Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈkɪd.ni/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.böbrek

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
  2. This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
  3. (figuratively, dated) Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)
  4. (obsolete, slang) A waiter.

Exempel

  • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
  • Falstaff: " … think of that, – a man of my kidney, – think of that, …"
  • millions in the world of this man's kidney
  • Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence.
  • I shall not want Honour in Heaven   For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus   And other heroes of that kidney.
  • It is of the same kidney.

Böjningsformer

Pluralkidneys

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