TPO49 Flashcards

Question

mill

Answer 1

🔹a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour. 🔹a piece of machinery for grinding grain. 🔸a direct steam-driven flour mill 🔹a domestic device for grinding a solid substance to powder; grinder 🔸a pepper mill 🔹a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process. 🔸a steel mill 🔹a piece of manufacturing machinery.

Answer 2

🔹decrease in size, number, or range; shrink 🔸glass contracts as it cools 🔹(of a muscle) become shorter and tighter in order to effect movement of part of the body. 🔸the heart contracts about seventy times a minute 🔹shorten (a word or phrase) by combination or elision; abbreviate 🔸these sources were called quasistellar objects, which was soon contracted to quasar 🔹enter into a formal and legally binding agreement. 🔸the local authority will contract with a wide range of agencies to provide services 🔹secure specified rights or undertake specified obligations in a formal and legally binding agreement. 🔸a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment 🔹impose an obligation on (someone) to do something by means of a formal agreement. 🔸health authorities contract a hospital to treat a specific number of patients 🔹arrange for work to be done by another organization. 🔸local authorities will have to contract out waste management 🔹formally enter into (a marriage). 🔸kings obtained dispensations to enable them to contract politically advantageous matches 🔹enter into (a friendship or other relationship). 🔸the patterns of social relationships contracted by men and women differ 🔹catch or develop (a disease or infectious agent). 🔸three people contracted a killer virus 🔹become liable to pay (a debt). 🔸he contracted a debt of £3,300

Answer 3

🔹fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development; fall behind 🔸they waited for Tim who was lagging behind

Answer 4

🔹a person who makes gold articles. | زرگر

Answer 5

🔹printed text as opposed to illustrations. | 🔸the letterpress accompanying the illustrations

Answer 6

🔹the quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward. 🔸composers of outstanding merit 🔹a good feature or point. plural noun: merits 🔸the relative merits of both approaches have to be considered 🔹a pass grade in an examination denoting above-average performance. 🔸if you expect to pass, why not go for a merit or a distinction? 🔹(LAW) the intrinsic rights and wrongs of a case, outside of any other considerations. plural noun: merits 🔸a plaintiff who has a good arguable case on the merits 🔹(THEOLOGY) good deeds entitling someone to a future reward from God. 🔹deserve or be worthy of (reward, punishment, or attention). 🔸the results have been encouraging enough to merit further investigation

Answer 7

🔹use or be used until no longer in good condition or working order; deteriorate کهنه و فرسوده شدن 🔸wearing out the stair carpet 🔹to make someone feel extremely tired; exhaust

Answer 8

🔹a hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material when it cools and hardens. 🔸the smith would pour the molten metal into the shaped mould 🔹a distinctive and typical style, form, or character. 🔸he's a superb striker in the same mould as Gary Lineker 🔹a furry growth of minute fungi occurring typically in moist warm conditions, especially on food or other organic matter. 🔸mould may flourish unhindered 🔹soft loose earth. 🔸the ground was soft and damp, with old leaves thick in the mould 🔹the upper soil of cultivated land, especially when rich in organic matter. 🔸gravel and sand over clay, topped by fine vegetable mould

Answer 9

🔹پیچ

Answer 10

🔹involving or limited to basic principles; basic; elementary; 🔸he received a rudimentary education 🔹relating to an immature, undeveloped, or basic form; primitive; crude 🔸a rudimentary stage of evolution

Answer 11

🔹insert (a cutting of a plant) in soil to take root. 🔸best results are obtained from striking them in a propagator 🔹(of a plant or cutting) develop roots. 🔸small conifers will strike from cuttings 🔹take down (a tent or the tents of an encampment). 🔸it took ages to strike camp 🔹move or proceed vigorously or purposefully. 🔸she struck out into the lake with a practised crawl 🔹reach, achieve, or agree to (something involving agreement, balance, or compromise). 🔸the team has struck a deal with a sports marketing agency

Answer 12

🔹the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. تکانه 🔹the impetus and driving force gained by the development of a process or course of events; energy; impetus; drive 🔸the investigation gathered momentum in the spring

Answer 13

🔹to start to employ someone; hire 🔸We’re taking on 50 new staff this year. 🔹to agree to do some work or be responsible for something 🔸Don’t take on too much work – the extra cash isn’t worth it. 🔹to begin to have a particular quality or appearance 🔸Her face took on a fierce expression. 🔹to compete against someone or start a fight with someone, especially someone bigger or better than you 🔸Nigeria will take on Argentina in the first round of the World Cup on Saturday. 🔹if a plane or ship takes on people or things, they come onto it 🔸We stopped to take on fuel.

