sramovati+se+česa

1) (not generous (with money etc): He's very mean (with his money / over pay).) skop

2) (likely or intending to cause harm or annoyance: It is mean to tell lies.) grd

3) ((especially American) bad-tempered, vicious or cruel: a mean mood.) popadljiv

4) ((of a house etc) of poor quality; humble: a mean dwelling.) reven

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- meanly

1) ((of a statistic) having the middle position between two points, quantities etc: the mean value on a graph.) srednji

2) (average: the mean annual rainfall.) povprečen

1) (to (intend to) express, show or indicate: `Vacation' means `holiday'; What do you mean by (saying/doing) that?) pomeniti

2) (to intend: I meant to go to the exhibition but forgot; For whom was that letter meant?; He means (= is determined) to be a rich man some day.) nameravati

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- meaning

- meaningful

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nizek, navaden, manjvreden (stan, rod); boren, reven, oguljen, odrgnjen, umazan; nepomemben; prostaški, nizkoten, podel; skop, stiskaški; American colloquially popadljiv, hudoben (konj); American colloquially bolehen

mean birth — nizek rod

no mean achievement — zelo dober uspeh

no mean foe — sovražnik, ki ni za podcenjevanje

no mean scholar — pametna glava. pomemben učenjak

American mean white — siromašen belec na jugu ZDA

American to feel mean over — sramovati se česa

srednji, povprečen

mean life — povprečna življenjska doba

mean annual temperature — povprečna letna temperatura

sredina; povprečje, povprečnost; (plural z glagolom v singular) sredstvo, način; plural premoženje

a means of communication — občilo

a means of transportation — prometno sredstvo

means of production — proizvodna sredstva

to be a means of — bitt česa kriv, biti povod za kaj

by means of — s pomočjo

by any means — na kakršenkoli način

by all (manner of) means — vsekakor, na vsak način, za vsako ceno

by no (manner of) means — ali not by any means — nikakor, na noben način

by this means or other — tako ali drugače

by fair (foul) means — na pošten (nepošten) način

the end justifies the means — namen posvečuje sredstva

a means to an end — sredstvo za dosego cilja

the golden ( —ali happy) mean — zlata sredina

to live beyond one's means — živeti preko svojih razmer

a man of means — premožen človek

ways and means — pota in načini

British English means test — preveritev premoženjskih razmer delavca, ki prejema socialno podporo

nameravati, imeti vmislih, kaniti, hoteti; (zlasti pasiv) nameniti ( for za); meniti, misliti; pomeniti;

pomeniti (to komu)

to mean business — resno misliti

to mean mischief — imeti zlobne namene, imeti kaj za bregom

to mean well — imeti dobre namene

to mean well (ill) by ( —ali to) s.o. — dobro (slabo) komu želeti, biti komu (ne)naklonjen

what do you mean by it? — kaj hočeš s tem reči?, kaj naj to pomeni?

I mean it — resno mislim

he was meant for a soldier — bil je namenjen za vojaka

that was meant for you — to je bilo namenjeno tebi

to mean little to s o. — komu malo pomeniti

I mean you to go — želim, da greš

1) (little in size, degree, importance etc; not large or great: She was accompanied by a small boy of about six; There's only a small amount of sugar left; She cut the meat up small for the baby.) majhen

2) (not doing something on a large scale: He's a small businessman.) majhen

3) (little; not much: You have small reason to be satisfied with yourself.) malo

4) ((of the letters of the alphabet) not capital: The teacher showed the children how to write a capital G and a small g.) mali

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- small ads

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majhen (po velikosti, obsegu, številu, starosti, količini, pomembnosti); maloštevilen; kratek, kratkotrajen; redek, lahek, vodén (o pijači); dialectal ozek; figuratively nepomemben, malo važen, neznaten, brez večje vrednosti; ozkosrčen, ozkogruden, malenkosten; šibek, skromen, reven; nizek; majhne moralne vrednosti, podel; osramočen

at a small rate — poceni

in a small way, on a small scale — v majhnem razmerju, v malem, skromno, malo

on the small side — nezadostno velik, ne prevelik

small and early party — družba maloštevilnih gostov, ki se kmalu razide; intimna večerna zabava

a small beginning — majhen, skromen začetek

small blame to them — ni se jim treba sramovati, to jim ne dela sramote; ni jim treba zameriti

and no blame to him! — in kdo ga ne bi (po)karal!

small cattle — drobnica

small drinker — slab pivec

small farmer — mali kmet, mali posestnik

small gross — 10 ducatov

small hand — navadne pisane črke

small hours — ure po polnoči, male ure

small letters — male črke

small means — nezadostna sredstva

a small place — majhen kraj

a small poetically nepomemben pesnik

small rain — dežek, droben dež

small talk — kramljanje, klepet(anje)

the small voice, the still small voice figuratively glas vesti

small wonder — temu se je komaj čuditi

it is small of him to remind me of it — malenkostno je od njega, da me spomni na to

that is only a small matter — to je le malenkost

I call it small of him — smatram, da je to nizkotno od njega

to feel small — sramovati se

I found the way at last, and small thanks to you for your directions — končno sem našel pot, in za to se mi ni treba zahvaliti vašim navodilom

he has small Latin and less Greek — latinski zna malo, grški pa še manj

I have had small experience of such matters — doslej imam malo izkušenj v teh stvareh

he has too small a mind not to be jealous of your success — preozkosrčen je, da ne bi bil ljubosumen na vaš uspeh

to make s.o. feel small figuratively osramotiti koga

to make o.s. small — napraviti se majhnega

to live in a very small way — zelo skromno živeti

he was surprised, and no small wonder — bil je presenečen, in nič čudnega (če je bil)

it will take only a small time — to bo vzelo le malo časa

everybody thought it small of him to refuse to help — vsakdo je smatral, da je grdó od njega, da je odklonil pomoč

majhno, fino; (redko) malo, malce; ne glasno, slabotno; prezirljivo

to cut small — razrezati, zrezati

to sing small figuratively odnehati, znižati zahteve, postati manj glasen, postati majhen

she swept but small — le malo je jokala

to think small of s.o. — prezirljivo gledati na koga

nekaj majhnega; majhen (tanek, ozek) del (česa); majhna oseba; plural telesno perilo; drobnarije, drobno blago; plural Oxford university prvi od treh izpitov za akademsko stopnjo B. A.

in small — v malem, v miniaturi

in the small — v majhnih količinah (enotah)

by small and small — polagoma, počasi

the small of the back anatomy križ

many smalls make a great — mnogo malega naredi veliko

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zmeden; osramočen

to be ( —ali stand) abashed — sramovati se (at česa)

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predicative adjective

( ashamedly adverb)

osramočen

to be ( —ali feel) ashamed of s.o., s.th. — sramovati se koga, česa

be ashamed of yourselfl, you ought to be ashamed of yourself — sram te bodi!