shish kebab
See also: shishkebab
English
Noun
shish kebab (countable and uncountable, plural shish kebabs)
- A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire.
- 1981, Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 149:
- “That’s terrible,” Mel said. “That’s a terrible thing, Nicky. I guess they’d just lay there and wait until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.”
- (chemistry, countable) A crystal structure consisting of a central spine (the shish) and disks or lumps growing out from it (the kebab).
- 1968, A. J. Pennings, Liquid-Crystal Phase Separation in Polymer Solutions, from Characterization of Macromolecular Structure, proceedings of a conference April 5–7, 1967, Warrenton, Virginia, page 219:
- The fibrillar crystals, which are known as shish-kebabs, develop when a 0.5% solution of polyethylene in xylene is cooled off at the rate of 1°C per hour with stirring…
- 2007, Lingyu Li, Bing Li, Steve L. Kodjie, and Christopher Y. Li, Polyolefin Composites, ed. Domasius Nwabunma and Thein Kyu, chapter 18 Crystallization Behavior of Polyethylene/Carbon Nanotube Composites, section 18.3.1 PE/CNT Nanohybrid Shish-Kebabs Via Solution Crystallization, page 528:
- A shish-kebab polymer crystal usually consists of a central fibril (shish) and disk-shaped folded-chain lamellae (kebab) oriented perpendicularly to the shish as shown in Fig. 18.3a.
- 2013, Wenbing Hu, Polymer Physics: A Molecular Approach, section 10.3 Crystalline Structures of Polymers, page 207:
- Such a shish-kebab-like crystal morphology is often called shish-kebab crystals.
- 1968, A. J. Pennings, Liquid-Crystal Phase Separation in Polymer Solutions, from Characterization of Macromolecular Structure, proceedings of a conference April 5–7, 1967, Warrenton, Virginia, page 219:
Alternative forms
Related terms
Translations
roasted meat
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See also
References
- “shish kebab”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Further reading
- “shish kebab”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- shish kebab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- shish kebab, shishkebab, shish kabob, shish kebob, shishkabob, shish kabab, shishkebob at Google Ngram Viewer
Finnish
Etymology
Turkish şiş kebap
Declension
Inflection of shish kebab (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | shish kebab | shish kebabit | ||
genitive | shish kebabin | shish kebabien | ||
partitive | shish kebabia | shish kebabeja | ||
illative | shish kebabiin | shish kebabeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | shish kebab | shish kebabit | ||
accusative | nom. | shish kebab | shish kebabit | |
gen. | shish kebabin | |||
genitive | shish kebabin | shish kebabien | ||
partitive | shish kebabia | shish kebabeja | ||
inessive | shish kebabissa | shish kebabeissa | ||
elative | shish kebabista | shish kebabeista | ||
illative | shish kebabiin | shish kebabeihin | ||
adessive | shish kebabilla | shish kebabeilla | ||
ablative | shish kebabilta | shish kebabeilta | ||
allative | shish kebabille | shish kebabeille | ||
essive | shish kebabina | shish kebabeina | ||
translative | shish kebabiksi | shish kebabeiksi | ||
abessive | shish kebabitta | shish kebabeitta | ||
instructive | — | shish kebabein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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