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abase
lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect

Longman:

abase yourself: to behave in a way that shows you accept that someone has complete power over you


(Verb - transitive) پست کردن، تحقیرنمودن

abash
embarrass


(Verb - transitive) شرمنده کردن، خجالت دادن، دست پاچه نمودن

abate
subside or moderate

Longman:

[ intransitive]
[formal] to become less strong or decrease:
** We waited for the storm to abate.

فروکش کردن، کاستن، تخفیف دادن، رفع نمودن، کم شدن،اب گرفتن از(فلز)، خیساندن (چرم)، (حقوق) غصب یاتصرف عدوانی، بزورتصرف کردن، کاهش، تنزل، فرونشستن

abbreviate
shorten

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make a word or expression shorter by not including letters or using only the first letter of each word [= shorten]
be abbreviated to something:
** 'Information technology' is usually abbreviated to 'IT'.


(Verb - transitive) مختصر کردن
(Verb - transitive) کوتاه کردن، مختصرکردن، خلاصه کردن

abdicate
renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
1. to give up the position of being king or queen:
** King Alfonso XIII abdicated in favour of his eldest son.
** The king was forced to abdicate the throne.

2. abdicate (your) responsibility:[formal] to refuse to be responsible for something, when you should be or were before:
** The government has largely abdicated its responsibility in dealing with housing needs.

واگذار کردن، تفویض کردن، ترک گفتن، محروم کردن(ازار )، کناره گیری کردن، استعفا دادن

aberrant
abnormal or deviant

Longman:

not usual or normal [= abnormal]:
** aberrant behaviour


(Adjective) گمراه، منحرف، بیراه، نابجا، کجراه

aberration
deviation from the normal; mental disorder

Longman:

[ countable]
an action or event that is different from what usually happens or what someone usually does:
** a temporary aberration in US foreign policy
** a mental aberration


(Noun) خبط، گمراهی، انحراف
(Noun) کج راهی، انحراف، (پزشکی) عدم انطباق کانونی

abet
assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage

Longman:

[ transitive]
to help someone do something wrong or illegal

برانگیختن، جرات دادن، تربیت کردن، تشویق (به عمل بد) کردن، (حقوق) معاونت کردن(درجرم)، تشویق، تقویت، ترغیب (به کار بد)

abeyance
suspended action

Longman:

in abeyance: something such as a custom, rule, or system that is in abeyance is not being used at the present time
fall into abeyance: (=no longer be used)


(Noun) (حقوق) بیتکلیفی، وقفه، تعلیق

abhor
detest; hate

Longman:

[ transitive not in progressive]
to hate a kind of behaviour or way of thinking, especially because you think it is morally wrong:
** I abhor discrimination of any kind.

تنفر داشتن از، بیم داشتن از، ترس داشتن از، ترساندن، ترسیدن

abide
dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate; ex. abide by the rules; (ex.) i can’t abide rude people.

Longman:

1. somebody can't abide somebody/something: used to say that someone dislikes something or someone very much:
** I can't abide that man - he's so self-satisfied.

2. [old use] to live somewhere

to accept and obey a decision, rule, agreement etc, even though you may not agree with it:
** You have to abide by the referee's decision.

ایستادگی کردن، پایدارماندن، ماندن، ساکن شدن، منزل کردن، ایستادن، منتظر شدن، وفا کردن، تاب اوردن

abject
(of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble; showing lack of selfrespect; ex. abject apology

Longman:

1. abject poverty/misery/failure etc: the state of being extremely poor, unhappy, unsuccessful etc

2. an abject action or expression shows that you feel very ashamed:
** an abject apology


(Adjective) پست، فرومایه، سرافکنده، مطرود، روی برتافتن، خوار،پست کردن، کوچک کردن، تحقیرکردن

abjure
renounce upon oath

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to state publicly that you will give up a particular belief or way of behaving [= renounce]


(Verb - transitive) سوگند شکستن، نقض عهد کردن، برای همیشه ترک گفتن، مرتد شدن، رافضی شدن

ablution
washing

Longman:

[ plural]
if you perform your ablutions, you wash yourself - sometimes used humorously


(Noun) شستشو، ابدست، غسل

abnegation
renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation

Longman:

[ uncountable]
when you do not allow yourself to have or do something that you want


(Noun) چشم پوشی، کف نفس، انکار، رد، فداکاری

abode
dwelling place; home

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [formal] someone's home - sometimes used humorously:
** Welcome to my humble abode.
** a homeless person with no fixed abode (=no permanent home)

2. right of abode:[law] the right to live in a country

منزل، مسکن، رحل اقامت افکندن، اشاره کردن، پیشگویی کردن، بودگاه، بودباش

abolish
cancel; put an end to

Longman:

[ transitive]
to officially end a law, system etc, especially one that has existed for a long time:
** Slavery was abolished in the US in the 19th century.


(Verb - transitive) برانداختن، ازمیان بردن، منسوخ کردن

abominable
detestable; extremely unpleasant

Longman:

extremely unpleasant or of very bad quality [= terrible]:
** abominable cruelty


(Adjective) مکروه، زشت، ناپسند، منفور

abominate
loathe; hate

Longman:

[ transitive not in progressive]
to hate something very much


(Verb - transitive) ناپسند شمردن، مکروه دانستن، تنفر داشتن، نفرت کردن

aboriginal
being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native; indigenous; (n.) aborigine

Longman:

1. relating to the Australian aborigines

2. [formal] relating to the people or animals that have existed in a place or country from the earliest times [= indigenous]

بومی، اصلی، سکنه اولیه، اهل یک اب و خاک

abortive
unsuccessful; fruitless

Longman:

an abortive action is not successful:
** an abortive military coup
abortive attempt/effort:
** an abortive attempt to reform local government

مسقط، رشد نکرده، عقیم، بی ثمر، بی نتیجه

abrasive
rubbing away; tending to grind down

Longman:

1. rude or unkind:
** She was a tough girl with rather an abrasive manner.

2. having a rough surface, especially one that can be used to clean something or make it smooth:
** Smooth down with a fine abrasive paper.

ساینده، تراشنده، سوزش اور، سایا

abridge
condense or shorten


(Verb - transitive) کوتاه کردن، مختصر کردن

abrogate
abolish

Longman:

[ transitive]
to officially end a legal agreement, practice etc:
** Both governments voted to abrogate the treaty.


(Verb - transitive) منسوخ، از میان برده، ملغی، ازمیان بردن، باطل کردن، منسوخ کردن، لغو کردن

abscission
cutting off; separation


(Noun) ریزش، برش، قطع، جدایی، دریدگی، قطع پوست و گوشت

abscond
depart secretly and hide

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to escape from a place where you are being kept
abscond from:
** The boy absconded from a children's home.

2. to secretly leave somewhere, taking with you something that does not belong to you
abscond with:
** He has to convince a judge that he wasn't going to abscond with the money.

گریختن، فرار کردن، دررفتن، رونشان ندادن، روپنهان کردن، پنهان شدن

absolute
complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; (ex.) absolute honesty/ruler; cf. absolutism

Longman:

1. complete or total:
** I have absolute confidence in her.
** We don't know with absolute certainty that the project will succeed.

2. [informal] used to emphasize your opinion about something or someone:
** Some of the stuff on TV is absolute rubbish.
** How did you do that? You're an absolute genius.
** That meal last night cost an absolute fortune.

3. definite and not likely to change:
** We need absolute proof that he took the money.

4. not restricted or limited:
** an absolute monarch
** Parents used to have absolute power over their children.

5. true, correct, and not changing in any situation:
** You have an absolute right to refuse medical treatment.

مطلق، غیر مشروط، مستقل، استبدادی، خودرای، کامل،قطعی، خالص، آزاد از قیود فکری، غیر مقید، مجرد، (در هندسه فضایی اقلیدس)دایره نامحدود مطلق

absolve
pardon (an offense)

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to say publicly that someone is not guilty or responsible for something
absolve somebody from/of something:
** He cannot be absolved of all responsibility for the accident.

2. [often passive] if someone is absolved by the Christian Church or a priest for something they have done wrong, they are formally forgiven


(Verb - transitive) بخشیدن (گناه)، امرزیدن، عفو کردن، کسی را از گناه بری کردن، اعلام بی تقصیری کردن، بری الذمه کردن، کسی را ازانجام تعهدی معاف ساختن، پاک کردن، مبرا کردن

abstain
refrain; withhold from participation; intentionally not use one’s vote;

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to choose not to vote for or against something:
** Six countries voted for the change, five voted against, and two abstained.

2. to not do or have something you enjoy, especially alcohol or sex, usually for reasons of religion or health
abstain from:
** Pilots must abstain from alcohol for 24 hours before flying.

خودداری کردن (از)، پرهیز کردن (از)، امتناع کردن(از)

abstemious
sparing in eating and drinking; temperate

Longman:

careful not to have too much food, drink etc


(Adjective) مرتاض، ممسک در خورد و نوش و لذات، مخالف استعمال مشروبات الکلی.پرهیزکار، پارسا منش

abstinence
restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking; (cf.) abstention: act of abstaining from vote

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the practice of not having something you enjoy, especially alcohol or sex, usually for reasons of religion or health


(Noun) پرهیز، خودداری، ریاضت، پرهیز از استعمال مشروبات الکلی

abstract
theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational

Longman:

1. based on general ideas or principles rather than specific examples or real events [= theoretical]
abstract idea/concept:
** the ability to translate abstract ideas into words
** By the age of seven, children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.
** Human beings are the only creatures capable of abstract thought (=thinking about ideas).

2. existing only as an idea or quality rather than as something real that you can see or touch [≠ concrete]:
** the abstract nature of beauty

3. abstract paintings, designs etc consist of shapes and patterns that do not look like real people or things

مجرد، انتزاعی، چکیده، چکیده کردن، خلاصه، مجمل، مطلق، خیالی، غیر عملی، خشک، معنوی، صریح، زبده، (اسم) معنی ربودن، بردن، خلاصه کردن، جدا کردن، تجزیه کردن، جوهر گرفتن از، عاری از کیفیات واقعی (در مورد هنرهای ظریف) نمودن

abstruse
obscure; profound; difficult to understand

Longman:

unnecessarily complicated and difficult to understand:
** Maths is a mix of abstruse theory and detailed calculations.


(Adjective) پنهان، پیچیده، غامض

abusive
coarsely insulting; physically harmful

Longman:

using cruel words or physical violence:
** Smith denies using abusive language to the referee.
** He became abusive and his wife was injured in the struggle.


(Adjective) سو استفاده، سو استعمال، شیادی، فریب، دشنام، فحش، بد زبانی، تجاوز به عصمت، تهمت، تعدی
(Adjective) ناسزاوار، زبان دراز، بد زبان، توهین آمیز

abut
border upon; adjoin

Longman:

[ transitive]
if one piece of land or a building abuts another, it is next to it or touches one side of it

نزدیک بودن، مماس بودن، مجاور بودن، متصل بودن یاشدن، خوردن

abysmal
bottomless

Longman:

very bad or of bad quality [= terrible]:
** The reunion was an abysmal failure.


(Adjective) ژرف، گردابی، ناپیمودنی

abyss
enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a very dangerous or frightening situation
abyss of:
** The country might plunge into the abyss of economic ruin.
** At that time Bosnia was standing on the edge of an abyss.

2. a deep empty hole in the ground

3. a very big difference that separates two people or groups:
** the gaping abyss between these grand buildings and my own miserable home


(Noun) ( abysm =) بسیار عمیق، بی پایان، غوطه ورساختن، مغاک

academic
related to a school; not practical or directly useful

Longman:

1. relating to education, especially at college or university level:
** He possessed no academic qualifications.
** a program to raise academic standards

2. [usually before noun] concerned with studying from books, as opposed to practical work:
** the study of art as an academic discipline

3. good at studying:
** He's not very academic.

4. if a discussion about something is academic, it is a waste of time because the speakers cannot change the existing situation:
** The question of where we go on holiday is purely academic since we don't have any money.

مربوط به فرهنگستان ادبی یا انجمن علمی، عضوفرهنگستان، طرفدار حکمت و فلسفه افلاطون

accede
agree

Longman:

1. to agree to a demand, proposal etc, especially after first disagreeing with it:
** the doctor's refusal to accede to his patient's request

2. if someone accedes to the throne, they become king or queen

دست یافتن، رسیدن، راه یافتن، نائل شدن، نزدیک شدن،موافقت کردن، رضایت دادن، تن دردادن

accelerate
move faster

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] if a process accelerates or if something accelerates it, it happens faster than usual or sooner than you expect:
** measures to accelerate the rate of economic growth

2. if a vehicle or someone who is driving it accelerates, it starts to go faster [≠ decelerate]:
** The car accelerated smoothly away.

شتاباندن، تسریع کردن، تند کردن، شتاب دادن، برسرعت (چیزی) افزودن، تند شدن، تندتر شدن تسریع کردن، سرعت دادن، سرعت گرفتن

accessible
easy to approach; obtainable

Longman:

1. a place, building, or object that is accessible is easy to reach or get into [≠ inaccessible]:
** The island is only accessible by boat.
** There is a church which is easily accessible from my home.

2. easy to obtain or use
accessible to:
** the need for a health service that is accessible to all
easily/readily accessible:
** Computers should be made readily accessible to teachers and pupils.

3. someone who is accessible is easy to meet and talk to, even if they are very important or powerful:
** I think that you'll find she's very accessible.

4. a book, poem, painting etc that is accessible is easy to understand and enjoy
accessible to:
** He wants his music to be accessible to everyone.


(Adjective) دستیابی پذیر
(Adjective) در دسترس، قابل وصول، نزدیک (شدنی)، اماده پذیرایی، خوش برخورد، دست یافتنی

accessory
additional object; useful but not essential thing

Longman:

[ countable]
1. something such as a piece of equipment or a decoration that is not necessary, but that makes a machine, car, room etc more useful or more attractive:
** bathroom accessories such as mirrors and towel-rails

2. [usually plural] something such as a bag, belt, or jewellery that you wear or carry because it is attractive:
** fashion accessories
** a set of fully matching clothes and accessories

3. someone who helps a criminal, especially by helping them hide from the police
accessory to:
** an accessory to murder
an accessory before/after the fact: (=someone who helps a criminal before or after the crime)

فرعی، هم دست فرعی، معین، همدست(حقوق)، معاون، شریک(جرم)، نمائاتو نتایج (در جمع)، لوازم یدکی، (حقوق)تابع، لاحق،فروع و ضمائم، منضمات، لوازم فرعی، دعوای فرعی

acclaim
applaud; praise; greet with great approval; announce with great approval; (ex.) the new drung has been acclaimed as the most important discoveries for years; (n.) strong expression of approval and praise

Longman:

[ transitive]
to praise someone or something publicly:
** His work was acclaimed by art critics.

تحسین، ادعا کردن، افرین گفتن، اعلام کردن، جارکشیدن، ندا دادن، هلهله یا فریاد کردن کف زدن

acclimate
adjust to climate or environment; adapt

(. vt : acclimatize =) به اب و هوای جدید خو گرفتن، مانوس شدن

acclivity
sharp upslope of a hill; op. declivity

سربالایی، فراز (در برابر: سرازیری declivity)

accolade
award of merit; strong praise and approval

Longman:

[ countable]
praise for someone who is greatly admired, or a prize given to them for their work
ultimate/highest/supreme etc accolade:
** She received a Grammy Award, the highest accolade in the music business.


(Noun) سر بالایی، فراز، سختی، مراسم اعطای منصب شوالیه یا سلحشوری و یا شهسواری، (موسیقی) خط اتصال، اکولاد، خطابرو(به این شکل}{)

accommodate
oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt; make enough space for; (adj.) accommodative; cf. accommodating: helpful and obliging

Longman:

1. [transitive] if a room, building etc can accommodate a particular number of people or things, it has enough space for them:
** He bought a huge house to accommodate his library.
** The ballroom can accommodate 400 people.

2. [transitive] to provide someone with a place to stay, live, or work:
** The island was used to accommodate child refugees.

3. [transitive] to accept someone's opinions and try to do what they want, especially when their opinions or needs are different from yours:
** We've made every effort to accommodate your point of view.

4. [intransitive] to get used to a new situation or to make yourself do this
accommodate to :
** Her eyes took a while to accommodate to the darkness.


(Verb - transitive) همساز، همساز کردن، جا دادن، منزل دادن، وفق دادن با، تطبیق نمودن، تصفیه کردن، اصلاح کردن، اماده کردن(برای)، پول وام دادن(بکسی)

accomplice
partner in crime

Longman:

[ countable]
a person who helps someone such as a criminal to do something wrong


(Noun) همدست، (حقوق) شریک یا معاون جرم

accord
agreement

Longman:

1. of somebody's/something's own accord: without being asked or forced to do something:
** He decided to go of his own accord.
** The door seemed to move of its own accord.

2. [formal] a situation in which two people, ideas, or statements agree with each other
be in accord with something:
** These results are in accord with earlier research.
in perfect/complete accord:
** It is important to the success of any firm that its partners should be in complete accord.

3. [countable] a formal agreement between countries or groups:
** the Helsinki accord on human rights

4. with one accord:[formal] if two or more people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time:
** There was a silence as the women turned with one accord to stare at Doreen.

(. vi &. vt ): جورکردن، وفق دادن، اشتی دادن، تصفیه کردن، اصلاح کردن، موافقت کردن(با)، قبول کردن،(. n ): سازگاری، موافقت، (موسیقی) توافق، هماهنگی،دلخواه، طیب خاطر، (حقوق) مصالحه، پیمان، قرار، پیمان غیر رسمی بین المللی

accost
approach and speak first to a person

Longman:

[ transitive]
to go towards someone you do not know and speak to them in an unpleasant or threatening way:
** He was accosted by four youths and forced to give them all his money.

مخاطب ساختن، مواجه شدن(با)، نزدیک شدن(بهر منظوری)،مشتری جلب کردن(زنان بدکار در خیابان)، نزدیک کشیدن، در امت داد چیزی حرکت کردن(مثل کشتی)

accouter
equip; (n.) accoutrement


(Verb - transitive) اماده جنگ کردن، مجهز کردن، ملبس کردن

accretion
growth or increase in size by gradual addition; growth; increase; increase by natural growth; (ex.) towers and other accretions of the castle; (v.) accrete

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. a layer of a substance which slowly forms on something

2. a gradual process by which new things are added and something gradually changes or gets bigger


(Noun) افزایش، رشد پیوسته، بهم پیوستگی، اتحاد، یک پارچگی، (حقوق) افزایش بهای اموال، افزایش میزان ار

accrue
come to one as a gain; accumulate over time; come about by addition; (ex.) benefits that accrue from scientific research; (ex.) interest accruing in a bank account; n. accrual

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
1. if advantages accrue to you, you get those advantages over a period of time
accrue to:
** benefits that accrue to students
accrue from:
** advantages accruing from the introduction of new technology

2. if money accrues or is accrued, it gradually increases over a period of time:
** Interest will accrue until payment is made.

افزوده شدن، منتج گردیدن، تعلق گرفتن

acerbity
bitterness of speech and temper; (adj.) acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste, manner, or tone)


(Noun) ترشی، دبشی، درشتی، تندی

acetic
vinegary


(Adjective) جوهر سرکه ای، سرکه مانند، ترش

acidulous
slightly sour (in taste or manner); sharp; caustic


(Adjective) میخوش، ملس، (مجازا) کج خلق

acknowledge
recognize; admit

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. admit: to admit or accept that something is true or that a situation exists:
** The family acknowledge the need for change.
acknowledge that:
** He acknowledges that when he's tired he gets bad-tempered.
** Claire acknowledged that she was guilty.
** The government must acknowledge what is happening and do something about it.
** 'Maybe you are right,' she acknowledged.
** This is a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge.

2. recognize something's importance: [usually passive] if people acknowledge something, they recognize how good or important it is
acknowledge something as something:
** The film festival is acknowledged as an event of international importance.
be widely/generally acknowledged to be something:
** The mill produces what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool in the world.

3. to accept that someone or something has authority over people:
** Both defendants refused to acknowledge the authority of the court.
acknowledge somebody as something:
** Many of the poor acknowledged him as their spiritual leader.

4. thank: to publicly announce that you are grateful for the help that someone has given you:
** We wish to acknowledge the support of the university.

5. show you notice somebody: to show someone that you have noticed them or heard what they have said:
** Tom acknowledged her presence by a brief glance.


