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smell out

  • 1 smell out

    (to find (as if) by smelling: We buried the dog's bone, but he smelt it out again.) þefa uppi

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  • 2 smell

    1. [smel] noun
    1) (the sense or power of being aware of things through one's nose: My sister never had a good sense of smell.) lyktarskyn
    2) (the quality that is noticed by using this power: a pleasant smell; There's a strong smell of gas.) lykt, þefur, ilmur, daunn
    3) (an act of using this power: Have a smell of this!) það að lykta/þefa af e-u
    2. [smelt] verb
    1) (to notice by using one's nose: I smell gas; I thought I smelt (something) burning.) finna (e-a) lykt af
    2) (to give off a smell: The roses smelt beautiful; Her hands smelt of fish.) lykta, þefja, anga
    3) (to examine by using the sense of smell: Let me smell those flowers.) lykta/þefa af
    •
    - smelly
    - smelliness
    - smell out

    English-Icelandic dictionary > smell

  • 3 sniff out

    (to discover or detect (by using the sense of smell): The police used dogs to sniff out the explosives.) þefa uppi

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  • 4 nose

    [nəuz] 1. noun
    1) (the part of the face by which people and animals smell and usually breathe: She held the flower to her nose; He punched the man on the nose.) nef
    2) (the sense of smell: Police dogs have good noses and can follow criminals' trails.) lyktarskyn
    3) (the part of anything which is like a nose in shape or position: the nose of an aeroplane.) nef, trjóna
    2. verb
    1) (to make a way by pushing carefully forward: The ship nosed (its way) through the ice.) fikra sig áfram, mjakast
    2) (to look or search as if by smelling: He nosed about (in) the cupboard.) hnÿsast í
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    - - nosed
    - nosey
    - nosy
    - nosily
    - nosiness
    - nose-bag
    - nosedive
    - nose job     3. verb
    (to make such a dive: Suddenly the plane nosedived.)
    - lead by the nose
    - nose out
    - pay through the nose
    - turn up one's nose at
    - under a person's very nose
    - under very nose
    - under a person's nose
    - under nose

    English-Icelandic dictionary > nose

  • 5 sniff

    [snif] 1. verb
    1) (to draw in air through the nose with a slight noise.) sjúga upp í nefið
    2) (to do this in an attempt to smell something: The dog sniffed me all over; He sniffed suddenly, wondering if he could smell smoke.) snusa
    2. noun
    (an act of sniffing.) snus; nefsog

    English-Icelandic dictionary > sniff

  • 6 wood

    [wud]
    1) (( also adjective) (of) the material of which the trunk and branches of trees are composed: My desk is (made of) wood; She gathered some wood for the fire; I like the smell of a wood fire.) tré, viður
    2) ((often in plural) a group of growing trees: They went for a walk in the woods.) skógur
    3) (a golf-club whose head is made of wood.) trékylfa
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    - wooden
    - woody
    - wood carving
    - woodcut
    - woodcutter
    - woodland
    - woodlouse
    - woodpecker
    - wood pulp
    - woodwind
    - woodwork
    - woodworm
    - out of the woods
    - out of the wood

    English-Icelandic dictionary > wood

  • 7 emit

    [i'mit]
    past tense, past participle - emitted; verb
    (to give out (light, heat, a sound, a smell etc).) senda frá sér

    English-Icelandic dictionary > emit

См. также в других словарях:

  • smell out — verb 1. recognize or detect by or as if by smelling He can smell out trouble • Syn: ↑sniff out, ↑scent out, ↑nose out • Entailment: ↑smell • Verb Frames …   Useful english dictionary

  • smell\ out — • ferret out literary • sniff out • smell out v To hunt or drive from hiding; to bring out into the open; search for and find. Jane smelled out the boys secret hiding place in the woods. John ferreted out the answer to the question in the library …   Словарь американских идиом

  • smell out — See: FERRET OUT …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • smell out — See: FERRET OUT …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • smell out — Discover, find out …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • To smell out — Smell Smell (sm[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelled}, {Smelt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smelling}.] [OE. smellen, smillen, smullen; cf. LG. smellen, smelen, sm[ o]len, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, and E. smolder. Cf. {Smell}, n.] 1 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • smell out — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. find, detect, identify; see discover …   English dictionary for students

  • smell out — discover; fill with stench …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Smell — (sm[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelled}, {Smelt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smelling}.] [OE. smellen, smillen, smullen; cf. LG. smellen, smelen, sm[ o]len, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, and E. smolder. Cf. {Smell}, n.] 1. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • smell — [smel] vt. smelled or [Chiefly Brit.] Brit. smelt, smelling [ME smellen < OE * smyllan < IE base * smel , to burn slowly > SMOLDER: basic sense “to give off smoke”] 1. to be or become aware of by means of the nose and the olfactory… …   English World dictionary

  • smell — smell1 W3S2 [smel] n 1.) the quality that people and animals recognize by using their nose smell of ▪ The air was filled with the smell of flowers. sweet/delicious smell ▪ There s a delicious smell coming from the kitchen. unpleasant/bad/acrid… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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