swallow

swallow

englanti

1. nielaisu

2. (eläintiede) pääsky

Synonyymisanakirja: swallow

swallow

1. laululintu, pääskynen, pääsky, haarapääsky, Hirundo rustica, amerikanpääsky, Hirundo pyrrhonota, Hirundo nigricans, kelopääsky, Iridoprocne bicolor.

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Riimisanakirja: swallow

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Käännökset: swallow

swallow suomeksi

siemaus, niellä, pääsky, nielaista

• niellä, nielaista

• nielaista

• niellä

• nielaus, kulaus (of liquid)

• pääsky

swallow englanniksi

• puhekieltä To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. (defdate)

• 1898, (w), (w) Chapter 4:

What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.

• 2011, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 21 Apr 2011:

Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.

• puhekieltä To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. (defdate)

• John Locke

The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.

• 2010, "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist, 28 Oct 2010:

His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.

• puhekieltä To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion. (defdate)

My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.

• 1979, VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic:

She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.

• puhekieltä To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept. (defdate)

• Sir Thomas Browne

Though that story (..) be not so readily swallowed.

• 2011, Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 22 Apr 2011:

Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.

• To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.

• Alexander Pope

Homer excels (..) in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.

• To retract; to recant.

to swallow ones opinions''

• Shakespeare

swallowed his vows whole

• To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

to swallow an affront or insult

• puhekieltä A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

• The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.

• A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

• puhekieltä The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

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