U

suomi-englanti sanakirja

U englannista suomeksi

  1. U

  1. Substantiivi

U englanniksi

  1. u

  1. (Latn-def)

  2. (senseid) (chemical symbol)

  3. IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for uracil

  4. IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for selenocysteine

  5. voltage

  6. distribution

  7. group

  8. A wildcard for a rounded vowel or a back vowel

  9. (syn)

  10. (w), the unit of length defined as 1.75 inches.

  11. The symbol in bases higher than thirty for the number expressed as (l) in decimal.

  12. Something shaped like the letter U:

  13. A U-turn ('turned a U in the road')

  14. A double upright cordon espalier (also U, U).

  15. A U-turn.

  16. (quote-book)

  17. (abbreviation of).

  18. A film with the film classification (l).

  19. (abbreviation of).

  20. (ant)

  21. (quote-journal), (? (IPAfont)), (IPAfont), (IPAfont) are U, but many (perhaps most male) U-speakers, like all non-U-speakers, use the pronunciation (IPAfont).

  22. 1956, Alan S. C. Ross, “U and non-U”, in David Milsted, ''Brewer’s Anthology of England and the English'', page 120:

  23. ''To TAKE a bath'' is non-U against U ''to HAVE one’s bath.''
  24. 1956, Nancy Mitford, ''Noblesse Oblige: an Inquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy'':

  25. In a treatise that still causes ripples in English society, Mitford defined various terms as either U (upper class) or non-U.
  26. (quote-journal)

  27. (quote-journal)/non-(smallcaps) indicators. The (smallcaps) mother will be quietly dressed; the non-(smallcaps) one will be more ostentatious and have a corsage. The (smallcaps) father will be wearing his own morning coat and a carnation. The non-(smallcaps) father will bolster his carnation—on his hired morning coat—with a sprig of fern, and perhaps even carry a pair of grey gloves.

  28. (quote-journal) assured me that it was. But some jokes have an element of cruelty and a great many sensitive people, particularly women, must have suffered agonies of embarrassment because they were uncertain as to what was 'done,' and what was not.

  29. {{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=Stephan Gramley|title=Survey of Modern English|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nFspRR1BX5cC&pg=PA38|page=38

  30. (quote-book)|year=2001|page=205|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AjiEXHA-eXoC&pg=PA205|isbn=978-0-340-74071-2|passage=For this we must turn to speculations such as those offered in connection with U and non-U English.

  31. (senseid) ''Usually in parentheses'': (abbreviation of).

  32. An Austroasiatic language spoken in China.

  33. (alt form).

  34. {{quote-text|en|year=1924|author=William Montgomery McGovern|title=To Lhasa in Disguise: A Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet

  35. (ng)

  36. (ux); (w)

  37. U

  38. university (zh-mw)

  39. {{zh-x|K{k}ong{g1} U{ju1}|The (w)|C|tr=kong1 ju1

    {{zh-x|讀 U{ju1}|to study at a university|C|tr=duk6 ju1

  40. a failed subject in (w), (w) or (w) (zh-mw)

  41. {{zh-x|拎 U{ju1}|to have a subject failed in HKCEE, HKALE or HKDSE|C|tr=ling1 ju1

  42. CPU; processing unit (zh-mw)

  43. (zh-x)

  44. USDT, the cryptocurrency (w)

  45. (zh-x)

  46. (alt case form of)

  47. the twenty-first letter of the Dutch alphabet

  48. (ng) or y (IPAchar), depending on vowel harmony.

  49. a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 11 (l)s, (frac) (l), (frac) (m) and (frac) (m)

  50. (Latn-def)

  51. (tl-letter def)

  52. (tl-letter def)