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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) resoun
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
- (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To converse; to compare opinions.
- (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
Substantiivi
- A wall plate.
- A cause:
- That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
- A motive for an action or a determination.
- An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
- (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
- (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
- (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
Esimerkit
- The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.
- There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits[...]
- If you don't give me a reason to go with you, I won't.
- This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.
- Ralph Touchett, for reasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow[...]
- I have forgotten the reason he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct reason, and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.
- Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.
- And the specific distinction between man and beast is now, strictly speaking, no longer reason (the lumen naturale of the human animal) but science[...]
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
- I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
- I reasoned the matter with my friend.
- to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan
- to reason down a passion
- to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon'
- A doctor can't operate if he doesn't know the reason of the illness.
- The professor reasoned that it is the best technology available.
- The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money.
- What was the reason for doing it that way?
- There was no reason in what the politician said.
- I've tried to reason with you.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | reasoned | Imperfekti | reasoned |
| Partisiipin preesens | reasoning | Monikko | reasons |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | reasons | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | reasoneth (vanhahtava) |