English-German translations for cradle
- WiegedieDies wird uns dabei helfen, eine Industrie "von der Wiege bis zur Wiege" zu schaffen und die intelligente Nutzung von Rohstoffen sowie eine gesunde Wirtschaft zu fördern. It will help us create cradle-to-cradle industry and encourage intelligent use of raw materials and a healthy economy. Man sagt: "Die Hand, die die Wiege schaukelt, ist die Hand, die die Welt regiert." They say that 'the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world'. Wie wir alle wissen, ist der Mittelmeerraum die Wiege der Zivilisation. The Mediterranean is the cradle of civilisation as we know it.
- wiegenFlandern ist eine der Wiegen der europäischen Zivilisation. Flanders is one of the cradles of European civilisation. Als ob es nicht vor allem sie wäre, die, von tragischen Ausnahmen abgesehen, sich am besten darauf versteht, das Kind zu wiegen, sich ihm zuzuneigen, es zu lieben, zu trösten und zu erziehen. As if - barring some tragedy - it were not she who is first and best able to cradle, protect, love, console and bring up her child.
- Basisstation
- kratze
- Ladestation
- Telefongabel
Definition of cradle
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots
- The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence
- Infancy, or very early life
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts
- A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware
- A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand
- To contain in or as if in a cradle
- To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking
- To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle
- To put ribs across the back of , to prevent the panels from warping
Examples
- a cradle of crime
- the cradle of liberty
- from the cradle to the grave
- The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
- He slammed the handset into the cradle.
- cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
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