Definition of guillotine in English:
guillotine
noun ˈɡɪlətiːnˌɡɪləˈtiːn
1A machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
断头台- Kuyper held Americans in high esteem because they had rejected the ‘modern philosophy’ of secularism, which he traced to the French Revolution and its guillotine.
- The king was beheaded on the guillotine on January 21, 1793.
- The real possibility of a civil war loomed over the citizens of the Empire, like the shadow cast from the blade of a guillotine waiting to fall.
- This was also the spot where more than 1000 aristocrats were executed at the guillotine during the French Revolution.
- When the guillotine dropped on King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it might have been thought that France had abandoned all trappings of aristocracy.
- A guillotine was consequently developed that could behead twenty-five persons at a time.
- As well as providing enormous publicity for the guillotine, the French Revolution did a bang-up job of sorting out the various weights and measures used in France.
- That revolutionary dawn proved less than auspicious after many Frenchmen died under the blade of the guillotine.
- Her wrists were bound together with rope, and so were her ankles, her neck open to the air and the world, and her entire body was in a guillotine, the blade lingering high above.
- Brainwashed disciples play with eyelashes, file fingernails and draw intricate pictures of men beheaded on bloody guillotines.
- The media are the modern day equivalent of the old crones sitting with their knitting needles around the guillotine during the beheadings of the French Revolution.
- A moment later there was a thud as Meghan struck the side of the guillotine, and the blade wobbled with a faint squealing sound.
- She reached out towards her father struggling as the guillotine's blade sliced downwards.
- As a child, she had dreamed dreams of the Reign of Terror, of Louis XVI at the guillotine, and of the chaos and bloodshed of battle.
- Members of Parliament did not want or pretend to be representative: the word ‘democracy’ conjured up in the minds of most of them the spectre of the French Revolution and the guillotine.
- Careening into the cobblestone street, the blade looked like a guillotine crashing down on its victim.
- Despite his every effort to persuade his judges of his innocence and that all he was doing was giving spiritual help to those in need he was condemned to death by beheading at the guillotine.
- First, large heavy shards of glass can fall like guillotines, slicing off body parts.
- As we know, this emanation of virtue would in time cause Robespierre and his followers to lose their heads under the severe and inflexible blade of the guillotine.
- Did she really want to cry and break just before the rusted, old, bloody blade of the guillotine dropped?
reduction, cut, cutback, decrease, lessening, diminution, retrenchment, shrinkage- 1.1 A device for cutting that incorporates a descending or sliding blade, used typically for cutting paper, card, or sheet metal.切断机；立式切纸机，裁切机
- Deal 12 noble cards face-up in a row and put the cardboard guillotine at the start.
- When a large number of bricks must be cut, you might want to rent an electric power saw adapted with a masonry blade or a manual cutting machine called a guillotine.
- Harry made British medical history in 1999 by becoming the first eight-finger replant after his hands were caught in a hydraulic paper guillotine.
- But witnesses said Banovi had been placing a wad of paper under the guillotine in preparation for cutting and a colleague apparently activated the blade before Banovi's hand was out the way.
- In addition, the ARP has supplied a host of library equipment, like guillotines, hand scanners, shelves, counters, date stamps and catalogue cards.
- 1.2 A surgical instrument with a sliding blade used typically for the removal of the tonsils.（尤指用以割除扁桃体的）铡除刀，环状刀
- 1.3British (in parliament) a procedure used to prevent delay in the discussion of a legislative bill by fixing times at which various parts of it must be voted on.〈英〉截止辩论以付表决法（议会为防止拖延议事进程，按规定时间截止辩论以付表决的方法）as modifier a guillotine motion
中止辩论以付诸表决的动议。
- Can we expect the use of the guillotine in parliamentary debates to be abandoned by this government allowing those debates as much time as they need?
- The Government is resorting to the excessive use of parliamentary guillotines to quickly push through controversial legislation, according to Labour chief whip Emmet Stagg.
- Yet again we will see a bill referred to the Primary Production Committee, with a guillotine applied to it on the very day the Minister introduces it into the House.
- Discussion on the measure was severely curtailed, after the government set a 10 pm deadline, or guillotine, for voting on the legislation.
