inglese > italiano | |
shoulder | |
1. sost. spalla | |
2. verb. addossarsi | |
inglese > inglese | |
shoulder | |
1. subst. The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket. | |
2. subst. The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck. | |
The parrot was sitting on Steve's shoulder. | |
3. subst. (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments. | |
4. subst. A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle. | |
5. subst. The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed. | |
6. subst. Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder. | |
7. subst. (topography) A shelf between two levels. | |
8. subst. A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder. | |
He stopped the car on the shoulder of the highway to change the flat tire. | |
9. subst. The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak. | |
10. subst. A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain. | |
11. subst. The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. | |
12. subst. An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timbe | |
13. subst. (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face. | |
14. subst. (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body. | |
15. subst. (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body. | |
16. subst. The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body. | |
17. subst. (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge. | |
18. subst. (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support. | |
19. subst. The part of a key between the cuts and the bow. | |
20. v. To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder. | |
21. v. To put (something) on one's shoulders. | |
22. v. To place (something) against one's shoulders. | |
23. v. (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation. | |
24. v. (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for. | |
shoulder the blame | |
25. v. To form a shape resembling a shoulder. | |
26. v. (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders. | |
27. v. To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail. | |
28. v. (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave. | |
italiano > inglese | |
spalla | |
1. subst. (anatomy, cut of meat, portion of a garment) shoulder | |
2. subst. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. | |
3. subst. (in the plural) back | |
4. subst. back, rear | |
5. subst. sidekick, second fiddle | |
6. subst. (theatre, comedy) straight man, second banana, sidekick, foil | |