query_button.png?1) |