Definizione monolingua

turtle

turtle (third-person singular simple present turtles, present participle turtling, simple past and past participle turtled)

1. To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
   • 1919, Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32?, page 48

     Were speeding when car turtled […] Auto crashed into curb and turtled.

2. To turn and swim upside down.
   • 2009, Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfers Tale of Obsessive Wandering?, page 149

     I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.

3. To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
   • 1973, Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians, page 153

     Of these, 80 turtled (65%), 26 hunted and turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).

4. (video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

turtle (plural turtles)

1. A land or marine reptile having a protective shell (made up of a carapace and a plastron) enclosing its body.
2. (Australian, UK) A sea turtle.
3. (military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
4. (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
5. (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
   • 1997, Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing

     Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.

6. (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

Definizione dizionario turtle

	tartaruga
	land or marine reptile with a shell
	A reptile of the order Testudines (the crown group of the superorder Chelonia), characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield.

	ribaltare
	to flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down

testudines

testuggine

Altri significati:

To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.

(archaic) A turtle dove.

(computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.

(Australian, UK) A sea turtle.

Roman attack method

(military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.

(computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.

To hunt turtles, especially in the water.

sea turtle

(video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

A land or marine reptile having a protective shell (made up of a carapace and a plastron) enclosing its body.

To turn and swim upside down.