dumpy level

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف dumpy level في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day

Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert

A surveyor's instrument having a short telescope fixed rigidly to a horizontally rotating table

The telescope is usually an inverting one

A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane

Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt

Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror

It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level

a surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a horizontally rotating table and a spirit level Insensible; unfeeling

الواصلة

dum·py lev·el

التركية النطق

dʌmpi levıl

النطق

/ˈdəmpē ˈlevəl/ /ˈdʌmpiː ˈlɛvəl/

علم أصول الكلمات

[ 'd&m-pE ] (adjective.) 1750. English dialect dump.