definition: An assumption is something that you believe is true but cannot prove.
example: I went to the cafeteria on the assumption that everyone would be there
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A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof:
The action of taking on power or responsibility:
The reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven. This was formally declared a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.
The feast in honour of the Assumption, celebrated on 15 August.
Arrogance or presumption.
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Unless all of these assumptions are true, mass surveillance would be of very little help.
These rules are complicated and couples in divorce proceedings should make no assumptions.
Perhaps you should question your own assumptions about that before you go poking about in mine.
The judiciary was badly split by the military's May 29 assumption of executive power.
Others welcomed Hitler's assumption of power, seeing in it a chance to advance their own careers.
There are a number of references in the speeches in this case to voluntary assumption of responsibility.
His Requiem Mass was celebrated in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Virgin birth, the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Resurrection of Jesus, the survival of our own souls after death: these are all claims of a clearly scientific nature.
Pope Pius XII infallibly proclaimed the doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 1 November 1950.
The Feast of the Assumption was celebrated with prayers at the Marian Shrine in the village last Sunday after 10.00 am mass.
Since the opening ceremonies on the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, there has been a steady flow of people, both young and old, arriving in Ladywell to pray at the Shrine and sip water from the Holy Well.
The date was August 15, 1975, the Feast of the Assumption.
undertaking, entering on, setting about, embarkation on
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принятие на себя (обязанностей) , вступление (в должность) assumption of risk — принятие на себя риска assumption of office — вступление в должность ; приход к власти, вступление в должность the assumption of a new position — вступление в новую должность assumption of a new position — вступление в новую должность
присвоение , захват assumption of power — захват власти Синоним: usurpation
притворство assumption of friendliness — напускное дружелюбие
предположение , допущение ; исходное положение we proceed from the assumption that ... — мы исходим из того, что ... unwarrantable assumption — ни на чем не основанное предположение erroneous / false assumption — ошибочное, неверное предположение implicit assumption — скрытое предположение safe / valid assumption — верное предположение We all made the assumption that the new company would fail. — Все мы предположили, что новая компания не выживет. We proceeded on the assumption that he would help. — Мы исходили из предположения, что он поможет. to make an assumption — сделать предположение, предположить что-л. reasonable assumption — разумное предположение Синоним: supposition, postulate
(Assumption) Успение (богородицы) (праздник) Assumption of the Virgin Mary — Успение Пресвятой Девы Марии
лог. посылка юр. принятие на себя устного или письменного обязательства лог. исходная посылка силлогизма рел. взятие живым на небо принятие на себя долгов другого лица предъявление прав Синоним: usurpation
прием (радиосигналов) assumption of control message — прием (экипажем) диспетчерского указания
фин. , банк. , юр. (принятие на себя ответственности по обязательствам другой стороны; напр., продавец ипотеки продолжает нести вторичную ответственность по ипотечному обязательству, если заимодавец не освободит его от ответственности)
definition: Barley is a grain that is used for animal feed, health food and beer.
example: The farmer grew barley to feed his cows in the winter.
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A hardy cereal with coarse bristles extending from the ears, cultivated especially for use in brewing and stockfeed.
The grain of barley.
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He was listed among the first four pioneers in barley breeding and tested barleys of hybrid origin as early as 1904, but none attained release.
‘Winter barleys are in the ground in time to take advantage of moisture from fall rains, winter snowpack, and early spring rainstorms,’ he explains.
With the first winter barleys cut at the weekend in the Vale of York, harvest has come with a rush and, strangely, this season we are ahead of many of our southern brethren.
We take our water and mix it with malted barley or grain to make a drink called whisky.
In Korea, while rice is the staple grain, barley is consumed in between the rice production seasons.
The staple food of Tibet, tsampa, is toasted barley ground to a flour.
example: A lion is one of the fiercest beasts on Earth.
