deathwatch in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for deathwatch in the English»Italian Dictionary

deathwatch beetle [Brit ˌdɛθwɒtʃ ˈbiːt(ə)l] N

deathwatch beetle

orologio m della morte

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English

Deathwatch beetles create small neat holes about 3mm in diameter, which have sharp clean edges and traces of bore dust may be observed in or around the hole.

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Damage to building timbers caused by the deathwatch beetle is associated principally with oak and elm (more rarely in softwood).

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If his condition is believed to be true, what he hears at the end of the story may not be the old man's heart but deathwatch beetles.

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There are another 100,000 to 200,000 that are very sick and could soon be on the deathwatch.

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Their relationship remains poised on an unedifying deathwatch.

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Once tagged with those four letters you stopped being seen as human and became a disease carrier on a deathwatch instead.

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Although newspapers have been put on a deathwatch, the sector still consumed 5.7 million tons of paper, or about 67 million trees.

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The site acts as a deathwatch for online shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions, and then works on indexing, scraping and archiving the content before its lost forever.

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Because of their penchant for damp oak timbers, deathwatch beetle infestations commonly occur in old church buildings.

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But unsurprisingly for a film detailing terminal disease, this is a largely solemn affair, often verging on morbidity in its elongated deathwatch.

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