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(look)+person

  • 1 look-alike

    noun (a person who looks (exactly) like someone else; a double: the prince's look-alike.)

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  • 2 periscope

    ['periskəup]
    (a tube containing mirrors, through which a person can look in order to see things which cannot be seen from the position the person is in, especially one used in submarines when under water to allow a person to see what is happening on the surface of the sea.) sjónpípa, hringsjá

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  • 3 trust

    1. verb
    1) (to have confidence or faith; to believe: She trusted (in) him.) treysta
    2) (to give (something to someone), believing that it will be used well and responsibly: I can't trust him with my car; I can't trust my car to him.) treysta/trúa fyrir
    3) (to hope or be confident (that): I trust (that) you had / will have a good journey.) vona, vera viss um (að)
    2. noun
    1) (belief or confidence in the power, reality, truth, goodness etc of a person or thing: The firm has a great deal of trust in your ability; trust in God.) traust, tiltrú
    2) (charge or care; responsibility: The child was placed in my trust.) umsjá
    3) (a task etc given to a person by someone who believes that they will do it, look after it etc well: He holds a position of trust in the firm.) ábyrgð
    4) (arrangement(s) by which something (eg money) is given to a person to use in a particular way, or to keep until a particular time: The money was to be held in trust for his children; ( also adjective) a trust fund) fjárhald
    5) (a group of business firms working together: The companies formed a trust.) samsteypa
    - trustworthy
    - trustworthiness
    - trusty
    - trustily
    - trustiness

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  • 4 imitate

    ['imiteit] 1. verb
    (to (try to) be, behave or look the same as (a person etc): Children imitate their friends rather than their parents; He could imitate the song of many different birds.) líkja eftir
    2. adjective
    (made to look like something else: imitation wood.) gervi-, óekta-, -líki
    - imitativeness
    - imitator

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  • 5 imbecile

    ['imbəsi:l, ]( American[) -sl]
    1) (a stupid person; a fool.) fáviti, heimskingi
    2) (a person of very low intelligence who cannot look after himself.) fáviti

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  • 6 nose

    [nəuz] 1. noun
    1) (the part of the face by which people and animals smell and usually breathe: She held the flower to her nose; He punched the man on the nose.) nef
    2) (the sense of smell: Police dogs have good noses and can follow criminals' trails.) lyktarskyn
    3) (the part of anything which is like a nose in shape or position: the nose of an aeroplane.) nef, trjóna
    2. verb
    1) (to make a way by pushing carefully forward: The ship nosed (its way) through the ice.) fikra sig áfram, mjakast
    2) (to look or search as if by smelling: He nosed about (in) the cupboard.) hnÿsast í
    - - nosed
    - nosey
    - nosy
    - nosily
    - nosiness
    - nose-bag
    - nosedive
    - nose job
    3. verb
    (to make such a dive: Suddenly the plane nosedived.)
    - lead by the nose
    - nose out
    - pay through the nose
    - turn up one's nose at
    - under a person's very nose
    - under very nose
    - under a person's nose
    - under nose

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  • 7 nurse

    [nə:s] 1. noun
    1) (a person who looks after sick or injured people in hospital: She wants to be a nurse.) hjúkrunarfræðingur
    2) (a person, usually a woman, who looks after small children: The children have gone out with their nurse.) fóstra
    2. verb
    1) (to look after sick or injured people, especially in a hospital: He was nursed back to health.) hjúkra, hlynna að
    2) (to give (a baby) milk from the breast.) hafa á brjósti
    3) (to hold with care: She was nursing a kitten.) halda gætilega á
    4) (to have or encourage (feelings eg of anger or hope) in oneself.) ala með sér
    - nursing
    - nursemaid
    - nurseryman
    - nursery rhyme
    - nursery school
    - nursing-home

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  • 8 age

    [ei‹] 1. noun
    1) (the amount of time during which a person or thing has existed: He went to school at the age of six (years); What age is she?) aldur
    2) ((often with capital) a particular period of time: This machine was the wonder of the age; the Middle Ages.) tímabil, öld
    3) (the quality of being old: This wine will improve with age; With the wisdom of age he regretted the mistakes he had made in his youth.) aldur
    4) ((usually in plural) a very long time: We've been waiting (for) ages for a bus.) óratími
    2. verb
    (to (cause to) grow old or look old: He has aged a lot since I last saw him; His troubles have aged him.) eldast, verða gamall
    - ageless
    - age-old
    - the aged
    - come of age
    - of age

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  • 9 attendant

    noun (a person employed to look after someone or something: a car-park attendant.) umsjónarmaður

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  • 10 au pair

    [,ou 'pə(r)]
    (a young person from abroad employed by a family to look after the children and help with the housework in return for room, meals, pocket money and an opportunity to learn the language: a French au pair; an au pair girl.)

