gracile

suomi-englanti sanakirja

gracile englannista suomeksi

  1. solakka, sorja

gracile englanniksi

  1. Lean, slender, thin.

  2. (synonyms)

  3. (quote-journal),(nb...)|date=(J2G)|year_published=1702 (October 1701 issue)|volume=XXII|page=986|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsszuVUCL8oC&pg=RA1-PA986|oclc=630046584|passage=Thoſe Trees that are called Firs by the Vulgar (from their near conformity and likeneſs to that Tree) are well known by all Learned Men (by the Redneſs, the Roſinous Nature of the Wood, the Gracil Cones hanging downwards, &c.) to be the true Pitch-Tree, of which there are ſuch great plenty in ''Norway'', ''Sweden'', and other Countries of the North, ...

  4. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for the author; and published by Baldwin and Cradock|year=1829|volume=II (Mandibulata)|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dllHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA114|oclc=760055836|passage=''Maxillary palpi'' shorter than the antennæ, the terminal joint small, gracile, subulated; ...

  5. (quote-book)|date=24 July 1835|year_published=1836|volume_plain=2nd part|section=footnote|page=788|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2ADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA788|oclc=804083404|passage=The finish, the extreme delicacy of his &91;(w)'s&93; pencil, in his light gracile forms, marvellouslfy contrast with the ideal figures of his mystic allegories; sometimes playful, as the loveliness of the arabesques of Raffaelle.

  6. (quote-book)&93; Marcus Tullius and Tullius Cicero|Quinctus Cicero|editor=&91;Forster (biographer)|John Forster&93;|title=The Works of Walter Savage Landor. In Two Volumes|location=London|publisher=(w),(nb...)|year=1846|volume=I|page=246|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_BLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA246|column=1|oclc=912947655|passage=Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and from the folds of fine linen, bestrewn and impregnated with aromatics, you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of a goodly and venerable cat.

  7. (quote-book)

  8. (quote-book)|year=2006|page=47|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZUPBYdqLNsC&pg=PA47|isbn=978-0-7910-9198-2|passage=While the pelvis is the best area to determine an individual's sex, the skull may also be used. ... For example, males usually have very prominent (or robust) mastoid processes, projections that serve as muscle attachment sites behind the ears, while females have much smaller (or gracile) mastoid processes. Due to human variation, it is possible for a man to have very gracile features or a female to have very robust features.

  9. Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame.

  10. (antonyms)

  11. (quote-journal)

  12. Graceful or gracefully slender.

  13. (quote-journal)|month=February|year=1923|volume=LXV|section=book II, chapter XIII|page=117|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdwvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA117|column=1|oclc=1006315258|passage=Katafa had taken refuge in the second great pool, a pool some few feet deep and large enough for a person to swim in. The water was tepid and the floor of soft sand, and as she slipped into it, gracile as a serpent, she did not look to see what fish there might be there.

  14. (quote-book) and (w)’s ''Baby (1978 film)|Pretty Baby''|title=The Lost Body of Childhood: Poems|location=Providence, R.I.|publisher=Copper Beech Press|year=1979|section=stanza I|page=38|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_CGvFWiJp5AC&pg=PA38|isbn=978-0-914278-25-2|passage=The low women, coiffed, perfumed, / and decked out in high fashion, / Adorn the parlor's plush decor / like debutantes, stepping out / to greet gents with gracile, / fawning caresses and playful leers.

  15. (quote-book)'s ''(Ovid)|Amores'', gracile Elegy, the presiding spirit of Ovid's poetry of unfulfilled desire, confronts ponderous Tragedy ..., only to dismiss her with insouciance: the pleasures and pains of erotic pursuit displace the ostensibly serious matters of tragic verse.

  16. (l)

  17. delicate, frail, weakly

  18. slender, thin

  19. (inflection of)