Uttal
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| Översättning | Kontext |
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| Adjektiv |
| 1. | näst sista | |
| 2. | näst sist | amerikansk engelska, brittisk engelska, skriftspråk, formell |
Definitioner
Adjektiv
- (UK, in US usage usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
- (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.
- (math, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
Substantiv
- (uncommon) A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly:
- (obsolete, rare) The penultimate day of a month.
- (linguistics, literature, uncommon) The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
- (math, obsolete, rare) The penultimate element of a collection of curves.
- (cards, uncommon) The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.
Exempel
- [...] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; [...]
- But it should frequently happen that offspring should resemble its penultimate rather than its latest phase, and should thus be more like a grand-parent than a parent.
- “Your clothes don't weigh more'n seven pounds. And seven from—hum—say one hundred an' twenty-three—one hundred an' sixteen is your stripped weight.”
- But at the penultimate word, Mary cried out with sharp reproof:
- “Why, Billy Roberts, people don't talk about such things.”
- Our Lutheran concern for the ultimates (the Gospel) has allowed us to neglect some of the penultimates (bodily healing), failing to stress the total implications of that ultimate Gospel.
- At Woodstock, the penultimate of August.
- Antepenultimate is that before the Penultimate, or the last but two.
- Penultimate, the. — Beginning with the lowest card but one of the suit you lead originally, if it contains more than four cards.
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