Was heißt »Kan­te« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv Kan­te lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • border
  • selvage
  • edge

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Jede Woche legt Frau Tanaka ein bisschen Geld auf die hohe Kante.

Each week, Mrs. Tanaka saves a little money for a rainy day.

Die Kante meines Tisches ist ziemlich scharf.

The edge of my table is pretty sharp.

Die Linien des Bretts haben überall dort, wo sie sich kreuzen oder berühren, Schnittpunkte. Jeder Schnittpunkt wird als Punkt bezeichnet, auch wenn er sich an einer Ecke oder einer Kante des Bretts befindet.

The lines of the board have intersections wherever they cross or touch each other. Each intersection is called a point, even if it is at a corner or an edge of the board.

Synonyme

Bul­le:
bull
cop
copper
gorilla
hulk
Ecke:
angle
corner
Ge­biet:
area
district
region
territory
Ge­gend:
region
Go­li­ath:
Goliath
Hü­ne:
giant
Klei­der­schrank:
closet
wardrobe
Knust:
butt
crust
heel
nub
stump
tail end
Ko­loss:
colossus
Land:
country
countryside
earth
land
real estate
soil
Land­schaft:
landscape
Rand:
brim
margin
rim
Rie­se:
giant
Schrank:
cabinet
closet
cupboard
Spit­ze:
peak
point
Win­kel:
angle
Za­cke:
peak
point
tine
tooth
Zin­ke:
prong
tine

Antonyme

Kno­ten:
bend
knop
knot
node

Englische Beispielsätze

  • What you see on the edge of the woods is not a tent, but rather a haystack.

  • It was a very warm day when the princess went into the woods and sat down on the edge of the well.

  • Everybody's on edge around here.

  • Everybody's on edge.

  • Tom was sitting on the edge of the bed.

  • Mary was sitting on the edge of the bed.

  • Tom did a handstand on the edge of the cliff.

  • Tom still has an edge.

  • Tom lives in a house on the edge of the village.

  • Tom's helicopter crashed on the edge of the town.

  • Tom is on the edge of burn-out.

  • Tom stood on the edge of his farmland.

  • Tom was taking a selfie on the edge of the volcano when he lost his footing and fell into the crater.

  • Before WWII, the border between Finland and the USSR was near Leningrad.

  • Before the second world war, the border between Finland and the USSR was near Leningrad.

  • At the edge of the road lay a dead shrew.

  • Mary sat on the edge of the bed and told Tom a story until he felt asleep.

  • There are often border conflicts between these two countries.

  • The world is on the edge of destruction.

  • The border crossing was crowded with people, many of whom were refugees.

Untergeordnete Begriffe

Ab­bruch­kan­te:
escarpment
scarp
Bahn­steig­kan­te:
platform edge
Tisch­kan­te:
table-edge

Kan­te übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Kante. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Kante. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
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