Engelsk navneord: character | |||
1. | character (om person) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She is the main character in the novel. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | fictional character, fictitious character | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | imaginary being, imaginary creature | ||
Eksempler på forekomster af mere specifikke termer | agonist, Aladdin, Ali Baba, Argonaut, Arthur, Babar, Beatrice, Beowulf, Bluebeard, Bond, Brer Rabbit, Bunyan, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Cheshire cat, Chicken Little, Cinderella, Colonel Blimp, Commissaire Maigret, Don Quixote, Dracula, El Cid, Emile, Fagin, Falstaff, Father Brown, Faust, Faustus, Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, Galahad, Gawain, Goofy, Guenevere, Guinevere, Gulliver, Hamlet, Holmes, Horatio Hornblower, Houyhnhnm, Huck Finn, Huckleberry Finn, Iago, Inspector Maigret, Iseult, Isolde, James Bond, John Henry, Kilroy, King Arthur, King Lear, Lancelot, Lear, Lilliputian, Little John, Little Red Riding Hood, Marlowe, Merlin, Micawber, Mother Goose, Mr. Moto, Othello, Pangloss, Pantaloon, Paul Bunyan, Perry Mason, Peter Pan, Philip Marlowe, Pied Piper, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Pierrot, Pluto, protagonist, Raskolnikov, Rip van Winkle, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rodya Raskolnikov, Rumpelstiltskin, Ruritanian, Scaramouch, Scaramouche, Sherlock Holmes, Shylock, Simon Legree, Sinbad, Sinbad the Sailor, Sir Galahad, Sir Gawain, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Lancelot, Snoopy, Svengali, Sweeney Todd, Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Todd, Tom Sawyer, Trilby, Tristan, Tristram, Uncle Remus, Uncle Sam, Uncle Tom, Walter Mitty, Wilkins Micawber, Yahoo | ||
2. | character (om erkendelse) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Each town has a quality all its own. The radical character of our demands. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | lineament, quality | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | attribute, dimension, property | ||
Mere specifikke termer | texture | ||
3. | character (om egenskab) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Education has for its object the formation of character. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | fiber, fibre | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | trait | ||
Mere specifikke termer | spirit | ||
Omfatter disse specifikke termer | integrity, responsibility, responsibleness, thoughtfulness | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede termer | personality | ||
4. | character (om erkendelse) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She played the part of Desdemona. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | part, persona, role, theatrical role | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal | ||
Mere specifikke termer | baddie, bit part, heavy, hero, heroine, ingenue, minor role, name part, title role, villain | ||
5. | character (om person) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A real character. A strange character. A friendly eccentric. The capable type. A mental case. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | case, eccentric, type | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | adult, grownup | ||
6. | character (om tilstand) good repute | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He is a man of character. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | reputation, repute | ||
7. | character (om kommunikation) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Requests for character references are all too often answered evasively. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | character reference, reference | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | good word, recommendation, testimonial | ||
8. | character (om kommunikation) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The Greek alphabet has 24 characters. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | grapheme, graphic symbol | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | printed symbol, written symbol | ||
Mere specifikke termer | allograph, alphabetic character, ASCII character, asterisk, blank, capital, capital letter, check character, dagger, diesis, double dagger, double obelisk, ideogram, ideograph, inferior, letter, letter of the alphabet, ligature, lower-case letter, lowercase, majuscule, mathematical symbol, minuscule, obelisk, percent sign, percentage sign, phonetic symbol, pictograph, radical, rune, runic letter, small letter, space, star, stenograph, subscript, superior, superscript, type, upper-case letter, uppercase | ||
9. | character (om egenskab) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | attribute | ||
Mere specifikke termer | unit character | ||
Overordnet emneområde | genetic science, genetics | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: character | |||
1. | character (om relation) engrave or inscribe characters on | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | engrave, grave, inscribe, scratch | ||