mangle — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

   c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

2. To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

   Uso

   • transitivo

Sostantivo

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

   Sinonimi

   mangler

2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

   Esempi

   There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.

Verbo

1. To wring laundry.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • transitivo

Sostantivo

1. Synonym of mangrove. Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).

   Uso

   • Caribbean
   • uso statunitense

2. Synonym of mangrove. A forest of such trees.

   Uso

   • Caribbean
   • uso statunitense

3. Synonym of mangrove. Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.

   Uso

   • Caribbean
   • uso statunitense

Sostantivo

1. clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

   Termini più generali

   clothes dryerclothes drier

Verbo

1. press with a mangle

   Termini più generali

   ironiron outpress

   Esempi

   mangle the sheets

2. injure badly by beating

   Sinonimi

   maul

   Termini più generali

   defacedisfigureblemish

3. alter so as to make unrecognizable

   Sinonimi

   mutilatemurder

   Termini più generali

   falsifydistortgarblewarp

   Esempi

   The tourists murdered the French language

4. damage or injure severely

   Sinonimi

   mutilatecut up

   Termini più generali

   damage

   Esempi

   The madman mutilates art work