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📖 Определения и значения для слова curtain

📒 a piece of cloth that is hung to cover a window

  • to draw/pull/close the curtains (= to pull them across the window so they cover it)
  • She opened her curtains and looked out.
  • It was ten in the morning but the curtains were still drawn (= closed).

📒 a very thin piece of cloth that you hang at a window and that allows light to enter but stops people outside from being able to see inside

📒 a piece of cloth that is hung up as a screen in a room or around a bed, for example

  • a shower curtain
  • He took a bag from a shelf behind some curtains.

📒 a piece of thick, heavy cloth that hangs in front of the stage in the theatre

  • The audience was waiting for the curtain to rise (= for the play to begin).
  • The curtain goes up to reveal a grand piano at the back of the stage.
  • There was tremendous applause when the curtain came down (= the play ended).

📒 a thing that covers, hides or protects something

  • a curtain of rain/smoke
  • She pushed back the curtain of brown hair from her eyes.

📒 to be a situation without hope or that you cannot escape from

  • When I saw he had a gun, I thought it was curtains for me.

📒 to finish or mark the end of something

  • His sudden decision to retire brought down the curtain on a distinguished career.
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