Qué (quién) es spade - definición

TOOL FOR DIGGING

Spading

spade

(spades)

A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle.

... a garden spade...

The girls happily played in the sand with buckets and spades.

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Spades is one of the four suits in a pack of playing cards. Each card in the suit is marked with one or more black symbols: ¦.

...the ace of spades.

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A spade is a playing card of this suit.

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If you say that someone calls a spade a spade, you mean that they speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things.

I'm not at all secretive, and I'm pretty good at calling a spade a spade.

PHRASE: V inflects [approval]

spade

spade¹

¦ noun

1. a tool with a sharp-edged, rectangular metal blade and a long handle, used for digging.

2. [as modifier] shaped like a spade: a spade bit.

¦ verb dig over with a spade.

?move or lift with a spade.

Phrases

call a spade a spade speak plainly and frankly.

Derivatives

spadeful noun (plural spadefuls).

Origin

OE spadu, spada, of Gmc origin.

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spade²

¦ noun

1. (spades) one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black inverted heart-shaped figure with a small stalk.

(a spade) a card of this suit.

2. informal, offensive a black person.

Phrases

in spades informal in large amounts or to a high degree.

Origin

C16: from Ital. spade, plural of spada 'sword', via L. from Gk spathe; cf. spade¹.

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Wikipedia

Spade

A spade is a tool primarily for digging consisting of a long handle and blade, typically with the blade narrower and flatter than the common shovel. Early spades were made of riven wood or of animal bones (often shoulder blades). After the art of metalworking was developed, spades were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the introduction of metal spades manual labor was less efficient at moving earth, with picks being required to break up the soil in addition to a spade for moving the dirt. With a metal tip, a spade can both break and move the earth in most situations, increasing efficiency. A classic spade, with a narrow body and flat (or near flat) tip is suited for digging post holes, and is not to be confused with a "roundpoint" shovel, which has a wider body and tapered tip.

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Ejemplos de pronunciación para spade

1. LG: Spades? Spades, good.

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2. Let's call a spade a spade.

I Will Teach You to Be Rich _ Ramit Sethi _ Talks at Google

3. a spade.

Superfuel - Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the Future _ Richard Martin _ Talks at Google

4. hand of all spades.

The Magic of Reality - How we know what's really true _ Professor Richard Dawkins _ Talks at Google

5. Eight of spades.

Spellbound _ David Kwong _ Talks at Google

Ejemplos de uso de spade

1. The time has come to cease the vague characterizations and call a spade a spade.

2. No more: now a spade must be called a spade, not an earth–bifurcating trowel.

3. Indeed, let‘s call a spade a spade: The mockery of Peretz derives from racism.

4. "There is a threat –– and let‘s call a spade a spade," de Hoop Scheffer said.

5. She called a spade a spade, and the audience loved her.