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An animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one:
A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal:
An animal as opposed to a human:
An inhumanly cruel, violent, or depraved person:
An objectionable or unpleasant person or thing:
A person’s brutish or untamed characteristics:
A thing possessing a specified quality:
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These cunning warriors are trained from birth to hunt, track and trap the most dangerous beasts in the wild.
On landing, the astronaut ‘will be able to deal with wild beasts, sharks and other dangerous animals or enemies’, the website reported.
In Dawson, White Fang becomes an attraction, and people come to see the wild beast in the cage.
A few years ago he'd often spot the wooly beasts on a neighbouring farm with huge sores on their backsides, weak and hardly able to stand.
Under the fire of the sun, the world became green, the crops grew tall and strong, and the beasts of farm and field have grown fat and strong.
The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm.
If that was true, then these business people must be beasts in human form!
According to him, the second category of people, which did not contribute to science and knowledge, are more like beasts than human beings.
For Overton the line between human and beasts was rather unclear.
I have been the cruelest of beasts, lying to you and all.
I also have nothing but praise for the police and law enforcement team - they did a great job and I am glad we have more tools such as DNA testing for catching and convicting sex beasts.
That sentence was increased after the intervention of the Home Secretary, who instead insisted on a whole life tariff for the sex beast.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Ringing in his ears will be his father's warning ‘not to make a beast of yourself’.
Where a beautiful, intelligent young woman once stood was a beast of death and heartlessness.
She brings out the beast in men (The Corsair howls at the moon).
This is why I shouldn't stop blogging, even if it brings out the beast in me.
Blasting up sand hills on roaring machinery brings out the beast in even the sweetest ladies.
He still had a mysterious air about him and I was afraid of the possessive beast that lurked just below the surface.
Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country.
But he was able to make an incredible impact through the sheer force of his intellect, which made him - even on the backbenches - a big political beast.
зверь ; животное (млекопитающее) wild beast — дикий зверь beast of burden — вьючное животное beast of prey — хищный зверь, хищник ; хищный зверь a huge beast of a horse — громадный конь ; ≅ зверь, а не лошадь Синоним: brute, animal
(pl тж. без измен.) с.-х. скот ; голова скота heavy beasts — крупный (рогатый) скот light beasts — мелкий скот herd of forty beast(s) — стадо в сорок голов beast of a job — разг. неприятная, трудная задача
бран. скот , скотина ; свинья drunken beast — пьяная скотина the filthy beast! — вот свинья! to make a beast of oneself — вести себя безобразно /по-скотски/ Синоним: brute, animal
(the Beast) библ. зверь , антихрист the number of the Beast — звериное число
(о человеке) зверь , животное Nazi beasts — нацистские звери
шутл. упрямец , нехороший человек don't be a beast, do as I ask you — не упрямься, сделай, как тебя просят
эмоц.-усил. очень трудное дело a beast of a job — чертовски трудная /неприятная/ задача
example: James has been given a promotion in the army. He is now a colonel.
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A rank of officer in the army and in the US air force, above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier or brigadier general.
short for lieutenant colonel.
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Some of these officers are now lieutenant colonels and colonels in the Army Reserve.
As a result, lieutenant colonels, colonels, and general officers must operate in a more complex task environment than during the Cold War.
In the past year I have met midshipmen, Air Force cadets, colonels at the Army War College, officers in the Pentagon, air and naval crews at sea, reserve and retired officers, and a variety of civilian defense analysts.
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полковник амер. разг. подполковник амер. полковник (обращение к чиновнику в южных штатах)
заразный , инфекционный , контагиозный ; передающийся непосредственно и через третьих лиц contagious disease — заразная болезнь extremely / highly contagious — с высокой вероятностью заражения contagious ward — палата для инфекционных больных Синоним: catching, infectious
example: After the accident, the corpse was taken to the hospital.
