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Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈʃeɪpʃɪftə/
  • GA:
    • IPA: /ˈʃeɪp.ʃɪf.tɚ/
KieliKäännökset
italiamutaforma
latinamutans, transfigurans, transformans
puolazmiennokształtny
ruotsihamnskiftare
venäjäоборотень (oboroten)

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.
  2. (figurative) A person who is inconsistent and elusive.

Esimerkit

  • The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.
  • Like the teller of shapeshifter stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the shapeshifter for its victims—the cultural practice of imagination...is an inherently shifty enterprise....
  • There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery!

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkoshapeshifters

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf, engraving by Hendrik Goltzius

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.

Vertumnus, in the form of an old woman, wooing Pomona, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout.