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virittää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arm noun The part of the human body running from the shoulder down to the hand.
  • excite verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  • gimmick noun A clever trick, feature, or gadget used mainly to attract attention rather than add real value.
  • pitch noun A persuasive presentation intended to sell or promote something.
  • tune noun A short, memorable melody or piece of music.
  • tweak verb To make a small adjustment to something in order to improve it.
  • voice noun The sound a person produces when speaking or singing.

Senses

virittää is used for these senses in English:

  • arm (transitive) To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
  • attune (music, transitive) To tune (an instrument).
  • cobble together To put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable.
  • excite (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
  • gimmick To rig or set up with a trick or device.
  • jury-rig (transitive) To create a makeshift, ad hoc solution from resources at hand.
  • pitch (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • soup up (informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications.

arm — full definition

  1. noun The part of the human body running from the shoulder down to the hand.
  2. noun A limb of an object or organization that sticks out from the main body, such as a chair arm, a crane arm, or a branch of a company.
  3. noun A narrow stretch of water or land reaching out from a larger body.
  4. verb To equip someone or something with weapons, or more loosely, with the tools needed for a task.

excite — full definition

  1. verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  2. verb In physics, to push an electron up to a higher energy level, or to energize a magnet so it produces a field.

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