(Verb - transitive) قدردانی کردن، اعتراف کردن، تصدیق کردن، وصول نامه ای را اشعار داشتن
(Verb - transitive) تصدیق کردن

acme
peak; pinnacle; highest point

Longman:

the acme of something:[formal] the best and highest level of something:
** the acme of perfection


(Noun) اوج، ذروه، قله، منتها(درجه )، سر، مرتفع ترین نقطه، (پزشکی) بحران، نقطه کمال

acne
skin disease (on the face)

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a medical problem which causes a lot of red spots on your face and neck and mainly affects young people


(Noun) جوش صورت و پوست، غرور جوانی

acoustics
science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in

Longman:

[ plural]
1. the shape and size of a room, which affect the way sound is heard in it:
** The hall has excellent acoustics.

2. the scientific study of sound


(Noun) صوت شناسی
(Noun) علم اوا شنود، علم عوارض شنوایی، علم اصوات، خواص صوتی ساختمان(از نظر انعکاس صدا)

acquiesce
assent; agree passively; comply without protest

Longman:

[ intransitive]
[formal] to do what someone else wants, or allow something to happen, even though you do not really agree with it
acquiesce in/to:
** Oil companies have been accused of acquiescing in the pollution of the ocean.

تسلیم شدن، تن در دادن، راضی شدن، رضایت دادن، موافقت کردن، ارام کردن

acquittal
deliverance from a charge; (v.) acquit: free from a charge or accusation; discharge from a duty; conduct (oneself) in a specified manner

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
an official statement in a court of law that someone is not guilty


(Noun) (حقوق) تبرئه واریز، برائت ذمه، رو سفیدی

acrid
bitter (to the taste or smell); sharp; bitterly pungent

Longman:

1. an acrid smell or taste is strong and unpleasant and stings your nose or throat:
** a cloud of acrid smoke

2. [formal] an acrid remark expresses anger and criticizes someone strongly


(Adjective) دبش، گس، تند، سوزاننده، (مجازا) زننده، تند خو

acrimonious
stinging; caustic; bitter in words or manner; n. acrimony: bitter ill-natured animosity in speech or behavior

Longman:

an acrimonious meeting or discussion is one in which people argue a lot and get very angry:
** The meeting ended in an acrimonious dispute.


(Adjective) تند، زننده، سوزان

acrophobia
fear of heights


(Noun) (پزشکی) ترس از بلندی

actuarial
calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics

احصائی، اماری

actuary
someone who advises insurance companies

Longman:

[ countable]
someone whose job is to advise insurance companies on how much to charge for insurance, after calculating the risks


(Noun) امارگیر، ماموراحصائیه، (م.م.) دبیر، منشی

actuate
motivate; activate; cause to act

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. be actuated by something: to behave in a particular way because of something:
** He was actuated by violent jealousy.

2. to make a piece of machinery start to operate


(Verb - transitive) بکارانداختن، تحریک کردن، برانگیختن، سوق دادن، نشان دادن
(Verb - transitive) بکار انداختن

acuity
sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing)

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the ability to think, see, or hear clearly:
** A motorist needs good visual acuity.


(Noun) تیز فهمی، تیز هوشی

acumen
mental keenness; sharpness of judgment; ability to judge quickly and well; (ex.) business acumen

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the ability to think quickly and make good judgments
business/political/financial etc acumen:
** The firm's success is largely due to Brannon's commercial acumen.


(Noun) تیز هوشی، تیز فهمی، فراست

acute
(of the senses) sharp; quickly perceptive; keen; penetrating; brief and severe; (ex.) acute sense of smell/analysis/pain

Longman:

1. problem: an acute problem is very serious:
** The housing shortage is more acute than first thought.

2. feeling: an acute feeling is very strong:
** acute pain
** acute embarrassment
** acute anxiety

3. [technical] an acute illness or disease quickly becomes very serious [≠ chronic]:
** acute arthritis

4. senses: acute senses such as hearing, taste, touch etc are very good and sensitive:
** Young children have a particularly acute sense of smell.

5. intelligent: quick to notice and understand things [= sharp]:
** Simon's vague manner concealed an acute mind.
** an acute analysis of Middle Eastern politics

تیزرو، تیز، نوک تیز، (پزشکی) حاد، بحرانی، زیرک،تیزنظر، تند، شدید (موسیقی) تیز، زیر، (سلسله اعصاب)حساس، (هن.) حاد، تیز(زاویه حاد، زاویه تند)

adage
wise saying; proverb

Longman:

[ countable]
a well-known phrase that says something wise about human experience [= proverb]:
** the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words


(Noun) مثل، امثال و حکم

adamant
hard; inflexible

Longman:

determined not to change your opinion or a decision that you have made:
** She begged me to change my mind, but I remained adamant.
adamant that:
** Michael Jackson is adamant that he will not tour this year.

جسم جامد و سخت، مقاوم، یکدنده، تزلزل ناپذیر

adapt
make or become suitable for a specific use; alter; modify; adjust; (n.) adaptation: act of adapting; composition recast into a new form; (ex.) the play is an adaption of a short novel.

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to gradually change your behaviour and attitudes in order to be successful in a new situation
adapt to:
** The children are finding it hard to adapt to the new school.
** flowers which are well adapted to harsh winters
** The ability to adapt is a definite asset in this job.
adapt yourself/itself etc (to something):
** How do these insects adapt themselves to new environments?

2. [transitive] to change something to make it suitable for a different purpose
adapt something to do something:
** The car has been adapted to take unleaded gas.
adapt something for somebody:
** These teaching materials can be adapted for older children.

3. if a book or play is adapted for film, television etc, it is changed so that it can be made into a film, television programme etc
be adapted for something:
** Many children buy books after they have been adapted for television.

سازوار کردن، وفق دادن، موافق بودن، جور کردن، درست کردن، تعدیل کردن وفق دادن، اقتباس کردن

addendum
addition; appendix to book; something that is added (as at the end of a speech or book)

Longman:

[ countable]
something you add to the end of a speech or book to change it or give more information
addendum to:
** an addendum to section 4


(Noun) ضمیمه، ذیل، افزایش، الحاق

addiction
compulsive habitual need

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. the need to take a harmful drug regularly, without being able to stop
drug/heroin/alcohol etc addiction:
addiction to:
** addiction to alcohol

2. a strong desire to do or have something regularly


(Noun) اعتیاد

addle
make or become confused; muddle; drive crazy; become rotten (egg)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to confuse someone so they cannot think properly
addle somebody's brains/wits:
** All that drink has addled his brains!

چرکی، باطلاق، کثافت، (مجازا) سختی، گرفتاری، آدم بی‌کله، گندیده، فاسد ضایع کردن، فاسد کردن، ضایع شدن، فاسد شدن، رسیدن، عمل آمدن، گیج کردن، خرف کردن

address
direct a speech to; speak to; deal with or discuss; direct one’s efforts or attention to; make with a destination; (n.) formal speech

Longman:

1. [countable] the details of the place where someone lives or works, that you use to send them letters, emails etc:
** Please write your name and address on a postcard.
** What's your new address?
** I can give you the address of a good attorney.
home/private/website etc address:
** My email address is on my business card.
** Please notify us of any change of address.
** I can't find my address book (=a book or place on a computer where you keep a list of people's addresses).
** a 25-year-old man of no fixed address (=no permanent home)

2. [countable] a formal speech that someone makes to a group of people
address to:
** an address to the European parliament
presidential/inaugural etc address:
** The new President delivered his inaugural address in Creole.

3. form/mode/style of address: the correct title or name that you should use when speaking or writing to someone

نشانی، نشانی دادن آدرس، آدرس دادن

adept
expert at; very skilled

Longman:

good at something that needs care and skill [= skilful]
adept at:
** Melissa quickly became adept at predicting his moods.
adept in:
** Silas proved adept in the art of avoiding potholes in the road.
** I'm afraid she's also an adept liar.

زبر دست، ماهر، استاد، مرد زبردست

adhere
stick fast; be a devoted follower; (n.) adhesion: adhering; devotion; loyalty

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to stick firmly to something
adhere to:
** The eggs of these fish adhere to plant leaves.

to continue to behave according to a particular rule, agreement, or belief:
** We adhere to the principles of equal rights and freedom of expression for all.
** I have adhered strictly to the rules.

( adequancy =) چسبیدن، پیوستن، وفادار ماندن،هواخواه بودن، طرفدار بودن، وفا کردن، توافق داشتن،متفق بودن، جور بودن، (گیاه‌شناسی) بهم چسبیده بودن

adherent
supporter; follower

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who supports a particular belief, plan, political party etc
adherent of:
** adherents of the Greek Orthodox church
adherent to:
** The anti-globalization movement is attracting new adherents to its principles.

(گیاه‌شناسی) بهم چسبیده، تابع، پیرو، هواخواه، طرفدار

adjacent
adjoining; neighboring; close by

Longman:

a room, building, piece of land etc that is adjacent to something is next to it:
** We stayed in adjacent rooms.
adjacent to:
** the building adjacent to the library

(نظ.) نزدیک، مجاور، همسایه، همجوار، دیوار بدیوار مجاور، نزدیک

adjoin
be next to

Longman:

[ transitive]
a room, building, or piece of land that adjoins something is next to it and connected to it:
** A vacant plot of land adjoins his house.

پیوستن، متصل کردن، وصلت دادن، مجاور بودن(به)،پیوسته بودن(به)، افزودن، متصل شدن

adjourn
suspend until a later time; move from one place to another

Longman:

1. if a meeting, parliament, law court etc adjourns, or if the person in charge adjourns it, it stops for a short time:
** It was almost noon when the meeting adjourned.
adjourn for/until:
** Congress has adjourned for the November elections.
** His trial was adjourned until May.

2. adjourn to something: to finish an activity and go somewhere - often used humorously:
** The rest of us adjourned to a nearby pub for some refreshments.

بوقت دیگر موکول کردن، خاتمه یافتن(جلسه)، موکول بروز دیگر شدن

adjunct
something attached to but holding an inferior position

Longman:

[ countable]
1. something that is added or joined to something that is bigger or more important
adjunct to:
** On-line instruction is a useful adjunct to the real thing.

2. [technical] anadverbial word or phrase that adds information to another part of a sentence. In 'They arrived on Sunday', 'on Sunday' is an adjunct.

الحاقی، افزوده، فرعی، ملازم، ضمیمه، معاون، یار،کمک(د.- من.)فرع، قسمت الحاقی، صفت فرعی

adjuration
solemn urging; (v.) adjure: entreat earnestly; enjoin solemnly


(Noun) تحلیف، سوگند، قسم، لابه، التماس

adjutant
staff officer assisting the commander; assistant

Longman:

[ countable]
an army officer responsible for office work


(Noun) یار، کمک، مساعد، یاور، (نظ.) اجودان، معین

admonish
warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to tell someone severely that they have done something wrong
admonish somebody for (doing) something:
** The witness was admonished for failing to answer the question.


(Verb - transitive) نصیحت کردن، پند دادن، اگاه کردن، متنبه کردن، وعظ کردن

adore
love deeply and respect highly

Longman:

[ transitive not in progressive]
1. to love someone very much and feel very proud of them:
** Betty adores her grandchildren.

2. [informal] to like something very much:
** I simply adore chocolate.


(Verb - transitive) پرستش، ستودن، عشق ورزیدن (به)، عاشق شدن (به)

adorn
decorate

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to decorate something
adorn something with something:
** church walls adorned with religious paintings


(Verb - transitive) زیبا کردن، قشنگ کردن، ارایش دادن، زینت دادن، بازر و زیور اراستن

adroit
skillful (in using mind or hand)

Longman:

clever and skilful, especially in the way you use words and arguments:
** an adroit negotiator


(Adjective) زرنگ، زبر دست، زیرک، ماهر، چابک، چالاک، تردست، چیره دست

adulation
flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary or deserved

Longman:

[ uncountable]
praise and admiration for someone that is more than they really deserve


(Noun) پرستش، ستایش، چاپلوسی

adulterate
make impure or of poorer quality by adding inferior or tainted(contaminated) substances

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make food or drink less pure by adding another substance of lower quality to it [↪ unadulterated]

جازن، قلابی، زن آزاده، حرامزاده، چیز تقلبی ساختن(مثل ریختن اب در شیر)

advent
arrival

Longman:

the advent of something: the time when something first begins to be widely used:
** the advent of the computer


(Noun) ظهور و ورود (چهار یکشنبه قبل از میلاد مسیح)

adventitious
accidental; casual; happening by chance

Longman:

happening by chance [= unexpected]


(Adjective) نابجا، عارضی، خارجی، الحاقی، اکتسابی، غیر موروثی

adversary
opponent; enemy

Longman:

[ countable]
[formal] a country or person you are fighting or competing against [= opponent]:
** his old adversary


(Noun) دشمن، مخالف، رقیب، مدعی، متخاصم، ضد، حریف، مبارز، هم اورد

adverse
going against; opposing; unfavorable; hostile

Longman:

1. not good or favourable:
** They fear it could have an adverse effect on global financial markets.
** Miller's campaign has received a good deal of adverse publicity.

2. adverse conditions: conditions that make it difficult for something to happen or exist:
** The expedition was abandoned because of adverse weather conditions.


(Adjective) مخالف، مغایر، ناسازگار، مضر، روبرو

adversity
great hardship or affliction; misfortune; calamitous event

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a situation in which you have a lot of problems that seem to be caused by bad luck:
** his courage in the face of adversity


(Noun) بدبختی، فلاکت، ادبار و مصیبت، روزبد

advert
refer

Longman:

[ countable]
British English an advertisement

عطف کردن، توجه کردن، مخفف تجارتی کلمه

advocacy
support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something

Longman:

[ uncountable]
public support for a course of action or way of doing things


(Noun) مدافعه، دفاع، وکالت

advocate
speak in favor of; support (an idea or plan); urge; plead for

Longman:

[ transitive]
to publicly say that something should be done:
** Extremists were openly advocating violence.
advocate for: American English
** Those who advocate doctor-assisted suicide say the terminally ill should not have to suffer.

دفاع کردن، طرفداری کردن، حامی، طرفدار، وکیل مدافع

aegis
shield; protection; defense

Longman:

under the aegis of somebody/something: with the protection or support of a person or organization:
** a refugee camp operating under the aegis of the UN


(Noun) سپر، پرتو، ظل

aeon
long period of time; an age; longest division of geologic time containing two or more eras

Longman:

[ countable]
an extremely long period of time


(Noun) اعصار متمادی، قرن بی انتها، قرنازلی، (م.م.) ابدیت

aerie
nest of a large bird of prey


(Noun) لانه پرنده بر روی صخره مرتفع، اشیانه مرتفع، خانه مرتفع

aery
nest of a large bird of prey

( aerie =) هوایی

aesthetic
artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or building); (cf.) aesthete; cf. aesthetics

Longman:

connected with beauty and the study of beauty:
** From an esthetic point of view, it's a nice design.
** a work of great aesthetic appeal

وابسته به زیبایی، مربوط به علم (محسنات)، ظریف طبع

affable
easily approachable; easy to talk to; warmly friendly

Longman:

friendly and easy to talk to [= pleasant]:
** an affable guy


(Adjective) مهربان، دلجو، خوش برخورد، خوشخو

affected
artificial; pretended

Longman:

not sincere or natural:
** an affected laugh


(Adjective) ساختگی، امیخته با ناز و تکبر، تحت تاثیر واقع شده

affidavit
written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law)

Longman:

[ countable]
a written statement that you swear is true, for use as proof in a court of law


(Noun) (حقوق) اظهارنامه (به قید سوگند)، سوگندنامه، گواهینامه، شهادت نامه، استشهاد

affiliation
joining; associating with

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] the connection or involvement that someone or something has with a political, religious etc organization
somebody's (political/religious etc) affiliation:
** the newspaper's political affiliations

2. [uncountable] when a smaller group or organization joins a larger one


(Noun) پذیرش، وابستگی، پیوستگی

**

** - he had no political affiliation
** - او وابستگی سیاسی نداشت
(Noun) (در بریتانیا، حقوق) تعیین پدر، تعیین نَسَب
**

** - an affiliation order
** - حکم تعیین پدر

affinity
feeling of kinship; similarity; (ex.) strong affinity for her; (ex.) many affinities between two languages

Longman:

1. [singular] a strong feeling that you like and understand someone or something
affinity with/for/between:
** his remarkable affinity with animals

2. [uncountable and countable] a close relationship between two things because of qualities or features that they share
affinity with/between:
** the affinity between Christian and Chinese concepts of the spirit


(Noun) وابستگی، پیوستگی، قوم و خویش سببی، نزدیکی

affirmation
positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath; (v.) affirm; adj. affirmative; (cf.) affirmative action: positive discrimination


(Noun) اظهار قطعی، تصریح، تصدیق، اثبات، تاکید

affliction
state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering; v. afflict: inflict grievous suffering on

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
something that causes pain or suffering, especially a medical condition:
** the afflictions of old age


(Noun) رنج، رنجوری، پریشانی، غمزدگی، مصیبت، شکنجه، درد

affluence
abundance; wealth


(Noun) فراوانی، وفور

affront
insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect; (v.) insult or hurt the feelings of intentionally

Longman:

[ transitive usually passive]
to offend or insult someone, especially by not showing respect:
** He stepped back, affronted by the question.

اشکارا توهین کردن، روبرو دشنام دادن، بی حرمتی،هتاکی، مواجهه، رودررویی

afterlife
life after death; later part of one’s life

Longman:

[ singular]
the life that some people believe people have after death


(Noun) زندگی پس از مرگ

agape
openmouthed

Longman:

[ not before noun]
with your mouth wide open, especially because you are surprised or shocked:
** Vince watched, his mouth agape in horror.

در حال دهن دره، مبهوت، متعجب با دهان باز، درشگفت، عشق الهی

agenda
items of business at a meeting

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a list of problems or subjects that a government, organization etc is planning to deal with
be high on the agenda/be top of the agenda: (=be one of the most important problems to deal with)
** Measures to combat terrorism will be high on the agenda.
** The government set an agenda for constitutional reform.
political/economic/legislative/domestic etc agenda:
** Our Centre has limited its research agenda to four areas.

2. the ideas that a political party thinks are important and the things that party aims to achieve:
** The Republicans have stuck to their conservative agenda.

3. a list of the subjects to be discussed at a meeting:
** the next item (=subject) on the agenda

مواد موردبحث ،مواد دستور جلسه، اداب نماز، کردنی ها

agglomeration
collection; heap; (v.) agglomerate: gather into a rounded mass; (n.) agglomerate: jumbled mass; heap

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a large collection of things that do not seem to belong together
agglomeration of:
** buildings in an agglomeration of styles


(Noun) انباشتگی، تراکم، توده، انبار

aggrandize
make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; (n.) aggrandizement


(Verb - transitive) بزرگ کردن، افزودن

aggregate
sum; total; (adj.) (v.) gather into a mass or whole; accumulate; add up to; (ex.) aggregate 100 dollars

Longman:

1. [countable] the total after a lot of different figures or points have been added together
aggregate of:
** The smaller minorities got an aggregate of 1,327 votes.
** In the aggregate (=as a group or in total), women outlive men by 7 or more years.
on aggregate: British English (=when the points from two football games are added together)
** Manchester United won 2-1 on aggregate.

2. [technical] sand or small stones that are used in makingconcrete

جمع شده، متراکم، متراکم ساختن جمع امده، متراکم، (ج.ش.- گ.ش.) بهم پیوسته، انبوه،توده، تراکم، جمع، مجموع، جمع کردن، جمع شدن، توده کردن

aghast
filled with great surprise or fear; horrified

Longman:

[ not before noun]
feeling or looking shocked by something you have seen or just found out
aghast at:
** Everyone was aghast at the verdict.
** Hank looked at her aghast.


(Adjective) مبهوت (از شدت ترس)، وحشت زده، مات

agility
nimbleness; ability to move quickly


(Noun) چالاکی، چابکی، تردستی، زیرکی

agitate
stir up; disturb

Longman:

1. to argue strongly in public for something you want, especially a political or social change
agitate for/against:
** unions agitating for higher pay
agitate to do something:
** His family are agitating to get him freed.

2. [formal] to make someone feel anxious, upset, and nervous:
** I must warn you that any mention of Clare agitates your grandmother.

3. [technical] to shake or mix a liquid quickly


(Verb - transitive) (مایعات) تکان دادن، هم زدن

**

** - agitate the bottle well
** - خوب بطری را تکان بده
(Verb - transitive) تهییج کردن، تحریک کردن، برانگیختن، نا آرام کردن، سراسیمه کردن
**

** - in an agitated mood
** - با حالتی مضطرب
(Verb - intransitive) (سیاسی) مبارزه کردن، تبلیغ کردن، فعالیت کردن

agnostic
one who is skeptical of the existence or know ability of a god or any ultimate reality

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who believes that people cannot know whether God exists or not [↪ atheist]

(فلسفه و الهیات - کسی که معتقد است فکر انسانی قادر نیست به طور مسلم بداند که خدا هست و آیا اصلا ماورای پدیده‌های مادی چیز دیگری وجود دارد یا نه) نمی‌دانم کیش، تجاهل‌گرای، وابسته به تجاهل‌گرایی، لاادری

agog
highly excited; intensely curious

Longman:

[ not before noun]
very excited about something and wanting to find out more:
** I've been agog all afternoon, waiting for the next part of your story.
** Paul was agog with curiosity.

