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 Translation for 'to expect sth' from English to Icelandic
vænta e-sto expect sth.
búast við e-uto expect sth.
eiga von á e-uto expect sth.
reikna með e-uto expect sth.
2 Words
ætlast til e-s af e-mto expect sth. of sb.
Partial Matches
vænta sínto expect a baby
fergja e-ð (með e-u)to weight down sth. (with sth.) [hold it down]
bera e-ð á/í e-ðto apply sth. to/on sth. [put on]
taka e-ð fyrir e-ðto charge sth. for sth. [set a price]
rukka e-ð fyrir e-ðto charge sth. for sth. [demand a price]
hlaða e-ð með e-u to charge sth. with sth. [to load firearm, battery]
þrykkja e-ð á e-ðto print sth. on sth. [especially graphics]
þrífa e-ð úr e-uto snatch sth. from / out of sth.
fylla e-ð með e-uto charge sth. with sth. [load to capacity]
unverified svipta e-u ofan af e-uto sweep sth. off sth. [take away]
verja e-ð fyrir e-uto protect sth. against / from sth.
yfirfæra e-ðe-ð)to superimpose sth. (on / onto sth.)
láta e-ð ofan í e-ðto put sth. in / into sth.
unverified keyra e-ð í e-ð [slá af afli]to hit sth. hard (with sth.)
vilja e-ð frekar en e-ð annaðto prefer sth. to sth. else
eyrnamerkja e-ð e-uto earmark sth. for sth. [reserve]
taka e-ð fram yfir annaðto prefer sth. to sth. else
aðlaga e-ð (e-u)to adjust sth. (at / to sth.)
pota e-u í e-ðto prod sth. into sth. else
pota e-u í e-ðto tuck sth. into sth. else
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Usage Examples English
  • Local officials who are savvier would know better than to expect co-operation from "jianghu" members and would refrain from seeking help except to apprehend the worst and most notorious criminals.
  • Framing is done with a (frequently formulaic) expression which keys the audience in to expect a joke.
  • This right not only to advise the monarch directly, but also to expect that advice to be accepted, was soon taken up by all the other Dominion prime ministers.
  • One study on respiratory tract infections found "physicians were more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients who appeared to expect them".
  • Similarly, David Hand, emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, points out that the law of truly large numbers should lead one to expect the kind of events predicted by Murphy's law to occur occasionally.

  • Banking customers also have come to expect high reliability in their ATMs, which provides incentives to ATM providers to minimise machine and network failures.
  • Those involved probably realised that their plot would result in war between Austria and Serbia and had every reason to expect that Russia would side with Serbia.
  • By contrast, representation theory for topological groups that are not locally compact has so far been developed only in special situations, and it may not be reasonable to expect a general theory.
  • , although at lower RF frequencies it isn't reasonable to expect switching times in the same order of magnitude as the RF period.
  • Of course cracking the software to expect good sectors made for readily copied disks without the need to meddle with the disk drive.

  • 77°, with its polar regions exposed to sunlight or darkness for long periods, scientists were not sure what to expect at Uranus.
  • When people take them, they have already been introduced to the subject and know what to expect.
  • This suggests an imminent end but he is unspecific about times and seasons and encourages his hearers to expect a delay.
  • There are several powerful experimental reasons to expect new physics, including dark matter and neutrino mass.
  • Second, actual speech, even at a word level, is highly co-articulated, so it is problematic to expect to be able to splice words into simple segments without affecting speech perception.

  • Another formulation is due to William James: "To develop perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what effects of a conceivable practical kind the object may involve – what sensations we are to expect from it and what reactions we must prepare".
  • LR parser stacks add the state information in purple, summarizing the black phrases to their left on the stack and what syntax possibilities to expect next.
  • But this is not a reason to expect that there should exist a mathematical function [...].
  • They had been told by their regional cadre to expect thousands to attend; however, when they arrived they found only a few hundred people.
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