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ruoto — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bone noun One of the hard, calcium-rich pieces that make up the skeleton of humans and most animals.
  • chine noun The top of a ridge.
  • rachis noun The spinal column, or the vertebrae of the spine.
  • ray noun A narrow beam of light or other radiation.
  • shaft noun A long, narrow, straight part of a tool, weapon, or machine — such as a handle, pole, or rotating rod that transmits power.
  • stalk noun The stem of a plant, or a similar stem-like part.

Senses

ruoto is used for these senses in English:

  • bone A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  • chine The spine of an animal.
  • pin bone A long, thin bone in a fish extending sideways from the backbone.
  • rachis (ornithology) The central shaft of a feather. [from 19th c.]
  • ray (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  • shaft The main axis of a feather.
  • stalk (mathematics, sheaf theory) Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf \mathcal{F} on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See w:Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

bone — full definition

  1. noun One of the hard, calcium-rich pieces that make up the skeleton of humans and most animals.
  2. noun An off-white color resembling the shade of bone.
  3. verb To remove the bones from meat or fish before cooking.

chine — full definition

  1. noun The top of a ridge.
  2. noun The spine of an animal.
  3. noun A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  4. noun The back of the blade on a scythe.

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