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21 беспринципный
1) General subject: Machiavellian, of no principles, slippery, unprincipled, unscrupulous, viewless, weathercock, opportunistic2) Australian slang: lower than a snake's belly3) Jargon: on the pitch, on the make -
22 беспринципный человек
1) General subject: knave, man of no principles, vicar of Bray (по имени полулегендарного викария XVI в., четыре раза менявшего свою религию), opportunist, reprobate2) American: yoyo3) Jargon: weathercock, whore, yo-yo4) Makarov: a man of no principlesУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > беспринципный человек
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23 вести себя подобно флюгеру
General subject: weathercockУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > вести себя подобно флюгеру
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24 ветренник
Engineering: weathercock -
25 ветрогон
2) Makarov: weathercock -
26 как флюгер на ветру
Jargon: weathercockУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > как флюгер на ветру
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27 куда ветер дует
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28 метеоролог
1) Naval: aerographer2) Colloquial: weatherman3) Military: met. ( сокр. от meteorological), meteorological observer, metman, weather observer, weather predictor4) Meteorology: meteorologist5) Jargon: weathercock -
29 недотрога двухцветковая
1) Biology: brook celandine (Impatiens biflora), silverleaf (Impatiens biflora), silverweed (Impatiens biflora), slipperweed (Impatiens biflora), snapdragon (Impatiens biflora), weathercock (Impatiens biflora)2) Botanical term: kicking-colt (Impatiens biflora), kicking-horse (Impatiens biflora)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > недотрога двухцветковая
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30 ненадёжный человек
1) General subject: a bad actor, a broken reed, a bruised reed, a man not to be trusted, a man of straw, an unreliable man, broken reed, flibbertigibbet, man of straw, poor risk, straw man, weak vessel, weathercock, will o' the wisp, will-o'-the-wisp, wisp, wrongo2) Colloquial: flake, sleaze-bag, sleazebag3) American: bad actor4) Bible: the weaker vessel5) Diplomatic term: wobbler6) Jargon: kittle-cattle, ring-tail, yaffer, weak sister, wrong numberУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > ненадёжный человек
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31 непостоянный
1) General subject: capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, fast and loose, fickle, flighty, fly by night, fly-away, fly-by-night, giddy, giggish, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, instable, light, lightsome, liquid (о принципах, убеждениях), lubricous, mercurial, moody (о характере), mutable, mutative, non-permanent, shifting, stayless, unabiding, unpermanent, unsteady, variable, volatile, wayward, weathercock, not loyal (in some contexts), ever-changing2) Geology: unfixed3) Medicine: evanescent, mobile4) Colloquial: streaky5) Obsolete: various6) Poetical language: wanton7) Engineering: unsettled8) Rare: incontinuous, sliding9) Mathematics: non-constant, nonconstant, nonuniform, not constant, versatile10) Railway term: variant11) Law: ambulatory14) Linguistics: temporary15) Automobile industry: unstable16) Business: erratic17) Network technologies: soft18) Automation: nonpermanent19) General subject: irregular20) Aviation medicine: labile -
32 непостоянный человек
1) General subject: a changeable sort of person, rolling stone, weathercock2) Literal: weather-vaneУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > непостоянный человек
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33 неустойчивый
1) General subject: astatic, brittle, capricious, catching (о погоде), chameleonic, chancy, changeable, changeful, dicky, drunk, easy (о рынке), erratically, fluctuant, fluctuating, frail, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, infirm, instable, liquid, non-resistant, quaky, reeling, rickety, rocky (о предмете), rootless, sandy, scrofulous (о моральном облике), slippery, soft, staggering, teetery, tickle, ticklish, tickly, top heavy, top-heavy, tottery, unbalanced (о психике), unballasted, unequable, unsettled, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, versatile, waggly, wambly, weakly (морально), weathercock, whiffler, wibbly wobbly, wibbly-wobbly, wiggle waggle, wiggle-waggle, yielding, yo-yo, variable, shoddy (as in "shoddy workmanship." Ex: "This carpenter does shoddy work."), flimsy (this means "weak," as in "a flimsy cardboard box" or a "flimsy excuse"), schizophrenic, precarious2) Computers: transient4) Biology: fickle (напр. о культуре)5) Aviation: intermittent6) Medicine: nonsustained7) Colloquial: chancey, dotty, groggy, tippy (о предмете)8) Obsolete: various9) Military: amoeba-type10) Engineering: apt to change, shaky11) Agriculture: erratic (о температуре)12) Rare: sliding13) Mathematics: erratic, labile, negligible, uncertain14) Economy: soft (о ценах и т.