nekta
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nekta
- inflection of nekte:
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nekta (present tense nektar, past tense nekta, past participle nekta, passive infinitive nektast, present participle nektande, imperative nekta/nekt)
- to refuse
- 1860, Olaus Fjørtoft, translated from Emile Laveleye, "Kor vert de me Frankrik no?":
- Vyrtemberg so lite de er hev brukt fleire pengar til skule held de store Frankrik, som gav meir held 9 millionar daler til eit nytt komedihus, mea dei nekta 180,000 til nye skulehus.
- Württemberg, small as it is, has spent more money on schools than great France, which gave more than 9 million dollars for a new comedy theatre, while they refused 180,000 for new schools.
- 1860, Olaus Fjørtoft, translated from Emile Laveleye, "Kor vert de me Frankrik no?":
- to deny
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- “nekta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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nekta (n class, plural nekta)
- nectar (syrup made by flowers and collected by bees to make honey)
- Synonym: mbochi
- 2017 August 24, “Dawa "tamu" ya mbu iliofanikiwa Tanzania”, in BBC News Swahili[1]:
- Kwa kutengeza dawa hiyo wanasayansi hao walitumia harufu ya maua na mimea mingine inayotoa nekta .
- By making the drug, the scientists used the scent of flowers and other plants that produce nectar.