In English the word describes a complete failure. In Italian it describes a straw covered bottle. What is the word?
"The latter often used a basket of whitened straw, decorated with two stripes tinted in the Italian flag colors (red and green). The base is a doughnut made of scrap straw, tied with fine straw blades (""salicchio""). Centuries ago, the basket often included one or more handles of twisted straw; they are sometimes included in present-day fiaschi, often for decorative purposes only. Fiasco (bottle) A fiasco (; , plural: ) is a typical Italian style of bottle, usually with a round body and bottom, partially or completely covered with a close-fitting straw basket. The basket is typically made of """","
"Fiasco (bottle) A fiasco (; , plural: ) is a typical Italian style of bottle, usually with a round body and bottom, partially or completely covered with a close-fitting straw basket. The basket is typically made of """", a swamp weed, sun-dried and blanched with sulfur. The basket provides protection during transportation and handling, and also a flat base for the container. Thus the glass bottle can have a round bottom, which is much simpler to make by glass blowing. Fiaschi can be efficiently packed for transport, with the necks of inverted bottles safely tucked into the spaces between the"
"Bottle A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material (clay, glass, plastic, aluminium, etc.) in various shapes and sizes to store and transport liquids (water, milk, beer, wine, ink, cooking oil, medicine, soft drinks, shampoo, and chemicals, etc.) and whose mouth at the bottling line can be sealed with an internal stopper, an external bottle cap, a closure, or a conductive ""inner seal"" using induction sealing. Some of the earliest bottles appeared in China, Phoenicia, Crete, and Rome. First attested in the 14th century, the English word ""bottle"" derives from Old French ""boteille"", from vulgar Latin ""butticula"","
"a person who is (according to the standards of the observer) generally unsuccessful or undesirable. A commercial failure is a product or company that does not reach expectations of success. Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investments, and/or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Due to the subjective nature of ""success"" and ""meeting expectations,"" there can be disagreement about what constitutes a ""major flop."" ""Fail"" is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose a caption, often the word ""fail"" or ""epic fail"", onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events"
"The motto stuck and in the 21st century ""Datevi all'ippica"" still is a proverbial catchphrase to tell someone that he is incompetent and should try his hand at some unskilled job. He tried to phase some Anglo-Saxon and foreign words and manners out of Italian daily life, with a moderate degree of success: The word 'volleyball' was (and still is) replaced in Italian usage by 'pallavolo', a word Starace is said to have invented. Similarly 'tramezzino' was substituted for 'sandwich' and 'autorimessa' for 'garage', but the abstruse Italian replacements for words like 'cognac', 'bar', 'cocktail', 'tennis', and so forth never"
"a general pejorative for something useless, including ammunition. The variation absolute dud describes a nuclear weapon that fails to explode. (A nuclear weapon which does explode, but does not achieve its expected power, is termed a fizzle.) By extension, ""dud"" has become a slang word for anything that does not work or is defective. There is also a candy called Milk Duds. Generally ""your duds"" are ""your last possessions"", what you are wearing and carrying, so ""nice duds"" is ironic and possibly an oxymoron. Other meanings of 'dud' are: Dud A dud is an ammunition round or explosive that fails"
"In bocca al lupo In bocca al lupo (, ""into the mouth of the wolf"") is an Italian idiom originally used in opera and theatre to wish a performer good luck prior to a performance. The standard response is crepi il lupo! (, ""may the wolf die"") or, more commonly, simply crepi! (""may it die""). Equivalent to the English actor's idiom ""break a leg"", the expression reflects a theatrical superstition in which wishing a person ""good luck"" is considered bad luck. The expression is commonly used in Italy off stage, as superstitions and customs travel through other professions and then"
"an item of metal (METAL), one shaped like a cup (CUP), and that could be drunk out of (DRINK). This ambiguity is reminiscent of human languages including Chinese and Japanese, where a sequence of two or three words starts out as a phrase but gradually comes to be regarded as a single word. One of Washoe's caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation: Washoe herself lost two children: one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two"
