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curtain English

Meaning curtain meaning

What does curtain mean?
Definitions in simple English

curtain Noun

— Curtains are pieces of cloth that hang in front of a window, door, or stage. So I'll close the curtains and the room now will be quite dark. We put all the lights on and draw the curtains when we're going to go out. They got new curtains to match the carpet and the furniture. — A curtain is a substance, or group of items that blocks your view or blocks access. The base of the rock is undercut, permitting walkers to pass behind the curtain of falling water. Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green field.

curtain Verb

— If you curtain something off, you put a curtain around it.

curtain

— noun hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) — noun any barrier to communication or vision a curtain of secrecy a curtain of trees — verb provide with drapery curtain the bedrooms

Synonyms curtain synonyms

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curtain English » English

screen veil drapery drape mantle blind pall hanging cloak cover tent tapestry shield portiere hanging screen door-curtain curtain wall bunting window blind wall of cloth wall vesture top tentorlum tassel swag shutter shroud shed sheathe separate secret meeting place sail a boat purdah plagula pavilion partition nappe muffle mask loose-hanging jalousie hangings hanging silk hanging curtain gilt front foil flash field staff headquarters

Topics curtain topics

What do people use curtain to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity

Drama
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Window
Daily life Cleaning

Bathe

Conjugation curtain conjugation

How do you conjugate curtain?

curtain · verb

Examples curtain examples

How do I use curtain in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom hid himself behind the curtain.
The bedroom curtain caught fire.
I'll open the curtain for you to look out.
It happened just when the curtain was falling.
The actor came out from behind the curtain.
This carpet does not match the curtain.
Mother chose this curtain.
Let's hide behind the curtain.
Who is hiding behind the curtain?
The curtain caught fire.
I know you are hiding yourself behind the curtain.
A cat appeared from behind the curtain.
To our amusement, the curtain began to rise ahead of time.
An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
The curtain has not yet risen.
A purple carpet will not go with this red curtain.
He came out from behind the curtain.
He came from behind the curtain.
The curtain rose.
The curtain fell.
The curtain caught on fire.

Movie subtitles

Something to ring the hearts out of the public to bring the curtain down in the second act.
I'm worrying about that second-act curtain, that's all.
That declaration of independence for the second-act curtain?
How about my breakfast? How do I bring a curtain down on an empty stomach?
For months the police sought the mastermind behind those crimes, the man behind the curtain.
He just had to find out what the man looked like, the man behind the curtain, the boss.
So one day, without having been summoned, he snuck into the famous room with the curtain.
The curtain's just come down!
Only an hour before the curtain.
All right, curtain.
I saw his sandal beneath the curtain.
How soon does the curtain go up?
The curtain, Mr. Driftwood, will go up again next season.
He was to make a speech before the curtain went up.
Something to ring the hearts out of the public, to bring the curtain down in the second act.
I'm worrying about that second-act curtain.
How do you expect me to bring a curtain down on an empty stomach?
The curtain's gone up too soon.
But isn't there any curtain?
No, no curtain.
The curtain's up.
Why don't you draw the curtain?
That curtain looks right pretty.
Curtain goes up in 20 minutes.
Like that time you walked around with curtain bangs for six months because Valencia thought she might want to be a hairstylist.
And if he lets out one more crack, I'll ring the curtain right down on his chin.
Don't you think it'd be much better if the curtain were built up for me a little?
Well, how do you feel with the curtain going up on your first play?
MAN: Curtain, Miss Hempstead.
Curtain's up, please.
Hold that curtain.
Curtain.
I'm about to pull the curtain on the most important thing in my life and you come blubbering for me to stop.
Get ready for the curtain.
And you can thank me with a curtain call.
An unusual place. Behind the curtain. A signal?
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Thirteen curtain calls. Thirteen.

News and current affairs

Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.
Likewise, I will never forget the eerie feeling of riding my bike through the Brandenburg Gate from West Berlin into the East, and seeing the contrast between people who were free and those who were trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
But migration from Eastern Europe in those years was blocked by the Iron Curtain.
If he does not change course in Iraq and beyond, his presidency might draw the curtain on long decades of American hegemony in the Middle East - to the detriment of its closest allies in the region.
For too many years the Baltic Sea was a blind alley on the political map of Europe - divided by the Iron Curtain.
During the Cold War, the West used hard power to deter Soviet aggression, while it used soft power to erode faith in Communism behind the iron curtain.
On the contrary, the historical record shows that Germany made the case for a parallel drive to monetary and political integration well before the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Today, as almost anyone east of the old Iron Curtain will tell you, however, enlargement is moving ahead at a snail's pace.
How can Europeans be happy that the Iron Curtain is gone if individuals and groups across the Union barricade themselves behind private iron curtains?
Only after the Iron Curtain's fall and the establishment of market economies in ex-communist countries did the lack of competitiveness of German workers become apparent.
Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the countries of the east are more integrated into international markets than ever before.
Bulgaria's nearest EU members, however, seem to yearn for the Iron Curtain.
Together we can prevent a new silver curtain from replacing Europe's old iron curtain.
This all happened when the Iron Curtain divided Europe - and the world - into opposing camps.
In May, Hungarian reformers began tearing down the fence along their border with Austria - a hole in the Iron Curtain.
Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, it remains divided, unable to unify into a global force.
The Iron Curtain, which for decades irreconcilably divided the East from the West, is gone.
In late January, the Obama administration issued its first unequivocal reaffirmation of the strategy of democratic enlargement that has guided Western thinking since the collapse of the Iron Curtain two decades ago.
Similarly, the euro must not be allowed to become an Iron Curtain that consigns non-members to a high-risk zone where investors dare not venture.
Ukraine's subjugation to Russia by military force would bring down the curtain on that order and its underlying principles: non-violence, the inviolability of borders, and popular self-determination, rather than spheres of influence.
During the Cold War, the West's strategy of containment combined the hard power of military deterrence with the soft power of attracting people behind the Iron Curtain.
The global economy did not recover that same level of integration until 1970, and even then it remained divided by the Iron Curtain.
The world today is completely different from what it was when the Iron Curtain was hung.
With the tottering tower of communist totalitarianism collapsed, the Iron Curtain's fall revealed the actual contours of the world as well as the depth of its challenge.

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