obtuse

suomi-englanti sanakirja

obtuse englannista suomeksi

  1. hidas

  2. tylppä

  3. tylsä

  1. tylppä, tylsä

  2. tylppä

  3. hidasjärkinen, hidasälyinen

  4. vaimea, vaimennettu

  5. epäsuora

  6. Verbi

obtuse englanniksi

  1. (l); not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.

  2. (quote-book)&93;|chapter=Century VIII|title=Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries: Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. |edition=9th and last|location=London|publisher=William Rawley|year=1670|page=161|section=paragraph 766|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=161|oclc=42391224|text=For we see a Feather or a Rush drawn along the Lip or Cheek, doth tickle; whereas a thing more obtuse, or a touch more hard, doth not.

  3. (quote-book)

  4. Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.

  5. (quote-book); &91;(w), transl.&93;|chapter=How Pantagruel Did Put Himself in a Readiness to Go to Sea; and of the Herb Named Pantagruelion|title=and Pantagruel|The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel ...|location=London|publisher=Navarre Society|year=1653|year_published=1921|volume=II|section=book III|pages=57–58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=USmgAAAAMAAJ&dq=obtuse&pg=PA58|oclc=228675398|passage=The Herb Pantagruelion hath a little Root somewhat hard and ruff, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt Point, and having some of its Veins, Strings or Filaments coloured with some spots of white, (..)

  6. Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.

  7. (quote-book); Paris: Dunod, 49, Quai des Augustins|year=1877|volume=I|section=§ XIV (Rail-crossings), paragraph 258|page=316|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/permanentwayrol00coucgoogpage/n334/mode/1up/|oclc=58932800|passage=''Obtuse angles of the through crossing.'' — The system of the two obtuse-angled points is especially termed the dead-crossing. (..) The point itself, less liable to damage than that of the crossing proper, on account of its obtuse form and its position relatively to the wheels, acts the same part towards the tapered portion of the cut rail, as the wing-rail does with respect to the acute-angle of the crossing.

  8. (l), having an obtuse angle.

  9. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.

  10. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)

  11. (quote-journal)

  12. Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.

  13. (RQ:Lovell Panzooryktologia)

  14. Indirect or circuitous.

  15. (quote-book)|year2=2011|section2=section III (A Saga of ''Pluribus'' and ''Unum'': The Power and Meaning of True Consilience)|page2=185|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYfLi4hjhTYC&pg=PA185|isbn2=978-0-674-06166-8|passage=(..) ''(w)'' intends to do something different by describing ''both'' the shell and the soft parts of each creature together. The claim seems awfully trivial, I admit, and Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe does press his point only by the obtuse route of stressing an expansion of terminology, from the traditional "conchology" (literally the study of shells, as retained in the title) to "malacology" (or the study of the entire organism—for the animals within the hard shells consist almost entirely of soft parts,(nb..)).

  16. To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

  17. (RQ:Cotgrave Dictionarie). To tread, ſtampe, or trample on; to bruiſe, or cruſh, by ſtamping; hurt, or obtuſe, by treading on; (..)

  18. (quote-journal) claims that its alcohol's primary action is that of a depressant, and that its apparent good effects are simply due to the obtusing influence upon physical and mental suffering. But this is scarcely a correct assumption, as there are individuals in whom the smallest doses produce palpitation of the heart, throbbing of the carotids, and great mental activity. He also claims that alcohol does not produce renewed vigor in tired individuals, but simply obtuses this feeling of exhaustion.

  19. (feminine singular of)

  20. (inflection of)