attain

suomi-englanti sanakirja

attain englannista suomeksi

  1. saavuttaa

  2. saada

  3. kasvaa

  1. Verbi

  2. saavuttaa

attain englanniksi

  1. To gain (an object or desired result).

  2. (syn)

    (ux)

  3. (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2)

  4. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) he will stick at no falsehood, or hesitate at no crime, to attain his ends.

  5. (RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado) that’s the highest rank a citizen can attain!

  6. {{quote-text|en|year=1937|author=George Orwell|title=The Road to Wigan Pier|location=New York|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|year_published=1958|section=Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 82|url=https://archive.org/details/roadtowiganpier00geor

  7. (quote-journal)

  8. {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Mohsin Hamid|title=The Reluctant Fundamentalist|location=Orlando|publisher=Harcourt|chapter=11|page=157|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780739488263/page/157

  9. To reach or to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

  10. (RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar) my bones would rest, / That have but labour’d to attain this hour.

  11. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

  12. (RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women)

  13. (RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein) blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain

  14. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

  15. (RQ:King James Version)

  16. 1782, (w), letter to Joseph Hill dated 11(nbs)November, 1782, in ''Private Correspondence of William Cowper,'' London: Henry Colburn, 1824, Volume(nbs)1, p.(nbs)222,https://archive.org/details/privatecorrespon01cowpuoft/page/222

  17. You may not, perhaps, live to see your trees attain to the dignity of timber—I, nevertheless, approve of your planting, and the disinterested spirit that prompts you to it.
  18. (RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake)

  19. {{quote-text|en|year=1874|author=John Richard Green|title=A Short History of the English People|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|section=Chapter 2, Section 6, p. 90|url=https://archive.org/details/ashorthistoryen00greegoog/page/n125

  20. To at the knowledge of.

  21. (RQ:Fuller Church History) Master ''(w),'' sometimes ''acknowledgeth,'' sometimes ''denieth'' him for an ''English Earle''. Not that I accuse him as inconstant to himself, but suspect my self not well attaining his meaning therein.

  22. To reach in excellence or degree.

  23. (RQ:Bacon Essayes)

  24. To reach a person after being behind them.

  25. (RQ:Bacon Henry 7) the enemie retired, pursued with all celeritie into ''Scotland;'' hoping to haue ouer-taken the ''Scottish'' King, and to haue giuen him Battaile; But not attaining him in time, sate downe before the ''Castle'' of ''Aton'' (..) which in a small time hee tooke.