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1 old boy/girl
(a former pupil (of a school): The new prime minister is an old boy of our school.) bijušais skolasbiedrs/klasesbiedrs -
2 old
[əuld]1) (advanced in age: an old man; He is too old to live alone.) vecs2) (having a certain age: He is thirty years old.) vecs3) (having existed for a long time: an old building; Those trees are very old.) vecs; sens4) (no longer useful: She threw away the old shoes.) vecs; nolietots5) (belonging to times long ago: old civilizations like that of Greece.) sens•- old age- old boy/girl
- old-fashioned
- old hand
- old maid
- the old* * *veči; pagātne; vecs; sens, vecs; pieredzējis; agrākais, bijušais -
3 scrap
I 1. [skræp] noun1) (a small piece or fragment: a scrap of paper.) gabaliņš; strēmele2) ((usually in plural) a piece of food left over after a meal: They gave the scraps to the dog.) (ēdiena) atliekas3) (waste articles that are only valuable for the material they contain: The old car was sold as scrap; ( also adjective) scrap metal.) lūžņi4) (a picture etc for sticking into a scrapbook.) izgriezums; uzlīme2. verb(to discard: They scapped the old television set; She decided to scrap the whole plan.) izmest; aizsviest; atteikties no- scrappy- scrappily
- scrappiness
- scrapbook
- scrap heap II 1. [skræp] noun(a fight: He tore his jacket in a scrap with another boy.) cīniņš; plūkšanās2. verb(to fight: The dogs were scrapping over a bone.) kauties; plēsties* * *gabaliņš, gabals; strēmele; atliekas, atkritumi; izgriezums; sīkums, nieks; metāllūžņi; kautiņš; izsviest; nodot metāllūžņos; kauties -
4 youth
[ju:Ɵ]plural - youths; noun1) ((the state of being in) the early part of life: Enjoy your youth!; He spent his youth in America.) jaunība2) (a boy of fifteen to twenty years old approximately: He and two other youths were kicking a football about.) jaunietis; pusaudzis3) (young people in general: Some people say that today's youth has/have no sense of responsibility.) jaunieši; jaunatne•- youthful- youthfully
- youthfulness
- youth hostel
- youth mentor* * *jaunība; jauneklis; jaunatne
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