sniff Definisjon på norsk

  • 0 to take air in through your nose, often in order to smell sth -- snufse

    • The deer sniffed the air, sensing danger. Hjorten snuste i luften, og været fare.

    • Stop sniffing, or he’ll know you were crying. Slutt å snufse, ellers vil han skjønne at du gråt.

  • 1 -- snufs [ neuter ]

    • He gave a loud sniff. Han snufset høyt.

  • 2 to draw in air through the nose with a slight noise. -- snufse, snøfte

  • 3 to do this in an attempt to smell something -- snuse på

  • 4 an act of sniffing. -- snufs(ing), snus(ing)

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Examples of sniff

  • Why should we not profit from whatever structure we can sniff out, abstract and re-use?

  • A sniff cycle is composed of an inhalation and an exhalation, and its duration is 200-500 msec for rabbits.

  • It got a little sniff of easing and the stock market took off, the bond market took off.

  • Individuals entered a fruit-fall area cautiously, usually by meandering around the area sniffing the litter surface.

  • Ironically, sniffing out such meanings may be considered part of the licence that perfumance grants the nosy textual detective.

  • He responds to those who dare trespass in the garden with indifferent silence or grunts, his conversations consisting of sniffs, growls, belches.

  • Anogenital sniffing - olfactory investigation of the anogenital region of the opponent.

  • In many challenging situations when animals are uncertain what to do, they actively seek better information, peering, listening, tasting, probing, or sniffing.

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