grape

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Noun

1. A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
2. A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
3. Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
4. A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
5. Clipping of grapeshot.
6. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
7. (slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
8. (colloquial,slang) A person's head.

Adj

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

Verb

1. To pick grapes.
2. To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
4. To grope.
5. To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
6. Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪp/

Etymologia (Angielski)

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.