different between english vs tourn
english
English
Alternative forms
- English
Etymology
Origin uncertain. It is speculated to relate either to people from England introducing the technique for billiards or bowling in the United States, or perhaps from a particular person with the surname English.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /???.?l??/
Noun
english (uncountable)
- Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.
- You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.
- 2005, S. Moran, Bronx Boy: Book One of The Zombie Island Trilogy (page 179)
- There was a magical way of putting English on the dice to result in a six.
- (figuratively) An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.
Synonyms
- (spinning motion): side, spin, sidespin
Translations
See also
- body English
References
Anagrams
- Hingles, shingle
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tourn
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman. Doublet of turn.
Noun
tourn (plural tourns)
- A circuit made by a medieval English sheriff to the courts of his shire.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A spinning wheel.
Anagrams
- Toru?, run to
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