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1 bull-beef
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2 beef
[bi:f](the flesh of a bull, cow or ox, used as food.) govedina- beefy* * *plural beeves [bi:f, bi:vz]noun govedina; pitano govedo; zaklana žival; figuratively debelost, zajetnost; mišice, krepkost; energijato put too much beef into a stroke — premočno udariti (tenis, biljard) -
3 quarter
['kwo:tə] 1. noun1) (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.) četrtina2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) 25 centov3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) četrt4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) smer5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) milost6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) del živali7) (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.) krajec8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) četrtina9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) četrtletje2. verb1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) razrezati na štiri dele2) (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.) razdeliti na štiri dele3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) nastaniti•3. adverb(once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.) četrtletno4. noun(a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) četrtletnik- quarters- quarter-deck
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quartermaster
- at close quarters* * *I [kwɔ:tə]nounčetrtina, četrt ( a quarter of an hour četrt ure; for quarter the price, for a quarter of fhe price za četrtino cene); četrtina funta (0,113 kg); četrtina milje, tek na četrt milje ( he won the ŋ zmagal je v teku na četrt milje); mera za tkanine, četrtina jarda (22,8 cm); trgovska mera, četrtina stota (28 funtov, 12,7 kg, American 2ɜ funtov, 11,ʌɔ kg; British English 2,91 hl); American Scottish šolsko četrtletje; četrtletje, kvartal; četrtina zaklane živali, ena od štirih nog, hrbet konja; heraldry eno od štirih polj grba; astronomy lunin krajec ( first ŋ prvi krajec, last ŋ zadnji krajec); American četrt dolarja, novec za 25 centov; mestna četrt, kvart ( residential ŋ stanovanjska četrt); stran neba, smer vetra (what quarter is the wind in? iz katere strani piha?, figuratively od kje piha veter?); predel, kraj ( in this ŋ v teh krajih), smer ( in that ŋ v ono smer), stran ( from another ŋ z druge strani); vir ( from a good ŋ iz dobrega vira); družbeni krog ( in government ŋs v vladnih krogih); usnje za peto (čevlja); technical ɔ palce širok kos lesa (v tesarstvu); military (zlasti plural) stan, bivališče ( to be confined to ŋs biti v hišnem priporu); (zlasti military) milost, prizanašanje, pomilostitev ( to find no quarter with ne najti milosti pri); nautical bok krme ( on the port ŋ na levi strani krme); nautical borbeni položaj posadke ( to beat to ŋs sklicati posadko na položaje)to give quarter — izkazati milost, pomilostitiat close quarters — od blizu, v neposrednem stiku (spopadu)II [kwɔ:tə]1.transitive verbrazdeliti na štiri dele; razkosati, razčetveriti (izdajalca); heraldry razdeliti na štiri polja (grb); vzeti pod streho; military (prisilno) nastaniti (at, in a place; to be ŋed at (in) stanovati kje); pretakniti, preiskati teren (lovski psi); nautical določiti borbeni položaj posadke;2.intransitive verbstanovati, živeti (at pri); tekati sem in tja (psi)figuratively to quarter o.s. on s.o. — vseliti se pri kom
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