Meaning of curtain | Babel Free

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1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
2. Slang. The act or fact of dying.Used in plural:death, decease, demise, dissolution, extinction, passing, quietus, rest.
3. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
4. a piece of material hung up to act as a screen at a window, on a theatre stage etc. The maid drew the curtains; The curtain came down at the end of the play. gordyn سِتاره завеса cortina záclona; opona der Vorhang gardin; tæppe κουρτίνα, αυλαίαcortina eesriie پرده verho rideauוילון पर्दा, पर्दा डालना zavjesa függöny tirai gluggatjald; leiktjald tenda, tendina カーテン 커튼 užuolaida, uždanga aizkars; priekškars tirai gordijn gardin, forheng, portière, sceneteppezasłona, kurtyna پرده cortina per­dea...
   etc
5. The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
   broadly
6. an appearance by actors, singers etc after a performance for the purpose of receiving applause. After the play the actors took ten curtain calls. laaste buiging ظُهور المُمَثِّلين بَعد إنْتِهاء المَسْرَحِيَّه бис chamada à cena opona, vyvolání před oponu der Vorhang fremkaldelse; tæppefald ανάκληση επί σκηνής llamada a escena esinejate väljakutsumine بازگشت هنرپیشگان به صحنه برای تشویق شدن esiinhuuto rappel יְרִידַת הַמָסַך मंचाभिनन्दन izlazak pred publiku nakon predstave kitapsolás (a függön...
   etc
7. The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
8. to separate or enclose with a curtain. She curtained off the alcove. gordyn gespan يحجبُ بِسِتاره отделям separar oddělit záclonou/přepážkou mit Vorhängen abschließen adskille med forhæng χωρίζω κτ. με κουρτίνα separar con cortina eesriidega eraldama با پرده مجزا ساختن erottaa verholla diviser par un rideau לָחצוֹץ בְּווִילוֹנוֹת परदे के द्वारा विभाजित करना odvojiti zavjesom elfüggönyöz memisahkan aðskilja með tjaldi dividere con una tenda カーテンで仕切る 커튼으로 칸막이를 하다 atitverti užuolaida aizsegt/nod...
9. Death, final curtain.
   euphemistic, in-plural, sometimes
10. A piece of fabric or other material that hangs in a window or open space as a decoration, shade, screen, or divider.
11. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
12. Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, divider, or barrier: the curtain of mist before the mountain; a heavy curtain of artillery fire.
13. A flag; an ensign.
    derogatory, obsolete
14. The movable screen or drape in a theater or hall that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.
15. The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
16. The part of a rampart or parapet connecting two bastions or gates.
17. Architecture A curtain wall.
    Architecture
18. curtains Slang a. The end.
    Slang

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Examples

“He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.”

“Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.”

“It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.”

““H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]””

“He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.”

“Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].”

“For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.”

“Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose”

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