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 Translation for 'to border on sth' from English to Icelandic
jaðra við e-ðto border on sth.
Partial Matches
bera e-ð á/í e-ðto apply sth. to/on sth. [put on]
þrykkja e-ð á e-ðto print sth. on sth. [especially graphics]
yfirfæra e-ðe-ð)to superimpose sth. (on / onto sth.)
þræða e-ð upp á e-ðto thread sth. on sth.
ala á e-uto harp on sth.
vinna e-uto work on sth.
vinna úr e-uto work on sth.
vinna í e-uto work on sth.
beina kastljósinu e-uto focus on sth.
úttala sig um e-ðto comment on sth.
vinna saman e-uto collaborate on sth.
skera e-ð við nöglto skimp on sth.
úrskurða um e-ðto decide on sth.
jaðra við e-ðto verge on sth.
ítreka e-ðto press on sth.
fatn.
íklæðast e-u [gamalt] [hátíðlegt]
to put sth. on
fókusera á e-ð [talm.]to focus on sth.
velta á e-uto depend on sth.
færast e-ð í fangto take on sth.
fókusa á e-ð [talm.]to focus on sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • Nekron is the personification of Death and ruler of a region adjoining Hell known as the Land of the Unliving, that also seems to border on Limbo and Purgatory within the DC Universe.
  • While this seemed to border on altering denominational school rights and raised section 29 concerns, since the school board in this case was a religious one, the Court justified it since the religious content of the education was unchanged, and the powers of the school board were merely "regulated" so that the religious teachings could be provided in French.
  • Instead, he was most interested in meditation and practiced it in such a devout way that it could almost appear to border on compulsive asceticism.
  • In 1989, residents of Keelstraat installed a chapel along the meadow that used to border on Godfried's birthplace.
  • Although his idea was generally considered to border on lunacy and his first inventory was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire, Ward persevered.

  • "Les Champs magnetiques" is characterised by rich textured language that often seems to border on the nonsensical.
  • Her work was said toborder on the kind of Islamic fundamentalist propaganda familiar from the Moroccan Islamic political activist, Nadia Yassine” and her work in identity is “antiquated in the relevant sociological debates”.
  • Morimoto was chosen based on his style of cooking, which seemed to border on fusion cuisine, as well as his international experience.
  • A separate division lay between some of the younger cardinals eager to press the reforms of the Council of Trent, and their senior colleagues whose views of reform leaned towards the Inquisition, which use appeared sometimes to border on the political.
  • The park is home to at least six primate species This park is the only wildlife territory in Ghana to border on Lake Volta, the largest man-made body of water in the country.

  • s Nathan Rabin gave the film a "B−" grade, praising Henson's performance and the "riveting musical numbers" by Knight and Blige for emitting more "feverish emotions" to the film than Perry's "characteristically ham-fisted screenplay", concluding that "His oeuvre has always been shameless and over the top, but "Bad" might just be the first of Perry’s films to border on operatic."
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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