Перевод: с русского на английский

с английского на русский

of modest means

См. также в других словарях:

  • means — [miːnz] noun [plural] the money and resources that a person or organization has available: means to do something • Large corporations have the means to pay large fines without suffering hardship. • The group has limited means. • young families… …   Financial and business terms

  • modest — adjective Etymology: Latin modestus moderate; akin to Latin modus measure Date: 1565 1. a. placing a moderate estimate on one s abilities or worth b. neither bold nor self assertive ; tending toward diffidence 2. arising from or characteristic of …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • modest — [16] Etymologically, modest means ‘kept within due measure’. It comes via French from Latin modestus, a derivative of the same source as produced English moderate. This was *modes , a close relative of Latin modus ‘measure’ (from which English… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • modest — [16] Etymologically, modest means ‘kept within due measure’. It comes via French from Latin modestus, a derivative of the same source as produced English moderate. This was *modes , a close relative of Latin modus ‘measure’ (from which English… …   Word origins

  • Modest Mussorgsky — Mussorgsky redirects here. For other uses, see Mussorgsky (disambiguation). Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, 1870. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Модест Петрович Мýсoргский; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a… …   Wikipedia

  • modest — adj. 1 not having a high opinion of your own abilities VERBS ▪ be, look, remain, seem ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc …   Collocations dictionary

  • means — noun 1 method of doing sth ADJECTIVE ▪ appropriate, convenient, effective, efficient, reliable, useful ▪ an effective means of mass communication ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • modest — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, aloof, altruistic, backward, bashful, becoming, betwixt and between, blank, boggling, budget, cheap, chilled, chilly, clean, cold, committed, common, consecrated, constrained, cool, coy, decent, decorous,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • modest — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Humble] Syn. unassuming, meek, diffident, shy; see humble 1 , resigned . 2. [Not showy] Syn. unpretentious, unostentatious, unobtrusive, demure, quiet, seemly, proper, decorous, unstudied, plain, simple, natural,… …   English dictionary for students

  • A Modest Proposal — for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick,[1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and… …   Wikipedia

  • A Modest Video Game Proposal — is the title of an open letter sent by attorney/activist Jack Thompson to members of the press and to Entertainment Software Association president Doug Lowenstein on October 10, 2005. He proposed that, if someone could create, manufacture,… …   Wikipedia

Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное

Прямая ссылка:
Нажмите правой клавишей мыши и выберите «Копировать ссылку»