Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- (ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- (transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- (ambitransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
- (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.
- (impersonal) To rain or snow slightly.
- (ambitransitive) To utter (something) violently.
- (intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
Substantiivi
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
- (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- (geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image).
- (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”).
Esimerkit
- Or perhaps he may see a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit of shingle, against the blue sea [..]
- to spit a loin of veal
- infants spitted upon pikes
- She's spitting in the kitchen.
- Don't spit on the street.
- The teacher told her to spit out her bubble gum.
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- It had been spitting with rain.
- "Why, you little emasculated Don Juan— You—" he spat an unmentionable name— "d'you think I'd fight one of your tin-soldier farces with you? Clear out!"
- "Gentleman? You?" he spat.
- A group of black guys were spitting rhymes in the corner, slapping hands and egging one another on.
- There was spit all over the washbasin.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | spit | Partisiipin perfekti | spitted (epävirallinen) |
| Partisiipin perfekti | spat | Partisiipin perfekti | spitten (epävirallinen) |
| Imperfekti | spit | Imperfekti | spitted (epävirallinen) |
| Imperfekti | spat | Partisiipin preesens | spitting |
| Monikko | spits | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | spits |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | spitteth (vanhahtava) |