Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet PIQUE

Definition av PIQUE

1. pik
2. pika
3. stimulera, väcka

Exempel på hur du använder PIQUE i en mening

• "Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive overreaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.
• The dance features a range of steps from classical ballet pique turns and saut de basques to popular lindy hop and Charleston steps.
• Grant's infamous order was a self-inflicted wound, issued at a moment of pique and over the objections of Rawlins.
• As Alan cancelled their accommodation in their usual plush hotel during a fit of pique, they are forced to spend the night in a dingy run-down hotel (with a cameo performance by Joyce Grenfell as the proprietress) leaving Wendy feeling less than pleased.
• The knit can produce many variants such as single pique, double pique and more; it is also known as Lacoste piqué for the company's use of the fabric in its signature polo shirts.
• The knit can produce many variants such as single pique, double pique and more; it is also known as Lacoste piqué for the company's use of the fabric in its signature polo shirts.
• He gravely resigned the empty title of General, which only made confusion worse confounded, and rode away to act as colonel of his own Lincolnshire regiment, pitying his master's perplexity, and resolved that no private pique should hinder him from doing his duty.
• In French, pique assiette ('plate thief') is a term for a scrounger or sponger, and thus, as a name for this mosaic technique, it refers to the recycled or 'scrounged' nature of the materials.
• Male King of Saxony dance maneuvers initiate once a female is in his vicinity and usually use the movement of their unique occipital plumes, flaring them up and down as a tantalizing eye-catcher to pique female interest.
• Under the influence of his therapist Rosen creates a virtual hallucinatory reality of his own where he resumes his relationship with Pris, marries her, has children and grows old together with her, finally culminating with him hitting her hallucinatory doppelgänger in a fit of pique.
• His detailed plans for the invasion of Britain to restore Bonnie Prince Charlie to the throne (and thus occupy British forces which were greatly hampering French colonial affairs), though supported by Maurepas went unexecuted by Louis XV (whether out of disregard, pique against Maurepas, personally, or for another reason remains in debate).
• In the Grand Pas d'action of the ballet's second act she demonstrated her phenomenal technique - next to her flawless placement and perfection of port de bras she performed pique turns with quadruple and quintuple pirouettes en pointe, accented with double turns no less than four times in a row - a feat even modern-day ballerinas have difficulty achieving.
• According to biographer Clinton Heylin, "When the Ship Comes In" was written in August 1963 "in a fit of pique, in a hotel room, after his unkempt appearance had led an impertinent hotel clerk to refuse him admission until his companion, Joan Baez, had vouched for his good character".
• Only in the 1920s, however, did the rocks pique the interest of scholars, including Giuseppe Bonafini, geologist Senofonte Squinabol, and, since 1929, Torinese anthropologist Giovanni Marro and Florentine archaeologist Paolo Graziosi.

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