Gentle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.

   “Stuart is a gentle man; he would never hurt you.”

2. sıfat Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.

   “I felt something touch my shoulder; it was gentle and a little slimy.”

3. sıfat Docile and easily managed.

   “We had a gentle swim in the lake.”

4. sıfat Gradual rather than steep or sudden.

   “The walks in this area have a gentle incline.”

5. sıfat Polite and respectful rather than rude.

   “He gave me a gentle reminder that we had to hurry up.”

6. sıfat Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

   “"You are of gentle blood," she said […]”

7. fiil To become gentle.

   ““She's experienced a horrific and nasty scare and is in a state of shock, but otherwise she's relatively okay.” Conrad replied, his tone at first grim (as he recalled what he'd seen in the family room) and then it gentled to a more doctorial tone as he directed his next comments to his patient.”

8. fiil To ennoble.

   “[…] For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, / This day shall gentle his condition […]”

9. fiil To break; to tame; to domesticate.

   “Yakima could have tried to catch him, gentle him as Wolf had been gentled, but having two stallions in his cavvy would lead to a different kind of trouble.”

10. fiil To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.

    “A hornist, his playing gentled by perspective, is out of sight within the woods, but his notes are heard through or over the murmuring mix of bird song and breeze in leaves.”

11. isim A person of high birth.

    “Gentles, methinks you frown.”

12. isim A maggot used as bait by anglers.

    “Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles”

13. isim A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.
14. özel isim A surname.