Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /spʌɪə/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
  2. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
  3. A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
  4. A spiral.
  5. A sharp or tapering point.
  6. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
  7. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
  8. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
  9. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

Verb

  1. Of a seed, plant etc.: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.
  3. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

Exempel

  • Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.
  • A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
  • The spire of the church rose high above the town.
  • the spire and top of praises
  • In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.
  • It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipspired
Imperfektspired
Presensparticipspiring
Pluralspires
Tredje person singular indicativ presensspires