Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
- RP:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
- GenAm:
- cot-caught:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Käännös |
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| Verbit |
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| 3. | |
| Substantiivit |
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| Muut/tuntemattomat |
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Määritelmät
Verbit
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- (archaic) To pass over or by.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- (obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
- To stop, check, block.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
Substantiivit
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (archaeology) the wall of earth at the edge of an excavation
- beam, crossbeam
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
- (sports) deceptive motion; feint
- (baseball) an illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner
- (badminton) motion used to deceive an opponent during a serve
Esimerkit
- Bad ploughmen made balks of such ground.
- a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker
- By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the nns.
- Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
- Nor doth he any creature balk, / But lays on all he meeteth.
- The horse balked.
- to balk expectation
- They shall not balk my entrance.
- In strifeful terms with him to balk.
- Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, / Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | balked | Imperfekti | balked |
| Partisiipin preesens | balking | Monikko | balks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | balks | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | balketh (vanhahtava) |