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1) General subject: appreciate, apprehend, awake, be on to (что-л.), be wise, compass, comprehend, conceive, enter into, fathom, figure out, gain an insight, gain an insight into, get a read, get at (I cannot get at the meaning - я не могу понять смысла), get the hang of, get the hang of (что-л.), get wise, get wise to (что-либо), grasp, gripe, imagine, interpret, penetrate, perceive, pick out (значение), realize, savvy, see, see the hang of (что-л.), see the light, seize (мысль), sense, suss, take (do you take me? - вы меня понимаете?), to be (get) wise (to), to be on to (smth.) (что-л.), twig, twig on, understand, unravel (smth), wise up, get at, give to understand, have/ get a handle on smth. (e.g. "I thought I had a handle on it, but guess I lost it."), get at (что-л.), get into mind (что-л.), work out (контекстуальный перевод на русский язык), know, get the point, be clear about, get a point2) Colloquial: catch, cotton on, get your head around ( smth) (что-то), wrap (one's) head around (I can't seem to wrap my head around the new system at all. He/She doesn't understand how the new system works.), get a sense3) American: warm wise to (что-л.)5) Religion: get the message6) Diplomatic term: take point (кого-л.)7) Psychology: accept, gather (из того, что сказано или сделано), make out (с трудом)8) Jargon: dig, get jeny, latch on (to something), take a tumble, tumble to, make, put (someone) wise, rap to, tumble9) Makarov: make head or tail of (smth.) (что-л.), catch on, find out10) Phraseological unit: come to realize (I have come to realize that I not only have the power to make a difference in my community, but I have a responsibility to do it), put (one's) finger on it (There's something strange about him, I just can't put my finger on it... - никак не могу понять / никак не могу разобраться, что именно)11) Idiomatic expression: get through one's head -
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1) General subject: betake oneself to one's heels, bolt, bung off, bunk, chevy, cut, decamp, fling up one's heels, fly, get away, give leg bail, give leg-bail, hare it, hightail, lam, make off, nip off, pull foot, pull it, run away, run off, scamper, scutter, scuttle, scuttle away, scuttle off, scuttler, show a clean pair of heels, take it on the lam, take to one's heels, turn one's tail (струсив), vamoose, vamose, betake oneself to heels, show a clean pair of heels, take to feet, take to heels2) Colloquial: change one's base, hop, hop it, morris, nip away, run for it, scoot, shirk, shove off, skedaddle, slope, beat it, cut away, leg it (British: I legged it down three back alleys and two side streets before I had the nerve to stop and catch my breath.)4) American: absquatulate, beat (to beat it)5) Obsolete: hop the stick (особ. от кредиторов), hop the twig (особ. от кредиторов), hop the twig (особенно от кредиторов)6) Rude: haul ass7) Jargon: cut one's stick, skip, bug out, high -tail it, high -tall8) Makarov: burn rubber, cut and run, dig out, fling up heels -
3 умереть
1) General subject: be food for worms, become food for worms, breathe last, breathe last gasp, breathe one's last, bump off, bust, cash in one's check, close one's days, conk, croak, cross the Great Divide, depart, die, die testate, divide, do and die, do or die, draw one's last breath, end days, evaporate, expire, get one's quietus, get quietus, go aloft, go bung, go meet Maker, go off the hooks, go the way of all things, go to Maker, go to glory, go to one's account, hand in one's check, hand in one's chips, hop the perch, hop the stick, hop the twig, join the great majority, kick the bucket, kick up one's heels, lay bones, pack up, part, pass away, pass beyond the veil, pass in, pass in one's chips, pass on, pass over, pay one's debt to nature, perish, pike, pop off (особ. внезапно), pop off the hooks, quit this scene of troubles, slip breath, slip one's cable, slip wind, snuff, snuff (обыкн. to snuff it), succumb (от чего-либо), suffer death, take exit, take the ferry, to be at peace, to be food for worms, to be with the Saints, to slinky (one's) breath (one's wind), to slinky (one's) cable, turn toes to the daisies, breath last gasp, decease, gasp last, go from hence into the other world, go hence, go to grass, go to last