Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Ääntäminen
US- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ɡɹeɪz/
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
- A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
- The act of animals feeding from pasture.
Verbi
- (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- (ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
- (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- (intransitive) To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
- To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
- (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- (intransitive) To yield grass for grazing.
Esimerkit
- a field or two to graze his cows
- 1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing.
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
- the bullet grazed the wall
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
- to graze one's knee
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
- The sheep were put out to graze.
- The sheep grazed in the pasture.
- The other car grazed ours, but it only left some marks on our car.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | grazed | Imperfekti | grazed |
| Partisiipin preesens | grazing | Monikko | grazes |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | grazes | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | grazeth (vanhahtava) |