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Spoil a piece of acting by forgetting one’s lines or laughing uncontrollably:
Cause (an actor) to forget their lines and start laughing:
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We finished the dress rehearsal an hour before we let the audience in, and were still finding scenes we could not get through without corpsing (actors laughing at each other on stage) or things that needed to be re-staged for props to work.
That's why everyone has a story about a Wise Man corpsing at a key moment, or a showboating Shepherd hogging the limelight.
You want a channel full of in-jokes and presenters corpsing on air?
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груб. убить театр. жарг. сбить с роли актера во время представления провалить (сцену, акт) труп Синоним: body, cadaver, remains
trouble, dire straits, hard times, hardship, adversity, extremity, distress, difficulty
critical point, decisive point, turning point, crossroads, critical period, crux, climax, climacteric, culmination, height, head, moment of truth, zero hour, point of no return, Rubicon
informal crunch
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кризис economic crisis — экономический кризис the general crisis of economy — общий кризис экономики periodical economic crises — периодические кризисы в экономике to avert crisis — предотвратить кризис Cuban missile crisis — "Карибский кризис" (политический кризис в отношениях между СССР и США в октябре-ноябре 1962 г.) agricultural crisis — кризис сельского хозяйства cabinet crisis — полит. правительственный кризис crisis of overproduction — кризис перепроизводства exchange crisis — валютный кризис international crisis — международный кризис acute crisis — острый кризис severe crisis — жестокий [глубокий] кризис exacerbation of a crisis — углубление (обострение) кризиса manifestation of a crisis — проявление кризиса recurrence of a crisis — новое проявление кризиса in a grip of crisis — охваченный кризисом, находящийся в состоянии кризиса to meet the crisis — преодолеть кризис to deepen crisis — углубить [усугубить] кризис After the crisis the patient either dies or gets better. — После кризиса пациент либо умрет, либо ему станет лучше. Синоним: turning-point
критический , решительный момент; перелом ; поворотный пункт to bring to a crisis — довести до критического состояния things are coming /drawing/ to a crisis — наступает критический /решительный/ момент the Battle of Waterloo was a crisis in Napoleon's career — битва при Ватерлоо была переломным моментом карьеры Наполеона Синоним: turning point
мед. кризис , криз blastic crisis — бластный криз (в течении острого лейкоза) hemoclastic crisis — гемокластический криз (массовое разрушение кроветворных элементов при аутоиммунном или аллергическом статусе)
definition: To cure means to cause an illness or injury to end or disappear.
example: My dentist cured me of my toothache.
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A parish priest in a French-speaking country.
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At the base of the Catholic church were approximately 50,000 parish priests (curés) and their assistants, the curates.
In return bishops and curés would receive government stipends.
Primary school teachers were monitored by curés, who sent reports to their bishops, who in turn gave them to the educational authorities.
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ˌkill or ˈcure used to say that what you are going to do will either be very successful or fail completely
preˌvention is better than ˈcure ( British English ) ( US English an ounce of preˌvention is better than a pound of ˈcure ) it is better to stop something bad from happening rather than try to deal with the problems after it has happened
лекарство , средство ; средство излечения cure for a cough — средство от кашля cure for unemployment — меры против безработицы a cure for the headache — средство от головной боли
лечение ; курс лечения the hot water cure — лечение горячими ваннами a disease beyond /past/ cure — неизлечимая болезнь to undergo a cure — пройти курс лечения to take the cure — амер. пройти курс лечения от алкоголизма или наркомании ; амер. отказаться от удовольствия, дурной привычки и т. п. ; исправиться to take the cure for alcoholism — пройти курс лечения от алкоголизма the cold-water cure — лечение холодной водой
излечение , исцеление ; выздоровление the doctor cannot guarantee a cure — доктор не ручается за выздоровление He was beyond cure. — Он был неизлечим. The new treatment effected a miraculous cure. — Новый метод лечения чудесным образом исцелил больного.
