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22 plain
[plein] 1. adjective1) (simple or ordinary; without ornament or decoration: plain living; good, plain food.) einfaldur, látlaus2) (easy to understand; clear: His words were quite plain.) augljós, greinilegur, auðskilinn3) (absolutely open or honest, with no attempt to be tactful: I'll be quite plain with you; plain speaking.) hreinskilinn4) (obvious: It's plain (to see) you haven't been practising your music.) greinilegur5) (not pretty: a rather plain girl.) ófríður2. noun1) (a large flat level piece of land: the plains of central Canada.) slétta2) (a kind of knitting stitch.) slétt prjón•- plainly- plainness
- plain chocolate
- plain clothes
- plain sailing
- plain-spoken
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23 radiate
['reidieit]1) (to send out rays of (light, heat etc): A fire radiates heat.) (út)geisla, senda geisla út, stafa frá sér2) (to go out or be sent out in rays, or in many directions from a central point: Heat radiates from a fire; All the roads radiate from the centre of the town.) geisla (frá)•- radiator -
24 radius
['reidiəs]1) ((plural radiuses) the area within a given distance from a central point: They searched within a radius of one mile from the school.) radíus2) ((plural radii) a straight line from the centre of a circle to its circumference.) radíus -
25 revolution
[revə'lu:ʃən] 1. noun1) ((the act of making) a successful, violent attempt to change or remove a government etc: the American Revolution.) bylting2) (a complete change in ideas, methods etc: There's been a complete revolution in the way things are done in this office.) umbylting3) (a complete circle or turn round a central point, axis etc (eg as made by a record turning on a record-player, or the Earth moving on its axis or round the Sun).) snúningur•2. noun(a person who takes part in, or is in favour of, (a) revolution.) byltingarmaður- revolutionise -
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27 savanna(h)
[sə'vænə](a grassy plain with few trees: the savanna(h)s of Central America.) (hitabeltis)gresja; trjálaus slétta -
28 savanna(h)
[sə'vænə](a grassy plain with few trees: the savanna(h)s of Central America.) (hitabeltis)gresja; trjálaus slétta -
29 seesaw
['si:so:] 1. noun(a long flat piece of wood, metal etc, balanced on a central support so that one end of it goes up as the other goes down: The boy fell off the seesaw in the park.) vegasalt2. verb(to move up and down like a seesaw: The boat seesawed on the crest of the wave.) vega salt, ganga upp og niður -
30 sisal
noun, adjective((of) a type of fibre from a kind of Central American plant, used in making ropes etc.) sísalhampur -
31 slide-rule
noun (an instrument for calculating, like a ruler in shape and having a central section that slides up and down between the outer sections.) reiknistokkur -
32 telephone exchange
(a central control through which telephone calls are directed.) símstöð -
33 trial and error
(the trying of various methods, alternatives etc until the right one happens to appear or be found: They didn't know how to put in a central-heating system, but they managed it by trial and error.) leitaraðferð, útilokunaraðferð, fálmkennd aðferð með því að prófa sig áfram
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