spanner — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

   Gebrauch

   • Gebrauch im Commonwealth
   • Ireland
   • britischer Gebrauch

   Synonyme

   wrench

   Oberbegriffe

   hand tooltool

   Beispiele

   Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more bolt to screw in.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   Tools don’t have judgment or ethics, and they might fail to push back on bad ideas or dangerous requests. “Your spanner’s never like, ‘This shouldn’t be built,’” she said, using a British term for wrench.

2. A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts. Any of certain types of such a tool that have a pin or hook to engage the driven object.

   Gebrauch

   • Canada
   • Gebrauch im Commonwealth
   • Ireland
   • britischer Gebrauch
   • US-amerikanischer Gebrauch

   Oberbegriffe

   wrench

   Beispiele

   The groove in this toolholder is what the spanner grabs onto when you are changing the tool.

3. One who, or that which, spans.

   Gebrauch

   • selten

   Beispiele

   The scheme of the spanner of continents and the desire of the little husbandman hoarding for his loved ones...

4. A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.

5. A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.

   Beispiele

   The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock.

6. A device in early steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

7. A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works)

   Gebrauch

   • Ireland
   • britischer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

   Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he expected. This really threw a spanner in the works.

8. A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.

   Gebrauch

   • Ireland
   • britischer Gebrauch
   • abwertend
   • mildly

   Beispiele

   You spanner, Rodney! I wanted some time, not a bunch of thyme!

Verb

1. To use a spanner; to fix with a spanner

Substantiv

1. a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

   Synonyme

   wrench

   Oberbegriffe

   hand tool