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 Translation for 'comfort' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a comfort | comforts
VERB   to comfort | comforted | comforted
comforting | comforts
SYNO comfort | comfortableness | comforter | ...
hugga e-nto comfort sb. [console]
makindi {hv.ft}comfort
huggun {kv}comfort [consolation, solace]
hughreysting {kv}comfort [consolation, solace]
þægindi {hv.ft}comfort {sg}
sálfræði
þægindarammi {k}
comfort zone
sálfræði
þægindahringur {k}
comfort zone
huggunarorð {hv}word of comfort
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Usage Examples English
  • The etching "A House of Comfort" (1993) juxtaposed a mansion-like ‘comfort station,’ the state-sponsored brothel used by Japanese soldiers during the war, against a portrait of a disrobed ‘comfort woman’ as a visual narrative that questioned the idea of home, nation, and the cost of war.
  • During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, several Filipino LGBT people were forced into sexual slavery as comfort women, including several men.
  • In 2021, controversy arose when the International Review of Law and Economics published an online pre-print of an article by Ramseyer that challenged the narrative that comfort women were coerced into sexual servitude in Japanese military brothels in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • Sailing yachts for "cruising" versus "racing" embody different tradeoffs between comfort and performance.
  • Kolcaba's theory of comfort explains comfort as a fundamental need of all human beings for relief, ease, or transcendence arising from health care situations that are stressful.

  • Some of the non-structural requirements are: fire safety, thermal comfort, acoustic comfort, durability and water leakage.
  • Her book "The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan" delivers new insight into the nature of the comfort women issue.
  • Based on historical documents and the testimony of comfort women, including several cases of comfort women who fell in love with Japanese soldiers, a soldier who took care of a sick woman, or soldiers who helped comfort women to return their home country, Park asserts the existence of hidden comfort women who have been excluded from the mainstream narrative of comfort women, mainly consisting of "Japanese military coerced Korean women" and "sex-slaves".
  • Because the RAA and related systems were inspired by Japanese wartime experiences, their structures and terminologies were based on the pre-existing wartime comfort women system.
  • The first vocal movement (a tenor accompagnato) is based on three verses—the words of God beginning with "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people".

  • There are various psychological studies about the feeling of comfort, and they have resulted in a few conclusions.
  • Borrowing Comfort Index quantifies consumers' comfort in borrowing to finance big ticket products, such as homes, vehicles and consumer durables.
  • Visual comfort probability (VCP), also known as Guth Visual Comfort Probability, is a metric used to rate lighting scenes.
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