Shin vs Gondola - What's the difference?
shin | gondola |
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
A fishplate for a railway.
To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
To strike with the shin.
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(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
# An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
# The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
# The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
# That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
(rail transport) (US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket.
Image:Venice - Gondola 02.jpg, A Venetian gondola
Image:Wagon tombereau.jpg, A rail transport gondola wagon
Image:Modern airship gondola.jpg, A modern airship gondola
Image:Transbordador puente vizcaya.jpg, A transporter bridge gondola
Image:Aiguille fg03.jpg, A ski lift gondola
Image:Platform window cleaner.jpg, a window cleaners' gondola
As a noun gondola is
(boat).shin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shine, from (etyl) scinu, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Synonyms
* tibiaVerb
(shinn)- to shin up a mast
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