lack

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.

   “[…] let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation;”

2. isim A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

   “In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.”

3. fiil To be without, not to have, to need, to require.

   “My life lacks excitement.”

4. fiil To be short (of or for something).

   “He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.”

5. fiil To be in want.

   “The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger […]”

6. fiil To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

   “That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.”

7. fiil To be off one's guard.

   “His opps caught him lacking.”

8. isim Archaic form of lakh.

   “a lack of rupees”