definition: An airway is the passage by which air reaches a person’s lungs.
example: Since he was sick, mucus would occasionally get stuck in his airway.
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The passage by which air reaches a person’s lungs:
A tube for supplying air to a person’s lungs in an emergency.
A recognized route followed by aircraft.
In names of airlines:
A ventilating passage in a mine.
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Preliminary studies show these compounds improve the flow of mucus through the respiratory tract, allowing airways to clear more quickly and efficiently.
Infiltration of the large and small airways with eosinophils, neutrophils, plasma cells, and lymphocytes is common.
In patients with severe trauma, airway compromise is a cause of prehospital death that can be prevented and simple airway manoeuvres can clear the airway to provide vital oxygenation.
A high incidence of middle ear complications from hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been described in patients with artificial airways.
Gastric inflation is a dangerous complication of using laryngeal mask airways in advanced life support
The review uncovered a wide range of research relating to the practice of suctioning adults with an artificial airway.
Tip 6 Use a bright marking pen to lay out your course on the sectional chart, even if it's following an airway - they all look the same.
Keep your aircraft perpendicular to an airway when crossing it.
The Short Empire flying boats were extremely successful aircraft that helped extend the airways to all corners of the British empire.
US Airways and American Airlines have put fares on sale for travel to and from New York.
The Airline Group consists of British Airways, British Midland, Virgin Atlantic, easyJet, Monarch Airlines, Britannia Airways and Airtours.
The airline has so-called code-sharing agreements with Delta Air, Alitalia, Garuda Indonesia, Thai Airways and Vietnam Airlines.
After work stopped about 2pm Birrell and Nasmyth made their examination, and then appear to have travelled to the shaft by the return airway.
East section is separated from other sections of the Colliery by a fault across which there are only two roads, one the intake and haulage road, and the other the return airway.
In an intake airway of a coal mine a locomotive was pushing a single materials vehicle.
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воздушная линия , воздушная трасса , авиалиния ; авиатрасса to cross the airway — пересекать авиатрассу to enter the airway — выходить на авиатрассу branch airway — вспомогательная авиалиния bypass airway — обходная авиатрасса high-level airway — авиатрасса верхнего воздушного пространства low-level airway — авиатрасса нижнего воздушного пространства Синоним: airline
авиационная компания British Airways — «Бритиш эруэйз» (государственная авиакомпания)
горн. вентиляционная выработка , вентиляционный штрек амер. разг. телевизионный канал pl анат. дыхательные, воздушные пути трубка для интубационного наркоза или его снятия воздуховод ; вентиляционная шахта крытый трап (в аэропорту) авиапредприятие Синоним: airline
наступление (эпохи, события) , прибытие , приход since the advent of atomic power — с появлением /с открытием/ атомной энергии Синоним: arrival
(Advent) церк. рождественский пост (Advent) рел. пришествие , особ. второе пришествие Христа (тж. Second Advent) (Advent) рел. (Второе) пришествие (Христа)
definition: If somethings definitive, then it is the most official.
example: This library has the definitive collection of books on ancient Egypt.
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A definitive postage stamp:
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In contrast, the second set of definitives, the ‘Five Year Plan Series’, were forward looking and depicted the nation assuming its historical destiny as it sought to reconstruct its greatness through economic modernisation.
The monarch, flag, maple leaf, and Parliament Building definitives are not included in this study.
полный , точный definitive name — полное имя definitive edition — ≅ академическое издание definitive text of a poem — полный /канонический/ текст поэмы
отличительный , характерный ; существенный ; определенный ; фиксированный definitive distinctions — отличительные признаки a definitive orbit of the comet — определенная орбита кометы Some days will probably elapse before we shall be able to announce a definitive result. — Пройдет, возможно, несколько дней, прежде чем мы сможем сообщить определенный результат. definitive distinction — отличительный признак Синоним: definite
грам. определяющий ; определительный ; выступающий в функции определения definitive word — определительное слово, определение
биол. вполне развитой, дефинитивный definitive organs — вполне развитые органы
решительный ; имеющий решающее значение, решающий ; последний Синоним: decisive, determinative, conclusive, final
авторитетный определяющее слово определительное слово, определение
definition: To equate one thing with another is to compare them and consider them very similar.
example: She equated the man’s messy appearance with a lack of responsibility.
