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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈbɪ.lɪt/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈbɪ.lɪt/

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. A short informal letter.
  2. A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
  3. metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
  4. A written order to quarter soldiers.
  5. An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
  6. a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
  7. (heraldiccharge) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
  8. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
  9. (saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
  10. A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

Verbit

  1. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, usually by order.
  2. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
  3. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.

Esimerkit

  • However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet[...]
  • Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
  • 17 June 1940: Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet. Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
  • The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
  • Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
  • They shall beat out my brains with billets.
  • steel billet

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektibilletedPartisiipin perfektibilletted
ImperfektibilletedImperfektibilletted
Partisiipin preesensbilletingPartisiipin preesensbilletting
MonikkobilletsYksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensbillets

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