guillotine

From French guillotine, after Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use for capital punishment.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪl.ə.tiːn/, /ˈɡiː.ə.tiːn/

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guillotine (plural guillotines)

1. A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade.
2. A device used for cutting stacks of paper to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged blade attached to a flat platform.
3. (politics, informal) A cloture; a motion that debate be ended and a vote taken.
4. A surgical instrument for cutting the tonsils.

• Hume's guillotine

guillotine (third-person singular simple present guillotines, present participle guillotining, simple past and past participle guillotined)

1. (transitive) To execute, cut or cut short (a person, a stack of paper or a debate) by use of a guillotine.
2. (transitive) To end discussion on a parliamentary bill by invoking cloture.

• guillotine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French guillotine. Named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. First attested in the early 1790s.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡi.oːˈti.nə/

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• Hyphenation: guil‧lo‧ti‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

guillotine f (plural guillotines, diminutive guillotinetje n)

1. guillotine

   Synonym: valbijl

• guillotineren

After Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use for capital punishment. The surname is a diminutive of Guillot.

• IPA^(key): /ɡijɔtin/

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guillotine f (plural guillotines)

1. guillotine (machine)

• guillotiner (“behead with a guillotine”)
• fenêtre à guillotine (“box sash window”)

guillotine

1. first-person singular present indicative of guillotiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of guillotiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of guillotiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of guillotiner
5. second-person singular imperative of guillotiner

• “guillotine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

guillotine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of guillotinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of guillotinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of guillotinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of guillotinar.