TPO29 Flashcards
auditorium
🔹the part of a theatre, concert hall, or other public building in which the audience sits.
🔸the stage was small and the auditorium had only 366 seats
That being said
🔹taking into consideration what has just been said…it implies that you are about to contradict or modify what has just been said
chip away
🔹to gradually make something weaker, smaller, or less effective
🔸The company’s dominance of the market is gradually being chipped away.
🔸chip away at: Her comments were beginning to chip away at his self-confidence.
🔹to remove small pieces from something hard by hitting it with a tool
🔸Use a hammer to chip away the edge.
🔸chip away at: She was chipping away at the ground with a trowel.
handle
🔹feel or manipulate with the hands; hold
🔸heavy paving slabs can be difficult to handle
🔹the part by which a thing is held, carried, or controlled.
🔸a holdall with two carrying handles
justice
🔹just behaviour or treatment; fairness
🔸a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people
do justice:
🔹to treat someone or something in a way that is fair and shows their or its true qualities:
🔸This postcard doesn’t do justice to the wonderful scenery.
ware
🔹pottery, typically that of a specified type.
🔸blue-and-white majolica ware
🔹manufactured articles of a specified type.
🔸crystal ware
🔹articles offered for sale.
🔸traders in the street markets displayed their wares
marchandise-goods-product-stock-comodity
tableware:
اسباب میز ناهارخوری-لوازم سفره یا میز
kitchenware:
ظروف آشپزخانه
shatter
🔹break or cause to break suddenly and violently into pieces; smash
🔸bullets riddled the bar top, glasses shattered, bottles exploded
🔹damage or destroy (something abstract); devastate; demolish; wreck
🔸the crisis will shatter their confidence
🔹upset (someone) greatly; devastate; traumatise
🔸everyone was shattered by the news
vessel
🔹a ship or large boat.
🔹a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask.
blemish
🔹a small mark or flaw which spoils the appearance of something; imperfection; defect; flaw
🔸the girl’s hands were without a blemish
🔹a moral defect or fault.
🔸the offences were an uncharacteristic blemish on an otherwise clean record
🔹spoil the appearance or quality of (something); mar
🔸his reign as world champion has been blemished by controversy
🔸His record will be blemished by this failure.
glossy
🔹shiny and smooth.
🔸thick, glossy, manageable hair
🔹superficially attractive, stylish, and suggesting wealth; fashionable
🔸a glossy TV miniseries
sheer
🔹nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis).
🔸she giggled with sheer delight
🔹(especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so; precipitous; vertical
🔸the sheer ice walls
🔹(of a fabric) very thin; diaphanous.
🔸sheer white silk chiffon
🔹(typically of a boat) swerve or change course quickly; drift
🔸the boat sheered off to beach further up the coast
🔹avoid or move away from an unpleasant topic.
🔸her mind sheered away from images she didn’t want to dwell on
elusive
🔹difficult to find, catch, or achieve; evasive
🔸success will become ever more elusive
گریزان- گریزپا
🔹difficult to remember.
🔸the elusive thought he had had moments before
از یادرو- گیج کننده- دیرفهم
potsherd
🔹a broken piece of ceramic material, especially one found on an archaeological site.
dump
🔹a site for depositing rubbish.
🔸a nuclear waste dump
🔹deposit or dispose of (rubbish, waste, or unwanted material), typically in a careless or hurried way.
🔸trucks dumped 1,900 tons of refuse here
🔹send (goods unsaleable in the home market) to a foreign market for sale at a low price.
🔸these countries have been dumping cheap fertilizers on the UK market
🔹(computing) an act of copying stored data to a different location, performed typically as a protection against loss.
might
🔹great and impressive power or strength, especially of a nation, large organization, or natural force.
🔸a convincing display of military might
afield
🔹to or at a distance.
🔸competitors from as far afield as Aberdeen
🔹in the field (in reference to hunting).
🔸the satisfaction of a day afield
farmstead
🔹a farm and its buildings.
indigenous
🔹originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
🔸the indigenous peoples of Siberia
extermination
🔹killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals; murder; assassination
براندازی- نابودی
🔸the near extermination of the buffalo herds
invade
🔹(of an armed force) enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it; conquer; seize
🔸during the Second World War the island was invaded by the Axis powers
🔹enter (a place, situation, or sphere of activity) in large numbers, especially with intrusive effect; permeate; pervade
🔸demonstrators invaded the Presidential Palace
🔹(of a parasite or disease) spread into (an organism or bodily part).
🔸sometimes the worms invade the central nervous system
🔹encroach or intrude on; violate
🔸he felt his privacy was being invaded
تاخت و تاز- هجوم- حمله- تجاوز
predation
🔹the preying of one animal on others.
🔸an effective defence against predation
شکارگری- درندگی
🔹the action of attacking or plundering.
🔸the old story of male predation and female vulnerability
غارت- چپاول
exclude
🔹deny (someone) access to a place, group, or privilege; keep out
🔸the public were excluded from the board meeting
🔹remove from consideration; preclude; eliminate
🔸one cannot exclude the possibility of a fall in house prices
🔹prevent the occurrence of.
🔸clauses seeking to exclude liability for loss or damage
niche
🔹a shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament.
طاقچه- تو رفتگی دیوار
🔸each niche holding a shepherdess in Dresden china
🔹a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment.
🔸he is now head chef at a leading law firm and feels he has found his niche
🔹(ecology)a role taken by a type of organism within its community.
🔸the niche left vacant by the disappearance of wolves
🔹a specialized segment of the market for a particular kind of product or service.
🔸he believes he has found a niche in the market
seeming
🔹appearing to be real or true, but not necessarily being so; apparent; outward
🔸Ellen’s seeming indifference to the woman’s fate
🔹giving the impression of having a specified quality.
suffix: -seeming
🔸an angry-seeming man
biotic
🔹relating to or resulting from living organisms.
🔸biotic interactions
حیاتی- مربوط به حیات و زندگی
noria
🔹(چرخ چاه- چرخ آبکش(از چاه یا رودخانه
jar
🔹a wide-mouthed cylindrical container made of glass or pottery, especially one used for storing food.
🔸a large storage jar
سبو- خم
🔹the contents of a jar.
🔸a jar of coffee
🔹send a painful or damaging shock through (something, especially a part of the body); shake; jolt
“he jarred the knee in training
🔹have an unpleasant or disturbing effect.
🔸a laugh which jarred on the ears
🔹be incongruous(نامتجانس) in a striking or shocking way; clash; conflict
🔸the play’s symbolism jarred with the realism of its setting
mill
🔹a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour; a piece of machinery for grinding grain.
آسیاب
🔸a direct steam-driven flour mill
🔹a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process.
🔸a steel mill
🔹grind (something) in a mill; pulverize; powder
🔸hard wheats are easily milled into white flour
🔹(of people or animals) move around in a confused mass.
🔸tourists were milling about in the lobby
kinetic
🔹جنبشی- وابسته به حرکت
🔸kinetic energy
take over
🔹to take control of something
🔸His only reason for investing in the company was to take it over.
