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1 rather
1) (to a certain extent; slightly; a little: He's rather nice; That's a rather silly question / rather a silly question; I've eaten rather more than I should have.) dokaj2) (more willingly; preferably: I'd rather do it now than later; Can we do it now rather than tomorrow?; I'd rather not do it at all; I would/had rather you didn't do that; Wouldn't you rather have this one?; I'd resign rather than do that.) raje3) (more exactly; more correctly: He agreed, or rather he didn't disagree; One could say he was foolish rather than wicked.) prej (kot)* * *I [rá:ðə]adverbprej, rajši, raje; precéjrather good — precéj dober, kar doberrather a long way — precéj dolga pot, precéj dalečthe rather that... — toliko bolj (prej, rajši), ker...I rather think that... — jaz bi prej (skoraj) mislil, da...I had rather that... — jaz bi rajši...he left rather than join me — rajši je odpotoval, kot da bi se mi pridružilI would rather die than betray him — jaz bi rajši umrl, kot ga izdal (se mu izneveril)he would rather have died than revealed it — on bi bil rajši umrl, kot to razkrilthank you, I had rather not — hvala, (rajši) neII [ra:ðə]interjectioncolloquially (v odgovoru) da!, seveda!, vsekakor!, (prav) gotovo!Isn't it hot? -- Rather! — Ali ni vroče? -- Seveda! Pa še kako!Would you like to come? -- Rather! — Bi (Vi) radi prišli? -- To pa! Seveda!! Zelo rad! -
2 hard of hearing
(rather deaf: He is a bit hard of hearing now.) naglušen -
3 sort of
(rather; in a way; to a certain extent: He was sort of peculiar!; I feel sort of worried about him.) nekako -
4 steep
I [sti:p] adjective1) ((of eg a hill, stairs etc) rising with a sudden rather than a gradual slope: The hill was too steep for me to cycle up; a steep path; a steep climb.) strm2) ((of a price asked or demand made) unreasonable or too great: He wants rather a steep price for his house, doesn't he?; That's a bit steep!) pretiran•- steeply II [sti:p](to soak thoroughly.) namakati* * *I [sti:p]1.adjective ( steeply adverb)strm; figuratively hiter, brz, nagel; colloquially pretirano visok (o cenah); neverjeten (zgodba); čezmeren, pretiran, neupravičen, nesramena steep slope — strmo pobočje, prepadit is a bit steep that he should get all the profit — malo prehuda je, da bi on pospravil ves dobičekthis sounds rather steep — to zveni (se sliši) precéj neverjetno;2.nounstrmina, strmo pobočjeII [sti:p]1.nounnamakanje; potapljanje; tekočina za namakanje; močilo; močenje (konoplje, lanu); kar se namaka; posoda za namakanjein steep — v namakanju, namočen;2.transitive verbnamakati, močiti, omehčati z namakanjem; prepojiti, prežeti (in z); potopiti, pogreznitito be steeped in — biti zatopljen v; globoko pasti vto steep one's hands in blood figuratively močiti si, omadeževati si roke s krvjoto steep o.s. figuratively zatopiti se (in v) -
5 choose
[ u:z]past tense - chose; verb1) (to take (one thing rather than another from a number of things) according to what one wants: Always choose (a book) carefully.) izbrati2) (to decide (on one course of action rather than another): If he chooses to resign, let him do so.) odločiti se•* * *[ču:z]1.transitive verb( between) izbrati, izbirati, izvoliti si; hoteti; raje imeti;2.intransitive verb( between) imeti na izbiro; blagovolitiI cannot choose but — nujno moram, prisiljen sem, ne morem si kaj, da ne bi -
6 doubtful
1) (feeling doubt; uncertain what to think, expect etc: He is doubtful about the future of the school.) negotov2) (able to be doubted; not clear: The outcome is doubtful; a doubtful result.) dvomljiv3) (uncertain but rather unlikely, unhopeful etc: It is doubtful whether this will work; a doubtful improvement.) vprašljiv4) (suspicious: He's rather a doubtful character.) sumljiv* * *[dáutful]adjective ( doubtfully adverb)dvomljiv, sumljiv; dvomeč, nezaupljiv, negotov -
7 than
[ðən, ðæn]conjunction, preposition(a word used in comparisons: It is easier than I thought; I sing better than he does; He sings better than me.) kot* * *[ðæn, ðən]conjunctionkot, kakora man than whom no one was more beloved — ni ga bilo bolj priljubljenega človeka, kot je bil onI would rather walk than drive — jaz bi rajši šel peš, kot pa da bi se peljal -
8 thin
[Ɵin] 1. adjective1) (having a short distance between opposite sides: thin paper; The walls of these houses are too thin.) tenek2) ((of people or animals) not fat: She looks thin since her illness.) mršav3) ((of liquids, mixtures etc) not containing any solid matter; rather lacking in taste; (tasting as if) containing a lot of water or too much water: thin soup.) redek4) (not set closely together; not dense or crowded: His hair is getting rather thin.) redek5) (not convincing or believable: a thin excuse.) prazen2. verb(to make or become thin or thinner: The crowd thinned after the parade was over.) razredčiti (se)- thinly- thinness
- thin air
- thin-skinned
