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Takođe pogledajte: English

Engleski

Etimologija

Origin uncertain. It is speculated to relate either to people from England introducing the technique for billiards or bowling in the United States, or perhaps from a particular person with the surname English.

Izgovor

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Imenica

english (uncountable) (uppercased in all of the Oxford English Dictionary's citations from 1869 to 2007)

1. (US) Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.

   You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.

2. (figurative) An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.
   • 1993, Thomas Cripps, Making Movies Black‎^[2], page 94:

     Preston Sturgis in his Sullivan’s Travels (1942) put some english on the idea in a bit about a filthy, defeated, white chaingang that is invited to a rural black church for an evening of old movies.

Sinonimi

• (spinning motion): side, spin, sidespin

Prevodi

spinning or rotary motion around the vertical axis

• Finski: sivukierre
• Francuski: anglais (fr)
• Indijski: अंग्रेज़ी (hi) (aṅgrezī) (angrezi)
• Poljski: angielski (pl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Rumunski: english (ro)
• Španski: inglés (es)
• Svahili: zunguka
• Tamilski: (literally) ஆங்கிலம் (ta) (āṅkilam)

Pogledajte takođe

• body English

Anagarami

• Hingles, shingle ^{(alphagram eghilns)}