церк. приход ; паства ; церковный приход забота , попечение (священника о пастве) Синоним: care, charge
отверждение (пластмассы) выдержка (бетона) средство решения какой-л. проблемы The magic cure for inflation does not exist. — Не существует волшебного лекарства от инфляции. Синоним: remedy
вылечивать , излечивать , исцелять to cure a patient — вылечить больного to cure a disease — излечить /вылечить/ от болезни to cure drunkenness — излечить от пьянства to cure smb. of bad habits — отучить кого-л. от дурных привычек Doctors are now able to cure people of many diseases which in former times would have killed them. — Теперь врачи могут излечить людей от многих болезней, которые в прежние времена были бы для них смертельными. The question is whether pulmonary consumption can be cured. — Вопрос в том, можно ли излечить чахотку. Time cured him of his grief. — Время излечило его горе. What cannot be cured must be endured. — посл. Что нельзя исправить, то следует терпеть. Синоним: treat, heal
заготовлять впрок ; консервировать ; солить , сушить , вялить to cure fish — коптить рыбу to cure bacon — солить бекон Синоним: preserve
спец. вулканизировать (резину) вылечиться , излечиться , исцелиться his grief soon cures — его горе быстро проходит, он недолго страдает
definition: If something is deformed, it is not shaped normally and may appear ugly.
example: Even though the carrot was deformed, it was still safe to eat.
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(Of a person or part of the body) not having the normal or natural shape or form; misshapen:
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The wives of US servicemen who were exposed to Agent Orange gave birth to a disproportionate number of deformed babies.
The most obvious answer is the risk of producing severely deformed children.
In a more advance stage, an atretic follicle is easily distinguished without examination of its internal structure by its deformed or shrunken appearance.
definition: To discriminate means to judge people according to their looks.
example: They discriminated against her because she was different.
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Recognize a distinction; differentiate:
Perceive or constitute the difference in or between:
Make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age:
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They do not differentiate or discriminate between domestic, social and public violence, viewing all of them as equally violative of human rights.
Unfortunately, this research focused on social differences and did not discriminate between denominations.
Thus, we can use measures of skewness for distributions of expression differences for classified genes to discriminate between models.
They find that birds are better able to discriminate differences in nectar concentrations at relatively low concentrations than at high concentrations.
A concept may be defined as a class of stimuli such that an organism generalizes among all stimuli within the class but discriminates them from those in other classes.
The second canonical axis discriminates among all three dialects using a combination of the features of the W element.
The Race Relations Act 1976 makes it unlawful to discriminate against anyone on grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins.
Presumably, there are also straight people in those counties who would prefer to live in a society that did not discriminate against people on grounds of their sexuality.
New legislation which will make it illegal for businesses to discriminate against workers on grounds of age is due to come into force next year.
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differentiate, distinguish, draw/recognize a distinction, tell the difference, discern a difference;
separate, tell apart;
separate the sheep from the goats, separate the wheat from the chaff
be biased, show prejudice, be prejudiced;
treat differently, treat as inferior, treat unfairly, put at a disadvantage, disfavour, be intolerant towards;
victimize
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отличать , различать ; видеть различие to discriminate red from scarlet — отличать красный цвет от алого to discriminate between fact and fancy — отличать факты от вымысла Синоним: perceive, observe, note
различать , отличать , проводить различие, дифференцировать , выделять this discriminated him from his followers — в этом состояло различие между ним и его последователями The two brothers are so much alike, it is difficult to discriminate between them. — Братья так похожи, едва отличишь одного от другого. Only a trained eye can discriminate between the two paintings. — Только натренированный глаз может отличить одну картину от другой. The device can discriminate between the cancerous and the normal cells. — Этот прибор умеет отличать раковые клетки от нормальных. Синоним: differentiate, discern, distinguish Антоним: blur, confuse, jumble
проявлять пристрастие, быть небеспристрастным; относиться по-разному to discriminate against smb.'s friends — предвзято относиться к чьим-л. друзьям ; быть настроенным против чьих-л. друзей to discriminate in favour of smb. — проявлять к кому-л. особое пристрастие, благоволить к кому-л.
( against ) дискриминировать ; проводить политику дискриминации The Commission for Racial Equality teaches organisations not to discriminate. — Комиссия по расовому равенству указывает организациям на недопущение политики дискриминации.
definition: An embassy is where government officials work in a foreign country.
example: If you lose your passport, you should contact the embassy.
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The official residence or offices of an ambassador:
The staff working in an embassy:
A deputation or mission sent by one ruler or state to another:
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There are about 1,530 business establishments in Makati, including 53 embassies and consular offices, enough to keep the city's bomb squad on their toes night and day.
A larger demonstration is due to take place today with protesters planning to march past the US ambassador's residence and the British embassy.
An official at the Malaysian embassy said that the factory which be would situated in Otjimuise in Windhoek, would be up and running by September.
The American embassy restricted its staff to the diplomatic quarters of their cities for all but essential duties.
Ousted Philippine President Joseph Estrada and several foreign embassies in Manila denied Thursday a Thai newspaper report that Estrada tried unsuccessfully to seek asylum abroad.
The embassy says its own staff have been advised against taking commercial planes.
The Greeks send an embassy to Achilles requesting his return to battle in exchange for treasure and an unharmed Briseis.
Aeschines was sent on an embassy to Megalopolis where he sought to dissuade the assembly of the Arcadians from dealings with Philip II.
They even sent an embassy to England's ally, the Duke of Burgundy, and implored him to protect them.
посольство foreign embassy — иностранное посольство at / in an embassy — в посольстве
здание посольства дипломатическое поручение, миссия he was sent on an embassy to the Middle East — его направили с дипломатическим поручением на Ближний Восток
definition: To extinguish a fire means to make it stop.
example: Michael extinguished the small fire with the hose.
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Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine:
Put an end to; destroy:
Subdue or reduce (someone) to silence:
Cancel (a debt) by full payment:
Render (a right or obligation) void:
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I shrieked and jumped back, as he, laughing with amusement, murmured another set of words and a different ray of light extinguished the fire.
More than 200 firefighters from Arlington, Va., and other nearby towns, extinguished a fire that burned for nearly three days.
The fire is extinguished before it burns away the paper, leaving behind a dark residue.
When we destroy ecosystems and extinguish species, we degrade the greatest heritage this planet has to offer and thereby threaten our own existence.
Elected dictatorships, which extinguish opposition, destroy the political process too.
North End's play-off hopes were all but extinguished by the only team doomed to relegation from the First Division so far - and a controversial handball.
I drove the sword into his chest, extinguishing him for good.
The shouting of her husband and daughter is extinguished.
They tried to kill me, to extinguish me completely, but I have only lost an arm.
Your final payment extinguishes your debt and you are mortgage-free - guaranteed.
I accept that there may be situations in which if a creditor unconditionally assigns the benefit of a debt to a debtor, he will thereby extinguish the debt.
However, the fact that the debt cannot be enforced by action does not mean that the debt is extinguished.
Most periods of limitation do not extinguish the claimant's right but merely bar his remedy.
Their property rights are extinguished by this legislation.
But it extinguishes an obligation, and if the rule is valid and can apply it then imposes an obligation in the same terms on the defendant.
destroy, end, finish off, put an end to, put a stop to, bring to an end, terminate, remove, annihilate, wipe out, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map, erase, eliminate, eradicate, obliterate, liquidate, expunge, abolish, exterminate, kill, extirpate, obscure, suppress, disrupt, undo, upset
юр. выплачивать , погашать юр. аннулировать (документ, право и т. п.) книжн. затмевать her beauty extinguished all others — красотой она затмила всех соперниц Синоним: eclipse
уничтожать , истреблять убивать , гасить (надежду, любовь) to extinguish all memory thereof — стереть всякую память об этом
омрачать (радость) подавлять (способности, страсти) редк. гаснуть , потухать физиол. тормозить , гасить (рефлекс) погасить , уничтожить ; лишить (надежды и т. п.) Hope for their safety was slowly extinguishing. — Надежда на то, что они в безопасности, постепенно угасала. Синоним: destroy
definition: Flint is a hard stone that people used to make weapons for hunting.
example: There are a lot of flint tools in the museum.
