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 Translation for 'whittle' from English to Albanian
NOUN   a whittle | whittles
VERB   to whittle | whittled | whittled
whittling | whittles
SYNO Frank Whittle | Sir Frank Whittle | to pare | ...
latoj me thikëto whittle
gdhend me thikëto whittle
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Translation for 'whittle' from English to Albanian

to whittle
latoj me thikë

gdhend me thikë
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Usage Examples English
  • Kansas State scored its second touchdown-and its only offensive one- midway through the fourth quarter when Keithen Valentine ran for an 8-yard touchdown to whittle the margin to 59-14.
  • While the number of rounds require 64 participants, there is facility for more competitors than this, with special arrangements made to have pre-competition rounds to whittle the competitors down to 64.
  • The 100 Thing Challenge is a grassroots movement to whittle down personal possessions to one hundred items, with the aim of de-cluttering and simplifying life.
  • The issues that were raised by Portugal's claims in Africa and the efforts of other countries to whittle them down became the fundamental issues of the Congress of Berlin.
  • Fosselius has continued to whittle mechanically animated carved caricatures and automata which he displays in traveling galleries called the "Marvelous Mechalodeon" and the "Crankabout Mechanical Theater", an entirely human-powered exhibit.

  • Also, political parties are not allowed to whittle down the field using their internal techniques (such as party primaries or conventions).
  • While any type of wood can be used for whittling, there are woods which are easier to work with and whittle better than others.
  • It has been suggested that Connecticut received its nickname ("the Nutmeg State", "Nutmegger") from the claim that some unscrupulous Connecticut traders would whittle "nutmeg" out of wood, creating a "wooden nutmeg", a term which later came to mean any type of fraud.
  • Some people also whittle off the tip if it becomes dull, or mashed in.
  • According to the group's co-lead vocalist and fiddler Katie Shore, the band recorded "close to 30 songs" during sessions for "New Routes", which they then had to "whittle down" for the final track listing.

  • After the completion of theater auditions, the judges whittle down the acts to only eighteen to compete in the semi finals.
  • The longlist is read by a panel of teenaged judges, who whittle the list down to a shortlist of ten books (5 Australian, 5 international).
  • A "negative image" of India would "whittle down foreign direct investments”, and it was claimed that she was involved in "anti-national activities".
  • Overall the Act did little to protect black Africans, and ultimately enabled the later apartheid government to gradually whittle away and eventually abolish the Cape franchise.
  • After the auditions, the judges have to whittle almost 200 successful acts down to just 48 (in Series 1), 60 (in Series 2-6) or 50 (from Series 7 onwards).

  • Janney was a dry goods clerk and former Confederate Army officer from Alexandria, Virginia, who used his lunch hours to whittle from wood an alternative to the link and pin coupler.
  • It is thought that the whittle and dub (a.k.a. Pipe and Tabor) had already fallen out of fashion among Morris musicians by the time of Manning's writing, and that his quest for the Stanton Harcourt black whittle was part of a desire to rescue the instrument and its place in Cotswold Morris from oblivion.
  • He is also cited stating the schooling gave him more inspiration for his tools in drawing, namely pens and how to whittle pencils like dentures.
  • Kilmaurs was famous for producing cutlery and swords, the local expression "As gleg as a Kilmaurs whittle", with the addition that "it cuts an inch before the tip"; meaning "the sharpest of the sharpest".
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