نگران، مشتاق، بیقرار، در جنبش، در حرکت

agrarian
pertaining to land or its cultivation; (ex.) agrarian reform

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
relating to farming or farmers:
** an agrarian economy (=based on farming)

زمینی، ملکی

airy
of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal

Longman:

1. an airy room or building has plenty of fresh air because it is large or has a lot of windows:
** All the hotel's bedrooms are light and airy.

2. done in a happy and confident way, even when you should be serious or worried:
** He dismissed her concerns with an airy wave of the hand.

هوایی، هوا مانند، با روح، پوچ، واهی، خودنما

alacrity
cheerful promptness without reluctance

Longman:

[ uncountable]
quickness and eagerness
with alacrity:
** She accepted with alacrity.


(Noun) چابکی، نشاط

alchemy
medieval chemistry

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. a science studied in the Middle Ages, that involved trying to change ordinary metals into gold

2. [literary] magic


(Noun) علم کیمیا، کیمیاگری، ترکیب فلزی با فلز پست تر

alcove
nook; recess

Longman:

[ countable]
a place in the wall of a room that is built further back than the rest of the wall


(Noun) شاه نشین، الاچیق

alias
an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people); (adv.) alias

Longman:

used when giving someone's real name, especially an actor's or a criminal's name, together with another name they use:
** 'Friends' star Jennifer Aniston, alias Rachel Green

نام مستعار

alienate
make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to do something that makes someone unfriendly or unwilling to support you:
** The latest tax proposals will alienate many voters.

2. to make it difficult for someone to belong to a particular group or to feel comfortable with a particular person
alienate somebody from something:
** He felt that his experiences had alienated him from society.


(Verb - transitive) انتقال دادن، بیگانه کردن، منحرف کردن

alimentary
supplying nourishment


(Adjective) غذایی، رزقی

alimony
payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce

Longman:

[ uncountable]
money that a court orders someone to pay regularly to their former wife or husband after their marriage has ended [↪ maintenance]


(Noun) خرجی، نفقه

allay
calm; pacify

Longman:

[ transitive]
allay (somebody's) fear/concern/suspicion etc: to make someone feel less afraid, worried etc:
** The president made a statement to allay public anxiety.

ارام کردن، از شدت چیزی کاستن

allege
state without proof

Longman:

[ transitive often passive]
to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong, although it has not been proved
it is alleged (that):
** It was alleged that the policeman had accepted bribes.
allege that:
** The prosecution alleged that the man had been responsible for an act of terrorism.
be alleged to be/do something:
** The water is alleged to be polluted with mercury.


(Verb - transitive) اقامه کردن، دلیل اوردن، ارائه دادن

allegiance
loyalty

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
loyalty to a leader, country, belief etc
allegiance to:
** You owe allegiance (=have a duty to give allegiance) to your king.
swear/pledge allegiance:
** I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
** an oath of allegiance
switch/transfer allegiance: (=start to support a different person, group etc)
** The people here have strong political allegiances.


(Noun) تابعیت، تبعیت، وفاداری، بیعت

allegory
story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a story, painting etc in which the events and characters represent ideas or teach a moral lesson


(Noun) تمثیل، قصه‌ی رمزی

**

** - Obeyd Zakani was a skillful writer of allegories
** - عبید زاکانی در نوشتن تمثیل مهارت داشت

alleviate
relieve (pain)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make something less painful or difficult to deal with
alleviate the problem/situation/suffering etc:
** a new medicine to alleviate the symptoms of flu
** measures to alleviate poverty


(Verb - transitive) سبک کردن، ارام کردن، کم کردن

alliteration
repetition of beginning sound in poetry

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the use of several words together that begin with the same sound or letter in order to make a special effect, especially in poetry


(Noun) اغاز چند کلمه پیاپی با یک حرف متشابه الصورت

allocate
assign; set apart for a particular purpose

Longman:

[ transitive]
to use something for a particular purpose, give something to a particular person etc, especially after an official decision has been made
allocate something to somebody/something:
** the importance of allocating resources to local communities
** You should allocate the same amount of time to each question.
allocate something for something:
** One million dollars was allocated for disaster relief.
allocate somebody/something sth:
** Several patients were waiting to be allocated a bed.


(Verb - transitive) اختصاص دادن، تخصیص دادن
(Verb - transitive) توزیع کردن، تقسیم کردن

alloy
mixture as of metals; something added that lowers in value or purity; (v.) mix; make less pure; lower in value or quality; spoil; (cf.) unalloyed: not in mixture with other metals; pure; complete; unqualified; (ex.) unalloyed happiness

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a metal that consists of two or more metals mixed together:
** Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.

بار(در فلزات)، عیار، درجه، ماخذ، الیاژ فلز مرکب،ترکیب فلز بافلز گرانبها، (مجازا) الودگی، شائبه، عیار زدن، معتدل کردن

allude
refer indirectly; (n.) allusion: indirect reference

Longman:

[formal] to mention something or someone indirectly:
** Rick didn't want to discuss his past, though he alluded darkly to 'some bad things that happened.'

اشاره کردن، اظهار کردن، مربوط بودن به (با to )، گریز زدن به

allure
entice; attract; tempt

Longman:

[ singular, uncountable]
a mysterious, exciting, or desirable quality
allure of:
** the allure of foreign travel
** At 50, she had lost none of her sexual allure.

بطمع انداختن، تطمیع کردن، شیفتن

alluvial
pertaining to soil deposits left by running water

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
made of soil left by rivers, lakes, floods etc:
** alluvial flood plains

ابرفتی، رسوبی، ته نشینی، مربوط به رسوب و ته نشین

alms
money or goods given to the poor

Longman:

[ plural]
money, food etc given to poor people in the past

صدقه، خیرات

aloft
upward; high up in the air

Longman:

high up in the air
hold/bear something aloft:
** He emerged, holding a baby aloft.

بالا، در بالای زمین، در نوک، در هوا، در بالاترین نقطه کشتی، در فوق

aloof
apart; not open in one’s relationship with other people; reserved; (adv.)

Longman:

1. unfriendly and deliberately not talking to other people
remain/stay aloof (from somebody):
** They worked hard, but tended to stay aloof from the local inhabitants.
keep/hold yourself aloof (from somebody):
** She had always kept herself aloof from the boys in class.
** Beneath that aloof exterior, Gayle is a warm, sympathetic person.

2. deliberately not becoming involved in something
remain/stand aloof (from something):
** Initially, the President remained aloof from the campaign.
hold/keep (yourself) aloof from something:
** The doctor held himself somewhat aloof from the rest of the ship's crew.


(Adjective) دور، کناره گیر

altercation
noisy quarrel

Longman:

[ countable]
[formal] a short noisy argument:
** They became involved in an altercation.


(Noun) ستیزه، مجادله

altruistic
unselfishly generous; concerned for others; (n.) altruism: unselfish concern for the welfare of others; unselfishness; op. egoism

Longman:

altruistic behaviour shows that you care about and will help other people, even though this brings no advantage for yourself [≠ selfish]:
** Were his motives entirely altruistic?


(Adjective) وابسته به نوع دوستی، بشر دوستانه، دگر دوستانه، همگان‌ دوستانه، ایثار گرانه

amalgam
combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth

Longman:

[formal] a mixture of different things
amalgam of:
** an amalgam of different styles


(Noun) الیاژ جیوه باچند فلز دیگرکه برای پرکردن دندان و ایینه سازی بکار میرود، ترکیب مخلوط، ملقمه

amalgamate
(of societies or groups) combine; unite in one body

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] if two organizations amalgamate, or if one amalgamates with another, they join and make one big organization [= merge]
amalgamate something with/into/under something:
** The agency is expected to amalgamate with the National Rivers Authority.

2. [transitive] to combine two or more things together to make one thing:
** Stir until the ingredients are amalgamated.
amalgamate something with/into something:
** The editors will amalgamate all the information into one article.

امیختن، توام کردن (ملقمه فلزات با جیوه)

amass
collect (gradually, in a very large amount)

Longman:

[ transitive]
if you amass money, knowledge, information etc, you gradually collect a large amount of it:
** For 25 years, Darwin amassed evidence to support his theories.
** He amassed a fortune after the war.


(Verb - transitive) گرداوردن، توده کردن، متراکم کردن

amazon
female warrior


(Noun) زنانی که در اسیای صغیر زندگی میکردند و بایونانیان میجنگیدند، زن سلحشور و بلندقامت، رود امازون در آمریکای جنوبی

ambidextrous
capable of using either hand with equal ease

Longman:

able to use either hand equally well [↪ left-handed, right-handed]


(Adjective) ذوالیمینین

ambience
environment; atmosphere; (ex.) restraurant with a pleasant ambience; (adj.) ambient: completely surrounding; (ex.) ambient temperature

Longman:

[ singular]
the qualities and character of a particular place and the way these make you feel [= atmosphere]
pleasant/relaxing/friendly etc ambience:
** The restaurant's new owners have created a welcoming ambience.


(Noun) نقوش و تزئینات اطراف یک تابلو نقاشی، محیط

ambiguous
unclear or doubtful in meaning; having more than one possible interpretation

Longman:

something that is ambiguous is unclear, confusing, or not certain, especially because it can be understood in more than one way [≠ unambiguous]:
** The language in the Minister's statement is highly ambiguous.
** His role in the affair is ambiguous.


(Adjective) مبهم، (کلام) دوپهلو، چندپهلو، دارای دو یا چند معنی، گنگ

**

** - she gave an ambiguous nod
** - سرش را به طور مبهمی تکان داد
** - the diplomat's ambiguous remarks
** - سخنان دوپهلوی دیپلمات
(Adjective) (جانورشناسی - گیاه‌شناسی - قابل رده‌بندی در دو یا چند نوع یا طبقه) نامشخص، چند رده
**

** - an ambiguous insect
** - حشره‌ی چند رده

ambivalence
the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions


(Noun) توجه ناگهانی و دلسردی ناگهانی نسبت بشخص یا چیزی، دمدمی مزاجی، دارای دو جنبه

amble
walking at an easy unhurried pace; (v.) walk slowly and aimlessly

Longman:

[ intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
to walk slowly in a relaxed way [= saunter]:
** An old man came out and ambled over for a chat.

یورغه رفتن (اسب)، راهوار بودن، یورغه

ambrosia
food of the gods

Longman:

[ uncountable]
food or drink that tastes very good


(Noun) (افسانه) خوراک خدایان که زندگی جاوید بانها میداده، مائده بهشتی، شهد، عطر

ambulatory
able to walk

گردشی، گردنده، سیار

ambush
act of lying in wait to attack by surprise; sudden attack made from a concealed position; (ex.) lie in ambush; (v.)

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a sudden attack on someone by people who have been hiding and waiting for them, or the place where this happens:
** The soldiers were killed in an ambush.
** In winter the danger of ambush is much reduced.
lie/wait in ambush:
** Armed police lay in ambush behind the hedge.

کمین، کمینگاه، دام، سربازانی که درکمین نشسته اند،پناه گاه، مخفی گاه سربازان برای حمله، کمین کردن، در کمین نشستن

ameliorate
improve

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to make a bad situation better or less harmful [= improve]:
** It is not clear what can be done to ameliorate the situation.

بهتر کردن، اصلاح کردن، چاره کردن، بهتر شدن، بهبودی یافتن

amenable
obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive; willing to be led; answerable or accountable legally; responsible; able to be tested by; (ex.) amenable to sensible suggestions; (ex.) he is very amenable; (ex.) amenable to the usual tests

Longman:

1. willing to accept what someone says or does without arguing:
** She was always a very amenable child.
amenable to:
** Young people are more amenable than older citizens to the idea of immigration.

2. suitable for a particular type of treatment
amenable for/to:
** Such conditions may be amenable to medical intervention.


(Adjective) تابع، رام شدنی، قابل جوابگویی، متمایل

amend
correct; change ; generally for the better

Longman:

[ transitive]
to correct or make small changes to something that is written or spoken:
** The law was amended to include women.
** The defendant later amended his evidence.
** 'Steve stole it - or rather borrowed it,' he amended.

ترمیم کردن اصلاح کردن، بهتر کردن، بهبودی یافتن، ماده یاقانونی را اصلاح و تجدید کردن

amenities
convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

amiable
agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly

Longman:

friendly and easy to like:
** The driver was an amiable young man.
** She was in an amiable mood.


(Adjective) شیرین، دلپذیر، مهربان، دوست داشتنی

amicable
peaceful; politely friendly; not quarrelsome; ex. amicable settlement

Longman:

an amicable agreement, relationship etc is one in which people feel friendly towards each other and do not want to quarrel:
** Their relationship hasn't always been amicable.
amicable settlement/agreement:
** The two parties have reached an amicable settlement.


(Adjective) موافق، دوست، دوستانه

amiss
wrong; faulty; (ex.) something amiss; (adv.)

Longman:

[ not before noun]
if something is amiss, there is a problem [= wrong]:
** Elsa continued as if nothing was amiss.
amiss with/in:
** There's something amiss in their relationship.

نادرست، غلط، بیمورد، بد، کثیف، گمراه، منحرف، منحط

amity
friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] friendship, especially between countries [≠ hostility]:
** a spirit of perfect amity


(Noun) رفاقت، مودت، روابط حسنه، حسن تفاهم

amnesia
loss of memory

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the medical condition of not being able to remember anything

(پزشکی) ضعف حافظه بعلت ضعف یا بیماری مغزی، فراموشی، نسیان

amnesty
pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. an official order by a government that allows a particular group of prisoners to go free
amnesty for:
** The government granted an amnesty for all former terrorists.

2. a period of time when you can admit to doing something illegal without being punished
amnesty on:
** an amnesty on illegal handguns

عفو عمومی، گذشت، عفو عمومی کردن

amok
in a state of rage; (ex.) run amok

Longman:

run amok:a) to suddenly behave in a very violent and uncontrolled way:
** Drunken troops ran amok in the town.b) to get out of control and cause a lot of problems:
** an age in which global capitalism has run amok

ادمکشی کردن، لذت بردن از ادمکشی، مجنون، شخص عصبانی و دیوانه، درحال جنون

amoral
non moral; having no understanding of right and wrong

Longman:

having no moral standards at all [≠ moral]:
** a completely amoral person


(Adjective) غیراخلاقی، بدون احساس مسئولیت اخلاقی

amorous
moved by sexual love; loving; of sexual love; ex. amorous advances

Longman:

showing or concerning sexual love:
** She resisted his amorous advances.
** He was always boasting about his amorous adventures.


(Adjective) عاشق، شیفته، عاشقانه

amorphous
formless; lacking shape or definition

Longman:

having no definite shape or features:
** an amorphous mass of twisted metal


(Adjective) بی شکل، بی نظم، بدون تقسیم بندی، غیر متبلور، غیرشفاف، (زیست شناسی) دارای ساختمان غیر مشخص

amphibian
able to live both on land and in water; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
animals such as frogs that can live both on land and in water

دوزیستان، ذوحیات

amphitheater
oval building with tiers of seats; (cf.) arena


(Noun) امفی تئاتر، سالن، تالار

ample
enough; abundant; spacious; large in size; (ex.) ample opportunity/garden; (n.) amplitude: quality of being ample; abundance; largeness of space

Longman:

1. more than enough [= sufficient; ≠ insufficient]
ample time/evidence/opportunity:
** You'll have ample time for questions later.
** There is ample evidence that climate patterns are changing.
ample room/space etc:
** She found ample room for her things in the wardrobe.

2. [literary] large in a way that is attractive or pleasant:
** an ample bosom


(Adjective) فراخ، پهناور، وسیع، فراوان، مفصل، پر، بیش ازاندازه

amplify
increase in size or effect; expand; broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger; (ex.) amplify one’s remarks with a graph

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to make sound louder, especially musical sound:
** an amplified guitar

2. [formal] to increase the effects or strength of something:
** These stories only amplified her fears.

3. [formal] to explain something that you have said by giving more information about it:
** Would you care to amplify that remark?

تقویت کردن وسعت دادن، بزرگ کردن، مفصل کردن، مفصل گفتن یانوشتن، (برق) افزودن، بالابردن، بزرگ شدن، تقویت کردن (صدا)

amputate
cut off part of body; prune (a limb)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to cut off someone's arm, leg, finger etc during a medical operation:
** Two of her toes were amputated because of frostbite.


(Verb - transitive) (جراحی) قطع عضو کردن، جدا کردن، وابریدن، از تن جدا کردن

**

** - the surgeon amputated Hassan's hand
** - جراح دست حسن را قطع کرد
** - amputation
** - وابری، وابرش، قطع (عضو)
** - he has had a leg amputated
** - یک پایش را قطع کرده‌اند

amuck
in a state of rage; (ex.) run amok

Longman:

amok

( amok =) یک نوع جنون دراثر مرض مالاریا که منجر به خودکشی می‌شود، دیوانگی

amulet
charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck

Longman:

[ countable]
a small piece of jewellery worn to protect against bad luck, disease etc


(Noun) طلسم، دوا یا چیزی که برای شکستن جادو و طلسم بکارمیرود

anachronism
an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; (adj.) anachronistic

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone or something that seems to belong to the past, not the present:
** The monarchy is something of an anachronism these days.

2. something in a play, film etc that seems wrong because it did not exist in the period of history in which the play etc is set:
** The film is full of anachronisms.


(Noun) بیموردی، (درتاریخ نویسی) اشتباه در ترتیب حقیقی وقایع و ظهور اشخاص، نابهنگامی

analgesia
condition of being unable to feel pain

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[technical] the condition of being unable to feel pain while conscious


(Noun) (پزشکی) بی حسی نسبت بدرد، تخفیف درد

analgesic
causing insensitivity to pain; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
[technical] a drug that reduces pain [= painkiller]:
** Aspirin is a popular analgesic.

دردنشان

analogous
comparable; similar

Longman:

similar to another situation or thing so that a comparison can be made
analogous to/with:
** The report's findings are analogous with our own.


(Adjective) قیاس‌پذیر، قابل‌قیاس، هم‌سنگ، قابل‌سنجش، هم‌تراز، هم‌ارز
(Adjective) شبیه، همانند، نظیر

analogy
similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
something that seems similar between two situations, processes etc
analogy with/to/between:
** analogies between human and animal behaviour
draw/make an analogy: (=make a comparison)
** She drew an analogy between childbirth and the creative process.
by analogy with:
** Dr Wood explained the movement of light by analogy with (=using the analogy of) the movement of water.


(Noun) قیاس، مقایسه، سنجش، شباهت، مانندگی، همانند انگاری

**

** - to draw an analogy between two different things
** - بین دو چیز مختلف، وجه تشابه یافتن
** - by analogy
** - از راه قیاس
** - on the analogy of
** - در مقایسه با، در سنجش با، به قیاس
(Noun) (منطق) تمثیل، قیاسِ تمثیلی

anarchist
person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who believes that governments, laws etc are not necessary


(Noun) هرج و مرج طلب، اشوب طلب

anarchy
absence of governing body; state of disorder

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a situation in which there is no effective government in a country or no order in an organization or situation:
** The prison is close to anarchy.
** The classroom was in a constant state of anarchy.
slide/fall/descend into anarchy:
** The nation is in danger of falling into anarchy.


(Noun) بی قانونی، هرج و مرج، بی ترتیبی سیاسی، بی نظمی، اغتشاش، خودسری مردم

anathema
solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse; (v.) anathematize

Longman:

[ singular, uncountable]
something that is completely the opposite of what you believe in
anathema to:
** His political views were anathema to me.


(Noun) هرچیزی که مورد لعن واقع شود، لعنت و تکفیر، مرتدشناخته شده از طرف روحانیون

ancestry
family descent; (adj.) ancestral

Longman:

[ countable usually singular, uncountable]
the members of your family who lived a long time ago
of ... ancestry:
** Her mother is of German ancestry (=has German ancestors).
** Helen's family can trace their ancestry back to the 1700s.


(Noun) دودمان، تبار

anchor
secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; (n.) anchorage

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a piece of heavy metal that is lowered to the bottom of the sea, lake etc to prevent a ship or boat moving
at anchor:
** The ship was at anchor.
** We dropped anchor a few yards offshore.
** The next morning, they weighed anchor (=lifted the anchor) and began to move south again.

2. someone who reads the news on TV and introduces news reports [= newsreader British English]
** Dan Rather, anchor of the CBC Evening News

3. someone or something that provides a feeling of support and safety:
** Dad was the anchor of the family.

