retort
retort
englanti(laboratorio) (teollisuus) retortti
tiuskaisu, kipakka vastaus.
Synonyymisanakirja
retort
retortti, tislausastia, tislauspullo, astia, säiliö, suun soittaminen, pään aukominen, suunpieksentä, herjaaminen, vastaus, reaktio, kipakka vastaus, palaute, vastaisku, repliikki, iskevä vastaus, vastakaiku, vastaliike, heitto, sivallus.
Liittyvät sanat: retortti.
Rimmaavat sanat
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Englannin sanakirja
retort (englanti > suomi)
retort englanniksi
A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
{{quote-book|year=1905|author=w:Emma Orczy|Baroness Emmuska Orczy
To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
to retort the charge of vanity
Milton
To bend or curve back.
a retorted line
Southey
To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
Shakespeare
puhekieltä A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and taper tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
1893, A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.670)
A container in which material is subjected to high temperature temperatures as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelt smelting and forge forging of metal.
puhekieltä To heat in a retort.