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Cosa (chi) è fluke - definizione
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Fluke (disambiguation); Flukes
fluke
(flukes)
If you say that something good is a fluke, you mean that it happened accidentally rather than by being planned or arranged. (INFORMAL)
The discovery was something of a fluke...
By sheer fluke, one of the shipowner's employees was in the city.
N-COUNT: usu sing, also by N
Fluke
·noun The European flounder. ·see Flounder.
II. Fluke ·noun An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
III. Fluke ·noun The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. ·see Anchor.
IV. Fluke ·add. ·vt & ·vi To get or score by a fluke; as, to fluke a play in billiards.
V. Fluke ·noun One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an Anchor.
VI. Fluke ·noun An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.
VII. Fluke ·noun A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.
fluke
fluke1
¦ noun an unlikely chance occurrence, especially a stroke of luck.
¦ verb achieve by luck rather than skill.
Derivatives
flukily adverb
flukiness noun
fluky (also flukey) adjective
Origin
C19 (orig. a term in games such as billiards denoting a lucky stroke): perh. a dialect word.
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fluke2
¦ noun
1. a parasitic flatworm which typically has suckers and hooks for attachment to the host. [Classes Trematoda and Monogenea.]
2. chiefly dialect or N. Amer. a flounder or other flatfish.
Origin
OE floc (in sense 2), of Gmc origin.
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fluke3
¦ noun
1. a broad triangular plate on the arm of an anchor.
2. either of the lobes of a whale's tail.
Origin
C16: perh. from fluke2 (because of the shape).
Esempi dal corpus di testo per fluke
1. "For now we are inclined to view this report as a fluke.
2. It looked like a fluke until Sanders won three more terms.
3. However, many conservatives still see his 2004 win as a fluke.
4. In a fluke of the calendar, New York‘s senior senator, Charles E.
5. "Through a fluke we walked right past the exit; we almost fell in," said Talmadge.