Synonymer

Uttal

  • Uttal:
  • UttalUS
  • UttalUS:
  • Okänd accent:
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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
  2. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
  3. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
  4. A hunt (of a wild animal).
  5. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
  6. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  7. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  8. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
  9. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
  10. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  11. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
  2. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
  3. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp
  4. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
  5. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.

Exempel

  • a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats;  the stalks of maize or hemp
  • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with[...]on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
  • As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.
  • But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
  • My ex-boyfriend is stalking me.
  • [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed.
  • The king[...]crept under the shoulder of his led horse;[...]"I must stalk," said he.
  • One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
  • Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.
  • With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
  • I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipstalkedImperfektstalked
PresensparticipstalkingPluralstalks
Tredje person singular indicativ presensstalksTredje person singular indicativ presensstalketh