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ślimak — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • escargot noun A dish of cooked edible snails, typically served in the shell with garlic butter, associated with French cuisine.
  • scroll noun A roll of paper or parchment, especially one containing writing.
  • snail noun A small, slow-moving mollusc with a spiral shell that it carries on its back.
  • volute noun The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.

Senses

ślimak is used for these senses in English:

  • escargot (uncountable) A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.
  • gastropod Any member of a class of molluscs (Gastropoda) that includes snails, slugs, and limpets; univalve mollusc.
  • scroll (lutherie) The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
  • snail Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
  • volute (architectural element) The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
  • volute (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.

scroll — full definition

  1. noun A roll of paper or parchment, especially one containing writing.
  2. verb To move text or images on a screen up, down, or sideways to view more content.
  3. verb (informal) To browse social media aimlessly for long stretches of time.

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