Definition of wits in English Turkish dictionary
- fikir
Tom onun fikirlerinden korkuyordu.
-Tom was scared out of his wits.
- wit
- ince zekâ
Ben senin ince zekana sahip değilim.
-I don't have your wit.
- 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.
- wit
- nükte
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.
Tom sık sık nükte yapar.
-Tom frequently makes witty remarks.
- wit
- zeka kıvraklığı
- wit
- akıl
O, onunla tartışmayacak kadar akıllıdır.
-She knows better than to argue with him.
Çılgınlık yapmadan yaşayan insan düşündüğü kadar akıllı değildir.
-Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.
- wit
- farkında olmak
- wit
- nüktecilik
- wit
- espritüel kimse
- wit
- nüktedanlık
- wit
- {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.
- wit
- {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.
Herhangi birimiz bunun farkında olmadan yetersiz beslenmeye maruz kalabilir!
-Any one of us could suffer from malnutrition without being aware of it!
- wit
- {i} zeki kimse
- wit
- demek ki
- wit
- nüktedan kimse
- wit
- {f} bilmek
Bu öğleden sonra kimle birlikte olduğunu bilmek istiyorum.
-I want to know who you were with this afternoon.
Gelecek hafta sonu bizimle balık tutmaya gidebilip gidemeyeceğini bilmek istiyorum.
-I want to know if you can go fishing with us next weekend.
- wit
- espritüellik
- wit
- us
- wit
- {f} yâni
Bu sabah depomu benzinle doldurduğumda, litresi 135 yene mal oldu yani galonu 6.55 dolar.
-When I filled my tank with gasoline this morning, it cost ¥135 per liter which is $6.55 per gallon.
Yani benim fikrimin nesi var?
-So what's wrong with my idea?
- get scared out of one's wits
- üç buçuk atmak
- wit
- zekâ
Doğa ona zeka ve güzellik vermiş.
-Nature endowed her with wit and beauty.
Ben senin ince zekana sahip değilim.
-I don't have your wit.
- wit
- fikir
- at one's wits end
- ne yapacağını şaşırmış
- at one's wits end
- şaşkın
- frighten one out of one's wits
- yüreğini oynatmak
- get one's wits about one
- kafasını toplamak
- have one's wits about one
- dikkatli ve mantıklı olmak
- have one's wits about one
- kıvrak
- wit
- 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.
- wit
- zekâ kıvraklığı
- wit
- nükteci kimse
- at one's wits end
- eli ayağına dolaşmış, ne yapacağını/diyeceğini şaşırmış, şaşkın
- be at one´s wits´/wit´s end
- k. dili ne yapacağını şaşırmak
- frighten s.o. out of his/her wits/frighten the wits out of s.o
- birinin odunu koparmak/patlatmak
- get one´s wits about one
- aklını başına toplamak
- have one's wits about one
- bak
- have/keep one's wits about one
- kıvrak, dikkatli ve mantıklı olmak
- he has quick wits
- o çabuk fikir var
- i am at my wits end.
- benim fikir sonunda duyuyorum
- im at my wits end.
- benim fikir sonunda im
- keep one´s wits about one. How about ...?
- 1. -e ne dersin/dersiniz?: How about a game of tennis? Tenis oynamaya ne dersin? 2. -den ne haber? How about Çetin? What´s he doing? Çetin´den ne haber? Ne yapıyor? 3. -e/-i ne yapacağız/yapmalıyız? How about that damp basement? O rutubetli bodruma ne yapacağız? 4. ... hakkında/için ne düşünüyorsun/düşünüyorsunuz?: How about Ayşe´s plan? Ayşe´nin planı hakkında ne düşünüyorsun?
- lose so.'s wits
- kaybetmek çok. 's fikir
- scare s.o. out of his/her wits/scare the wits out of s.o
- birinin odunu koparmak/patlatmak
- scare someone out of their wits
- birini çok feci korkutmakbirinin üç buçuk atması, donuna etmesi
- set so.'s wits to work
- set çok. 's fikir çalışmak
- wit
- farkında ol(mak)
- at one's wits' end
- (deyim) saskina donmus,ne yapacagini bilmez durumda
- battle of wits
- fikir çatışması
- battle of wits
- fikir savaşı
- be at one's wits' end
- zeki kimsene yapacağını şaşırmak
- get one's wits about
- aklını başına toplamak
- have one's wits about
- kafası yerinde olmak, doğru dürüst düşünebilmek. have one's work cut out k.dili. (birinin) önünde zor bir iş olmak
- have one's wits about one
- tetikte olmak
- have wits
- (deyim) have one's wits about one paniğe kapılmamak,kendine hakim olmak,durumu hemen kavramak,tatikte bulunmak
- keep one's wits about
- -e ne dersin/dersiniz?: How about a game of tennis? Tenis oynamaya ne dersin?
- keep one's wits about
- -den ne haber? How about Çetin? What's he doing? Çetin'den
- keep one's wits about one
- durumu hemen kavramak
- live by one's wits
- (geçinmek için) uyanık ve kurnaz olmak
- live by one's wits
- her türlü yola basvurarak geçinmek
- senses
- {i} akıl
- senses
- {i} zekâ
- senses
- {i} us
- to be at one's wits end
- eli ayağı dolaşmak
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Definition of wits in English English dictionary
- senses
- plural form of wit
- the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception; "he used his wits to get ahead"; "I was scared out of my wits"; "he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind
- {i} soundness of mind; sane mental faculties; sanity; cleverness and ability to think quickly
- plural of wit
- wits' end
- Limit of one's sanity or mental capacity; point of desperation
Comic Faces Starvation as Gag Men Near Wits' End, The New Yorker, July 8.
- collect one's wits
- Alternative form of collect one's thoughts
- gather one's wits
- Alternative form of collect one's thoughts
- have one's wits about one
- To remain calm, composed, or aware
It is important for emergency responders to have their wits about them at all times.
- scare out of one's wits
- To frighten someone to such an extent that they behave irrationally
He scared me out of my wits, sneaking up behind me in the dark, like that.
- wit
- Intelligence; common sense
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!.
- wit
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
- wit
- Sanity
He's gone completely out of his wits.
- wit
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
- wit
- Know, be aware of
She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.
- wit
- Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick
The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
- wit
- The senses
- wit
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- wit
- {v} to know, understand, blame
- wit
- {n} a man of genius, quickness of fancy understanding, sense, judgement
- scare someone out of their wits
- to be scared out of one's mind
- at his wits end
- out of patience, at a loss, exasperated, frustrated
- battle of wits
- a contest in which intelligence rather than violence is used
- live by one's wits
- earn money by scheming, earn a living through artifice
- out of one's wits
- crazy, insane, out of one's mind
- wit
- Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. Boulding was known for his biting wit
- wit
- To know; to learn
- wit
- 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
- wit
- 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
- wit
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- wit
- {f} know (Archaic)
- wit
- Mind; intellect; understanding; sense
- wit
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty
- wit
- the power of readily combining objects in such a manner
- wit
- 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
- wit
- 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
- wit
- 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
- wit
- 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
- wit
- Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also
- wit
- 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
- wit
- 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
- wit
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially wittiness
- wit
- mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
- wit
- 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
- wit
- 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
- wit
- {i} intellect; reason; cleverness; sharpness; one who is sharp