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1 disadvantage
1. nounNachteil, derbe at a disadvantage — im Nachteil sein; benachteiligt sein
2. transitive verbbe to somebody's/something's disadvantage — sich zu jemandes Nachteil/zum Nachteil einer Sache auswirken
* * *(something which makes a difficulty or which is an unfavourable circumstance: There are several disadvantages to this plan.) der Nachteil- academic.ru/20740/disadvantageous">disadvantageous- at a disadvantage* * *dis·ad·vant·age[ˌdɪsədˈvɑ:ntɪʤ, AM -ˈvæn-]I. n Nachteil m, Benachteiligung fit will eventually work to her \disadvantage es wird schließlich zu ihrem Nachteil seineducational \disadvantage Benachteiligung f in der Ausbildungmajor/minor \disadvantage großer/kleiner Nachteilsocial \disadvantage soziale Benachteiligungto be at a \disadvantage im Nachteil seinII. vt▪ to \disadvantage sb jdn benachteiligen* * *["dIsəd'vAːntɪdZ]nNachteil m; (= detriment also) Schaden mto be at a disadvantage —
he felt at a disadvantage — er fühlte sich benachteiligt
to show oneself at a disadvantage — sich von einer ungünstigen or unvorteilhaften Seite zeigen
* * *A s1. Nachteil m (to für):put sb at a disadvantage jemanden benachteiligen;put o.s. at a disadvantage with sb sich jemandem gegenüber in den Nachteil setzen;to sb’s disadvantage zu jemandes Nachteil oder Schaden2. ungünstige Lage:take sb at a disadvantage jemandes ungünstige Lage ausnutzento für):B v/t benachteiligen* * *1. nounNachteil, derbe at a disadvantage — im Nachteil sein; benachteiligt sein
2. transitive verbbe to somebody's/something's disadvantage — sich zu jemandes Nachteil/zum Nachteil einer Sache auswirken
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2 disadvantage
dis·ad·vant·age [ˌdɪsədʼvɑ:ntɪʤ, Am -ʼvæn-] nNachteil m, Benachteiligung f;it will eventually work to her \disadvantage es wird schließlich zu ihrem Nachteil sein;educational \disadvantage Benachteiligung f in der Ausbildung;major/minor \disadvantage großer/kleiner Nachteil;social \disadvantage soziale Benachteiligung;to be at a \disadvantage im Nachteil sein;to \disadvantage sb jdn benachteiligen -
3 небольшой недостаток
Небольшой недостаток-- Another minor disadvantage is that the drag force history is not significantly different from that in a tunnel where the dividing wall is not curtailed.Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > небольшой недостаток
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4 major
'mei‹ə
1. adjective(great, or greater, in size, importance etc: major and minor roads; a major discovery.) mayor, principal
2. noun1) ((often abbreviated to Maj. when written) the rank next below lieutenant-colonel.) comandante2) ((American) the subject in which you specialize at college or university: a major in physics; Her major is psychology.)
3. verb((with in) (American) to study a certain subject in which you specialize at college or university: She is majoring in philosophy.) especializarse en- majority- major-general
- the age of majority
major1 adj1. importante / principal2. serio / gravemajor2 n comandantetr['meɪʤəSMALLr/SMALL]1 (more important, greater) mayor, principal3 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL (key, scale) mayor1 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL comandante nombre masculino2 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL (main subject) asignatura principal, especialidad nombre femenino; (student) estudiante <MF< I>que se especializa en una asignatura>\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLmajor league liga nacionalmajor premise premisa mayormajor adj1) greater: mayor2) noteworthy: mayor, notable3) serious: grave4) : mayor (en la música)major n1) : mayor mf, comandante mf (en las fuerzas armadas)2) : especialidad f (universitaria)adj.• comandante (Graduación) adj.• importante adj.• mayor adj.• mayor de edad adj.n.• comandante s.m.• especialidad en la universidad s.f.• mayor s.m.