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Consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another:
(Of one thing) be the same as or equivalent to (another):
Cause (two or more things) to be the same in quantity or value:
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Over the years, people have come to equate his name with evil.
Those who equate hunting foxes with abusing children reduce humanity to the moral equivalent of mice.
Branding means equating your name to a certain topic, product, or service.
They add that this would equate to the equivalent output of ‘two average power stations’.
The charges I shall have to pay to park weekly will equate to almost the equivalent of a year's subscriptions to be a choir member.
Unions say the latest offer is a complex deal under which all workers would receive a lump sum in December equating to a 2.7 per cent rise for the six month-period from April to September.
Separately, the real risk-free rate is an equilibrium rate, equating the overall supply and demand for funds.
The price level - in the longer run - equates the demand for money to the supply.
The efficient amount of news coverage equates the value of the marginal story with the value of alternative uses of these resources.
Synonyms
regard as the same as, regard as identical to;
identify, liken to, compare;
bracket, class, associate, connect, pair, link, relate, ally, think of together, set side by side
correspond, be equivalent, amount;
equal, be the same as
equalize, balance, even out/up/off, level up/off, square, tally, match;
make equal, make even, make level, make equivalent, make identical, make the same, make uniform
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считать равным; равнять , приравнивать ; ставить знак равенства to equate art with success — отождествлять мастерство и успех You cannot equate life in the city to life in the country. — Жизнь в городе и в деревне просто нельзя уравнивать. His poems cannot be equated with his plays. — Его стихи нельзя равнять с его пьесами.
мат. приравнивать , устанавливать равенство представить в виде уравнения; составлять уравнение
definition: To inhale means to take air or a smell into the lungs.
example: The camper inhaled the cool and fresh mountain air and felt relaxed.
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Breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.):
Eat (food) greedily or rapidly:
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Marla breathed in deeply, inhaling the smoke of her cigarette before blowing it out in a long wisp.
Alone, Ian takes a deep breath, inhaling the perfumed air she's left in her wake.
The giggling came to a sudden halt as a sharp breath of air was inhaled somewhere above me.
He dropped four plates in front of us, and the children inhaled the food like it was pizza and soda.
But this is Jake, he doesn't even look before he inhales his food.
But he didn't feel like eating, unlike the others who seemed to be inhaling their food.
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breathe in, draw in, suck in, sniff in, gasp, gulp, inspire, drink in
rare inbreathe
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вдыхать , втягивать (воздух, жидкость) to inhale air — вдыхать воздух inhale! Exhale! — спорт. вдох! выдох! to inhale deeply — глубоко вдыхать Синоним: breathe in, draw in
жадно есть затягиваться (при курении) He smoked marijuana but never inhaled. — Он покуривал травку, но никогда не затягивался.
разг. поглощать , заглатывать She inhaled lunch and then rushed off to the meeting. — Она проглотила обед и понеслась на встречу.
definition: To invoke something is to mention it to support an argument or ask for help.
example: Before going into battle, the soldier invoked the name of his god for protection.
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Call on (a deity or spirit) in prayer, as a witness, or for inspiration.
Summon (a spirit) by charms or incantation.
Cite or appeal to (someone or something) as an authority for an action or in support of an argument:
Call earnestly for:
Give rise to; evoke:
Cause (a procedure) to be carried out.
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The milder and more beneficent forces of nature were addressed as female deities and invoked with prayers.
Listen to our President invoking a deity or prayer in every one of his speeches, and maybe an answer will occur to you.
But when the Goddess was invoked by the priestess, I felt what I had always experienced as the Holy Spirit come down.
Aladdin's nemesis, Jafar, has long since been despatched to the after-life, but his evil sister Nasira has found a way to bring back the dastardly villain by invoking the ‘spell of restoration’.
A bearded sorcerer is busy invoking spirits with his incantation, his glazed eyes staring into the distance and all aglow in the dark.
Then a grand puja is performed invoking the spirit of Pancha Ganapati in the home.
Back then the same arguments were used to invoke the people to vote, the same grim scenario of a hardliner-dominated regime who would stifle all the progress made were told and retold again and again.
Many of the lefty bloggers have lately been pursuing one of their persuasion's favourite follies: selecting a congenial conclusion and then invoking spurious science to support it.
The philosophy of ‘naturalism’ is imposed upon the evidence so that the authority of science is invoked for a secular view of the world.