- thin out* * *I [min]1.adjective ( thinly adverb)tanek; vitek, mršav, suh; lahek (obleka); nežen, fin, prozoren (tkanina); droben; redek, pičel; slabo obiskan (gledališka predstava ipd.); slab, lahek (pijača), razredčen, precéj redek, vodén; photography nejasen, brez kontrastov; agronomy reven, nerodoviten (zemlja); ničen, prazen (izgovor); plitev, brez vsebine (knjiga)thin attendance — slab obisk (predstave itd.)thin captain figuratively British English majhen ploščat prepečeneca thin house — slabo zasedena, prazna gledališka hišaon thin ice figuratively na nevarnih tleh, v kočljivem položajuthe thin end of the wedge figuratively prvi začetek, prvi korakthrough thick and thin — skozi ogenj in vodo, čez vse zapreke (težave)that is too thin — slang to je preveč prozorno;2.adverb (le v sestavljenkah) tanko, slabo, redko, neznatnothin-faced — ozkega, mršavega obrazaII [min]transitive verb(s)tanjšati; razredčiti (gozd); figuratively zmanjšati; intransitive verb (s)tanjšati se; razredčiti se, postati pičel (redek); zmanjšati se, oslabeti, upasti, shujšati; figuratively klinasto se stanjšatihis hair is thinning — lasje se mu redčijo; -
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10 utilitarian
adjective (useful rather than ornamental: Our plates and glasses are utilitarian rather than beautiful.) uporaben, koristen* * *[ju:tilitʌ/əriən]1.nounutilitarist; koristolovec; oseba, ki misli le na svojo korist; privrženec utilitarizma;2.adjectiveki gleda le na (svojo) korist, koristolovski; utilitarističen; derogatory nizkoten -
11 abstract
['æbstrækt] 1. adjective1) ((of a noun) referring to something which exists as an idea and which is not physically real: Truth, poverty and bravery are abstract nouns.) pojmoven2) ((of painting, sculpture etc) concerned with colour, shape, texture etc rather than showing things as they really appear: an abstract sketch of a vase of flowers.) abstrakten2. noun(a summary (of a book, article etc).) povzetek* * *I [æbstraekt]transitive verb( from iz, od) odvrniti, speljati; povzeti; chemistry destilirati; colloquially ukrasti, izmakniti, sunitiII [aebstrækt]adjective ( abstractly adverb)abstrakten, odmišljen, pojmoven, težko razumljivIII [aebstrækt]nounabstraktnost; grammar abstraktum; ( from iz) izvleček, kratek pregledin the abstract — abstraktno, odmišljeno, teoretično -
12 acute
[ə'kju:t]1) ((of a disease etc) severe but not lasting very long: They think his illness is acute rather than chronic.) akuten2) (very great: There is an acute shortage of teachers.) kritičen3) (quick-witted: As a businessman, he's very acute.) sposoben4) ((of the senses) keen: acute hearing.) oster5) (high, shrill s high sound.)•- acutely
- acuteness* * *[əkjú:t]adjective ( acutely adverb)oster, šilast; bister; silovit; vreščav; medicine vnet, akuten -
13 aloof
[ə'lu:f] 1. adverb(apart or at a distance from other people: I kept aloof from the whole business.) proč (od)2. adjective(not sociable and friendly: People find the new teacher rather aloof.) vzvišen* * *[əlú:f]adverb & predicative adjectivedaleč, stran, proč; nautical stran od vetra; vzvišen, nebrižen; osamljento keep ( —ali hold, stand) aloof — ostati nepristranski, nevtralen, ne se vmešavati -
14 amusing
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15 annoy
[ə'noi](to make (someone) rather angry or impatient: Please go away and stop annoying me!) nadlegovati- annoyed
- annoying
- annoyingly* * *I [ənɔi]nounarchaic poetically nagajanje, nadloga, mukaII [ənɔi]transitive verbdražiti, vznejevoljiti, nagajati, nadlegovati, mučiti, vznemirjati -
16 arbitrary
(not decided by rules or laws but by a person's own opinion: He made a rather arbitrary decision to close the local cinema without consulting other people.) samovoljen* * *[á:bitræri]adjective ( arbitrarily adverb)poljuben; samovoljen, neomejen; kontrasten (tiskarske črke) -
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18 backwater
1) (a stretch of river not in the main stream.) mrtev rokav2) (a place not affected by what is happening in the world outside: That village is rather a backwater.) miren kotiček* * *[baekwɔ:tə]nounstoječa voda; figuratively omrtvelost, zaostalost, stagnacija -
19 before
[bi'fo:] 1. preposition1) (earlier than: before the war; He'll come before very long.) pred2) (in front of: She was before me in the queue.) pred3) (rather than: Honour before wealth.) nad2. adverb(earlier: I've seen you before.) poprej3. conjunction(earlier than the time when: Before I go, I must phone my parents.) preden* * *I [bifɔ:]adverbprej, že nekoč, poprej; spredajII [bifɔ:]prepositionpred, v navzočnostito be before one's time — priti prezgodaj; biti napreden za svoje časeto carry everything before o.s. — imeti v vsem uspehbefore you can say Jack Robinson — takoj, kakor bi trenilto love before o.s. — ljubiti bolj kot samega sebethe question before us — vprašanje, ki ga je treba rešitibefore s.o.'s eyes — v prisotnosti, vpričo kogaIII [bifɔ:]conjunctionpreden; rajši kotbefore you know where you are — naenkrat, hipoma -
20 bevel
['bevəl](a slanting edge (rather than a sharp corner): A chisel has a bevel on its cutting edge.) poševno rezilo- bevelled* * *I [bévəl]adjectivepoševen; topokotenII [bévəl]nounpoševnik, vogelnicaIII [bévəl]transitive verb & intransitive verbpoševno postaviti; poševno odrezati; zvijati, nagibati se
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