(. n ): لنگر، لنگر کشتی.(. vi &. vt ): لنگر انداختن، (مجازا) محکم شدن، بالنگر بستن یانگاه داشتن

ancillary
serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; (n.)

Longman:

1. ancillary workers/staff etc: workers who provide additional help and services for the people who do the main work in hospitals, schools etc

2. [formal] connected with or supporting something else, but less important than it:
** Agreement was reached on several ancillary matters.

فرعی، معین، کمک، دستیار، تابع، مستخدم بومی، مربوط به کلفت فرعی، کمکی

anecdote
short story of an amusing or interesting event

Longman:

[ countable]
a short story based on your personal experience:
** The book is full of amusing anecdotes about his life in Japan.


(Noun) حکایت، قصه کوتاه، امثال، ضرب المثل

anemia
condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; adj. anemic

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the usual American spelling of anaemia

(پزشکی) کم خونی، فقرالدم

anesthetic
substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness; (n.) anesthesia

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
the usual American spelling of anaesthetic

بی هوشانه، داروی بی هوشی، بی هوش کننده، کم کننده حس

anguish
acute pain; extreme suffering

Longman:

[ uncountable]
mental or physical suffering caused by extreme pain or worry:
** the anguish of not knowing what had happened to her

دلتنگی، اضطراب، غم و اندوه، دلتنگ کردن، غمگین شدن، نگران شدن، نگران کردن

angular
sharp-cornered; having an angle; not rounded (body); bony; lean; gaunt; stiff in manner

Longman:

1. thin and not having much flesh on your bones:
** a tall, angular young man

2. having sharp and definite corners:
** a cubist painting with angular shapes


(Adjective) زاویه ای، گوشه دار
(Adjective) گوشه دار، گوشه ای، (مجازا) لاغر، زاویه ای

animadversion
critical remark; (v.) animadvert: comment critically with disapproval


(Noun) قوه ادراک، ملاحظه، مراقبت، مشاهده، اعتراض، تذکر واعلام خطر، انتقاد

animated
lively; spirited

Longman:

1. showing a lot of interest and energy
animated discussion/conversation:
** The performance was followed by an animated discussion.

2. animated cartoon/film/feature etc: a film or programme that shows pictures, clay models etc that seem to be really moving:
** an animated Disney film


(Adjective) باروح، سرزنده

animosity
active enmity

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
strong dislike or hatred [= hostility]
animosity between:
** There is no personal animosity between the party leaders.
animosity towards/against:
** She felt a certain amount of animosity towards him.


(Noun) دشمنی، عداوت، شهامت، جسارت، کینه

animus
hostile feeling or intent; animosity; hostility; disposition

Longman:

[ singular, uncountable]
[formal] a feeling of strong dislike or hatred [= animosity, hostility]
animus against/towards:
** I have no animus towards Robert.


(Noun) اراده، قصد، نیت، روح دشمنی و غرض، عناد

annals
records arranged in yearly parts; history

Longman:

[ plural]
1. in the annals of something: in the whole history of something:
** one of the most unusual cases in the annals of crime

2. used in the titles of official records of events or activities:
** the Annals of the Zoological Society

تاریخچه، وقایع سالیانه، سالنامه، اخبار سال، برنامه سالیانه عشا ربانی

anneal
reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make metal or glass hard by heating it and then slowly letting it get cold

گرم کردن، پختن (اجر)، حرارت زیاد دادن و بعد سردکردن (فلزات)، (مجازا) سخت وسفت کردن، بادوام نمودن

annex
attach; add to a large thing; take possession of; incorporate (territory) into a larger existing political unit (by force); (n.) building added to a large one

Longman:

[ transitive]
to take control of a country or area next to your own, especially by using force:
** The Baltic republics were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940.

پیوستن، ضمیمه کردن، ضمیمه، پیوست، پیوستن، ضمیمه سازی

annihilate
destroy

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to destroy something or someone completely:
** Just one of these bombs could annihilate a city the size of New York.

2. to defeat someone easily and completely in a game or competition:
** Tyson annihilated his opponent in the first round.


(Verb - transitive) نابود کردن، از بین بردن، خنثی نمودن

annotate
comment; make explanatory notes

Longman:

[ transitive usually passive]
to add short notes to a book or piece of writing to explain parts of it:
** an annotated edition of 'Othello'

حاشیه نوشتن حاشیه نوشتن، یادداشت نوشتن، تفسیر نوشتن، (با on یا up ) تفسیر کردن

annuity
yearly allowance

Longman:

[ countable]
a fixed amount of money that is paid each year to someone, usually until they die

حقوق یا مقرری سالیانه، گذراند

annul
make void

Longman:

[ transitive often passive]
to officially state that a marriage or legal agreement no longer exists:
** Their marriage was annulled last year.

لغو کردن، باطل کردن، خنثی کردن

anodyne
drug that relieves pain or trouble; opiate; adj. (ex.) anodyne statement

Longman:

expressed in a way that is unlikely to offend anyone [= bland]:
** anodyne topics of conversation

ارام کننده، تسکین دهنده، مسکن، دوای مسکن

anoint
consecrate; put oil on (in a religious ceremony)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to put oil or water on someone's head or body, usually as part of a religious ceremony:
** the anointed king
anoint somebody with something:
** He was anointed with sacred oil.


(Verb - transitive) روغن مالی کردن، تدهین کردن

anomalous
abnormal; irregular

Longman:

different from what you expected to find:
** a highly anomalous situation
** anomalous results


(Adjective) غیر عادی، خارج از رسم، بیمورد، مغایر، متناقض، بی شباهت، غیر متشابه

anomaly
irregularity

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
something that is noticeable because it is different from what is usual:
** In those days, a woman professor was still an anomaly.
anomaly in:
** various anomalies in the tax system


(Noun) خلاف قاعده، غیر متعارف، بی ترتیب

anonymity
state of being nameless; anonymousness; adj. anonymous

Longman:

[ uncountable]
when other people do not know who you are or what your name is:
** Every step will be taken to preserve your anonymity.
** One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity (=he would only speak if his name was not told), said the White House took the threat very seriously.
** the anonymity of city streets (=you do not know anyone, and no one knows you)


(Noun) گمنامی، بینامی

antagonism
hostility; active opposition; (v.) antagonize: cause to become an enemy; (n.) antagonist: person who is opposed to another; opponent; adversary; principal character in oppostion to the protagonist

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. hatred between people or groups of people [= hostility]
antagonism between:
** the antagonism between the army and other military groups

2. opposition to an idea, plan etc
antagonism to/towards:
** his antagonism towards the press


(Noun) مخالفت، خصومت، هم اوری، اصل مخالف

antecede
precede


(Verb - transitive) سابق یا اسبق بودن، (از لحاظ مکان و زمان و مقام)برتری جستن، پیش رفتن، جلوترآمدن

antecedents
preceding events that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.

antediluvian
antiquated; extremely ancient

Longman:

very old-fashioned [= outdated]:
** antediluvian ideas about women

وابسته به پیش از طوفان، پیش از طوفان نوح، ادم کهنسال، ادم کهنه پرست

anthem
song of praise or patriotism; (ex.) national anthem

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a formal or religious song ➔ national anthem

2. a song that a particular group of people consider to be very important:
** The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction' was an anthem for a generation.


(Noun) سرود، سرودی که دسته جمعی در کلیسا میخوانند

anthology
book of literary selections by various authors; cf. omnibus

Longman:

[ countable]
a set of stories, poems, songs etc by different people collected together in one book [= collection]:
** an anthology of American literature


(Noun) گلچین ادبی، منتخبات نظم و نثر، جنگ

anthropoid
manlike; resembling a human being; (n.)

Longman:

an anthropoid animal, such as an ape, looks like a human

میمون ادم نما، شبه انسان

anthropologist
student of the history and science of humankind

انسان شناس

anthropomorphic
having human form or characteristics


(Adjective) شبیه انسان، دارای شکل انسان

anticlimax
letdown in thought or emotion; something unexciting, ordinary, or disappointing coming after something important or exciting

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a situation or event that does not seem exciting because it happens after something that was much better:
** Going back to work after a month travelling in China was bound to be an anticlimax.


(Noun) پاداوج، بیان قهقرایی (مثل > زنم مرد، مالم رابردند و سگم هم گم شد<)، بیانی که هرچه پیش می رود اهمیتش کمتر می‌شود، بیان قهقرایی نمودن

antidote
remedy to counteract a poison or disease; (ex.) antidote to the economic troubles

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a substance that stops the effects of a poison
antidote to:
** There is no known antidote to a bite from this snake.

2. something that makes an unpleasant situation better:
** laughter, the antidote to stress


(Noun) تریاق، پادزهر، ضد سم، پازهر

antipathy
aversion; dislike or opposition

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] a feeling of strong dislike towards someone or something
antipathy to/towards:
** a growing antipathy towards the government
antipathy between:
** There's always been a certain amount of antipathy between the two doctors.


(Noun) احساس مخالف، ناسازگاری، انزجار

antiquated
obsolete; old-fashioned; outdated

Longman:

old-fashioned and not suitable for modern needs or conditions - used to show disapproval [= outdated]:
** antiquated laws


(Adjective) کهنه، منسوخ، متروک، قدیمی

antique
made in an earlier period and usu. valuable; (n.) object that was made in an earlier period and that is rare or valuable

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
antique furniture, jewellery etc is old and often valuable:
** an antique rosewood desk

کهنه، عتیقه، باستانی

antiquity
quality of being very old; ancient times;

Longman:

1. [uncountable] ancient times
in antiquity:
** The common household fork was nearly unknown in antiquity.

2. [uncountable] the state of being very old:
** a building of great antiquity

3. [countable usually plural] a building or object made in ancient times:
** a collection of Roman antiquities


(Noun) عهد عتیق، روزگار باستان، قدمت

antiseptic
substance that prevents infection in a wound; adj.

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a medicine that you put onto a wound to stop it from becoming infected:
** He dabbed the cut with antiseptic.
** Mint is a mild antiseptic.

دوای ضد عفونی، گندزدا، ضدعفونی، تمیز و پاکیزه،مشخص، پلشت بر، جداگانه، پادگند

antithesis
contrast; direct opposite of or to; (adj.) antithetic or antithetical

Longman:

[ countable]
[formal] the complete opposite of something
antithesis of:
** This is not democratic. It is the antithesis of democracy.


(Noun) ( antitheses . pl ) پادگذاره، ضد و نقیض، تضاد، تناقض

antler
bony growth on the head of a deer

Longman:

[ countable]
one of the two horns of a male deer


(Noun) شاخ گوزن، شاخ فرعی، انشعاب شاخ

anvil
iron block used in hammering out metals

Longman:

[ countable]
a heavy iron block on which pieces of hot metal are shaped using a hammer


(Noun) سندان، روی سندان کوبیدن ، استخوان سندانی

apathy
lack of caring; indifference; lack of concern or interest in important matters; (ex.) he was sunk in apathy after his failure; (adj.) apathetic

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the feeling of not being interested in something, and not willing to make any effort to change or improve things:
** The campaign failed because of public apathy.


(Noun) بی حسی، بی عاطفگی، خون سردی، بی علاقگی

ape
imitate or mimic (a person’s behavior or manner)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. an animal that is similar to a monkey but has no tail or only a very short tail

2. go ape:[informal] to suddenly become very angry

میمون، بوزینه

aperture
opening; hole; adjustable opening in a camera that limits the amount of light

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [formal] a small hole or space in something

2. the small hole at the front of a camera, which can be made larger or smaller to let more or less light in when you take a photograph


(Noun) روزنه
(Noun) دهانه یا سوراخ، روزنه، گشادگی

apex
tip; summit; climax; highest point

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [technical] the top or highest part of something pointed or curved:
** the apex of the roof
** the apex of a pyramid

2. [formal] the most important position in an organization or society:
** The king was at the apex of society.

3. [formal] the most successful part of something:
** He was at the apex of his career.


(Noun) ( apices & apexes . pl ) نوک، سر، راس زاویه، تارک
(Noun) اوج، نوک

aphasia
loss of speech due to injury or illness


(Noun) (پزشکی) عدم قدرت تکلم (در نتیجه ضایعات دماغی)، افازی

aphorism
pithy maxim or saying; (adj.) aphoristic

Longman:

[ countable]
a short phrase that contains a wise idea


(Noun) سخن کوتاه، کلام موجز، پند، کلمات قصار، پند و موعظه

apiarist
person who keeps bees


(Noun) پرورش دهنده زنبور عسل

apiary
a place where bees are kept


(Noun) کندو، کندوی عسل

apiculture
bee-keeping


(Noun) پرورش زنبور عسل

aplomb
poise; composure in difficult situations; assurance; self-confidence

Longman:

[ uncountable]
with aplomb: in a confident and skilful way, especially when you have to deal with difficult problems or a difficult situation:
** Ms Sharpe handled their questions with great aplomb.


(Noun) حالت عمودی، (مجازا) اطمینان بخود، اعتماد بنفس

apocalyptic
prophetic; pertaining to revelations especially of disaster; (n.) apocalypse

Longman:

1. warning people about terrible events that will happen in the future:
** The novel presents us with an apocalyptic vision of the future

2. connected with the final destruction and end of the world, or with any great destruction:
** Before them was an apocalyptic landscape of burnt villages and bomb craters.


(Adjective) وابسته به کتاب مکاشفات یوحنا

apocryphal
(of a story) widely believed but untrue

Longman:

an apocryphal story is well-known but probably not true

دارای اعتبار مشکوک، ساختگی، جعلی

apogee
highest point; the point farthest from the earth; op. perigee

Longman:

[ countable]
[formal] the most successful part of something [= apex]:
** His political career reached its apogee in the 1960s.


(Noun) (هن.) اوج، نقطه اوج، ذروه، اعلی درجه، نقطه کمال

apolitical
having an aversion or lack of concern for political affairs

Longman:

not interested in politics, or not connected with any political party:
** a group of apolitical young professional people
** an apolitical organization


(Adjective) دارای شخصیت غیر سیاسی، بی علاقه بامور سیاسی، غیرسیاسی

apologist
one who writes in defense of a cause or institution; n. apologia

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who tries to explain and defend an idea, person, or political system
apologist for:
** an apologist for socialism


(Noun) مدافع، پوزش خواه، نویسنده رساله دفاعی

apophthegm
pithy, compact saying


(Noun) رجوع شود به: apothegm

apoplexy
stroke; loss of consciousness caused by too much blood in the brain

Longman:

[ uncountable]
an illness in your brain which causes you to suddenly lose your ability to move or think [= stroke]


(Noun) سکته، سکته ناقص

apostate
one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs; (n.) apostasy

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who has stopped believing in a religion or supporting a political party

از دین برگشته، مرتد

apothecary
druggist; pharmacist

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who mixed and sold medicines in the past


(Noun) داروگر، داروساز، داروفروش

apothegm
pithy, compact saying


(Noun) کلمات قصار، کلام موجز، امثال و حکم

apotheosis
elevation to godhood; an ideal example of something

Longman:

[ singular]
1. the best and most perfect example of something
apotheosis of:
** the apotheosis of romantic art

2. the best or highest point in someone's life or job [= apex]
apotheosis of:
** the apotheosis of his career

ستایش اغراق آمیز، رهایی از زندگی خاکی وعروج باسمانها

appall
dismay; shock deeply


(Verb - transitive) ترساندن، وحشت زده شدن

apparent
evident; easily seen or understood; appearing as such; (ex.) apparent improvement

Longman:

1. easy to notice [= obvious]
it is apparent (that):
** It soon became apparent that we had a major problem.
it is apparent from something that:
** It is apparent from scientific studies that the drug has some fairly nasty side effects.
it is apparent to somebody that:
** It was apparent to everyone that he was seriously ill.
** The difference in quality was immediately apparent.
** He left suddenly, for no apparent reason.

2. seeming to have a particular feeling or attitude, although this may not be true:
** He did well in his exams, despite his apparent lack of interest in his work.


(Adjective) پیدا، اشکار، ظاهر، معلوم، وار مسلم

apparition
ghost; phantom

Longman:

[ countable]
something that you imagine you can see, especially the spirit of a dead person:
** He stared at the strange apparition before him.
** a ghostly apparition of a man


(Noun) ظهور، خیال، روح، تجسم، شبح، منظر

appease
pacify or soothe; (ex.) appease a crying baby; (n.) appeasement

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want:
** They attempted to appease international opposition by promising to hold talks.


(Verb - transitive) ارام کردن، ساکت کردن، تسکین دادن، فرونشاندن، خواباندن، خشنود ساختن

appellation
name; title

Longman:

[ countable]
[literary] a name or title


(Noun) نام، اسم، لقب، (گ.) نامگذاری، وجه تسمیه

append
attach

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to add something to a piece of writing [↪ appendix]
append to:
** The results of the client survey are appended to this document.


(Verb - transitive) افزودن، الحاق کردن، اویختن، پیوست کردن

application
diligent attention; diligence; (v.) apply oneself

Longman:

1. written request: [uncountable and countable] a formal, usually written, request for something such as a job, place at university, or permission to do somethingCOLLOCATIONS COLLOCATIONS
job application:
fill in/out an application:
application form:
make/put in/submit an application :
accept somebody's application:
reject somebody's application:
process an application :(=deal with it)
planning application: (=a request for permission to build something)
letter of application:
application for:
** an application for a grant
application from:
** The university welcomes applications from overseas students.
** We receive hundreds of job applications each year.
** I filled in the application form and sent it off.
** You have to submit your application before the end of the month.
** I've put in an application for a transfer.
** He received a letter saying that his application had been rejected.
** It can take a long time for your visa application to be processed.
** The Council is currently reviewing the way it deals with planning applications.
** Thank you for your letter of application, which we received yesterday.

2. practical use: [uncountable and countable]practical purpose for which a machine, idea etc can be used, or a situation when this is used
application of/to/in:
** the applications of genetic engineering in agriculture
** The research has many practical applications.

3. [countable] a piece of computer software which does a particular job:
** We received training on a number of spreadsheet and database applications.

4. paint/liquid: [uncountable and countable] when you put something such as paint, liquid, medicine etc onto a surface
application of:
** The application of fertilizer increased the size of the plants.

5. effort: [uncountable] attention or effort over a long period of time:
** Making your new business successful requires luck, patience, and application.


(Noun) درخواست، درخواست نامه، پشت کار، استعمال- برنامه های کاربردی کامپیوتری
(Noun) کاربرد، استفاده

apposite
appropriate; fitting

Longman:

suitable to what is happening or being discussed [= appropriate; ≠ inappropriate]
apposite to:
** His observations are, indeed, apposite to the present discussion.


(Adjective) درخور، مناسب، بجا، مربوط

appraise
estimate value of; (n.) appraisal

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [formal] to officially judge how successful, effective, or valuable something is [= evaluate]:
** Greenpeace has been invited to appraise the environmental costs of such an operation.

2. [literary] to look carefully at someone or something to make an opinion about them:
** His eyes appraised her face.


(Verb - transitive) ارزیابی کردن، تقویم کردن، تخمین زدن

appreciate
be thankful for; increase in worth; be thoroughly conscious of; (adj.) appreciable: enough to be felt; (ex.) appreciable difference

Longman:

1. [transitive not in progressive] to understand how serious or important a situation or problem is or what someone's feelings are [= realize]
appreciate the significance/importance/value of something:
** He did not fully appreciate the significance of signing the contract.
appreciate that:
** We appreciate that caring for children is an important job.
appreciate what/how/why:
** It is difficult to appreciate how bad the situation had become.

2. [transitive] used to thank someone in a polite way or to say that you are grateful for something they have done:
** Thanks ever so much for your help, I really appreciate it.
** I appreciate your concern, but honestly, I'm fine.
** I'd appreciate it if you let me get on with my job.

3. [transitive] to understand how good or useful someone or something is:
** Her abilities are not fully appreciated by her employer.
** I'm not an expert, but I appreciate fine works of art.

4. [technical] to gradually become more valuable over a period of time [≠ depreciate]:
** Most investments are expected to appreciate at a steady rate.

قدردانی کردن (از)، تقدیر کردن، درک کردن، احساس کردن، بربهای چیزی افزودن، قدر چیزی را دانستن

apprehend
arrest (a criminal); dread; perceive; (n.) apprehension

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [formal] if the police apprehend a criminal, they catch him or her [= arrest]:
** The police have failed to apprehend the culprits.

2. [old-fashioned] to understand something:
** They were slow to apprehend the danger.


