Engelsk substantiv: 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | fictional character, fictitious character | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | imaginary being, imaginary creature | ||
Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 erkjendelse) 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | lineament, quality | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | attribute, dimension, property | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | texture | ||
3. | character (om egenskap) 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | fiber, fibre | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | trait | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | spirit | ||
Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | integrity, responsibility, responsibleness, thoughtfulness | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | personality | ||
4. | character (om erkjendelse) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She played the part of Desdemona. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | part, persona, role, theatrical role | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | case, eccentric, type | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | adult, grownup | ||
6. | character (om tilstand) good repute | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He is a man of character. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | reputation, repute | ||
7. | character (om kommunikasjon) 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | character reference, reference | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | good word, recommendation, testimonial | ||
8. | character (om kommunikasjon) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The Greek alphabet has 24 characters. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | grapheme, graphic symbol | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | printed symbol, written symbol | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 egenskap) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | attribute | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | unit character | ||
Overordnet kategori | genetic science, genetics | ||
Engelsk verb: character | |||
1. | character (om relasjon) engrave or inscribe characters on | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | engrave, grave, inscribe, scratch | ||