stalk
suomi-englanti sanakirjastalk englannista suomeksi
väijyminen
vaania, väijyä
jalka, varsi
olki
vaaniminen
käynti
seurailla, vainota
köpittää
stalk englanniksi
The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
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Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
(RQ:Grew Musaeum Regalis Societatis)
An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf \mathcal{F} on a space X, and a point x in X, the limit of the sections of F on the neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See (pedia)
(senseid) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
(RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak)
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)
To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.(w)
To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
(RQ:Dryden Spanish Fryar)
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing)
To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
(RQ:Bacon Apophthegmes)crept under the shoulder of his led horse;(..)"I must stalk," said he.
{{quote-text|en|year=1612|author=Michael Drayton|title=Poly-Olbion
A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
{{quote-text|en|year=1885|author=Theodore Roosevelt|title=Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
(RQ:Dryden Aeneis)
{{quote-text|en|year=1704|author=Joseph Addison|title=Milton's Stile Imitated, in a Translation of a Story out of the Third Aeneid
{{quote-text|en|year=1850|author=Charles Merivale|title=History of the Romans Under the Empire
A haughty style of walking.
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