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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS:
KäännösKonteksti
Verbit
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2.
3.idiomaattinen
4.slangi
5.slangi
6.slangi
7.
8.slangi

Määritelmät

Verbi

  1. (transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
  2. (ergative) To be sold.
  3. (transitive) To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.
  4. (transitive) To promote (a particular viewpoint).
  5. (transitive) To betray for money or other things.
  6. (transitive, slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
  7. (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
  8. (Australia, slang, intransitive) To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.

Substantiivi

  1. An act of selling; sale.
  2. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
  3. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).
  4. (figurative, by extension) The promotion of an idea for acceptance.
  5. (archaic) A saddle.
  6. An easy task.
  7. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.

Esimerkit

  • If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
  • No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
  • I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.   Sorry, I'm not prepared to sell.
  • This old stock will never sell.   The corn sold for a good price.
  • My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
  • Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.
  • 1922: What a sell for Lena! - Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
  • This is going to be a tough sell.
  • "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
  • turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektisoldPartisiipin perfektiselled (epävirallinen)
ImperfektisoldImperfektiselled (epävirallinen)
Partisiipin preesenssellingMonikkosells
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenssellsYksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensselleth (vanhahtava)