kilter
Chiefly in out of kilter: condition, form, or orderChiefly in out of kilter: (good) condition, form, or order; fettle.
» The lamp on the desk had an out-of-kilter lampshade.
Die Lampe auf dem Schreibtisch hatte einen schiefen Lampenschirm.
Плафон лампы на столе был неисправен.
Значение
значений: 2(неисчисляемое)Chiefly in out of kilter: (good) condition, form, or order; fettle.
not in kilter
Einklang, Ordnung, Zustand
A hand of playing cards which is useless.
- in working order
Примеры
предложений: 5The lamp on the desk had an out-of-kilter lampshade.
Плафон лампы на столе был неисправен. — Balamax
deDie Lampe auf dem Schreibtisch hatte einen schiefen Lampenschirm. — DiffEquation
My friend is a bit off-kilter.
That poster is not exactly straight, it seems off-kilter.
Ignoring feelings of tiredness knocks our body clocks out of kilter.
His dogmatic emphasis on the soap trade in relation to economic globalization struck me as somewhat off-kilter.
Переводы
языков: 1По значениям 1
Происхождение
A variant of dialectal kelter (“good condition, order”), of unknown origin; possibly relatA variant of dialectal kelter (“good condition, order”), of unknown origin; possibly related to kilt (“to gather up (skirts) around the body”) (cognate with Danish kilte (“to tuck”)), or Scots kilt (“proper way of doing something, knack”) (probably from kilt (“a slope; a tilt”), possibly a variant of English tilt). In the 19th century, kelter was the more common form in the United Kingdom, while kilter was more common in the United States. Due to the influence of the latter, kilter is now the more prevalent form in all English varieties.
Probably a variant of dialectal kelter (“odds and ends; litter, rubbish”); further etymology unknown.
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Формы
мн. число: kiltersСинонимы
синонимов: 1- in working order:kelter
Однокоренные
связанных слов: 2Уроки к слову
уроков: 1- A1Исчисляемые и неисчисляемые существительные — Потому что оно может быть неисчисляемым