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Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) foule
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
Substantiivi
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
Verbi
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obstruct, block or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To come into contact or collide with.
Esimerkit
- Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
- This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.
- His foul hands got dirt all over the kitchen.
- The air was so foul nobody could breathe.
- The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.
- His foul language causes many people to believe he is uneducated.
- A well is foul with polluted water.
- Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
- A ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles
- He has a foul set of friends.
- This foul food is making me retch.
- Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.
- There was a foul smell coming from the toilet.
- We've got a foul anchor.
- Some foul weather is brewing.
- Foul play is not suspected.
- So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
- Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.
- to foul the face or hands with mire
- She's fouled her diaper.
- He's fouled his reputation.
- The hair has fouled the drain.
- The kelp has fouled the prop.
- Smith fouled him hard.
- Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
- The drain fouled.
- The prop fouled on the kelp.
- Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
- Jones fouled for strike one.
- A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header. Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.
- Jones hit a foul up over the screen.
- No harm, no foul.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | fouled | Imperfekti | fouled |
| Partisiipin preesens | fouling | Monikko | fouls |
| Komparatiivi | fouler | Superlatiivi | foulest |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | fouls | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | fouleth (vanhahtava) |