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Any land or marine reptile of the order (l), characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.
(Australia, British) A sea turtle.
(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) 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.
(computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
* 1997 , Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing
(printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
* 1919 , Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32?, page 48
To turn and swim upside down.
* 2009 , Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering? , page 149
To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
* 1973 , Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians , page 153
(video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
A turtle dove.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
(uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans
(uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk
(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate
As a proper noun turtle
is a river in saskatchewan, canada.As a verb chocolate is
.As an adjective chocolate is
chocolate (attributive).turtle
English
(wikipedia turtle)Etymology 1
Modification of (etyl) tortue (probably under the influence of (turtledove)). See (tortoise) for more.Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* African helmeted turtle * Afro-American sideneck turtle * Alabama red-bellied turtle * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * American turtle * Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles * Arakan forest turtle * Australian short-necked turtle * Austro-American sideneck turtle * black marsh turtle * black turtle bean * Blanding's turtle * bog turtle * box turtle, box-turtle * chicken turtle, chicken-turtle * common snakeneck turtle * cooter turtle * diamond-backed turtle * dragon turtle * eastern long-neck turtle * Fitzroy River turtle * flatback turtle * Florida redbelly turtle * Fly River turtle * golden coin turtle * gopher turtle * greaved turtle * Greenland turtle * green turtle * have a turtle's head * hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * horned turtle * land turtle * leaf turtle * leather turtle * leatherback turtle * leather-turtle * leathery turtle * loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle * lyre turtle * Madagascan big-headed turtle * map turtle * marine turtle * marsh turtle * mata mata turtle, matamata turtle * Mary River turtle * mock turtle * mock turtle soup * mud turtle * musk turtle * New Guinea snakeneck turtle * Olive Ridley turtle * painted turtle * pancake turtle * pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle * pitted-shelled turtle * plateless turtle * Plymouth redbelly turtle * pond turtle * purple turtler * red-bellied turtle * river turtle * roofed turtle * sea turtle, sea-turtle * side-necked turtle * silver stater with a turtle * snake-eating turtle * snake-necked turtle * snapping turtle, snapping-turtle * soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle * spiny turtle * spotted turtle * toad-headed turtle * twisted-necked turtle * tortoise-shell turtle * trunk turtle, trunk-turtle * turn the turtle * turn turtle * turning turtles * turtle-back, turtleback * turtle bean * turtleburger * turtle-corral * turtle cowrie, turtle cowry * turtle-crab * turtle-crawl * turtle-deck * turtledom * turtle-egging * turtle excluder device * turtle-footed * turtle-frolic * turtle graphics * turtle grass, turtle-grass * turtle-head, turtlehead * turtle hull * turtle-insect * turtle-kraal * turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck * turtle peg, turtle-peg * turtle-press * turtler * turtle racing * turtles all the way down * turtle shell * turtle ship * turtle soup * turtle stone * turtle-shell * turtle-soup * turtle-stone * turtlet * turtle trade * turtle-twine * turtling * turtly * water turtle * western swamp turtle * wood turtleVerb
(turtl)- Were speeding when car turtled' Auto crashed into curb and ' turtled .
- I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.
- Of these, 80 turtled' (65%), 26 hunted and ' turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).
See also
* chelonian * hatchling (turtle young) * terrapin * tortoise * (Turtle)Etymology 2
(etyl) turtla, ultimately from (etyl) , of imitative origin.Noun
(en noun)- The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck .
Derived terms
* turtle-bird * turtle dove, turtle-dove, turtledove * turtleish, turtlish * turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlizechocolate
English
(wikipedia chocolate)Noun
- Chocolate is a very popular treat.
- He bought her some chocolates as a gift.
- As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate .