Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
UK:
US:
- UK:
- IPA: /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)/
- IPA: [ˈmɐðə(ɹ)]
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Käännös | Konteksti |
|---|
| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | |
| Verbit |
| 2. | | arkikielessä |
| 3. | | |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- (euphemistic, coarse, slang) Motherfucker.
- (nonstandard) A cat that catches moths.
- A female parent of an animal.
- (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example.
- (figuratively) A female ancestor.
- (figuratively) A source or origin.
- (when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
- (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
- A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
Verbit
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
Esimerkit
- He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.
- The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.
- The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
- And Ada[Adam] called his wyfe Heua[Eve] because she was the mother of all that lyveth
- But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
- The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
- Alas, poor country: / Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot / Be call'd our mother, but our grave:
- Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
- The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. –Judges 5:7, KJV.
- Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. –Galatians 4:26, KJV.
- She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
- "The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun." — Saddam Hussein
- November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life.
- Some hot night there's gonna be one mother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf.
- Basically, we wind up with a program. One mother of a complex application.
- Josh, whose fleshy face resembles a rhino's - beady wide-set eyes blinking between a mother of a snout
Taivutusmuodot