Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Lyhenteet
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (Christianity, obsolete) Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
- A position of responsibility.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:
- (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
- (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
- (UK military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
- (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
- (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
Verbi
Esimerkit
- We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[...]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
- an executive or judicial office; a municipal office
- Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.
- They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
- Hesperus, whose office is to bring / Twilight upon the earth.
- In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
- This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.
- kind offices; pious offices
- I would I could do a good office between you.
- [...]the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant[...]
- [...]there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.
- As for the offices, let them stand at distance.
- A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.
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