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1 plain
[plein] 1. adjective1) (simple or ordinary; without ornament or decoration: plain living; good, plain food.) preprost2) (easy to understand; clear: His words were quite plain.) jasen3) (absolutely open or honest, with no attempt to be tactful: I'll be quite plain with you; plain speaking.) odkrit4) (obvious: It's plain (to see) you haven't been practising your music.) očiten5) (not pretty: a rather plain girl.) puščoben2. noun1) (a large flat level piece of land: the plains of central Canada.) ravnina2) (a kind of knitting stitch.) desna petlja•- plainly- plainness
- plain chocolate
- plain clothes
- plain sailing
- plain-spoken
- in plain English* * *I [pléin]adjective ( plainly adverb)preprost, enostaven, navaden; brez okraskov, preprost (soba itd.); nevzorčast, enobarven (blago); črno-bel (fotografija, risba); nemikaven, neprivlačen, neuglajen (obraz, dekle); jasen, razumljiv, nedvoumen, brez ovinkov (pogovor), očiten, razločen; nerazredčen (alkohol); odkrit, pošten; srednji, nepomemben, povprečen; metallurgy nelegiran (npr. jeklo); raven, plosk (dežela); figuratively gol, čist (nesmisel)plain card — navadna karta (razen kralja, dame in fanta)as plain as plain can be — ali as plain as the nose on one's face — ali plain as a pikestaff — ali as plain as point — jasno kot beli danplain dealer — poštenjak, odkrit človekplain dealing — odkritost, iskrenost, pošteno trgovanjeplain sewing — bela vezenina, šivanje belega perilaII [pléin]adverbjasno, razumljivo; odkrito, poštenoIII [pléin]nounravnina, ravan, nižava, poljana; bojišče; plural prerijaIV [pléin]intransitive verb British English archaic & poetically žalovati, tožiti, tarnati -
2 plain clothes
ordinary clothes, not a uniform: Detectives usually wear plain clothes; (also adjective) (a plain-clothes job.) civilna obleka; neuniformiran -
3 plain sailing
(progress without difficulty.) kar gre kot po maslu* * *[pléinséiliŋ]nounfiguratively preprosta stvar -
4 plain-spoken
adjective (speaking honestly and candidly, not trying to be tactful: She is a very plain-spoken person who always says what she means.)* * *[pléinspóukən]adjectiveodkrit, odkritosrčen, iskren, ki ne ovinkari -
5 plain-clothes man
[pléinklouðzmæn]noundetektiv v civilni obleki -
6 plain-looking
[pléinlukiŋ]adjectivenelep, nemikaven, neprivlačen -
7 plain-song
[pléinsɔŋ]nounžalostinka, tožljivka; music stara enoglasna cerkvena pesem ( cantus planus) -
8 plain-work
[pléinwə:k]nounizdelovanje belega perila -
9 plain chocolate
(dark chocolate not containing milk.) jedilna čokolada -
10 in plain English
(in simple words; clearly expressed: Would you mind explaining it in plain English?) preprosto in jasno povedati -
11 up-line
[ʌpláin]nounželeznica, ki z dežele vodi v (glavno) mesto -
12 clothes
[kləu‹, ]( American[) klouz]1) (things worn as coverings for various parts of the body: She wears beautiful clothes.) oblačila2) (bedclothes: The child pulled the clothes up tightly.) rjuhe* * *[klouðz]nounplural obleka, oblačila; perilo; posteljnina; plenice -
13 sweep
[swi:p] 1. past tense, past participle - swept; verb1) (to clean (a room etc) using a brush or broom: The room has been swept clean.) pometati2) (to move as though with a brush: She swept the crumbs off the table with her hand; The wave swept him overboard; Don't get swept away by (= become over-enthusiastic about) the idea!; She swept aside my objections.) pomesti3) (to move quickly over: The disease/craze is sweeping the country.) pomesti4) (to move swiftly or in a proud manner: High winds sweep across the desert; She swept into my room without knocking on the door.) (pri)hrumeti2. noun1) (an act of sweeping, or process of being swept, with a brush etc: She gave the room a sweep.) pometanje2) (a sweeping movement: He indicated the damage with a sweep of his hand.) zamah3) (a person who cleans chimneys.) dimnikar4) (a sweepstake.) stava pri konjskih dirkah•- sweeper- sweeping
- sweeping-brush
- at one/a sweep
