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21 labour
['leibə] 1. noun1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) (erfiðis)vinna2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) verkamenn3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) hríðir4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) Verkamannaflokkurinn2. verb1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) vinna, strita2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) erfiða, paufa•- laboriously
- laboriousness
- labourer
- labour court
- labour dispute
- labour-saving -
22 miss
[mis] 1. verb1) (to fail to hit, catch etc: The arrow missed the target.) hitta ekki2) (to fail to arrive in time for: He missed the 8 o'clock train.) missa af3) (to fail to take advantage of: You've missed your opportunity.) láta fram hjá sér fara4) (to feel sad because of the absence of: You'll miss your friends when you go to live abroad.) sakna5) (to notice the absence of: I didn't miss my purse till several hours after I'd dropped it.) sakna, taka eftir6) (to fail to hear or see: He missed what you said because he wasn't listening.) taka ekki eftir7) (to fail to go to: I'll have to miss my lesson next week, as I'm going to the dentist.) sleppa, missa úr8) (to fail to meet: We missed you in the crowd.) fara á mis við9) (to avoid: The thief only just missed being caught by the police.) forðast, komast hjá10) ((of an engine) to misfire.) slá á móti í ræsingu/starti2. noun(a failure to hit, catch etc: two hits and two misses.) feilskot, vindhögg- missing- go missing
- miss out
- miss the boat -
23 aboard
[ə'bo:d]adverb, preposition(on(to) or in(to) (a means of transport): We were aboard for several hours; He went aboard the ship/train/aircraft.) um borð -
24 at a stretch
(continuously: He can't work for more than three hours at a stretch.) samfellt -
25 concussed
(suffering from concussion: He was concussed for several hours.) með heilahristing -
26 gauge
[ɡei‹] 1. verb1) (to measure (something) very accurately: They gauged the hours of sunshine.) mæla2) (to estimate, judge: Can you gauge her willingness to help?) meta, dæma2. noun1) (an instrument for measuring amount, size, speed etc: a petrol gauge.) mælir, mælitæki2) (a standard size (of wire, bullets etc): gauge wire.) staðlað mál3) (the distance between the rails of a railway line.) sporvídd -
27 in all
(in total, when everything is added up: I spent three hours in all waiting for buses last week.) samanlagt -
28 knock off
(to stop working: I knocked off at six o'clock after studying for four hours; What time do you knock off in this factory?) hætta að vinna -
29 night
1) (the period from sunset to sunrise: We sleep at night; They talked all night (long); He travelled by night and rested during the day; The days were warm and the nights were cool; ( also adjective) He is doing night work.) nótt; kvöld2) (the time of darkness: In the Arctic in winter, night lasts for twenty-four hours out of twenty-four.) nótt•- nightly- night-club
- nightdress
- nightgown
- nightfall
- nightmare
- nightmarish
- night-school
- night shift
- night-time
- night-watchman -
30 parking-meter
noun (a coin-operated meter beside which a car may be parked for the number of minutes or hours shown on the meter.) stöðumælir -
31 part-time
adjective, adverb (not taking one's whole time; for only a few hours or days a week: a part-time job; She works part-time.) hluta- -
32 sleep
[sli:p] 1. past tense, past participle - slept; verb(to rest with the eyes closed and in a state of natural unconsciousness: Goodnight - sleep well!; I can't sleep - my mind is too active.) sofa2. noun((a) rest in a state of natural unconsciousness: It is bad for you to have too little sleep, since it makes you tired; I had only four hours' sleep last night.) svefn- sleeper- sleepless
- sleepy
- sleepily
- sleepiness
- sleeping-bag
- sleeping-pill / sleeping-tablet
- sleepwalk
- sleepwalker
- put to sleep
- sleep like a log/top
- sleep off
- sleep on -
33 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.) lítill, smár2) (not doing something on a large scale: He's a small businessman.) lítill3) (little; not much: You have small reason to be satisfied with yourself.) lítill, ekki mikill4) ((of the letters of the alphabet) not capital: The teacher showed the children how to write a capital G and a small g.) lítill (stafur)•- small arms
- small change
- small hours
- smallpox
- small screen
- small-time
- feel/look small -
34 stale
[steil]1) ((of food etc) not fresh and therefore dry and tasteless: stale bread.) gamall, uppþornaður2) (no longer interesting: His ideas are stale and dull.) staðnaður3) (no longer able to work etc well because of too much study etc: If she practises the piano for more than two hours a day, she will grow stale.) útkeyrður/-brunninn -
35 steam
[sti:m] 1. noun1) (a gas or vapour that rises from hot or boiling water or other liquid: Steam rose from the plate of soup / the wet earth in the hot sun; a cloud of steam; ( also adjective) A sauna is a type of steam bath.) gufa2) (power or energy obtained from this: The machinery is driven by steam; Diesel fuel has replaced steam on the railways; ( also adjective) steam power, steam engines.) gufuafl2. verb1) (to give out steam: A kettle was steaming on the stove.) gefa frá sér gufu2) ((of a ship, train etc) to move by means of steam: The ship steamed across the bay.) sigla/keyra fyrir gufuafli3) (to cook by steam: The pudding should be steamed for four hours.) gufusjóða•- steam-- steamer
- steamy
- steamboat
- steamship
- steam engine
- steam roller
- full steam ahead
- get steamed up
- get up steam
- let off steam
- run out of steam
- steam up
- under one's own steam -
36 uphill
adverb (up a slope: We travelled uphill for several hours.) upp í móti
- 1
- 2
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