wring
suomi-englanti sanakirjawring englannista suomeksi
vääntää, väännellä
puristaa, kiskoa
vääntö
vääntää kuivaksi
Verbi
wring englanniksi
(senseid) ''Often followed by'' out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is out|forced out.
(ux)
(RQ:Lyly Euphues) ''Protagenes'' portraied ''(mythology)|Venus'' with a ſponge ſprinkled with ſweete water, but if once ſhe wrong it, it would drop bloud: (..)
(RQ:John Ford Whore)
(RQ:Boyle Porosity) are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhevvn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and then vvringing it hard to force it out; (..)
(RQ:Poe Pym)
(RQ:Orwell Down and Out)
(senseid) To squeeze water from (an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
(quote-book)
''Often followed by'' from ''or'' out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
(RQ:Coverdale Bible)
(RQ:Evelyn Diary)
(RQ:Smollett Roderick Random)
(RQ:Ruskin Political Economy of Art)
(quote-book) and (w)|year=1952|year_published=1969|page=128|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dusttracksonroad00hurs/page/128/mode/1up|oclc=88431|passage=Heinz could have wrung enough vinegar out of Cally’s look to run his pickle works.
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=William Morrow and Company|year=1989|page=381|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/prayerforowenmeairv00irvi/page/381/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-688-07708-2|passage=(..) I thought that he was as pleased by the shock value of what he had to say as he was thrilled by the spectacle of wringing his own blood from the sodden gauze pad into the sodden towel.
To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)
(RQ:Thomas More Workes)
(RQ:Marston Iacke Drum)
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
(RQ:Cervantes Shelton Don Quixote)
(RQ:Herbert Temple)
(RQ:Tatler)
(RQ:Goldsmith Citizen of the World) there is no neceſſity for ſpeaking, they are only to groan at each other, they muſt vary the tones of exclamation and deſpair through the vvhole theatrical gamut, vvring their figures into every ſhape of diſtreſs, (..)
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 1)
(RQ:Gaskell North and South)
(RQ:Faulkner Sound and Fury)
To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
(RQ:Beaumont Knight)
(RQ:Smollett Regicide)
(RQ:Edgeworth Practical Education)
(RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend)
To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
(RQ:Erasmus Newe Testamente)
(RQ:Udall Ralph Roister Doister)
(RQ:Lyly Euphues)
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:South Twelve Sermons)
(RQ:Shelley Revolt of Islam)
(RQ:Robert Browning La Saisiaz)
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)
(RQ:Whetstone Rocke of Regard)
(RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge)
(RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes)
(RQ:Scott Marmion)
(RQ:Stevenson Dynamiter)
Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
(RQ:John Heywood Proverbs)
(RQ:Dekker Middleton Blurt)
(RQ:Plutarch North Lives)
(RQ:Cervantes Shelton Don Quixote) I vvill let no cobvvebs fall into my eyes, for I knovv vvhere my ſhoo vvrings me: (..)
(RQ:Bacon Henry 7), that did ranckle and feſter the affections of his People.
To cause (someone or something) physical harm, injury, or pain; specifically, by applying pressure or by twisting; to harm, to hurt, to injure.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)
(RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)&93; they ſtand, / A grim, terrific, formidable Band (w): / Grim as voracious VVolves that ſeek the Springs / VVhen ſcalding Thirſt their burning Bovvels vvrings.
(RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie)
(RQ:Dryden Lee Duke of Guise)
(RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield)
(RQ:Keats Otho the Great)
To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
(RQ:Clarendon History)
(RQ:Addison Cato)
(RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield)|pages=133–134|pageref=133|passage=Though he has vvrung my heart, for I am ſick almoſt to fainting, very ſick, my fellovv priſoner, yet that ſhall never inſpire me vvith vengeance.
(RQ:Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde)
(RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse)
To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)
(RQ:Hall Epistles)
(RQ:Richardson Pamela)
(RQ:Scott Ivanhoe)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) that it would be found impossible to restore public credit, to obtain advances from capitalists, or to wring taxes out of the distressed population, (..)
(quote-book)|year=1910|pages=129–130|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/anarchismandoth00havegoog/page/n136/mode/1up|oclc=346693|passage=The enormous profits thus wrung from convict labor are a constant incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their work does not come up to the excessive demands made.
(RQ:Buck Good Earth)
(quote-book)|location=Toronto, Ont.|publisher=Macmillan of Canada|year=1970|section=2|page=278|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fifthbusinessnov0000davi/page/278/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-14-004387-7|passage=His confidences were not wrung from him against his will but gushed like oil from a well, (..)