I 'meɪdʒər, 'meɪdʒə(r)1) <change/client> muy importante; < setback> serio; < revision> a fondo; < illness> grave2) ( Mus) mayorB/C major — si/do mayor
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3) majors pl (AmE)a) ( companies) grandes or importantes empresas fplb) ( Sport)
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intransitive verb (AmE Educ)['meɪdʒǝ(r)]to major IN something — especializarse* en algo
1. ADJ1) (=large, important) [city, company] muy importante; [change, role] fundamental, muy importante; [factor] clave, muy importante, fundamental; [problem] serio, grave; [worry] enorme; [breakthrough] de enorme importancia•
the result was a major blow to the government — el resultado fue un duro golpe para el gobierno•
it is a major cause of death — causa un enorme número de muertes•
to be a major factor in sth — ser un factor clave or muy importante or fundamental en algo•
three major issues remained unresolved — quedaron sin resolver tres temas fundamentales or tres temas de enorme importanciathe major issues which affect our lives — las principales cuestiones que afectan nuestras vidas, las cuestiones de mayor importancia or más importantes que afectan nuestras vidas
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nothing major has happened — no ha pasado nada de importanciagetting him off to school is a major operation hum — llevarlo al colegio es una operación a gran escala hum
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this represents a major step forward — esto representa un enorme paso hacia delante2) (=principal) [cities, political parties] más importanteour major concern is the welfare of the hostages — nuestra principal preocupación es el bienestar de los rehenes
3) (Mus) [chord, key] mayor4) (Brit)(Scol) †2. N1) (Mil) comandante m, mayor m (LAm)2) (US)(Univ)a) (=subject) asignatura f principalb) (=student)3) (US)(Baseball)3.VIto major in sth — (US) (Univ) especializarse en algo
4.CPDmajor general N — (Mil) general m de división
major-leaguemajor league N — (US) liga f principal
major suit N — (Bridge) palo m mayor
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I ['meɪdʒər, 'meɪdʒə(r)]1) <change/client> muy importante; < setback> serio; < revision> a fondo; < illness> grave2) ( Mus) mayorB/C major — si/do mayor
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3) majors pl (AmE)a) ( companies) grandes or importantes empresas fplb) ( Sport)
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intransitive verb (AmE Educ)to major IN something — especializarse* en algo
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5 legal
1) законна дія2) законний, легальний; заснований на законі; заснований на загальному праві, який регулюється загальним правом; легітимний; правовий; правознавчий; правомірний; правосудний; судовий; узаконений; юридичний•legal and administrative machinery for family support — правові і адміністративні заходи підтримки сім'ї
legal gap in protection afforded — прогалина у правовому захисті, що надається
- legal abortionlegal power to correct legal errors — надане законом право виправляти юридичні ( або судові) помилки
- legal abuse
- legal access
- legal accountability
- legal acquisition
- legal act
- legal action
- legal activities
- legal activities activity
- legal acts
- legal address
- legal administration
- legal advertisement
- legal advice
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- legal advice center
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- legal advice office
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- legal age
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- legal aid
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- legal aid order
- legal alien
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- legal assistance
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- legal assumption
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- legal bar
- legal barrier
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- legal bond
- legal boundary
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- legal business
- legal cadres
- legal calendar
- legal capacity
- legal capital
- legal career
- legal case
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- legal cause
- legal certainty
- legal challenge
- legal changes
- legal charge
- legal check
- legal cheque
- legal circumstance
- legal citation
- legal claim
- legal closing time
- legal code
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- legal committee
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- legal consideration
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- legal crackdown
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- legal culture
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- legal deposit library
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- legal discretion
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- legal document
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- legal drinking
- legal drinking age
- legal drinking limit
- legal drug
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- legal eagle
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- legal enforcement
- legal enforcement of law
- legal enforcement procedure
- legal entity under public law
- legal entity
- legal environment
- legal equality
- legal equality of the sexes
- legal error
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- legal ethics
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- legal experience
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- legal fees
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- legal framing
- legal fraud
- legal function
- legal gambler
- legal gambling
- legal gap
- legal glossator
- legal government
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- legal guarantee
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- legal guardian
- legal guilt
- legal hearing
- legal historian
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- legal holder
- legal holiday
- legal home
- legal humanism
- legal hypothesis
- legal identity
- legal immigration
- legal immunity
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- legal impossibility
- legal incapacity
- legal incident
- legal income
- legal incompetence
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- legal injury
- legal innovation
- legal innovation
- legal innovations
- legal insanity
- legal institution
- legal instruction
- legal instrument
- legal intent
- legal interest
- legal interest rate
- legal interpretation
- legal investigation
- legal investigator
- legal irregularity
- legal issue
- legal journal
- legal judge
- legal judgement
- legal judgment
- legal jurisdiction
- legal justice
- legal justification
- legal killer
- legal killing
- legal knowledge
- legal language
- legal liability
- legal lien
- legal limit
- legal limitation
- legal literature
- legal loophole
- legal lynching
- legal malice
- legal malpractice
- legal manufacture
- legal marriage
- legal matter
- legal maxim
- legal means
- legal means of social control
- legal measure
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- legal medicine
- legal methodology
- legal minimum age of marriage
- legal minimum wage rate
- legal minimum wage rates
- legal minor
- legal monopoly
- legal monument
- legal mortgage
- legal mother
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- legal negligence
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- legal nomenclature
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- legal observation method
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- legal obstruction
- legal office
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- legal opinion
- legal order
- legal organization
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- legal parlance
- legal papers
- legal participation
- legal perjury
- legal permissibility
- legal permission
- legal person
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- legal philosopher
- legal philosophy
- legal picketing
- legal platform
- legal play
- legal point
- legal point of view
- legal policy
- legal portion
- legal position
- legal positivism
- legal positivist
- legal possession
- legal power
- legal practice
- legal practitician
- legal practitioner
- legal precept
- legal predecessor
- legal prerequisite
- legal presumption
- legal presumption of death
- legal principle
- legal privilege
- legal problem
- legal procedure
- legal procedure publicity
- legal procedures
- legal proceeding
- legal proceedings
- legal process
- legal profession
- legal profession member
- legal professional
- legal professional privilege
- legal prohibition
- legal proposition
- legal propriety
- legal prosecution
- legal protectee
- legal protection
- legal protection of software
- legal provision
- legal psychiatry
- legal purism
- legal purist
- legal qualification
- legal question
- legal rationale
- legal realism
- legal reality
- legal reasoning
- legal recognition
- legal recourse
- legal redress
- legal reference
- legal reform
- legal reformer
- legal regime
- legal regulation
- legal rehabilitation
- legal rehabilitation
- legal relations
- legal relationship
- legal relationships
- legal relative
- legal relativism
- legal relevance
- legal relief
- legal remedy
- legal representation
- legal representative
- legal reputation
- legal requirement
- legal reservation
- legal reserve
- legal residence
- legal resolution
- legal restraint
- legal restriction
- legal right-enforcing
- legal right
- legal rights
- legal risk
- legal rule
- legal safeguard
- legal safety
- legal sanction
- legal scholar
- legal science
- legal scientist
- legal search
- legal secretary
- legal security
- legal self-help
- legal sense
