Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | comitiva |
| italia | tipo, tizio, stormo, covata, nidiata, gruppo, comitiva, raggruppamento, moltitudine |
| portugali | comitiva |
| ranska | type, mec |
| saksa | Volk |
| suomi | poikue, pyyparvi |
| unkari | pasi, hapsi, pasas |
| venäjä | стая (staja), выводок (vyvodok), группа (gruppa), стайка (staika) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
- (British, familiar, slang, dated) A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.
- A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily Phasianoidea).
- (figurative) A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things.
Verbi
Esimerkit
- The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged-plumed, hilarious children play and become candidates for the cough drops and soothing syrups that wait for them inside.
- A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.
- There is a duck called the raft duck, because it is so numerous, coveying together in "whole rafts."
- [Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.
- 'Pooh!' said he, 'you are as easily wounded as an unfledged dove — don't mind what an old covey like me says — I understand it all.'
- There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.
- I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are—
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | coveyed | Imperfekti | coveyed |
| Partisiipin preesens | coveying | Monikko | coveys |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | coveys | Monikko | covies |