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1 prevent
[pri'vent](to stop (someone doing something or something happening): He prevented me from going.) atturēt; aizkavēt; novērst- preventive* * *aizkavēt, novērst; atturēt, pasargāt -
2 bar
1. noun1) (a rod or oblong piece (especially of a solid substance): a gold bar; a bar of chocolate; iron bars on the windows.) restes2) (a broad line or band: The blue material had bars of red running through it.) josla3) (a bolt: a bar on the door.) bulta; aizšaujamais4) (a counter at which or across which articles of a particular kind are sold: a snack bar; Your whisky is on the bar.) (bufetes) lete5) (a public house.) bārs6) (a measured division in music: Sing the first ten bars.) takts (mūzikā)7) (something which prevents (something): His carelessness is a bar to his promotion.) šķērslis; kavēklis8) (the rail at which the prisoner stands in court: The prisoner at the bar collapsed when he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.) barjera (tiesas zālē)2. verb1) (to fasten with a bar: Bar the door.) aizšaut, aizbultēt (durvis); nosprostot; noslēgt2) (to prevent from entering: He's been barred from the club.) aizliegt; neielaist3) (to prevent (from doing something): My lack of money bars me from going on holiday.) kavēt; traucēt3. preposition(except: All bar one of the family had measles.)- barmaid- barman
- bar code* * *bārs; lete; barjera; stienis; gabals; tāfele; aizšaujamais, bulta; šķērslis, kavēklis; restes; sēre, sēklis; taktssvītra; lietnis; aizšaut, aizbultēt; noslēgt, aizsprostot; aizliegt; traucēt, kavēt; izņemot -
3 stop
[stop] 1. past tense, past participle - stopped; verb1) (to (make something) cease moving, or come to rest, a halt etc: He stopped the car and got out; This train does not stop at Birmingham; He stopped to look at the map; He signalled with his hand to stop the bus.) apstāties; apturēt2) (to prevent from doing something: We must stop him (from) going; I was going to say something rude but stopped myself just in time.) aizkavēt; atturēt3) (to discontinue or cease eg doing something: That woman just can't stop talking; The rain has stopped; It has stopped raining.) pārstāt4) (to block or close: He stopped his ears with his hands when she started to shout at him.) bloķēt; nosprostot; aizbāzt5) (to close (a hole, eg on a flute) or press down (a string on a violin etc) in order to play a particular note.) nospiest (vārstuli); piespiest (stīgu)6) (to stay: Will you be stopping long at the hotel?) apmesties; uzturēties2. noun1) (an act of stopping or state of being stopped: We made only two stops on our journey; Work came to a stop for the day.) apstāšanās; beigas2) (a place for eg a bus to stop: a bus stop.) pietura; pieturvieta3) (in punctuation, a full stop: Put a stop at the end of the sentence.) punkts4) (a device on a flute etc for covering the holes in order to vary the pitch, or knobs for bringing certain pipes into use on an organ.) vārstulis; reģistrs5) (a device, eg a wedge etc, for stopping the movement of something, or for keeping it in a fixed position: a door-stop.) ķīlis; atturis; aizturis•- stoppage- stopper
- stopping
- stopcock
- stopgap
- stopwatch
- put a stop to
- stop at nothing
- stop dead
- stop off
- stop over
- stop up* * *apstāšanās; apturēšana; pietura; pauze, pārtraukums; pieturzīme; runas veids; vārstulis; reģistrs; eksplozīvais līdzskanis; aizturis; diafragma; apstādināt; apstāties; ciemoties; atturēt, aizturēt -
4 restrain
[rə'strein](to prevent from doing something; to control: He was so angry he could hardly restrain himself; He had to be restrained from hitting the man; He restrained his anger with difficulty.) apvaldīt* * *apvaldīt; atturēt; ieslodzīt, izolēt -
5 patent
['peitənt, ]( American[) 'pæ-] 1. noun(an official licence from the government giving one person or business the right to make and sell a particular article and to prevent others from doing the same: She took out a patent on her design; ( also adjective) a patent process.) patents; patentēts2. verb(to obtain a patent for; He patented his new invention.) patentēt* * *patents; izņemt patentu, patentēt; patentēts; nepārprotams, skaidrs; jauns, oriģināls; augstākā labuma -
6 put paid to
(to prevent a person from doing (something he planned or wanted to do): The rain put paid to our visit to the zoo.) izjaukt; pārsvītrot* * *uzlikt zīmogu "apmaksāts"; darīt galu, likvidēt -
7 thwart
[Ɵwo:t]1) (to stop or hinder (someone) from doing something: He doesn't like to be thwarted.) []kavēt2) (to prevent (something being done by someone): All his attempts to become rich were thwarted.) izjaukt (plānu u.tml.); traucēt* * *airsols; izjaukt, kavēt; šķērss
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