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• Fair feathers make fair fowls - Одежда красит человека (O)• Feather by feather a (the) goose is plucked - По волоску всю бороду выщиплешь (П)• Feather in the hand is better than a bird in the air (A) - Не сули журавля в небе, дай синицу в руки (H)• Fine feathers do not make fine birds - Не одежда красит человека (H)• Fine feathers make fine birds (fowl) - Без хвоста и ворона не красна (Б), Наряди пенек в вешний денек, так и пенек будет паренек (H), Одежда красит человека (O)• You can't get (pick, take) feathers off a toad - Голой овцы не стригут (Г), Как с быком ни биться, а молока от него не добиться (K) -
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['feðə]Abbreviation: FTR -
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[ˈfeðə]1. nounone of the things that grow from a bird's skin that form the covering of its body:ريشَهThey cleaned the oil off the seagull's feathers.
2. verbto line, cover or decorate with feathers:يُزَيِّن بِالرّيش، يَكْسو بِالرّيشThe eagle feathers its nest with down from its own breast.
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6 Feather Cloth
A coating fabric made by weaving feather down into undyed woollen warp. The weft is made of wool and feather down twisted together. -
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8 Feather Stitch
An embroidery stitch resembling feathers. -
9 Feather Twill
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10 feather chewing lice
Entomology: PhilopteridaeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > feather chewing lice
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11 feather edge
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12 feather crystal
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > feather crystal
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13 feather edge
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > feather edge
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14 feather edge seal
спай взакрой, заделка фальцамиАнгло-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > feather edge seal
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15 feather strip edge
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > feather strip edge
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16 feather one's (own) nest
to gain money for oneself or to make oneself rich while serving others in a position of trust:يَكْسَبُ المال لِنَفْسِهAll the time he has been a member of that committee he has been feathering his own nest.
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17 feather one's (own) nest
to gain money for oneself or to make oneself rich while serving others in a position of trust:يَكْسَبُ المال لِنَفْسِهAll the time he has been a member of that committee he has been feathering his own nest.
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18 a feather in one's cap
something one can be proud of:شَيءٌ يُفْتَخَر به، علامَة إمتيازWinning the race was quite a feather in his cap.
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19 Birds Of a Feather
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Birds Of a Feather
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20 Guinea feather louse
Entomology: Goniodes numidaeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Guinea feather louse
См. также в других словарях:
Feather — Feath er (f[e^][th] [ e]r), n. [OE. fether, AS. fe[eth]er; akin to D. veder, OHG. fedara, G. feder, Icel. fj[ o][eth]r, Sw. fj[ a]der, Dan. fj[ae]der, Gr. ptero n wing, feather, pe tesqai to fly, Skr. pattra wing, feather, pat to fly, and prob.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
feather — [feth′ər] n. [ME fether < OE; akin to Ger feder < IE base * pet , to fall, fly > Gr pteron, wing, piptein, L petere, to fall, Sans pátati, (he) flies] 1. Zool. any of the growths covering the body of a bird or making up a large part of… … English World dictionary
Feather — Feath er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feathering.}] 1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. [1913 Webster] An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. L Estrange.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
feather — ► NOUN ▪ any of the flat appendages growing from a bird s skin, consisting of a partly hollow horny shaft fringed with vanes of barbs. ► VERB 1) rotate the blades of (a propeller) to lessen the air or water resistance. 2) (feathered) covered or… … English terms dictionary
Feather — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Leonard Feather (1914–1994), britischer Jazzautor, musiker und produzent Lorraine Feather (* 1948), US amerikanische Jazzsängerin und Songwriterin Tiny Feather (1902–1975), US amerikanischer American… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Feather — Feath er, v. i. 1. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; often with out; as, the birds are feathering out. [1913 Webster] 2. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
feather — [n] tuft of bird; plumage calamus, crest, down, fin, fluff, fringe, penna, pinion, pinna, plume, plumule, pompon, quill, shaft, spike, wing; concept 399 … New thesaurus
Feather — For other uses, see Feather (disambiguation). Feather variations Feathers are one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and some theropod dinosaurs. They are considered the most complex… … Wikipedia
feather — featherless, adj. featherlessness, n. featherlike, adj. /fedh euhr/, n. 1. one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner,… … Universalium
feather — /ˈfɛðə / (say fedhuh) noun 1. one of the epidermal appendages which together constitute the plumage of birds, being typically made up of a hard, tubelike portion (the quill) attached to the body of the bird, which passes into a thinner, stemlike… …
feather — {{11}}feather (n.) O.E. feðer feather, in plural, wings, from P.Gmc. *fethro (Cf. O.S. fethara, O.N. fioþr, Swed. fjäder, M.Du. vedere, Du. veder, O.H.G. fedara, Ger. Feder), from PIE *petra , zero degree *ptera wing … Etymology dictionary