- legal sentence
- legal sentencing
- legal separation
- legal service
- legal services
- legal significance
- legal source
- legal specialist
- legal speech
- legal sphere
- legal spokesman
- legal spouse
- legal staff
- legal standard
- legal state
- legal statement
- legal statistics
- legal status
- legal status of a person
- legal step
- legal storage period
- legal strike
- legal structure
- legal studies
- legal subbranch
- legal sub-branch
- legal subject
- legal subjectivity
- legal submission
- legal subrogation
- legal succession
- legal successor
- legal suit
- legal system
- legal tapping
- legal technicality
- legal technician
- legal technique
- legal techniques
- legal tender
- legal tender note
- legal term
- legal termination
- legal termination of marriage
- legal territory
- legal test
- legal text
- legal theorist
- legal theory
- legal thinker
- legal thinking
- legal thought
- legal title
- legal tool
- legal topic
- legal tradition
- legal training
- legal transaction
- legal treasury note
- legal treatise
- legal treatment
- legal trial
- legal ubiquity
- legal uncertainty
- legal unit
- legal usage
- legal vacuum
- legal validity
- legal venue
- legal view
- legal viewpoint
- legal violence
- legal volition
- legal voter
- legal waiver
- legal wife
- legal wiretap
- legal wiretapping
- legal wording
- legal work
- legal writer
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6 miinus
yks.nom. miinus; yks.gen. miinuksen; yks.part. miinusta; yks.ill. miinukseen; mon.gen. miinusten miinuksien; mon.part. miinuksia; mon.ill. miinuksiinless (prep) minus (noun)* * *mathematics• disadvantagemathematics• lessmathematics• lossmathematics• minormathematics• reductionmathematics• decrease -
7 interest
1. n интерес, запрос; влечение, стремление, потребность2. n значение, интерес3. n заинтересованность; польза; выгода4. n доля, участие5. n имущественное право6. n книжн. влияние, воздействие; сила авторитета7. n лица, объединённые общностью интересов; заинтересованные лица, круги или организации; деловые кругиprincipal and/or interest — капитал и\или процент
8. n проценты, процентный доходcompound interest, interest on interest — сложные проценты, проценты на проценты
9. n процентrate of interest — процент, процентная ставка, норма процента
brought in interest — принес проценты; принесенный проценты
10. n избытокwith interest — сполна, с лихвой
11. v интересовать, вызывать интерес, любопытство; привлекать вниманиеthe article interests everybody — эта статья у всех вызывает интерес, статья привлекла всеобщее внимание
12. v заинтересовывать; привлекать к участиюСинонимический ряд:1. dividend (noun) dividend; gain; profit; return; yield2. hobby (noun) hobby; pastime; preoccupation; pursuit3. holding (noun) claim; holding; investment; part; percentage; portion; share; stake; title4. regard (noun) attention; concern; curiosity; engrossment; inquisitiveness; interestedness; interestingness; notice; regard5. welfare (noun) advantage; behalf; benefit; good; prosperity; welfare; well-being6. absorb (verb) absorb; concern; engage; engross7. appeal (verb) appeal; arouse; attract; excite; fascinate; intrigue; piqueАнтонимический ряд:apathy; bore; bother; carelessness; default; disadvantage; disconnection; displease; inattention; indifference; insolvency; insouciance; loss -
8 יד
יָדf. (rarely m.) (b. h.; יָדָה) 1) hand; forefoot; handle. Ex. R. s. 42, end מיד ליד from hand to hand, directly, opp. ע״י שלוחו through his messenger.י׳ רחבה a wide hand, liberality. Y. Ḥag. I, 76c> top עני ויָדוֹר׳ a poor man who is liberal, opp. י׳ מעוטה stingy.Ḥull.58b, a. fr. בְּיָד on the forefoot (of a quadruped).Ukts. I, 1 כל שהוא יד ולא שזמר whatever part of a fruit serves as a handle (as the stem) and not as a protector (as the shell of a nut). Kel. XXIX, 4 יַד הקורדום the handle of an ax; a. v. fr.Cant. R. to I, 4 לא חלתה יד ליד hand does hot fit hand, i. e. the two cases are incongruous.Trnsf. an intimation, an incomplete statement intelligible from context, surroundings Y.Ned.I, 36d top תופסין אותו משם יד לקרבן we make him responsible because what he said is suggestive of the word korban (as a vow); a. fr.Du. יָדַיִם; pl. יָדוֹת. Yad. I, 1 נותנין לי׳ is required for pouring on the hands. Ib. II, 3 הי׳ מטמאותוכ׳ (when being washed) become unclean or clean up to the wrist; a. v. fr.י׳ יפות, v. יָפֶה.Ned.2b ידות נדרים (or ידות) suggestions of vows, contrad. to כינויים, v. כִּינּוּי. Ib. 5b, a. fr. י׳ שאין מוכיחות לא הויין י׳ suggestions which are not beyond doubt, are no (binding) suggestions; a. fr. 2) power, authority, possession, share. B. Mets.70b, v. אֶמְצַע. Kidd.3b קטנה דלית לה ידוכ׳ a minor who cannot accept a betrothal for herself. Ned.88b יד אשה כיד בעלה the wifes possession is her husbands possession. Kidd.23a גיטו ויָדוֹ באים כאחד his letter of manumission and his right of Self-disposal come simultaneously. Yeb.39a; Keth.83a ידו כיָדָהּ the husbands right of disposal is as great as the wifes (concerning what belongs to her); ידו עדיפא מידה his rights are stronger than hers. B. Mets.VI, 2 יָדָן על התחתונה their rights are the lowest, i. e. they are responsible for losses but can derive no benefits from favorable chances; ib. כל המשנה ידו על התחתונהוכ׳ whichever side changes the agreement is at a disadvantage, and whichever side breaks the agreement ; a. v. fr.Du. יָדַיִם, constr. יְדֵי. Ab. Zar.41b, a. e. מִירֵי ודאי, v. וַדַּאי.