Associations to the word «Sickle»
Noun
- Anemia
- Hammer
- Reaper
- Malaria
- Tay
- Cell
- Trait
- Allele
- Plough
- Gaia
- Harvesting
- Marrow
- Spleen
- Disease
- Sachs
- Plow
- Leukemia
- Harvest
- Claw
- Diabetes
- Spade
- Transplantation
- Lymphoma
- Crise
- Axe
- Gettysburg
- Shovel
- Arthritis
- Gloss
- Flint
- Syndrome
- Perseus
- Deficiency
- Druid
- Blade
- Meade
- Emblem
- Medusa
- Ssr
- Mia
- Lenin
- Fin
- Barley
- Wheat
- Grain
- Beta
- Mutation
- Hepatitis
- Complication
- Alcoholism
- Disorder
- Corn
- Hypertension
- Cereal
- Syphilis
- Asthma
- Communism
- Kidney
- Pneumonia
- Stalk
- Gene
- Transplant
- Keen
- Hermes
- Infection
- Implement
- Rake
- Spear
- Wreath
- Slash
Adjective
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Wiktionary
SICKLE, noun. (agriculture) an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops
SICKLE, verb. (agriculture) (transitive) To cut with a sickle
SICKLE, verb. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
SICKLE, verb. (intransitive) To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.
SICKLE, adjective. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.
SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA, noun. (pathology) (British) A severe hereditary form of anaemia, mainly affecting people of African origin, in which mutated haemoglobin distorts red blood cells into a crescent shape, causing the cells to become stuck in capillaries. Downstream tissues are thus deprived of oxygen causing ischaemia and infarction.
Dictionary definition
SICKLE, noun. An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.