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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

    • IPA: /swɔː(ɹ)d/
KieliKäännökset
italiaerba, zolla, prato
ranskagazon, pelouse
saksaNarbe
suominurmikko
venäjäдёрн (djorn), газон (gazon), луг (lug)

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
  2. (Philippines) A homosexual man.
  3. (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
  4. (countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
  5. (countable, obsolete, except, British, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.

Verbi

  1. (transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
  2. (intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.

Esimerkit

  • The sward was trim as any garden lawn.
  • It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • [...]the trees began to thin and the sward to spread out onto a broad, green lawn, where five cows lay in the sunshine.
  • Only where George stood was there left a sward as of yore; the great, level, green lawn that served for both the Major's house and his daughter's.

Taivutusmuodot

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