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Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)stɛp/
KieliKäännökset
bulgariaпраг (prag), дебела филия
espanjaumbral, limen
japani戸口の踏み段 (とぐちのふみだん, toguchi no fumidan)
kreikkaκατώφλι (katófli)
latinalīmen
portugalisoleira, fationa
puolapróg
ranskaseuil
ruotsitröskel
saksaEingangsstufe, Haustür
suomikynnys, kommentit kokouksen jälkeen, kommentit ennen kokousta
turkkieşik
tšekkipráh
venäjäпоро́г (poróg), порог (porog)

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (architecture) An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
  2. (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
  3. (UK, informal) A thick slice, especially of bread.

Verbi

  1. (intransitive) To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
  2. (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

Esimerkit

  • With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
  • On one's doorstep.
  • They want to build the prison right on our doorstep; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.
  • 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy", P 241 ISBN 0-06-052318-2
  • "I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it."
  • Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...
  • Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektidoorstepped
Imperfektidoorstepped
Partisiipin preesensdoorstepping
Monikkodoorsteps
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensdoorsteps