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1
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Give a view of/over sth

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Have a view of/over sty

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2
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Further

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Additional

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3
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Bedside table

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Night table

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Wardrobe

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Closet

کمد لباس، اتاق لباس
رخت و لباس

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5
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Chest of drawers

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Dresser

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6
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Washbasin

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Sink

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Put on make-up

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Wear make up
To prepare in physical appearance for a role

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Wear make-up

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Put on a make up

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Remove make-up

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Take off make up

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Get into the house

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1 ENTER to enter a place, especially when this is difficult
The door was locked and we couldn’t get into the house.

2 ARRIVE to arrive at a place
What time do we get into New York?

3 BE ELECTED to be elected to a Parliament
He first got into Parliament in 1982.

4 COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY to be allowed to be a student at a university, college etc
She got into UCLA.

5 TEAM to be made a member of a team
Do you think you might get into the Olympic team this year?

6 START DOING SOMETHING to start doing or feeling something, or being in a particular situation
He’s started getting into trouble at school.
My parents were always terrified of getting into debt.
She got into the habit of going for long walks by herself.
He got into a terrible temper and started throwing things around.

7 BECOME INVOLVED to begin to be involved in doing something
How did you first get into script writing?
She was starting to get into politics.

8 ENJOY informal to begin to enjoy something or be interested in it
I first got into jazz when I was at college.

9 CLOTHING informal to put on a piece of clothing, especially when this is difficult because the piece of clothing is too small for you
I don’t know how she managed to get into those trousers.

10 what’s got into sb? spoken used to express surprise that someone is behaving very differently from the way they usually behave
I don’t know what’s got into Sally recently.

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A bar of soap

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5 BLOCK SHAPE a small block of solid material that is longer than it is wide

a chocolate bar
a candy bar
bar of
a bar of soap

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Faucet

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شیر اب

the thing that you turn on and off to control the flow of water from a pipe SYN tap British English

• How could he make warm water run from faucets?

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Stove top

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روی گاز که غذا میپزن
Hob
1 a piece of kitchen equipment on which you cook food in pots and pans, and that contains an oven SYN cooker British English
on the stove
a pot of soup simmering on the stove

2 a thing used for heating a room or for cooking, which works by burning wood, coal, oil, or gas
a wood-burning stove

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Court

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the place where a trial is held, or the people there, especially the judge and the jury who examine the evidence and decide whether someone is guilty or not guilty

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Sign a petition

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دادخواست دادن
1 a written request signed by a lot of people, asking someone in authority to do something or change something

petition for/against

2 law an official letter to a law court, asking for a legal case to be considered

petition for

3 formal a formal prayer or request to someone in authority or to God

COLLOCATIONS
VERBS
sign a petition

draw up a petition (=prepare one)

organize a petition

present/deliver a petition

a petition calling for something/demanding something
A petition calling for an inquiry was signed by 15,118 people.

a petition opposing something
458 local people signed a petition opposing the move.

PETITION + NOUN
a petition drive American English (=an attempt to get a lot of people to sign a petition)
More than 20,000 signatures were gathered by the petition drive.

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Handcuff

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دستبند زدن
to put handcuffs on someone

17
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Petrol

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بنزین
noun [uncountable]
British English a liquid obtained from petroleum that is used to supply power to the engine of cars and other vehicles SYN gasoline American English

COLLOCATIONS
PHRASES
a litre of petrol
a tankful/tank of petrol (=the amount of petrol that you need to fill up a car)
He bought a tankful of petrol.
PETROL + NOUN
a petrol station (=a place where you take your car to fill it with petrol)
We’d better stop at the next petrol station.
a petrol pump (=a machine for putting petrol into cars at a petrol station)
the petrol tank (=the part of a car where you put the petrol)
The petrol tank was nearly empty.
a petrol tanker (=a vehicle used for carrying petrol)

VERBS
fill (a vehicle) up with petrol
She stopped to fill up with petrol.

run out of petrol
They ran out of petrol some miles from their destination.

run on petrol
Many older vehicles have been converted to run on unleaded petrol.

use petrol
Try to cut your motoring costs and use less petrol.

ADJECTIVES
unleaded petrol (=petrol that does not contain lead)
leaded petrol (=petrol that contains lead)

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What do you do?

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What’s your job?

19
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Fringe

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British English if you have a fringe, your hair is cut so that it hangs down over your forehead SYN bangs American English
a tall girl with straight brown hair and a fringe
2 a decorative edge of hanging threads on a curtain, piece of clothing etc

جامه یا پرده یا فرش و غیره) شرابه، ریشه، حاشیه‌ی تزیینی (که از ریسمان یا قیطان آویزان درست شده است)، حاشیه، کناره، لبه، دور، فر آویز

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Edinburgh festival fringe

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the single greatest celebration of arts and culture on the planet. For three weeks in August, the city of Edinburgh welcomes an explosion of creative energy from around the globe. Artists and performers take to hundreds of stages all over the city to present shows for every taste