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1 we could not get a wink of sleep
we could not get a wink of sleepnão conseguimos dormir, não conseguimos fechar os olhos.English-Portuguese dictionary > we could not get a wink of sleep
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2 sing
[siŋ]past tense - sang; verb(to make (musical sounds) with one's voice: He sings very well; She sang a Scottish song; I could hear the birds singing in the trees.) cantar- singer- singing
- sing out* * *[siŋ] n reunião para cantar em coro. • vt+vi (ps sang, pp sung) 1 cantar. she sings flat / ela canta baixo demais. she sang to a great audience / ela cantou para (diante de) um público numeroso. 2 entoar, louvar com cantos. he sings her praise / ele a elogia muito. 3 gorjear, cantarolar. 4 cantar ou narrar em canções. she sang her child to sleep / ela ninava sua criança. 5 proclamar. 6 zunir, zumbir, assobiar. 7 ter zumbido. 8 sl delatar.————————singular -
3 wink
[wiŋk] 1. verb1) (to shut and open an eye quickly in friendly greeting, or to show that something is a secret etc: He winks at all the girls who pass; Her father winked at her and said: `Don't tell your mother about the present I bought her.') piscar o olho2) ((of eg lights) to flicker and twinkle.) piscar2. noun(an act of winking: `Don't tell anyone I'm here', he said with a wink.) piscadela* * *[wiŋk] n 1 pestanejo, piscadela, abrir e fechar de olhos. 2 instante, momento. • vt+vi piscar, abrir e fechar os olhos rapidamente. I winked at her / pisquei para ela. by wink a) dar sinal piscando os olhos. b) pestanejar. c) cintilar, tremular. forty winks soneca. in a wink num instante. to tip somebody the wink dar um aviso ou informação de maneira secreta (para alguém). to wink at something tolerar, fazer que não vê, fechar os olhos a. I winked at it / fiz de conta que não vi. we could not get a wink of sleep não conseguimos dormir, não conseguimos fechar os olhos.
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