home, go to long home, go to long rest, go to long rest, go to own place, hand in checks, kick up heels, leave the stage, make exit, make exit, pay debt to nature, quit the stage, shut lights out, step off, sup with Pluto, go for a Burton, flatline (of a person - to die - Origin: 1980s: from flat + line - with reference to the continuous straight line displayed on a heart monitor, indicating death)2) Medicine: (ящик) box3) Colloquial: go west, pass out, peg out, pip out, skip (часто skip out), snuff out, tip over the perch, hand in checks, hand in one's dinner-pail, turn in one's dinner-pail, bite the big one4) Dialect: tip off the perch, tip up heels5) American: hand in chips, hand in one's account, kick, pass in chips, be called to account, go to account6) Obsolete: give up the ghost, starve7) Literal: quit the scene8) Latin: aut vincere aut mori, exit9) Military: lose the number of mess10) Rare: end, stick spoon in the wall11) Australian slang: throw a seven12) Bible: enter within the veiling13) Jargon: buy the farm, cash ( one's) chips, check out, cut one's cable, dance off, guit it, hand in (one's) checks (chips), kick in, kick off, kick the bicket, knock off work, off, pass in (one's) checks (chips), pass in the checks, pop off, shoot star, take the last (long) count, turn belly up (go belly up), turn toes up, turn up (one's) toes (to the daisies) turn (one's) toes up, turn up one's toes, turn up toes, hang up hat, hung up hat, lay down fork and knife, pass in checks, slip cable, buy the big one (I don't plan to buy the big one for at least another 30 years. Я не планирую умереть, как минимум, ещё тридцать лет.), take the (long) count, get one's ticket punched, bump, cash in (one's) chips, conk out, give (someone) the foot, go, kiss off, kiss the dust, knock it, knock it off, knock off, throw in the sponge (towel), tip over14) Graphic expression: meet death15) Sublime: be no more, to be no more16) American English: step off the curb17) Makarov: demise, go beyond the veil, go beyond the veil (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go down into the tomb, go home, go home (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go out of the world, go over to the majority, go over to the majority (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go the way of all flesh, go the way of all living, go the way of all the earth, go the way of all the earth (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go the way of all the flesh, go the way of all the flesh (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go the way of nature, go to (one's) last home, go to (one's) last home (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to (one's) long home, go to (one's) long home (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to (one's) long rest, go to (one's) long rest (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to (one's) own place, go to (one's) own place (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to glory (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to heaven, go to heaven (скончаться, разделить участь всех смертных, отправиться на тот свет, отправиться к праотцам, уйти на покой, покинуть этот бренный мир), go to the great majority, join the angels, join the majority, join the silent majority, lay (one's) bones, pass over to the great majority, shut (one's) lights out, slip (one's) breath, slip (one's) wind, snuff it, yield up breath, yield up the ghost, call off all bets, cash in checks, cash in chips, check in, close days, cock nose, crease it, cross the Great D., cross the Stygian ferry, cross the Styx, cross the bar, cross the river, cut cable, dine with Mohammed, do the seven, draw last breath, drop a cue, drop off, end days, enter behind the veil, enter beyond the veil, enter within the veil, die away (о чувствах), die down (о чувствах), cross over (перейти в мир иной)18) Taboo: crap out, lead apes in hell20) Idiomatic expression: cash in one's chips (применяется как глагол) -
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1) General subject: discern (discern somebody's intentions - разгадать чьи-либо намерения), figure out, puzzle out, rede, riddle, solve, think out, unravel, unriddle, unriddle (загадку), unthread (тайну), (не, не) make a good shot, be on to (кого-л.), get to the bottom of2) Colloquial: twig3) Mathematics: find out4) Makarov: to be on to (smb.) (кого-л.), find out (загадку) -