It will also be able to add quietly and effectively to its own wealth and to the wealth of its favorite groups, and without incurring the wrath that taxes often invoke.
The only possible operation is to read data when Read-Only Mode is invoked.
Can I use a Java application instead of a JSP (JavaServer Page) to invoke a servlet on an application server?
This article describes the steps to change the default image editor application, which is invoked from the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
Synonyms
pray to, call on, appeal to, plead with, supplicate, entreat, solicit, beseech, beg, implore, importune, petition;
call for, request
rare obtest, obsecrate, impetrate
summon, call (up), bring, conjure (up)
cite, refer to, adduce, instance;
resort to, have recourse to, turn to, call into use, use, put into effect/use
bring forth, bring on, elicit, induce, cause, kindle, bring out
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заклинать , вызывать духов to invoke a phantom — вызывать призрак Синоним: conjure
призывать ; взывать ; молить to invoke smb.'s aid — взывать к чьей-л. помощи to invoke protection — молить о защите to invoke vengeance — звать /призывать/ к мщению
обращаться к ; ссылаться на ; цитировать to invoke Plato — цитировать Платона
призывать к применению (чего-л.) ; прибегать к (чему-л.) юр. применять (статью, оговорку) вызвать (что-л.) , привести к (чему-л.) просить , умолять , упрашивать ; ходатайствовать Синоним: summon, appeal, cry
осуществлять , способствовать осуществлению Синоним: cause
definition: If something is lunar, then it is related to the moon.
example: During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow darkens the moon’s surface.
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Of, determined by, or resembling the moon:
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So even during total lunar eclipse, the lunar disk is not completely dark.
The first distinction, as we have already seen in Chapter 1, is between lunar and solar eclipses.
It is certainly wild, even deserted in most places, but the stark lunar landscape is only part of a rich and varied wilderness.
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лунный lunar month — лунный месяц (от новолуния до новолуния) lunar year — лунный год (из 12 лунных месяцев; примерно 354 1 / 3 дня) lunar eclipse — лунное затмение lunar distance — угловое расстояние (угол между Луной и Солнцем или какой-л. яркой звездой) ; расстояние от Земли до Луны lunar module — лунный модуль lunar orbit — лунная орбита (орбита, по которой движется Луна вокруг Земли или космический корабль вокруг Луны) lunar packet — портативный набор научных приборов для взятия проб и исследования Луны lunar politics — вопросы, не имеющие практического значения lunar rover — луноход lunar vehicle — луноход
бледный , лунного цвета относящийся к Луне lunar mare /sea/ — море на Луне, лунное море lunar science — наука о Луне, селенология
косм. предназначенный для освоения Луны lunar suit — лунный скафандр lunar lander — аппарат для посадки на Луну lunar landing — посадка на Луну, прилунение lunar excursion module — лунная капсула ; лунный экспедиционный (модульный) отсек lunar rover, lunar roving vehicle — луноход
серповидный или круглый имеющий форму полумесяца Синоним: lunate
definition: A novelty is something that is new, original, or strange.
example: Ice cream was a novelty for him since he rarely had any.
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The quality of being new, original, or unusual:
A new or unfamiliar thing or experience:
Denoting an object intended to be amusing as a result of its unusual design:
A small and inexpensive toy or ornament:
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They mistook novelty for originality, creativity, and competence.
The novelty of the quality improvement approach was welcomed by patients and staff as a way to change the system.
But creativity means appearance of novelty, which by definition exists outside the confines of a deterministic universe.
Spanish football is experiencing a novelty: the successful export of some of its better footballers.
My companion had never eaten sushi before and found the whole experience a novelty.
Casual sexual experiences are not a novelty for either of them (they have both had sex with other partners in the toilets of a particular pub, for example).
She designed a novelty cake using a scene from the Lord of the Rings film based on the novel of the same name by J.R. Tolkien for inspiration.
You are probably one of those students who uses novelty fonts in your designs because they look ‘cool.’
He's either an amusing novelty act or just plain annoying.
You can shop for novelties such as silver ornaments and local garments, while forgetting the madness of crowded department stores on Shanghai's Huaihai Lu.
They sent 15 samples of toys, decorations and novelties to Worcester Scientific Services for testing.
It had what looked like several antique ornaments and novelties on display.
