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usiba

Vertalings in die woordeboek Xhosa - Engels

feather

naamwoord

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the skin of birds and protects them against coldness and water and allows their wings to create lift.

Indlela eyilwe ngayo le ndawo ukuze ikwazi ukulawula umoya yenza usiba ngalunye lokubhabha lube ngathi liphiko.
This classic airfoil design enables each flight feather to act like a tiny wing in itself.

plumage

naamwoord

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the skin of birds and protects them against coldness and water and allows their wings to create lift.

plume

naamwoord

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the skin of birds and protects them against coldness and water and allows their wings to create lift.

voorbeelde

Kuba okokuqala, xa usiba mdala amandla aya ephela, kodwa ubudala buthetha ubulumko, umonde nobuchule.
For one thing, age may limit your physical energy, but age is an asset when it comes to wisdom, patience, and skill.

Usiba olude oluziimitha ezine luyashukuma emva kwemizuzwana emibini.
The 13-foot [4 m]-long pendulum swings every two seconds.

Ukuba umntu ohamba entlango unokubeka imagnethi ecaleni kwekhampasi, usiba lwayo lunokuyeka ukwalatha emntla.
If the hiker were to put a magnet near his compass, the needle would point away from north.

(Roma 10:17) Njengoko uya usiba nokholo nokweyiseka okungakumbi, ngokuqinisekileyo isimo sengqondo sakho siya kuguquka.
(Romans 10:17) As your faith and conviction grow, your attitude is sure to change.

Njengoko usiba nenxaxheba, uya kuncedwa uhlakulele ubuchule obubalulekileyo bofundo lobuqu, ukuphulaphula uze ukhumbule, ukufundisisa, ukwenza uphando, ukuhlalutya nokuhlengahlengisa, ukuncokola, ukuphendula imibuzo, nokudlulisela iingcamango ngokubhala.
As you participate, you will be helped to cultivate such valuable skills as personal reading, listening and remembering, studying, doing research, analyzing and organizing, conversing, answering questions, and putting thoughts down in writing.

Noko ke, olunjani uvuyo ekuba lulo xa umsebenzi usiba nomvuzo!
What joy, though, when the work pays off!

Usiba ekuthethwa ngalo apha luvela kwisidalwa esaphelayo ekuthiwa yiarchaeopteryx, maxa wambi ekucingelwa ukuba singunozala weentaka zanamhlanje.
The fossil feather is from archaeopteryx, an extinct creature sometimes presented as a “missing link” in the line of descent to modern birds.

Uya usiba mkhudlwana, uba ngowomeleleyo, namagxa akho ayaxanda.
You become bigger, stronger, your shoulders broaden.

Kusukelo lokungafi, umahluko okhoyo phakathi kwenzululwazi namabali entelekelelo engokwenzululwazi uya usiba nzima ngakumbi nangakumbi ukuwuqonda.
In the pursuit of immortality, the line between science and science fiction is becoming harder and harder to distinguish.

14 Khawube nombono womhlaba wonke usiba yiParadesi!
14 Imagine seeing the whole earth turned into Paradise!

Lutsha usiba lwam.
My pen is new.

Enye ingcali ngendalo yaseMerika ekuqengqeleke iminyaka eli-16 ishicilela izandi zendalo iwufumanisa usiba nzima ngokuba nzima umsebenzi wayo.
One American naturalist who spent some 16 years recording the sounds of nature has found his task increasingly difficult.

Ngamany’ amazwi, nemfundiso yendaleko ayikwazi kuchaza indlela olwavela ngayo usiba lingakhange inqanaba ngalinye kwiinguqulelo ezathabath’ ixesha elide liyiphucule ngendlela ebonakalayo indlela eso sidalwa esasiphila ngayo.
To put it simply, even in theory, evolution could not produce a feather unless each step in a long series of random, inheritable changes in feather structure significantly improved the animal’s chances for survival.

12 Amalungiselelo okomoya ahlala equkuqela okwamanzi omlambo oya usiba banzi noya usiba nzulu.
12 Spiritual provisions flow to us like an ever-broadening and ever-deepening river.

3 Ngoxa umsebenzi wokuba ngumzali usiba nzima yaye udinisa maxa wambi, unokuqiniseka ukuba uYehova uyixabisa gqitha imigudu yakho.
3 Though your work as a parent is at times difficult, even exhausting, you may be assured that Jehovah greatly values your efforts.

Okanye ngaba ufuna uBukumkani tanci, usiba nokholo kwidinga likaThixo lokuba uya kukunyamekela?
Or are you seeking the Kingdom first, putting faith in God’s promise to provide for you?

Ngenxa yomoya wokuthand’ izwe oya usiba namandla, ukungaboni ngasonye kwiipolitiki kuya kuthabath’ unyawo.
With nationalism coming to the fore, people have become more divided politically than ever.

Okukhona uya usiba nolwazi ngabo, kokukhona uya ubathemba.
As your knowledge of such people grows, you progressively develop trust in them.

Ukutyhubela amashumi eminyaka, usiba lwale wotshi oluchaza imizuzu luye lwahanjiswa ngenjongo yokubonisa utshintsho kwimeko yehlabathi yezobupolitika.
Over the decades, the clock’s minute hand has been moved to reflect changes in the world’s political climate.

Icala elalathe kulo usiba.
The direction the compass needle points in.

(Marko 6: 7, 30; Luka 10:1) Uya kungenelwa kuncedo olufanayo njengoko usiba nesabelo ekusasazeni isigidimi soBukumkani kwindlu ngendlu nangezinye iindlela. —IZenzo 20: 20, 21.
(Mark 6:7, 30; Luke 10:1) You will benefit from similar help as you share in spreading the Kingdom message from house to house and in other ways.—Acts 20:20, 21.

Usenokumangaliswa kukufumanisa ukuba ucinga ngendlela eyahlukileyo ngenyaniso xa usiba “ngumsebenzi ongenanto anokuba neentloni ngayo, uliphatha ngokufanelekileyo ilizwi lenyaniso”!—2 Timoti 2:15.
You may be amazed to find out how differently you feel about the truth when you become “a workman with nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of the truth aright”!—2 Timothy 2:15.

Kodwa ukuba ulungiselela umbandela wakho phantsi kweengongoma ezimbalwa eziziintloko, zikhuphe ezingawuxhasiyo loo mbandela, uze ubeke iingongoma zakho ngolungelelwano olucwangcisiweyo, uya kufumanisa ukuba njengoko usiba namava, akuyi kuba yimfuneko ukuba ubhale yonke into.
But if you organize your material under just a few main points, eliminate what does not really support these, and put your ideas in logical order, you will find that with a little experience, you will no longer need to write everything out.

Abanye abantu abaxhalabele izinto eziphila emhlabeni bathi ukunyibilika komkhenkce okwiincam zomhlaba kubonisa ukuba umhlaba uya usiba shushu.
Some environmentalists point to the retreating of glaciers and the calving of icebergs in the Arctic and Antarctic as evidence of global warming.

Kunzima ukubamba usiba lokubhala, ngenxa yale ngxaki yokushwabana kwezihlunu.
I find it difficult to hold the pen firmly with my hand, which is weakened by muscle atrophy.