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levittää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • apply verb To formally request something, such as a job or place at a school.
  • broadcast verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
  • circulate verb To move continuously through a system, or to travel around and mix with a group of people.
  • diffuse verb To spread something out through a substance or space, or to spread out that way.
  • disperse verb To scatter or spread out in different directions.
  • display verb To show something openly so it can be seen clearly.
  • distribute verb To divide something up and hand it out to a number of people or places.
  • expand verb To make something bigger in size, scope, or amount.
  • flare noun A bright light or flame used as a signal or for illumination, often a handheld or fired device.
  • helm noun The wheel or tiller used to steer a ship; more broadly, the position of control or leadership.
  • peddle verb To sell goods, especially in small quantities or door to door.
  • promulgate verb To make known or make public.
  • propagate verb To spread or pass something on, such as information, a belief, or a disease.
  • retail noun The business of selling goods directly to individual customers, rather than in bulk to other businesses.
  • roll verb To move by turning over and over on a surface.
  • scuttlebutt noun Gossip or informal rumour.
  • smear verb To spread a soft or sticky substance across a surface, often messily.
  • splay verb To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
  • spray noun A fine mist of liquid released into the air.
  • spread verb To open something out so it covers a wider area.
  • strew verb To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
  • transmit verb To send or pass something from one person, place, or thing to another.
  • unfold verb To open out something that was folded.

Senses

levittää is used for these senses in English:

  • apply (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
  • broadcast (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area.
  • circulate to spread or disseminate
  • diffuse (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
  • diffuse (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
  • disperse (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
  • disperse (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
  • disperse (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.

apply — full definition

  1. verb To formally request something, such as a job or place at a school.
  2. verb To put something into use for a particular purpose.
  3. verb To be relevant or have an effect on a particular case.

broadcast — full definition

  1. verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
  2. noun A radio or television program transmitted to the public.

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