Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Downward movement, fall.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
Verbi
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
Esimerkit
- In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
- My health declined in winter.
- in melancholy deep, with head declined
- And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste / His weary wagon to the western vale.
- You have declined his means.
- He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
- a line that declines from straightness
- conduct that declines from sound morals
- Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- Could I decline this dreadful hour?
- “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
- On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.
- after the first declining of a noun and a verb
- The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.
- a civilization in decline
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | declined | Imperfekti | declined |
| Partisiipin preesens | declining | Monikko | declines |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | declines | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | declineth (vanhahtava) |