п.)15) Automobile industry: walt16) Architecture: unstable (о цвете или пигменте, изменяющимся под воздействием солнечных лучей)18) Diplomatic term: wobbler19) Metallurgy: metastable20) Politics: mugwump (о члене какой-л. организации)21) Scottish language: coggly23) Information technology: fluctuation24) Oil: non-persistent, non-steady, nonpersistent, uneven25) Special term: astable26) Simple: yoyo29) Ecology: non-sustainable30) Business: fluid, off balance, transitional31) Drilling: weak32) Automation: nonsteady33) Oceanography: erratical34) Aviation medicine: seesaw35) Makarov: broken (о погоде), crazy, crazy (о строениях, кораблях и т.п.), erratic (о взглядах и т.п.), erratic (о т-ре), feverish, intolerable, intolerant, nonresistant, rocking, shifty, wavy, wobbly36) Gold mining: vulnerable to disintegration -
34 он как флюгер
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35 он как флюгер, не имеет ни твёрдых убеждений, ни твёрдого мнения
Makarov: he veers about like a weathercockУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > он как флюгер, не имеет ни твёрдых убеждений, ни твёрдого мнения
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36 он не имеет твёрдых убеждений
General subject: he veers about like a weathercockУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > он не имеет твёрдых убеждений
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37 подобный флюгеру
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38 путевая неустойчивость
1) Engineering: directional divergence, directional instability2) Astronautics: weathercock instability, yawing instability3) Aeronautics: yaw instabilityУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > путевая неустойчивость
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39 путевая устойчивость
1) Aviation: transverse stability, yaw stability, yawing stability2) Engineering: arrow stability3) Astronautics: weathercock stability4) Aeronautics: directional stability5) Makarov: stability in yawУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > путевая устойчивость
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40 разворачиваться по потоку
Makarov: weathercockУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > разворачиваться по потоку
См. также в других словарях:
Weathercock — Weath er*cock , v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for. [1913 Webster] Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Weathercock — Weath er*cock , n. 1. A vane, or weather vane; so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind. Chaucer. [1913 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
weathercock — ► NOUN ▪ a weathervane in the form of a cockerel … English terms dictionary
weathercock — [weth′ərkäk΄] n. 1. a weather vane in the shape of a rooster 2. a fickle or changeable person or thing … English World dictionary
weathercock — UK [ˈweðə(r)ˌkɒk] / US [ˈweðərˌkɑk] noun [countable] Word forms weathercock : singular weathercock plural weathercocks a model of a cock (= male chicken) used as a weather vane … English dictionary
weathercock — /wedh euhr kok /, n. 1. a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it. 2. (loosely) any weather vane. 3. a person who readily adopts the latest fads, opinions, etc.: The count is the weathercock of the jet set. [1250 1300; ME wedercoc. See… … Universalium
weathercock — vėjarodis statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Įtaisas vėjo krypčiai nustatyti. Vėjo kryptis žymima laipsniais arba nurodoma 16 krypčių horizonto rumbais. atitikmenys: angl. weathercock vok. Wetterhahn, m; Windfahne, f rus.… … Ekologijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas
weathercock — noun Date: 13th century 1. a vane often in the figure of a cock mounted so as to turn freely with the wind and show its direction 2. a person or thing that changes readily or often … New Collegiate Dictionary
weathercock — noun A weather vane in the shape of a cockerel … Wiktionary
weathercock — Synonyms and related words: April showers, Proteus, Vicar of Bray, anemograph, anemometer, anemometrograph, anemoscope, barometer, chameleon, cloud shapes, cock, feeler, formalist, kaleidoscope, mercury, moon, pilot balloon, probe, quicksilver,… … Moby Thesaurus
weathercock — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. girouette, weather vane; opportunist. See changeableness … English dictionary for students