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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenAU
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈθʌndəbɒks/
  • GA:
    • IPA: /ˈθʌndɚˌbɑks/

Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (slang) A chamber pot enclosed in a box; a portable commode.
  2. (military, obsolete) A blunderbuss; also, a cannon.
  3. (by extension, chiefly Australia, British, slang) Any lavatory or toilet, especially a rudimentary outdoor latrine or toilet, or an outhouse.
  4. (theater) A box of metal balls which is shaken to create a thunder sound effect.

Esimerkit

  • Meantime the ICE experts are poring over their photographs, and making measurements, which, presumably, will go into a computer, and out will come the specification for the perfect thunderbox.
  • In the old days, when there was a corrugated iron thunderbox, the Holts′ guests were told to approach it with caution: where other thunderboxes had redback spiders, the local ones tended to have taipans.
  • The first are the pit toilets — “thunderboxes” — boxes painted white inside, centrally located in various sections of the campground. The second type of toilet looks like a thunderbox but houses an odour-free flushing toilet.
  • He boobytrapped the ‘thunderbox’ and the next guardsman who sat down was met by a deafening blast. The guardsman and plastic loo seat were hurled one way, the loo paper another, but there were no injuries.
  • And finally he pointed to an old thunderbox and shovel. ‘Our toilet block.’
  • Everyone except Fly stared at that old thunderbox like it was from Mars.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkothunderboxes