spanner — Dictionnaire anglais

Nom

1. A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

   Usage

   • usage du Commonwealth
   • Ireland
   • usage britannique

   Synonymes

   wrench

   Termes génériques

   hand tooltool

   Exemples

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

   Plus d’exemples (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.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • usage du Commonwealth
   • Ireland
   • usage britannique
   • usage américain

   Termes génériques

   wrench

   Exemples

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

3. One who, or that which, spans.

   Usage

   • rare

   Exemples

   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.

   Exemples

   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.

   Usage

   • désuet

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

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • usage britannique

   Exemples

   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.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • usage britannique
   • péjoratif
   • mildly

   Exemples

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

Verbe

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

Nom

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

   Synonymes

   wrench

   Termes génériques

   hand tool