Толковый словарь английского языка - castle
Castle
castle
I. noun Etymology: Middle English castel, from Old English, from Old French & Latin; Old French dialect (Norman-Picard) castel, from Latin castellum fortress, diminutive of castrum fortified place; perhaps akin to Latin castrare to castrate Date: before 12th century 1. a large fortified building or set of buildings, a massive or imposing house, a retreat safe against intrusion or invasion, rook III, II. verb (~d; castling) Date: 1587 transitive verb to establish in a ~, to move (the chess king) in castling, intransitive verb to move a chess king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a large fortified building or group of buildings; a stronghold. b a formerly fortified mansion. 2 Chess = ROOK(2). --v. Chess 1 intr. make a special move (once only in a game on each side) in which the king is moved two squares along the back rank and the nearer rook is moved to the square passed over by the king. 2 tr. move (the king) by castling. Phrases and idioms castles in the air (or in Spain) a visionary unattainable scheme; a day-dream. Derivatives castled adj. Etymology: AF & ONF castel, chastel f. L castellum dimin. of castrum fort ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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