subtlety

suomi-englanti sanakirja

subtlety englannista suomeksi

1. hiuksenhieno ero

2. hienovaraisuus, herkkyys

0. Substantiivi

1. hienovaraisuus

subtlety englanniksi

1. The quality of being subtle.

2. The quality of being scarcely noticeable or difficult to discern. (q)

(ux)

3. (RQ:Bellow Herzog)

4. The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully out. (q)

(syn)

5. (quote-song)|title=(w)|passage=Something kinda sad about / The way that things have come to be / Desensitized to everything / What became of subtlety? / How can this mean anything to me / If I really don't feel anything at all?

6. The quality of being able to achieve one's aims through clever, delicate or indirect methods. (q)

7. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/sophieschoicesty00styr|chapter=3|page=74|publisher=Random House|location=New York

8. The quality of being able to notice or understand things that are not obvious. (q)

9. (RQ:King James Version)

10. (quote-book)

11. An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.

12. 1561, (w) ''et al.'' (translators), ''(w),'' (w) 8.8,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10675.0001.001

She (quote-gloss) knoweth the subtilties of wordes, and the solutions of darke sentences:

13. (RQ:Boyle Sceptical Chymist)

14. (quote-text) to support your philosophical subtilties against the dictates of plain reason and experience.

15. (RQ:Hardy Woodlanders)

16. (RQ:Steinbeck East of Eden)

17. (quote-journal)

18. An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.

19. {{quote-book|en|year=1548|author=Edward Hall|title=The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke|location=London|publisher=Richard Grafton|chapter=The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the .VIII.|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02595.0001.001

20. The quality of being clever in surreptitious or deceitful behaviour; an act or argument that shows this quality.

21. {{quote-book|en|year=1575|author=George Gascoigne|title=The Noble Arte of Venerie of Hunting|location=London|publisher=Christopher Barker|chapter=Termes generall of the huntesman, in hunting of any chase|page=243|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14021.0001.001

22. (RQ:Sidney Arcadia)

23. (RQ:Homer Pope Iliad) the Spy was deceiv’d rather by the Art and Subtlety of Ulysses, than by his Falshood.

24. (RQ:Austen Persuasion)

25. A trick that creates a false appearance.

26. (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)

27. The property of having a low density or thin consistency.

28. 1630, (w) (translator/editor), ''A Treatise of the Plague (..) Collected out of the workes of (..) Paré|Ambrose Parey,'' London, Chapter(nbs)11, p.(nbs)33,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08913.0001.001

Therefore at Paris where naturally, and also through the aboundance of filth that is about the Citie, the Aire is darke and grosse, the pestilent Infection is lesse fierce and contagious then it is in Prouince, for the subtletie of the Aire stimulates or helps forward the Plague.

29. The property of being able to penetrate materials easily.

30. (quote-text)|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004793050.0001.000|pages=37–38|location=London|passage=Hence we see the amazing Subtlety of this Fire, which pervades Glass as readily as if nothing were in the Way.