keel

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EnglishEdit

1. Keel (light peach) 2. Skeg (dark purple) 3. Deadwood (olive drab) 4. Stern post (forest green) 5. Filling chock (bright yellow) 6. Filling transoms (pale yellow-green) 7. Wing transom (turquoise) 8. Helm port (orange) 9. Counter timbers (pale violet) 10. Margin (indigo) 11. Horn timber (green) 12. Stern timbers (apricot) 13. Side-counter timbers (pale yellow) 14. Quarter-timbers (red) 15. Fashion timber (fuchsia) 16. Cant frames (blue) 17. Square body frames (uncolored)

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kiːl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːl

NounEdit

keel (plural keels)

1. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
2. (nautical) Sometimes, a rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
3. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
4. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
5. A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
6. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
7. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
8. A brewer's cooling vat.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from keel (noun)

• even keel
• keelhaul

• keel over
• off keel

• on keel

TranslationsEdit

beam along the underside of a ship’s hull

• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍骨 (zh), 龙骨 (zh) (lónggǔ)

• Czech: kýl m
• Dutch: kiel (nl) f
• Finnish: köli (fi)
• French: quille (fr) f
• German: Kiel (de) m
• Hebrew: שדרית‏‎ (he) f (shidrít)
• Italian: carena (it) f, chiglia (it) f
• Japanese: 竜骨 (りゅうこつ, ryūkotsu)
• Korean: 용골 (yonggol)
• Latin: carina
• Maori: takere

• Norman: tchelle f
• Occitan: quilha (oc)
• Old English: cēol
• Old Saxon: kiol
• Portuguese: quilha (pt)
• Russian: киль (ru) m (kilʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кобилица f

  Roman: kobilica (sh) f

• Slovene: gredelj
• Spanish: quilla (es) f
• Swedish: köl (sv) c
• Turkish: omurga (tr), gemi omurgası
• Volapük: kuil, kuil nafa, nafakuil

rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability

• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Dutch: kiel (nl) f
• Estonian: kiil (et)
• German: Kiel (de) m, Schwert (de) n
• Hebrew: שדרית‏‎ (he) f (shidrít)

• Italian: deriva (it) f
• Norwegian: kjøl
• Russian: киль (ru) m (kilʹ)
• Spanish: quilla (es) f
• Swedish: köl (sv)

a type of flat-bottomed boat

• Japanese: キール (kīru), 艀 (ja) (はしけ, hashike)

chalk or crayon to mark pavement

VerbEdit

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall

   He keeled over after having a stroke.

2. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
3. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Derived termsEdit

• keel over

TranslationsEdit

collapse, fall

• Greek: καταρρέω (el) (katarréo), σωριάζομαι (soriázomai)

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. Eye dialect spelling of kill.

AnagramsEdit

• Kele, elke, leek, lekë

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /keːl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːl

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch kele, from Old Dutch kela, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ.

NounEdit

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje n)

1. (anatomy) throat

SynonymsEdit

• hals

Derived termsEdit

• keelgat
• keelpijn

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

keel n (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) gules, the blazoning term for the color red

AnagramsEdit

• leek, leke

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EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *keeli. Cognate with Finnish kieli.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kˈeːl/

NounEdit

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

1. language
2. tongue
3. string of musical instrument

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of keel (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	keel	keeled
accusative	keele	keeled
genitive	keele	keelte
partitive	keelt	keeli
illative	keelde keelesse	keeltesse keelisse
inessive	keeles	keeltes keelis
elative	keelest	keeltest keelist
allative	keelele	keeltele keelile
adessive	keelel	keeltel keelil
ablative	keelelt	keeltelt keelilt
translative	keeleks	keelteks keeliks
terminative	keeleni	keelteni
essive	keelena	keeltena
abessive	keeleta	keelteta
comitative	keelega	keeltega

Derived termsEdit

• emakeel
• kõnekeel
• keeleluu
• keeleteadus
• keelkond
• röövlikeel

Further readingEdit

• keel in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik