Pretence - Английское значение и перевод слова Pretence на Русский язык

verb

Take action; do something.

Примеры использования:

They urged washington to act

noun

A thing done; a deed.

Примеры использования:

A criminal act

abbreviation

Advance corporation tax.

noun

The art or occupation of performing fictional roles in plays, films, or television.

Примеры использования:

She studied acting in new york

adjective

Temporarily doing the duties of another person.

Примеры использования:

The acting supervisor

verb

Take action; do something.

Примеры использования:

They urged washington to act

noun

A hope or ambition of achieving something.

Примеры использования:

The needs and aspirations of the people

A cherished desire

verb

State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.

Примеры использования:

The prime minister claimed that he was concerned about third world debt

noun

An assertion that something is true.

Примеры использования:

He was dogged by the claim that he had cia links

verb

To state that something is true or is a fact

Примеры использования:

[ + (that) clause ] ervin claims (that) he is bankrupt., if no one claims the money, i can keep it.…

verb

Conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs.

Примеры использования:

An honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble

noun

Concealment of one's thoughts, feelings, or character; pretence.

Примеры использования:

An attempt at dissimulation

noun

The fact of trying to hide your real feelings, character, or intentions

Примеры использования:

He was capable of great dissimulation and hypocrisy.

verb

Forge or counterfeit (something).

Примеры использования:

She faked her spouse's signature

verb

Variant spelling of flake4 (verb).

verb

Lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it tangling.

Примеры использования:

A cable had to be flaked out

noun

The action of falsifying information or a theory.

Примеры использования:

An investigation into fraud and the falsification of records

verb

Pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).

Примеры использования:

She feigned nervousness

verb

Present participle of feign

Примеры использования:

You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are., the prosecution claimed …

noun

The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.

Примеры использования:

She'd never been blessed with a vivid imagination

noun

The ability to form mental pictures of people or things, or to have new ideas

Примеры использования:

Rafael has a very active imagination (= has many ideas).

noun

The action of inventing something, typically a process or device.

Примеры использования:

The invention of printing in the 15th century

noun

Something newly designed or created, or the activity of designing or creating new things

Примеры использования:

[ c ] the mountain bike was a california invention., [ u ] the invention of the pressure cooker pro…

noun

A product or a way of doing something which has never been made or never existed before

Примеры использования:

Turning an invention from an idea into a money-making product is a long job., a new inventions, the…

idiom

Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

noun

The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.

Примеры использования:

She's living in a world of make-believe

adjective

Imitating something real.

Примеры использования:

He was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes

abbreviation

Page.

Примеры использования:

See p 784

symbol

(in units of measurement) pico- (10−12).

Примеры использования:

A 220 pf capacitor

noun

The sixteenth letter of the alphabet.

Примеры использования:

Let’s have an ‘s’ for speedy, and a ‘p’ for polly, intertwined on the top of the cake, in red frost…

noun

An attempt to hide your feelings from other people, or to entertain them, by deliberately behaving in a way that does not represent your true feelings

Примеры использования:

Don't take any notice of him - it's just play-acting.

noun

The position in which someone holds their body when standing or sitting.

Примеры использования:

I got out of the car in an alert posture

verb

Behave in a way that is intended to impress or mislead.

Примеры использования:

A billionaire posturing as a hero of the working class

noun

Behaviour that is intended to impress or mislead.

Примеры использования:

A masking of fear with macho posturing

verb

Behave in a way that is intended to impress or mislead.

Примеры использования:

A billionaire posturing as a hero of the working class

noun

Behaviour or speech that is intended to attract attention and interest, or to make people believe something that is not true

Примеры использования:

His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.

noun

A paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification.

Примеры использования:

His chosen profession of teaching

noun

Any type of work, esp. one that needs a high level of education or a particular skill

Примеры использования:

[ c ] the medical/teaching profession, [ u ] i’m a writer by profession.

noun

A job that needs a high level of education or special training

Примеры использования:

What is it like to work in a profession where more than 97% of your colleagues are men?, the accoun…

verb

Appear to be or do something, especially falsely.

Примеры использования:

She is not the person she purports to be

noun

The meaning or sense of something, typically a document or speech.

Примеры использования:

I do not understand the purport of your remarks

verb

Present participle of purport

Примеры использования:

They purport to represent the wishes of the majority of parents at the school., the study purports …

noun

The act of hiding the truth from yourself

Примеры использования:

His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good …

noun

A thing that is not what it is purported to be.

Примеры использования:

Our current free health service is a sham

adjective

Bogus; false.

Примеры использования:

A clergyman who arranged a sham marriage

verb

Short for pillow sham.

verb

Falsely present something as the truth.

Примеры использования:

Was he ill or was he shamming?

noun

A thing that is not what it is purported to be.

Примеры использования:

Our current free health service is a sham

adjective

Bogus; false.

Примеры использования:

A clergyman who arranged a sham marriage

noun

Imitation of a situation or process.

Примеры использования:

Simulation of blood flowing through arteries and veins

noun

A model of a real activity, created for training purposes or to solve a problem

Примеры использования:

[ u ] astronauts are trained using space flight simulation.

noun

A situation or event that seems real but is not real, used especially in order to help people deal with such situations or events

Примеры использования:

In a simulation if we can make mistakes in a simulation that keep you from making mistakes in the r…