Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- Downward movement, fall.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- A weakening.
- A reduction or diminution of activity.
Verbit
- (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 refuse, forbear.
- (transitive, grammar, of substantives, usually nouns, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- (American 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
- a line that declines from straightness
- a civilization in decline
- The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.
- after the first declining of a noun and a verb
- On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.
- “[…] 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.
- Could I decline this dreadful hour?
- Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- conduct that declines from sound morals
- 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.
- He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
- You have declined his means.
- And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste / His weary wagon to the western vale.
- in melancholy deep, with head declined
- My health declined in winter.
- The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | declined | Imperfekti | declined |
| Partisiipin preesens | declining | Monikko | declines |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | declines | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | declineth (vanhahtava) |