- The fact that government used the guillotine during the committee stage certainly did not contribute to any intelligent cross-bench discussion.
- All week, the government was making frequent use of the parliamentary device known as the guillotine.
verb ˈɡɪlətiːnˌɡɪləˈtiːn
[with object]1Execute (someone) by guillotine.
在断头台上处决（某人）- I guess once they guillotined the king, ending over 1000 years of monarchy in Europe, the mob weren't likely to take any kind of authority very seriously after that.
- It guillotined so many people because it was a way of cleansing and purifying France, imbuing her with Virtue.
- This was where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were guillotined, along with more than 2,000 others between 1793 and 1795.
- This was swiftly followed by the reign of terror in which almost 17,000 so-called opponents of the revolution were guillotined - ironically, most of them peasants.
- The firebrand French lawyer Saint-Just called it a new idea on the earth, and tried to get it into people's heads by guillotining as many of them as possible - until he lost his own.
- He spent his last night in the Conciergerie before he was taken away to be guillotined comforting a beautiful, young aristocratic girl, which we'd all like to do on our last night alive…
- However, some ten years later events in Europe had taken a serious turn; 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution and in 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were guillotined.
- The large relief on the wall of the prison memorializes the Vietnamese revolutionaries who were tortured and guillotined by the French until their defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
- They want to guillotine these people without any evidence.
- Life in the French chateaux continued more or less unchanged by the French Revolution, during which only about twelve hundred members of the nobility were guillotined, leaving the vast majority lying low but alive.
- Alexis' maternal grandfather, Malherbes, was guillotined, and his father Herve escaped with his life only because of the overthrow of Robespierre.
- Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
- Only 6 people were guillotined in Paris in August, and only 40 more over the rest of the year.
- Those who were guillotined were often from those groups of people on which the government wanted to publicly blame the counterrevolution, such as the clergy and the nobility.
- In the name of the Rights of Man, or under that banner, tens of thousands were imprisoned and at least seventeen thousand guillotined between 1792 and 1794 alone.
- In 1943, a woman was guillotined for having carried out an abortion.
- The count was finally guillotined (he nobly turned himself in when the revolutionaries made a hostage of his lawyer).
- Not surprisingly, they were caught, tried and guillotined.
- At the end of the opera, they are guillotined, the sound of their ‘Salve regina’ is extinguished voice by voice.
- And boy, did he get guillotined as quickly as anything!
put to death, carry out a sentence of death on, kill- 1.1 Cut (paper, card, etc.) with a guillotine.用铡刀切（纸、卡片等）
- 1.2British (in parliament) end discussion by applying a guillotine to (a bill or debate).〈英〉截止对（议案等）的辩论以付表决
- I always assumed that all those details in the budget are written into each year's Finance Bill and guillotined through parliament, but maybe I'm mistaken and he does in fact have arbitrary power.
- The controversial amendment to the Electoral Bill, banning opinion polls for seven days in the lead up to elections, was passed without debate or a vote when the Bill was guillotined in the Dáil yesterday.
- The ACT party will most certainly not agree to have our debates guillotined just for question time.
- The incident, which occurred during the Mayoral election period, was due to be discussed at the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday night but a drawn out debate on budgeting meant the issue was guillotined.
- Mr Costello said the minister was guillotining the bill tomorrow at committee stage and guillotining it again for the report and the final stage on Thursday.
- Tempers flared as the Howard Government guillotined debate on the legislation, ultimately supported by 80 votes to 61.
- To rule eight motions, dealing with the same subject matter, out of order is just guillotining debate.
- A rushed Senate Committee and public hearings process has been designed by the Government to guillotine public debate so that these laws can be introduced on the same day as the Government's inflationary GST.
- Charles Clarke has also said at the start of the debate that it will be guillotined.
- He said as the vote on the measure was now almost certain to be put with a vote proposing that the debate on the Bill be guillotined, the Labour party would be voting against it.
- Dail records show that the proposal had not been reached when the Finance Bill was guillotined at committee stage in May 1983.
- There are that number being guillotined as we are anxious to get them through.
- Later, there were angry exchanges in the house over the amount of time that had been allotted to a debate on the report last night, with opposition deputies saying the Government were intent on guillotining the debate.
