Meaning of cietums | Babel Free

Definitions

1. prison (government institution where people are kept before trial, or while serving their sentences after trial)
   declension-1, masculine
2. prison (place where freedom of movement is limited, where living conditions are difficult)
   declension-1, figuratively, masculine
3. hardness, solidity, thickness (the quality of that which is hard, solid)
   declension-1, masculine, singular
4. hard spot, lump (in the human body)
   declension-1, masculine
5. hardness (the quality of containing salts of calcium or magnesium)
   declension-1, masculine, singular

Equivalents

Examples

“ieslodzīt cietumā”

to lock (someone) up in prison

“cietuma kamera”

prison cell

“cariskā Krievija ir tautu cietums”

czarist Russia is the prison of peoples, nations

“vielas cietums”

the hardness of a substance

“fizikāla ķermeņa cietums”

the hardness of a physical body

“granīta cietums”

the hardness of granite

“matu īpašības, piemēram, to cietums un rupjums, zināmā mērā ir atkarīgas no iedzimtības”

hair properties, for instance, its thickness and roughness, are to a certain extent dependent on heredity

“cietums delnā”

a hard spot, lump on the palm of the hand

“zemādas cietumi”

subcutaneous lumps, hard spots

“samazināt ūdens cietumu”

to reduce the hardness of the water

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