cataract

suomi-englanti sanakirja

cataract englannista suomeksi

1. vesiputous

2. kaihi, harmaakaihi

1. kuohu, ryöppy, tulva

2. nestejarru

3. pudota, syöksyä

4. syöstä

5. kaihi

5. Substantiivi

cataract englanniksi

1. (senseid) A (large) waterfall, specifically one flowing over the edge of a cliff.

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2. (RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World)

3. (RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion) and ſtems the vvatry tract / VVhere ''Tivy'' falling dovvne, doth make a Cataract, / Forc't by the riſing Rocks that there her courſe oppoſe, (..)

4. (RQ:Defoe New Voyage)

5. (RQ:Wordsworth Poems 1815)

6. A flood of water; specifically, steep rapids in a river.

7. (RQ:T. Herbert Travaile)

8. (RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)

9. (RQ:Froude England)

10. An overwhelming downpour or rush; a flood.

11. (RQ:Cowper Task)

12. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

13. (RQ:Carlyle Friedrich)

14. (quote-journal)

15. A type of governor used in single-acting engines, where a flow of water through an opening regulates the stroke.

16. (synonym of).

17. (RQ:d'Anghiera Eden Newe Worlde) Sum phantaſie that theſe ſhulde bee the cataractes of heauen whiche were all opened at Noes fludde.

18. (RQ:Shakespeare King Lear Q1)|translation=Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks, rage, blow, / You cataracts and hurricanes, spout till you have drenched / The steeples, drowned the cocks, (..)

19. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

20. Of a river, etc.: to fall in the form of a waterfall.

21. (quote-journal) at the Lakes. Flight Second.|journal=Blackwood's Magazine|Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(publishing house)|William Blackwood; London: Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell,(nb...)|volume=XXXII|issue=CXCVI|page=125|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.30738/page/n141/mode/1up|oclc=1781863|passage=No river should cataract larger than the Clyde.

22. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(w),(nb...)|year_published=1845|volume=I|page=285|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ROeqVB3cZUC&pg=PA285|oclc=13167241|passage=After a short rest, we moved on over a quiet space of water to the third and greatest fall, where the whole body of the Nile precipitates itself from between two towering cliffs, foaming and plashing, and, in short, cataracting very respectably.

23. To cause (something) to pour or rush like a waterfall.

24. (RQ:Coleridge Biographia Literaria)

25. (synonym of); also, a window grating.

26. (RQ:Rabelais Gargantua) assured the Port-culleys, fasten'd the Herses, Sarasinesks and Cataracks, placed their Centries, and doubled their Patrouilee.

28. (senseid) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.

29. (RQ:Turberville Faulconrie) it is growen too thicke, and ouerlong hath bin ſuffered in the eye, without ſeeking remedie for it: (..)

30. (quote-book)

31. (quote-song)

32. Something which obscures.

33. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Michaell Sparke,(nb...)|page=86|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b30328925/page/86/mode/1up|oclc=1203227915|passage=Thoſe filmes vvhich darkened the ''eye'' of the mindes, are remoued, thoſe thicke Cataracts of earthly vanities are diſperſed and diſpelled, and a nevv light into a nevv heart infuſed.

34. A tool used for breaking flax; a brake.

35. (RQ:Rabelais Gargantua) and athwart those Cataracts they break and bruise to very Trash the woody parcels (quote-gloss), thereby to preserve the better the Fibres, which are the precious and excellent parts.

36. (l), waterfall

37. (l)

38. A gate guarding the entrance to Heaven.