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n юр. пострадавший, потерпевшийСинонимический ряд:martyr (noun) martyr; offering; sacrifice; saint; scapegoat; victim -
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1. n мишень, цель; объект2. n мишень для уколов3. n поражаемое пространство4. n физ. мишень для бомбардировки элементарными частицами5. n состязание в стрельбе6. n число выбитых очков7. n объект, предметtarget of criticism — мишень для критики; предмет критики
8. n посмешище9. n задание; плановая или контрольная цифра10. n кул. отруб для жаркого, состоящий из шейной части и грудинки бараньей туши11. n геод. визирная марка12. n ж. -д. сигнал13. n антикатод14. n указатель15. n вчт. выход, выходная информацияtarget text — выходной текст, текст на выходе
16. v амер. воен. приводить к нормальному бою, пристреливать17. v намечать, планировать18. v амер. ж. -д. давать сигналСинонимический ряд:1. butt (noun) bull's eye; bull's-eye; butt; laughingstock; mark; point; scapegoat; sitting duck; victim2. use (noun) aim; ambition; design; destination; duty; end; function; goal; intent; intention; meaning; object; objective; plan; purpose; quaesitum; use; view3. aim for (verb) aim for; mark -
63 underdog
1. n собака, побеждённая в драке2. n разг. побеждённая сторона; неудачник3. n разг. обездоленный человек; жертва несправедливостиСинонимический ряд:1. loser (noun) failure; loser; low man on the totem pole; scapegoat; stooge; underling; weakling2. unfortunate (noun) unfortunate; wretch3. victim (noun) bottom dog; casualty; prey; victim -
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1. n рел. живое существо, приносимое в жертву2. n жертва3. n жертва обмана, простакСинонимический ряд:1. casualty (noun) bottom dog; casualty; dead; easy mark; fatality; sucker; underdog2. fool (noun) butt; chump; dupe; fall guy; fish; fool; gudgeon; gull; mark; monkey; patsy; pigeon; sap; saphead; simple; tool3. game (noun) game; hunted; prey; quarry4. sacrifice (noun) hecatomb; immolation; offering; sacrifice; scapegoatАнтонимический ряд:culprit; felon; malefactor; swindler -
65 goat
фам пренебр молодой [младший] офицер; выпускник военного училища, получивший самую низкую оценку (от * scapegoat козёл отпущения)Conversation vocabulary and slang. English-Russian dictionary > goat
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scapegoat — Ⅰ. scapegoat UK US /ˈskeɪpgəʊt/ noun [C] ► a person or thing that is blamed for something bad that someone else has done: »Politicians have used the financial sector as a scapegoat for the global economic crisis. Ⅱ. scapegoat UK US /ˈskeɪpɡəʊt/… … Financial and business terms
scapegoat — ► NOUN 1) a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings or mistakes of others. 2) (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Leviticus, chapter 16). ► VERB ▪… … English terms dictionary
scapegoat — [skāp′gōt΄] n. [coined by TYNDALE William (1530) < SCAPE2 + GOAT, prob. from LL(Vulg.) caper emissarius, lit., emissary goat, transl. of Gr(Ec) tragos aperchomenos, departing goat, used as transl. of Heb sair laazazel < sair, he goat + l,… … English World dictionary
Scapegoat — Scape goat , n. [Scape (for escape) + goat.] 1. (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, a person or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
scapegoat — (n.) 1530, goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, symbolic bearer of the sins of the people, coined by Tyndale from SCAPE (Cf. scape) (n.) + GOAT (Cf. goat) to translate L. caper emissarius, itself a translation in Vulgate of… … Etymology dictionary
scapegoat — [n] person who takes blame for another’s action boob*, chump, doormat*, dupe, easy mark*, fall guy*, fool, goat*, gull*, mark*, patsy, pigeon*, pushover*, sacrifice, sap*, schmuck*, sitting duck*, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling; concept 412 … New thesaurus
Scapegoat — 16.The scapegoat is attested in two ritual texts in archives at Ebla of the 24th century BCE. [Ida Zatelli, The Origin of the Biblical Scapegoat Ritual: The Evidence of Two Eblaite Text , Vetus Testamentum 48.2 (April 1998:254 263).] They were… … Wikipedia
scapegoat — I UK [ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt] / US [ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt] noun [countable] Word forms scapegoat : singular scapegoat plural scapegoats someone who is blamed for something that is not their fault, especially because someone else wants to avoid being blamed scapegoat… … English dictionary
scapegoat — 1. noun /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt,ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/ a) In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed. He is making me a scapegoat. b) Someone… … Wiktionary
scapegoat — /skayp goht /, n. 1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. 2. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head … Universalium
scapegoat — scape|goat1 [ skeıp,gout ] noun count someone who is blamed for something that is not their fault, especially because someone else wants to avoid being blamed: scapegoat for: She is being made a scapegoat for the commission s own mistakes.… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English