palkki — meaning in English

English meaning

• balk noun A strip of land left unploughed between fields.
• bar noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
• beam noun A long, sturdy length of wood, steel, or concrete used to support a structure such as a floor, roof, or ship deck.
• bend verb To force something into a curved or angled shape.
• fascia noun A long strip of material fixed along the edge of a roof, sometimes holding a gutter.
• girder noun A large horizontal beam, made of steel, wood or concrete, that supports a building or structure.
• sill noun The horizontal ledge at the base of a window or door frame.

Senses

palkki is used for these senses in English:

• balk Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
• bar A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• bar (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1⁄4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
• bar A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
• beam (nautical) One of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid, and acting as part of the support for keeping the sides of the vessel in shape — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones; cf. abeam, beam-ends.
• beam (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
• bend (heraldiccharge) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
• fascia (architectural element) A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.

balk — full definition

1. noun A strip of land left unploughed between fields.
2. noun The wall of soil left standing at the side of a dig.
3. noun A large squared piece of timber used as a beam in building, for example to hold up a loft.
4. noun Something that stops or disappoints someone; an obstacle.

bar — full definition

1. noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
2. noun A rigid piece of metal, wood, or similar material, much longer than it is wide.
3. noun A block-shaped piece of a solid substance, especially soap or chocolate.
4. noun Something that blocks or prevents progress; an obstacle.
5. noun The legal profession, or the examination lawyers must pass to practice.

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