descend

descend

englanti
  1. (transitiivinen) laskea, laskeutua

  2. (intransitiivinen) laskeutua

  3. (intransitiivinen) aleta; polveutua; siirtyä perijälle t. seuraajalle

  4. (intransitiivinen, runokieltä) vaipua, uppoutua

  5. edetä, siirtyä esityksessä pääkohdista yksityiskohtiin

Esimerkkejä:

Well descend the river in a canoe.

The cat descended the ladder.

the aircraft began to descend

I did not expect him to descend to something as low as that.

These languages descend from a common ancestor.

The crown descended to the heir apparent.

Liittyvät sanat: ascend

Synonyymisanakirja

descend

johtua, juontaa, tulla, laskeutua, pudota, kaataa, iskeä maahan, lyödä maahan, laskea, alentua, polveutua, periytyä.

Rimmaavat sanat

descend rimmaa näiden kanssa:

polterabend, jugend, boyfriend...

Katso kaikki

Englannin sanakirja

descend (englanti > suomi)

  1. laskeutua

  2. vajota

  3. laskeutua, alentua

  4. mennä yksityiskohtiin">mennä yksityiskohtiin

  5. periytyä, polveutua

  6. laskea, laskeutua, pudota, alentua

  7. laskeutua; laskea to descend a river

descend englanniksi

  1. puhekieltä To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward

  2. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.

    We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

  3. puhekieltä To enter mentally; to retire.

  4. He with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. w:John Milton|John Milton.

  5. puhekieltä or (m) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

  6. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. w:Alexander Pope|Alexander Pope.

  7. puhekieltä To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself

  8. he descended from his high estate

  9. puhekieltä To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

  10. puhekieltä To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.

  11. the beggar may descend from a prince

    a crown descends to the heir

  12. puhekieltä To move toward the south, or to the southward.

  13. puhekieltä To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

  14. puhekieltä To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

  15. they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder

    But never tears his cheek descended. w:Byron Byron.

  16. (inflection of)

Käännökset

ranska
descendre, tomber

venäjä
t-needed ru