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  • 11 body

    ['bodi] 1. plural - bodies; noun
    1) (the whole frame of a man or animal including the bones and flesh: Athletes have to look after their bodies.) líkami
    2) (a dead person: The battlefield was covered with bodies.) lík
    3) (the main part of anything: the body of the hall.) meginhluti
    4) (a mass: a huge body of evidence.) safn, magn
    5) (a group of persons acting as one: professional bodies.) afmarkaður hópur/heild
    2. adverb
    (by the entire (physical) body: They lifted him bodily and carried him off.) líkamlega, í eigin persónu
    - body language
    - bodywork

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  • 12 caregiver

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  • 13 culprit

    (a person responsible for something wrong, unpleasant etc: As soon as he saw the broken window he began to look for the culprit.) sökudólgur

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  • 14 do

    [du:] 1. 3rd person singular present tense - does; verb
    1) (used with a more important verb in questions and negative statements: Do you smoke?)
    2) (used with a more important verb for emphasis; ; [ðo sit down])
    3) (used to avoid repeating a verb which comes immediately before: I thought she wouldn't come, but she did.)
    4) (used with a more important verb after seldom, rarely and little: Little did he know what was in store for him.)
    5) (to carry out or perform: What shall I do?; That was a terrible thing to do.) gera
    6) (to manage to finish or complete: When you've done that, you can start on this; We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.) gera, ljúka
    7) (to perform an activity concerning something: to do the washing; to do the garden / the windows.) þvo upp; laga; hreinsa
    8) (to be enough or suitable for a purpose: Will this piece of fish do two of us?; That'll do nicely; Do you want me to look for a blue one or will a pink one do?; Will next Saturday do for our next meeting?) nægja, ganga
    9) (to work at or study: She's doing sums; He's at university doing science.) vinna að, stúdera
    10) (to manage or prosper: How's your wife doing?; My son is doing well at school.) farnast, standa sig
    11) (to put in order or arrange: She's doing her hair.) laga, snyrta, hirða
    12) (to act or behave: Why don't you do as we do?) gera, haga sér
    13) (to give or show: The whole town gathered to do him honour.) veita eða sÿna
    14) (to cause: What damage did the storm do?; It won't do him any harm.) valda
    15) (to see everything and visit everything in: They tried to do London in four days.) skoða
    2. noun
    (an affair or a festivity, especially a party: The school is having a do for Christmas.) veisla, samkvæmi
    - doings
    - done
    - do-it-yourself
    - to-do
    - I
    - he could be doing with / could do with
    - do away with
    - do for
    - done for
    - done in
    - do out
    - do out of
    - do's and don'ts
    - do without
    - to do with
    - what are you doing with

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  • 15 face-saving

    adjective (of something which helps a person not to look stupid or not to appear to be giving in: He agreed to everything we asked and as a face-saving exercise we offered to consult him occasionally.) e-ð sem forðar manni frá skömm/álitshnekki

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  • 16 housekeeper

    noun (a person, usually a woman, who is paid to look after the management of a house.) ráðskona

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  • 17 landscape

    ['lændskeip] 1. noun
    1) (the area of land that a person can look at all at the same time: He stood on the hill surveying the landscape.) landslag
    2) (a picture showing a view of the countryside: He paints landscapes.) landslagsmynd
    2. verb
    (to do landscape gardening on: We are having our back garden landscaped.) hanna og fegra
    - landscape gardener

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  • 18 peer

    I [piə] noun
    1) (a nobleman (in Britain, one from the rank of baron upwards).) aðalsmaður
    2) (a person's equal in rank, merit or age: The child was disliked by his peers; ( also adjective) He is more advanced than the rest of his peer group.) jafningi
    - peeress
    - peerless
    II [piə] verb
    (to look with difficulty: He peered at the small writing.) rÿna

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  • 19 practical

    ['præktikəl]
    1) (concerned with the doing of something: practical difficulties; His knowledge is practical rather than theoretical.) framkvæmdar-
    2) ((of a thing, idea etc) useful; effective: You must try to find a practical answer to the problem.) hagnÿtur
    3) ((negative unpractical) (of a person) able to do or deal with things well or efficiently: He can look after himself - he's a very practical child.) sem er séður, sem hefur verksvit
    - practically
    - practical joke

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  • 20 quality

    ['kwoləti]
    plural - qualities; noun
    1) (the extent to which something has features which are good or bad etc, especially features which are good: We produce several different qualities of paper; In this firm, we look for quality rather than quantity; ( also adjective) quality goods.) gæði
    2) (some (usually good) feature which makes a person or thing special or noticeable: Kindness is a human quality which everyone admires.) eiginleiki

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