Origin
Late 18th century: from French, named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), the French physician who recommended its use for executions in 1789.
Definition of guillotine in US English:
guillotine
noun
1A machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
断头台- This was also the spot where more than 1000 aristocrats were executed at the guillotine during the French Revolution.
- Despite his every effort to persuade his judges of his innocence and that all he was doing was giving spiritual help to those in need he was condemned to death by beheading at the guillotine.
- A moment later there was a thud as Meghan struck the side of the guillotine, and the blade wobbled with a faint squealing sound.
- The real possibility of a civil war loomed over the citizens of the Empire, like the shadow cast from the blade of a guillotine waiting to fall.
- That revolutionary dawn proved less than auspicious after many Frenchmen died under the blade of the guillotine.
- She reached out towards her father struggling as the guillotine's blade sliced downwards.
- Members of Parliament did not want or pretend to be representative: the word ‘democracy’ conjured up in the minds of most of them the spectre of the French Revolution and the guillotine.
- A guillotine was consequently developed that could behead twenty-five persons at a time.
- The media are the modern day equivalent of the old crones sitting with their knitting needles around the guillotine during the beheadings of the French Revolution.
- Her wrists were bound together with rope, and so were her ankles, her neck open to the air and the world, and her entire body was in a guillotine, the blade lingering high above.
- Kuyper held Americans in high esteem because they had rejected the ‘modern philosophy’ of secularism, which he traced to the French Revolution and its guillotine.
- Did she really want to cry and break just before the rusted, old, bloody blade of the guillotine dropped?
- When the guillotine dropped on King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it might have been thought that France had abandoned all trappings of aristocracy.
- First, large heavy shards of glass can fall like guillotines, slicing off body parts.
- Careening into the cobblestone street, the blade looked like a guillotine crashing down on its victim.
- As well as providing enormous publicity for the guillotine, the French Revolution did a bang-up job of sorting out the various weights and measures used in France.
- As a child, she had dreamed dreams of the Reign of Terror, of Louis XVI at the guillotine, and of the chaos and bloodshed of battle.
- As we know, this emanation of virtue would in time cause Robespierre and his followers to lose their heads under the severe and inflexible blade of the guillotine.
- The king was beheaded on the guillotine on January 21, 1793.
- Brainwashed disciples play with eyelashes, file fingernails and draw intricate pictures of men beheaded on bloody guillotines.
reduction, cut, cutback, decrease, lessening, diminution, retrenchment, shrinkage- 1.1 A device for cutting that incorporates a descending or sliding blade, used typically for cutting paper, card, or sheet metal.切断机；立式切纸机，裁切机
- But witnesses said Banovi had been placing a wad of paper under the guillotine in preparation for cutting and a colleague apparently activated the blade before Banovi's hand was out the way.
- When a large number of bricks must be cut, you might want to rent an electric power saw adapted with a masonry blade or a manual cutting machine called a guillotine.
- Harry made British medical history in 1999 by becoming the first eight-finger replant after his hands were caught in a hydraulic paper guillotine.
- In addition, the ARP has supplied a host of library equipment, like guillotines, hand scanners, shelves, counters, date stamps and catalogue cards.
- Deal 12 noble cards face-up in a row and put the cardboard guillotine at the start.
- 1.2 A surgical instrument with a sliding blade used typically for the removal of the tonsils.（尤指用以割除扁桃体的）铡除刀，环状刀
- 1.3British (in parliament) a procedure used to prevent delay in the discussion of a legislative bill by fixing times at which various parts of it must be voted on.〈英〉截止辩论以付表决法（议会为防止拖延议事进程，按规定时间截止辩论以付表决的方法）as modifier a guillotine motion
中止辩论以付诸表决的动议。
- Can we expect the use of the guillotine in parliamentary debates to be abandoned by this government allowing those debates as much time as they need?
- All week, the government was making frequent use of the parliamentary device known as the guillotine.
- The Government is resorting to the excessive use of parliamentary guillotines to quickly push through controversial legislation, according to Labour chief whip Emmet Stagg.
- The fact that government used the guillotine during the committee stage certainly did not contribute to any intelligent cross-bench discussion.
