curtain

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
3. The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
4. The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
5. Death.
6. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
7. (obsolete) A flag; an ensign.
8. The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.

Verb

1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
2. To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

Conceptos

cortina

telón

transparente

pañería

Curtain

encortinar

celosía

estor

manto

Sinónimos

screen

veil

drapery

drape

blind

mantle

hanging

cloak

pall

cover

tent

⛺

shield

🛡️

portiere

tapestry

bunting

door-curtain

hanging screen

curtain wall

jalousie

mask

😷

muffle

nappe

partition

pavilion

purdah

separate

sheathe

shed

shroud

shutter

swag

tassel

top

🔝

Venetian blind

vesture

wall

cover over

drop curtain

sail a boat

window blind

field staff headquarters

secret meeting place

bamboo blind

hanging silk

plagula

contend over

wall of cloth

loose-hanging

besel

hanging curtain

tentorlum

barrier

drape

bathe

bedspread

blanket

board

canopy

clothe

curtains

dice

divide

drapes

enshroud

envelop

flash

foil

front

gilt

hangings

Con guión como

cur‧tain

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkɜːtn̩/

Etimología (Inglés)

Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.