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1) General subject: administer punishment, amerce (чем-либо), castigate, chasten (с целью исправления), chastise, correct, discipline, ferule, fit out, order, penalize, persecute, punish, put it across a person, put it across somebody, scourge, smite (his conscience smote him - он почувствовал угрызения совести, совесть мучила его), strafe, trounce, administrate punishment, give gip, give gyp, whip2) Colloquial: pay, payer, put through the hoop (кого-л.), put through the hoops (кого-л.), put it across3) American: ground4) Religion: chastize5) Law: give punishment, punish (в уголовном порядке), sentence, vindicate6) Australian slang: chew out7) University: proctor9) Business: pay off10) Football: penalise (за что-л. - for smth)11) leg.N.P. punish (criminal law)12) Makarov: come down, come down on (кого-л.), come down upon (кого-л.), drop across (кого-л.), drop on (кого-л.), drop upon (кого-л.), dish out punishment (учеников и т. п.)13) Archaic: visit14) Taboo: chew somebody's ass out, give hell to somebody, kick somebody's ass (кого-л.) -
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1) General subject: absorb, add up, appreciate, apprehend, bottom, catch, compass, comprehend, conceive, discern, enter into, fathom, follow (you follow me? - понятно?), get wise to (что-л.), grasp, grip (умом), have (he has no Greek -он не знает греческого языка; I have your idea - я понял вашу мысль), imagine, interpret (как), know a good thing when one sees it, penetrate, perceive, pick out (значение), pick up, prehension, rap (кого-л., чьи-л. трудности, неудачи), realize (а не только реализовать), savvy, see, seize, sense, take, think, twig, understand (no one could understand that from my words - никто не мог сделать такого заключения из моих слов), pick out, recognize (We had to recognize that our game was up), drift (Ты меня понял? Did you catch my drift?, make sense, (someone) read3) American: plug in4) Military: hive6) Religion: get the message, know God7) Psychology: be with (то, что объясняют), make of8) Electronics: read9) Jargon: colly, dig, down with it, feature, green, have a clue, put the finger on (something) (что-то и т.п.), see the light, see the point, track, scooby (I haven't got a scooby. Sorry.), capish (Non, if you don't capish, let's get it clear right now. Не, если ты не понимаешь, давай объясню понятливей сейчас..), be down with (you are down with your teen's lingo), (что-л.) swing with, get it, cop, drag, get, savvy savvey10) Information technology: get an idea11) Oil: realise12) Business: know, make aware of13) Makarov: gain an insight, make out, mean (иметь в виду), catch on, cotton on, figure out, enter into (чувства и т. п.) -
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1) General subject: break (из тюрьмы, тж. break out), break-out (из тюрьмы), cut, cutting, elopement (с возлюбленным), escapade (из заключения), flit (с возлюбленным), get-away, getaway, hopbind, hopbine, hopvine, imp, lam, leg bail, offset, offshoot, propagule, propagulum, runaway, runaway (особ. жениха с невестой), sapling, scion (растения), slip, soboles, spear, spire, spray, tiller, escape, flight, runner, shoot, sprig, sprout, spring, plunge2) Biology: burgeon, chit, propagule (у лишайников), sobole, sprout (о листьях)3) Colloquial: leg-bail4) Botanical term: bine, offshoot (лат. stolo), runner (лат. stolo), sprout (лат. stolo), tendril, tendron, trailing, sucker5) Military: escape (из плена), escaping (из плена)6) Engineering: stool, timber shoot (дерева)9) Mathematics: run10) Law: jumping bail12) Scottish language: braird14) Horticulture: provine15) Food industry: runoff16) Mechanics: running off17) Makarov: arm (виноградной лозы), blade, flush, spear (у растений), vegetative propagule, wand18) Security: breakout (напр. недовольства; из тюрьмы), escapade (из тюрьмы) -
