undertake

suomi-englanti sanakirja

undertake englannista suomeksi

  1. ruveta

  2. ryhtyä

  3. luvata

  4. sitoutua

  5. hyväksyä

  1. Verbi

  2. ryhtyä, ruveta

  3. Substantiivi

undertake englanniksi

  1. To upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

  2. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

  3. To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

  4. (ux)

  5. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3) if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish usWith some few bands of chosen soldiers,I’ll undertake to land them on our coastAnd force the tyrant from his seat by war.

  6. To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.

  7. (ant)

  8. To pledge; to assert, assure; to say.

  9. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1)

  10. (quote-book)|title=An Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies|location=London|publisher=Richard Wilkin|section=Part 4, pp. 222-223|url=https://archive.org/details/essaytowardnatur00wood

  11. To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.

  12. (RQ:Mlry MrtDrthr) and they wold haue slayne sire Tristram and his two felawes but sire Darras wold not suffre that but kepte them in pryson (..) So sire Tristram endured there grete payne for sekenesse had vndertake hym and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue

  13. To assume, as a character; to on.

  14. (RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer) you must needs play Pyramus.''Bottom''. Well, I will undertake it.

  15. To engage with; to attack, on in a fight.

  16. (quote-book) Book XIX, Chapter x, leaf 394v|text=''Soo it happend in Spayne there was an Erles sone his name was Alphegus / and at a grete turnement in spayn this syre Vrre knyghte of Hongry and sir Alphegus of spayne encountred to gyders for veray enuy / and soo eyther vndertook other to the Vtteraunce.''"So it happened in Spain there was an earl’s son, his name was Alphegus, and at a great tournament in Spain this Sir Urre, knight of Hungary, and Sir Alphegus of Spain encountered together for very envy; and so either undertook other to the utterance."

  17. (RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)

  18. To have knowledge of; to hear.

  19. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

  20. To have or take charge of.

  21. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8)

  22. The passing of slower traffic on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.