whittle

English - Turkish

Definition of whittle in English Turkish dictionary: {f} yontmak; {f} bıçakla oy; {i} iri bıçak; azaltmak; {f} (ağaç/tahta parçasını) yonta yonta ufaltmak; bıçakla yontmak; whittle off bıçakla kesmek; bıçakla oymak; azar azar eksiltmek; {f} (ağaç/tahta parçasını) yontmak; yont; {f} away (at) azaltmak; {f} bıçakla kesmek
whittle down: azar azar azaltmak
whittle down: yavaş yavaş azaltmak
whittle away: yontmak
whittle down: yontmak
whittle away: yont
whittle down: yont
whittle away: tüketmek
whittle away: yavaş yavaş azaltmak
whittle away: eritmek
whittle away: bozmak
whittle down: bozmak
whittle off: bozmak
whittle off: yavaş yavaş azaltmak
whittle off: tüketmek
whittle off: eritmek
whittle s.t. down: bir şeyi azaltmak/ufaltmak
whittle down: azaltmak
whittling: yontma

English - English

Definition of whittle in English English dictionary: To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt); A large knife; To cut or shape wood with a knife; {n} a knife, a blanket; {v} to cut, to dress; Same as Whittle shawl, below; To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife; To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife; cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood; A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl; {f} cut; peel; cut away, shape; cut down; {i} knife, pocket-knife (Archaic); cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"; A knife; esp; If you whittle something from a piece of wood, you carve it by cutting pieces off the wood with a knife. He whittled a new handle for his ax; To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp; a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife; to excite with liquor; to inebriate
whittle away: To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective. I believe that the Government's general aim is to whittle away the Welfare State Their approach is to whittle away at the evidence to show reasonable doubt
whittle away: reduce, cut down
whittle away: cut away in small pieces
whittle down: cut down, reduce
whittle down: cut away in small pieces
whittle down: To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller. He had whittled eight interviewees down to two The president has agreed to whittle down his proposal
whittling: {n} the act of cutting or sharpening
Sir Frank Whittle: born June 1, 1907, Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng. died Aug. 8, 1996, Columbia, Md., U.S. British aviation engineer and pilot who invented the jet engine. He obtained his first patent for a turbojet engine in 1930, and in 1936 he cofounded Power Jets Ltd. The outbreak of World War II spurred the British government to support Whittle's work, and the first jet-powered aircraft took off in 1941. He was knighted in 1948 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1986
whittled: past of whittle
whittles: third-person singular of whittle
whittling: present participle of whittle

whittle

Hyphenation

Whit·tle

Turkish pronunciation

hwîtıl

Synonyms

carve, chip, consume, decrease, diminish, eat away, erode, fashion, form, hew, lessen, model, mold, pare, sculpt

Antonyms

build, increase

Pronunciation

/ˈhwətəl/ /ˈhwɪtəl/

Etymology

() From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English thwitan. Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”)