Riddles - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

noun

A bar that slides into a socket to fasten a door or window.

Примеры использования:

He reached through the hole in the door and slid the bolt on the inside.

verb

Fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket.

Примеры использования:

All the doors were locked and bolted

verb

(of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.

Примеры использования:

The horses shied and bolted

noun

A porous device for removing impurities or solid particles from a liquid or gas passed through it.

Примеры использования:

An oil filter

verb

Pass (a liquid, gas, light, or sound) through a device to remove unwanted material.

Примеры использования:

The eye filters out ultraviolet radiation

noun

A piece of equipment or a device for removing solids from liquids or gases, or for limiting the particular type of light, sound, or electricity going through it

Примеры использования:

An oil filter, a coffee filter, [ i always + adv/prep ] reports of the accident began to filter in.…

noun

Blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence.

Примеры использования:

The film omitted the blood and gore in order to avoid controversy

verb

(of an animal such as a bull) pierce or stab (a person or other animal) with a horn or tusk.

Примеры использования:

He was gored to death by a charging bull

verb

Shape with a gore or gores.

Примеры использования:

For a larger figure it would be necessary to slightly gore the skirt

noun

A heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food.

Примеры использования:

Griddle cakes

verb

Cook on a griddle.

Примеры использования:

The vegetables can be griddled the day before and kept covered in the fridge

noun

A flat heated surface on which food is cooked

noun

A hollow place in a solid body or surface.

Примеры использования:

The dog had dug a hole in the ground

verb

Make a hole or holes in.

Примеры использования:

A fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started

noun

A structure of hexagonal cells of wax, made by bees to store honey and eggs.

Примеры использования:

The surplus is stored away in the honeycomb to sustain the bees throughout the flowerless months of…

verb

Fill with cavities or tunnels.

Примеры использования:

Whole hillsides were honeycombed with mines

noun

A structure bees make in which to store honey, having many small separate areas, or fig. any space divided into many small, separate areas or paths

Примеры использования:

The building was a honeycomb of private offices.

verb

Go into or through (something), especially with force or effort.

Примеры использования:

The shrapnel had penetrated his head

verb

Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance

verb

To move into or through something

Примеры использования:

[ i ] the drill isn’t sharp enough to penetrate into the rock., [ t ] women have begun to penetrate…

noun

A pungent hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, used as a spice or condiment to flavour food.

Примеры использования:

Season to taste with salt and pepper

verb

Sprinkle or season (food) with pepper.

Примеры использования:

I salted and peppered the beef before i browned it

noun

A black or cream-colored spice, often used in powdered form, that gives a spicy hot taste to food

Примеры использования:

The mayor was peppered with questions from reporters about the municipal corruption scandal., he pe…

verb

Pierce and make a hole or holes in.

Примеры использования:

There is a very small risk of the scope perforating the colon

adjective

Perforated.

Примеры использования:

A perforate shell

verb

(of a sharp pointed object) go into or through (something).

Примеры использования:

A splinter had pierced the skin

verb

To go in or through something, esp. with a pointed object, making a hole

Примеры использования:

Pierce the potatoes with a fork to see if they’re done., she got her ears pierced.

verb

Make a small hole in (something) with a sharp point; pierce slightly.

Примеры использования:

Prick the potatoes with a fork

noun

An act of piercing something with a sharp point.

Примеры использования:

The pin prick had produced a drop of blood

verb

To make a small hole or holes in the surface of something

Примеры использования:

The nurse pricked his finger to draw blood.

noun

A small hole in a tyre resulting in an escape of air.

Примеры использования:

She was on her way home when she had a puncture

verb

Make a puncture in (something).

Примеры использования:

One of the knife blows had punctured a lung

noun

A small hole made by a sharp object

verb

Remove contaminants from.

Примеры использования:

The filtration plant is able to purify 70 tons of water a day

verb

To rid something of dirty or harmful substances

Примеры использования:

Flower growers here are required to purify all their runoff water.

verb

Remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process.

Примеры использования:

Sugar was refined by boiling it in huge iron vats

verb

To make a substance pure by removing unwanted material

Примеры использования:

Sugar and oil are refined before use., we haven’t finished refining the plan yet.

verb

To improve something or to make it pure, especially by removing material that is not wanted

Примеры использования:

Crude oil is industrially refined to purify it., engineers spent many months refining the software.

noun

A fixed or movable upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter from draughts, heat, or light, or to provide concealment or privacy.

Примеры использования:

The special branch man remained hidden behind the screen for prosecution witnesses

verb

Conceal, protect, or shelter (someone or something) with a screen or something forming a screen.

Примеры использования:

Her hair swung across to screen her face

noun

A flat surface in a theater, on a television, or on a computer system on which pictures or words are shown

Примеры использования:

I spend most of the day working in front of a computer screen., her ambition is to write for the sc…

noun

A utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp.

Примеры использования:

Puree the potatoes through a sieve

verb

Put (a food substance or other material) through a sieve.

Примеры использования:

Sieve the flour and sugar together in a bowl

noun

A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material

verb

Put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles.

Примеры использования:

Sift the flour into a large bowl

noun

An act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important.

Примеры использования:

A careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris

noun

Move as if through a sieve

verb

Force (a part of one's body or oneself) to make an unusually great effort.

Примеры использования:

I stopped and listened, straining my ears for any sound

noun

A force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree.

Примеры использования:

The usual type of chair puts an enormous strain on the spine

noun

A particular breed, stock, or variety of an animal or plant.

Примеры использования:

Australia has been trying to breed better strains of plants and animals for ever.

verb

Cause (someone) to become motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment.

Примеры использования:

He was transfixed by the pain in her face

verb

To make a person or animal unable to move or stop looking at something because they are so interested, surprised, or frightened

Примеры использования:

The conference delegates were transfixed by her speech., a body lay in the corner, transfixed by a …

verb

Blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff.

Примеры использования:

A combine cuts, threshes, and winnows the grain in one operation

verb

To reduce a large number of people or things to a much smaller number by judging their quality

Примеры использования:

The six architects chosen to compete for the commission were winnowed from an original list of 27.