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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

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Käännös
Substantiivit
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Käfer {der}
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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
  2. A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
  3. (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
  4. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.

Verbit

  1. To move away quickly, to scurry away.
  2. To loom over; to extend or jut.
  3. To beat with a heavy mallet.
  4. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.

Adjektiivit

  1. Protruding, jutting, overhanging. (As in beetle brows.)

Esimerkit

  • Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all.
  • He beetled off on his vacation.
  • “[...] But he seems to have beetled off somewhere as usual. [...]”
  • In the falling darkness Harry saw small collections of lights as they passed over more villages, then a winding road on which a single car was beetling its way home through the hills. …
  • Her eyes still closed, his aunt smiled cruelly. “I know what you are dying to say, Bertie. Go ahead—take the cheap shot. I’ll squash you like the nasty little bug you are.” ¶ Thus chastened, the little man beetled away.
  • The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
  • To the dreadful summit of the cliff / That beetles o'er his base into the sea.
  • Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
  • I was indeed gently affected, and shared his fears, remembering well the bulging walls of the old house, and the toppling mass of heavy chimney work which beetled over the roof, beneath which these poor doves had made their nest.
  • Impelled by some obscure quest, I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau.
  • to beetle cotton goods

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektibeetledImperfektibeetled
Partisiipin preesensbeetlingMonikkobeetles
Komparatiivimore beetleSuperlatiivimost beetle
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensbeetles