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 Translation for 'to expose sth' from English to Icelandic
afhjúpa e-ðto expose sth.
Partial Matches
koma upp um e-nto expose sb.
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]
hlaða e-ð með e-u to charge sth. with sth. [to load firearm, battery]
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]
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]
þrífa e-ð úr e-uto snatch sth. from / out of sth.
þrykkja e-ð á e-ðto print sth. on sth. [especially graphics]
láta e-ð ofan í e-ðto put sth. in / into sth.
pota e-u í e-ðto tuck sth. into sth. else
pota e-u í e-ðto prod sth. into sth. else
yfirfæra e-ðe-ð)to superimpose sth. (on / onto sth.)
aðlaga e-ð (e-u)to adjust sth. (at / to sth.)
unverified keyra e-ð í e-ð [slá af afli]to hit sth. hard (with sth.)
verja e-ð fyrir e-uto protect sth. against / from sth.
eyrnamerkja e-ð e-uto earmark sth. for sth. [reserve]
vilja e-ð frekar en e-ð annaðto prefer sth. to sth. else
e-ð út úr e-uto get sth. out of sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • In 1887, investigative journalist Nellie Bly went undercover at an asylum in New York City to expose the terrible conditions that mental patients at the time had to deal with.
  • Monitoring mechanisms also vary as to the degree of individual access to expose cases of abuse and plea for remedies.
  • Fear of Hera's revenge led Alcmene to expose the infant Heracles, but he was taken up and brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who played an important role as protectress of heroes.
  • "Trimming" is the cutting of tissue samples in order to expose the relevant surfaces for later sectioning.
  • One theory is that periods of increased geomagnetic reversals will weaken Earth's magnetic field long enough to expose the atmosphere to the solar winds, causing oxygen ions to escape the atmosphere in a rate increased by 3–4 orders, resulting in a disastrous decrease in oxygen.

  • The novel "A Singular Conspiracy" (1974) by Barry Perowne is a fictional treatment of the unaccounted period in Edgar Allan Poe's life from January to May 1844, in which (among other things) Poe becomes involved with a young Baudelaire in a plot to expose Baudelaires' stepfather to blackmail, to free up Baudelaires' patrimony.
  • This means they can have an unfair advantage to expose their business ventures and endorsements and can easily capture a more significant amount of market share than the average entrepreneur.
  • The blade holder is designed to expose just enough edge to cut through one layer of corrugated fibreboard, to minimize chances of damaging contents of cardboard boxes.
  • Although initially refusing to expose themselves to the risk and expense associated with bringing a step-in system to market, Burton chose to focus primarily on improvements to existing strap-in technology.
  • However, it was later revealed that these tensions were all a ruse in a plot to expose a traitor on "Voyager", though unbeknownst to Chakotay.

  • A laser beam (laser writer) or a beam of electrons (e-beam writer) is used to expose the pattern defined by the data file and travels over the surface of the substrate in either a vector or raster scan manner.
  • Another goal of this approach is to expose pseudo-problems, which involve a merely verbal disagreement without any genuine difference on the level of the consequences between the competing standpoints.
  • Vendors can use extensions to expose custom APIs without needing support from other vendors or the Khronos Group as a whole, which greatly increases the flexibility of OpenGL.
  • The rapid uplift and high erosion rates within the Southern Alps combine to expose high grade greenschist to amphibolite facies rocks, including the gemstone pounamu.
  • When a full tank was opened, the flood of water sluiced away the overburden to expose the bedrock underneath and any gold-bearing veins.

  • He aimed to expose thoroughly starting with Japanese aggression in Manchuria in 1939.
  • Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, wherein artists intend to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all nonessential forms, features, or concepts.
  • It allows two-way shifting of the clitoral hood: firstly, it can extend to let the hood be moved upwards to expose the glans for stimulation or hygienic cleansing, and secondly, it contracts to pull the hood back to protect it.
  • Trotsky intended to use the forum to expose the NKVD's activities against him and his followers.
  • The detective is particularly skilled in the analysis of trace evidence and other physical evidence, including latent prints (such as footprints, hoof prints, and shoe and tire impressions) to identify actions at a crime scene; using tobacco ashes and cigarette butts to identify criminals; handwriting analysis and graphology; comparing typewritten letters to expose a fraud; using gunpowder residue to expose two murderers; and analyzing small pieces of human remains to expose two murders.

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