different between salami vs wheelhouse

English

Etymology

From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [s??l??m?]
• Rhymes: -??mi

Noun

salami (countable and uncountable, plural salamis)

1. A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices.
2. (baseball) A grand slam.
3. (slang) A penis.
   • 2001, Bob Drews, Sandman (page 101)

     To this day Katie thought wistfully of the night in his apartment when his salami had split her loins sending her into a state of sexual ecstasy unmatched in human history.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on salami

Anagrams

• Islaam, alisma, ilamas, lamias

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salami.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s??la.mi/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sa?la.mi/

Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

Further reading

• “salami” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English salami, from Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa?la?mi

Noun

salami

1. a salami

Anagrams

• lamasi, Simala

Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [sa?la?mi]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [z??læ?mi]

Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.163)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

salami m (plural salami's)

1. salami

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l?mi/, [?s??l?mi]
• Rhymes: -?l?mi
• Syllabification: sa?la?mi

Noun

salami

1. salami

Declension

Anagrams

• limsaa, maalis, salmia, sialma

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.la.mi/

Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

Further reading

• “salami” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lamais, mailas, Malais, malais

Italian

Noun

salami m

1. plural of salame

Latvian

Noun

salami m (invariable)

1. salami

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

salami m (definite singular salamien, indefinite plural salamier, definite plural salamiene)

1. salami

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

salami m (definite singular salamien, indefinite plural salamiar, definite plural salamiane)

1. salami

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?la.m?i/

Etymology 1

From Italian salami.

Noun

salami n (indeclinable)

1. salami

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

salami

1. instrumental plural of sala

Further reading

• salami in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salami.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?lami/, [sa?la.mi]

Noun

salami m (plural salamis)

1. salami

Further reading

• “salami” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Noun

salami

1. salami

English

Etymology

From wheel +? house. Sense 3 (“(baseball) a pitch location which is favourable to the hitter”) references the fact that a vessel is controlled from its wheelhouse (sense 1.2), and sense 4 (“a person’s area of authority or expertise”) is a figurative use of sense 2.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?l?ha?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??il?ha?s/, /?wil-/
• Hyphenation: wheel?house

Noun

wheelhouse (plural wheelhouses)

1. A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
   1. The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.

      Synonyms: wheel arch, wheel well
   2. An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.

      Synonym: pilothouse
   3. The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.

      Synonym: paddle box
2. (archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
3. (Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
4. (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise.

   Synonym: domain

Alternative forms

• wheel house
• wheel-house

Translations

References

Further reading

• bridge (nautical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wheelhouse (archaeology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wheelhouse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “wheelhouse, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.