pasti ko dolg in širok

1) (to set up (a tent or camp): They pitched their tent in the field.) postaviti

2) (to throw: He pitched the stone into the river.) vreči

3) (to (cause to) fall heavily: He pitched forward.) pasti

4) ((of a ship) to rise and fall violently: The boat pitched up and down on the rough sea.) zibati se

5) (to set (a note or tune) at a particular level: He pitched the tune too high for my voice.) intonirati

1) (the field or ground for certain games: a cricket-pitch; a football pitch.) igrišče

2) (the degree of highness or lowness of a musical note, voice etc.) višina tona

3) (an extreme point or intensity: His anger reached such a pitch that he hit her.) stopnja

4) (the part of a street etc where a street-seller or entertainer works: He has a pitch on the High Street.) stojnica

5) (the act of pitching or throwing or the distance something is pitched: That was a long pitch.) met

6) ((of a ship) the act of pitching.) zibanje (ladje)

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- - pitched

- pitch-black

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mineralogy smola (zemeljska), katran; botany drevesna smola

mineral pitch — bitumen

dark as pitch — ko smola črn

you can't touch pitch without being defiled — gnilo jabolko zdravo kvari

smoliti, namazati s smolo, katranizirati

met (žoge), lučaj (balinske krogle), metanje; nautical zibanje ladje; nagnjenost, strmec, strmina (strehe); višina, stopnja; music višina tona, uglašenost (glasbila); figuratively (najvišja ali najnižja) točka, najvišja stopnja, vrh, vrhunec; British English stojnica (uličnega prodajalca); economy ponudba blaga na tržišču; American slang hvalisanje blaga, reklamni oglas; American slang čenče, blebetanje; sport igrišče, (kriket) polje med vrati; razmak med luknjicami (na filmu), razmak med žlebiči (na gramofonski plošči)

absolute (perfect) pitch — absolutni posluh

pitch of an arch — višina oboka

pitch level — višina tona, glasu

music above (below) pitch — previsoko (prenizko)

to sing true to pitch — uglašeno peti

to fly a high pitch — visoko letati

to the highest pitch — do skrajnosti

at the pitch of one's voice — na ves glas

to queer s.o.'s pitch — prekrižati komu načrte

American slang I get the pitch — razumem

slang what's the pitch? — kaj se godi?

postaviti (tabor, šotor, stojnico); zabiti, zasaditi (kole itd.); metati, vreči, zalučati (žogo, kovance itd.); naložiti (seno z vilami); postaviti v bojni red; določiti (po višini, vrednosti); (govor itd.) uglasiti, prilagoditi (on čemu); izraziti na poseben način, s posebnim stilom; music uglasiti (glasbilo), intonirati (pesem); sport meriti na cilj, zamahniti; figuratively usmeriti (misli; toward k); nasuti (cesto), tlakovati, asfaltirati; določiti adut (pri začetku igre); ponuditi, razstaviti, hvaliti blago; slang pripovedovati, izblebetati;

pasti kakor dolg in širok; nautical zibati se (ladja); sport podati žogo metalcu, metati; nagniti se (streha); utaboriti se

pitched battle — naprej pripravljena in brezobzirna borba

to pitch the fork — pripovedovati ganljive zgodbe

to go a pitching — prevračati kozolce

to pitch too high — previsoko meriti

to pitch the voice high — visoko zapeti

his voice was well pitched — njegov glas je bil dobro uglašen

to pitch it strong — močno pretiravati

to pitch a story — pripovedovati laži, debele tvesti, izmisliti si zgodbo

to pitch a tent — postaviti šotor

figuratively to pitch one's tent — naseliti se

to pitch a yarn — debele tvesti, pripovedovati neverjetno zgodbo

1) (level; without rise or fall: a flat surface.) raven

2) (dull; without interest: She spent a very flat weekend.) dolgočasen

3) ((of something said, decided etc) definite; emphatic: a flat denial.) gladek

4) ((of a tyre) not inflated, having lost most of its air: His car had a flat tyre.) prazen

5) ((of drinks) no longer fizzy: flat lemonade; ( also adverb) My beer has gone flat.) postan

6) (slightly lower than a musical note should be: That last note was flat; ( also adverb) The choir went very flat.) znižan

1) ((American apartment) a set of rooms on one floor, with kitchen and bathroom, in a larger building or block: Do you live in a house or a flat?) stanovanje

2) ((in musical notation) a sign (♭) which makes a note a semitone lower.) nižaj

3) (a level, even part: the flat of her hand.) ploskev

4) ((usually in plural) an area of flat land, especially beside the sea, a river etc: mud flats.) ravnina

