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beef+something+up

  • 1 cut

    1. present participle - cutting; verb
    1) (to make an opening in, usually with something with a sharp edge: He cut the paper with a pair of scissors.) skera, klippa
    2) (to separate or divide by cutting: She cut a slice of bread; The child cut out the pictures; She cut up the meat into small pieces.) skera
    3) (to make by cutting: She cut a hole in the cloth.) sneiða, klippa
    4) (to shorten by cutting; to trim: to cut hair; I'll cut the grass.) slá; klippa
    5) (to reduce: They cut my wages by ten per cent.) minnka
    6) (to remove: They cut several passages from the film.) klippa í burt, fjarlægja
    7) (to wound or hurt by breaking the skin (of): I cut my hand on a piece of glass.) skera í
    8) (to divide (a pack of cards).) gera við, draga
    9) (to stop: When the actress said the wrong words, the director ordered `Cut!') klippa á atriði
    10) (to take a short route or way: He cut through/across the park on his way to the office; A van cut in in front of me on the motorway.) fara þvert fyrir
    11) (to meet and cross (a line or geometrical figure): An axis cuts a circle in two places.) skera
    12) (to stay away from (a class, lecture etc): He cut school and went to the cinema.) skrópa
    13) ((also cut dead) to ignore completely: She cut me dead in the High Street.) sniðganga
    2. noun
    1) (the result of an act of cutting: a cut on the head; a power-cut (= stoppage of electrical power); a haircut; a cut in prices.) skurður; rafmagnsbilun; hárklipping; verðlækkun
    2) (the way in which something is tailored, fashioned etc: the cut of the jacket.) snið
    3) (a piece of meat cut from an animal: a cut of beef.) sneið
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    - cutting 3. adjective
    (insulting or offending: a cutting remark.) særandi
    - cut-price
    - cut-throat     4. adjective
    (fierce; ruthless: cut-throat business competition.) miskunnarlaus
    - cut and dried
    - cut back
    - cut both ways
    - cut a dash
    - cut down
    - cut in
    - cut it fine
    - cut no ice
    - cut off
    - cut one's losses
    - cut one's teeth
    - cut out
    - cut short

    English-Icelandic dictionary > cut

  • 2 extract

    1. [ik'strækt] verb
    1) (to pull out, or draw out, especially by force or with effort: I have to have a tooth extracted; Did you manage to extract the information from her?) draga út/úr, toga út
    2) (to select (passages from a book etc).) velja úr
    3) (to take out (a substance forming part of something else) by crushing or by chemical means: Vanilla essence is extracted from vanilla beans.) vinna (úr)
    2. ['ekstrækt] noun
    1) (a passage selected from a book etc: a short extract from his novel.) útdráttur
    2) (a substance obtained by an extracting process: beef/yeast extract; extract of malt.) seyði, kjarni, kraftur
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    English-Icelandic dictionary > extract

  • 3 hack

    [hæk] 1. verb
    1) (to cut or chop up roughly: The butcher hacked the beef into large pieces.) höggva; sarga, hjakka
    2) (to cut (a path etc) roughly: He hacked his way through the jungle; He hacked (out) a path through the jungle.) höggva
    2. noun
    1) (a rough cut made in something: He marked the tree by making a few hacks on the trunk.) skora
    2) (a horse, or in the United States, a car, for hire.) leiguhestur; leigubíll
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    - hacking
    - hacksaw

    English-Icelandic dictionary > hack

  • 4 quarter

    ['kwo:tə] 1. noun
    1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) fjórðungur, fjórði hluti, fjórði; kortér
    2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) fjórðungur úr dollara/dal
    3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) (borgar)hverfi
    4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) átt
    5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) grið
    6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) kjötlæri; lærstykki
    7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) kvartil, tunglfjórðungur
    8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) leikfjórðungur
    9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) önn
    2. verb
    1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) skipta í fernt
    2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) deila með fjórum
    3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) hÿsa
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    3. adverb
    (once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.) ársfjórðungslega
    4. noun
    (a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) ársfjórðungsrit
    - quarter-deck
    - quarter-final
    - quarter-finalist
    - quartermaster
    - at close quarters

    English-Icelandic dictionary > quarter

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