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 Translation for 'quill' from English to Russian
NOUN   a quill | quills
SYNO calamus | flight feather | pinion | ...
(гусиное) перо {с} [для письма]quill [writing implement]
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Translation for 'quill' from English to Russian

quill [writing implement]
(гусиное) перо {с} [для письма]
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Usage Examples English
  • The opening title card displayed a painted design of comedy/tragedy masks with a quill pen positioned in the mouth of the tragedy mask.
  • Quill: The dop is inserted into the quill, which is lowered toward the lap to place a facet.
  • On the other hand, being pricked by a porcupine quill is not dangerous, and the quills are not poisonous.
  • For road quill stems, the angle is normally 73° which causes the extension of the stem to be nearly parallel with the ground.
  • The quill is one of the earliest floats, originally it was a bird feather quill but with the opening up of new worlds, porcupine quills from Africa became a standard for the float.

  • Several contemporary builders and players have reasserted the superiority of bird quill for high-level harpsichords.
  • The word "porcupine" comes from Latin "porcus" pig + "spina" spine, quill, via Old Italian (Italian "porcospino", thorn-pig)—Middle French—Middle English.
  • "Cladonia amaurocraea", commonly known as the quill lichen or the quill cup lichen, It is commonly known as quill lichen.
  • Norton's stationery and his "Literary Letter" title page emblem depicts a balance, on which there is a sword on one side, and a quill feather pen on the other, with the quill pen weighing heavier than the sword.
  • Reconstructions usually depict it with feathers, as Chatterjee originally interpreted structures on the arm to be quill knobs, the attachment point for flight feathers found in some modern birds and non-avian dinosaurs.

  • Henry tells David that he has found the quill, but admits that he plans to use the quill only in a positive way, starting with re-writing the missing Hades story that Liam ripped out.
  • There is a small but significant difference between a pen knife and a quill knife, in that the quill knife has a blade that is flat on one side and convex on the other which facilitates the round cuts required to shape a quill.
  • Shakespeare wrote with a quill in his right hand. A quill would need to be prepared and sharpened.
  • The quill drive was also developed about this time and mounted the traction motor above or to the side of the axle and coupled to the axle through a reduction gear and a hollow shaft - the quill - flexibly connected to the driving axle.
  • The Commer TS3 Scavenging was performed by a Roots blower, which was mounted on the front of the engine and driven by a long quill shaft from a chain drive at the rear of the engine.

  • Quill pedals are sometimes said to be named for the quill or "pick up tab" on the rear of the pedal.
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