loophole

loophole

englanti

  1. ampuma-aukko linnoituksen muurissa

  2. porsaanreikä

Liittyvät sanat: embrasure

Synonyymisanakirja

loophole

  1. aukko, kolo, ampuma-aukko, monimielisyys, porsaanreikä.

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englanti

ampuma-aukko

porsaanreikä A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:

(...) I left him no loophole of escape, and laid bare the whole villainy which by these lights became plain as day.
2002, Two Weeks Notice (movie):
You have a contract that says you will work until Island Towers is finalized, which I interpret as completion of construction, or I can stop you working elsewhere. And there's no loopholes, because you drafted it and you're the best.
A slit in a castle wall. Later: any similar window for shooting a weapon or letting in light.
1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
... and having a fair loophole, as it were, from a broken hole in the tree, he took a sure aim, without being seen, waiting till they were within about thirty yards of the tree, so that he could not miss.
1809, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee:
There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 25:
The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.
puhekieltä To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
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