sacrifice

Synonyymisanakirja

sacrifice

  1. poltto, uhraus, sacrifice fly, miehistötappio, tappio, uhri, menetys.

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Käännökset

englanti

uhraus

uhrata

tappio

uhri puhekieltä To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
puhekieltä To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
“Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.” - From the song Baby Don’t You Do It by Marvin Gaye
“God sacrificed His only-begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16).
Prior

Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
G. Eliot
The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum (..) for the sake of (..) making this boy his heir.
puhekieltä To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
(w), Atlas Shrugged
If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
puhekieltä To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
puhekieltä To advance (a runner on base) by bat batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
puhekieltä To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
To destroy; to kill.

(rfquotek)

The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
Milton
Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, / To Dagon.
Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing.

the sacrifice of ones spare time in order to volunteer''

Something sacrificed.
Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice.
puhekieltä A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.
A loss of profit.
puhekieltä A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
(l)
(inflection of)

Sitaatit

  • "I did not play with the object to win directly, but to sacrifice a piece"

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