יְדֵי חובתו, v. יָצָא. 3) portion, part.Pl. יָדוֹת. Tosef.Men.IX, 10 שתי י׳ two thirds; a. fr.מִיַּד (= מיד ליד) at once, directly, immediately. Tosef.Dem.VIII, 7, v. חָלַל Hif.Y.Pes.VI, 33a מיד כל מיוכ׳ presently, every one whose Passover offering was a lamb ; a. v. fr.עַל יַד, על יְדֵי (abbr. ע״י) through, by means of. Gitt.40b שמא זיכה לוע״י אחר he may have benefitted him (given him his liberty) through the agency of another person (without the slaves knowledge). Nidd.I, 1 מעת לעת ממעטת ע״ווכ׳ the period of twenty four hours is modified by the interval between one examination and the other (if that interval is less than twenty four hours); a. v. fr.על ידי ש־ because. Lev. R. s. 32 ע״י שגדרווכ׳ because the Israelites guarded themselves against unchastity, they were redeemed; a. v. fr.עַל יָד עַל יָד gradually, little by little. B. Kam.80a (opp. מיד); Tosef. ib. VIII, 15. Par.VIII, 7 Hai G. (ed. only once ע״י). כלאחר יד, v. אַחַי.יָדַיִם Yadayim, name of a treatise of the Mishnah and Tosefta, of the Order of Tohăroth, containing the laws of levitical cleanness or uncleanness of the hands. -
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יָדf. (rarely m.) (b. h.; יָדָה) 1) hand; forefoot; handle. Ex. R. s. 42, end מיד ליד from hand to hand, directly, opp. ע״י שלוחו through his messenger.י׳ רחבה a wide hand, liberality. Y. Ḥag. I, 76c> top עני ויָדוֹר׳ a poor man who is liberal, opp. י׳ מעוטה stingy.Ḥull.58b, a. fr. בְּיָד on the forefoot (of a quadruped).Ukts. I, 1 כל שהוא יד ולא שזמר whatever part of a fruit serves as a handle (as the stem) and not as a protector (as the shell of a nut). Kel. XXIX, 4 יַד הקורדום the handle of an ax; a. v. fr.Cant. R. to I, 4 לא חלתה יד ליד hand does hot fit hand, i. e. the two cases are incongruous.Trnsf. an intimation, an incomplete statement intelligible from context, surroundings Y.Ned.I, 36d top תופסין אותו משם יד לקרבן we make him responsible because what he said is suggestive of the word korban (as a vow); a. fr.Du. יָדַיִם; pl. יָדוֹת. Yad. I, 1 נותנין לי׳ is required for pouring on the hands. Ib. II, 3 הי׳ מטמאותוכ׳ (when being washed) become unclean or clean up to the wrist; a. v. fr.י׳ יפות, v. יָפֶה.Ned.2b ידות נדרים (or ידות) suggestions of vows, contrad. to כינויים, v. כִּינּוּי. Ib. 5b, a. fr. י׳ שאין מוכיחות לא הויין י׳ suggestions which are not beyond doubt, are no (binding) suggestions; a. fr. 2) power, authority, possession, share. B. Mets.70b, v. אֶמְצַע. Kidd.3b קטנה דלית לה ידוכ׳ a minor who cannot accept a betrothal for herself. Ned.88b יד אשה כיד בעלה the wifes possession is her husbands possession. Kidd.23a גיטו ויָדוֹ באים כאחד his letter of manumission and his right of Self-disposal come simultaneously. Yeb.39a; Keth.83a ידו כיָדָהּ the husbands right of disposal is as great as the wifes (concerning what belongs to her); ידו עדיפא מידה his rights are stronger than hers. B. Mets.VI, 2 יָדָן על התחתונה their rights are the lowest, i. e. they are responsible for losses but can derive no benefits from favorable chances; ib. כל המשנה ידו על התחתונהוכ׳ whichever side changes the agreement is at a disadvantage, and whichever side breaks the agreement ; a. v. fr.Du. יָדַיִם, constr. יְדֵי. Ab. Zar.41b, a. e. מִירֵי ודאי, v. וַדַּאי.יְדֵי חובתו, v. יָצָא. 3) portion, part.Pl. יָדוֹת. Tosef.Men.IX, 10 שתי י׳ two thirds; a. fr.מִיַּד (= מיד ליד) at once, directly, immediately. Tosef.Dem.VIII, 7, v. חָלַל Hif.Y.Pes.VI, 33a מיד כל מיוכ׳ presently, every one whose Passover offering was a lamb ; a. v. fr.עַל יַד, על יְדֵי (abbr. ע״י) through, by means of. Gitt.40b שמא זיכה לוע״י אחר he may have benefitted him (given him his liberty) through the agency of another person (without the slaves knowledge). Nidd.I, 1 מעת לעת ממעטת ע״ווכ׳ the period of twenty four hours is modified by the interval between one examination and the other (if that interval is less than twenty four hours); a. v. fr.על ידי ש־ because. Lev. R. s. 32 ע״י שגדרווכ׳ because the Israelites guarded themselves against unchastity, they were redeemed; a. v. fr.עַל יָד עַל יָד gradually, little by little. B. Kam.80a (opp. מיד); Tosef. ib. VIII, 15. Par.VIII, 7 Hai G. (ed. only once ע״י). כלאחר יד, v. אַחַי.יָדַיִם Yadayim, name of a treatise of the Mishnah and Tosefta, of the Order of Tohăroth, containing the laws of levitical cleanness or uncleanness of the hands.
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