spanner — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

   Употребление

   • употребление в странах Содружества
   • Ireland
   • британское употребление

   Синонимы

   wrench

   Более общие понятия

   hand tooltool

   Примеры

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

   Другие примеры (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.

   Употребление

   • Canada
   • употребление в странах Содружества
   • Ireland
   • британское употребление
   • употребление в США

   Более общие понятия

   wrench

   Примеры

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

3. One who, or that which, spans.

   Употребление

   • редкое

   Примеры

   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.

   Примеры

   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.

   Употребление

   • вышедшее из употребления

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

   Употребление

   • Ireland
   • британское употребление

   Примеры

   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.

   Употребление

   • Ireland
   • британское употребление
   • пренебрежительное
   • mildly

   Примеры

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

Глагол

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

Существительное

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

   Синонимы

   wrench

   Более общие понятия

   hand tool