"Impossible bottle An impossible bottle is a type of mechanical puzzle. The term refers to any bottle containing an object that does not appear to fit through the bottle's mouth. The ship in a bottle is a traditional type of impossible bottle. Other common objects include fruits, matchboxes, decks of cards, tennis balls, racketballs, Rubik's Cubes, padlocks, knots, and scissors. These may be placed inside the bottle using various mechanisms, including constructing an object inside the bottle from smaller parts, using a small object that expands or grows inside the bottle, or molding the glass around the object. There are"
"""clay coin bank; piggy bank"". Compare these translations of 欹器以滿覆, 撲滿以空全. 故君子寧居無不居有, 寧處缺不處完 (1.63): There is an ancient vessel which is so constructed that when it contains no water, it stands obliquely; when half filled, it stands upright; but when full, it will fall down. There is another antique vessel made of earth and used as a savings-box. It has a small opening, through which coins are dropped. Thus, the former falls when it is full, while the latter is useful because it is empty within. Such is the way of the supreme man. He prefers nothing to something; he"
"(""billette"", a note, a letter of formal exchange, later a bill of exchange and later still a cheque). These deposited funds were intended to be held for the settlement of grain trades, but often were used for the bench's own trades in the meantime. The term bankrupt is a corruption of the Italian ""banca rotta"", or broken bench, which is what happened when someone lost his traders' deposits. Being ""broke"" has the same connotation. A sensible manner of discounting interest to the depositors against what could be earned by employing their money in the trade of the bench soon developed;"
"In Italian, ""meno male"" (literally ""less bad"") is similar to the English expression, ""So much the better"" – used to comment that a situation is more desirable than its negative (""cf."" Winston Churchill's comment, since transformed into a snowclone, that ""democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others""). In Korean, litotes are sometimes used for emphasis. For example, ""실패라 하지 않을 수 없다."" (""silpae-ra haji aneul su eopda"") literally means ""It is impossible to not call it a failure."" In Latin, an example of litotes can be found in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"": ""non semel"" (bk. 1 ln."
"metal, glass, earthenware, or wood. Bottles are often recycled according to the SPI recycling code for the material. Bottle A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material (clay, glass, plastic, aluminium, etc.) in various shapes and sizes to store and transport liquids (water, milk, beer, wine, ink, cooking oil, medicine, soft drinks, shampoo, and chemicals, etc.) and whose mouth at the bottling line can be sealed with an internal stopper, an external bottle cap, a closure, or a conductive ""inner seal"" using induction sealing. Some of the earliest bottles appeared in China, Phoenicia, Crete, and Rome. First"
"Ultimate failure In mechanical engineering, ultimate failure describes the breaking of a material. In general there are two types of failure: fracture and buckling. Fracture of a material occurs when either an internal or external crack elongates the width or length of the material. In ultimate failure this will result in one or more breaks in the material. Buckling occurs when compressive loads are applied to the material and instead of cracking the material bows. This is undesirable because most tools that are designed to be straight will be inadequate if curved. If the buckling continues, it will create tension"
"Closure (wine bottle) Closure is a term used in the wine industry to refer to a stopper, the object used to seal a bottle and avoid harmful contact between the wine and oxygen. They include: The choice of closure depends on issues such as the risk of cork taint, oxygen permeability and desired life of the wine. Another factor is consumer reaction, with the wine-buying public in Australia and New Zealand positive to alternative closures, while opinion is divided among consumers of the United States. In Europe, perceptions that associate screw caps with low-quality wine may be declining. Synthetic wine"
"that has been rolled out and cut or dropped from a spoon"". In a number of other European languages, terms derived from the latin ""bis coctus"" refer instead to yet another baked product, similar to the sponge cake; e.g. Spanish ""bizcocho"", German ""Biskuitmasse"", Russian ""бисквит"" (""biskvit""), Polish ""biszkopt"". In modern Italian usage, the term ""biscotto"" is used to refer to any type of hard twice-baked biscuit, and not only to the ""cantuccini"" as in English-speaking countries. The need for nutritious, easy-to-store, easy-to-carry, and long-lasting foods on long journeys, in particular at sea, was initially solved by taking live food along"
