( ukapena)

[from *bil-bil (round-round)] iz.

1. circle, ring

2. Mus. semibreve (GB), whole note (USA)

3. (bola) ball; kristalezko \biribil bat a crystal ball io.

a. (gurpila, e.a.) round, circular; begi \biribilak round eyes; 300 kiloko harri \biribila a 300 kilo round stone

b. (bola, e.a.) round, spherical

2. (potoloa) round, plump

3. (ukapena, e.a.) categorical, resounding; ezetz \biribila a resounding no

4. (bertsoa) complete adb.

1. clearly, bluntly; ez nuen esan horren \biribil I didn't put it so bluntly

2. (gaitzetsi) roundly

iz.

a. no ; \eza harria eta orma baino gogorragoa iza n liteke a no can be harder than the hardest rock ; lehenbiziko \ezean with her first refusal ; hari ere ematen diozu \eza you've also said no to him | you've also refused him

b. (irud.) ; \ez zera! indeed not!; gaur ez dira etorriko — \ez zera! they're not coming today — what do you mean they're not!; ez dugu sekula horrelakorik egin — \ez zera! we've never done any such thing — like hell you haven't!; \ezaren ondo-ondokoa da it's next to nothing; besterik \ezean for want of something else; \ezetik baira bizi izan to live from hand to mouth ; \ezetik baira egon i. ( nekez bizi izan) to be living from hand to mouth ii. ( diruez ez) to be flat broke; \ezetatik \ezetara under no circumstance

a. no; dirurik \ez no money

b. ( falta, gabezia) lack, want beldurrik \eza the lack of fear ; damu dut nire hitz bete \eza I regret my inability to keep my word ; bere haurrik \ezak tristetzen zuen her {barrenness || not having children} saddened her ; gazte horrek ez dakit zer den \eza that young man doesn't know what going without is; gerra-garaian \eza zer den ikasi zuten during the war they learnt what going without was all about

3. ( ukapena) denial adb.

1. ( erantzunez) no; hau al da? — \ez is this it? — no

2. ( + iz.) not; txerrikia jango genuke baina katukia \ez we would eat pork but not cat meat; ezer ere \ez nothing at all

3. ( aditzekin)

a. ( ingelesari dagokio-nez, aditz laguntzaile, moduzko aditz eta infinitoboekin) not; ez naiz Superman I am not Superman ez al naiz Superman? am I not Superman? | aren't I Superman?; ez nuke hori egingo I {would not || wouldn't} do that ; \ez dezaket hori egin I {cannot || can't} do that ez dut hori egingo I {will not || won't} do that ez duzu hori egin behar you {must not || mustn't} do that agian \ez dira etorriko they may not come ; ez dugu hori egin we haven't done that \ez gara hara joan we haven't gone there; hori egitera ez da ausartzen he dares not do that; \ez onartzea iraingarria izango litzateke not to accept would be insulting

b. ( aditz arruntekin) do not, don't; does not, doesn't ( orainaldia, 3. p. s.) | did not, didn't ( lehenaldia) ; \ez dut erretzen I don't smoke; Kroftek \ez du erretzen Kroft doesn't smoke; \ez nuen erre I didn't smoke

c. ( elipsian) gameluzopa jango nuke baina zuk \ez I would eat camel soup but you wouldn't ; gu etorriko gara baina haiek \ez we will come but they won't ni etorri nintzen baina Kristensen jauna \ez I came but Mr. Kristensen didn't; nik kafea edaten dut baina nire emazteak \ez I drink coffee but my wife doesn't

a. \ez eta bai ari dira they're arguing about it; \ez bat eta \ez bi suddenly; \ez bat eta \ez bi agertu ziren they suddenly popped up; \ez hil bai hil dago he's on his death bed | he's about to die

b. egingo \ez egingo dago he's on the verge of doing it junt.

1. ez... ez neither... nor; \ez dira aktore onak \ez Miguel Bos— \ez Ronald Reagan neither Miguel Bos— nor Ronald Reagan are good actors; \ez ur \ez ardo neither water nor wine ; \ez non \ez han without further ado; \ez bat \ez bestea neither

2. ( ezik) except, except for, save for; guztiak, Txirri eta Mirri \ez, goibel daude all, except for Txirri and Mirri, are sad

3. \ez eta neither; ez dugu hori egiten, \ez eta haiek ere we don't do that {nor do they || and neither do they}; Afera ez zen indarkeria gehiegi erabiltzea izan, \ez eta sexu gehiegi ere. Horretarik ere izan zen, auskarki izan ere it wasn't a question of using too much violence or too much sex either. There was some of that too, even to a daring extent

iz.

1. ( ukapena) denial, disavowal, repudiation

a. ( legea) repeal, abolishment, revocation, abrogation

b. ( ezkontzari d.) annulment

c. ( aginduari d.) countermanding, overturning ; aginduaren \ezeztapena the overturning of the order

3. ( deuseztapena)

a. annihilation, destruction, devastation

b. ( guztiak hilik) extermination

4. ( txartela) cancellation

5. ( indarrari d.) neutralization

6. (H. Jak.) negation