lithe

suomi-englanti sanakirja

lithe englannista suomeksi

1. notkea, vetreä

1. solakka

2. notkea, taipuisa, norja

lithe englanniksi

1. Mild; calm.

(syn)

(ux)

2. Slim but not skinny.

3. (quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|year_published=1963|page=125|passage=The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.

4. (RQ:Vance Outsider)

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6. Capable of being easily bent; flexible.

7. 1861, Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Venner|Elsie Venner, page 125

… she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …

8. (quote-book)

9. Adaptable.

10. (quote-journal) light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.

11. To become calm.

12. To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

13. (quote-text)|title=Physic from Heaven

14. {{quote-text|en|year=1642|author=Daniel Rogers|title=Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure

15. To attend; listen, hearken.

16. To listen to, hearken to.

17. Shelter.

18. {{quote-text|en|year=1932|author=Lewis Grassic Gibbon|title=Sunset Song

19. to thicken (gravy, etc.)

20. {{quote-book|en|year=1902|author=Joseph Wright|title=The English Dialect Dictionary|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=624

21. {{quote-book|en|year=1933|editor=C.T. Onions|title=The Oxford English Dictionary|publisher=Clarendon Press|page=344

22. 1994, Arnold Kellett, ''The English Dialect Dictionary'', Smith Settle, page 105

lithe 'to thicken soups, sauces, etc.'

23. {{quote-book|en|year=1994|author=Clive Upton; David Parry; J.D.A. Widdowson|title=Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar|publisher=Croom Helm

24. (alt form)