parrot

Denizione di  parrot - dizionario di inglese del sito grammaticainglese.org - definizione traduzione e spiegazione grammaticale


Definizione monolingua parrot



parrot


Verb

parrot (third-person singular simple present parrots, present participle parroting, simple past and past participle parroted or parrotted)


  1. (transitive) To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
    • 1996, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address (15 June)
      So when political leaders parrot the tobacco company line, say cigarettes are not necessarily addictive, and oppose our efforts to keep tobacco away from our children, they continue to cater to powerful interests, but theyre not standing up for parents and children.
Noun

parrot (plural parrots)


  1. A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech.
    I bought a wonderful parrot at the pet store.
    • 1855, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book I, chapter 33,
      Mrs Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species.
  2. A parroter; a person who repeats what was just said.
    What kind of a parrot are you? He just said that.
    • 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar,
      In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
  3. (archaic) A puffin.
  4. (geology, obsolete) Channel coal.


Definizione italiano>inglese parrot


pappagallo
  person who repeats what was said
  kind of bird
  Any bird of the order Psittaciformes, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech.
a pappagallo
  to repeat exactly without showing understanding
pappagallesco
  to repeat exactly without showing understanding
ripetere
  to repeat exactly without showing understanding
psittaciformes
ripetere a pappagallo
ripetere in modo pappagallesco

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Traduzione 'veloce'



pappagallo ,a pappagallo ,pappagallesco ,ripetere ,psittaciformes


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