Definition of wit in English Turkish dictionary
- ince zekâ
Ben senin ince zekana sahip değilim.
-I don't have your wit.
- ince espri
İnce espri konuşmaya lezzet verir.
-Wit gives zest to conversation.
O kitabı yazan kişi hem mizah hem de ince espriye sahiptir, değil mi?
-The person who wrote that book is possessed of both humour and wit, isn't he?
- nükte
Tom sık sık nükte yapar.
-Tom frequently makes witty remarks.
Eski arkadaşının fişini çekerken, herkes ölür dedi genellikle nükteci doktor.
-Everybody dies, said the usually witty doctor as he pulled the plug on his old friend.
- zeka kıvraklığı
- akıl
Tüm insanlar özgür, şeref ve haklar bakımından eşit doğar. Akıl ve vicdana sahiplerdir ve birbirlerine karşı kardeşlik ruhuyla hareket etmelidir.
-All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Çılgınlık yapmadan yaşayan insan düşündüğü kadar akıllı değildir.
-Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.
- farkında olmak
- {i} zekâ
Ortalama zekada birisi bunu anlayabilir.
-A person with average intelligence would understand that.
Doğa ona zeka ve güzellik vermiş.
-Nature endowed her with wit and beauty.
- nüktecilik
- espritüel kimse
- nüktedanlık
- {f} öğrenmek
Bizimle kimin kaldığını öğrenmek istiyorum.
-I want to know who's staying with us.
Eğer yabancı bir dili iyi öğrenmek istiyorsanız, o dili bir yerli ile mümkün olduğunca sık konuşmalısınız.
-If you want to learn a foreign language well, you should speak that language with native speakers as often as you can.
- {f} farkında ol
Biz aslında bunun farkında olmadan hiyeroglifle yazıyoruz.
-We are basically writing in hieroglyphics without being aware of it.
Herhangi birimiz bunun farkında olmadan yetersiz beslenmeye maruz kalabilir!
-Any one of us could suffer from malnutrition without being aware of it!
- {i} zeki kimse
- demek ki
- nüktedan kimse
- {f} bilmek
Gelecek hafta sonu bizimle balık tutmaya gidebilip gidemeyeceğini bilmek istiyorum.
-I want to know if you can go fishing with us next weekend.
Bu öğleden sonra kimle birlikte olduğunu bilmek istiyorum.
-I want to know who you were with this afternoon.
- {f} yâni
Yani sonuçta, Web'i dil öğrenmede daha iyi bir yer yapmak için biz Tatoeba ile sadece temelleri inşa ediyoruz.
-So ultimately, with Tatoeba we are only building the foundations… to make the Web a better place for language learning.
Yani benim fikrimin nesi var?
-So what's wrong with my idea?
- anlayış
İyi bir espri anlayışı zor dönemlerle başa çıkmana yardımcı olacaktır.
-A good sense of humor will help you deal with hard times.
Bazı normlarla ilgili temel bir anlayış olmadan, iletişim mümkün değildir.
-Without a basic understanding of certain norms, communication is impossible.
- zekâ kıvraklığı
- nükteci kimse
- farkında ol(mak)
- espritüellik
- us
- fikir
- witness
- şahit
Onu şahit gösteremeyiz.
-We can't produce him as a witness.
Aslında trafik kazasına şahit olmadım.
-Actually, I did not witness the traffic accident.
- witness
- şahit olmak
- wit and humor
- nükte ve mizah
- witness
- {f} tanık olmak
- witless
- {s} saf
- witless
- {s} düşüncesiz
- witless
- kafasızca
- witless
- anlamaz
- witless
- kafasızlık
- witless
- witlessnessakılsızlık
- witless
- {s} kafasız
- witless
- witlesslyakılsızca
- witless
- aptal
- witless
- akılsız
- witness
- {f} 1. bizzat görmek, -e tanık/şahit olmak: Did you witness that event? O olayı bizzat gördün mü? These walls have witnessed a
- witnesses
- tanıklar
Kazanın tanıklarıydık.
-We were witnesses of the accident.
Bazı tanıklar olduğunu umuyorum.
-I hope there were some witnesses.
- mother wit
- (deyim) aklı selim
- witlessly
- aptal bir şekilde
- witness
- şahadet etmek
- witness
- bizzat görmek
- witness
- tanıklık yapmak
- witness
- bilirkişi
Tom bilirkişi olarak işe alındı.
