stilted

stilted englannista suomeksi

1. jäykkä, väkinäinen

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stilted englanniksi

1. use|Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts.

(antonyms)

2. (RQ:Young Night-Thoughts)

3. (quote-book)|edition=2nd corrected and enlarged|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Printed by J. Stark, for & Robinson|Archibald Constable and Company; London: Murray (publisher)|John Murray,(nb...)|year=1806|oclc=960061402|passage=The state of husbandry is very far behind. The plough generally used is the single stilted one. In using this kind of plough, the ploughman bends towards the soil, and well merits the title of ''curvus arator'', bestowed by (w) on the Italian ploughman. ... The two-stilted plough is beginning to be used; but the general opinion is against it.|footer=(small) here means “the handle of a plough”.

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5. (RQ:Scott Pirate) here means “the handle of a plough”.

6. (quote-book); Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green,(nb...)|year=1830|pages=379–380|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pScOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA379|oclc=82367409|passage=We have still more striking instances in the large clouded-wing crane fly (''Tipula gigantea'', (smallcaps)), popularly termed father longlegs, or jenny-spinner, their stilted legs enabling these insects to overtop the grass as they walk in the meadows, in the same way as our imaginary giraffe would overtop the trees in a forest.

7. (quote-book) and Bennet (missionary)|George Bennet, Esq. Deputed from the London Missionary Society, to Visit Their Various Stations in the South Sea Islands, China, India, &c. between the Years 1821 and 1829. Compiled from Original Documents, ... In Three Volumes. ... From the First London Edition, Revised by an American Editor|series=Library of Religious Knowledge|seriesvolume=I|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=Published by & Brewster|Crocker and Brewster,(nb...); New York, N.Y.: Leavitt (publisher)|Jonathan Leavitt,(nb...)|year=1832|volume=I|page=99|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA99|oclc=950909687|passage=We were much more annoyed by our enemies within doors—the fleas, which, in spite of our stilted bedsteads, obtruded upon us, and were so ardent and active that sleep was hopeless in such society.

8. (quote-journal)|year=1879–1880|volume=II|pages=220–221|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=s441AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA220|issn=0022-3751|oclc=9559311|passage=Whether locomotion was possible or not, the animal remained a good half-minute at rest in this stilted attitude without venturing a step. ... When put on their feet in the water (instead of out of the water on a table) these crayfish had not such a strikingly stilted attitude, and did not as a rule attempt to walk, but began either feeding or preening movements, or falling over a little to one side set up the rhythmic swing instead.

9. Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements.

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10. (quote-journal) 8vo. pp. 304. London; Longman and Co. 1813. review|editor=&91;(w)&93;|magazine=Review|The Quarterly Review|edition=5th|location=London|publisher=Murray (publisher)|John Murray,(nb...)|month=April|year=1814|volume=XI|issue=XXI|page=78|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uZlKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA78|oclc=1009026207|passage=Untutored intellects are pleased with its frothy sentiment and its florid language, just as young and uneducated eyes are delighted with the gaudy hues of coloured prints in aquatinta. But though the tinsel of this stilted prose greatly contributed to Gessner|Salomon Gessner's success in this and in every other country where his work has been naturalized, the story was not less essentially in its favour.

11. (quote-book), once Master of the Rolls in Ireland:(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed for James Harper,(nb...); Dublin: Richard Milliken,(nb...)|year=1817|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4kAsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA25|oclc=1693368|passage=Tired of this popinjay's stupid vanity and stilted affectation, and having a cheerless and dreary prospect before him, he reflected that every thing is worth something.

12. (RQ:Melville White Jacket)

13. (RQ:Mackenzie Parson's Progress)

14. Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by (l); also having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure.

15. (quote-book)|year=1845|page=124|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=n589AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA124|oclc=150486201|passage=In Winchester Cathedral and Romsey Abbey Church, we have examples of what is called the stilted or horse-shoe arch, which is where the curvature of the arch does not spring immediately from the capitals or imposts of the piers, but the extreme points of the semicircle are continued straight down below the spring of the curve before they rest on the imposts, thus giving the idea of an arch stilted or raised, and somewhat approximating in form that of a horse-shoe.

16. (infl of)