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llengüeta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • barb noun A sharp point angled backward on an arrow, hook, or wire, designed to make it hard to pull out.
  • bootstrap verb To start and grow a business or project using only your own money and revenue, without outside investment.
  • reed noun A tall, slender grass-like plant that grows in wet ground or shallow water.

Senses

llengüeta is used for these senses in English:

  • barb The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
  • bootstrap A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
  • reed (countable, music) Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
  • uvula (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine uvula, the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.

barb — full definition

  1. noun A sharp point angled backward on an arrow, hook, or wire, designed to make it hard to pull out.
  2. noun A sharp, cutting remark meant to hurt or provoke.
  3. noun Any of various small freshwater fish with whisker-like barbels near the mouth.
  4. verb To fit something with barbs.

bootstrap — full definition

  1. verb To start and grow a business or project using only your own money and revenue, without outside investment.
  2. verb In computing, to start up a computer or system by loading a small initial program that then loads the rest.
  3. noun A loop of leather or fabric at the back of a boot, used to pull it on.

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