- sweep someone off his feet
- sweep off his feet
- sweep out
- sweep the board
- sweep under the carpet
- sweep up* * *I [swi:p]nounpometanje, čiščenje, zamah z metlo; (krožna) kretnja, zamah; zavoj (reke, ceste), vijuga, krivina; razprostiranje, proženje, figuratively razsežnost; vplivno področje; obseg; doseg, domet; vršenje (vetra), šuštenje (obleke); plural smeti; dolgo veslo (za veslanje stojé); ročica sesalke; (kartanje) dobitje vseh vzetkov, vseh nagrad; British English pometač, dimnikar; colloquially (= sweepstake(s)) stava, nagrada iz stav pri dirkah in igrah; figuratively umazanec; slang čemernež, nejevoljnežat one sweep — z enim zamahom, udarcem; naenkratto make a clean sweep of the table figuratively pomesti s čim, odpraviti kajII [swi:p]transitive verb & intransitive verbpomesti, pometati, omesti, ometati, (po)čistiti; oplaziti, rahlo se dotakniti; (o vetru) mêsti, briti; odstraniti, s poti spraviti (zapreke itd.); z očmi, s pogledom preleteti; opazovati; (topništvo) gosto obsipavati z granatami; (o valu) preplaviti (čoln); iti (z roko) (on prek); križariti (po morju); vleči se (po tleh) (o obleki); z mrežo iti (po rečnem dnu); stoje poganjati (čoln) z veslom; dobiti večino (skoraj vse glasove) (pri glasovanju)at a sweeping reduction commerce po zelo znižani cenito sweep all before one figuratively doseči popoln uspehto sweep the board — dobiti vse vložke pri kaki igri, figuratively pobrati vse nagradeto sweep everything into one's net figuratively vse (zase) pobratito sweep the seas — prepluti morja v vseh smereh, križariti po morjihto sweep the strings — iti, preleteti z roko po strunah glasbila, brenkati po strunahthe procession swept up the nave of the church — procesija se je veličastno pomikala po cerkvi proti oltarjuthey swept the river to find his body — preiskali so rečno strugo, da bi našli njegovo truplo -
14 austere
[o:'stiə](severely simple and plain; without luxuries or unnecessary expenditure: an austere way of life.) strog* * *[ɔ:stíə]adjective ( austerely adverb)trpek, rezek; resen, zmeren, strog, neprijazen, surov; varčen -
15 bald
[bo:ld]1) ((of people) with little or no hair on the head: a bald head; He is going bald (= becoming bald).) plešast2) ((of birds, animals) without feathers, fur etc: a bald patch on the dog's back.) oskuben, gol3) (bare or plain: a bald statement of the facts.) gol, brez olepšav•- baldness- balding
- baldly* * *[bɔ:ld]adjective ( baldly adverb)plešast, gol; figuratively boren, reven; suhoparen; belolisast (konj); očiten, otipljiv -
16 baldly
adverb (in a plain or bare way: He answered her questions baldly.) hladno, gladko* * *[bɔ:ldli]adverbodkrito; revno -
17 clear-cut
adjective (having a clear outline; plain and definite: clear-cut features.) čist* * *[klíəkʌt]adjectiveizrazitih potez; zgoščenclear-cut departure from s.th. — radikalna prekinitev česa -
18 dealer
1) (a person who buys and sells: a dealer in antiques.) trgovec, prekupčevalec2) (the person who distributes the cards in a card game.) delilec* * *[dí:lə]noundelilec (kart); trgovec -
19 dealing
noun ((usually in plural) contact (often in business), bargaining, agreement etc made (between two or more people or groups): fair/honest dealing; dealing on the Stock Market; I have no dealings with him.) trgovanje, poslovanje* * *[dí:liŋ]noundeljenje (kart); trgovanje; ravnanje, postopanje; stik; poslovanje; kupčija; postopekto have dealings with s.o. — imeti opravka s kom -
20 English
['iŋɡliʃ] 1. adjective(of England or its inhabitants: three English people; the English language.) angleški2. noun(the main language of England and the rest of Britain, North America, a great part of the British Commonwealth and some other countries: He speaks English.) angleščina* * *[íŋgliš]1.adjectiveangleškiI am English — sem Anglež;2.nounangleščinaKing's, Queen's English — lepa, pravilna angleščinato abuse, mishandle, murder the King's English — kvariti jezik, slabo govoriti
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