Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| hollanti | weduwenmaker |
| saksa | Witwenmacher |
| suomi | leskentekijä |
| venäjä | вдоводел (vdovodel) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (idiomatic) Something which or someone who takes a person's life, particularly men; a lethal hazard that affects mostly men or is specific to a primarily male trade.
- (forestry) The detached or broken limb of a tree, a hazard to those walking underneath.
- (medicine, informal) An occlusion of the left coronary artery or its anterior interventricular branch; which is likely to cause a fatal heart attack.
- (military, slang) The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
Esimerkit
- O, it grieves my soul,
- That I must draw this metal from my side
- To be a widow-maker!
- What is a woman that you forsake her,
- And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
- To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
- Finally, jobs that are 'widow-makers' should be rethought and restructured. In the heyday of the great sailing ships, around 1850, just before the coming of steam, every shipping company had a widow-maker on its hands once in a while. ... One typical 'widow-maker' has been the job of international vice-president in the large American company.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | widow-makers |