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An industrial city in southeastern Michigan, an auto industry center since the Buick Company was established there in 1903; population 112,900 (est. 2008).
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кремень , кремневая галька; мелкозернистый песчаник to get / wring water from a flint — творить чудеса as true as flint — преданный и верный to skin a flint — проявлять крайнюю алчность, жадность heart of flint — каменное сердце
камень the ground was frozen to flint — земля замерзла и стала как камень
кремень для высекания огня огнивом кремневое орудие первобытного человека редк. скряга любой очень твердый камень материал , использующийся для высекания искр (например, сплав железа и церия в зажигалках) снабжать кремнем = flint glass
definition: To harass someone means to annoy or trouble them.
example: The children harassed their mother because they wanted her attention.
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Subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation:
Make repeated small-scale attacks on (an enemy):
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A pensioner who was harassed by aggressive beggars in Swindon town centre has backed a campaign to stop vagrants pestering shoppers for cash.
It would assume that anyone who says they don't own a car at all is lying and it would harass them continually with aggressive letters and vague threats.
Both harass the unemployed, pressuring them further into exploitative employment.
In addition the crusaders used light cavalry and horse archers in large numbers to harass the enemy, to scout, and to supplement the knights.
Our pilots were used to harassing the enemy by strafing rail and truck areas, infantry and anything that moved.
The wise general never gives battle but on favourable ground; and until he has found it, he manoeuvres, skirmishes, and harasses the enemy.
definition: To integrate means to join, communicate and socialize.
example: Governments want immigrants to integrate with the population.
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Combine (one thing) with another to form a whole:
Combine (two things) so that they form a whole:
(Of a thing) combine with another to form a whole:
Bring (people or groups with particular characteristics or needs) into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution:
Come into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution:
Desegregate (a school, area, etc.), especially racially:
Find the integral of:
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She also worked to make sure that all the green elements were properly integrated into the building as a whole so they work as a coordinated system.
But we need to look how these specific rules are integrated into the system as a whole.
The radio / CD, a front loader, together with the temperature control, forms the centre console, which in turn is integrated with the dashboard.
In contrast, the attraction of a peacemaking approach is that it has the potential to combine and integrate these two facets in a more subtle, and balanced, way.
Robertson emphasizes that future work should also look to ways that the direct retraining and specific skills approaches can be integrated.
A better approach is to integrate the three stages into a highly compact, free-space geometry.
As optical switching technology matures and more meshed networks are deployed, narrowband channelizers will easily integrate into this advanced architecture.
The program can also integrate into Windows Explorer's shell context menu, allowing you to quickly add folders with a right-click from within other programs too.
The appliances seamlessly integrate into existing network and storage infrastructures, and require no software to be installed on client machines or file servers.
Peron preached the doctrine of economic progress and national integration - he created strong trade unions and social institutions that integrated different sections of society into the state.
He treated me with the utmost respect, the sex was fab, he bought me cool gifts, integrated me into his social circle, introduced me to the family, etc.
Encouraging such striving, they felt, was the best way for poor blacks to escape poverty and integrate themselves fully into American social and political life.
Many of its members are willing to integrate and try to climb Europe's steep social ladder.
During Aznar's first term, Spain fully integrated into European institutions, qualifying for the European Monetary Union.
Carlow equal employment programme was approved funding to integrate older workers in the labour market in County Carlow.
He attempted to integrate the University of Mississippi, which is only sixty miles south of Memphis.