- Discussion on the measure was severely curtailed, after the government set a 10 pm deadline, or guillotine, for voting on the legislation.
- Yet again we will see a bill referred to the Primary Production Committee, with a guillotine applied to it on the very day the Minister introduces it into the House.
verb
[with object]1Execute (someone) by guillotine.
在断头台上处决（某人）- Alexis' maternal grandfather, Malherbes, was guillotined, and his father Herve escaped with his life only because of the overthrow of Robespierre.
- It guillotined so many people because it was a way of cleansing and purifying France, imbuing her with Virtue.
- In the name of the Rights of Man, or under that banner, tens of thousands were imprisoned and at least seventeen thousand guillotined between 1792 and 1794 alone.
- They want to guillotine these people without any evidence.
- The firebrand French lawyer Saint-Just called it a new idea on the earth, and tried to get it into people's heads by guillotining as many of them as possible - until he lost his own.
- Only 6 people were guillotined in Paris in August, and only 40 more over the rest of the year.
- The large relief on the wall of the prison memorializes the Vietnamese revolutionaries who were tortured and guillotined by the French until their defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
- This was where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were guillotined, along with more than 2,000 others between 1793 and 1795.
- And boy, did he get guillotined as quickly as anything!
- Not surprisingly, they were caught, tried and guillotined.
- I guess once they guillotined the king, ending over 1000 years of monarchy in Europe, the mob weren't likely to take any kind of authority very seriously after that.
- He spent his last night in the Conciergerie before he was taken away to be guillotined comforting a beautiful, young aristocratic girl, which we'd all like to do on our last night alive…
- Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
- The count was finally guillotined (he nobly turned himself in when the revolutionaries made a hostage of his lawyer).
- At the end of the opera, they are guillotined, the sound of their ‘Salve regina’ is extinguished voice by voice.
- Life in the French chateaux continued more or less unchanged by the French Revolution, during which only about twelve hundred members of the nobility were guillotined, leaving the vast majority lying low but alive.
- Those who were guillotined were often from those groups of people on which the government wanted to publicly blame the counterrevolution, such as the clergy and the nobility.
- However, some ten years later events in Europe had taken a serious turn; 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution and in 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were guillotined.
- This was swiftly followed by the reign of terror in which almost 17,000 so-called opponents of the revolution were guillotined - ironically, most of them peasants.
- In 1943, a woman was guillotined for having carried out an abortion.
put to death, carry out a sentence of death on, kill- 1.1British (in parliament) end discussion by applying a guillotine to (a bill or debate).〈英〉截止对（议案等）的辩论以付表决
- I always assumed that all those details in the budget are written into each year's Finance Bill and guillotined through parliament, but maybe I'm mistaken and he does in fact have arbitrary power.
- A rushed Senate Committee and public hearings process has been designed by the Government to guillotine public debate so that these laws can be introduced on the same day as the Government's inflationary GST.
- To rule eight motions, dealing with the same subject matter, out of order is just guillotining debate.
- Mr Costello said the minister was guillotining the bill tomorrow at committee stage and guillotining it again for the report and the final stage on Thursday.
- The incident, which occurred during the Mayoral election period, was due to be discussed at the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday night but a drawn out debate on budgeting meant the issue was guillotined.
- The ACT party will most certainly not agree to have our debates guillotined just for question time.
- He said as the vote on the measure was now almost certain to be put with a vote proposing that the debate on the Bill be guillotined, the Labour party would be voting against it.
- There are that number being guillotined as we are anxious to get them through.
- Dail records show that the proposal had not been reached when the Finance Bill was guillotined at committee stage in May 1983.
- Tempers flared as the Howard Government guillotined debate on the legislation, ultimately supported by 80 votes to 61.
- The controversial amendment to the Electoral Bill, banning opinion polls for seven days in the lead up to elections, was passed without debate or a vote when the Bill was guillotined in the Dáil yesterday.
- Later, there were angry exchanges in the house over the amount of time that had been allotted to a debate on the report last night, with opposition deputies saying the Government were intent on guillotining the debate.
- Charles Clarke has also said at the start of the debate that it will be guillotined.
Origin
Late 18th century: from French, named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), the French physician who recommended its use for executions in 1789.