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- flatly

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raven, plosek, sploščen; medel, plehek, nezanimiv, pust, enoličen; prazen; razdišan; potrt; slab (prodaja); zveneč

music molovski; za pol tona znižan; napačen (petje); razglašen; onemogel, izčrpan; brezobresten; odkrit; slang flat broke — brez pare

flat calm — mrtva tišina

to give a flat denial — gladko odkloniti, zanikati

a flat lie — debela laž

to meet with a flat refusal — biti odločno zavrnjen

figuratively he fell as flat as a pancake — popolnoma mu je spodletelo

to lay flat — zravnati z zemljo

flat prices — nizke enotne cene

flat race — dirka brez ovir

his singing is flat — poje za pol tona prenizko

to go into a flat spin — zmesti se

that's flat — to je moja zadnja beseda

flat nonsense — popoln nesmisel

jocosely B flat — stenica

to tell flat — naravnost povedati

American flat silver — srebrn pribor

ravno, plosko; na dolgo in široko; povsem, naravnost; prenizko (peti)

to fall flat — pasti kot dolg in širok; figuratively ne se posrečiti, spodleteti

to go flat out — na vso moč se truditi

ravnina, ploskev; plitvina; music nižaj; theatre zadnja kulisa; music črna klavirska tipka; plosek čoln; nizka košara; prazna zračnica; familiarly tepec

transitive verb & intransitive verb

sploščiti (se)

American to flat out — stanjšati se; figuratively izjaloviti se

stanovanje (najeto); Scottish nadstropje

1) (complete; of the usual or standard length: a full-length novel.) običajne dolžine

2) (down to the feet: a full-length portrait.) v naravni velikosti

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naravne velikosti

to fall full-length — pasti kakor dolg in širok

1) (an instrument for finding the size, amount etc of something: a glass measure for liquids; a tape-measure.) merilo

2) (a unit: The metre is a measure of length.) merska enota

3) (a system of measuring: dry/liquid/square measure.) mera

4) (a plan of action or something done: We must take (= use, or put into action) certain measures to stop the increase in crime.) ukrep

5) (a certain amount: a measure of sympathy.) mera

6) ((in music) the musical notes contained between two bar lines.) takt

1) (to find the size, amount etc of (something): He measured the table.) izmeriti

2) (to show the size, amount etc of: A thermometer measures temperature.) meriti

3) ((with against, besides etc) to judge in comparison with: She measured her skill in cooking against her friend's.) primerjati

4) (to be a certain size: This table measures two metres by one metre.) meriti

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- measurement

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mera, merilo (tudi figuratively); stopnja, obseg; del, delež; razmerje, meja; poetically metrum, pesniška mera; music takt, ritem; archaic ples; chemistry menzura, stopnja; geology plural sloji, ležišča; juridically ukrep

cubic measure — prostorninska mera

lineal ( —ali long) measure — dolžinska mera

square ( —ali superficial) measure — ploskovna mera

measure of capacity — votla mera

unit of measure — merska enota

mathematics greatest common measure — (G.C.M.) največja skupna mera

beyond ( —ali out of all) measure — prekomeren, čez mero

in a great measure — v veliki meri

to have s.o.'s measure — oceniti značaj koga

to take s.o.'s measure — vzeti komu mero, umeriti; figuratively oceniti značaj koga

to have hard measures — biti vtežkih okoliščinah

he is our measure — takega človeka potrebujemo

man is the measure of all things — človek je merilo za vse

(made) to measure — po meri (narejen)

in some ( —ali in a certain) measure — vneki meri

to set measures to — omejiti

short (full) measure — slaba (dobra) mera

for good measure — povrh

to take measures — podvzeti korake, ukreniti kaj

without measure — neizmeren

the measure of my days — trajanje mojega življenja

2 is a measure of 4 — 2 je deljenec od ɔ

archaic to tread a measure — plesati

meriti, izmeriti, odmeriti; umeriti (obleko); oceniti, soditi, presoditi (by po); primerjati, meriti ( with s, z); prehoditi;

meriti

it measures 8 inches — meri 8 inčev

to measure s.o. for (a suit of clothes) — vzeti komu mero (za obleko)

to be ( —ali get) measured for (a suit) — dati si vzeti mero (za obleko)

to measure one's length — pasti ko dolg in širok

to measure swords with — preizkusiti svojo moč

to measure one's strength with s.o. — meriti se s kom

to measure other people's corn by one's own bushel — soditi druge po sebi

to measure s.o. with one's eye — premeriti koga z očmi

to measure s.o. from top to toe — premeriti koga od glave do pete