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přístavek — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • apposition noun A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  • ell noun An old unit of length, roughly the distance from elbow to fingertip, historically around 45 inches in England.

Senses

přístavek is used for these senses in English:

  • apposition (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  • ell An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.

apposition — full definition

  1. noun A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  2. noun The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  3. noun The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
  4. noun A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.

ell — full definition

  1. noun An old unit of length, roughly the distance from elbow to fingertip, historically around 45 inches in England.
  2. noun A wing of a building set at a right angle to the main structure, so it forms an L-shape.

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