wrest

(İngilizce)

Verb

1. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
2. (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To seize.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
5. (transitive) To tune with a wrest, or key.

Noun

1. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
2. A key to tune a stringed instrument.
3. (obsolete) Active or motive power.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete, rare) Ellipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.

Noun

A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

Noun

A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/ɹɛst/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

Ortaçağ İngilizcesi öğesinden devralındı: wresten

Eski İngilizce öğesinden devralındı: wrǣstan

Eski Nors dili ile aynı kökten türemiştir: reista

In summary

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.
The noun is derived from the verb.

Kavramlar

çevirerek söküp alma

yakalamak

zorla elde etmek

Eş anlamlılar

seize

snatch

wrench

🔧

grab

wring

take

twist

catch

extort

distort

warp

wrick

yank

extract

pluck

contort

pull

grasp

compete

pull out

mangle

rip out

draw

bend

vie

sprain

scramble for

squeeze

misshape

misunderstand

overjoy

pervert

pilfer

pinch

plunk

pry

ravish

restrain

rob

screw

snap

stanza

stave

strip

swoop

take away

torture

tug

turn

turning