desert als zelfstandig naamwoord: - 1
- 2
als werkwoord: - 1
- 2
- 3
desert
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 desert
Arid land with little or no vegetation.
Roget 944:
virtue;
virtuousness
etc.
adj.;
morality;
moral rectitude;
integrity
etc.
(probity)
939;
nobleness
etc.
873.
morals;
ethics
etc.
(duty)
926;
cardinal virtues.
merit,
worth,
desert,
excellence,
credit;
self-control
etc.
(resolution)
604;
self-denial
etc.
(temperance)
953.
well-doing;
good actions,
good behavior;
discharge of duty,
fulfillment of duty,
performance of duty;
well-spent life;
innocence
etc.
946.
... meer laten zien
Roget 344:
plain,
table-land,
face of the country;
open country,
champaign country†;
basin,
downs,
waste,
weary waste,
desert,
wild,
steppe,
pampas,
savanna,
prairie,
heath,
common,
wold†,
veldt;
moor,
moorland;
bush;
plateau
etc.
(level)
213;
campagna†;
alkali flat,
llano;
mesa,
mesilla [U.S.],
playa;
shaking prairie,
trembling prairie;
vega [Sp.].
meadow,
mead,
haugh†,
pasturage,
park,
field,
lawn,
green,
plat,
plot,
grassplat†,
greensward,
sward,
turf,
sod,
heather;
lea,
ley,
lay;
grounds;
maidan†,
agostadero†.
... meer laten zien
Roget 169:
unproductiveness
etc.
adj.;
infertility,
sterility,
infecundity†;
masturbation;
impotence
etc.
158;
unprofitableness
etc.
(inutility)
645.
waste,
desert,
Sahara,
wild,
wilderness,
howling wilderness.
... meer laten zien
Roget 396:
sweetness,
dulcitude†.
sugar,
syrup,
treacle,
molasses,
honey,
manna;
confection,
confectionary;
sweets,
grocery,
conserve,
preserve,
confiture†,
jam,
julep;
sugar-candy,
sugar-plum;
licorice,
marmalade,
plum,
lollipop,
bonbon,
jujube,
comfit,
sweetmeat;
apple butter,
caramel,
damson,
glucose;
maple sirup†,
maple syrup,
maple sugar;
mithai†,
sorghum,
taffy.
nectar;
hydromel†,
mead,
meade†,
metheglin†,
honeysuckle,
liqueur,
sweet wine,
aperitif.
[sources of sugar]
sugar cane,
sugar beets.
[sweet foods]
desert,
pastry,
pie,
cake,
candy,
ice cream,
tart,
puff,
pudding
(food)
298.
dulcification†,
dulcoration†.
sweetener,
corn syrup,
cane sugar,
refined sugar,
beet sugar,
dextrose;
artificial sweetener,
saccharin,
cyclamate,
aspartame,
Sweet'N Low.
... meer laten zien
Nederlands: woestijn
Pools: pustynia
2 desert
usually plural A person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment.
werkwoord
1 desert
Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch:
— The mother deserted her children.
synoniemen: abandon, desolate, forsake.
Roget 757:
resign;
give up,
throw up;
lay down,
throw up the cards,
wash one's hands of,
abjure,
renounce,
forego,
disclaim,
retract;
deny
etc.
536.
abrogate
etc.
756;
desert
etc.
(relinquish)
624;
get rid of
etc.
782.
abdicate;
vacate,
vacate one's seat;
accept the stewardship of the Chiltern accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds;
retire;
tender one's resignation.
... meer laten zien
Roget 624:
relinquish,
give up,
abandon,
desert,
forsake,
leave in the lurch;
go back on;
depart from,
secede from,
withdraw from;
back out of;
leave,
quit,
take leave of,
bid a long farewell;
vacate
etc.
(resign)
757.
renounce
etc.
(abjure)
607;
forego,
have done with,
drop;
disuse
etc.
678;
discard
etc.
782;
wash one's hands of;
drop all idea of.
break off,
leave off;
desist;
stop
etc.
(cease)
142;
hold one's hand,
stay one's hand;
quit one's hold;
give over,
shut up shop.
throw up the game,
throw up the cards;
give up the point,
give up the argument;
pass to the order of the day,
move to the previous question.
... meer laten zien
Roget 623:
abstain,
refrain,
spare,
not attempt;
not do
etc.
681;
maintain the even tenor of one's way.
eschew,
keep from,
let alone,
have nothing to do with;
keep aloof keep off,
stand aloof,
stand off,
hold aloof,
hold off;
take no part in,
have no hand in.
avoid,
shun;
steer clear of,
keep clear of;
fight shy of;
keep one's distance,
keep at a respectful distance;
keep out of the way,
get out of the way;
evade,
elude,
turn away from;
set one's face against
etc.
