beetle
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1. beetle - Noun
2. beetle - Adjective
3. beetle - Verb
4. beetle - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
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When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
In the eyes of its mother every beetle is a gazelle.
A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother.