about
suomi-englanti sanakirjaabout englannista suomeksi
ympärille, siellä täällä, ympäriinsä
kiertämällä
jalkeilla, liikkeellä, liikkeellä oleva, jalkeilla oleva
lähistöllä
noin
ympäriinsä/ympäri
ympäri
suurin piirtein
-ssa / -ssa/-ssä, -lla / -lla/-llä inessive or adessive case; paikkeilla, vaiheilla
-sta / -sta/-stä elative case; olla kyse">olla kyse, kysymys">olla kysymys to be about
Verbi
Substantiivi
about englanniksi
In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around. (defdate)
(ux)
(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)
1769, James Version|King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, ''(King James)/Proverbs|Proverbs'', iii, 3
- Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
{{quote-book|en|year=1843|author=Thomas Hobbes|title=The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: The history of the Grecian war written by Thucydides; tr. by T. Hobbes|page=480
{{quote-book|en|year=1874|author=David Laing Purves|title=The English Circumnavigators: The Most Remarkable Voyages Round the World by English Sailors|publisher=London : W.P. Nimmo|page=214
{{quote-book|en|year=1877|author=Alfred Tennyson|title=The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate ...|page=241
{{quote-book|en|year=1879|title=The Living Age|page=727
{{quote-text|en|year=1886|author=Duncan Keith|title=A history of Scotland: civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the death of David I, 1153|volume=1
{{quote-book|en|year=1892|author=James Yoxall
{{quote-book|en|year=1900|author=William John Tossell|title=Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ohio Circuit Courts...: Ohio Circuit Decisions|page=581
{{quote-book|en|year=1905|title=The Delineator|page=258
{{quote-book|en|date=2016-08-24|origyear=????|author=Johanna Spyri|title=Moni the Goat Boy and Other Stories: Moni the Goahout a Friend; The Little Runaway|publisher=anboco|isbn=9783736409415
Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. (defdate)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
{{quote-text|en|year=1598|author=William Shakespeare|title=Love's Labour's Lost
{{quote-book|en|year=1849|author=Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay|title=The History of England from the Accession of James the Second|page=153
{{quote-book|en|year=1857|author=George Borrow?|title=The Quarterly Review|page=488
{{quote-book|en|date=2022-11-13|origyear=????|author=Edith Nesbit|title=The Collected Works of Edith Nesbit|publisher=DigiCat
(n-g)
''See ''to''.''
On the point or verge of.
{{quote-book|en|year=1866|title=A treatise on the law of suits by attachment in the United States|author=Charles Daniel Drake|pageurl=http://books.google.de/books?id=Igs-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22was+about+leaving%22&source=bl&ots=aQXMZaxYAu&sig=T2wNto6m-YO2kSAwyWV-SivvnUw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YblHUKaUJc2LswbzkIHQDw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22was%20about%20leaving%22&f=false|page=80
Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of. (defdate)
(syn)
''c.'' 1597-1602, William Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'':
- Doe you meane to stoppe any of Williams wages, about the Sacke he lost the other day?
{{quote-text|en|year=1671|author=John Milton|title=Samson Agonistes
{{quote-text|en|year=1856|author=Voltaire|title=Philosophical dictionary
{{quote-book|en|year=1858|author=Thomas Babington Macaulay|title=The History of England from the Accession of James the Second|page=13
{{quote-text|en|year=1860|author=Anthony Trollope|title=Framley Parsonage
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
{{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Sean O'Neill|title=Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity Among the Indians of Northwestern California|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=9780806139227|page=31
{{quote-journal|en|date=2013-06-22|volume=407|issue=8841|page=70|magazine=The Economist
{{quote-book|en|date=2013-09-05|author=Simon Gray|title=The Complete Smoking Diaries|publisher=Granta Books|isbn=9781847088666
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Well, let’s not talk about yesterday.
{{quote-book|en|date=2016-10-14|author=David J. Leonard|author2=Kimberly B. George|author3=Wade Davis|title=Football, Culture and Power|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781317410898|page=187
{{quote-book|en|date=2021-10-07|author=Erica S. Simmons|author2=Nicholas Rush Smith|title=Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781108967082|page=272
Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on. (defdate)
(co)
(uxi)
{{quote-book|en|year=1765|author=James HARRIS (Author of “Hermes.”.)|title=Hermes, Or a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar ... Second Edition, Etc|page=376
1769, James Version|King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, ''(King James)/Luke|Luke'', ii, 49
- And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
2013 March 14, ''(w)'', season 5, episode 16, ''Bailout'':
- RON: And I’ll have the number 8.
- WAITER: That’s a party platter, it serves 12 people.
- RON: I know what I’m about, son.
{{quote-book|en|date=2018-02-07|author=Ana Vega|title=Noonity|publisher=Ana Vega|page=62
Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1777|author=Edward Ledwich|title=Antiquitates Sarisburienses: Or, The History and Antiquities of Old and New Sarum|page=7
{{quote-book|en|year=1851|author=J. H. Clark|title=The Songs of the Seasons, and Wild Flowers of the Months: Or, the British Wild Flowers Familiarly Described Under the Months in which They Bloom and the Localities in which They Grow|page=53
{{quote-book|en|year=1864|title=Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History|page=9108
{{quote-book|en|year=1868|author=William Rossiter|title=The Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry|page=14
On one’s person; nearby the person. (defdate)
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers)
On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of. (defdate)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. (..) But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
{{quote-book|en|year=1953|author=Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)|title=Holmes-Laski Letters: 1926-1935
{{quote-book|en|date=2017-11-11|author=Linn Edwards|title=Food Frenzy|publisher=JMS Books LLC|isbn=9781634864886
On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1599|author=Greene (dramatist)|Robert Greene|title=King of Aragon|The Comical History of Alphonsus King of Aragon|section=III-ii
1610-11, William Shakespeare, ''The Tempest'':
- all the blessings / Of a glad father compass thee about
{{quote-book|en|year=1673|author=John Ray|title=Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological: Made in a Journey Through Part of the Low-countries, Germany, Italy, and France: with a Catalogue of Plants Not Native of England, Found Spontaneously Growing in Those Parts, and Their Virtues
{{quote-book|en|year=1716|author=Virgil|translator=Dryden|title=The Works of Virgil ... Translated Into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden|page=110
and there|Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1876|author=Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant|title=The Makers of Florence: Dante, Giotto, Savonarola; and Their City ... With Portrait of Savonarola ... and Illustrations from Drawings by Professor Delamotte
{{quote-book|en|date=2013-12-09|author=Michael Phillips|title=The Sword, the Garden, and the King|publisher=Rosetta Books|isbn=9780795350771
From one place or position to another in succession; (n-g).
1769, ''King James Bible'', Oxford Standard text, ''(King James)/1 Timothy|1 Timothy'', v,13,
- And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set).
{{quote-book|en|year=1824|author=James Hogg|title=The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner|page=271
{{quote-book|en|date=2008-01-29|author=Emile Zola|title=The Beast Within|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101160619
Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. (defdate)
(RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona)
1769, James Version|King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, ''(King James)/Matthew|Matthew'', xx, 3,
- And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace
1769, James Version|King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, ''(King James)/Exodus|Exodus'', ix, 18
- Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
1769, ''King James Bible'', Oxford Standard text, ''(King James)/Exodus|Exodus'', xxxii,28:
- And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)”
{{quote-book|en|year=1828|author=William Cobbett|title=A Year's Residence in the United States of America. Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil, the Products, the Mode of Cultivating the Land ... a Map.|page=12
{{quote-book|en|year=1863|author=Virginia Penny|title=The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work|page=480
{{quote-book|en|year=1867|title=The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art|page=745
{{quote-book|en|year=1945|title=Journal of the United States Artillery|page=49
{{quote-journal|en|date=2013-07-20|volume=408|issue=8845|magazine=The Economist
{{quote-book|en|year=2013|month=10|author=Joelle Charbonneau|title=Skating Under the Wire: A Mystery|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9781250019592|page=138
{{quote-book|en|year=1879|title=Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People|page=212
To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1888|author=Alger, Jr.|Horatio Alger|title=Errand Boy/Chapter XXVIII|The Errand Boy
{{quote-book|en|year=1995|author=Alan Ryan|title=John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=9780393037739|page=383
{{quote-book|en|date=2017-10-16|author=Jeannie Troll|title=A Clever Girl: Part One|publisher=Page Publishing Inc|isbn=9781635680454
To the opposite tack: see (l). (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1809|title=The Harleian Miscellany: a collection of scarce, curious, and entertaining pamphlets and tracts ... found in the late Earl of Oxford's library. Interspersed with historical, political, and critical notes, etc. With an introduction by Samuel Johnson|page=45
In succession, one after another. (defdate)
1818, James Hogg, published in ''The Scots Magazine'', Vol. 86, p. 218, "On the Life and Writings of James Hogg" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W-5HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA128&dq=%22reading+verse+about+with+our+children%22 in the OED
- When he had finished, he drew his plaid around his head, and went slowly down to the little dell, where he used every day to offer up his morning and evening prayers, and where we have often sat together on Sabbath afternoons, reading verse about with our children in the Bible.
In rotation or revolution. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1908|origyear=c. 1606|author=William Shakespeare|title=The Tragedie of Coriolanus|publisher=Oppidan Library|page=96
{{quote-book|en|year=1897|origyear=c. 1610|author=William Shakespeare|title=The Tempest, ed. by F.S. Boas|page=27
{{quote-book|en|year=1902|author=Mary Mapes Dodge|title=St. Nicholas|page=1095
{{quote-book|en|year=2012|month=02|author=Edmund C. Schimek|title=A Small Time in Space|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=9781468543049|page=12
In the course of events.
''to bring about, to come about''
In circuit or circumference; circularly. (defdate)
- Indeede I am in the waste two yards about.
{{quote-book|en|year=1904|origyear=1600?|author=Richard Hakluyt|title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea Or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres|page=104
{{quote-book|en|year=1842|origyear=1650?|author=Francis Bacon|title=Sylva sylvarum, or A natural history; Papers relating to the Earl of Essex; Papers relating to Sir Edward Coke|page=50
By a circuitous way; circuitously.
{{quote-book|en|year=1790|title=The Christian's Complete Family Bible: Containin the Whole of the Sacred Text of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha at Large
Moving around or in motion; astir.
(RQ:Falkner Moonfleet)'
''c.'' 1600, William Shakespeare, ''Hamlet'':
- About, my Braine!
- About, about; Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out.
{{quote-book|en|year=1828|origyear=1663|author=Samuel Pepys|title=Diary|page=95
In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
(quote-text)
{{quote-journal|en|year=2005|author=IDG Communications|journal=Digit|issue=89-94
2006, Great Britain Parliament: House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, ''Energy: Meeting With Malcolm Wicks MP'',
- Is not this sudden interest in capturing CO2 — and it has been about for a little while — simply another hidey-hole for the government to creep into?
Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.
To change the course of (a ship) to the other tack; to bring (a ship) about.
{{quote-book|en|year=1694|author=John Martyn (Londres)|author2=James Allestry (Londres)|author3=Henry Oldenburg|title=Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labors of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World|page=984
{{quote-book|en|year=1937|author=United States Senate Committee on Commerce|title=Amending the Merchant Marine Act of 1936: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, Second-third Session, on S. 3078, a Bill to Amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, and for Other Purposes ...|page=456
{{quote-book|en|year=1950|title=Sea Breezes
To about-face (turn 180 degrees, like a soldier).
(see citations)
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