(Verb - transitive) دریافتن، درک کردن، توقیف کردن، بیم داشتن، هراسیدن

apprehensive
fearful; discerning

Longman:

worried or nervous about something that you are going to do, or about the future
apprehensive about/of:
** We'd been a little apprehensive about their visit.
apprehensive that:
** I was apprehensive that something would go wrong.
** Some had apprehensive looks on their faces.


(Adjective) بیمناک، نگران، درک کننده، باهوش، زودفهم

apprise
inform

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to tell or give someone information about something
apprise somebody of something:
** The district chairman was fully apprised of all the details.


(Verb - transitive) ( apprize =) (حقوق) براورد کردن، تقویم کردن، قیمت کردن، مطلع کردن، اگاهی دادن

approbation
approval

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] official praise or approval


(Noun) تصویب، قبولی، موافقت، پسند

appropriate
acquire; take possession of for one’s own use without permission; set aside for a particular purpose; allocate; (cf.) misappropriate

Longman:

correct or suitable for a particular time, situation, or purpose [≠ inappropriate]
appropriate for:
** clothes appropriate for a job interview
appropriate to:
** an education system which is more appropriate to the needs of the students
it is appropriate (for somebody) to do something:
** It would not be appropriate for me to discuss that now.
it is appropriate (that):
** It seemed somehow appropriate that we should begin our journey here.
appropriate time/place etc:
** I didn't feel that this was an appropriate time to mention the subject of money.
highly/entirely/wholly appropriate:
** I thought his remark was highly appropriate, given the circumstances.
** The timing of the announcement was particularly appropriate .
** Where appropriate, I delegate as much work as possible.
** Mark box 1 or 2, as appropriate.
** I can assure you that appropriate action will be taken.

اختصاص دادن، برای خود برداشتن، ضبط کردن، درخور، مناسب، مقتضی

appurtenances
subordinate possessions; something added to a more important thing

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:
** appurtenance

apropos
with reference to; regarding; (ex.) remarks apropos (of) the present situation; (adj.) (adv.)

Longman:

apropos of something: used to introduce a new subject that is related to something just mentioned:
** He had nothing to say apropos of the latest developments.
apropos of nothing: (=not relating to anything previously mentioned)
** Apropos of nothing, he suddenly asked me if I liked cats!

بجا، بموقع، شایسته

aptitude
fitness; talent

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. natural ability or skill, especially in learning
aptitude for:
** He has a natural aptitude for teaching.

2. aptitude test: a test that measures your natural skills or abilities


(Noun) استعداد، گنجایش، شایستگی، لیاقت، تمایل طبیعی، میل ذاتی

aquiline
curved; hooked; of or like an eagle; (ex.) aquiline nose

Longman:

aquiline nose: a nose with a curved shape like the beak of an eagle


(Adjective) عقابی، دارای منقار کج (شبیه عقاب)

arable
fit for growing crops; (ex.) arable land

Longman:

relating to growing crops:
** arable farming
** arable land (=land that is suitable for growing crops)

قابل کشتکاری، قابل زرع، زمین مزروعی

arbiter
person with power to decide a matter in dispute; judge who is in a position or make influential judgments; ex. supreme arbiter of fashion in beachwear

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone who influences society's opinions about what is stylish, socially acceptable etc:
** The designer has received rave reviews from such arbiters of taste as Elle magazine.

2. someone or something that settles an argument between two opposing sides [= judge]:
** The European Court of Justice will be the final arbiter (=make the final decision) in the dispute.


(Noun) حکم، داوری کردن، قاضی، داور

arbitrary
unreasonable or capricious; random; tyrannical; ex. arbitrary ruler

Longman:

decided or arranged without any reason or plan, often unfairly:
** an arbitrary decision
** the arbitrary arrests of political opponents

اختیاری، دلخواه، مطلق، مستبدانه، قراردادی

arbitrate
act as judge (at the request of both sides)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to officially judge how an argument between two opposing sides should be settled
arbitrate between:
** A committee will arbitrate between management and unions.
arbitrate in:
** The tribunal arbitrates in disputes.

حکمیت کردن (در)، فیصل دادن، فتوی دادن

arboreal
of or living in trees

Longman:

relating to trees, or living in trees


(Adjective) درختی، دارزی

arboretum
place where different trees and shrubs are studied and exhibited

Longman:

[ countable]
a place where trees are grown for scientific study


(Noun) ( arboreta & arboretums pl ) باغ، کشاورزی

arcade
a covered passageway usually lined with shops

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a covered passage at the side of a row of buildings with pillars and arches supporting it on one side

2. a covered passage between two streets with shops on each side of it

3. a large building or part of a building where there are many shops

4. an amusement arcade:
** arcade games


(Noun) گذرگاه طاقدار ، طاقه ای پشت سرهم

arcane
esoteric; secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated; (ex.) arcane ritual; (ex.) arcane process closed to the uninitiated listener

Longman:

secret and known or understood by only a few people:
** the arcane language of the law


(Adjective) ( arcana =) محرمانه

arch-
chief; first; (ex.) archbishop

Longman:

belonging to the highest class or rank:
** an archbishop (=an important bishop)
** our archenemy (=our worst enemy)
** the company's arch-rivals (=main competitors)

پیشوند: اصلی، عمده، بزرگ (در ساختن عناوین هم به کار میرود)، اعظم، ابر [archenemy و archduke]

archaeology
study of artifacts and relics of early mankind

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the study of ancient societies by examining what remains of their buildings, graves, tools etc


(Noun) باستان شناسی

archaic
antiquated; no longer used; belonging to the past; (n.)

Longman:

1. old and no longer used [= outdated; ≠ modern]:
** archaic words

2. old-fashioned and needing to be replaced:
** Many smaller radio stations broadcast on archaic equipment.

3. from or relating to ancient times:
** archaic civilizations


(Adjective) کهنه، قدیمی، غیر مصطلح (بواسطه قدمت)

archetype
prototype; primitive pattern

Longman:

[ countable usually singular]
a perfect example of something, because it has all the most important qualities of things that belong to that type
archetype of:
** France is the archetype of the centralized nation-state.


(Noun) طرح یا الگوی اصلی، نمونه اولیه

archipelago
group of closely located islands

Longman:

[ countable]
a group of small islands


(Noun) ( archipelagos & archipelagoes . pl ) مجمعالجزایر

archives
public records; place where public records are kept

بایگانی

ardor
heat; passion; zeal; (adj.) ardent


(Noun) گرمی، حرارت، تب و تاب، شوق، غیرت

arduous
hard; strenuous; (ex.) arduous work

Longman:

involving a lot of strength and effort
arduous task/work:
** the arduous task of loading all the boxes into the van
arduous journey/voyage:
** an arduous journey through the mountains


(Adjective) دشوار، پر زحمت، پرالتهاب، صعب الصعود

argot
slang; speech spoken by only a small group of people

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
expressions used by a particular group of people [= jargon]:
** teenage argot


(Noun) گویش عامیانه، زبان ویژه دزدان، لهجه ولگردان

aria
operatic solo; a song sung by one person in an opera or oratorio

Longman:

[ countable]
a song that is sung by only one person in an opera or oratorio


(Noun) (موسیقی) اواز یکنفره

arid
(of land) dry; barren; unproductive

Longman:

1. arid land or an arid climate is very dry because it has very little rain:
** Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions.

2. not having any new, interesting, or exciting features or qualities:
** My mind was arid, all inspiration gone.


(Adjective) خشک، بایر، لم یزرع، خالی، بیمزه، بیروح، بی لطافت

aristocracy
hereditary nobility; privileged class; government by nobility; (n.) aristocrat

Longman:

[countable usually singular] the people in the highest social class, who traditionally have a lot of land, money, and power:
** dukes, earls, and other members of the aristocracy
** the landed aristocracy (=who own a lot of land) ➔ upper class


(Noun) حکومت اشرافی، طبقه اشراف

armada
fleet of warships

Longman:

[ countable]
a large group of things, especially ships or boats:
** an armada of US naval vessels


(Noun) بحریه، نیروی دریایی، ناوگان

aromatic
fragrant; having a sweet smell; (n.) aroma: strong pleasant smell

Longman:

having a strong pleasant smell [= fragrant]:
** aromatic oils
** aromatic herbs

خوشبو، معطر، بودار، گیاه خوشبو

arraign
charge in court; indict

Longman:

[ transitive]
[law] to make someone come to court to hear what their crime is
arraign somebody on something:
** Thompson was arraigned on a charge of murder.


(Verb - transitive) احضار نمودن (بمحکمه)، (حقوق) با تنظیم کیفر خواست متهمی را بمحاکمه خواندن

array
marshal; draw up in order; arrange in order; clothe splendidly; adorn; (n.) fine clothes; ordered group; ex. in battle array

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [usually singular] a group of people or things, especially one that is large or impressive
array of:
** a dazzling array of flowers
** a bewildering array of options
a vast/impressive/wide array:
** There was a vast array of colours to choose from.

2. [technical] a set of numbers or signs, or of computer memory units, arranged in lines across or down

اراستن، درصف اوردن، منظم کردن، صف، نظم، ارایش، رژه ارایه

arrears
being in debt; money that should have been paid; work that should have been done

Longman:

[ plural]
1. be in arrears: if someone is in arrears, or if their payments are in arrears, they are late in paying something that they should pay regularly, such as rent:
** Many people are in arrears with their rent.
be four weeks/three months etc in arrears:
** The rent money is two months in arrears.
fall/get into arrears: (=become late with payments)

2. money that you owe someone because you have not made regular payments at the correct time:
** We've got 3 months arrears to pay.
rent/mortgage/tax arrears:
** He was ordered to pay rent arrears of £550.

3. paid in arrears: if your salary is paid in arrears, it is paid at the end of the period you have worked:
** a salary paid monthly in arrears


(Plural) وامی که موعد استرداد آن گذشته است، بدهی نکول شده، بدهی پس افتاده، دیون معوقه

**

** - he vanished leaving massive arrears
** - غیبش زد و دیون نپرداختهی عظیمی بهجا گذاشت
** - arrears payment
** - پرداخت وامها یا اقساط نکول شده
(Plural) (تعهد یا مسئولیت و غیره) انجام نشده، نا انجام
**

** - in arrear(s)
** - 1- نا انجام، نکول شده، نکولی، معوق، عقب، پس افتاده
** - his landlord complained that his rent was in arrears
** - صاحب خانهاش شکایت کرد که در پرداخت اجاره نکول کرده است
** -
** - 2- (انگلیس) پرداخت (حقوق و غیره) در آخر مدت نه پیشاپیش
** - you are five months in arrears
** - شما (در پرداخت یا انجام) پنج ماه تاخیر کردهاید
** - she was paid every four weeks in arrears
** - حقوق او در پایان هر چهار هفته پرداخت میشد

arrhythmic
lacking rhythm or regularity; (n.) arrhythmia


(Adjective) بی نواخت، (درشعر) بی وزنی، (پزشکی) نامنظمی ضربان نبض

arrogance
pride; haughtiness; (adj.) arrogant: unpleasantly self-important (with a strong confidence in one’s own importance and a lack of respect for other people)

Longman:

[ uncountable]
when someone behaves in a rude way because they think they are very important:
** I couldn't believe the arrogance of the man!


(Noun) گردن فرازی، خودبینی، تکبر، نخوت، گستاخی، شدت عمل

arroyo
gully; narrow channel formed by rainwater


(Noun) نهر، بستر نهر، ابگند

arsenal
storage place for military equipment

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a large group of weapons that someone has:
** Britain's nuclear arsenal
arsenal of:
** an arsenal of guns

2. a building where weapons are stored

3. the equipment, methods etc that someone can use to help them achieve something:
** a software package that's now part of our arsenal
arsenal of:
** He has a whole arsenal of cameras.


(Noun) قورخانه، زرادخانه، انبار، مهمات جنگی

artery
blood-vessel; (cf.) vein

Longman:

[ countable]
1. one of the tubes that carries blood from your heart to the rest of your body [↪ vein (1)]

2. a main road, railway line, river etc


(Noun) شریان، شاهرگ، سرخرگ

artful
exhibiting art or skill; deceitful; cunning; (cf.) artifice

Longman:

1. clever at deceiving people [= cunning]:
** artful tricks

2. designed or done in a clever and attractive way:
** artful photographs


(Adjective) حیله گر، نیرنگ باز، ماهرانه، صنعتی، مصنوعی، استادانه

articulate
effective; distinct; expressing ideas clearly; having clear sounds; having joints; (ex.) articulate speech; (v.) express thoughts and feeling clearly; pronounce clearly; unite by joints

Longman:

1. [formal] to express your ideas or feelings in words:
** Many people are unable to articulate the unhappiness they feel.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to pronounce what you are saying in a clear and careful way:
** He was so drunk that he could barely articulate his words.

3. [technical] if something such as a bone in your body is articulated to another thing, it is joined to it in a way that allows movement

4. articulate something with something:[formal] if one idea, system etc articulates with another idea, system etc, the two things are related and exist together:
** a new course that is designed to articulate with the current degree course

شمرده سخن گفتن، مفصل دار کردن، ماهر در صحبت، بندبند

artifacts
object made by human beings, either handmade or mass-produced

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.

artifice
deception; trickery

Longman:

1. [uncountable] the use of clever tricks to deceive someone [= cunning]

2. [countable] a trick used to deceive someone


(Noun) استادی، مهارت، هنر، اختراع، نیرنگ، تزویر، تصنع

artisan
a manually skilled worker

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who does skilled work, making things with their hands [= craftsman]


(Noun) صنعتگر، صنعتکار، افزارمند

artless
without guile; open and honest

Longman:

1. [literary] natural, honest, and sincere:
** artless sincerity

2. [formal] made or done without any skill:
** an artless copy of European art

بی هنر، بی صنعت، ساده، بی تزویر، غیر صنعتی

ascendancy
controlling influence; position of controlling influence; (cf.) in the ascendant

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a position of power, influence, or control [↪ ascendant]:
** moral ascendancy
ascendancy of:
** the ascendancy of nationalist forces
ascendancy over:
** Butler established ascendancy over his critics.
** He slowly gained ascendancy in the group.
in the ascendency:
** a teaching method that is currently in the ascendancy


(Noun) فراز، علو، بالا، تعالی، سلطه، تفوق، مزیت، استیلا

ascertain
find out for certain; make certain

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
[formal] to find out something:
** A postmortem was ordered to try to ascertain the cause of death.
ascertain whether/what/how etc:
** Tests were conducted to ascertain whether pollution levels have dropped.
ascertain that:
** Police had ascertained that the dead man knew his killer.
ascertain something from somebody/something:
** You should ascertain the level of insurance cover from the car rental company.


(Verb - transitive) معلوم کردن، ثابت کردن، معین کردن

ascetic
practicing self-denial; avoiding physical pleasures and comforts; austere; (ex.) ascetic life of buddhist monks; (n.) asceticism

Longman:

living without any physical pleasures or comforts, especially for religious reasons:
** an ascetic life

ریاضت کش، مرتاض، تارک دنیا، زاهد، زاهدانه

ascribe
refer; attribute; assign

Longman:

1. to claim that something is caused by a particular person, situation etc:
** The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.

2. to claim that something has been written, said, made etc by a particular person:
** a quotation that's often been ascribed to Marilyn Monroe

3. to believe that something or someone has a particular quality:
** Local people ascribe healing properties to this fruit.


(Verb - transitive) نسبت دادن، اسناد دادن، دانستن، حمل کردن (بر)، کاتب، رونویس بردار

aseptic
preventing infection; having a cleansing effect

Longman:

a wound that is aseptic is completely clean without any harmful bacteria

ضدعفونی شده، بی گند

ashen
ash-colored; deadly pale

Longman:

1. looking very pale because you are ill, shocked, or frightened [= white]:
** His face was ashen.

2. [literary] pale grey in colour:
** ashen hills


(Adjective) خاکستری، دارای رنگ خاکستری، شبیه خاکستر، مربوط به چوب درخت زبان گنجشک

asinine
stupid; (ex.) asinine remarks

Longman:

extremely stupid or silly [= ridiculous]:
** What an asinine remark!


(Adjective) خرصفت، (مجازا) نادان، خر، ابله، احمق

askance
with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval or district); (ex.) look askance at

Longman:

look askance (at somebody/something): if you look askance at something, you do not approve of it or think it is good:
** A waiter looked askance at Ellis's jeans.

چپ چپ، کج، از گوشه چشم، (مجازا) با چشم حقارت، بانگاه رشگ آمیز، از روی سوظن

askew
crookedly; slanted; at an angle

Longman:

[ not before noun]
not quite straight or in the right position:
** Matilda ran towards us with her hat askew.

با گوشه چشم، کج، چپ چپ، اریب وار

asperity
sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); (ex.) asperities of a russian winter

Longman:

[ uncountable]
if you speak with asperity, you say something in a way that is rough or severe, showing that you are feeling impatient


(Noun) خشونت (در صدا)، سختی، ترشی (در مزه)، تلخی و خشونت(دراخلاق)، نامطبوعی

aspersion
slanderous remark; (ex.) cast aspersions on

Longman:

[ countable]
an unkind remark or an unfair judgment:
** No one is casting aspersions on you or your men, Major.


(Noun) توهین، افترا ، اب پاشی و اب افشانی

aspirant
seeker after position or status

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who hopes to get a position of importance or honour

جویا، طالب، داوطلب کار یا مقام، ارزومند، حروف حلقی

aspire
seek to attain (position or status); long for; (ex.) aspire to become president; (ex.) aspire to/after the leadership

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to desire and work towards achieving something important
aspire to:
** college graduates aspiring to careers in finance
aspire to do something:
** At that time, all serious artists aspired to go to Rome.

ارزو داشتن، ارزو کردن، اشتیاق داشتن، هوش داشتن(با after یا for یا at )، بلند پروازی کردن، بالارفتن، فرو بردن، استنشاق کردن

assail
assault

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [usually passive] if you are assailed by unpleasant thoughts or feelings, they worry or upset you:
** Carla was suddenly assailed by doubts.

2. if a strong smell or loud sound assails you, you suddenly experience it:
** The smell of rotten meat assailed her nostrils.

3. to attack someone or something violently

4. to criticize someone or something severely
assail somebody for something:
** He was assailed for gross misconduct.


(Verb - transitive) حمله کردن، هجوم اوردن بر

assay
analyze (to discover what materials are present); evaluate (soil or ore)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to test a substance, especially a metal, to see how pure it is or what it is made of

سنجش، ازمایش، امتحان، عیارگری، طعم و مزه چشی،مزمزه، کوشش، سعی، سنجیدن، عیار گرفتن، محک زدن،کوشش کردن، چشیدن، بازجویی کردن، تحقیق کردن

assent
agree; accept; (n.) assessment

Longman:

[ uncountable]
approval or agreement from someone who has authority:
** a nod of assent
assent of:
** the assent of the Board of Governors
assent to:
** Parliament gave its assent to war.

موافقت کردن، رضایت دادن، موافقت، پذیرش

assert
state strongly or positively; demand recognition of (rights, claims, etc.); make a claim to (by forceful action); ex. assert one’s independence

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to state firmly that something is true:
** French cooking, she asserted, is the best in the world.
assert that:
** He asserted that nuclear power was a safe and non-polluting energy source.

2. assert your rights/independence/superiority etc: to state very strongly your right to something:
** Native Americans asserting their rights to ancestral land

3. assert yourself: to behave in a determined way and say clearly what you think:
** Women began to assert themselves politically.

4. assert itself: if an idea or belief asserts itself, it begins to influence something:
** National pride began to assert itself.


(Verb - transitive) دفاع کردن از، حمایت کردن، آزاد کردن، اظهار قطعی کردن، ادعا کردن، اثبات کردن
(Verb - transitive) ادعا کردن

assiduous
diligent

Longman:

very careful to make sure that something is done properly or completely [= meticulous]
assiduous in:
** He was assiduous in his attendance at church.


(Adjective) دارای پشتکار، ساعی، مواظب

assimilate
absorb; take (food) into the body and digest it; understand (knowledge) completely and be able to use properly; cause to become homogeneous (the people of a country or race in the wasy of behaving or thinking)

Longman:

1. [transitive] to completely understand and begin to use new ideas, information etc [= absorb]:
** It will take time to assimilate all these facts.

2. [intransitive and transitive] if people assimilate or are assimilated into a country or group, they become part of that group and are accepted by the people in that group
assimilate into:
** Refugees find it difficult to become assimilated into the community.

یکسان کردن، هم جنس کردن، شبیه ساختن، در بدن جذب کردن، تحلیل رفتن، سازش کردن، وفق دادن، تلفیق کردن، همانند ساختن

assuage
make less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe [= relieve]:
** Nothing could assuage his guilt.


