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Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
2. In Australian rules football
3. In Australian rules football
4. In Australian rules football
5. In Australian rules football
6. The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
7. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
8. (colloquial) An argument or fight.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
2. To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.

Verb

1. To crease or fold.
2. To become creased or folded.

Verb

To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

Verb

To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

sinonimi

pucker

crease

wrinkle

ruckle

multitude

crinkle

throng

herd

pile

crumple

great number

heap

ruck up

crowd

heaps

huddle

knit

lots

mass

mound

mountain

⛰️

plait

plenty of

ply

pulp

quantity

quarrel

ream

refuse

rick

row

ruffle

rumple

rut

shoal

shrink

shrivel

squeeze

stack

stockpile

swarm

threescore

trash

troop

tuck

vex

volume

wimple

worry

crimple

croud

Host

large number of

slag heap

Java weed

floating rubbish

floating weeds

mass energy

squeeze box

a lot of

rimple

army

batch

battalion

bevy

bulk

cockle

contract

cower

crimp

cringe

crouch

drove

fold

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɹʌk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: ruke

Affine islandese: hrúka

Affine svedese: ruka

Affine islandese: hrukka

Affine tedesco antico alto: runza

Affine tedesco: Runzel

Affine olandese medio: ronse

Affine irlandese: roc

In summary

From Middle English ruke, from Old Norse. Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.