łopata — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
łopata is used for these senses in English:
- blade The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- blade (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- blade (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- peel A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- shovel A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
- shovelful The amount that can be moved at once with a shovel.
blade — full definition
- noun The flat, sharp-edged cutting part of a knife, sword, or similar tool.
- noun A flat, thin part shaped like a cutting blade, such as of a fan, propeller, oar, or grass.
- verb To skate using inline skates ("rollerblades").
peel — full definition
- verb To remove the skin or outer layer from something.
- verb To come away in strips or flakes, especially of skin or paint.
- noun The skin or outer layer of a fruit or vegetable.