desert

desert

1. autio, asumaton, tyhjä

Synonyymisanakirja: desert

desert

1. biomi, eloyhteisö, aavikko, autiomaa, alue, palsta, Arabian niemimaan aavikot, Great Arabian Desert, Arabian aavikko, Itäinen autiomaa.

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desert suomeksi

loikata, karata, hylätä, autiomaa, aavikko

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desert englanniksi

• (senseid)puhekieltä That which is deserved or merit merited; a just punishment or reward

• 1600, (w), (w)

From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.

• 1897, (w), (w) Chapter 21

"Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"

• A. Hamilton

His reputation falls far below his desert.

• A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.

• (w) (1688-1744)

Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, / A dreary desert and a gloomy waste.

• (quote-book)

• puhekieltä Any barren place or situation.

• 1858, William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)

He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.

• 2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)

So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant?

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