Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
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Ääntäminen
US- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /sleɪv/
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
- (figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
- (figuratively) An abject person.
- (figuratively) One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
- (BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
- A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
- (engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
Verbi
Esimerkit
- a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
- Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
- I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
- to slave a hard disk
- Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[...]
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | slaved | Imperfekti | slaved |
| Partisiipin preesens | slaving | Monikko | slaves |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | slaves | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | slaveth (vanhahtava) |
Luokat
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
Peter, a slave from Louisiana, in 1863. The scars are the result of a whipping by his overseer.
