From en.wiktionary.org:
[Lancet]
** English
[wikipedia] [en]
*** Alternative forms
- [en] [obsolete]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], a diminutive of [fro].[1] [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
2. * [en]
3. A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer .
4. [en] An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. [2]
5. [en] A high narrow window , terminating in an acutely pointed arch, common in Gothic architecture.
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Richard Powers | title=Orfeo | page=234 | publisher=W. W. Norton & Company
|passage=He looked away, into the cavernous space emptying of people. Up in
the galleries and behind the choir, the wide window LANCETS were sheets of
black.}}
**** Hyponyms
- [sharp surgical instrument] [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|microlancet |lancet arch|[ichthyological] [en]}}
**** Translations
[surgical instrument]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kipchak: [qwm] < !--Found in Houtsma p. ٢٣ l. 10-->
- Middle English: [enm]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To pierce with a lancet.
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Etymonline]
[2]. [R:Knight AMD]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl] [pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-lancet.ogg]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [en] [sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument]
2. [en] [small, sterile, single-use needle]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]