Lesson 46 Flashcards
praise - /preɪz/
verb [ T ]
praise verb [T] (SHOW APPROVAL)
B2
to express admiration or approval of the achievements or characteristics of a person or thing:
- He should be praised for his honesty.
- My parents always praised me when I did well at school.
- He was highly praised for his research on heart disease.
praise verb [T] (WORSHIP)
to honour, worship, and express admiration for a god:
- They sang hymns praising God.
shortcoming(s) - /ˈʃɔːrtˌkʌm.ɪŋ/
noun [ C usually plural ]
a fault or a failure to reach a particular standard:
- Whatever his shortcomings as a husband, he was a good father to his children.
- Like any political system, it has its shortcomings.
intake - /ˈɪn.teɪk/
noun
intake noun (BREATH)
[ C ]
an act of taking in something, especially breath:
- I heard a sharp intake of breath behind me.
intake noun (AMOUNT)
[ U ]
the amount of a particular substance that is eaten or drunk during a particular time:
- It says on the packet that four slices of this bread contains one half of your recommended daily intake of fibre.
[ U ]
the number of people that are accepted at a particular time by an organization, especially a college or university:
- The college has increased its intake of students by 50 percent this year.
intake noun (OPENING)
[ C ]
an opening through which air, liquid, or gas is taken in:
- The Tornado jet fighter-bomber has two air intakes, one at the base of each wing.
swarm - /swɔːrm/
noun/
verb [ I ]
swarm - noun
a large group of insects all moving together:
- a swarm of bees/wasps/ants/locusts
- The dead sheep was covered with swarms of flies.
[ C, + sing/pl verb ]
a large group of people all moving together:
- A swarm of/Swarms of photographers followed the star’s car.
swarm - verb [ I ]
When insects swarm, they come together in a large group.
When people swarm somewhere, they move there in a large group or in large numbers:
- During the summer, tourists swarm the little beachside town.
congested - /kənˈdʒes.tɪd/
adjective
too blocked or crowded and causing difficulties
Congested roads and towns have too much traffic and movement is made difficult.
If you are or your nose is congested, you cannot breathe through your nose because it is blocked, usually during an infection.
Congested lungs or other body parts have become too full of blood or other liquid.
congestion
noun [ U ] US /kənˈdʒes·tʃən/
- The restaurant would increase traffic congestion and noise.
spur - /spɝː/
verb [ T ]
spur verb [T] (ENCOURAGE)
C2
to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster:
- Rising consumer sales have the effect of spurring the economy to faster growth.
- Spurred (on) by her early success, she went on to write four more novels in rapid succession.
spur verb [T] (SHARP OBJECT)
to push spurs into the side of a horse to make it go faster:
- He spurred his horse on and shouted “Faster! Faster!”
on the spur of the moment
idiom
used to say that a decision, action, etc. is sudden and done without any planning:
- We hadn’t planned to go away - it was one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions.
- We just jumped in a car on the spur of the moment and drove to the seaside.
flip side - /ˈflɪp ˌsaɪd/
noun [ S ]
the opposite, less good, or less popular side of something:
- We’re now starting to see the flip side of the government’s economic policy.
limb - /lɪm/
noun [ C ]
конечность
limb noun [C] (OF PERSON/ANIMAL)
an arm or leg of a person or animal:
- The accident victims mostly had injuries to their lower limbs (= legs).
- an artificial limb
poach - /poʊtʃ/
verb
poach verb (COOK)
[ T ]
to cook something such as a fish, or an egg with its shell removed, by putting it in gently boiling water or other liquid:
- We had poached eggs for breakfast.
- Do you like pears poached in red wine?
poach verb (TAKE)
[ I or T ]
to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else’s land:
- The farmer claimed that he shot the men because they were poaching on his land.
[ T ]
to take and use for yourself unfairly or dishonestly something, usually an idea, that belongs to someone else:
- Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they’re his own.
[ T ] disapproving
to persuade someone who works for someone else to come and work for you:
- They were furious when one of their best managers was poached by another company.
poach | BUSINESS ENGLISH
to persuade employees or customers of another company to become your employees or customers instead:
-
poach sb from sth The company is considering a nationwide expansion after poaching a new chief operating officer from a rival restaurant group.
- poach staff He is suing the rival company for damages of about £35m after they poached 27 staff from him earlier this year.
- poach clients/customers Such data should help newcomers to poach customers from existing companies.
to take ideas that belong to another person, company, etc. and use them for yourself, especially in a secret and dishonest way:
- Several unscrupulous IT companies are offering ‘free’ seminars on e-commerce to customers and then quietly poaching ideas.
poach talent
HR
to persuade very able and skilled employees from another organization to come and work for you:
- Rival brokers have been sniffing around in a bid to poach talent.
poaching
noun [ U ]
- The major firms have strong, legally enforceable clauses regarding poaching of clients.
tusk - /tʌsk/
noun [ C ]
either of the two, long, curved teeth that stick out from the mouth of some animals, esp. elephants and walruses
collar - /ˈkɑː.lɚ/
verb [ T ]
collar verb [T] (PUT COLLAR ON)
to put a strap or device around an animal’s neck, for example as a way of controlling it, or discovering or recording where it goes:
- The family dog is collared, leashed and taken for a walk.
- Researchers began trapping and collaring black bears in order to track their movements
collar verb [T] (CATCH)
informal
to find someone and stop them in order to talk to them:
- A reporter collared her on her way to the gym.
- I was collared by Pete as I was coming out of the meeting this morning.
informal
to catch or arrest someone such as a criminal:
- He is known as the detective who collared a serial killer.
- She was collared by the police at the airport.
informal
to get something for yourself:
- He somehow managed to collar all the credit for other people’s work.
- The Treasury collars billions in tobacco duty every year.