-Tom was hired as an expert witness.
- witness
- gözüyle görmek
- witness
- uzman
- witness
- göstermek
- witted
- anlayışlı
- witted
- zeki
- witting
- bilerek
- wittingly
- bilerek
- half-wit
- geri zekâlı
- half-wit
- budala
- half-wit
- aptal
- mother wit
- sağduyu
- witness
- kanıtlamak
- witness
- delil
- witness
- kanıt
- witting
- {i} farkında olma
- witting
- {f} farkında ol
- witness
- {i} tanık
O, ışığa sadece bir tanık gibi geldi.
-He came only as a witness to the light.
O, onun öldürülüşüne tanıklık etti.
-She witnessed him being killed.
- after wit
- wit sonra
- be at one´s wits´/wit´s end
- k. dili ne yapacağını şaşırmak
- be at one´s wit´s end
- ne yapacağını bilmemek, şaşırmak
- deal wit
- anlaşma wit
- half-wit
- ahmak
- have the wit
- zekâ var
- lively wit
- canlı wit
- some wit
- bazı zekâ
- want wit
- istiyorum wit
- witness
- şahid
- wits
- fikir
Tom onun fikirlerinden korkuyordu.
-Tom was scared out of his wits.
- attic wit
- ince espri
- be at one's wit's end
- ne yapacağını bilmemek, şaşırmak. be at one's wits'/wit's k.dili. ne yapacağını şaşırmak
- down and out wit flu
- gripten yatağa düşmüş
- dry wit
- (Fiili Deyim ) zarif nükte
- half wit
- aptal
- mother wit
- {i} akıl fikir
- oriental wit and humor
- doğu nükte ve mizahı
- quick wit
- zekâ
- quick wit
- hazırcevaplık
- quick wit
- kıvrak zekâ
- ready wit
- (deyim) hazircevap
- swift wit
- ince espri
- turkish wit and humor
- türk nükte ve mizahı
- witness
- {f} şahitlik etmek
- witness
- i. tanık, şahit. f
- witness
- tanıt
- witness
- {f} kabul etmek
- witness
- {i} tanıklık
O, onun öldürülüşüne tanıklık etti.
-She witnessed him being killed.
O cinayete tanıklık etti.
-He witnessed the murder.
- witness
- {f} onaylamak
- witness
- şehadet etmek
- witness
- witness box witness stand tanık kürsüsü
- witness
- şehadet
- witness
- hüccet
- witness
- bizzat görmek, -e tanık/şahit olmak: Did you witness that event? O olayı bizzat gördün mü? These walls have witnessed a
- witness
- burhan
- witness
- tanıklık etmek
- witness
- İmzam ve mühr
- witness
- müşahade etmek
- witness
- {f} sahne olmak
- witted
- {s} zekâlı
- witted
- anlayışlı zeki
- witted
- (sıfat) zekâlı
- witting
- bilerek yapılmış
- witting
- bile bile
- witting
- kasten
- wittingly
- kasıtlı bir şekilde
- wittingly
- bile bile
- wittingly
- kasten
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Definition of wit in English English dictionary
- Intelligence; common sense
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
- Sanity
He's gone completely out of his wits.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
- Know, be aware of
She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.
- Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick
The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
- The senses
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty
Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?.
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- {v} to know, understand, blame
- {n} a man of genius, quickness of fancy understanding, sense, judgement
- Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. Boulding was known for his biting wit
- To know; to learn
- If you say that someone has the wit to do something, you mean that they have the intelligence and understanding to make the right decision or take the right action in a particular situation. The information is there and waiting to be accessed by anyone with the wit to use it. = sense
- If you pit your wits against someone, you compete against them in a test of knowledge or intelligence. He has to pit his wits against an adversary who is cool, clever and cunning
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- {f} know (Archaic)
- Mind; intellect; understanding; sense
- the power of readily combining objects in such a manner
- You can refer to your ability to think quickly and cleverly in a difficult situation as your wits. She has used her wits to progress to the position she holds today
- A mental faculty, or power of the mind; used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like
- A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like
- If you describe someone as a wit, you mean that they have the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests
- Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also
- emphasis If you say that you are at your wits' end, you are emphasizing that you are so worried and exhausted by problems or difficulties that you do not know what to do next. We row a lot and we never have time on our own. I'm at my wit's end
- If you have your wits about you or keep your wits about you, you are alert and ready to act in a difficult situation. Travellers need to keep their wits about them
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially wittiness
- mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
- emphasis You can use wits in expressions such as frighten someone out of their wits and scare the wits out of someone to emphasize that a person or thing worries or frightens someone very much. You scared us out of our wits. We heard you had an accident
- To wit is used to indicate that you are about to state or describe something more precisely. He'd like `happiness' to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit `Major affective disorder, pleasant type'. = namely
- {i} intellect; reason; cleverness; sharpness; one who is sharp
- half-wit
- A stupid or inept person
- half-wit
- A person of around half the average intelligence of his or her peers
- staircase wit
- Thinking of an idea or course of action too late to use it effectively, or the tendency to do so
One of the most insightful thinkers I know, the computer entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, prompted me to summarize my idea while standing on one leg. It was not too convenient to stand one one leg after a few glasses of perfumed Riesling, so I failed in my improvisation. The next day I experienced staircase wit.