(Verb - transitive) ارام کردن، تخفیف دادن

assumption
something taken for granted; the taking over or taking possession of; (ex.) her assumption of power; (v.) assume

Longman:

1. [countable] something that you think is true although you have no definite proof
assumption that:
** A lot of people make the assumption that poverty only exists in the Third World.
** My calculations were based on the assumption that house prices would remain steady.
** We are working on the assumption that the conference will take place as planned.
assumption about:
** People make a lot of assumptions about me.
underlying assumption: (=a belief that is used as the basis for an idea, but which may not be correct)

2. [formal] when someone starts to have control or power
assumption of:
** the assumption of responsibility


(Noun) فرض
(Noun) (مسئولیت، قدرت) قبول، تقبل

**

** - on the assumption that
** - با قبول این‌که، با فرض این‌که
(Noun) تظاهر، وانمود کردن
(Noun) عید عروج مریم مقدس (در روز ۱۵ اوت)
**

** - the Assumption
** - (با A بزرگ به معنی عید عروج مریم مقدس)

assurance
firm statement that something is certainly true; promise or pledge; certainty; confidence in one’s own ability; self-confidence; (ex.) in spite of all his assurances, he did not come back; (ex.) assurance of his loyalty; (ex.) the teacher lacked assurance in front of his class; (v.) assure; tell firmly with confidence; ensure; make (something) certain to happen; make (someone) feel sure; give confidence to; (adj.) assured: self-assured; confident in one’s own ability; showing certainty

Longman:

1. [countable] a promise that something will definitely happen or is definitely true, made especially to make someone less worried:
** Despite my repeated assurances, Rob still looked very nervous.
give/seek/receive an assurance (that):
** He gave an assurance that the work would be completed by Wednesday.

2. [uncountable] a feeling of calm confidence about your own abilities, or that you are right about something:
** the calm assurance with which she handled the horse
** 'Jack will never agree to that,' he said with assurance.

3. [technical] insurance, especially to provide money when someone dies [= insurance American English]


(Noun) اعتماد به نفس، اطمینان به خود
(Noun) گستاخی، پر رویی، بی پروایی
(Noun) قول، تضمین
(Noun) (در بریتانیا) بیمه‌ی عمر
(Noun) یقین، اطمینان، خاطر جمعی

asteroid
small planet

Longman:

[ countable]
one of the many small planets that move around the sun, especially between Mars and Jupiter

ستارک، سیارک، خرده سیاره، (درجمع) نوعی اتشبازی که شکل ستاره دارد، شبیه ستاره، ستاره مانند، ستاره ای، سیارات صغار مابین مریخ و مشتری، شهاب اسمانی

astigmatism
eye defect which prevents proper focus; op. stigmatism

Longman:

[ uncountable]
difficulty in seeing clearly that is caused by a change in the inner shape of the eye


(Noun) (پزشکی) بی نظمی در جلیدیه چشم

astral
relating to the stars

Longman:

1. relating to ideas and experiences connected with the mind and spirit rather than the body:
** out-of-body experiences and astral travel

2. relating to the stars


(Adjective) ستاره ای، شبیه ستاره، علوی

astringent
binding; causing contraction (stopping bleeding); harsh or severe; stringent; (ex.) astringent criticism

Longman:

1. an astringent liquid is able to make your skin less oily or stop a wound from bleeding

2. criticizing someone very severely:
** astringent remarks

3. having a sharp acid taste

گس، قابض، جمع کننده، سفت، داروی قابض، سخت گیر،دقیق، طاقت فرسا، شاق، تند و تیز

astronomical
enormously large or extensive

Longman:

1. [informal] astronomical prices, costs etc are extremely high

2. [only before noun] relating to the scientific study of the stars


(Adjective) نجومی، عظیم، بیشمار، وابسته به علم هیئت

astute
wise; shrewd; keen; seeing quickly something that is to one’s advantage

Longman:

able to understand situations or behaviour very well and very quickly, especially so that you can get an advantage for yourself [= clever]:
** an astute politician
** astute investments


(Adjective) زیرک، ناقلا، دانا، هوشیار، محیل، دقیق، موشکاف

asunder
into parts; apart; (v.) sunder

Longman:

be torn/split/rent etc asunder: to be torn violently apart or destroyed:
** a nation torn asunder by internal conflicts

جدا، سوا، دونیم، دوقسمتی

asylum
place of refuge or shelter; protection (religious or political)

Longman:

1. [uncountable] protection given to someone by a government because they have escaped from fighting or political trouble in their own country
apply for/seek/be granted asylum:
** He has been granted asylum in France.➔ political asylum

2. [old use] a mental hospital


(Noun) پناهگاه، بستگاه، گریزگاه، نوانخانه، یتیم خانه، تیمارستان

asymmetric
not identical on both sides of a dividing central line


(Adjective) بی قرینه، غیرمتقارن، بی تناسب
(Adjective) ( asymmetrical ) نامتقارن

atavism
resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback; (adj.) atavistic


(Noun) نیاکان گرایی، شباهت به نیاکان، برگشت بخوی نیاکان

atheistic
denying the existence of god; (n.) atheism


(Adjective) وابسته به انکار خدا

atone
make amends for; pay for; (ex.) atone for

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to do something to show that you are sorry for having done something wrong
atone for:
** Richard was anxious to atone for his thoughtlessness.

کفاره دادن، جبران کردن، جلب کردن، خشم (کسی را)فرونشاندن، جلب رضایت کردن

atrocity
brutal deed; (adj.) atrocious

Longman:

[ countable usually plural, uncountable]
an extremely cruel and violent action, especially during a war


(Noun) سبعیت، بیرحمی، قساوت

atrophy
wasting away; (v.) weaken and lose flesh and muscle (through lack of blood or lack of use)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if a part of the body atrophies or is atrophied, it becomes weak because of lack of use or lack of blood:
** therapy to prevent the leg muscles from atrophying

(پزشکی) لاغری، ضعف بنیه، (گیاه‌شناسی) نقصان قوهه نامیه،لاغرکردن، خشک شدن، لاغر شدن

attentive
alert and watchful; listening carefully; paying attention; considerate; thoughtful; politely helpful; (ex.) attentive audience; (ex.) he was attentive to the old lady; n. attentions: act of courtesy and consideration

Longman:

1. listening to or watching someone carefully because you are interested [≠ inattentive]:
** an attentive audience

2. making sure someone has everything they need
attentive to:
** Customers want companies that are attentive to their needs.


(Adjective) مواظب، ملتفت، متوجه، بادقت

attenuate
make thin; weaken

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to make something weaker or less:
** an attenuated form of the polio virus

ضعیف شذن رقیق کردن، نازک کردن، لاغر کردن، سبک کردن، تقلیل دادن، دقیق شدن، نازک، رقیق

attest
testify; bear witness

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to show or prove that something is true
attest to:
** Luxurious furnishings attested to the wealth of the owner.

2. to officially state that you believe something is true, especially in a court of law


(Verb - transitive) گواهی دادن (با to )، شهادت دادن، سوگند یاد کردن، تصدیق امضا کردن

attire
clothe; (n.) clothing; array; apparel

Longman:

[ uncountable]
clothes:
** business attire

اراستن، ارایش کردن، لباس پوشاندن، لباس، ارایش

attribute
essential quality; (v.) ascribe; explain

Longman:

1. to believe or say that a situation or event is caused by something:
** The fall in the number of deaths from heart disease is generally attributed to improvements in diet.

2. if people in general attribute a particular statement, painting, piece of music etc to someone, they believe that person said it, painted it etc:
** a saying usually attributed to Confucius

3. to believe or say that someone or something has a particular quality:
** One should not attribute human motives to animals.

نشان، خواص، شهرت، افتخار، نسبت دادن، حمل کردن (بر) صفت، نسبت دادن

attrition
rubbing away by friction; gradual decrease in numbers or strength; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment; (ex.) a war of attrition

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. the process of gradually destroying your enemy or making them weak by attacking them continuously:
** a war of attrition

2. when people leave a company or course of study and are not replaced:
** Staff reductions could be achieved through attrition and early retirements.


(Noun) ساییدگی، اصطکاک، مالش، خراش

atypical
not normal; not typical

Longman:

not typical or usual


(Adjective) غیرمعمولی، بیقاعده

audacious
daring; bold; (n.) audacity

Longman:

showing great courage or confidence in a way that is impressive or slightly shocking:
** the risks involved in such an audacious operation


(Adjective) بی پروا، بی باک، مته ور، بی باکانه، بیشرم

audit
examination of accounts of a business; official examination;

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. an official examination of a company's financial records in order to check that they are correct:
** the annual audit
internal audit: (=an audit carried out by a company's own staff)

2. [formal] a detailed examination of something in order to check if it is good enough:
** Start with an audit of existing services within the community.

رسیدگی، بازرسی، ممیزی، رسیدگی کردن ممیزی، رسیدگی

augment
increase; add to

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to increase the value, amount, effectiveness etc of something:
** Any surplus was sold to augment their income.

تکمیل کردن، افزودن افزودن، زیاد کردن، علاوه کردن، زیاد شدن، تقویت کردن

augury
omen; prophecy; sign of coming events; (v.) augur: predict; foretell; be a sign of (something in future)

Longman:

[ countable]
a sign of what will happen in the future


(Noun) پیشگویی، پیش بینی، پیش اگاهی

august
impressive; majestic

Longman:

impressive and respected:
** an august institution

همایون، بزرگ جاه، عظیم، عالی نسب ماه اوت، ماه هشتم سال میلادی

aureole
sun’s corona; halo; bright circle of light

Longman:

[ countable]
[literary] a bright circle of light [= halo]


(Noun) هاله یا نور گرداگرد سرمقدسین، هاله نورانی اطراف خورشید و سایر ستارگان

aurora
pertaining to the aurora borealis; (cf.) aurora australis


(Noun) سپیده دم، فجر، سرخی شفق، اغاز

auspicious
favoring success; giving signs of future success; cf. auspices

Longman:

showing that something is likely to be successful [≠ inauspicious]
auspicious start/beginning:
** Saccani's excellent recording is an auspicious start to what promises to be a distinguished musical career.


(Adjective) فرخ، فرخنده، خجسته، سعید، مبارک، بختیار، مساعد

austere
forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; (ex.) a monk’s austere life; (ex.) austere grandeur of the cathedral; n. austerity

Longman:

1. plain and simple and without any decoration:
** the church's austere simplicity

2. someone who is austere is very strict and serious - used to show disapproval:
** Her father is a very austere man.

3. an austere way of life is very simple and has few things to make it comfortable or enjoyable:
** Cuthbert led an austere life of prayer and solitude.


(Adjective) سخت، تند و تلخ، ریاضت کش، تیره رنگ

authenticate
prove genuine

Longman:

[ transitive]
to prove that something is true or real:
** The painting has been authenticated by experts.
** passwords which can authenticate electronic documents


(Verb - transitive) اعتباردادن، سندیت یا رسمیت دادن، تصدیق کردن

authoritarian
subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another’s will; (ex.) authoritarian regime/father

Longman:

strictly forcing people to obey a set of rules or laws, especially ones that are wrong or unfair:
** an authoritarian government
** Critics claim his management has become too authoritarian.

طرفدار تمرکز قدرت در دست یکنفر یا یک هیئت، طرفدار استبداد

authoritative
having the weight of authority; regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted; reliable; peremptory and dictatorial; (ex.) authoritative dictionary/ manner; (cf.) definitive

Longman:

1. an authoritative book, account etc is respected because the person who wrote it knows a lot about the subject:
** the most authoritative work on English surnames

2. behaving or speaking in a confident, determined way that makes people respect and obey you:
** He has a commanding presence and an authoritative voice.


(Adjective) (شخص) مقتدر، قدرتمند، توانا، با اقتدار
(Adjective) (رفتار، حالت) مقتدرانه، آمرانه، تحکم آمیز
(Adjective) (منبع، عقیده، قرارداد، نسخه، چاپ) معتبر، قابل اعتماد، موثق

autocratic
having absolute unchecked power; dictatorial; n. autocrat, autocracy


(Adjective) مطلق، مستقل، استبدادی

automaton
mechanism that imitates actions of humans; machine that works by itself

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a machine, especially one in the shape of a human, that moves without anyone controlling it [= robot]

2. someone who seems unable to feel emotions or to think about what they are doing


(Noun) ماشین، ماشین خودکار
(Noun) ادم مکانیکی، ماشینی که کارهای انسان را میکند، (مجازا) ادم بی اراده، الت دست

autonomous
self-governing; (n.) autonomy

Longman:

1. an autonomous place or organization is free to govern or control itself [= independent]
an autonomous region/state/republic etc:
** Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.

2. [formal] having the ability to work and make decisions by yourself without any help from anyone else [= independent]


(Adjective) دارای حکومت مستقل، خودمختار، (زیست شناسی) دارای زندگی مستقل، (گیاه‌شناسی) خودکاربطور غیر ارادی، (ر.ش.)واحد کنترل داخلی
(Adjective) خودگردان

autopsy
examination of a dead body; postmortem; (v.)

Longman:

[ countable]
an examination of a dead body to discover the cause of death [= post mortem British English]
** an autopsy report


(Noun) کالبد شکافی، (مجازا) تشریح مرده، تشریح نسج مرده(درمقابل biopsy )

auxiliary
offering or providing help; additional or subsidiary; n: helper; assistant

Longman:

1. auxiliary workers provide additional help for another group of workers:
** an auxiliary nurse
** auxiliary staff

2. an auxiliary motor, piece of equipment etc is kept ready to be used if the main one stops working properly:
** an auxiliary power supply
** auxiliary equipment

کمکی معین، کمک دهنده، امدادی، کمکی

avalanche
great mass of falling snow and ice

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a large mass of snow, ice, and rocks that falls down the side of a mountain:
** Two skiers were killed in the avalanche.

2. an avalanche of something: a very large number of things such as letters, messages etc that arrive suddenly at the same time:
** The school received an avalanche of applications.


(Noun) بهمن
(Noun) نزول ناگهانی و عظیم هر چیزی، بشکل بهمن فرود آمدن

avant-garde
group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; (cf.) vanguard

Longman:

1. avant-garde music, literature etc is extremely modern and often seems strange or slightly shocking:
** an avant-garde play

2. the avant-garde: the group of artists, writers etc who produce avant-garde books, paintings etc:
** a member of the avant-garde

(در هنر و ادبیات و غیره) پیشگام، پیشرو، جلودار، پیشتاز(ان)

**

** - Eugene Ionesco, the leader of the avant-garde of French writers
** - یوجین ایونسکو رهبر نویسندگان پیشگام فرانسه وابسته به مکتبهای هنری نوین و غیر سنتی (و مورد بحث و جنجال)
**

** - he detests avant-garde poetry
** - او از شعر پیشگام بیزار است

avarice
greediness for wealth

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] a desire to have a lot of money that is considered to be too strong [= greed]

زیادهجویی، از، حرص، طمع

avenge
take vengeance for something or on behalf of someone; (ex.) they avenged his death by burning the village; (ex.) he swore to avenge his brother; (ex.) they avenged themselves on their enemy.

Longman:

[ transitive]
[literary] to do something to hurt or punish someone because they have harmed or offended you:
** He wanted to avenge his brother's death.

کینه جویی کردن (از)، تلافی کردن، انتقام کشیدن (از)، دادگیری کردن، خونخواهی کردن

aver
state confidently; declare as true

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to say something firmly and strongly because you are sure that it is true [= declare]

از روی یقین گفتن، بطور قطع اظهار داشتن، اثبات کردن، تصدیق کردن، بحق دانستن

averse
reluctant; disinclined; not liking or opposed; (ex.) averse to cats/doing the house work

Longman:

1. not be averse to something: to quite enjoy something, especially something that is slightly wrong or bad for you:
** I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me.

2. [formal] unwilling to do something or not liking something
be averse to (doing) something:
** Jim is averse to using chemicals in the garden
** Some banks are risk averse (=do not like taking a risk).


(Adjective) بیزار، مخالف، متنفر، برخلاف میل

aversion
firm dislike

Longman:

[ singular, uncountable]
a strong dislike of something or someone [= hatred]
aversion to:
** Despite his aversion to publicity, Arnold was persuaded to talk to the press.
have an aversion to something:
** I have an aversion to housework.


(Noun) بیزاری، نفرت، مخالفت، ناسازگاری، مغایرت

avert
prevent; avoid; turn away (eyes or thought); (ex.) an accident was averted by his quick thinking; (ex.) she averted her eyes from the terrible sight.

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to prevent something unpleasant from happening:
** The tragedy could have been averted if the crew had followed safety procedures.

2. avert your eyes/gaze etc: to look away from something so that you do not see it:
** Henry averted his eyes as she undressed.


(Verb - transitive) برگرداندن، گردانیدن، دفع کردن، گذراندن، بیزارکردن، بیگانه کردن، منحرف کردن

aviary
enclosure for birds; large cage

Longman:

[ countable]
a large cage where birds are kept


(Noun) مرغدانی، جای پرندگان، پرنده خانه، لانه‌ی مرغ

avid
greedy; extremely eager for; (ex.) avid learner; (n.) avidity

Longman:

[ only before noun]
doing something as much as possible [= keen]:
** an avid collector of old jazz records
** an avid reader


(Adjective) حریص، ازمند، مشتاق، ارزومند، متمایل

avocation
secondary or minor occupation


(Noun) کار فرعی، کار جزیی، مشغولیت، سرگرمی، کار، حرفه، کسب

avow
declare openly; (n.) avowal

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to make a public statement about something you believe in:
** He avowed his commitment to Marxist ideals.


(Verb - transitive) نذر، پیمان، عهد، قول، شرط، تعیین، عزم، تصمیم، نذرکردن، قسم خوردن، وقف کردن

avuncular
of or like an uncle

Longman:

behaving in a kind and nice way to someone who is younger, rather like an uncle:
** an avuncular pat on the shoulder


(Adjective) عمو/دایی مانند، مثل یک عمو/دایی

awe
solemn wonder; feeling of respect mixed with wonder and fear; (v.) fill with awe; (adj.) awesome

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. a feeling of great respect and liking for someone or something:
** He felt great awe for the landscape.
with/in awe:
** Kate gazed at the statue with awe.

2. be/stand in awe of somebody: also hold somebody in awe to admire someone and have great respect for them and sometimes a slight fear of them:
** All of the neighbours were a little in awe of my mother.
** The villagers hold them in awe and think of them as gods.

هیبت، ترس (امیخته با احترام)، وحشت، بیم، هیبت دادن، ترساندن

awful
terrible; very bad

Longman:

1. very bad or unpleasant [= terrible]:
** The weather was awful.
** He is a pretty awful driver.
** That fridge smells awful.
** The last six months have been awful for her.
** I've stopped believing most of what he says. Isn't that awful?
** I'm sure Suzy is dead but the awful thing is not knowing how it happened.

2. [spoken] used to emphasize how much or how good, bad etc something is:
** An awful lot of people (=a large number of people) died in the war.
** He made me feel an awful fool.

3. look/feel awful: to look or feel ill:
** She's lost a lot of weight and she looks awful.

4. [literary] making you feel great respect or fear

مهیب یا ترسناک، ترس، عظمت

awl
pointed tool used for piercing

Longman:

[ countable]
a pointed tool for making holes in leather


(Noun) درفش، سوراخ کن

awry
distorted; crooked; bent; (ex.) our plans have gone awry.

Longman:

1. go awry: if something goes awry, it does not happen in the way that was planned:
** My carefully laid plans had already gone awry.

2. not in the correct position:
** He rushed out, hat awry.

منحرف، غلط، کج، چپ چپ، بدشکل، بطور مایل، زشت

axiom
self-evident truth requiring no proof

Longman:

[ countable]
[formal] a rule or principle that is generally considered to be true


(Noun) حقیقت اشکار، قضیه حقیقی، حقیقت متعارفه، بدیه یات،قاعده کلی، اصل عمومی، پند، اندرز
(Noun) اصل، اصل موضوعه

azure
sky blue

Longman:

having a bright blue colour like the sky

لاجورد، رنگ نیل، آسمان نیلگون، لاجوردی، سنگ لاجورد

babble
chatter idly or foolishly; make continuous sounds like water running gently over rounded stone; n.

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to speak quickly in a way that is difficult to understand or sounds silly:
** I have no idea what he was babbling on about.

