Dorn — meaning in English

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 rod or bar used to shape or support a material while it is being formed, such as when bending a pipe or shaping a ring.
• prickle noun A small sharp point on something, often a plant, such as a thorn.
• prong noun One of the thin, pointed parts that stick out from something like a fork or an antler.
• spine noun The column of bones running down the back, from the head down to the tail or pelvis, that protects the spinal cord and holds up the chest 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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