| bookend Jul 11th 2013, 00:54, by Eirikr | | | | Line 18: | Line 18: | | | {{trans-mid}} | | {{trans-mid}} | | | * Icelandic: {{t-|is|bókastoð|f}} | | * Icelandic: {{t-|is|bókastoð|f}} | | − | * Japanese: {{t-|ja|ブックエンド|tr=bukkuendo}} | + | * Japanese: {{t-|ja|ブックエンド|tr=bukkuendo}}, {{t|ja|本立て|tr=hondate|sc=Jpan}} | | | * Russian: {{t|ru|книгодержатель|m|tr=knigoderžátelʹ|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t-SOP|ru|[[подпорка]] [[для]] [[книга|книг]]|f|tr=podpórka dlja knig|sc=Cyrl}} | | * Russian: {{t|ru|книгодержатель|m|tr=knigoderžátelʹ|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t-SOP|ru|[[подпорка]] [[для]] [[книга|книг]]|f|tr=podpórka dlja knig|sc=Cyrl}} | | | * Swedish: {{t+|sv|bokstöd|n}} | | * Swedish: {{t+|sv|bokstöd|n}} |
Latest revision as of 00:54, 11 July 2013 English[edit] bookend (plural bookends) - A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
- (figuratively) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
- 2012, Kelly Fiveash, Snooper's-charter plans are just misunderstood, sniffles tearful May, on The Register [1]
- The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year […]
Translations[edit] object designed to keep books upright bookend (third-person singular simple present bookends, present participle bookending, simple past and past participle bookended) - To come before and after, or at both sides of
- 2006, Henry Owings & Patton Oswalt, The Overrated Book[2], ISBN 0867196572, page 105:
- Side one has good songs bookended by better songs.
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