Meaning of crow's foot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
   plural-normally
2. A triangular embroidery stitch.
3. A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
4. A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
5. A caltrop.
6. A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
7. Certain flowering plants
8. especially, in genus Ranunculus

Equivalents

Examples

“You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.”

“The Food and Drug Administration says it's an effective temporary treatment for crow's feet, the wrinkles that form next to aging eyes.”

“The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships.”

“Each crow's foot in your ER diagram indicates the need for a foreign key.”

“My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level.”

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