From en.wiktionary.org:
[Grapevine]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en]. [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The plant , a vine of genus _Vitis_ , on which grape s grow.
2. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip .
3. * [chapter=The Shadow of the Bat]
4. * 1966 , [Norman Whitfield] and [Barrett Strong] (songwriters), " [I Heard It Through the Grapevine] ":
5. *: I heard it through the GRAPEVINE
6. *: Not much longer would you be mine.
7. * [en]
8. [en] A rumor .
9. * [en]
10. * [en]
11. * 2016 , _indiaglitz.com_ , "Thampi Kannanthanam confirms that Mohanlal's Rajavinte Makan Sequel not dropped" see https://www.indiaglitz.com/thampi-kannanthanam-confirms-that-mohanlals-rajavinte-makan-sequel-not-dropped-malayalam-news-174624
12. *: An image of Mohanlal with a tonsured head recently spread online and people started guessing about the film it belonged to. The majority guess was for a film directed by Prajith which had announced a character that was supposed to be acted by Mohanlal named Benz Vasu. But the director denied the GRAPEVINE and more guesses and assumptions starting flowing in.
13. * [en]
14. [en] A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
15. [en] A leglock .
16. A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See [Grapevine (dance move)] .
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en|grapevine effect |grapevine knot |grapevine moth |grapevine weevil
|hear something through the grapevine,hear on the grapevine |Koori grapevine
|Murri grapevine }}
**** Translations
[the plant on which grapes grow]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
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- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
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- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci]
- Cornish: [kw]
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- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Laz: [lzz]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Manx: [gv] , [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mi'kmaq: [mic]
- Miami: [mia]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Mingrelian: [xmf] , [xmf]
- Norman: [nrf]
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- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Unami: [unm]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Yucatec Maya: [yua]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[informal means of circulating gossip]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn] , [srn]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
[trans-bottom]
[a move in skating.]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To restrain in a leglock .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. To drape or curl around adjacent objects.
6. * [en]
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10. * [en]
11. To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.
12. * [en]
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14. * [en]
15. To score mortar at a joint .
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18. [en] To spread as a rumor.
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21. * [en]
22. [en] To spread (a rumor).
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25. * [en]
26. To link up through an informal communication network.
27. * [en]
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