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ylittää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cap noun A soft, close-fitting hat, often with a brim or peak, and no full brim all the way round.
  • cross noun A shape formed by two intersecting lines, or an upright post with a crossbar, especially as a religious symbol.
  • exceed verb To be greater than, or go beyond, a certain amount or limit.
  • outreach noun Efforts by an organization to connect with and provide services to people in the community.
  • pass verb To move from one place, position, or state to another.
  • straddle verb To sit or stand with one leg on each side of something.
  • surpass verb To do better than, or go beyond, someone or something.
  • top noun The highest point or part of something.
  • transcend verb To go beyond the usual limits of something.
  • transit noun The act or process of passing through or across a place.

Senses

ylittää is used for these senses in English:

  • cap (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
  • cross (football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
  • outreach (transitive) To surpass or exceed.
  • pass (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
  • straddle (transitive) To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
  • surpass (transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.
  • top To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
  • transit (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.

cap — full definition

  1. noun A soft, close-fitting hat, often with a brim or peak, and no full brim all the way round.
  2. noun A cover or seal that fits over the top or end of something to protect or close it.
  3. noun An upper limit set on an amount, price, or quantity.
  4. noun Informal: an exaggeration or outright lie.
  5. verb To put a cover on something, or to set an upper limit on it.

cross — full definition

  1. noun A shape formed by two intersecting lines, or an upright post with a crossbar, especially as a religious symbol.
  2. verb To go from one side of something to the other.
  3. adj Annoyed or bad-tempered.

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