stoss

German - Turkish

Definition of stoss in German Turkish dictionary

e {şto: s} r itme; darbe; tekme; sars(ıl)ma, (geri) tepme; yığın, küme; deste, demet

tos

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stoß

vuruş, darbe; yığın, küme (m)

Stoß

[der] itiş, dürtüş; darbe, vuruş; tekme; yumruk; sarsıntı; yığın, küme; tos

English - English

Definition of stoss in English English dictionary

Facing towards the advancing flow of a glacier

Facing the direction from which a glacier moves. Used of a rock or slope in its path

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Veit Stoss

born 1438/47, Swabia died 1533, Nürnberg German sculptor and wood carver. He worked mainly in Poland from 1477 to 1496; among his principal works is the majestic high altar in the Church of the Virgin Mary in Kraków (1477-89). After his return to Germany, he settled in Nürnberg and produced important wood and stone sculptures in churches there and in Bamberg. His nervous, angular forms, realistic detail, and virtuoso wood carving synthesized the sculptural styles of Flemish and Danubian art, and he exercised great influence on German late Gothic sculpture

Etymology

() From German stoss-, from stossen (“to push”), from Old High German stōzan.