spelt

incontável

A hardy type of wheat, primarily grown in Europe, often used for livestock feed and in some specialty breads.

• 🇵🇹Espécie resistente de trigo, cultivada principalmente na Europa, usada para ração animal e em alguns pães especiais.

1. Type of wheat B2 formal

   A hardy species of wheat (Triticum spelta) that was widely cultivated in ancient times and is now grown primarily for livestock feed and some specialty breads.

   • Spelt is often used in organic farming because it requires fewer fertilizers.
   • The farmer planted spelt as a cover crop for the winter.
   • Some people prefer spelt bread for its nutty flavor.

   🇵🇹Espelta

• spelts plural form
• spelts' possessive plural form
• spelt's possessive singular form

A verb used to indicate the act of naming or writing the letters of a word in the correct order.

• 🇵🇹Verbo que designa a ação de nomear ou escrever as letras de uma palavra na ordem correta; também pode indicar formar palavras letra por letra, especialmente em voz alta, ou significar grafia correta.

1. Form words with letters A1 formal

   To write or name the letters that form a word in the correct order.

   • Can you spell your name for me?
   • The teacher asked the students to spell 'necessary'.
   • He spelled out the word slowly for the child.

   🇵🇹Soletrar

   Sinônimos: letterspell outwrite

2. Indicate or signify B2 formal

   To mean or result in something; to have a particular effect.

   • This decision spells trouble for the company.
   • The new law spells disaster for small businesses.
   • His absence spelled success for the competition.

   🇵🇹Significar

   Sinônimos: augurforeshadowheraldimplyindicatemeanportendpresagesignifysuggest

3. Relieve or take turns C1 informal

   To take turns resting or working, especially in a difficult situation.

   • The nurses spelled each other during the night shift.
   • They spelled at the wheel during the long drive.
   • We need to spell each other on this tough job.

   🇵🇹Revezar-se

   Sinônimos: cover forrelievereplace

• spelled past participle
• spelt past participle
• spelled past simple
• spelt past simple
• spelling present participle
• spells third person singular

Variantes phrasal: spell out