Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- (Northern England) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
- (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
- A period of rest; time off.
- (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
Verbi
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
- (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
- (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
- (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
- (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
- To constitute; to measure.
- (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
- (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
Esimerkit
- He cast a spell to cure warts.
- under a spell
- O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell?
- Might I that legend find, / By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.
- Spelled with words of power.
- He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.
- "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
- I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.
- The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.
- In Esperanto each letter has only one sound, and each sound is represented in only one way. The words are pronounced exactly as spelt, every letter being sounded.
- This spells trouble.
- Please spell it out for me.
- When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us[...]
- the Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect
- to spell the helmsman
- They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
- Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.
- I had a job in the great North Woods
- Workin' as a cook for a spell.
- But I never did like it all that much
- And one day the ax just fell.
- Sit down and take the weight off your feet for a spell.
- The dry spell has turned the region into a vast tinderbox. (BBC)
- The letters spelled cat.
- a dizzy spell
- How do you spell it?
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | spelled | Partisiipin perfekti | spelt |
| Imperfekti | spelled | Imperfekti | spelt |
| Partisiipin preesens | spelling | Monikko | spells |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | spells |