Čo znamená possess v angličtine a aká je definícia possess?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť possess výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

possess Význam & definícia

0 to have or own something, or to have a particular quality:
- I don't possess a single DVD (= I don't have even one DVD).
- In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers.
1 (of a wish or an idea) to take control over a person's mind, making that person behave in a very strange way:
- [ + to infinitive ] Whatever possessed him to wear that appalling jacket!
2 to have or own something, or to have a particular quality:
- Those states are the countries that possess nuclear weapons.
- She possesses the unusual talent of knowing when to say nothing.
3 (of a desire or an idea) to take control over a person’s mind, making that person behave in a strange way:
- I don’t know what possessed me to start yelling like that.
4 to have or own something:
- More than five million German households possess exercise equipment.
- These bonds possess many favorable investment attributes.
5 to have a particular quality:
- possess knowledge/qualities/skills Sales managers must possess strong leadership qualities.

We're trying to bring out the artistic talents that many people possess without realizing it.
She had already sold everything of value that she possessed.
Ruth possessed great writing skills.
He was charged with possessing a fake passport.
"I'm arresting you on suspicion of illegally possessing drugs, " said the police officer.
The class of quasirandom graphs is defined by certain equivalent graph properties possessed by random graphs.
Figure 8 shows an example involving five initial disks, all of radius 1, that possesses no symmetry.
Just how much autonomy cells possess was a matter of serious debate in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century.