Alternativa stavningar

Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
Översättning
Substantiv
1.köle
2.kul

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
  2. A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
  3. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.
  4. A drudge; one who labours like a slave.
  5. An abject person; a wretch.
  6. A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
  7. (engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To work hard.
  2. (transitive) To enslave.
  3. (transitive) To place a device under the control of another.

Exempel

  • a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
  • Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
  • I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
  • to slave a hard disk
  • Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[...]

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipslavedImperfektslaved
PresensparticipslavingPluralslaves
Tredje person singular indicativ presensslavesTredje person singular indicativ presensslaveth

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