unknown — Słownik języka angielskiego

Przymiotnik

1. Not known; unidentified; not well known.

   Użycie

   • postpositional
   • sometimes

   Synonimy

   anonymousunfamiliarunchartedundiscoveredunexploredunidentifiedunnamedunrecognizedunrevealedunascertainedobscureunsung

   Antonimy

   well-knownfamousknown

   Przykłady

   The concept has existed since times unknown.

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   The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

   I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.

Rzeczownik

1. A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.

2. Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.

   Przykłady

   Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?

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   I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.

   As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know.

   The other priority is getting people to respond well to interventions, especially changes to routine. This is one of the biggest unknowns in these scenarios, and yet compliance can be the most crucial factor in determining whether an intervention works.

3. A person of no identity; a nonentity.

   Przykłady

   How does it feel, / how does it feel? / To be on your own, / with no direction home / A complete unknown, / like a rolling stone

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   Khaleque, the landowner, who had contributed most of the money needed to transform the neglected burial-place of an unknown into a mazar, masked his pride and pleasure with difficulty. He solemnly declared: ‘Perhaps now we shall be forgiven for neglecting the saint all these years.’

Przymiotnik

1. not known

   Antonimy

   known

   Przykłady

   an unknown amount

   an unknown island

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   an unknown writer

   an unknown source

2. being or having an unknown or unnamed source

   Synonimy

   namelessunidentifiedunnamed

   Przykłady

   a poem by an unknown author

   corporations responsible to nameless owners

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   an unnamed donor

3. not known to exist

   Przykłady

   things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths

4. not famous or acclaimed

   Synonimy

   obscureunsung

   Przykłady

   an obscure family

   unsung heroes of the war

5. not known before

   Synonimy

   strange

   Przykłady

   used many strange words

   saw many strange faces in the crowd

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   don't let anyone unknown into the house

Rzeczownik

1. an unknown and unexplored region

   Synonimy

   unknown regionterra incognita

   Terminy szersze

   region

   Przykłady

   they came like angels out of the unknown

2. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

   Synonimy

   strangeralien

   Terminy szersze

   intruderinterlopertrespasser

3. a variable whose values are solutions of an equation

   Synonimy

   unknown quantity

   Terminy szersze

   variable