Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

Translate words and learn from multiple languages

Word lists: Numbers · Family Members · Food · House and Home · Animals · Transport and Vehicles · Adjectives: Opposites · all lists
Alphabet: Polish alphabet

Results for: "sheer"

Translating from English to Polish

Translations:

sheer — very thin or transparent
→ przezroczysty
sheer — straight up and down
→ urwisty m

More translations:

sheer
→ czysty
sheer
→ spadzisty
sheer
→ delikatny, zwiewny, lekki
sheer
→ pionowo
sheer
→ zboczyć

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


VERB (2)

1. turn sharply; change direction abruptly;
- Example: "The car cut to the left at the intersection"
- Example: "The motorbike veered to the right"
[syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut]

2. cause to sheer;
- Example: "She sheered her car around the obstacle"


ADJECTIVE (4)

1. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
- Example: "absolute freedom"
- Example: "an absolute dimwit"
- Example: "a downright lie"
- Example: "out-and-out mayhem"
- Example: "an out-and-out lie"
- Example: "a rank outsider"
- Example: "many right-down vices"
- Example: "got the job through sheer persistence"
- Example: "sheer stupidity"
[syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)]

2. not mixed with extraneous elements;
- Example: "plain water"
- Example: "sheer wine"
- Example: "not an unmixed blessing"
[syn: plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed]

3. very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;
- Example: "a bluff headland"
- Example: "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"
- Example: "a sheer descent of rock"
[syn: bluff, bold, sheer]

4. so thin as to transmit light;
- Example: "a hat with a diaphanous veil"
- Example: "filmy wings of a moth"
- Example: "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"
- Example: "gossamer cobwebs"
- Example: "sheer silk stockings"
- Example: "transparent chiffon"
- Example: "vaporous silks"
[syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby]


ADVERB (2)

1. straight up or down without a break;
[syn: sheer, perpendicularly]

2. directly;
- Example: "he fell sheer into the water"