picket

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A stake driven into the ground.
2. (countable, historical, uncountable) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. (countable, uncountable) A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4. (countable, uncountable) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
5. (countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable) A sentry.
6. (countable, uncountable) A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
7. (uncountable) The card game piquet.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
3. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
4. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Sinonimai

stake

guard

💂

pale

watch

⌚

sentry

piquet

pole

outpost

picketer

sentinel

scout

paling

peg

lookout man

lookout

spotter

staking

pile

surround

tether

post

protect

palisade

patroller

patrolman

pillar

ring

💍

screener

secure

security guard

slat

sliver

sod

spile

strip

stump

tie

vanguard

ward

watcher

watchman

pointed stake

advance vanguard

bank guard

advance guard

picquet

beefeater

beleaguer

beset

besiege

Vertimai

piquete

picchetto

piquet

Pfahl

Streikposten

piquet

paletto

paal

piolo

post

sentinelle

Latte

Pfosten

Pflock

πάσσαλος

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/ˈpɪkɪt/

Etimologija (Anglų k.)

From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).