Stimied - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

noun

A large solid piece of hard material, especially rock, stone, or wood, typically with flat surfaces on each side.

Примеры использования:

A block of marble

verb

Make the movement or flow in (a passage, pipe, road, etc.) difficult or impossible.

Примеры использования:

The narrow roads were blocked by cars

verb

Obstruct

verb

Examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something.

Примеры использования:

Customs officers have the right to check all luggage

noun

An examination to test or ascertain accuracy, quality, or satisfactory condition.

Примеры использования:

A campaign calling for regular checks on gas appliances

exclamation

Us spelling of cheque.

verb

Cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally.

Примеры использования:

Developing countries are crippled by their debts

noun

A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind.

Примеры использования:

An emotional cripple

verb

Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

noun

A chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles.

Примеры использования:

He lay bound with fetters of iron

verb

Restrain with chains or manacles, typically around the ankles.

Примеры использования:

There were no chains immediately available to fetter the prisoners

verb

To keep someone within limits or stop them from making progress

Примеры использования:

Fettered by he felt fettered by a nine-to-five office existence.

verb

Prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding.

Примеры использования:

A brave policewoman foiled the armed robbery

noun

The track or scent of a hunted animal.

noun

Metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly for covering or wrapping food.

Примеры использования:

Aluminium foil

verb

Prevent (a plan or attempted action) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled.

Примеры использования:

The rescue attempt was frustrated by bad weather

adjective

Frustrated.

Hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire

noun

A basket with a carrying handle and a hinged lid, used for food, cutlery, and plates on a picnic.

Примеры использования:

A picnic hamper

verb

Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.

Примеры использования:

Their work is hampered by lack of funds

noun

Necessary but cumbersome equipment on a ship.

Примеры использования:

The mass of the top hamper must be consciously balanced against the tremendous beam.

noun

A circumstance that makes progress or success difficult.

Примеры использования:

Not being able to drive was something of a handicap

verb

Act as an impediment to.

Примеры использования:

Lack of funding has handicapped the development of research

noun

A physical or mental condition that makes ordinary activities more difficult than they are for other people

Примеры использования:

His loss of hearing was a severe handicap., their lack of knowledge of computer programming was not…

verb

Make it difficult for (someone) to do something or for (something) to happen.

Примеры использования:

Language barriers hindered communication between scientists

adjective

(especially of a bodily part) rear; hind.

Примеры использования:

The hinder end of its body

verb

To limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something

Примеры использования:

A poor diet can hinder mental and physical growth., i don’t know if these changes are going to help…

verb

Delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.

Примеры использования:

The sap causes swelling which can impede breathing

verb

Hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process).

Примеры использования:

Cold inhibits plant growth

verb

To take an action that makes something less likely to happen, or that discourages someone from doing something

Примеры использования:

The merger of the two corporations was not allowed because it would inhibit open competition., some…

verb

To prevent something from developing in the way or at the rate that is possible

Примеры использования:

Inhibit competition/growth/innovation authorities fear that fewer, bigger airlines will inhibit com…

verb

Block (an opening, path, road, etc.); be or get in the way of.

Примеры использования:

She was obstructing the entrance

idiom

To finish or destroy something

Примеры использования:

A knee injury has put paid to her chances of getting into the final.

noun

To spoil or destroy an idea or plan

Примеры использования:

The rain certainly put the kibosh on our plans for a picnic.

verb

Decisively put an end to.

Примеры использования:

A spokesman has scotched the rumours

noun

A wedge placed under a wheel or other rolling object to prevent it moving or slipping.

noun

A cut or score in skin or another surface.

Примеры использования:

A scotch in his face

noun

A hole in a ship's side to carry water overboard from the deck.

Примеры использования:

Nylon panels on the sides of the geckos eject water like scuppers on a tramp steamer - hop out of t…

verb

Sink (a ship or its crew) deliberately.

Примеры использования:

The ship was scuppered and seriously damaged

verb

To sink your own ship on purpose

Примеры использования:

Arriving late for the interview scuppered my chances of getting the job.

noun

A pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together.

Примеры использования:

He tugged on the chain connecting my shackles together

verb

Chain with shackles.

Примеры использования:

The prisoner was shackled to the heavy steel chair in the centre of the room

noun

One of a pair of metal rings connected by a chain and fastened to a person’s wrists or the bottoms of the legs to prevent the person from escaping

Примеры использования:

The prisoner was led away in shackles., the convicts were shackled and led onto the bus., fig. she …

noun

A game played with cues on a billiard table in which the players use a cue ball (white) to pocket the other balls (fifteen red and six coloured) in a set order.

Примеры использования:

A snooker hall

verb

Subject (oneself or one's opponent) to a snooker.

Примеры использования:

He potted yellow and green, and then snookered davis on the brown

noun

A game played, especially in the uk, by two people in which cues (= long, thin poles) and a cue ball are used to hit 15 red balls and six balls of different colours into six holes around a table covered in soft cloth in a fixed order

Примеры использования:

Stevens conceded after failing to escape from a series of snookers., he potted a long yellow ball t…

verb

Diminish or destroy the value or quality of.

Примеры использования:

I wouldn't want to spoil your fun

noun

Goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place.

Примеры использования:

The looters carried their spoils away

verb

To destroy or damage something, or to become destroyed or damaged

Примеры использования:

[ t ] the oil spill spoiled five miles of coastline., [ t ] don’t tell me how it ends, you’ll spoil…

noun

A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area.

Примеры использования:

Fruit and vegetable stalls

verb

(of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine.

Примеры использования:

Her car stalled at the crossroads

verb

(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen.

Примеры использования:

His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun

noun

A cessation of movement or operation.

Примеры использования:

All business came to a stop

verb

Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

verb

Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

Примеры использования:

He never did anything to thwart his father

noun

A structural crosspiece forming a seat for a rower in a boat.

Примеры использования:

Her hull is painted white with blue trim on the thwarts.

preposition

From one side to another side of (an area); across.

Примеры использования:

A pink-tinged cloud spread thwart the shore