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Tekoälykääntäjä
Ääntäminen
US- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /kləʊv/
- Clove on sanan cleave imperfekti.
- Clove on sanan clive imperfekti.
- Clove on sanan cleave taipunut muoto.
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
- Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic
- (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
- (countable, botany) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromatica), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
- (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
Esimerkit
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
- By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
- Every part of the clove plant abounds with aromatic oil.
- A half tablespoonful of ground cloves.
- Put into each a teaspoonful of sugar, and one whole clove.
- Bruise half a dozen cloves of garlic.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | cloves |