новизна , инновация , нововведение the charm of novelty — прелесть новизны to lose novelty — потерять свежесть the novelty has worn off — впечатление новизны /свежести/ стерлось a novelty wears off — новизна утрачивается In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism. — В современном западном мире быстро меняющаяся мода - это дань стремлению к новизне и индивидуализму. Синоним: newness
новость , новинка ; новшество Seeing people queuing for food was a novelty. — Увидеть очередь за продуктами было новостью. Синоним: news, innovation
pl новинки (преим. о галантерее, косметике и т. п.) novelty counter — галантерейный отдел (в магазине) to buy novelties for gifts — покупать разные пустячки /разную мелочь/ для подарков
(novelties) мелкие дешевые товары (галантерея, косметика, сувениры) Синоним: plaything
definition: If something is outmoded, then it is no longer in fashion or use.
example: Black and white television sets are outmoded.
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Old-fashioned:
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Isn't it time to declare all such vessels outmoded, obsolete and a danger to peace?
My only cavil is that I would have liked to see her in a part which gave her greater scope to display her abilities, rather than in this outdated and outmoded piece.
Costumes are cultural repositories; they are antiquated, outmoded images of a nostalgised past.
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out of date, old-fashioned, outdated, out of fashion, outworn, dated, behind the times, ancient, archaic, antiquated, obsolescent, dead, obsolete, disused, defunct, abandoned, tired, exhausted, stale, hackneyed, superannuated;
French passé
informal old hat, out of the ark
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вышедший из моды; старомодный ; устаревший ; отживший an outmoded custom — отживший обычай outmoded machinery — устаревшее оборудование outmoded bonnet — вышедшая из моды шляпка outmoded word — устаревшее слово
definition: To personalize something means to design it to meet a person’s unique needs.
example: He personalized the woman’s exercises to give her a better workout.
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Design or produce (something) to meet someone’s individual requirements:
Make (something) identifiable as belonging to a particular person, especially by marking it with their name or initials:
Cause (an issue, argument, etc.) to become concerned with personalities or feelings rather than with general or abstract matters:
Personify (something, especially a deity or spirit):
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As well as offering individual customers personalised solutions it also works with businesses and government sectors, in particular, health trusts and airports.
Care for the elderly and schooling would be personalised to meet individual need.
She also designs personalised detox and weight-loss programmes to ensure her clients stay comfortable in their 27 in Seven jeans, even post-holiday blowout.
A close family friend gave the couple personalized napkins with their names embossed in gold.
These bracelets not only feature encouraging words but on some websites, you can actually personalize them with your name, your own quote, or even your astrological sign.
They are personalized with either your names or monogram on the front with the inside being blank for writing your thank you notes.
The problem is that we Americans have this tendency to always personalize these conflicts.
He argues that the issue shouldn't be personalized.
And Buddhism and Hinduism were sketched out in the India issue: the less personalised and politicised nature of these religions makes it easier.
The passage indicates he had personalized and humanized God.
Bottero's concise explanation of henotheism clarifies how a pantheon, with its bewildering myriad of gods, becomes personalised through personal preference for a single deity.
There are people for whom the evil that is afoot in the world has been personalized.
Synonyms
customize, individualize, give a personal touch to, make distinctive, make to order
personify, humanize, anthropomorphize
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принимать , относить на свой счет воплощать Синоним: embody, incarnate
олицетворять Синоним: embody, incarnate
персонализировать, персонифицировать The poets are fond of personalizing both physical and moral qualities. — Поэты любят персонифицировать как физические, так и моральные качества. Синоним: embody, incarnate
definition: To pertain to something means to be related or connected to it.
example: All of the lawyer’s questions pertained to events around the night of the crime.
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Be appropriate, related, or applicable to:
Belong to something as a part, appendage, or accessory:
Be in effect or existence in a specified place or at a specified time:
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In the public perception, all matters pertaining to health are the responsibility of the appropriate Ministry, or perhaps it should be so.
Similarly, on its return route, the bus should bear the related PIN pertaining to its destination.
The university relations officer works to represent students on all matters pertaining to governance of the university.
The adjective ‘gastric’ applies to all things pertaining to the stomach.
To steal anything pertaining to this story would be plagarism and illegal, so please, don't.
While the individuals pertaining to those groups may argue that they feel they are viable blood donors, why take the risk?