To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q)
(RQ:Milton Samson)
(RQ:Shelley Queen Mab)
(RQ:Keats Lamia)
(RQ:Bronte Poems)
(RQ:Douglass Bondage)
To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce compliance; to extort.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2) / To vvring the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d right, / And have no other reaſon for this vvrong, / But that he vvas bound by a ſolemne Oath?
(RQ:Hayward Edward 6)
(RQ:Young Night-Thoughts)
To cause (someone) to do something or to think a certain way.
To change (something) into another thing.
(RQ:Hunt Jar of Honey).
To give (teachings, words, etc.) an incorrect meaning; to twist, to wrest.
(quote-book) The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates I–VI|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...) University Press|University Press the (w)|year=1572|year_published=1851|section=tract III (Of the Election of Ministers)|page=318|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVlXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA318|oclc=41953678|passage=Lord, how dare these men thus wring the scriptures?
(RQ:Milton Reason)
To put (oneself) in a position by cunning or subtle means; to insinuate.
(RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse)
(RQ:Marston Antonio and Mellida)
To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
(quote-us-patent)|footer=(small)
(quote-journal)
To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
(RQ:Tusser Good Husbandrie)
(RQ:Bunyan Holy War) Mr. ''VVet-eyes'' vvent vvith hands vvringing together.
(RQ:Byron Sardanapalus). They will not banish me again?—No—no, / Let them wring on; I am strong yet. / (smallcaps). Confess, / And the rack will be spared you.
(RQ:Montgomery Anne of the Island)
(quote-book) And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang.
To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing)
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
(RQ:John Heywood Spider)
(RQ:Hall Occasionall Meditations)
(RQ:Carlyle Past and Present)
To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
(RQ:Chapman Charles) / To obſerue the countenances and ſpirites, / Of ſuch as are impatient of reſt; / And vvring beneath, ſome priuate diſcontent: (..)
To make a way out with difficulty.
(RQ:Jonson Cynthia's Revels)
(RQ:Chapman Al Fooles)
(RQ:Hall Contemplations) was ever the more active. She, that was before so busily stirring in her house to entertain (w), was now as nimble to go forth of her house to meet him. She, in whose face joy had wont to smile upon so Blessed a guest, now salutes him with the sighs and tears and blubbers and wrings of a disconsolate manner.
(RQ:Vanbrugh Relapse) I have been in a lamentable fright, Sir, ever ſince your Conſcience had the Impudence to intrude into your Company. / ''Y''''oung'' ''Faſ''''hion''. Be at peace; it vvill come there no more: My Brother has given it a vvring by the Noſe, and I have kick'd it dovvn Stairs.
(RQ:Yonge Daisy Chain) James, with one wring of the hand, retreated, while old nurse was nearly hugged to death, declaring all the time that he didn't ought to have come in such a way, terrifying everyone out of their senses!
(RQ:H. B. Fuller Bertram Cope)
''Followed by'' down: the product of wringing, such as cider or wine.
(RQ:Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd)
A sharp physical pain, especially in the abdomen; also, mental pain or distress.
(RQ:Estienne Liebault Maison Rustique)
(RQ:Marcellinus Holland Roman Historie)
(quote-book)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604165611/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A07628.0001.001|location=London|publisher=(...) William Iones(nb...)|year=1637|page=3|pageurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A07628.0001.001/20:9.2?vid=15340|oclc=606526863|passage=When we have good dayes we slight them, when they are gone, we sinke under the wring of sorrow, for their losse; and want teacheth vs the worth of things more truely: and it is a true saying, ''Blessings appeare not, till they bee vanished''.
A device for compressing or pressing, especially for making cheese, cider from apples, or wine from grapes.
(RQ:Evelyn Sylva) A ''Friend'' of mine having made proviſion of ''Apples'' for ''Cider'', vvhereof ſo great a part vvere found ''rotten'' vvhen the time of grinding them came, that they did as 'tvvere vvaſh the room vvith their juice, through vvhich they vvere carried to the vvring, had ''Cider'' from them not only paſſable, but exceeding good; (..)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Cave|Edward Cave,(nb...)|year=1753|page=48|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vao6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA48|oclc=29578549|passage=In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the work more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the VVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: (..)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=W. Whetton,(nb...)|year=1826|page=216|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3AqcyOFlcIC&pg=PA216|oclc=57332775|passage=Take any quantity of cider that is old, strong, harsh, or of an inferior quality, and add to it the same quantity of cider from the wring, or press; rouse it up well, and fix it in a warm place, or in the sun, which is certainly the best for its progress; (..)
(RQ:Hardy Tess) gradually fell asleep again, the words of her informant coming to her along with the smell of cheeses in the adjoining cheese-loft, and the measured dripping of the whey from the wrings downstairs.
(RQ:Hardy Tess)
(infl of)
(alt form)
to (l)