smear

suomi-englanti sanakirja

smear englannista suomeksi

  1. tahrata, vetää lokaan, mustamaalata

  2. tuhria

  3. sivellä

  4. rasvatahra

  5. töhriä

  6. herjaus, mustamaalaus

  7. tahra

  8. tippamainen preparaatti

  1. Verbi

  2. levittää, töhertää

  3. töhriä, peittää

  4. tahrata, tärvellä, loata

  5. töhriintyä

  6. Substantiivi

  7. tahra, töhry

smear englanniksi

  1. To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.

  2. (syn)

    (ux)

  3. {{quote-book|en|year=1776|author=Oliver Goldsmith|title=A Survey of Experimental Philosophy|location=London|publisher=T. Carnan and F. Newbery|chapter=5|page=74|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004897705.0001.001

  4. (quote-journal)

  5. (quote-book)|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=hKRtDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|publisher=Penguin|location=New York

  6. To cover (a surface ''with'' a layer of some substance) by rubbing.

  7. (RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)

  8. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) a Vessel of huge bulk,Measur’d by Cubit, length, & breadth, and highth,Smeard round with Pitch,

  9. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/singleman0000ishe/page/53/mode/1up?q=smear|page=53|publisher=Vintage|year_published=2010|location=London

  10. To make something dirty.

  11. (quote-text) upon the (w)|location=London|publisher=George Bishop|section=Sermon 41, p. 246|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17698.0001.001

  12. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|volume=2|chapter=11|page=147|url=https://archive.org/details/northsouth02gask/page/147/mode/1up?q=smeared

  13. (quote-book)|chapterurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=A8AiDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=2|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2017

  14. (qualifier) To make a surface dirty by covering it.

  15. (RQ:Stoker Dracula)

  16. {{quote-text|en|year=1982|author=Anne Tyler|title=Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant|url=https://archive.org/details/dinnerathomesick0000tyle_x4u5/page/168/mode/1up?q=smear|chapter=6|page=168|publisher=Knopf|year_published=1989|location=New York

  17. (RQ:Hollinghurst Line)

  18. To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.

  19. (RQ:Joyce Dubliners)

  20. 1976, (w), “J.M.—A Writer’s Tribute” in ''Writers in Politics,'' London: Heinemann, 1981, p.(nbs)82,https://archive.org/details/writersinpolitic0000ngug/page/82/mode/1up?q=smear

  21. The imperialist foreigners then in the offices of the Nation Newspapers would not allow the African staff to review it. They handled it themselves in order to smear the book and its author and his celebration of (w).
  22. {{quote-book|en|year=2018|author=Richard Powers|title=The Overstory|location=New York|publisher=Norton|chapter=Neelay Mehta|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=_zQsDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

  23. To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.

  24. (RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)

  25. {{quote-text|en|year=1954|author=J. R. R. Tolkien|title=The Fellowship of the Ring|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine|year_published=1973|section=Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 419|url=https://archive.org/details/lordofrings0000tolk_k7e8/page/419/mode/1up?q=smeared

  26. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Tan Twan Eng|title=The Gift of Rain|location=New York|publisher=Weinstein Books|section=Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 56|url=https://archive.org/details/giftofrain00tant/page/56/mode/1up?q=smeared

  27. To become messy or not clear by being spread.

  28. To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.

  29. (quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Fawcett|year_published=1971|chapter=2|page=84|url=https://archive.org/details/mrsammlersplanet1970bell/page/84/mode/1up?q=smeared

  30. (quote-text)|publisher=Penguin|section=Part 3, Chapter 39, p. 311|url=https://archive.org/details/whitenoise00deli/page/311/mode/1up?q=smear

  31. (quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Grove Press|year_published=2002|chapter=The Freshwater Crayfish|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=VRPnBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

  32. To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.

  33. (quote-book)|title=A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome,|location=London|publisher=Tinsley Brothers|volume=1|chapter=3|page=43|url=https://archive.org/details/missiontogelelek18641burt/page/43/mode/1up?q=smeared

  34. {{quote-book|en|year=1917|author=William Carlos Williams|chapter=Pastoral|title=Al Que Quiere!|location=Boston|publisher=The Four Seas Company|page=15|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofpoem100willrich/page/15/mode/1up?q=smeared

  35. {{quote-text|en|year=1993|author=Vikram Seth|title=A Suitable Boy|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1994|section=Chapter 2.1, p. 73|url=https://archive.org/details/suitableboy0000seth/page/73/mode/1up?q=smeared

  36. To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.

  37. (RQ:Dickens Great Expectations) he smeared his ragged rough sleeve over his eyes.

  38. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/sophieschoicesty00styr/page/58/mode/1up?q=smeared|chapter=3|page=58|publisher=Random House|location=New York

  39. {{quote-text|en|year=2013|author=Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|title=Americanah|url=https://archive.org/details/americanah00chim/page/74/mode/1up?q=%22smear+their%22|chapter=6|page=74|publisher=Knopf|location=New York

  40. To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.

  41. (RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist) a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck, with the long frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke:

  42. {{quote-book|en|year=1926|author=D. H. Lawrence|title=The Plumed Serpent|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|year_published=1955|chapter=5|page=85|url=https://archive.org/details/plumedserpent0000lawr/page/76/mode/2up?q=smear

  43. 1960, (w), “Holiday” in Douglas and Sylvia Angus (eds.), ''Contemporary American Short Stories,'' New York: Ballantine, 1983, p.(nbs)323,https://archive.org/details/contemporaryamer00angu/page/323/mode/1up?q=smearing

  44. (..) she stood and shook with silent crying, smearing away her tears with the open palm of her hand.
  45. To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.

  46. A mark made by smearing.

  47. {{quote-book|en|year=1886|author=Thomas Hardy|title=The Mayor of Casterbridge|location=London|publisher=Smith, Elder|volume=2|chapter=8|page=108|url=https://archive.org/details/mayorofcasterbri02hard/page/108/mode/1up?q=smear

  48. {{quote-text|en|year=1933|author=Robert Byron|title=First Russia, Then Tibet|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|section=Part 2, Chapter 8|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20170539/html.php

  49. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|chapter=2|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120508/html.php

  50. (quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Picador|section=Part 2, p. 228|url=https://archive.org/details/sea00banv/page/228/mode/1up?q=smear

  51. A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.

  52. {{quote-book|en|year=1752|author=Theophilus Cibber|title=A Lick at a Liar|location=London|publisher=R. Griffiths|page=7|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806911.0001.000

  53. (RQ:Toole Confederacy of Dunces)

  54. A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.Edwin Benzel Steen, ''Dictionary of Biology,'' New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971.https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofbiol00edwi/page/504/mode/1up?q=smear

  55. A smear (gloss).

  56. Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.

  57. {{quote-text|en|year=1954|title=Radio & Television News: Radio-electronic engineering section

  58. {{quote-text|en|year=1972|title=Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

  59. A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact

  60. A rough glissando in jazz music.