Engels Woord van de dag

fruit

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

fruit

1. fruit, ooft

2. vrucht, fruit

Engels > Engels

fruit

1. n. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.

2. n. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables

Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.

3. n. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

4. n. Offspring from a sexual union.

Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

5. n. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.

6. n. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

7. v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Nederlands > Engels

fruit

1. n-n. (usually collective) fruit (produced by trees or bushes, or any sweet vegetable; only literal sense)

2. v. imperative of fruiten

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

Fresh fruit is good for your health.
    Verse vruchten zijn goed voor uw gezondheid.
A tree is known by its fruit.
    Aan de vruchten kent men de boom.
I have coffee, tea, water, and fresh fruit juice.
    Ik heb koffie, thee, water en vers vruchtensap.
This fruit is shaped like an orange and tastes like a pineapple.
    Deze vrucht heeft de vorm van een sinaasappel en smaakt als een ananas.
What kind of fruit do you like best?
    Wat voor soort fruit hou je het meest van?

Vorige woorden herzien

one	judge	eleven	stretch
orchestra	waist	bud	fifty-nine
screw	seventy	sugar	fruit
raft	harp	sick	May

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