delve

delve

1. ~ into kaivaa, kaivella

Synonyymisanakirja

delve

irrottaa, poistaa, ottaa pois, vetää jk pois jstak, kaivaa, louhia, uurtaa, vaottaa, kaivaa ura, tehdä uurre, kaivaa esiin, kaivella, kääntää, tonkia.

Rimmaavat sanat

delve rimmaa näiden kanssa:

helve, heinänhelve...

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Englannin sanakirja

delve (englanti > suomi)

1. kaivaa

2. penkoa, tutkia, paneutua

delve englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.

2. 1381, John Ball

When Adam dalf and Eve span, / Who was then a gentleman?

3. Dryden

Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.

4. (RQ:Bronte Wuthering)

I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might - it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.

5. puhekieltä To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

6. 1609-11, Shakespeare, Cymbeline, King of Britain

I cannot delve him to the root.

7. 1943, Emile C. Tepperman, Calling Justice, Inc.!

She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.

8. puhekieltä To dig, to excavate.

9. ca. 1260, Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend

And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory ...

10. 1891, w:Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, chapter IV

Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done.

11. puhekieltä A pit or den.

12. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:

the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day ....

13. *1995, (w), Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 75:

I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet.

14. (nl-verb form of)

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