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1 small
[smo:l]1) (little in size, degree, importance etc; not large or great: She was accompanied by a small boy of about six; There's only a small amount of sugar left; She cut the meat up small for the baby.) malý2) (not doing something on a large scale: He's a small businessman.) drobný3) (little; not much: You have small reason to be satisfied with yourself.) pramalý4) ((of the letters of the alphabet) not capital: The teacher showed the children how to write a capital G and a small g.) malý•- small arms
- small change
- small hours
- smallpox
- small screen
- small-time
- feel/look small* * *• malý• nepatrný -
2 veer
[viə](to change direction suddenly: The car veered across the road to avoid hitting a small boy.) točit se* * *• prudce zatočit• stočení• otočení -
3 little
['litl] 1. adjective1) (small in size: He is only a little boy; when she was little (= a child).) malý2) (small in amount; not much: He has little knowledge of the difficulties involved.) málo3) (not important: I did not expect her to make a fuss about such a little thing.) nedůležitý2. pronoun((only) a small amount: He knows little of the real world.) málo3. adverb1) (not much: I go out little nowadays.) málo2) (only to a small degree: a little-known fact.) málo3) (not at all: He little knows how ill he is.) vůbec ne•- a little- little by little
- make little of* * *• trocha• trochu• maličký• malý• málo -
4 down
I 1. adverb1) (towards or in a low or lower position, level or state: He climbed down to the bottom of the ladder.) dolů2) (on or to the ground: The little boy fell down and cut his knee.) na zem3) (from earlier to later times: The recipe has been handed down in our family for years.) postupně, stále dál4) (from a greater to a smaller size, amount etc: Prices have been going down steadily.) dolů5) (towards or in a place thought of as being lower, especially southward or away from a centre: We went down from Glasgow to Bristol.) dolů, k jihu2. preposition1) (in a lower position on: Their house is halfway down the hill.) níže2) (to a lower position on, by, through or along: Water poured down the drain.) dolů3) (along: The teacher's gaze travelled slowly down the line of children.) podél3. verb(to finish (a drink) very quickly, especially in one gulp: He downed a pint of beer.) hodit do sebe- downward- downwards
- downward
- down-and-out
- down-at-heel
- downcast
- downfall
- downgrade
- downhearted
- downhill
- downhill racing
- downhill skiing
- down-in-the-mouth
- down payment
- downpour
- downright 4. adjectiveHe is a downright nuisance!) naprostý, vyložený- downstream
- down-to-earth
- downtown
- downtown
- down-trodden
- be/go down with
- down on one's luck
- down tools
- down with
- get down to
- suit someone down to the ground
- suit down to the ground II noun(small, soft feathers: a quilt filled with down.) prachové peří- downie®- downy* * *• poklesnout• shodit• srazit• dolů• dole -
5 marble
1) (a kind of hard, usually highly polished stone, cold to the touch: This table is made of marble; ( also adjective) a marble statue.) mramor(ový)2) (a small hard ball of glass used in children's games: The little boy rolled a marble along the ground.) kulička, skleněnka•- marbled- marbles* * *• kulička• mramor -
6 mischief
['mis if]1) (action or behaviour (especially of children) that causes small troubles or annoyance to others: That boy is always up to some mischief.) neplecha, uličnictví2) (evil, damage or harm.) škoda, spoušť•- mischievous
- mischievously* * *• uličnictví• rošťáctví• nezbednost• darebáctví -
7 pennant
['penənt](also pennon ['penFn]) noun(a small flag, usually in the shape of a long narrow triangle: The boy had fastened a brightly-coloured pennant to the front of his bike.) praporek, vlaječka* * *• praporeček• praporek -
8 scale
I [skeil] noun1) (a set of regularly spaced marks made on something (eg a thermometer or a ruler) for use as a measure; a system of numbers, measurement etc: This thermometer has two scales marked on it, one in Fahrenheit and one in Centigrade.) stupnice2) (a series or system of items of increasing or decreasing size, value etc: a wage/salary scale.) sazebník3) (in music, a group of notes going up or down in order: The boy practised his scales on the piano.) stupnice4) (the size of measurements on a map etc compared with the real size of the country etc shown by it: In a map drawn to the scale 1:50,000, one centimetre represents half a kilometre.) měřítko5) (the size of an activity: These guns are being manufactured on a large scale.) škála, ve velkémII [skeil] verb(to climb (a ladder, cliff etc): The prisoner scaled the prison walls and escaped.) sléztIII [skeil] noun(any of the small thin plates or flakes that cover the skin of fishes, reptiles etc: A herring's scales are silver in colour.) šupina- scaly* * *• škála• šupina• miska vah -
9 scrap
I 1. [skræp] noun1) (a small piece or fragment: a scrap of paper.) kousek, útržek2) ((usually in plural) a piece of food left over after a meal: They gave the scraps to the dog.) zbytek3) (waste articles that are only valuable for the material they contain: The old car was sold as scrap; ( also adjective) scrap metal.) šrot(ový)4) (a picture etc for sticking into a scrapbook.) výstřižek2. verb(to discard: They scapped the old television set; She decided to scrap the whole plan.) vyřadit; opustit- scrappy- scrappily
- scrappiness
- scrapbook
- scrap heap II 1. [skræp] noun(a fight: He tore his jacket in a scrap with another boy.) zápas, rvačka2. verb(to fight: The dogs were scrapping over a bone.) rvát se* * *• šrot• šrotovat
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