Answer 14

🔹to suddenly appear or start to exist | 🔸Fast-food restaurants are springing up all over town.

Answer 15

🔹relating to monks, nuns, or others living under religious vows, or the buildings in which they live. 🔸a monastic order 🔹resembling or suggestive of monks or their way of life, especially in being austere, solitary, or celibate. 🔹a monk or other follower of a monastic rule. رهبانی

Answer 16

🔹competition

Answer 17

🔹حروفچینی | 🔸you're reading a typeface called Dutch

Answer 18

🔹smile or speak in a contemptuous or mocking manner; redicule 🔸she had sneered at their bad taste

Answer 19

🔹the ability to assess and initiate things independently. 🔸use your initiative, imagination, and common sense 🔹the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do. 🔸anti-hunting groups have seized the initiative in the dispute 🔹an act or strategy intended to resolve a difficulty or improve a situation; a fresh approach to something. 🔸a new initiative against car crime ابتکار عمل

Answer 20

🔹creative skill or ability. هنرمندی- استعداد هنری 🔸the of the pianist

Answer 21

🔹step something ↔ up to increase the amount of an activity or the speed of a process in order to improve a situation 🔸The health department is stepping up efforts to reduce teenage smoking. 🔹(also step up to the plate) to agree to help someone or to be responsible for doing something 🔸Residents will have to step up if they want to rid this area of crime.

Answer 22

🔹a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development; development; advance 🔸a major breakthrough in DNA research 🔹an instance of achieving success in a particular sphere or activity. 🔸his big breakthrough came in 1988 when he had two paintings accepted by the RSA

Answer 23

🔹a small business in which people work in their own homes

Answer 24

🔹a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries). دهقان 🔸peasant farmers

Answer 25

``` 🔹a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports; tax; toll تعرفه 🔸the reduction of trade barriers and import tariffs ```

Answer 26

🔹a person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit; businessman کارآفرین 🔸many entrepreneurs see potential in this market

Answer 27

🔹the quality of using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully. صرفه جویی 🔸the values of thrift and self-reliance

Answer 28

🔹the passing of a privilege or responsibility to each member of a group in a regularly recurring order. 🔸it has become common for senior academics to act as heads of department in rotation" 🔹the growing of different crops in succession on a piece of land to avoid exhausting the soil and to control weeds, pests, and diseases. noun: crop rotation; plural noun: crop rotations 🔸traditional practices such as crop rotation

Answer 29

🔹a low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land; marsh مرداب 🔸a native species of fens and damp meadows

Answer 30

🔹surround or protect with a fence; enclose; surround; girdle; encompass; circumscribe 🔸our garden was not fully fenced 🔹enclose or separate an area with a fence. 🔸a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off 🔹use a barrier to exclude someone or something. 🔸walkers may find themselves fenced out of the moor 🔹engage in the sport of fencing. شمشیربازی 🔹conduct a discussion or argument in an evasive way. 🔸twelve months of fencing with McLaren had taken a toll on his nerves

Answer 31

🔹land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle or sheep. مراتع 🔸areas of rich meadow pasture 🔹used to refer to a person's situation in life. 🔸she left the office for pastures new 🔹put (animals) to graze in a pasture. 🔸they pastured their cows in the water meadow 🔹(of animals) graze. 🔸the livestock pastured and the crops grew

Answer 32

🔹an object or collection of objects wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post; package بسته 🔸the lorry was carrying a large number of Royal Mail parcels 🔹a quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction. 🔸a parcel of shares 🔹a piece of land, especially one considered as part of an estate. 🔸she decided to divide her property into three parcels and invite sealed bids 🔹make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it; pack 🔸he parcelled up the goods and sent them back 🔹divide into portions and then distribute. 🔸the farmers argue that parcelling out commercial farmland in small plots will reduce productivity

Answer 33

🔹هکتار

Answer 34

🔹a number of birds of one kind feeding, resting, or travelling together. 🔸a flock of gulls 🔹a number of domestic animals, especially sheep, goats, or geese, that are kept together; herd 🔸a flock of sheep 🔹a large number or crowd of people. 🔸a flock of paparazzi tailed them all over London

TPO49 Flashcards

(58 cards)