2. to make a sound like water moving over stones

ور ور کردن، سخن نامفهوم گفتن، فاش کردن، یاوه گفتن، یاوه، سخن بیهوده، من ومن

bacchanal
noisy party with a lot of drinking

وابسته به باکوس ( bacchus ) الهه باده و باده پرستی، (مجازا) میگسار و باده پرست، عیاش

bacchanalia
the ancient roman festival in honor of bacchus

جشن باده گساری، جشن و شادمانی پر سر و صدا

bacchanalian
drunken

Longman:

a bacchanalian party involves a lot of alcohol, sex, and uncontrolled behaviour:
** a bacchanalian orgy

وابسته به جشن باده گساری و شادمانی

backslide
revert (to bad habits); (n.) reverter

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to start doing the bad things that you used to do, after having improved your behaviour

(از دین) برگشتن، سیرقهقرایی کردن

badger
pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; (ex.) the children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; (n.) a kind of mountain animal

Longman:

[ countable]
an animal which has black and white fur, lives in holes in the ground, and is active at night

(. n ): دستفروش، دورهگرد، خرده فروش، (ج.ش) گورکن،خرسک، شغاره( mustelidae )، (. vt ): سربسر گذاشتن، اذیت کردن، ازار کردن

badinage
teasing conversation; banter; joking talk

Longman:

[ uncountable]
conversation that involves a lot of jokes or humour


(Noun) خوشمزگی، لودگی، پرحرفی

baffle
frustrate; perplex

Longman:

[ transitive]
if something baffles you, you cannot understand or explain it at all:
** The question baffled me completely.

گیج یا گمراه کردن، مغشوش کردن، دستپاچه کردن،بی نتیجه کردن، پریشانی، اهانت

bait
harass; tease; torment; (ex.) badger baiting; (n.) food or other lure used to catch fish or trap animals

Longman:

[ singular, uncountable]
1. food used to attract fish, animals, or birds so that you can catch them:
** We used worms as bait.
** The fish wouldn't take the bait.

2. something attractive that is offered to someone to make them do something or buy something, especially when this is done in a dishonest way that tricks people:
** Plenty of people took the bait (=accepted what was on offer) and lost their life savings.

3. rise to the bait: to become angry when someone is deliberately trying to make you angry:
** Senator O'Brien just smiled, refusing to rise to the bait.

طعمه دادن، خوراک دادن، طعمه رابه قلاب ماهیگیری بستن،دانه، چینه، مایه تطمیع، دانه دام

baleful
evil; malignant in intent or effect; deadly; having a malign influence; portending evil; ominous; threatening; (ex.) baleful look

Longman:

expressing anger, hatred, or a wish to harm someone:
** a baleful look


(Adjective) محنت بار، مصیبت بار، غم انگیز

balk
stop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil; stop or get in the way of; frustrate

Longman:

1. [intransitive] to not want to do or try something, because it seems difficult, unpleasant, or frightening
balk at:
** Many people would balk at setting up a new business during a recession.
** Westerners balk at the prospect of snake on the menu.

2. [intransitive] if a horse balks at a fence, it stops in front of it and refuses to jump over it

3. in baseball, to stop in the middle of the action of throwing the ball to the player who is trying to hit it

4. [formal] to stop someone or something from getting or achieving what they want

مرز، زمین شخم نشده، (مج) مانع، مایه لغزش، طفره رفتن از، امتناع ورزیدن، رد کردن، زیرش زدن

ballast
heavy substance used to add stability or weight; v. supply with ballast

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. heavy material that is carried by a ship to make it more steady in the water

2. material such as sand that is carried in aballoon so that it can be thrown out to make it rise

3. a layer of broken stones that a road or railway line is built on

ماسه، هرچیز سنگینی چون شن و ماسه که در ته کشتیمیریزند تا از واژگون شدنش جلوگیریکند، بالاست،سنگینی، شن و خرده سنگی که در راه اهن بکارمیرود،کیسه شنی که در موقع صعود بالون پایین میاندازند، سنگو شن در ته کشتی یا بالون ریختن، سنگین کردن

balm
something that relieves pain; oily liquid with a pleasant smell from trees

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. an oily liquid with a strong pleasant smell that you rub into your skin, often to reduce pain:
** lip balm

2. [literary] something that gives you comfort
balm for/to:
** A drive through the countryside is balm for a weary soul.


(Noun) بلسان، مرهم

balmy
soft and mild (of air); fragrant

Longman:

balmy air, weather etc is warm and pleasant [= mild]:
** a balmy summer night


(Adjective) مرهم، دارای خاصیت مرهم، خنک کننده، خوشبو

banal
hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; clich´ed

Longman:

ordinary and not interesting, because of a lack of new or different ideas [= trivial]:
** conversations about the most banal subjects


(Adjective) پیش پا افتاده، مبتذل، معمولی، همه جایی

bandy
discuss lightly or glibly; discuss in a frivolous manner; exchange (words) heatedly; quarrel; (ex.) bandy words with

Longman:

bandy legs curve out at the knees

رد و بدل کردن، اینسو و انسو پرت کردن، بحث کردن،چوگان سر کج، چوگان بازی، کچ، چنبری

bane
posion; cause of ruin; (adj.) baneful: harmful; poisonous

Longman:

[ singular]
something that causes trouble or makes people unhappy
be the bane of something/somebody:
** Drugs are the bane of the inner cities.
** Her brother is the bane of her life.


(Noun) مایه هلاکت، زهر(درترکیب)، جانی، قاتل، مخرب زندگی

bank
heap; piled-up mass; embankment; lateral tilting (as of an aircraft in turning); (v.) pile up; protect with a bank; tilt in turning

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a local office of a bank:
** I have to go to the bank at lunch time. ➔ clearing bank, merchant bank

2. land along the side of a river or lake
bank of:
** the banks of the River Dee
** the river bank

3. blood/sperm/organ bank: a place where human blood etc is stored until someone needs it

4. clouds/mist: a large mass of clouds, mist etc:
** a fog bank
bank of:
** banks of mist

5. a large sloping mass of earth, sand, snow etc:
** She was sitting on a grassy bank.
bank of:
** steep banks of snow
** banks of flowers

بانک کنار، لب، ساحل، ضراب خانه، روی هم انباشتن، دربانک گذاشتن، کپه کردن، بلند شدن (ابر یا دود) بطورمتراکم، بانک داری کردن

bantering
joking talk; good-naturedly ridiculing; (n.)v. banter

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

bar
railing in a courtroom; legal profession; vertical line dividing a staff into equal measures; (ex.) prisoner at the bar; (v.) shut in or out with bars; forbid; exclude; (cf.) barrister

Longman:

[ countable]
1. one of the rooms inside a pub:
** The public bar was crowded.

2. a counter where alcoholic drinks are served:
** They stood at the bar.

3. a wine/coffee/snack etc bar: a place where a particular kind of food or drink is served

4. a breakfast bar: British English a place in your kitchen at home where you eat breakfast or a quick meal

5. a small block of solid material that is longer than it is wide:
** a chocolate bar
** a candy bar
bar of:
** a bar of soap

میل، میله، شمش، تیر، نرده حائل، (مجازا) مانع، جایویژه زندانی در محکمه، (با the )وکالت، دادگاه، هیئتوکلا ، میکده، بارمشروب فروشی، ازبین رفتن(ادعا) ردکردن دادخواست، بستن، مسدودکردن، بازداشتن، ممنوع کردن، بجز، باستنثا ، بنداب میله، شمش، مانع شدن

barb
sharp projection from fishhook, arrow, or other object; openly cutting remark

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the sharp curved point of a hook, arrow etc that prevents it from being easily pulled out

2. a remark that is clever and amusing, but also cruel

خار، پیکان، نوک، ریش، خاردارکردن، پیکاندارکردن

bard
poet

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a poet

2. the Bard: William Shakespeare

زره اسب، شاعر(باستانی)، رامشگر، شاعر و اوازخوان

barefaced
shameless and noticeable; blatant; bold; unconcealed; having no covering on the face; (ex.) barefaced lie

Longman:

[ only before noun]
used to describe a remark or action that is clearly untrue or unpleasant, and that shows that you do not care about offending someone [= blatant]:
** Why are you telling such barefaced lies?


(Adjective) بی شرم، گستاخ، پررو، روباز

bargain
agreement between two groups or people; something for sale at a price advantageous to the buyer; v: negotiate; trade; (ex.) bargaining power

Longman:

[ countable]
1. something you buy cheaply or for less than its usual price:
** There are no bargains in the clothes shops at the moment.
** It's an attractive little home, and I think it's a bargain.
** That second-hand table was a real bargain.
** Good knives don't come at bargain prices.
** Thousands of bargain hunters (=people looking for things to buy at low prices) queued up for hours.

2. an agreement, made between two people or groups to do something in return for something else
make/strike a bargain:
** Management and unions have struck a bargain over wage increases.
** I've kept my side of the bargain and I expect you to keep yours. ➔ drive a hard bargain: at hard1 (18)

3. into the bargain: also in the bargain American English in addition to everything else:
** I am now tired, cold, and hungry, with a headache into the bargain.

سودا، معامله، داد و ستد، چانه زدن، قرارداد معامله، خرید ارزان (با a )، چانه زدن، قرارداد معامله بستن

baroque
highly ornate

Longman:

relating to the very decorated style of art, music, buildings etc, that was common in Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries:
** furnished in a baroque style
baroque music/architecture/paintings etc:

غریب، ارایش عجیب وغریب، بی تناسب، وابسته به سبک معماری در قرن هیجدهم، سبک بیقاعده وناموزون موسیقی

barrage
barrier laid down by artillery fire; overwhelming profusion; large number of questions or statements; ex. a barrage of criticism

Longman:

1. the continuous firing of guns, dropping of bombs etc, especially to protect soldiers as they move towards an enemy
barrage of:
** a barrage of anti-aircraft fire

2. [singular] a lot of criticism, questions, complaints etc that are said at the same time, or very quickly one after another
barrage of:
** a barrage of questions

سدبندی، رگبارگلوله، بطورمسلسل بیرون دادن

barrister
counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law; (cf.) bar

Longman:

[ countable]
a lawyer in Britain who can argue cases in the higher law courts [↪ solicitor]


(Noun) وکیل مدافع، وکیل مشاور، وکیل دعاوی

barterer
trader; (v.) barter: trade; exchange good for other goods rather than money


(Noun) معامله گر پایاپای

base
contemptible; morally bad; inferior in value or quality; (ex.) base motives/conduct; (ex.) base metal such as iron

Longman:

[transitive usually passive] to have your main place of work, business etc in a particular place:
** The paper had intended to base itself in London.
be based in something:
** The new organization will be based in Dallas. ➔ based

to use something as the thing from which something else is developed:
** Their relationship was based upon mutual respect.
** an economy based on farming

پایه، مبنا، پایگاه ( bases . pl ) ته، پایه، زمینه، اساس، بنیاد، پایگاه،ته ستون، تکیه گاه، فرومایه، (موسیقی) صدای بم، بنیان نهادن، مبنا قراردادن، پست، شالوده

bask
luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to enjoy sitting or lying in the heat of the sun or a fire
bask in:
** Lizards were basking in the morning sun.

2. if a place basks in the sun, it is sunny and warm
bask in:
** Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as they arrived.

3. to enjoy the approval or attention that you are getting from other people
bask in:
** She basked in the admiration of the media.

افتاب خوردن، باگرمای ملایم گرم کردن، حمام افتاب گرفتن

bastard
illegitimate child

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [taboo] a very offensive word for someone, especially a man, who you think is unpleasant. Do not use this word.:
** • You lying bastard!

2. [spoken][informal][not polite] a man who you think is very lucky or very unlucky - often used humorously:
** • He's gone straight to the top, the lucky bastard.
** • The poor bastard fell off his horse.

3. [spoken][informal] something that causes difficulties or problems:
** Life's a bastard sometimes.

4. [old-fashioned] someone who was born to parents who were not married

حرامزاده، جازده

bastion
stronghold; something seen as a source of protection; ex. the last bastion of male chauvinism

Longman:

[ countable]
1. something that protects a way of life, principle etc that seems likely to change or end completely
bastion of:
** These clubs are the last bastions of male privilege.

2. a place where a country or army has strong military defences:
** Pearl Harbor was the principal American bastion in the Pacific.

3. [technical] a part of a castle wall that sticks out from the rest


(Noun) باستیون، سنگر و استحکامات

bate
let down; lessen the force of; moderate; restrain; ex. with bated breath; (cf.) abate

کم کردن، تخفیف دادن، پایین اوردن، نگهداشتن (نفس)،راضی کردن، دلیل وبرهان اوردن، بال زدن بطرف پایین، خیساندن چرم درماده قلیایی

battalion
army unit made up of four or more companies

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a large group of soldiers consisting of several companies (company)

2. a large group of people who are doing something with a particular purpose
battalion of:
** a battalion of supporters


(Noun) (نظ.) گردان، (درجمع) نیروهای ارتشی

bauble
trinket; cheap jewel; trifle

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a cheap piece of jewellery

2. a brightly coloured decoration that looks like a ball and is used to decorate a Christmas tree


(Noun) چیزقشنگ وبی مصرف، اسباب بازی بچه

bawdy
indecent; obscene; about sex in a rude funny way; (cf.) bawd

Longman:

bawdy songs, jokes, stories etc are about sex and are funny, enjoyable, and often noisy:
** a bawdy new play

زشت، هرزه، شنیع، مربوط به جاکشی، بی عفت

bearing
deportment; connection

Longman:

1. have a/some/no etc bearing on something: to have an effect or influence on something, or not have any effect or influence:
** Exercise has a direct bearing on how healthy you are.

2. lose your bearings:a) to become confused about where you are:
** I completely lost my bearings in the dark.b) to become confused about what you should do next:
** young men who have lost their bearings in a changing society

3. get/find your bearings:a) to find out exactly where you are:
** He paused to get his bearings.b) to feel confident that you know what you should do next:
** An introduction session helps new students get their bearings.

4. [singular, uncountable] the way in which you move, stand, or behave, especially when this shows your character

5. [technical] a direction or angle that is shown by acompass:
** learning to take a compass bearing


(Noun) طاقت، بردباری، وضع، رفتار، سلوک، جهت، نسبت

beatific
giving or showing bliss; blissful

Longman:

a beatific look, smile etc shows great peace and happiness


(Adjective) سعادت آمیز، فرخنده

beatitude
blessedness; state of great happiness


(Noun) سعادت جاودانی، برکت، (م.ل.) خوشابحال

bedizen
dress with vulgar finery


(Verb - transitive) از روی جلفی اراستن، زرق و برقدار کردن

bedraggle
wet thoroughly; (adj.) bedraggled: draggled


(Verb - transitive) خیس کردن، روی زمین کشیدن و چرک کردن، کثیف کردن

beeline
direct quick route

Longman:

make a beeline for somebody/something:[informal] to go quickly and directly towards someone or something:
** Rob always makes a beeline for beautiful women.


(Noun) خط راست، خط مستقیم، اقصر طرق

befuddle
confuse thoroughly


(Verb - transitive) گیج کردن، مست کردن، (بامشروب) سرمست کردن

beget
father; become the father of; produce; give rise to

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [old use] to become the father of a child

2. to cause something or make it happen:
** Hunger begets crime.

تولید کردن، بوجود اوردن، ایجاد کردن، سبب وجود شدن

begrudge
envy; give or allow unwillingly; grudge; (ex.) we shouldn’t begrudge him his success.

Longman:

[ transitive usually in negatives]
1. to feel angry or upset with someone because they have something which you think they do not deserve
begrudge somebody something:
** We shouldn't begrudge her this success.

2. to feel annoyed or unhappy that you have to pay something, give someone something etc
begrudge somebody something:
** The farmer's wife never begrudged him a meal at the end of the day.
begrudge doing something:
** I begrudge spending so much money on train fares.


(Verb - transitive) غرولند کردن، غبطه خوردن، مضایقه کردن

beguile
deceive; mislead or delude; cheat; pass time pleasantly; charm or attract; (ex.) beguiling smile

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to interest and attract someone:
** She was beguiled by his smooth talk.

2. to persuade or trick someone into doing something
beguile somebody into doing something:
** He was beguiled into buying another copy of her book.

3. to do something that makes the time pass in an enjoyable way

فریب خوردن، گول زدن، اغفال کردن

behemoth
huge creature; something of monstrous size or power

Longman:

[ countable]
[formal] something that is very large:
** a trade behemoth that shipped abroad $800 billion worth of goods


(Noun) (جانورشناسی) اسب ابی، کرگدن، هرچیز عظیم الجثه و نیرومند

beholden
obligated; indebted; owing thanks; obliged or indebted from gratitude

Longman:

feel/be beholden to somebody: to feel that you have a duty to someone because they have done something for you


(Adjective) مدیون، مرهون، زیر بار منت

behoove
be suited to; be incumbent upon; be right and necessary; (ex.) it behooves one to do.

واجب بودن، فرض بودن، اقتضا کردن، شایسته بودن، (درمورد لباس) آمدن به

behove
be suited to; be incumbent upon; be right and necessary; (ex.) it behooves one to do.

Longman:

it behoves somebody to do something:[formal] used to say that someone should do something because it is right or necessary, or it will help them


(Verb - transitive) واجب بودن، فرض بودن، اقتضا کردن، شایسته بودن، (درمورد لباس) آمدن به

belabor
harp on; dwell on tediously; explain or go over excessively or to a ridiculous degree; assail verbally; beat severely; attack physically


(Verb - transitive) آمدن و رفتن، با دقت روی چیزی کار کردن، شلاق زدن، (مجازا) زخم زبان زدن، سخت زدن

belated
delayed

Longman:

happening or arriving late:
** a belated attempt to increase support
belated recognition/realization/acknowledgement:
** The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success.
** a belated birthday present


(Adjective) دیرشده، دیرتر از موقع، از موقع گذشته

beleaguer
besiege or attack (with an army); harass; beset


(Verb - transitive) محاصره کردن، احاطه کردن

belie
contradict; give a false impression; disguise; (ex.) the poor sales belied our high hopes; (ex.) her smile belies her true feeling of displeasure.

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to give someone a false idea about something:
** Her pleasant manner belied her true character.

2. to show that something cannot be true or real:
** His cheerful smile belied his words.

افترا زدن (به)، بد وانمود کردن، دروغ گفتن، دروغگودرآمدن، خیانت کردن به، عوضی نشان دادن

belittle
disparage; depreciate

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to make someone or something seem small or unimportant:
** He tends to belittle her efforts.


(Verb - transitive) کسی را کوچک کردن، تحقیر نمودن، کم ارزش کردن

bellicose
warlike

Longman:

behaving in a way that is likely to start an argument or fight [= aggressive]:
** bellicose criticism


(Adjective) اماده بجنگ، جنگجو، دعوایی

belligerent
quarrelsome

Longman:

1. very unfriendly and wanting to argue or fight [= aggressive]:
** a belligerent attitude

2. [formal] a belligerent country is fighting a war against another country

متحارب، متخاصم، جنگجو، داخل درجنگ

bemoan
lament; moan for; express sorrow or disapproval of

Longman:

[ transitive]
to complain or say that you are disappointed about something:
** He was bemoaning the fact that lawyers charge so much.
bemoan the lack/absence/loss of something:
** an article bemoaning the lack of sports facilities in the area

سوگواری کردن (برای)، گریه کردن (برای)، افسوس خوردن (برای)

bemused
confused; lost in thought; preoccupied

Longman:

looking as if you are confused [= bewildered]:
** a bemused expression
bemused by:
** He looked slightly bemused by all the questions.

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

benediction
blessing

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a Christian prayer that asks God to protect and help someone


(Noun) دعای خیر، دعای اختتام، برکت، نیایش

benefactor
gift giver; patron; person who does good or who gives money for a good purpose

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who gives money for a good purpose:
** An anonymous benefactor donated $2 million.
benefactor of/to:
** a generous benefactor of the university


(Noun) صاحب خیر، ولی نعمت، نیکوکار، بانی خیر، واقف

beneficent
kindly; doing good

Longman:

helping people, or resulting in something good:
** the beneficent properties of natural remedies


(Adjective) نیکوکار، کریم، بخشنده

beneficial
helpful; useful; advantageous

Longman:

having a good effect [≠ detrimental]:
** a drug that has a beneficial effect on the immune system
beneficial to/for:
** Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the environment.
** an arrangement that is mutually beneficial (=it has advantages for everyone who is involved)


(Adjective) سودمند، مفید، نافع، پرمنفعت، بااستفاده
(Adjective) ذی‌نفع، سودبرنده

beneficiary
person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone who gets advantages from an action or change
beneficiary of:
** The rich were the main beneficiaries of the tax cuts.

2. someone who receives money or property from someone else who has died
beneficiary of:
** He was the chief beneficiary of his father's will.


