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1 potter
I ['potə] noun(a person who makes plates, cups, vases etc out of clay and fires them in an oven (called a kiln).) lončar- potteryII [potə] verb(to wander about doing small jobs or doing nothing important: I spent the afternoon pottering (about).) postopati* * *I [pɔtə]nounlončar; British English postopanje, zapravljanje časaII [pɔtə]1.intransitive verbpostopati ( about); motoviliti, mečkati, šušmariti (at pri delu; in v poklicu); okoli stikati (pes);2.transitive verbzapravljati čas ( away) -
2 wheel
[wi:l] 1. noun1) (a circular frame or disc turning on a rod or axle, on which vehicles etc move along the ground: A bicycle has two wheels, a tricycle three, and most cars four; a cartwheel.) kolo2) (any of several things similar in shape and action: a potter's wheel; He was found drunk at the wheel (= steering-wheel) of his car.) kolovrat; volan2. verb1) (to cause to move on wheels: He wheeled his bicycle along the path.) voziti2) (to (cause to) turn quickly: He wheeled round and slapped me.) naglo (se) obrniti3) ((of birds) to fly in circles.) krožiti•- wheeled- - wheeled
- wheelbarrow
- wheelchair
- wheelhouse
- wheelwright* * *I [wi:l]nounkolo; krmarsko kolo (tudi figuratively); volan; kolo sreče; American colloquially bicikel; history kolo za mučenje; kolovrat; figuratively gibalna, vodilna sila; obračanje, obrat, krog, vrtenje; military obrat; figuratively preobrat; plural kolesje, gonilo, mehanizem (tudi figuratively), music refren, pripev; American slang dolaron wheels — na kolesih, z vozilom, figuratively kot namazano, hitro, brez trenjawheels within wheels — zelo zapletena aparatura (mehanizem), figuratively komplikacija za komplikacijo, zapletena stvar, položajwheel and axle — naprava za izkoriščanje sile vzvoda, na podlagi razlike v obsegu kolesa in njegove osia big wheel American colloquially figuratively visoka živina, vplivna osebaFortune's wheel, the wheel of Fortune — kolo sreče; usodaa fly on the wheel figuratively oseba, ki precenjuje svoj vplivthe man at the wheel — oseba pri krmilu; vozač, voznik, šoferto break a (butter)fly (up) on the wheel figuratively po nepotrebnem poseči po ostrih ukrepih, s topovi streljati na vrabceto break s.o. on the wheel history mučiti koga na kolesuto go on wheels figuratively iti kot po maslu (gladko, brez motenj)to put ( —ali to set) one's shoulder to the wheel — truditi se, napenjati seto put a spoke in s.o.'s wheel figuratively delati komu zapreke, metati komu polena pod nogeto take the wheel — sesti za volan, voziti, šofiratiII [wi:l]transitive verbobrniti, obračati okoli osi; vrteti v krogu; valiti, valjati; opremiti s kolesi; voziti ( a wheel chair stol na kolesih); kotaliti, prevažati na kolesihto wheel a victim history treti žrtev na kolesu; intransitive verb naglo se obrniti ( round okoli)
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