loophole

loophole

1. ampuma-aukko linnoituksen muurissa

2. porsaanreikä

Liittyvät sanat: embrasure

Synonyymisanakirja

loophole

aukko, kolo, ampuma-aukko, monimielisyys, porsaanreikä.

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Englannin sanakirja

loophole (englanti > suomi)

1. porsaanreikä

2. ampuma-aukko

loophole englanniksi

1. A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.

2. 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:

(...) I left him no loophole of escape, and laid bare the whole villainy which by these lights became plain as day.

3. 2002, Two Weeks Notice (movie):

You have a contract that says you will work until Island Towers is finalized, which I interpret as completion of construction, or I can stop you working elsewhere. And there's no loopholes, because you drafted it and you're the best.

4. A slit in a castle wall. Later: any similar window for shooting a weapon or letting in light.

5. 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

... and having a fair loophole, as it were, from a broken hole in the tree, he took a sure aim, without being seen, waiting till they were within about thirty yards of the tree, so that he could not miss.

6. 1809, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee:

There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.

7. 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 25:

The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.

8. puhekieltä To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers

9. {{quote-book|year=1896|author=Arthur Conan Doyle|title=The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11247

10. {{quote-book|year=1907|author=A. E. W. Mason|title=The Broken Road|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10755

11. {{quote-book|year=1915|author=W. H. L. Watson|title=Adventures of a Despatch Rider|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16868

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