shish kebab
/ˈʃɪʃkəbɑb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A crystal structure consisting of a central spine (the shish) and disks or lumps growing out from it (the kebab).
Countable
Example Sentences
- "“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.”"
- "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…"
- "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."
- "Such a shish-kebab-like crystal morphology is often called shish-kebab crystals."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʃɪʃkəbɑb/
- British English: /ˌʃɪʃkəˈbæb/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.