keen

suomi-englanti sanakirja

keen englannista suomeksi

1. kova, kiihkeä

2. itkuvirsi

3. terävä

4. tarkka

5. pureva

6. laulaa itkuvirttä

7. erinomainen

0. Substantiivi

0. Verbi

keen englanniksi

1. (senseid) Often with a phrase, or with (m) and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.

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2. (quote-book)

3. 2000, Green (author)|Jane Green, ''Bookends'', London: (w), (ISBN); republished as ''Bookends: A Novel'', trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: (w), 2003, (ISBN), page 304:

In fact, she doesn't mention the fact that I've obviously been avoiding her, just sounds genuinely thrilled to hear from me, and as soon as I mention getting together she suggests Monday, which is rather keen, even for Portia.

4. (U), intense, vehement.

5. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.

6. (U) of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.

7. (RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)

8. (quote-book) But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.

9. (U), bitter, piercing.

10. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.

11. 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), (w), ''Traveller (poem)|The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society. A Poem. Inscribed to the Rev. Henry Goldsmith'', London: Printed for Newbery|John Newbery, (OCLC); 3rd edition, London: Printed for J. Newbury,(sic) in St Paul's Cathedral|St. Paul's Church-yard, 1765, (OCLC), page 10:

Chearful at morn he wakes from ſhort repoſe, / Breaſts the keen air, and carolls as he goes; (..)

12. Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.

13. (U).

14. (quote-song)|composer=(w)|title=(w)|album=(w)|artist=Elton John, (w), (w), (w)|date=4 February 1974|note=track 3|text=Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful / Oh, Bennie, she's really keen / She's got electric boots, a mohair suit / You know I read it in a magazine, oh / B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets

15. (U), courageous; audacious, bold.

16. To make cold, to sharpen.

17. (RQ:Thomson Autumn) is the pureſt exerciſe of health, / The kind refreſher of the ſummer-heats; / Nor, when cold (smallcaps) keens the brightening flood, / Would I weak-ſhivering linger on the brink.

18. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.

19. (senseid) To utter a keen.

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20. 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in (w), comp., ''The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse'', New York, N.Y.: (w), 1978, (ISBN), page 243:

Last night he had put down too much ''Potheen'' / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps: / 'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)

21. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.

22. (RQ:Wolfe New Sun)

23. To mourn.

24. (inflection of)

25. no, not a, not any

26. no, not any, not a

27. you, thou (gloss)

28. bring

29. sharp