Pronunciaciones (7)
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/ˈdæŋ.ɡəl/
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[ˈdæŋ.ɡl̩]
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/ˈdeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl/
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[ˈdeɪ̯ŋ.ɡl̩]
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/ˈdɛ̃ŋ.ɡəl/
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[ˈdɛ̃ŋ.ɡl̩]
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ˈdæŋ.ɡəl
Verbo
To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
Uso- intransitivo
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His feet are dangling in the water.
He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
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From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
Uso- intransitivo
- jerga
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He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.
To hang or trail something loosely.
Uso- transitivo
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I like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water.
To put forth as a possibility.
Uso- broadly
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That it happens to have been produced under the imprimatur of Michael Bay dangles the possibility of poor taste, but unfortunately, bombast and conspicuous consumption are nowhere to be found.
To trail or follow around.
Uso- anticuado
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To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.
Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
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Record the time and duration of dangling, patient's pulse and respirations and patient's general tolerance of the procedure. […] The next step usually in getting the patient out of bed is sitting […]
[P]ivot to bring the patient's legs over the side of the bed. Be Smart! Stay with the patient as he dangles.
To position (a patient) in this way.
Uso- transitivo
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Using proper body mechanics for dangling a patient at the side of the bed.
Sustantivo
An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
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The example of Oswald will show how the different operations of a dangle and a barium meal would work more efficiently together.
The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
Uso- jerga
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That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
A dangling ornament or decoration.
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So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles, like tiny fishing rods.
Verbo
hang loosely
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the ornaments dangled from the tree
The light dropped from the ceiling
cause to dangle or hang freely
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He dangled the ornaments from the Christmas tree