"is derived from late Latin ""immersio"", a noun derived from the verb ""immergere"" (""in"" – ""into"" + ""mergere"" ""dip""). In relation to baptism, some use it to refer to any form of dipping, whether the body is put completely under water or is only partly dipped in water; they thus speak of immersion as being either total or partial. Others, of the Anabaptist belief, use ""immersion"" to mean exclusively plunging someone entirely under the surface of the water. The term ""immersion"" is also used of a form of baptism in which water is poured over someone standing in water, without"
"Failure Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering. MIT neuroscience professor Earl K. Miller discovered that the reason why we keep repeating mistakes is because brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail. ""Wired"" magazine editor Kevin Kelly explains that a great deal can be learned from things"
"""Oxford English Dictionary"" (OED) dates this use to 1925. The third meaning is mostly limited to the United Kingdom, also Ireland, South Africa and Australasia. It describes a situation that went awry, perhaps horribly so. A failed bank robbery, for example, could be said to have ""gone pear-shaped"". The origin for this use of the term is in dispute. The ""OED"" cites its origin as within the Royal Air Force as a cleaned-up alternative version of its phrase ""tits-up"" meaning completely broken or dead; as of 2018 the earliest citation there is a quote in the 1983 book ""Air War"
"into Australian and New Zealand vernacular where it stands for an ersatz or dummy thing, or something that is obviously ineffective. For example, a common-law couple might be described as having a ""Claytons marriage"". A knowledgeable but unqualified handyman could be referred to as a ""Claytons carpenter"". The term can also be used as an insult. According to the product label, Claytons was ""originally blended and bottled by the Clayton Brothers for the Pure Water Company, Battersea, London, in the 1880s. According to 1980s labelling it was ""made from African kola nuts and citrus essences"". The product, bottled by Beecham,"
"""nulla"" a ""nessuno"""" in Italian). Note that negative polarity can be triggered not only by direct negatives such as ""not"" or ""never"", but also by words such as ""doubt"" or ""hardly"" (""I doubt he has ever owed anything to anyone"" or ""He has hardly ever owed anything to anyone""). Stylistically, in English, double negatives can sometimes be used for affirmation (e.g. ""I'm not feeling not good""), an understatement of the positive (""I'm feeling good""). The rhetorical term for this is litotes. When two negatives are used in one independent clause, in standard English the negatives are understood to cancel one"
"(""Buonomini di San Martino"" and ""The Birth of John the Baptist""). The earliest fragments of ""sala""-covered bottles date from the 15th century. Throughout its history, the fiasco was found on the tables of peasants and Popes alike. A decree from 1574 fixed the capacity of the ""mezzo quarto"" bottle, and established a public office that would certify the capacity of fiaschi by a lead seal applied to the straw covering. However, producers soon started re-using the baskets from discarded certified fiaschi to dress new sub-standard bottles. To avoid this common fraud, another decree from 1618 specified that the seal was"
"or people falling short of expectations. In July 2003, a contributor to Urban Dictionary wrote that the term, ""fail,"" could be used as an interjection, ""when one disapproves of something,"" citing the example: ""You actually bought that? FAIL."" This most likely originated as a shortened form of ""You fail"" or, more fully, ""You fail it,"" the taunting ""game over"" message in the 1998 Japanese video game ""Blazing Star"", notorious for its fractured English. There is an entire Internet site dedicated to ""fails"" called Fail Blog. The #fail hashtag is used on the microblogging site Twitter to indicate contempt or displeasure,"
"cognate French word ""banqueroute"" is used solely for cases of fraudulent bankruptcy, whereas the term ""faillite"" (cognate of ""failure"") is used for bankruptcy in accordance with the law. The word ""bankruptcy"" is derived from Italian ""banca rotta"", meaning ""broken bench"", which may stem from a widespread custom in the Republic of Genoa of breaking a moneychanger's bench or counter to signify his insolvency, or which may be only a figure of speech. In Ancient Greece, bankruptcy did not exist. If a man owed and he could not pay, he and his wife, children or servants were forced into ""debt slavery"","
"with a hard sugar coating; their name equates to French ""confit"". The Italian word for paper confetti is ""coriandoli"" which refers to the coriander seeds originally contained within the sweet. By tradition, the Italian ""confetti"" (sugar coated almonds) are given out at weddings and baptisms (white coating), or graduations (red coating), often wrapped in a small tulle bag as a gift to the guests. For a wedding, they are said to represent the hope that the new couple will have a fertile marriage. The British adapted the missiles to weddings (displacing the traditional grains or rice symbolising sexual fertility) at"
