Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Etsitylle sanalle löytyi useampi kirjoitusasu:
| Käännös | |
|---|---|
| Substantiivit | |
| 1. | dakts {m} |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (countable) A basket made of wickers; a creel.
- (Northern England, Scotland) An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
- (obsolete, except, dialectal) A hamlet or village; also, a town.
- A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
- (countable) A maggot.
- (countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
- A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
- (countable, horticulture)
- (uncountable) Wickers collectively; also, Synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together)”.
- Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through)”.
- Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth)”.
- (obsolete, except, dialectal, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
- (uncountable) Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks are made”).
- The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
- (obsolete) An enclosed piece of land; a close.
- A grove; also, a hollow.
- (countable, by extension) Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
- ( chiefly in the plural) The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
- (countable, euphemistic, slang) Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Life; also, liveliness.
Verbit
- (transitive) Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- (transitive) To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
- (intransitive) To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
- (intransitive)
- Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
- Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
Adjektiivit
- (Northern England, chiefly Yorkshire) Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively)”.
Esimerkit
- Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
- But true it is, that when the oil is spent / The light goes out, and wick is thrown away.
- His wick was stone stiff.
- Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further.
- The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
- The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
- as wick as an eel
- T' wickest young chap at ivver Ah seen.
- He's a strange wick bairn alus runnin' aboot.
- I'll skin ye wick! (skin you alive)
- I thowt they was dead last back end but they're wick enif noo.
- "Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" "Lor' bless yer noä miss! It isn't dead uns I'm scar'd on, it's wick uns."
- I niver knew such an a thing afore in all my wick. — Ashby, 12 July 1875
- Fed close? Why, it's eaten into t' hard wick. (spoken of a pasture which has been fed very close)
- She considered him. A fiery droplet in the wick of her mouth considered him.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | wicked | Imperfekti | wicked |
| Partisiipin preesens | wicking | Monikko | wicks |
| Komparatiivi | wicker | Komparatiivi | more wick |
| Superlatiivi | wickest | Superlatiivi | most wick |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | wicks |