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1 look for
(to search for: She lost her handbag and wasted ten minutes looking for it.) iskati* * *intransitive verb iskati, pričakovati, upati na kajto look high and low for — vse preiskati, vse pretakniti -
2 needle
['ni:dl]1) (a small, sharp piece of steel with a hole (called an eye) at one end for thread, used in sewing etc: a sewing needle.) šivanka2) (any of various instruments of a long narrow pointed shape: a knitting needle; a hypodermic needle.) igla3) ((in a compass etc) a moving pointer.) igla4) (the thin, sharp-pointed leaf of a pine, fir etc.) iglica•- needlework* * *I [ni:dl]nounšivanka; technical igla (kompasna, gramofonska, injekcijska, črtalna itd.); kazalec na tehtnici; botany iglica; šilasta skala; obelisk; technical prečni tram; British English slang živčnostneedle's eye — uho šivanke, majhna odprtinaa needle fight ( —ali game, match) — borba med nasprotnikoma, ki se osebno sovražitaslang to get the needles — postati živčen, biti na trnihslang to have the needles — biti živčen, biti jezenknitting needle — pletilka, pletilna iglapins and needles — zbadanje, ščemenjesharp as a needle — zelo pameten, zvit, duhovitII [ni:dl]1.transitive verbšivati; prebadati, prebosti; medicine punktirati; figuratively zbadati, dražiti colloquially dodati pijači alkohol; zabeliti govor ( with s, z); technical podpreti s prečnim tramom;2.transitive verbpreriti se ( through); kristalizirati se v obliki iglic
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