waterfall

Bahasa Inggeris

Goðafoss, air terjun di Iceland

Takrifan

Kata nama

waterfall (bentuk jamak waterfalls)

1. air terjun.

   Sinonim: cataract, cascade

2. (kiasan) limpahan bagai air terjun cecair, asap dan lain-lain.

   A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.

3. (teknikal, komputer, slanga) Model air terjun

   A very long duration project […] had taken a whole group of people through a painful waterfall development process.

4. (slanga, Amerika) Tindakan minum dari bekas tanpa mengenanya dengan bibir, dianggap lebih bersih untuk bekas berkongsi.

   Hey man, can I take a waterfall from your bottle?

5. (basahan, lapuk) tali leher.
6. (basahan, lapuk) sanggul.

Terbitan

Perkataan terbitan

coastal waterfall waterfall bong waterfall effect

waterfall illusion waterfall model waterfall stomach

Kata kerja

waterfall

1. (intransitif) Jatuh seperti air terjun.
   • 1994, Nora Roberts, Private Scandals, page 54:

     Rain ran off the bill of his fielder's cap and waterfalled in front of his face.

     (sila tambah terjemahan bahasa Melayu bagi petikan ini)

   • 1999, Jane Yolen with Bruce Coville, Armageddon Summer‎, page 79:

     Zondra, whose dirty-blond hair waterfalled above her head from a colorful tie, gave a snorting, horsey kind of laugh.

     (sila tambah terjemahan bahasa Melayu bagi petikan ini)

   • 2008, John Gardner, No Human Enemy‎, page 156:

     they turned into the drive of The Manor with its red-brick front and the wonderful cloak of Virginia creeper waterfalling down between the windows.

     (sila tambah terjemahan bahasa Melayu bagi petikan ini)

2. (transitif) Minum (sesuatu) dari bekas dengan menuangnya dari suatu ketinggian agar tidak sentuh bibir seseorang dengan bibir bekas.

Terbitan

• waterfalled
• waterfalling

Etimologi

Daripada bahasa Inggeris [Istilah?] waterfal, waterfalle, daripada bahasa Inggeris [Istilah?] wæterġefeall (“air terjun”), setara dengan water (“air”) +‎ fall (“jatuh”). Seasald dengan bahasa Frisia Barat wetterfal (“air terjun”), bahasa Belanda waterval (“air terjun”), bahasa Jerman Wasserfall (“air terjun”), bahasa Sweden vattenfall (“waterfall”).

Sebutan

• (UK) AFA^(kekunci): /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/
• (A.S.) enPR: wôʹtər-fôl, AFA^(kekunci): /ˈwɔtɚfɔl/

• Audio (A.S.):

  (file)

• Rima: -ɔːl

Tesaurus

Sinonim

• (air terjun): cascade, cataract, sault

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