haywire

suomi-englanti sanakirja

haywire englannista suomeksi

  1. sekaisin

  2. metallilanka, paalauslanka

  3. sekaisin oleva

  1. Substantiivi

  2. paalauslanka

  3. karkeatekoinen

  4. oikutteleva

haywire englanniksi

  1. Wire used to bind bales of hay.

  2. {{quote-journal|en|date=1886-05-06|author=W. A. Huffman Implement Company|title=Superior Lawn Mowers!|newspaper=Fort Worth Daily Gazette|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064205/1886-05-06/ed-1/seq-7/date1=1836&sort=date&date2=1922&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=11&words=HAYWIRE&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=haywire&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|page=7

  3. Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).

  4. Behaviorally erratic or uncontrollable, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with the verb "go".

  5. ''It was working fine until it went haywire and wouldn't stop printing blank sheets.''

    ''Those kids go haywire when they don't get what they want.''

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  7. {{quote-book|en|year=1928|author=Horace Marden Albright; Frank J. Taylor|title="Oh, Ranger!": A Book about the National Parks|chapter=1|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SmOmAAAAIAAJ&q=haywirev=snippet&q=haywire&f=false|page=1

  8. (quote-book)|year=2014|author=Elizabeth Kolbert|publisher=Picador|ISBN=9781250062185|passage=Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium.|page=103