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1) General subject: be near (one's) end, be nearing one's end, cross the Styx, dead, decease, depart, die, drop, drop off the hooks, evaporate, expire, go, pack up, part, pass, pass away, pass from among us, pass hence, pass out, pay one's debt to nature, perish, starve, succumb, transit, waste, hop the perch, hop the stick, hop the twig, flatline (of a person - to die - Origin: 1980s: from flat + line - with reference to the continuous straight line displayed on a heart monitor, indicating death)2) Naval: go off3) Medicine: breathe one's last, (изолиния) flatline4) Colloquial: peg out, snuff, have had your chips5) American: go under6) Literal: quit the scene7) Australian slang: cark it8) Forestry: perish (о растениях)9) Jargon: go home in a box, strike bedrock, go skywest, pass on to the Great Beyond, bite the dust, croak, flack out, go west, slam off, sprout wings, step off the deep end10) Makarov: go( went; gone), lose plant, drop off, die away (о чувствах), die down (о чувствах)11) Taboo: kick it, kick the bucket -
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1) General subject: masturbate2) Colloquial: wham the ham3) Rude: handjob4) Euphemism: interfere (with myself), interfere with myself5) Jargon: toss off, fap (применяется для обозначения мужской мастурбации), feed the dolphin, freck off, frack off, rub one out, whip the weenie, whip the worm, spank, beat the meat, fuck off6) Invective: beat the dummy, diddle, flong ( one's) dong, screw off screw-off7) Taboo: articulate the archdeacon, audition the finger puppets, awaken the bacon, ball-off, (о мужчине) bash the bishop, bat, (о мужчине) bat off, (о мужчине) beat off, beat your meat, belt (one's) batter, boff, boffing your boner, bone it off, bop (one's) baloney, bopping the baloney, bouncing your boner, (о мужчине) bring oneself off (by hand), (о мужчине) burp the worm, butter (one's) corn, call down for more mayo, (о женщине) caress oneself, (о мужчине) choke the chicken, come (one's) mutton, (о мужчине) come to a sticky end, come to a striking end, court Madam Knuckle (см. Madam Palm and her five sisters), crash the yoghurt truck, (о мужчине) dash (one's) doodle, diddle oneself, dinky (one's) slinky, do a rub up, do it with oneself, dollop the weiner, drain (one's) spuds, dust the duvet, feed the ducks, feed the pony, (о женщине) finger-fuck, firing your peter, fist-fuck, five fingered shuffle or, flip oneself off, flipping off, (о мужчине) flog (one's) donkey, flog the donkey, four fingered shuffle, (о женщине) frig, friggin' your riggin', fuck oneself, fucking your fist or fist fucking, (о мужчине) gallop (one's) antelope, gallop the lizard, get it off, getting your rocks off, give Ronaldo a rub down (от выбритой головы футболиста Роналдо, сравниваемой с головкой пениса), glaze a knuckle, go it alone, (о женщине) grease the gash, grind, hack (one's) mack, haul (one's) own ashes, have one off the wrist, have oneself, hitch to heaven, hitch-hike under the big top, jack him off, jack off, jack the beanstalk, jacking, jacking off, jag off, jerk, jerk (one's) gherkin, jerk off, jerkin' your gerkin, jerking off, jerking rod, jiggle the jewellery, (о женщине) jill off, jilling off, kaycuff foe (перевертыш), keep down the census (см. boom the census), kill some babies, knock one out, make a bald man cry, (о мужчине) make a milkshake, make like a Chinese helicopter pilot, (о мужчине) milk oneself, milk the snake, mount a corporal and four (аллюзия на thumb and four fingers), oil the bat (о мужчине), (о женщине) paddle (one's) pickle, (о женщине) paddle the pink canoe, paint the ceiling, peel the carrot, (о мужчине) play dolly down, play off, play the bone-a-phone, (о мужчине) play with (one's) knob, play with oneself, playing pocket pool, playing your flute, pleasure, polish (one's) sword, pop your peter, (о мужчине) pound (one's) pork, pounding your pud, pull, pull (one's) joint, pull a pint on the piss pump, pull off, pull the turkey's neck, pulling your pud, pulling your putz, pump off, pumping the muscle, punish percy in the palm, ride the baloney pony, ringing your dong, rope the pony, round up the tadpoles, rub (one's) radish (см. radish), rub off, (о женщине) rub oneself, rub up, rubbin ' nubbin, rubbin' the nubbin, rubbin' the rigid rod, rubbing the wad, run (one's) hand up the flagpole, satisfy oneself, screw off, (о мужчине) see Madame Hand, sew, shag, shake hands with him, shake hands with the Wookie (см. pink Dart Vader; Wookie - один из персонажей сериала "Звёздные войны"), shake hot white coconuts from the veiny love tree, shake the lily, shake up, skinning the weenie, slap the monkey, slapping the salami, slapping your boner, sling (one's) jelly, smacking off, spank (one's) monkey, spank the monkey, spanking the monkey, spiggin' the twig, spike your cock, spin (one's) own propellor, squeeze the cheese, stiffening your noodle, (о мужчине) strangle Kojak, stroke (one's) beef, stroke the lizard (о мужчине), (о мужчине) strop the mulligan, take Captain Picard to warp speed, (о мужчине) take down, take in hand, (о мужчине) take oneself in hand, tee off, throttle the turkey, (о мужчине) tickle the pickle, tickle your dick, tootling your flute, toss, (о мужчине) toss off, touch oneself up, tug, (о мужчине) twang the wire, (о мужчине) varnish (one's) cane, wack-off, walk the plank, wank, wanking, wash the cosh, waste time, watch Andy Griffith, watcha doin, (о мужчине) wax the cucumber, waz, whack off, whacking off, whip off, whitewash the hall, wonk (one's) conker (см. wank), (о мужчине) wrench off, yank (one's) crank, feel myself8) Phraseological unit: buff the muffin (To masturbate.) -
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1) General subject: advert (что-л.), behold, catch sight of, cognize, descry, discern, gain sight of, get sight of, mark, note, notice, observe, pipe, remark, reprove, see, spy, take notice, twig, detect, take heed, take notice of2) American: get a load of (что-л.), get a load of (подмечать, что-л.)3) Obsolete: heed4) Mathematics: mark off, single out5) Jargon: smoke6) Arms production: spot7) Makarov: take note of -
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13 банька
a bath-hut"Warm the bath-hut, my love, set it steaming,
I will lash myself glowing red,
On a shelf somewhere near the ceiling
I will squash all my doubts – kill them dead."
(из перевода "Баньки по-белому" В.Высоцкого, выполненного Kathryn Hamilton)
(интересное примечание к переводу:)
"A lengthy treatise would be needed to really explain the role of the bath-hut in the Russian way of life – or what used to be the way of life in peasant Russia. It was, and in some areas still is, an institution – much like the ancient Roman baths, the Turkish baths, the Japanese baths, or the Finnish saunas, the difference being that Russian bath-huts are family affairs, not public institutions, each farmstead having a bath-hut (endearingly referred to as ban'ka, not the formal banya) of its own. < … > With Russia's severe climate, warming oneself in the steam of the bath-hut, accompanied by ritual self-flagellation with a birch-twig besom, rolling naked in the snow or dipping in an ice-hole in a lake or river to cool off, is a real delight. Steaming oneself in the bath-hut was also a necessary prelude to a religious or any other kind of feast, a remedy for nearly all types of illnesses, and sometimes an act of preparation for death.– The hero of this song is apparently a Siberian peasant branded kulak during forced collectivisation who resisted arrest and was deported from his native village. Peasants from European Russia were taken to Siberia, while those in Siberia could naturally be taken merely to another part of Siberia (this explains verse seven). Many peasants had faith in Stalin even in the camps, they believed he knew nothing of his hirelings' atrocities; hence the widespread custom of tattooing his profile on the breast, described in the song – and the anguished soul-searching on finding out that Stalin hadn't been all that blameless, after all. Touching as it does on the raw nerves of society, this is probably the most important, and characteristic, of all of Vysotsky's poem-songs.– Tr."Дополнительный универсальный русско-английский словарь > банька
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прост.cf. turn up one's toes; tumble (turn) up one's heels; drop (pop) off the hooks; hop the stick (the twig); kick the bucket; push up the daisies- По-латынски знаете? - Знаю-с. - Это совершенно ненужный язык; для докторов - конечно, нельзя же при больном говорить, что завтра ноги протянет; а нам зачем? помилуйте... (А. Герцен, Кто виноват?) — 'Do you know Latin?' 'I do.' 'A quite unnecessary language - excepting for doctors, of course - you can hardly expect a doctor to say in so many words that his patient will be kicking the bucket the next day; but for us, ordinary mortals, what use have we of it?'
