velvet

velvet englannista suomeksi

1. samettinen

2. sametti

0. Substantiivi

1. sametti

2. samettinen) nahka">(samettinen) nahka

2. Verbi

velvet englanniksi

1. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.

2. (RQ:Landon Ethel Churchill)

3. (RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp); and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, (..) all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

4. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

5. (RQ:Gascoigne Venerie)

6. A female chinchilla; a sow.

7. The drug dextromethorphan.

8. Money acquired by gambling.

9. To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1834|author=Edward Price|title=Norway. Views of Wild Scenery: and Journal|location=London|publisher=Hamilton, Adams & Co.|section=Part I, p. 16|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=c5ZDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

11. {{quote-journal|en|title=Childe Harold in New York|journal=(magazine)|Time|date=6 September 1963|titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817072928/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870472,00.html

12. To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.

13. {{quote-book|en|year=1982|author=Barbara Tropp|title=The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking|publisher=Morrow|year_published=1982|page=137|pageurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=y5ssAAAAYAAJ&q=%22velveted%22+OR+%22velveting%22&dq=%22velveted%22+OR+%22velveting%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTndWuydPOAhVE6GMKHeJXCngQ6AEIKjAD

14. To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.

15. 2014, "Top genetic selection produces biggest antlers," NZFarmer.co.nz, 12 July, 2014, http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/10255646/Top-genetic-selection-produces-biggest-antlers

Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.

16. To soften; to mitigate.

17. (quote-book)

18. to retract.

19. Made of velvet.

20. Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

21. {{quote-text|en|year=1878|author=John Beauchamp Jones|title=Wild Western Scenes|page=125

22. (RQ:Milton Comus)

23. (cap); carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

24. {{quote-text|en|year=1995|author=Amin Saikal; William Maley|title=Russia in Search of Its Future|page=214

25. {{quote-text|en|year=2006|title=The Analyst: Central and Eastern European Review

26. {{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=David Gillies|title=Elections in Dangerous Places: Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding|page=248

27. 2011, Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, ''The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge'', page 39:

“I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”

28. {{quote-text|en|year=2014|author=Dana H. Allin|title=NATO's Balkan Interventions|page=97

29. (l) (gloss)

30. Clothes made of velvet.