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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. edat In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.

   “The snake was coiled about his ankle.”

2. edat Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.

   “Rubbish was strewn about the place.”

3. edat See about to.
4. edat On the point or verge of.

   “[It] was held, that the latter requirement was fulfilled by an affidavit declaring that "the defendant was about leaving the State permanently."”

5. edat Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of.

   “He talked a lot about his childhood.”

6. edat Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on.

   “just going about their business”

7. edat Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.

   “I can’t find my reading glasses, but they must be somewhere about the house.”

8. edat On one’s person; nearby the person.

   “I had no weapon about me but a stick.”

9. edat On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of.

   “He has his wits about him.”

10. zarf On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around.

    “I looked about at the scenery that surrounded me.”

11. zarf Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.

    “Bits of old machinery were lying about.”

12. zarf From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.

    “walking about;  rushing about;  jumping about;  thrashing about”

13. zarf Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.

    “messing about;  fooling about;  loafing about”

14. zarf Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.

    “It’s about as cold as it was last winter.”

15. zarf Near; in the vicinity.

    “I looked round at the people standing about, and observed them curiously in their peculiar relation to it all.”

16. zarf To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction.

    “to face about;  to turn oneself about”

17. zarf To the opposite tack: see go about.

    “We went about and headed offshore.”

18. zarf In succession, one after another.

    “When he had finished, he drew his plaid around his head, and went slowly down to the little dell, where he used every day to offer up his morning and evening prayers, and where we have often sat together on Sabbath afternoons, reading verse about with our children in the Bible.”

19. zarf In rotation or revolution.

    “What an Arme he has, he turn'd me about with his finger and his thumbe, as one would set up a Top.”

20. zarf In the course of events.

    “to bring about, to come about”

21. zarf In circuit or circumference; circularly.

    “The island was a mile about, and a third of a mile across.”

22. zarf By a circuitous way; circuitously.

    “God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea.”

23. sıfat Moving around or in motion; astir.

    “out and about;  up and about”

24. sıfat In existence; being in evidence; apparent.

    “This idea has been about for a while but has only recently become fashionable.”

25. sıfat Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.

    “I had my keys just a minute ago, so they must be about somewhere.”

26. fiil To change the course of (a ship) to the other tack; to bring (a ship) about.

    “Mr. Whalen:] they had "abouted ship." They had changed the course to put her into the wind—”

27. fiil To about-face (turn 180 degrees, like a soldier).

    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:about.”