instinct

instinct

1. vaisto

Esimerkkejä:

My instinct tells me that he is lying.

:Vaistoni sanoo, että hän valehtelee.

Synonyymisanakirja

instinct

täysi, jotakin uhkuva, jotakin täynnä oleva, viettipohja, kyky, taipumus, taito, vaisto, luontainen kyky.

Englannin sanakirja

instinct (englanti > suomi)

1. vaisto

instinct englanniksi

1. A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

Many animals fear fire by instinct.

2. Shakespeare

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.

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4. An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.

an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct

Debbies instinct was to distrust John.''

5. puhekieltä imbued Imbued, charged ((m) something).

6. Milton

The chariot of paternal deity (..) / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.

7. Brougham

a noble performance, instinct with sound principle

8. 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

Her eyes, whose colour I had not at first known, so dim were they with repressed tears, so shadowed with ceaseless dejection, now, lit by a ray of the sunshine that cheered her heart, revealed irids of bright hazel – irids large and full, screened with long lashes; and pupils instinct with fire.

9. 1928, (w), ‘The Call of Cthulhu’:

This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.

10. English instinct

11. English gut feeling

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