grapevine

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.
2. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
3. (rare) A rumor.
4. A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
5. A leglock.
6. A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).

Verb

1. (transitive) To restrain in a leglock.
2. (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects.
3. (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.
4. (transitive) To score mortar at a joint.
5. (intransitive, transitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor.
6. (intransitive, transitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor).
7. (transitive) To link up through an informal communication network.

Concepts

vigne

liane

oléoduc

téléphone arabe

bouche à oreille

bouche-à-oreille

cep de vigne

Bouche à oreille

Synonymes

vine

grape

pipeline

grape vine

word of mouth

hold

liana

liane

rumor

scuttlebutt

grapevine telegraph

double fisherman’s knot

leg scissors

bush telegraph

rumor mill

canard

creeper

grapes

🍇

hearsay

Traductions

vid

vite

videira

wijnstok

Weinstock

αμπέλι

Weinrebe

vitis

parreira

wingerd

Rebe

parra

κλήμα

asma

Étymologie (Anglais)

From grape + vine.