Spell

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

   “He cast a spell to cure warts.”

2. isim A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

   “under a spell”

3. isim Speech, discourse.
4. fiil To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

   “Vnchaine your spirits now with spelling Charmes,”

5. fiil To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

   “I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.”

6. fiil To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

   “"He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.”

7. fiil Of letters: to compose (a word).

   “The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.”

8. fiil To clarify; to explain in detail.

   “Please spell it out for me.”

9. fiil To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.

   “This spells trouble.”

10. fiil To constitute; to measure.

    “the Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect”

11. fiil To speak, to declaim.

    “O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell?”

12. fiil To tell; to relate; to teach.

    “1770, Thomas Warton, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278, As thro’ the caverns dim I wind, Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,”

13. fiil To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.

    “The note D♭ is spelled differently from C♯, even though they sound equivalent.”

14. fiil To work in place of (someone).

    “to spell the helmsman”

15. fiil To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

    “They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.”

16. fiil To rest from work for a time.
17. isim A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
18. isim A definite period (of work or other activity).

    “I had a job in the great North Woods / Workin' as a cook for a spell / But I never did like it all that much / And one day the ax just fell”

19. isim An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

    “Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spells. [...] When he had spoken, Mina's long spell of silence made me look at her.”

20. isim A period of rest; time off.
21. isim A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
22. isim An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
23. isim A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

    “To swadle a bowe much about wyth bandes, verye seldome dothe anye good, excepte it be to kepe downe a spel in the backe.”

24. isim The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
25. özel isim A surname.