swell

swell

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1. maininki

Synonyymisanakirja: swell

swell

1. crescendo, paisutus, pohjamaininki, aaltoilu, mainingit, maininki, aalto, pullistaa, suurentaa, turvota, paisua, paksuntua, pöhöttyä, laajentua, kasvaa, nousta.

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Riimisanakirja: swell

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Käännökset: swell

swell suomeksi

turvota, paisutus, kasvaa, nousta, mainingit

• turvota, paisua

• turvottaa

• maininki

• erinomainen, mahtava

swell englanniksi

• puhekieltä To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

• Shakespeare

Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

• puhekieltä To cause to become bigger.

Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

• Atterbury

It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge.

• {{quote-book|year=1905|author=w:Emma Orczy|Baroness Emmuska Orczy

• 2013 June 18, (w), "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/world/americas/brazilian-leaders-brace-for-more-protests.html Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.

• puhekieltä To grow gradually in force or loudness.

The organ music swelled.

• puhekieltä To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

• puhekieltä To be raised to arrogance.

Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.

• Sir Walter Scott

You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.

• To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

• Dryden

Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

• To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

swelling words; a swelling style

• To protuberate; to bulge out.

A cask swells in the middle.

• The act of swelling.

• Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

• Landor:

the swell and subsidence of his periods

• A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.

• 1883, w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, ch. 24:

There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.

• puhekieltä A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.

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• puhekieltä A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.

• puhekieltä A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.

• A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.

• 1909, w:Joseph A. Altsheler|Joseph A. Altsheler, The Last of the Chiefs, ch. 2:

Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.

• puhekieltä A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.

• (circa) w:William Makepeace Thackeray|William Makepeace Thackeray, "The Kickleburys on the Rhine" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh:

It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?

• 1887, w:Horatio Alger|Horatio Alger, The Cash Boy, ch. 9:

He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.

• puhekieltä A person of high social standing; an important person.

• 1864, w:Anthony Trollope|Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, ch. 2:

"I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." . . .

"I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell.

• 1906, w:Gilbert Parker|Gilbert Parker, The Trespasser, ch. 8:

You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell—you and the gods!

• puhekieltä excellent Excellent.

• 2012, (w), "The Space In Between", The New Yorker, 10 Sep 2012:

Orgasms are swell, but they are not the remedy to every injustice.

• puhekieltä (l) (gloss)

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