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ουρά — meaning in English

oura

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English meaning

  • brush noun A tool with bristles attached to a handle, used for cleaning, painting, or grooming hair.
  • coccyx noun The small, triangular bone at the very bottom of the spine, formed from fused vertebrae; the tailbone.
  • coma noun A deep, prolonged state of unconsciousness from which a person cannot be woken, usually caused by severe illness or injury.
  • line noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
  • queue noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
  • tail noun The flexible appendage extending from the rear of an animal's body.
  • train noun A line of connected railway carriages pulled by an engine, used to carry passengers or freight.
  • urine noun The liquid waste produced by the kidneys and released from the body through the bladder.

Senses

ουρά is used for these senses in English:

  • brush The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
  • coccyx (medical, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.
  • coma (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  • line A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16th c.]
  • queue A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
  • queue (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. [from 20th c.]
  • train (obsolete, hunting) Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.

brush — full definition

  1. noun A tool with bristles attached to a handle, used for cleaning, painting, or grooming hair.
  2. noun A brief, unpleasant encounter with something.
  3. noun Wild, low-growing vegetation such as shrubs and bushes.
  4. verb To clean, arrange, or apply something using a brush.
  5. verb To touch something lightly while passing by.

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