- to wit
- That is to say; namely; specifically
Though the animation code above demonstrates how a thread could be included as part of an object while still making that object be serializable, there is a major problem with it if we recall how Java creates objects. To wit, when we create an object with the new keyword, the object’s constructor is called only when a new instance of a class is created.
- wist
- Simple past tense and past participle of wit
And lang ere witless Jeanie wist, / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!.
- witness
- Attestation of a fact or event
She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.
- witness
- To take as evidence
- witness
- Something that serves as evidence; a sign
- witness
- One who has a personal knowledge of something
As a witness to the event, I can tell you that he really said that.
- witness
- Someone called to give evidence in a court
The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
- witness
- To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of
Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
- witness
- To see, note, or gain knowledge of
He witnessed the accident.
- witness
- To furnish proof of, to show
This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
- witnessed
- Simple past tense and past participle of witness
- wits
- senses
- wits
- plural form of wit
- witting
- Knowledge, awareness
for his wyf was at a someres game, / Wiþouten his wityng, he forsook hire eke.
- witting
- aware, knowledgable
- wittingly
- in a witting manner, intentionally, on purpose
- witless
- foolish, indiscreet, or silly
- wittingly
- with knowledge and by design
- witness
- A witness to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it. Witnesses to the crash say they saw an explosion just before the disaster No witnesses have come forward
- witless
- {a} wanting understanding, foolish, silly
- witness
- {v} to bear testimony, attest, affirm, say
- witness
- {f} look on, see, observe; testify, vouch for, corroborate; be an eye-witness; note, notice
- witted
- {a} having wit, endued with wit, keen
- wittingly
- {a} knowingly, by design, on purpose
- witness
- {i} testifier; onlooker, bystander; eye-witness; testimony
- witting
- intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy"
- Witness
- testis
- a wit
- esprit
- at one's wit's end
- at a loss as means to solve a problem
- half wit
- idiot, moron, stupid person
- half-wit
- a stupid person
- mother wit
- Innate intelligence or common sense
- mother wit
- {i} common sense, horse sense, plain good sense
- nit wit
- {i} stupid person, idiot, imbecile
- to wit
- that's to say, namely, meaning
- wist
- To know, be aware of
- wist
- Knew
- wist
- obsolete, past of wit
- wist
- Past tense and past participle of wit
- witless
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- witless
- disapproval If you describe something or someone as witless, you mean that they are very foolish or stupid. a witless, nasty piece of journalism. = mindless, stupid
- witless
- Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment
- witless
- {s} lacking intelligence, silly, stupid, foolish, doltish
- witlessly
- in a witless manner
- witlessly
- stupidly, in a witless manner
- witlessness
- {i} foolishness, lack of intelligence
- witlessness
- The state of being witless; stupidity
- witness
- (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
- witness
- A person who is present when something occurs or who gives evidence of something they have observed or heard or of something in which they have recognised expertise •Bail
- witness
- perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
- witness
- If you witness something, you see it happen. Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police = see
- witness
- A person who testifies before a legislative committee
- witness
- testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
- witness
- One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness
- witness
- One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like
- witness
- A person who has seen or knows something about the crime The victim is usually a witness, too
- witness
- a person who is sworn at a trial to provide evidence in a case
- witness
- One who testifies to what (s)he has seen, heard or otherwise observed
- witness
- a person called to testify to provide information directly relevant to the incident resulting in long-term suspension recommendation
- witness
- The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception) The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony)
- witness
- One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts
- witness
- That which furnishes evidence or proof
- witness
- If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened. Many of these poems bear witness to his years spent in India and China
- witness
- a person who testifies before a court under oath regarding what he has seen, heard or otherwise observed
- witness
- A witness is someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event. In the next three or four days, eleven witnesses will be called to testify
- witness
- be a witness to
- witness
- A person who is in a position to provide information about the facts in an appeal
- witness
