lathe
ἐπὶ ξυροῦ γὰρ ἀκμῆς ἔχεται ἡμῖν τὰ πρήγματα → our affairs are balanced on a razor's edge, our affairs are set upon the razor's edge
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. τόρνος, ὁ (Euripides, Bacchae 1067).
turn with a lathe, verb transitive P. τορνεύειν (also Met. in Ar.).
Translations
noun
Arabic: مِخْرَطَة; Egyptian Arabic: مخرطة; Armenian: խառատահաստոց; Azerbaijani: tornaçı dəzgahı, tokar dəzgahı; Belarusian: станок, варштат, такарны станок, такарны варштат; Bulgarian: струг; Catalan: torn; Chinese Mandarin: 車床, 车床, 鏇床, 镟床; Crimean Tatar: torna; Czech: soustruh; Danish: drejebænk; Dutch: draaibank; Esperanto: tornomaŝino; Finnish: sorvi; French: tour; Galician: torno; German: Drechselbank, Drehbank, Drehmaschine, Drehstuhl, Holzdrehmaschine; Ancient Greek: τόρνος, δῖνος, ἀνέμη; Hebrew: מַחְרֵטָה; Hindi: खराद; Hungarian: esztergapad; Icelandic: rennibekkur; Irish: deil; Italian: tornio; Japanese: 旋盤, レース; Korean: 선반(旋盤); Latgalian: taca; Latin: tornus; Latvian: virpa; Luxembourgish: Dréibänk; Macedonian: струг, дребунг; Maori: hurimau, mihīni hurimau, paetārai; Norwegian Bokmål: dreiebenk; Nynorsk: dreiebenk; Plautdietsch: Dreibenkj; Polish: tokarka; Portuguese: torno; Romanian: strung; Russian: токарный станок, станок; Serbo-Croatian Roman: strugalica, strug; Slovene: stružnica; Spanish: torno; Swedish: svarv, svarvstol; Thai: เครื่องกลึง; Tibetan: དཀྲུག་འཁོར; Turkish: torna; Ukrainian: токарний станок, токарний верстат, токарня, станок, верстат; Welsh: turn
verb
Bulgarian: струговам; Catalan: tornejar; Czech: soustružit; Danish: dreje; Dutch: draaien; Finnish: sorvata; French: tourner; German: drehen, drechseln; Greek: τορνεύω; Ancient Greek: διατορνεύω, ἀποτορνεύω, ἐκτορνεύω, τορνεύω; Hungarian: esztergál; Irish: deil; Japanese: 削る; Latgalian: tacynuot; Latvian: virpot; Macedonian: струга, струже; Polish: toczyć, wytoczyć; Portuguese: tornear; Russian: точить; Spanish: tornear, mandrilar; Swedish: svarva; Thai: กลึง; Turkish: tornalamak