Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)To desist, to stop, to cease.

Examples

12 sentences

  1. I am Lin.

    Я Лін.

    deIch bin Lin.

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  2. We used to have all-night LAN parties.

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  3. Mr Lin, will you be at school tomorrow?

    deHerr Lin, sind Sie morgen in der Schule?

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  4. I'm reading the book "The Dangerous Language" by Ulrich Lins.

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  5. My name is Lin Hsiao-jie. Jie as in "outstanding."

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Origin

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield u

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

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Forms

lins, linning, linned, linned
Base formlin · to lin
3rd person singularlins
Present participlelinning
Past simplelinned / lan
Past participlelinned / lan / lun

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylin
he, she, itlins

Past simpleLesson

all personslinned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave linned
he, she, ithas linned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lin

Word family

1 related words
Derivedblin

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
limousinelimpB1linchpinlinden
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