The university opened a law school in 1951 because Florida lawmakers did not want to integrate the University of Florida's law school at the time.
A federal judge orders public schools in the Charlotte area to cease special efforts to integrate their schools.
The only way to compute complete trajectories was to integrate the differential equations numerically.
This distribution has to be integrated numerically to obtain its first two moments and the average values of the mutation load and inbreeding depression.
Also in this letter he asked his advice on integrating equations he had obtained from theoretically modelling bombs dropping.
интегрировать , объединять You should integrate newcomers into the group. — Вы должны интегрировать новичков в группу.
мат. интегрировать составить единое целое включить в состав, присоединить полит. осуществлять расовую, социальную и др. интеграцию to become integrated — влиться, интегрироваться
включать , совмещать ; интегрировать to integrate learning with play — совмещать обучение с игрой
интегрироваться; ассимилироваться New immigrants integrated successfully. — Новые иммигранты успешно ассимилировались.
составной , смешанный Синоним: composite
полный , завершенный Синоним: complete, entire, perfect
психол. человек , обладающий сильным эйдетическим воображением
definition: If something is miniature, it is very small.
example: The boy enjoys playing with his miniature train set in his bedroom.
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Represent on a smaller scale:
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In exchange, he offered his own likeness - ‘a picture of the old gold hunter, so you may compare the doctor (as miniatured and sent to mother in '49) with the gold hunter of the present.’
The ceiling here arches in this way that miniatures me, and the floor is long and grey.
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in miniature on a very small scale
миниатюра (тж. miniature painting) in miniature — в миниатюре miniature painter — миниатюрист
полигр. миниатюра , заставка (в старинной рукописи) кино макет , модель в миниатюре воен. уменьшенный знак отличия (вместо ордена, медали и т. п.) уменьшенная копия (чего-л.) художественная миниатюра искусство создания художественных миниатюр изображать в миниатюре Take this round orb; it miniatures the world. — Возьми этот круглый шар, он представляет собой мир в миниатюре.
украшать ( рукопись ) миниатюрами делать миниатюрным; уменьшать до миниатюрных размеров миниатюрный , небольшого размера, маленький ; изящный miniature edition of a book — миниатюрная книга или издание ; книжка-малютка miniature camera — малоформатная фотокамера miniature poodle — карликовый пудель Синоним: compact, small, tiny
definition: If something happens promptly, it happens quickly or on time.
example: Arrive promptly, or we won’t have time to discuss everything.
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With little or no delay; immediately:
Used to express surprise, and slight disapproval, when someone does something shortly after something else:
At exactly a specified time; punctually:
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All invitations sent to a gentleman of any sort are promptly accepted or declined.
All orders intrusted to Mr. Cook will be promptly filled.
The waves caused superficial damage which will need to be repaired promptly to avoid further damage.
His on-off relationship with a famous actress results in the birth of a son whom Ellis promptly disowns.
The veracity of this individual's account cannot be verified as he promptly disappeared.
Anyway, I went into David Jones, and, looking like the neo-hippie that I am, they promptly ignored me.
The store manager walked up the temporary stage promptly at 6 PM.
The paper must go to press promptly at 3 o'clock.
On makeover day, Sue was picked up promptly at 8: 30 a.m. by Don Curl of Mountview Dodge Chrysler Jeep.
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punctually, on time, on the dot, on the nail
informal bang on, spot on
North American informal on the button
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быстро , немедленно , срочно ; безотлагательно he promptly went and told everybody — он пошел и тут же всем рассказал Синоним: fast, quickly, readily, directly, at once
точно , своевременно сразу ; прямо Синоним: fast, quickly, readily, directly, at once
мастер своего дела ; специалист лаборант или лаборантка воен. сержант технических войск лаборант техник 1) специалист по использованию определенных видов техники и оборудования (от компьютерного техника до электрика); 2) специалист по техническому анализу рынка ценных бумаг; см. technical analysis.
