bestride

bestride

englanti

1. olla molemmin puolin jotakin

2. istua hajareisin

Synonyymisanakirja: bestride

bestride

1. siirtää, viedä, hypellä, nousta, nousta ylös, hyppiä, kiivetä, harpata, nousta uudelleen satulaan.

Katso synonyymisanakirja

Riimisanakirja: bestride

bestride rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. kaide, suojakaide, suorakaide, alttarikaide, sillankaide, porraskaide, melukaide, raide, pistoraide, sivuraide...

Katso riimisanakirja

Käännökset: bestride

bestride suomeksi

harpata

• hajareisin|alt=istua hajareisin

bestride englanniksi

• puhekieltä To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.

• 1816, (w), "Composed in Recollection of the Expedition of the French into Russia, February 1816" lines 27-31, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47651/47651-h/47651-h.htm

But fleeter far the pinions of the Wind, / Which from Siberian caves the monarch freed, / And sent him forth, with squadrons of his kind, / And bade the Snow their ample backs bestride, / And to the battle ride.

• 1885, w:Richard Francis Burton|Richard Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, published by private subscription, Vol. I, p. 172, https://archive.org/details/plainliteraltran01burt

He threw in my way a piece of timber which I bestrided, and the waves tossed me to and fro till they cast me upon an island coast (..)

• 1967, (w), The Manor, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Chapter 2, part II, p. 29,

(..) she would take the betrothal document from her father's chest of drawers and pore over the signature: Ezriel Babad. (..) His signature seemed to bestride her own.

• 1998, (w), Numbered Account, New York: Delacorte, https://books.google.ca/books?id=b1pqo-bQJbMC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

He made out a stubby automobile bestriding the narrow road.

• puhekieltä To dominate.

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• 1949, (w), (w), Chapter 6, http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

He looked up again at the portrait of Big Brother. The colossus that bestrode the world!

• 1962, w:Es'kia Mphahlele|Ezekiel Mphahlele, The African Image, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Chapter 5, p. 86, https://archive.org/details/africanimage00inmpha

You see, Jim Crow does it differently in Africa. His is a slow but tight and deadly squeeze. (..) He bestrides this continent from Algiers to Cape Town, and the guns around his belt face east, west, south and north.

• 1990, Anthony Paul, "Dutch Literature and the Translation Barrier" in Bart Westerweel and Theo D'haen (eds.), Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Literary Translation, Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 65, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-CNC7gYnIT0C&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

Over the past two hundred years the English language has risen, seemingly irresistably, to its present position of world-bestriding supremacy.

• to (l) or (l) (something)

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