(oppose)
708;
deny oneself.
shrink back;
hang back,
hold back,
draw back;
recoil
etc.
277;
retire
etc.
(recede)
287;
flinch,
blink,
blench,
shy,
shirk,
dodge,
parry,
make way for,
give place to.
beat a retreat;
turn tail,
turn one's back;
take to one's heels;
runaway,
run for one's life;
cut and run;
be off like a shot;
fly,
flee;
fly away,
flee away,
run away from;
take flight,
take to flight;
desert,
elope;
make off,
scamper off,
sneak off,
shuffle off,
sheer off;
break away,
tear oneself away,
slip away,
slink away,
steel away,
make away from,
scamper away from,
sneak away from,
shuffle away from,
sheer away from;
slip cable,
part company,
turn one's heel;
sneak out of,
play truant,
give one the go by,
give leg bail,
take French leave,
slope,
decamp,
flit,
bolt,
abscond,
levant,
skedaddle,
absquatulat [U.S.],
cut one's stick,
walk one's chalks,
show a light pair of heels,
make oneself scarce;
escape
etc.
671;
go away
etc.
(depart)
293;
abandon
etc.
624;
reject
etc.
610.
lead one a dance,
lead one a pretty dance;
throw off the scent,
play at hide and seek.
... meer laten zien
Nederlands: verzaken
2 desert
Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army:
— If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot.
synoniem: defect.
Nederlands: afvallen, apostaseren, deserteren, drossen, overlopen
3 desert
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
Roget 187:
absent,
not present,
away,
nonresident,
gone,
from home;
missing;
lost;
wanting;
omitted;
nowhere to be found;
inexistence
etc.
2†.
empty,
void;
vacant,
vacuous;
untenanted,
unoccupied,
uninhabited;
tenantless;
barren,
sterile;
desert,
deserted;
devoid;
uninhabitable.
... meer laten zien
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Lebensraum, Sahara, Saharan, abandon, abscond, absquatulate, acarpous, advantageousness, agreeableness, air space, alkali flat, alluvial plain, anhydrous, apostacize, apostatize, arid, athirst, auspiciousness, back country, bare, barren, barren land, barrens, basin, be unfaithful, beat a retreat, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, betray, bolt, bone-dry, bottomland, break away, break faith, brush, bush, bushveld, campo, celibate, champaign, champaign country, change sides, chastening, chastisement, childless, chuck, class, clear out, clear space, clearance, clearing, coastal plain, cogency, comeuppance, compensation, cut and run, decamp, defect, degenerate, delta, depart, deserted, deserts, deserving, desolate, desolation, discipline, distant prospect, down, downs, drained, dried-up, droughty, dry, dry as dust, due, dust bowl, dusty, elope, empty, empty view, escape, excellence, exhausted, expedience, fail, fairness, fall away, fall off, fallow, favorableness, fell, fineness, first-rateness, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, flee, fly, forsake, fruitless, fugitate, gaunt, gelded, glade, go, go AWOL, go back on, go over, goodliness, goodness, grace, grass veld, grassland, healthiness, heath, helpfulness, high and dry, howling wilderness, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, jilt, juiceless, jump, jump bail, just deserts, justice, karroo, kindness, lande, leached, leave, let down, levant, level, like parchment, living space, llano, lonely, lowland, lowlands, lunar landscape, lunar mare, lunar waste, make off, mare, maroon, menopausal, merit, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, niceness, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, open country, open space, outback, pampa, pampas, pass the buck, payment, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, pleasantness, prairie, profitableness, pull out, punishment, quality, quit, quittance, rat, recompense, renegade, renege, renounce, reprisal, repudiate, requital, retribution, revenge, reward, rewardingness, right, rights, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, run out on, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sandy, sapless, savanna, sebkha, secede, sell out, shift the blame, shift the responsibility, show the heels, sine prole, skedaddle, skillfulness, skip, skip out, slip the cable, soundness, steppe, sterile, strand, sucked dry, superiority, switch, switch over, table, tableland, take French leave, take flight, take to flight, take wing, teemless, tergiversate, terrain, territory, thirsting, thirsty, throw over, tree veld, tundra, turn, turn against, turn cloak, turn tail, turn traitor, uncultivated, undamped, unfertile, unfruitful, uninhabited, unpeopled, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, unwatered, upland, usefulness, vacant, validity, value, vega, veld, virgin, virtue, virtuousness, waste, wasted, wasteland, waterless, weald, weary waste, what is due, what is merited, wholeness, wide-open spaces, wild, wilderness, wildness, wilds, without issue, wold, worth ... meer laten zien.
debug info: 0.0544