roundabout

roundabout

1. epäsuora, kiertelevä

Esimerkkejä:

roundabout ways

Synonyymisanakirja

roundabout

epäsuora, kierto-, poikkeava, kiertävä, kaarteleva, kiertelevä, karuselli, laite, menopeli.

Rimmaavat sanat

roundabout rimmaa näiden kanssa:

out, knock-out, ragoût, burnout, passepartout, stout, layout...

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Englannin sanakirja

roundabout (englanti > suomi)

1. kiertelevä

2. liikenneympyrä, kiertoliittymä

3. karuselli

4. kiertotie

roundabout englanniksi

1. indirect Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.

2. 1896, w:Robert Barr|Robert Barr, From Whose Bourne, ch. 9:

She fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.

3. 1921, w:P. G. Wodehouse|P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. 17:

"Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."

4. 2001 Dec. 3, w:Jim Rutenberg|Jim Rutenberg, "http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/business/media/03DAN.html Rather Reports Another War," New York Times (retrieved 3 April 2014):

Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.

5. 2011, Golgotha Press (ed.), 50 Classic Philosophy Books, ISBN 9781610425957, http://books.google.ca/books?id=6DuBAnhaY0UC&pg=PT1316&dq=%22roundabout+argument%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mMI-U8jwKa-02AXxxYHAAQ&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBjgKv=onepage&q=%22roundabout%20argument%22&f=false (Google preview):

Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.

6. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

7. 1706, w:John Locke|John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, item 3.3:

The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.

8. puhekieltä A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

9. puhekieltä A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.

10. A fairground carousel.

11. A detour

12. A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.

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