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1 handful of people
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2 (a) handful of people
English-Russian combinatory dictionary > (a) handful of people
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3 handful
['hændfʊl]nпригоршня, горсть, горстка, кучка- handful of grain- handful of people -
4 handful
при́го́ршня жa handful of people — всего́ лишь не́сколько челове́к
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5 горстка
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6 кучка
жен.
1) уменьш. от куча
2) (небольшая группа) small group собираться кучкамиж.
1. heap;
2. (небольшая группа) bunch;
~ людей handful of people;
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7 show up
а) разоблачи́ть, изобличи́тьб) прояви́ть(ся), обнару́жить ( become easy to see)в) разг появи́ться, прийти́only a handful of people showed up for the meeting — на встре́чу пришла́ лишь небольша́я го́рстка люде́й
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8 few
1. n немногие; незначительное количество2. n мало кто; почти никтоthere are few men of his timber — таких, как он, мало
3. a немногие, немного, малоI know a few people who … — я знаю людей, которые …
quite a few — довольно много; порядочно
4. a преим. немногочисленныйСинонимический ряд:1. infrequent (adj.) infrequent; occasional; rare; scarce; seldom; semioccasional; sporadic; uncommon; unfrequent2. scant (adj.) scant; sparse; thin3. slender (adj.) insignificant; insufficient; little; meagre; slender; small; trifling4. small number (adj.) any; inconsiderable; less; not many; several; small number; widely spaced5. handful (noun) handful; scattering; smatch; smatter; smattering; some; spatter; spattering; sprinkling6. not many (other) not many; severalАнтонимический ряд:abundance; frequent; many -
9 rabble
1. n толпа2. n презр. чернь, сброд3. n свалка, куча4. n диал. набор слов, чепуха5. v подвергать разграблению или самосуду6. n тех. кочерга, шуровой лом7. n тех. гребок, скребокСинонимический ряд:1. canaille (noun) canaille; doggery; dregs; hoi polloi; lowlife; mass; mob; other half; polloi; raff; ragtag; ragtag and bobtail; riffraff; riff-raff; roughscuff; rout; scum; scurf; tag and rag; tagrag and bobtail; trash; unwashed2. crowd (noun) crowd; horde; throng3. people (noun) commoners; masses; peasantry; people; populace; proletariat; rank and file; runАнтонимический ряд:aristocracy; elite; handful
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