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1 smokescreen
['sməukskriːn]zasłona f dymna* * *1) (a cloud of smoke used to conceal the movements of troops etc.) zasłona dymna2) (something intended to conceal one's activities etc.) kamuflaż -
2 screen
[skriːn] 1. n (FILM, TV, COMPUT)ekran m; ( movable barrier) parawan m; ( fig) ( cover) zasłona f, przykrywka f; (also: windscreen) przednia szyba f2. vt(protect, conceal) zasłaniać (zasłonić perf); ( from wind etc) osłaniać (osłonić perf); film, programme wyświetlać (wyświetlić perf), emitować (wyemitować perf) ( w TV); candidates sprawdzać (sprawdzić perf), badać (zbadać perf); ( for illness) poddawać (poddać perf) badaniom przesiewowym* * *[skri:n] 1. noun1) (a flat, movable, often folding, covered framework for preventing a person etc from being seen, for decoration, or for protection from heat, cold etc: Screens were put round the patient's bed; a tapestry fire-screen.) parawan, zasłona2) (anything that so protects etc a person etc: He hid behind the screen of bushes; a smokescreen.) zasłona3) (the surface on which films or television pictures appear: cinema/television/radar screen.) ekran2. verb1) (to hide, protect or shelter: The tall grass screened him from view.) zasłaniać2) (to make or show a cinema film.) wyświetlać3) (to test for loyalty, reliability etc.) sprawdzać lojalność, `prześwietlić`4) (to test for a disease: Women should be regularly screened for cancer.) badać•- the screen -
3 smoke
[sməuk] 1. ndym m2. vi 3. vtto have a smoke — zapalić ( perf)
to go up in smoke — iść (pójść perf) z dymem ( fig) spalić ( perf) na panewce
* * *[sməuk] 1. noun1) (the cloudlike gases and particles of soot given off by something which is burning: Smoke was coming out of the chimney; He puffed cigarette smoke into my face.) dym2) (an act of smoking (a cigarette etc): I came outside for a smoke.) papieros2. verb1) (to give off smoke.) dymić2) (to draw in and puff out the smoke from (a cigarette etc): I don't smoke, but he smokes cigars.) palić3) (to dry, cure, preserve (ham, fish etc) by hanging it in smoke.) wędzić•- smoked- smokeless
- smoker
- smoking
- smoky
- smoke detector
- smokescreen
- go up in smoke
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