15 Flashcards
Accommodation
accommodations American English) a place for someone to stay, live, or work
2 [singular, uncountable] formal an agreement between people or groups who have different views or opinions, that satisfies everyone
GRAMMAR: Countable or uncountable?
• In meaning 1, accommodation is used as an uncountable noun, especially in British English:
Can you arrange some accommodation for me?
✗Don’t say: Can you arrange an accommodation?
• In American English, accommodation is often used as a plural noun in meaning 1:
The price includes meals and accommodations.
• In meaning 2, accommodation is often used as a singular noun:
They reached an accommodation.
Keep healthy
Stay healthy
Town centre
Town centre (BR) = downtown
Lift
Elevator
Flat
Apartment
Perfume
A liquid with a strong pleasant smell that women put on their skin or clothing to make themselves smell nice
liquid with a strong pleasant smell that women put on their skin or clothing to make themselves smell nice
VERBS
wear perfume
What’s that perfume you are wearing?
dab perfume on something (=quickly put perfume on )
She dabbed some perfume on her throat.
spray yourself with perfume
Jody sprayed herself with some of her mother’s perfume.
reek of perfume (=smell strongly of perfume)
It seemed to Polly that Sasha always left the bathroom reeking of horrible perfume.
smell of perfume
Her coat smelt of cheap perfume and cigarettes.
ADJECTIVES
strong
I don’t like wearing very strong perfume.
heavy (=strong)
She smelled of a heavy perfume he associated with his mother.
exotic (=unusual and interesting because it seems foreign)
The dancer left a waft of exotic perfume in the air.
cheap/expensive
He bought her a bottle of expensive French perfume.
PHRASES
a bottle/jar of perfume
He gave me a bottle of my favourite perfume.
the smell/scent of perfume
The smell of perfume filled the air.
a whiff/hint of perfume (=a very slight smell of perfume )
As she lifted the letter, she caught the faintest hint of perfume
Bowl
a wide round container that is open at the top, used to hold liquids, food, flowers etc → dish
کاسه
Help yourself
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help yourself (to something)
a) to take some of what you want, without asking permission – used especially when offering food to someone
Please help yourself to some cake.
b) informal to steal something
Obviously he had been helping himself to the money.
Lend
a) [transitive] to let someone borrow money or something that belongs to you for a short time → borrow
lend something to somebody
I lent my CD player to Dave and I haven’t got it back yet.
lend somebody something
The hospital agreed to lend us a wheelchair.
Can you lend me £10 until tomorrow?
b) [intransitive, transitive] if a bank or financial institution lends money, it lets someone have it on condition that they pay it back later, often gradually, with an additional amount as interest
The government is trying to encourage the banks to lend more.
lend something to somebody
A lot of banks are unwilling to lend money to new businesses.
lend somebody something
The building society agreed to lend us £60,000.
2 → lend (somebody) a hand
3 [transitive] formal to give a situation, event etc a particular quality
lend something to something
The presence of members of the royal family lent a certain dignity to the ceremony.
Luggage
the cases, bags etc that you carry when you are travelling SYN baggage American English
They searched his luggage for illegal drugs.
→ hand luggage
چمدان
Uncountable
Somebody’s at the door
if someone is at the door, they are waiting for you to open the door of a building so they can come inside
Has anybody seen her/him ¿
Anybody ==> has
Bedsit
a rented room used for both living and sleeping in
Hall
1 ENTRANCE the area just inside the door of a house or other building, that leads to other rooms SYN hallway
in the hall
We hung our coats in a cupboard in the hall.
a huge tiled entrance hall
2 CORRIDOR a passage in a building or house that leads to many of the rooms SYN corridor, hallway
Each floor had ten rooms on both sides of the hall.
3 PUBLIC BUILDING a building or large room for public events such as meetings or dances
sports/exhibition/banqueting etc hall
The school has a new sports hall.
Five hundred people filled the lecture hall.
church/village hall (=used by people who live in a place)
A coffee morning is to be held in the village hall.
a concert at Carnegie Hall
→ city hall(2), concert hall, dance hall, music hall(2), town hall
4 FOR STUDENTS especially British English a college or university building where students live SYN hall of residence, dorm American English
in hall
On your own
Alone
