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81 lodger
noun (a person who lives in a room or rooms, for which he pays, in someone else's house: She rented a room to a lodger.) leigjandi -
82 lodging
1) ((often in plural) a room or rooms hired in someone else's house: She lives in lodgings.) leiguherbergi2) (a place to stay: He paid the landlady for board and lodging.) húsnæði -
83 look-alike
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84 mainly
adverb (more (of) the thing mentioned than anything else; mostly or largely: This skirt is mainly dark grey.) aðallega -
85 make over
((American) to change something or turn it into something else: They made over the room as an office; The plastic surgeon made her face over.) -
86 merge
[mə:‹]1) (to (cause to) combine or join: The sea and sky appear to merge at the horizon.) sameina; blandast, renna saman2) ((with into) to change gradually into something else: Summer slowly merged into autumn.) renna inn í, verða að3) ((with into etc) to disappear into (eg a crowd, back-ground etc): He merged into the crowd.) blandast inn í•- merger -
87 metaphor
['metəfə](a form of expression (not using `like' or `as')in which a quality or characteristic is given to a person or thing by using a name, image, adjective etc normally used of something else which has similar qualities etc: `He's a tiger when he's angry' is an example of (a) metaphor.) myndhvörf/-hverfing/-líking- metaphorical- metaphoric
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88 might have
1) (used to suggest that something would have been possible if something else had been the case: You might have caught the bus if you had run.) hefði getað... ef2) (used to suggest that a person has not done what he should: You might have told me!) hefði getað/átt að... en3) (used to show that something was a possible action etc but was in fact not carried out or done: I might have gone, but I decided not to.) það hefði verið mögulegt að... en4) (used when a person does not want to admit to having done something: `Have you seen this man?' `I might have.') það er hugsanlegt -
89 opposite
['opəzit] 1. adjective1) (being on the other side of: on the opposite side of town.) andstæður2) (completely different: The two men walked off in opposite directions.) andstæður2. preposition, adverb(on the opposite side of (something) in relation to something else: He lives in the house opposite (mine).) andstætt, á móti3. noun(something that is completely different: Hate is the opposite of love.) andstæða -
90 orientate
['o:riənteit]1) (to get (oneself) used to unfamiliar surroundings, conditions etc.) átta sig2) (to find out one's position in relation to something else: The hikers tried to orientate themselves before continuing their walk.) átta sig• -
91 other
1.1) (adjective, pronoun the second of two: I have lost my other glove; I've got one of my gloves but I can't find the other (one).) annar2) (adjective, pronoun those people, things etc not mentioned, present etc; additional: Some of them have arrived - where are the others?; The baby is here and the other children are at school.) hinn3) ( adjective (with day, week etc) recently past: I saw him just the other day/morning.) hinn; um daginn•2. conjunction(or else; if not: Take a taxi - otherwise you'll be late.) annars, eða- other than
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92 otherwise
1) (in every other way except this: She has a big nose but otherwise she is very good-looking.) annars2) (doing, thinking etc something else: I am otherwise engaged this evening.) hafa annað að gera/hugsa -
93 pack up
1) (to put into containers in order to take somewhere else: She packed up the contents of her house.) pakka saman, setja í pakkningar/gáma2) (to stop working or operating: We'd only gone five miles when the engine packed up.) bila -
94 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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95 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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96 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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97 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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98 paraphrase
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99 pass (something or someone) off as
(to pretend that (something or someone) is (something or someone else): He passed himself off as a journalist.) þykjast vera, láta sem e-r séEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > pass (something or someone) off as
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100 pass on
1) (to give to someone else (usually something which one has been given by a third person): I passed on his message.) senda áfram2) (to die: His mother passed on yesterday.) deyja
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else — O.E. elles other, otherwise, different, from P.Gmc. *aljaz (Cf. Goth. aljis other, O.H.G. eli lenti, O.E. el lende, both meaning in a foreign land; see also ALSACE (Cf. Alsace)), an adverbial genitive of the neuter of PIE root *al beyond (Cf. Gk … Etymology dictionary
else — else·where; else; else·wheres; … English syllables