Липочка.
Ты, Фоминишна, родилась между мужиков, и ноги протянешь мужичкой. (А. Островский, Свои люди - сочтёмся) — Lipochka. Fominishna, you were born a peasant, and you'll turn up your toes a peasant.Дивились, - откуда у него, у дьявола, берётся сила. Другой бы, и зрелее его годами и силой, давно бы ноги протянул. (А. Толстой, Пётр Первый) — Everyone wondered where the young devil got his strength from; anyone else, even an older and stronger man, would have been laid out long ago.
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1) adj great2) adj many4) n bank: low river5) n river bank: low6) n sea shore7) n shore: sea14) n face15) n head16) n mouth17) n hedge19) n fence21) n spray wood22) n twig23) n underwood24) n wood: spray25) n wood: under26) n from (Zh) Cha: tea27) n tea28) vi spread out flat29) vti cut up30) vti pinch off
См. также в других словарях:
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The Edge Chronicles Twig Saga — Infobox VG| title = The Edge Chronicles Twig Saga publisher = Random House genre = Fantasy Adventure ratings = Random House: Pre Teen (PT)There are nine books (but ten planned) in The Edge Chronicles that revolve around three central characters:… … Wikipedia
just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined — Things, especially education, that affect and influence us in our childhood shape the kind of adult we turn out to be. (There are various versions of this, like As the twig is bent, the tree s inclined and As the twig is bent, so the tree… … The small dictionary of idiomes
pick out — Synonyms and related words: abscind, abstract, address to, advert to, allude to, amputate, analyze, annihilate, assign, avulse, ban, bar, be taken as, behold, bob, bolt, bring to attention, bring to notice, call attention to, cast off, cast out,… … Moby Thesaurus
make out — Synonyms and related words: abide by, accept, adhere to, administer, afford proof of, answer, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, ball, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be… … Moby Thesaurus
figure something out — (informal) he tried to figure out how to switch on the lamp: WORK OUT, fathom, puzzle out, decipher, ascertain, make sense of, think through, get to the bottom of; understand, c … Useful english dictionary
To break out — Break Break (br[=a]k), v. t. [imp. {broke} (br[=o]k), (Obs. {Brake}); p. p. {Broken} (br[=o] k n), (Obs. {Broke}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Breaking}.] [OE. breken, AS. brecan; akin to OS. brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel. braka to creak … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
To break out a cargo — Break Break (br[=a]k), v. t. [imp. {broke} (br[=o]k), (Obs. {Brake}); p. p. {Broken} (br[=o] k n), (Obs. {Broke}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Breaking}.] [OE. breken, AS. brecan; akin to OS. brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel. braka to creak … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
figure out — he tried to figure out how to switch on the lamp Syn: work out, fathom, puzzle out, decipher, ascertain, make sense of, think through, get to the bottom of; understand, comprehend, see, grasp, get the hang of, get the drift of; informal crack;… … Thesaurus of popular words