eke

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily
Also
To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen

Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke?.

{a} also, likewise, beside, moreover, further
{v} to increase, add, fill up, spin out
If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money. That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides He was eking out an existence on a few francs a day. Also
To increase; to add to; to augment; now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other
{f} enlarge (Archaic)
An addition
In addition; also; likewise
eke out
To obtain with difficulty or effort

He eked out a living selling vegetables from the garden.

eke out
to supplement

The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden.

eke out
supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal"
eke out
make by laborious and precarious means; "He eked out a living as a painter"
eke out
{f} achieve with difficulty; make by strenuous and risky means; make up for deficiency; live from day to day
eke out
live from day to day, as with some hardship; "He eked out his years in great poverty
eke out
obtain with difficulty; "He eked out some information from the archives"
eke out
If you eke out something, you make your supply of it last as long as possible. Many workers can only eke out their redundancy money for about 10 weeks
eke out
live from day to day, as with some hardship; "He eked out his years in great poverty"
eking
A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another
eking
{a} adding
eking
{n} the act of supplying
eked
past of eke
ekes
third-person singular of eke
eking
A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length
eking
present participle of eke
eking
The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery
eke

    التركية النطق

    ik

    النطق

    /ˈēk/ /ˈiːk/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    [ 'Ek ] (adverb.) before 12th century. From Middle English eken (“to increase”), from Old English īecan (“to increase”), from West Germanic aukjana, from Proto-Germanic *aukanan (“increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *aug- (“to increase”). Akin to Danish øge, Icelandic auka, Swedish öka and Latin augeō, Old English ēac (“also”).

    الازمنة

    ekes, eking, eked

    رصف المشتركة

    eke out
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