As a student reading for a doctorate at the celebrated University of Paris-Sorbonne, he is well versed in the academic language that pertains in France and on the European Continent.
The reason for old gents' clubs - as grown-up common rooms for unmarried men who lodged in the City and couldn't cook for themselves - no longer pertains.
‘The culture of blame which pertains in this country today is an unhealthy and debilitating trend,’ the Prime Minister said.
Synonyms
concern, relate to, be related to, be connected with, be relevant to, have relevance to, apply to, be pertinent to, have reference to, refer to, have a bearing on, appertain to, bear on, affect, involve, cover, touch
archaic regard
belong to, be a part of, be an adjunct of, go along with, be included in
exist, be the order of the day, obtain, be in effect, be the case, be prevalent, prevail, be current, be established
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относиться , принадлежать ; иметь отношение (к чему-л.) ; подлежать (чему-л.) this does not pertain to my office — это не входит в мою компетенцию duties that pertain to motherhood — обязанности, налагаемые материнством These are all the grounds pertaining to the castle. — Это все земли, принадлежащие крепости. Синоним: belong
быть свойственным подходить , подобать it does not pertain to a gentleman — это не подобает джентльмену This is not the kind of behaviour pertaining to a gentleman. — Джентльмену не подобает так вести себя. Синоним: befit
относиться , иметь отношение к (чему-л.) facts that pertain to the case — факты, относящиеся к делу a book pertaining to martial arts — книга о боевых искусствах What proofs do you have pertaining to the case? — Какие есть у вас доказательства, относящиеся к делу? Синоним: refer
definition: If something is primal, then it is very basic or related to the origin of something.
example: Cooking the food over the camp fire felt like a primal way of making a meal.
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Relating to an early stage in evolutionary development; primeval:
Relating to or denoting the needs, fears, or behaviour that are postulated (especially in Freudian theory) to form the origins of emotional life:
Most important; primary or fundamental:
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Primitive, coming from the same route as primal, applies to societies which, like the earliest on earth, not only did not use metal, but did not farm.
At the end, four performers circled around the stage in a primal manner.
In experimenting with different ways of working with sound to bring out those very primitive and primal sounds, he insists there is a return to a collective unconscious.
It's fear, the most primal human emotion, that gives gold its value.
The film taps into one of the most basic primal fears of childhood: separation from one's parents.
There are several cathartic therapies that involve primal screaming, rebirthing, or reparenting.
It's possible that any educational curriculum aimed at the strictly cognitive level will not make much of a dent in this fundamental and primal relationship.
The outside walk is the most primal, important activity for a dog.
Fascination with fire could be described as a primal urge, an urge that we have become distanced from as our relationship with fire has become progressively more controlled.
definition: A reflex is an unconscious action in which a body part responds to an event.
example: There was a reflex when the doctor hit his knee with a rubber hammer.
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(Of an action) performed without conscious thought as an automatic response to a stimulus:
(Of an angle) exceeding 180°.
(Of light) reflected.
Bent or turned backwards.
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The same event, however, can take place without a swallow as a reflex response to mechanical stimulation of the esophagus.
In the respiratory tract, complex reflex responses to the gastric refluxate occur in children by three mechanisms.
The mechanism by which the body senses and responds to changes in blood pressure by reflex vasodilation or contraction of peripheral vessels is impaired.