"beans and a nice Chianti."" In the original book, however, Lecter stated that he ate the meal with ""a big Amarone"". Chianti was chosen for the movie because of its recognition. Chianti A Chianti wine () is any wine produced in the Chianti region, in central Tuscany, Italy. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a ""fiasco"" (""flask""; ""pl. fiaschi""). However, the ""fiasco"" is only used by a few makers of the wine as most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles. Baron Bettino Ricasoli (later Prime Minister of the"
"Catastrophic failure A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure. For example, catastrophic failure can be observed in steam turbine rotor failure, which can occur due to peak stress on the rotor; stress concentration increases up to a point at which"
"marks impressed in the base of the work where the pontil scar would have been had it been free blown. The base of a wine bottle, particularly when it is indented, has come to be known as a punt, although wine bottles have generally been mold-blown for centuries. Pontil mark A pontil mark or punt mark is the scar where the pontil, punty or punt was broken from a work of blown glass. The presence of such a scar indicates that a glass bottle or bowl was blown freehand, while the absence of a punt mark suggests either that the"
"Perfection Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence. The term is used to designate a range of diverse, if often kindred, concepts. These have historically been addressed in a number of discrete disciplines, notably mathematics, physics, chemistry, ethics, aesthetics, ontology, and theology. The form of the word long fluctuated in various languages. The English language had the alternates, ""perfection"" and the Biblical ""perfectness."" The word ""perfection"" derives from the Latin """"perfectio"""", and ""perfect"" — from """"perfectus"""". These expressions in turn come from """"perficio"""" — ""to finish"", ""to bring to an end."" """"Perfectio""(n)"" thus literally means ""a"
"placing a coin inside a semi-molten glass cup, and then reshaping the open end into a narrow neck and mouth, completing the bottle. Non-metallic objects need to be protected from the hot glass to prevent scorching, for example with an asbestos cloth. Impossible bottle An impossible bottle is a type of mechanical puzzle. The term refers to any bottle containing an object that does not appear to fit through the bottle's mouth. The ship in a bottle is a traditional type of impossible bottle. Other common objects include fruits, matchboxes, decks of cards, tennis balls, racketballs, Rubik's Cubes, padlocks, knots,"
"can mean both ""not seeing"" and ""window covering"". Note that since these definitions come from the same root word, an American magazine might not allow this clue. American double definitions tend to require both parts to come from different roots, as in this clue: This takes advantage of the two very different meanings (and pronunciations) of , the one with the long ""o"" sound meaning ""someone from Poland"" and the one with the short ""o"" sound meaning ""make shiny"". These clues tend to be short; in particular, two-word clues are almost always double-definition clues. In the UK, multiple definitions are"
"Cornicello A cornicello, cornetto, (Italian for ""little horn"" or ""hornlet"") or corno, (Italian for “horn”) is an Italian amulet or talisman worn to protect against the evil eye (or ""malocchio"") and bad luck in general, and, historically, to promote fertility and virility. In Neapolitan, it is called ""curniciello"" or variants thereof. The amulet is also sometimes referred to as the Italian horn. A cornicello is a twisted horn-shaped charm often made of gold, silver, plastic, bone, terracotta, or red coral. Cornicelli are thought to be modeled after an eland horn, to represent fertility, virility, and strength. The shape and colour"
"""nothing"" - thus, ""he didn't eat nothing"". Double negative A double negative is a grammatical construction occurring when two forms of negation are used in the same sentence. Multiple negation is the more general term referring to the occurrence of more than one negative in a clause. In some languages, double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative; in other languages, doubled negatives intensify the negation. Languages where multiple negatives affirm each other are said to have negative concord or emphatic negation. Portuguese, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Neapolitan, Italian, Japanese, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Afrikaans, Hebrew, and some dialects of English,"