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Dorn — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arbor noun A shaded garden structure covered with climbing plants, used as a place to sit.
  • bolt noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  • mandrel noun A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
  • prickle noun A sharp and often small point, especially that of a plant; a thorn.
  • prong noun A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool.
  • spine noun A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen.
  • thorn noun A sharp, hard, pointed growth on a plant stem or branch.
  • tine noun A pointed prong, such as one of the points of a fork or a comb tooth.

Senses

Dorn is used for these senses in English:

  • arbor An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  • bolt A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  • mandrel A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
  • mandrel A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.
  • prickle A small, sharp pointed object similar to the true prickle, such as a thorn.
  • prong A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine.
  • spine (zootomy, botany, mycology) A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needlelike structure on an animal, shell, mushroom or plant. The botanical term technically refers to such a structure derived from a leaf or part of a leaf.
  • thorn (botany) A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.

arbor — full definition

  1. noun A shaded garden structure covered with climbing plants, used as a place to sit.
  2. noun A rotating shaft or spindle in a machine, such as a lathe, that supports a moving part.

bolt — full definition

  1. noun A metal fastener with a threaded shaft, used with a nut to hold things together.
  2. noun A sliding bar used to lock a door.
  3. noun A flash of lightning.
  4. verb To run away suddenly, or move very fast.
  5. verb To fasten something with a bolt, or to lock a door with a bolt.

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