desert

suomi-englanti sanakirja

desert englannista suomeksi

  1. loikata, karata, lähteä paikaltaan

  2. hylätä

  3. autiomaa, aavikko

  4. lähteä

  1. aavikko, autiomaa

  2. hylätä

  3. karata

  4. ansio, palkka

  5. Substantiivi

desert englanniksi

  1. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.

  2. (RQ:Spenser Daphnaida)

  3. (RQ:Pope Windsor Forest)

  4. In particular, a barren, arid area of land which is hot, with sandy, rocky, or parched ground.

  5. {{quote-journal|en|year=1805|month=December|author=Julius Griffiths|title=A Journey across the Desert|journal=The Monthly Mirror|page=362

  6. (quote-book)

  7. Any barren place or situation.

  8. (quote-text)

  9. (quote-journal)

  10. ''Usually of a place'': abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.

  11. (syn)

    (ux)

  12. (RQ:KJV)

  13. (RQ:KJV) went aside privately into a desert place.

  14. (RQ:Dryden Virgil)

  15. {{quote-text|en|year=1750|author=Thomas Gray|title=Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard|section=Stanza 14

  16. To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.

  17. To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

  18. (senseid) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.

  19. (collocation)

  20. {{quote-text|en|year=1600|author=John Dowland|title=Flow My Tears

  21. (RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)

  22. July 4, 1789, (w), ''Eulogium on Major-General Greene''

  23. His reputation falls far below his desert.
  24. (RQ:Stoker Dracula)

  25. {{quote-text|en|year=1971|author=John Rawls|title=A Theory of Justice

  26. {{quote-text|en|year=2009|author=Michael J. Sandel|authorlink=Michael Sandel|title=Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

  27. (obsolete form of).

  28. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) W. Stewart,(nb...); Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy,(nb...); Gale and Fenner,(nb...)|year=1816|page=518, 525, and 541|passage=They answer for caramel or gum paste baskets, for desert or suppers. (..) BARBERRIES / ''For Deserts'', ''or Second Course Pastry''. (..) Under these impressions—admitting, as they would, such a variety of combinations, the Author has confined himself to a plain selection of the principal articles in season in each month, merely to give a good general idea of laying out a table for deserts, leaving to the house-keeper to vary, and increase or diminish, according to her taste, or the extent of her company.

  29. (quote-book)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=(...) the Author: (...) Mr. Egerton, Whitehall; Messrs. Hoitt,(nb...); and Mesers.(si) Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,(nb...)|year=1818|page=286|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/howtoenjoyparis00hervgoog/page/n302/mode/1up|passage=The deserts are far more superb; the painter, the florist, the decorator, and even the sculptor being engaged to complete them. Formerly a desert at a splendid fete in a private house has cost a thousand pounds, exclusive of plate and glass.

  30. (l) (desolate terrain)

  31. (l)

  32. (senseid) The situation of deserving something.

  33. That which is deserved or merited; (l).

  34. An action or deed which invites or prompts judgement.

  35. worth, virtuousness, benefit; that which is good.

  36. (senseid) wilderness (gloss)

  37. (RQ:Wycliffe NT Lichfield)

  38. barren, wild

  39. deserted, abandoned

  40. desert (desolate terrain)

  41. dessert

  42. (ant)