desert
suomi-englanti sanakirjadesert englannista suomeksi
loikata, karata, lähteä paikaltaan
hylätä
autiomaa, aavikko
lähteä
desert englanniksi
(senseid) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.
{{quote-text|en|year=1600|author=John Dowland|title=Flow My Tears
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
(RQ:Stoker Dracula)
July 4, 1789, (w), ''Eulogium on Major-General Greene''
- His reputation falls far below his desert.
{{quote-text|en|year=1971|author=John Rawls|title=A Theory of Justice
A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
(RQ:Spenser Daphnaida)
(RQ:Pope Windsor Forest)
(quote-book)
In particular, a barren, arid area of land which is hot, with sandy, rocky, or parched ground.
Any barren place or situation.
(quote-text)
(quote-journal)
''Usually of a place'': abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.
(ux)
(RQ:KJV)
(RQ:KJV) went aside privately into a desert place.
(RQ:Dryden Virgil)
{{quote-text|en|year=1750|author=Thomas Gray|title=Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard|section=Stanza 14
To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.
(obsolete form of)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) W. Stewart,(nb...); Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy,(nb...); Gale and Fenner,(nb...)|year=1816|page=518, 525, and 541|passage=They answer for caramel or gum paste baskets, for desert or suppers. (..) BARBERRIES / ''For Deserts'', ''or Second Course Pastry''. (..) Under these impressions—admitting, as they would, such a variety of combinations, the Author has confined himself to a plain selection of the principal articles in season in each month, merely to give a good general idea of laying out a table for deserts, leaving to the house-keeper to vary, and increase or diminish, according to her taste, or the extent of her company.
(quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) the Author: (...) Mr. Egerton, Whitehall; Messrs. Hoitt,(nb...); and Mesers.(si) Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,(nb...)|year=1818|page=286|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/howtoenjoyparis00hervgoog/page/n302/mode/1up|passage=The deserts are far more superb; the painter, the florist, the decorator, and even the sculptor being engaged to complete them. Formerly a desert at a splendid fete in a private house has cost a thousand pounds, exclusive of plate and glass.
(l) (desolate terrain)
(l)
(senseid) The situation of deserving something.
worth, virtuousness, benefit; that which is good.
(senseid) wilderness (gloss)
(RQ:Wycliffe NT Lichfield)
desert (desolate terrain)
(ant)