curiosity

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English - Turkish
merak

Onun hikayesi çocuklarda merak uyandırdı. - Her story excited curiosity in the children.

Onun her zaman, dünya hakkında büyük bir merakı oldu. - He has always had a great curiosity about the world.

sorak
acibe
garabet
garip
bilseme
tuhaf şey
{i} ilgi
{i} ilginç şey
{i} tuhaf tip
{i} antika
nadir şey
nadir bulunan ilginç eşyalar

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curiosity killed the cat
(Atasözü) kediyi merak öldürür
curiosity killed the cat
(Atasözü) fazla merak kediyi öldürür
curiosity killed the cat
(deyim) Fazla merak, başa dert açar
burst with curiosity
meraktan çatlamak
die of curiosity
Meraktan çatlamak, meraktan ölmek
intellectual curiosity
entelektüel merakını
to satisfy ones curiosity
merakını gidermek
out of curiosity
meraktan
raise someone's curiosity
birinin dikkatini çekmek
raise someone's curiosity
birinin merakını uyandırmak
satisfy somebody's curiosity
merakını gidermek
whet one's curiosity
merakını uyandırmak
English - English
Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring

It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre.

Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building

wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship .

A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest

He kept the strangely shaped rock as a curiosity.

{n} an inquisitiveness, niceness, rarity
something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
the tendency of enformy to impose enformation on gestalts to realize their potential complexity (Watson)
{i} inquisitiveness, desire to know and understand anything; unusual object, rare object
Curiosity is a desire to know about something. Ryle accepted more out of curiosity than anything else To satisfy our own curiosity we traveled to Baltimore
Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness
An unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest
A curiosity is something that is unusual, interesting, and fairly rare. There is much to see in the way of castles, curiosities, and museums
a state in which you want to learn more about something
inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask questions, investigate, or explore
That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention
The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration
the desire to know what is happening or has happened Close Window
Eagerness to learn or know something in science

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curiosity killed the cat
Knowing some things can be dangerous, so don't be so curious to know them
curiosity killed the cat
curiosity causes problems, being curious gets you in trouble
die of curiosity
(deyim) Experience a strongly felt need to know about something
Old Curiosity Shop
a novel by Charles Dickens about a girl called Little Nell and her grandfather, who are forced to leave their shop and give it to a cruel man called Quilp, because the grandfather owes him money. The scene at end of the book in which Little Nell dies is famous for being very sad (1841)
aroused his curiosity
stirred his curiosity, made him curious, aroused his inquisitiveness
curios
plural of curio
curiosities
plural of curiosity
held back his curiosity
restrained his curiosity, did not pry despite his eager desire to know
it was curiosity which killed the cat
too much snooping around can get you into a heap of trouble
raises curiosity
arouses curiosity, excites a desire to know, arouses inquisitiveness
satisfied his curiosity
fulfilled his curiosity, caused him to understand and to stop being curious about the subject, provided him with the needed information
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