curious

curious englannista suomeksi

1. outo

2. utelias

3. tiedonhaluinen

1. utelias

2. erikoinen, outo

curious englanniksi

1. Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; nosy, prying.

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2. (quote-book) Newly Translated out of the Trauailers Manuscript|location=London|publisher=Printed by Thomas Dawson, for VVilliam Arondell,(nb...)|year=1615|pages=7–8|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugNd06S9K4UC&pg=PA7|oclc=863566266|passage=I was ſo curious likewiſe as to goe to the place, where it is ſaid the great tower of ''Babel'' was built, being about halfe a days iourney diſtant; where I ſawe nothing but a high mountaine of earth in the midſt of a plaine where in digging you may finde certaine bricks, whereof it is ſaide the tower is built.

3. (RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)

4. (quote-journal)|month=January|year=1915|volume=XXXVIII, part I|section=chapter II|page=17|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9k5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA17|column=1|oclc=870086995|passage=Jack Bradshaw, the leader of the Owl Patrol of the Redscar Scouts, strode to the dry stone wall bounding the cliff path, and drew from between the stones a ball of crumpled paper. He was curious as to why it had been placed there—where it could not have lodged accidentally—and he smoothed it out. He found it to be pencilled over with figures, like a scrap that had been used to reckon on.

5. (quote-book)

6. Caused by curiosity.

7. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

8. (RQ:Defoe Crusoe)

9. (RQ:Fitzgerald Jazz Age)

10. Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, of the ordinary, or unusual.

11. 1485 – Malory|Thomas Malory. ''Morte Darthur|Le Morte Darthur'', Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v

''Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same lay that Dynadan had made''

"Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made"

12. (quote-book)|location=publisher=Printed for Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, printers to the (w),(nb...)|year=1693|volume_plain=tome II|page=30|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DytDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA30|oclc=7068535816|passage=Abundance of Samphire, and a curious bulboſe Plant, creſted with little Flowers ſtriped with white and Cinnamon colour.

13. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Murray (publisher)|John Murray,(nb...)|year=1851|page=90|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/transportvoyaget00londiala/page/90/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=1826847|passage="But the curiousest thing a'most as I ever see at sea," resumed the mate, with an air of abstraction, and filling himself another glass of grog—"a'most the curiousest thing I ever see was when I was a coming home from Quebec in the old Jane— ..."

14. (quote-journal)|month=Christmas|year=1855|year_published=1856|volume=XII|page=18|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AJs4AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18|column=2|oclc=209879594|passage=What was the curiousest thing he had seen? Well! He didn't know. He couldn't momently name what was the curiousest thing he had seen—unless it was a Unicorn—and he see ''him'' once at a Fair.

15. (RQ:Carroll Alice) and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); "now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!"

16. (RQ:Hough Purchase Price)

17. (quote-journal)(nb...)|date=5 March 1921|volume=XLIX|issue=1261|page=277|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KgcaTMV8IoC&pg=PA277|column=1|oclc=472261612|passage=There are many curious varieties of cirrus, some common and some rare. They have strange movements, at times shooting out long streamers in a direction quite different from that of the drift of the cloud itself across the sky.

18. (clipping of)

19. (quote-song)

20. Careful, fastidious, particular; demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.

21. (RQ:Sidney Arcadia)

22. (RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)

23. (RQ:Smith Generall Historie)

24. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed R. Norton for (w)(nb...)|year=1650|oclc=838283213|edition2=19th|location2=London|publisher2=Printed by J. Heptinstall, for John Meredith, in trust for Royston and Elizabeth Meredith;(nb...)|year2=1703|section2=section I (The First General Instrument of Holy Living. Care of Our Time.)|page2=13|pageurl2=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=_dUHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA13|oclc2=220057655|passage=... For he that is curious of his time, will not eaſily be unready and unfurniſhed.

25. (quote-book)|year=1655|page=206|oclc=1625803|location2=London|publisher2=Printed James Nichols (printer)|James Nichols for Tegg|Thomas Tegg and Son,(nb...)|year2=1837|volume2=II|section2=book V, section IV (To Master Henry Barnard, Late of London, Merchant), subsection 19 (The Death and Character of Queen Catherine Dowager)|page2=65|pageurl2=https://archive.org/details/churchhistoryofb02full/page/65/mode/1up|oclc2=913056315|passage=A pious woman ''i.e.'', (w) ... little curious in her clothes, being wont to say, she accounted no time lost, but what was laid out in dressing of her; ...

26. (quote-book)|edition=revised and corrected|location=London|publisher=Printed and sold by R. Meadow,(nb...); Astley|Thomas Astley,(nb...); and B. Milles,(nb...)|year=1743|pages=31–32|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/pleasantandsurp00drurgoog/page/n50/mode/1up|oclc=837520877|passage=The Water was very thick, and naſty; ... however it ſerv'd our Purpoſe, for at that Time we were not very curious.

27. Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.

28. (RQ:Whetstone Rocke of Regard)

29. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)

30. (RQ:King James Version)

31. (RQ:Hooke Micrographia)

32. Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.