- "an overarching term drawing together proclamation (kerygma), community (koinonia), and service (diakonia)" defining "evangelistic ministry, as the core of ministry" (Guder 2000, 53)
- witness
- A person called upon to give evidence in court
- witness
- To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest
- witness
- To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of
- witness
- If you say that a place, period of time, or person witnessed a particular event or change, you mean that it happened in that place, during that period of time, or while that person was alive. India has witnessed many political changes in recent years = see
- witness
- One who personally sees or perceives a thing; one who testifies as to what he has seen, heard, or otherwise observed
- witness
- testimony by word or deed to your religious faith someone who sees an event and reports what happened (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law be a witness to perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results
- witness
- (RWT) A person called upon by either side in a lawsuit to give testimony before the court or jury
- witness
- To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify
- witness
- A person called upon by either side in a lawsuit to give testimony before the court or jury
- witness
- a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"
- witness
- A person who is present at the time other witnesses, notary and testator are all also present in his or her company and with proof of identification signs the Will and watches the other sign at the same time
- witness
- A person appearing before an Investigative Committee to present evidence and answer questions
- witness
- An independent person (not a beneficiary or executor or the spouse of either) who watches you sign your Will and then signs it in your presence You must have two witnesses to your Will for it to be valid
- witness
- If someone witnesses your signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature. Ask a friend to witness your signature
- witness
- A witness is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature
- witness
- One who gives evidence in a case before the court A witness is compelled by law to appear on the time and date specified Failure to do so could result in a warrant being issued for the arrest of the witness Under the provisions of Section 37(1) of the Jury Act, an employer of a person, who is required to attend upon court as a witness, shall pay that person the same wages and give the same benefits as that person would have received if he/she had worked
- witness
- One who testifies under oath to what he/she has seen, heard or otherwise observed
- witness
- To see the execution of, as an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed
- witness
- One who is called to court to testify in order to tell what he or she knows about the case (See, also, "Expert Witness")
- witness
- A person who testifies to what he or she has seen, heard or otherwise experienced Also, a person who observes the signing of a will and is competent to testify that it is the will-maker's intended last will and testament
- witness
- (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
- witness
- someone who sees an event and reports what happened
- witness
- person who observes the signing of a Will and/or codicil and attests to the signature of the Testator/rix
- witness
- Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony
- witness
- One who testifies to what he has seen, heard, or otherwise observed
- witness
- anyone who testifies in court including the victim
- witness
- a witness is an individual present at an event such as a marriage or the signing of a document who can vouch that the event took place
- witness
- {i} testifier
- witnessed
- past of witness
- witnesses
- plural of witness
- witnesses
- third-person singular of witness
- witnessing
- present participle of witness
- wits
- the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception; "he used his wits to get ahead"; "I was scared out of my wits"; "he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind
- wits
- {i} soundness of mind; sane mental faculties; sanity; cleverness and ability to think quickly
- wits
- plural of wit
- witted
- Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy
- witted
- {s} intelligent, perceptive, clever; having a wit or understanding of a particular nature (e.g. slow-witted)
- witted
- having a specified form of wit
- witting
- done consciously; intentional
- witting
- aware or knowing; "a witting tool of the Communists
- witting
- present participle of wit
- witting
- aware or knowing; "a witting tool of the Communists"
- witting
- aware
- witting
- {i} knowledge; news (British)
- witting
- {s} knowing, aware; deliberate
- wittingly
- Knowingly; with knowledge; by design
- wittingly
- with full knowledge and deliberation; "he wittingly deleted the references
- wittingly
- in an informed manner; in a deliberate manner
- wittingly
- with full knowledge and deliberation; "he wittingly deleted the references"
- wittingly
- If you do something wittingly, you are fully aware of what you are doing and what its consequences will be. When she had an affair with her friend's husband, she wittingly set off a chain of crises. unwittingly