Definition of to wit in English Turkish dictionary
- demek ki
- yani, demek ki. to/for all intents and haddi zatında, aslında
- yani
- ince zekâ
Ben senin ince zekana sahip değilim.
-I don't have your wit.
- ince espri
O kitabı yazan kişi hem mizah hem de ince espriye sahiptir, değil mi?
-The person who wrote that book is possessed of both humour and wit, isn't he?
İnce espri konuşmaya lezzet verir.
-Wit gives zest to conversation.
- nükte
Tom her zaman nükte yapıyor.
-Tom is always making witty remarks.
Eski arkadaşının fişini çekerken, herkes ölür dedi genellikle nükteci doktor.
-Everybody dies, said the usually witty doctor as he pulled the plug on his old friend.
- zeka kıvraklığı
- akıl
Tom seninle dövüşmeyecek kadar akıllıdır.
-Tom knows better than to fight with you.
O, onunla tartışmayacak kadar akıllıdır.
-She knows better than to argue with him.
- farkında olmak
- nüktecilik
- espritüel kimse
- nüktedanlık
- {f} öğrenmek
Yerli bir konuşucuyla Fransızca öğrenmek istiyorsan, lütfen benimle irtibat kur.
-If you'd like to study French with a native speaker, please contact me.
Bizimle kimin kaldığını öğrenmek istiyorum.
-I want to know who's staying with us.
- {f} farkında ol
Tom'un ebeveynleri olmadan müzeye girmesine izin verilmeyeceğinin farkında olmamasının pek mümkün olmadığını düşünüyorum.
-I think it's highly unlikely that Tom was not aware that he wouldn't be allowed to enter the museum without his parents.
Biz aslında bunun farkında olmadan hiyeroglifle yazıyoruz.
-We are basically writing in hieroglyphics without being aware of it.
- {i} zeki kimse
- demek ki
- nüktedan kimse
- {f} bilmek
Bilişimsel dil bilimi eğitimi yapmak için çeşitli dilleri bilmek gerekli, ancak, insan bilgisayarların kullanımı da bilmelidir.
-In order to study computational linguistics it's necessary to know various languages, however, one also has to be familiar with the use of computers.
Bu gece kiminle çıkacağını bilmek istiyorum.
-I want to know who you're going out with tonight.
- espritüellik
- us
- {f} yâni
Yani benim fikrimin nesi var?
-So what's wrong with my idea?
Yani sonuçta, Web'i dil öğrenmede daha iyi bir yer yapmak için biz Tatoeba ile sadece temelleri inşa ediyoruz.
-So ultimately, with Tatoeba we are only building the foundations… to make the Web a better place for language learning.
- zekâ
Ortalama zekada birisi bunu anlayabilir.
-A person with average intelligence would understand that.
Ben senin ince zekana sahip değilim.
-I don't have your wit.
- fikir
- anlayış
İyi bir espri anlayışı zor dönemlerle başa çıkmana yardımcı olacaktır.
-A good sense of humor will help you deal with hard times.
Bazı normlarla ilgili temel bir anlayış olmadan, iletişim mümkün değildir.
-Without a basic understanding of certain norms, communication is impossible.
- zekâ kıvraklığı
- nükteci kimse
- farkında ol(mak)
Definition of to wit in English English dictionary
- That is to say; namely; specifically
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- that's to say, namely, meaning
- Intelligence; common sense
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
- Sanity
He's gone completely out of his wits.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
- Know, be aware of
She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.
- Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick
The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
- The senses
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- {v} to know, understand, blame
- {n} a man of genius, quickness of fancy understanding, sense, judgement
- Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. Boulding was known for his biting wit
- To know; to learn
- If you say that someone has the wit to do something, you mean that they have the intelligence and understanding to make the right decision or take the right action in a particular situation. The information is there and waiting to be accessed by anyone with the wit to use it. = sense
- If you pit your wits against someone, you compete against them in a test of knowledge or intelligence. He has to pit his wits against an adversary who is cool, clever and cunning
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- {f} know (Archaic)
- Mind; intellect; understanding; sense
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty
- the power of readily combining objects in such a manner
- You can refer to your ability to think quickly and cleverly in a difficult situation as your wits. She has used her wits to progress to the position she holds today
- A mental faculty, or power of the mind; used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like
- A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like
- If you describe someone as a wit, you mean that they have the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests
- Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also
- emphasis If you say that you are at your wits' end, you are emphasizing that you are so worried and exhausted by problems or difficulties that you do not know what to do next. We row a lot and we never have time on our own. I'm at my wit's end
- If you have your wits about you or keep your wits about you, you are alert and ready to act in a difficult situation. Travellers need to keep their wits about them
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially wittiness
- mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
- emphasis You can use wits in expressions such as frighten someone out of their wits and scare the wits out of someone to emphasize that a person or thing worries or frightens someone very much. You scared us out of our wits. We heard you had an accident
- To wit is used to indicate that you are about to state or describe something more precisely. He'd like `happiness' to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit `Major affective disorder, pleasant type'. = namely
- {i} intellect; reason; cleverness; sharpness; one who is sharp