отражение ; рефлекс the moon's reflex in the water — отражение луны в воде
изображение , образ отсвет ; отблеск , отражение (света) The reflex from the window lit his face. — Отблеск, отразившийся от окна, осветил его лицо. Синоним: reflection, reflected light
привычка ; рефлекс ; автоматическое, машинальное непроизвольное действие He fumbled in his pocket, a reflex from his smoking days. — Он порылся в кармане - привычка, оставшаяся от того времени, когда он еще курил. Синоним: habit
результат , последствие ; внешнее выражение или проявление (чего-л.) ; реакция (на что-л.) immune reflex — иммунная реакция, иммунный ответ
отображение , воспроизведение ; отражение reflex of the popular will — отражение воли народа Синоним: image, reproduction
(reflexes) рефлексы, быстрота реакции (например, в спорте или при вождении машины) Синоним: reaction
лингв. рефлекс (звук, слово и т. п., происходящие из другой, более древней сопоставимой формы этого звука, слова и т. п.) фото; = reflex camera зеркальный фотоаппарат (иммунный) ответ (на введенный антиген) отраженный рефлекторный ; машинальный , непроизвольный , бессознательный reflex action /act/ — рефлекторное движение reflex irritability — рефлекторная возбудимость Синоним: involuntary
редк. интроспективный Синоним: introspective
радио рефлексный редк. согнутый , отогнутый ; завернутый загнутый в обратном направлении фото зеркальный (о фотоаппарате, в котором изображение с основной линзы отражается с помощью зеркала на специальный экран) эл. отражательный (о клистроне) рефлексный (о копировальном процессе, в котором копируемый оригинал освещается светом, проходящим через светочувствительную бумагу, в результате чего на ней образуется негативное изображение оригинала) мат. больше 180 градусов (об угле) reflex angle — угол, градусная мера которого находится в пределах от 180 до 360 градусов
представляющий собой ответную реакцию = reflex receiver = reflex camera = reflexive
заседание , собрание , совещание ; сессия ; сеанс plenary session — пленарное заседание private /secret/ session — закрытое заседание sessions of a commission — заседание комиссии to be in session — заседать the Senate is now in session — в сенате идут заседания, сенат сейчас работает they had a long session — они долго заседали to go into secret session — обсуждать на закрытом заседании (что-л.) to have a session on smth. — совещаться по какому-л. вопросу a session on problems of air pollution — заседание по вопросам загрязнения окружающей среды biennial session — сессия, созываемая раз в два года briefing session — информационное совещание, брифинг bull session — %% амер.; разг. разговоры, беседа в мужской компании joint session — совместное заседание rap session — %% амер.; разг. разговоры, беседа в мужской компании rump session — "сессия охвостья" (сессия законодательного собрания с неполным представительством) special session — внеочередная сессия, экстренное заседание split session — разделенная сессия working session — рабочее заседание secret session — закрытое заседание a session on — заседание по вопросам (чего-л.) ; заседание, посвященное (чему-л.) to hold a session — проводить заседание petty sessions — судебное заседание в присутствии нескольких мировых судей без присяжных заседателей extraordinary [special] session — чрезвычайная [специальная] сессия to present bills at this session of Parliament — внести законопроекты на обсуждение текущей сессии парламента Синоним: sitting, meeting
юр. судебное заседание; день судебного заседания closed session — закрытое заседание суда in full session — в открытом судебном заседании
сессия (судебная, парламентская) autumn session — осенняя сессия парламента extraordinary session — чрезвычайная сессия Court of Session — Сессионный суд (высший суд Шотландии по гражданским делам) panic session — кризисная сессия (сессия законодательного собрания, созванная под влиянием паники или кризисной ситуации) secret session — закрытая сессия
учебный триместр или семестр Summer sessions — (летние) курсы усовершенствования преподавателей summer session — %% амер. летний курс (платный лекционный учебный цикл, предлагаемый в некоторых университетах)
учебный год (в некоторых университетах) амер. занятия; учебное время six and eight week sessions — шестинедельный и восьминедельный курсы обучения most of these schools have night sessions — во многих из этих школ проводятся вечерние занятия
вчт. сеанс (работы пользователя с системой) ; сессия ; общ., амер., сленг разговор ; занятие photo session — фотосессия drinking session — попойка recording session муз. — сеанс, сессия звукозаписи session musician — сессионный музыкант (приглашаемый на запись к известному исполнителю или группе)
амер. разг. время , занятое чем-л. (особ. чем-л. неприятным) he had quite a session with the policeman — у него был долгий и неприятный разговор с полицейским
встреча для какой-л. цели dancing session — вечер с танцами card session — встреча для игры в карты ; ≅ переброситься в картишки recording session — сеанс звукозаписи a few kids got together for a study session — несколько ребят собралось, чтобы вместе позаниматься
австрал. сл. групповая пьянка редк. сидячее положение амер. учебные занятия ; уроки в школе амер.; разг. какое-л. дело, разговор (обычно связанные с чем-л. неприятным) She had quite a session with her parents. — У нее был крупный разговор с родителями.
информ. сеанс , сессия (работы пользователя с системой) пол. парламентская сессия (период времени, в течение которого законодательный орган собирается на заседания и ведет работу в обычном порядке) учебный семестр встреча (для танцев, для игры в карты и т. п.) (the sessions) = quarter-sessions
