Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
- (Scotland, Ireland) A small island; an islet.
- (figuratively) Any very short distance.
- (Scotland, Ireland) A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
- (meteorology) A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
Verbi
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- (Hong Kong, colloquial) to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
Adjektiivi
Esimerkit
- "Don't move an inch!"
- Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.
- Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
- The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
- Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.
- He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
- The blackening wave is edged with white; / To inch and rock the sea-mews fly.
- 1 inch = 2,54 centimètres.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | inched |
| Imperfekti | inched |
| Partisiipin preesens | inching |
| Monikko | inches |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | inches |