Engelsk navneord: humour | |||
1. | humour (om fornemmelse) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time. He was in a bad humor. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | humor, mood, temper | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | feeling | ||
Mere specifikke termer | amiability, distemper, good humor, good humour, good temper, ill humor, ill humour, peeve, sulk, sulkiness | ||
2. | humour (om kommunikation) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | humor, wit, witticism, wittiness | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | content, message, subject matter, substance | ||
Mere specifikke termer | bite, bon mot, caricature, cartoon, caustic remark, esprit de l'escalier, fun, gag, imitation, impersonation, irony, jape, jest, jeu d'esprit, joke, laugh, mot, play, pungency, repartee, ribaldry, sarcasm, satire, sketch, sport, topper | ||
Samme anvendelse | libation, roaster | ||
3. | humour (i anatomi) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | humor | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | body substance | ||
Overordnet emneområde | antiquity, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, physiology | ||
4. | humour (i anatomi) the liquid parts of the body | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | body substance | ||
Mere specifikke termer | amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, aqueous humor, aqueous humour, black bile, blood, blood serum, cerebrospinal fluid, choler, chyle, come, cum, ECF, ejaculate, endolymph, extracellular fluid, festering, ichor, ink, intracellular fluid, juice, karyolymph, lochia, lymph, melancholy, milk, perilymph, purulence, pus, sanies, secretion, seed, semen, seminal fluid, serum, spinal fluid, succus, suppuration, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, waters, yellow bile | ||
5. | humour (om egenskab) the quality of being funny | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | I fail to see the humor in it. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | humor | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | quality | ||
Mere specifikke termer | comicality | ||
6. | humour (om egenskab) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She didn't appreciate my humor. You can't survive in the army without a sense of humor. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | humor, sense of humor, sense of humour | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | fun, playfulness | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: humour | |||
1. | humour (om kommunikation) put into a good mood | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | humor | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | gratify, indulge, pander | ||