thatch — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

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   Beispiele

   Just over halfway up, we reached the Human settlement with its houses of stone and wood and thatch. This was a prewar place.

2. Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

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3. A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.

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   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   Mark Ladd, the venue’s assistant director of operations, notes that the fake greenery looks authentic: the height and colour of the blades are varied, with a few brown ones thrown in to emulate dead thatch.

4. Any strawlike material, such as a person's hair.

   Gebrauch

   • broadly
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   Beispiele

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   Brown was a compact dark-skinned man in his forties, with strong features and a dense thatch of brown hair that sprang from his crown at an angle, though it had been brushed to either side of an indeterminate part.

   An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp.

Verb

1. To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.

Substantiv

1. hair resembling thatched roofing material

   Oberbegriffe

   hairdohairstylehair stylecoiffurecoif

2. plant stalks used as roofing material

   Oberbegriffe

   roofing material

3. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)

   Synonyme

   thatched roof

   Oberbegriffe

   roof

Verb

1. cover with thatch

   Oberbegriffe

   roof

   Beispiele

   thatch the roofs