(Noun) (حقوق) ذی‌نفع، موقوف‌علیه

benefit
advantage; anything that brings help, advantage, or profit; money provided by the government to the people; fund-raising public entertainment; (ex.) unemployment benefit; (v.) receive benefits; be beneficial to; give benefits

Longman:

1. advantage: [uncountable and countable] an advantage, improvement, or help that you get from somethingCOLLOCATIONS COLLOCATIONS
be of benefit (to somebody) : (=be useful to someone)
have the benefit of something:
get/gain/derive benefit (from something):
reap the benefits (of something) : (=enjoy the advantages of something)
the full benefit (of something):
for somebody's benefit:
be to the benefit of somebody:
mutual benefit: (=useful to two or more people)
with/without the benefit (of something) : (=using/not using something)
economic/financial/social benefits:
health benefits:
something outweighs the benefits of something: (=something is more important than the benefits)
benefit of:
** the benefits of contact lenses
** The new credit cards will be of great benefit to our customers.
** I never had the benefit of a university education.
** We want him to get maximum benefit from the course.
** We're just beginning to reap the benefits of all our hard work.
** You need to spend at least a week there to get the full benefit.
** Could you just explain again for Mark's benefit?
** I hope that the decision taken today will be to the benefit of the whole nation.
** My proposition, I assure you, would be to our mutual benefit.
** Most motorists manage without the benefit of four-wheel drive.
** the airport's economic benefit to the region
** the health benefits of moderate wine consumption
** How does one decide whether the economic costs of regulation will outweigh the economic benefits?

2. money provided by the government to people who are sick, unemployed, or have little money [= welfare American English]
unemployment/housing/child etc benefit:
** You might be entitled to housing benefit.
on benefit:
** families on benefit
** those people eligible to claim benefit

3. extra money or other advantages that you get as part of your job or from insurance that you have:
** We offer an excellent benefits package.
** medical benefits ➔ fringe benefit

4. give somebody the benefit of the doubt: to accept what someone tells you even though you think they may be wrong or lying, but you cannot be sure:
** The referee gave him the benefit of the doubt.

5. with the benefit of hindsight/experience: used to say it is easier to know the right thing to do after something has happened or if you have a lot of experience:
** He admitted that with the benefit of hindsight the original launch had not been large enough.


(Noun) سود، صرفه، منفعت، نفع، استفاده
(Noun) نیکی، احسان، خوبی

**

** - for somebody's benefit
** - به خاطر کمک به کسی، برای راهنمایی کسی
** - give somebody the benefit of the doubt
** - (در نبود شواهد کافی) کسی را بی‌گناه دانستن، حرف کسی را اجمالا درست فرض کردن
** - a benefit concert
** - کنسرت خیریه
** - a benefit match
** - مسابقه‌ی خیریه
** - benefits in kind
** - کمک‌های غیرنقدی، کمک‌های جنسی
** - unemployment benefit
** - بیمه‌ی بیکاری
(Noun) امتیاز، مزیت، حُسن
(Noun) (در بیماری، بیکاری و غیره) کمک هزینه، مزایا، بیمه
(Verb - transitive) فایده رساندن به، مفید بودن برای، سودمند بودن برای
(Verb - intransitive) فایده بردن، سود بردن، بهره بردن

benevolent
generous; charitable; having a wish to do good

Longman:

kind and generous:
** A benevolent uncle paid for her to have music lessons.
** a benevolent smile


(Adjective) کریم، نیکخواه، خیراندیش

benign
kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); (ex.) benign tumor

Longman:

1. kind and gentle:
** He shook his head in benign amusement.

2. a benign tumour (=unnatural growth in the body) is not caused by cancer [≠ malignant]


(Adjective) مهربان، ملایم، لطیف، (پزشکی) خوش خیم، بی خطر

benison
blessing


(Noun) دعای خیر، نعمت خدا داده، سعادت جاودانی

bent
determined; (ex.) bent on advancing in the business; n: natural talent or inclination

Longman:

the past tense and past participle of bend

علف نیزار، علف بوریا، علف شبیه نی زمان گذشته ساده فعل Bend قسمت سوم فعل Bend

bequeath
leave to someone by means of a will; hand down in his will; (n.) bequest

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to officially arrange for someone to have something that you own after your death [= leave]
bequeath something to somebody:
** She bequeathed her collection of paintings to the National Gallery.
bequeath somebody something:
** His father bequeathed him a fortune.

2. to pass knowledge, customs etc to people who come after you or live after you


(Verb - transitive) وقف کردن، تخصیص دادن به، (از راه وصیت نامه) بکسی واگذار کردن

berate
scold strongly

Longman:

[ transitive + for]
[formal] to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong


(Verb - transitive) سرزنش کردن

bereaved
deprived of (someone beloved through death)

Longman:

1. having lost a close friend or relative because they have recently died:
** a bereaved mother

2. the bereaved: the person or people whose close friend or relative has just died:
** Our sympathies go to the bereaved.


(Verb - transitive) داغدیده ،محروم

bereavement
state of being deprived of something valuable or beloved; state of being bereaved or bereft

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
when someone loses a close friend or relative because they have died:
** depression caused by bereavement or divorce


(Noun) محرومیت، داغداری، عزاداری

bereft
deprived of (something valuable); lacking

Longman:

1. bereft of hope/meaning/life etc: completely without any hope etc:
** The team now seems bereft of inspiration.

2. feeling very sad and lonely:
** His death in 1990 left her completely bereft.

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

berserk
mad with violent anger; frenzied; madly excited

Longman:

go berserk:[informal] to become very angry and violent:
** Dad went berserk when he found out.

دیوانه، شوریده، اشفته، ازجا دررفته

beseech
beg; plead with

Longman:

[ transitive]
to eagerly and anxiously ask someone for something [= beg]

درجستجوی چیزی بودن، التماس کردن، تقاضا کردن، استدعا کردن

beset
harass or trouble from all directions; hem in

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [usually passive] to make someone experience serious problems or dangers
beset somebody with/by something:
** The business has been beset with financial problems.
** the injuries which have beset the team all season

2. besetting sin: a particular bad feature or habit - often used humorously

احاطه کردن، مزین کردن، حمله کردن بر، بستوه اوردن، عاجز کردن

besiege
surround with armed forces; harass (with requests); annoy continually

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to surround a city or castle with military force until the people inside let you take control:
** In April 655, Osman's palace was besieged by rebels.

2. [usually passive] if people, worries, thoughts etc, besiege you, you are surrounded by them:
** Miller was besieged by press photographers.

3. be besieged with letters/demands/requests etc: to receive a very large number of letters, requests etc


(Verb - transitive) محاصره کردن

besmirch
soil; defile; make dirty

Longman:

[ transitive]
[literary] besmirch somebody's honour/reputation: to spoil the good opinion that people have of someone


(Verb - transitive) لکه دار کردن

bestial
beastlike; brutal; inhuman; very cruel

Longman:

behaving like an animal, especially in a cruel way:
** bestial and barbaric acts


(Adjective) دامی، حیوانی، شبیه حیوان، جانور خوی

bestow
confer

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to give someone something of great value or importance
bestow something on/upon somebody:
** honours bestowed on him by the Queen


(Verb - transitive) بخشیدن، ارزانی داشتن (با on یا upon )

betoken
signify; indicate; be a sign of

Longman:

[ transitive]
[literary] to be a sign of something


(Verb - transitive) حاکی بودن از، دلالت کردن بر، دال بر امری

betray
be unfaithful; reveal (unconsciously or unwillingly); ex. her trembling hands betray her anxiety.

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. friends: to be disloyal to someone who trusts you so that they are harmed or upset:
** He felt that she had betrayed him.
betray somebody to somebody:
** What kind of man would betray his own sister to the police?
** She had betrayed her parents' trust.
** I would never betray a confidence (=tell a secret which someone has trusted me with).

2. country: to be disloyal to your country, company etc, for example by giving secret information to its enemies:
** people who betray their country for money

3. emotions: [not in progressive or passive] to show feelings that you are trying to hide [= give away]:
** His voice betrayed his nervousness.
** His face betrayed nothing (=showed no emotion).

4. truth: to show that something is true or exists, especially when it is not easily noticed [= give away]:
** The slightest sound might betray his presence.
** The crumpled sheets betrayed the fact that someone had been sleeping there.

5. betray your beliefs/principles/ideals etc: to stop supporting your old beliefs and principles, especially in order to get power or avoid trouble


(Verb - transitive) تسلیم دشمن کردن، خیانت کردن به، فاش کردن

betroth
become engaged to marry


(Verb - transitive) نامزدکردن، مراسم نامزدی بعمل اوردن

bevy
large group; (ex.) a bevy of starlets

Longman:

[ singular]
a large group of people of the same kind, especially girls or young women
bevy of:
** a bevy of beauties


(Noun) دسته، گروه (دختران)

beware
be cautious (of)

Longman:

[ intransitive,transitive only in imperative and infinitive]
used to warn someone to be careful because something is dangerous
beware of:
** Beware of the dog!
beware of doing something:
** They should beware of making hasty decisions.
** Police warned drivers to beware.

زنهاردادن، برحذربودن، حذرکردن از، ملتفت بودن

bewitch
cast a spell over; captivate completely

Longman:

[ transitive usually passive]
1. to make someone feel so interested or attracted that they cannot think clearly:
** Tim's utterly bewitched by her.

2. to get control over someone by putting a magic spell on them


(Verb - transitive) افسون کردن، فریفتن، مسحور کردن

bicameral
two-chambered as a legislative body

Longman:

[ only before noun]
a bicameral legislature (=part of the government that makes laws) consists of two parts, such as the Senate and the House of Representatives in the US Congress [↪ unicameral]


(Adjective) دارای دو مجلس مقننه (مجلس شورا وسنا)

bicker
quarrel

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to argue, especially about something very unimportant:
** I wish you two would stop bickering.
bicker about/over:
** They kept bickering over who should answer the phone.

دعواومنازعه، پرخاش کردن، ستیزه کردن

bid
command; utter (a greeting); offer as a price; (n.) offer of a price; amount offered; earnest effort to gain something; (ex.) bid for freedom

Longman:

[ countable]
1. an offer to pay a particular price for something, especially at an auction
bid for:
** They put in a bid for the house.
** the person who places the highest bid
** We've made a bid of nearly £400m for the company.
** A takeover bid for the airline was launched today.

2. an offer to do work or provide services for a specific price
bid for:
** rival bids for the cleaning contract

3. an attempt to achieve or obtain something
bid for:
** a bid for power
bid to do something:
** a desperate bid to free herself from a loveless marriage

4. a statement of how many points you hope to win in a card game

فرمودن، امر کردن، دعوت کردن، پیشنهاد کردن، توپ زدن،خداحافظی کردن، قیمت خریدرا معلوم کردن، مزایده، پیشنهاد

biennial
every two years

Longman:

1. a biennial event happens once every two years [↪ annual]

2. a biennial plant stays alive for two years

دوساله، درخت دوساله

bifurcated
divided into two branches; forked

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:
** bifurcate

bigot
one who is intolerant (in matters of religion or politics)

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who is bigoted:
** racist bigots


(Noun) ادم ریاکار، ادم خرافاتی، متعصب

bigotry
stubborn intolerance

Longman:

[ uncountable]
bigoted behaviour or beliefs:
** sensational news stories that just encourage bigotry


(Noun) تعصب، سرسختی درعقیده، عمل تعصب آمیز

bilious
suffering from indigestion; sick from having too much bile; irritable; easily irritated

Longman:

1. feeling as if you might vomit:
** She felt a bilious attack coming on.

2. very unpleasant:
** bilious green walls

3. [literary] bad-tempered


(Adjective) صفراوی، زرداب ریز، صفرایی مزاج، سودایی مزاج

bilk
swindle; cheat

Longman:

[ transitive]
[informal] to cheat someone, especially by taking their money [= swindle]
bilk somebody out of something:
** Consumers were bilked out of more than $15,000.

گول، کلاه سر (کسی) گذاشتن، از پرداخت (وجهی) طفره زدن، چرند

billow
large wave of water; a great swell or surge (of smoke); (v.) surge, swell, roll in billows

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. also billow out if something made of cloth billows, it moves in the wind:
** Her long skirt billowed in the breeze.

2. if a cloud or smoke billows, it rises in a round mass
billow out of/up etc:
** There was smoke billowing out of the windows.

موج بزرگ اب، خیزاب، موج زدن (از اب یا جمعیت یاابر)، بصورت موج درآمدن

billowing
swelling out in waves; surging

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:
** billing

biting
sharply painful to the body or mind; (ex.) biting wind/remarks

Longman:

1. a biting wind is unpleasantly cold [= icy]:
** A biting wind blew down from the hills.

2. a biting criticism, remark etc is cruel or unkind:
** a biting satire on corruption

گزنده، زننده، تند، تیز، (مجازا) طعنه آمیز

bitter
having a sharp biting taste; causing sharp pain to the body or mind; filled with resentment, disappointment, or other unpleasant feelings; (ex.) bitter wind/sorrow/tears

Longman:

1. feeling angry, jealous, and upset because you think you have been treated unfairly [↪ bitterly]
bitter about:
** I feel very bitter it.
** a bitter old man

2. [only before noun] making you feel very unhappy and upset [↪ bitterly]
a bitter disappointment/blow:
** If he failed, it would be a bitter disappointment to his parents.
** His photo stirred up bitter memories.
from bitter experience: (=because of your own very unpleasant experiences)
** She knew from bitter experience that it would be impossible to talk it over with Julian.

3. a bitter argument, battle etc is one in which people oppose or criticize each other with strong feelings of hate and anger
bitter dispute/battle/struggle etc:
** The couple are locked in a bitter battle for custody of the children.
** The government faces bitter opposition to these policies.
** The countries are still bitter enemies.

4. having a sharp strong taste like black coffee without sugar [↪ sour; sweet]:
** Enjoy the beer's bitter taste as you slowly drink it.
** bitter chocolate

5. unpleasantly cold [↪ bitterly]:
** a bitter wind
** the bitter cold of the Midwestern winters


(Adjective) (مزه) تلخ
(Adjective) (شخص، نگاه، لحن) تلخ، ناخوشایند، (نقد، سخن) تند، زننده، زهرآگین، نیش‌دار، (سرنوشت، تجربه) شوم، دردناک، غم‌انگیز، (نفرت) عمیق، (اعتراض، نزاع، دشمنی) سخت، شدید، (درد) تحمل‌ناپذیر، توان‌فرسا
(Adjective) (سرما، زمستان) سخت، شدید، کشنده
(Noun) تلخی
(Noun) (در بریتانیا) آبجوی تلخ، آبجوی انگلیسی

bivouac
temporary encampment; camp without tents; v.

Longman:

[ countable]
a temporary camp built outside without any tents

اردوی موقتی، شب را بیتوته کردن

bizarre
fantastic; violently contrasting; noticeably odd; strikingly unconventional

Longman:

very unusual or strange:
** a bizarre coincidence
** dancers in rather bizarre costumes


(Adjective) غریب وعجیب، غیر مانوس، ناشی از هوس، خیالی، وهمی

blackball
vote against (an applicant); ostracize; (n.) negative vote

Longman:

[ transitive]
to vote against someone, especially so that they cannot join a club or social group

رای مخالف دادن، مخالفت کردن، تحریم کردن

blanch
bleach; whiten; make white or pale

Longman:

1. to put vegetables, fruit, or nuts into boiling water for a short time:
** Blanch the peaches and remove the skins.

2. [literary] to become pale because you are frightened or shocked:
** Patrick visibly blanched.

رنگ پریده یاسفید شدن، سفیدکردن (با اسیدوغیره)،سفیدپوست کردن، رنگ پریده کردن، رنگ چیزی را بردن

bland
soothing or mild (food); agreeable; causing no trouble or offence

Longman:

1. without any excitement, strong opinions, or special character [= dull]:
** a few bland comments

2. food that is bland has very little taste:
** a bland diet

ملایم، شیرین و مطلوب، نجیب، ارام، بی مزه

blandishment
flattery


(Noun) نوازش، ریشخند، چاپلوس

blare
loud or harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to make a very loud unpleasant noise:
** Horns blared in the street outside.

صداکردن (مثل شیپور)، جار زدن، بافریاد گفتن

blase
bored with pleasure or dissipation; uninterested or bored

Longman:

not worried or excited about things that most people think are important, impressive etc
blasé about:
** He's very blasé about money now that he's got that job.


(Noun) بیزار از عشرت در اثر افراط درخوشی

blasphemy
irreverence; sacrilege; cursing; bad language about god or holy things; (v.) blasphem; (adj.) blasphemous; cf. sacrilege

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
something you say or do that is insulting to God or people's religious beliefs


(Noun) کفر، ناسزا (گویی)، توهین به مقدسات

blatant
extremely (offensively) obvious; loudly offensive; ex. blatant lie; (n.) blatancy

Longman:

something bad that is blatant is very clear and easy to see, but the person responsible for it does not seem embarrassed or ashamed:
** blatant discrimination


(Adjective) پرسروصدا، شلوغ کننده، خودنما، خشن، رسوا

bleak
cold or cheerless; frigid; unlikely to be favorable; depressing

Longman:

1. without anything to make you feel happy or hopeful
a bleak future/prospect:
** The company still hopes to find a buyer, but the future looks bleak.

2. cold and without any pleasant or comfortable features:
** a bleak January afternoon
** The landscape was bleak.

بی حفاظ، درمعرض بادسرد، متروک، غم افزا

blemish
mar; spoil the beauty or perfection of; (n.) flaw or defect (that spoils perfection); (ex.) blemishes in the crystal; (cf.) unblemished

Longman:

[ countable]
a small mark, especially a mark on someone's skin or on the surface of an object, that spoils its appearance

خسارت واردکردن، اسیب زدن، لکه دار کردن، بدنام کردن، افترا زدن، نقص

blight
plant disease; (v.) infect with blight; ruin; destroy

Longman:

1. an unhealthy condition of plants in which parts of them dry up and die

2. [singular]something that makes people unhappy or that spoils their lives or the environment they live in
blight on:
** Her guilty secret was a blight on her happiness.
** the blight of poverty

باد زدگی یا زنگ زدگی، زنگار، افت، پژمردن

blighted
suffering from a disease; destroyed

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

bliss
complete happiness; (adj.) blissful

Longman:

[ uncountable]
perfect happiness or enjoyment
domestic/wedded/marital bliss:
** six months of wedded bliss
** I didn't have to get up till 11 - it was sheer bliss.


(Noun) خوشی، سعادت، برکت

blithe
gay; joyous

Longman:

1. seeming not to care or worry about the effects of what you do:
** a blithe disregard for the facts

2. [literary] happy and having no worries

مهربان، خوش قلب، خوش، ادم شوخ ومهربان، مهربانی،دوستانه، نرم وملایم، شوخ، شاددل

blithesome
gay; joyous


(Adjective) خوشدل، شوخ، بشاش، سرحال

bloated
(unpleasantly) swollen or puffed as with water or air

Longman:

1. full of liquid, gas, food etc, so that you look or feel much larger than normal:
** a red bloated face
** I feel really bloated after that meal.

2. if you describe an organization as bloated, you mean that it is too big and does not work effectively:
** the bloated state bureaucracy

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:
** belated

blotch
spot; blot; (cf.) blot + botch

Longman:

[ countable]
a pink or red mark on the skin, or a coloured mark on something

دمل، لکه، خال، جوش چرک دار، کورک، دارای رنگ غیرواضح، رنگ محو

blowhard
talkative boaster; braggart

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who talks too much and has very strong opinions

ادم لاف زن، پرحرف

bludgeon
club; heavy-headed weapon; (v.)

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to hit someone several times with something heavy:
** He was bludgeoned to death with a hammer.

2. to force someone to do something by making threats or arguing with them
bludgeon into:
** I won't let myself be bludgeoned into marriage.

3. bludgeon your way through/to/past etc somebody/something: to get somewhere or achieve something by pushing past other people, or not caring about them

چماق، چوبدستی سرکلفت، باچماق زدن، مجبورکردن، کتک زدن

blue
gloomy; depressed

Longman:

1. having the colour of the sky or the sea on a fine day [↪ navy, navy blue]:
** the blue waters of the lake
dark/light/pale/bright blue:
** a dark blue raincoat

2. [informal] sad and without hope [= depressed]:
** I've been feeling kind of blue.

3. [informal] blue jokes, stories etc are about sex, in a way that might offend some people ➔ blue movie

4. argue/talk etc till you're blue in the face:[informal] to argue, talk etc about something a lot, but without achieving what you want:
** You can tell them till you're blue in the face, but they'll still do what they want.

5. blue with cold: especially British English someone who is blue with cold looks extremely cold

آبی، نیلی، نیلگون

blues
state of depression or melancholy; style of slow, mournful music (evolved from southern black american songs)

افسردگی وحزن واندوه، نوعی سرود وموسیقی جاز

bluff
pretense (of strength); deception; high cliff; (adj.) rough but good-natured

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to pretend something, especially in order to achieve what you want in a difficult or dangerous situation:
** You wouldn't really tell her. You're bluffing!
bluff your way out of/through/past etc somebody/something: (=go somewhere or succeed in doing something by deceiving someone)
** I hope we'll be able to bluff our way past the guard.
** 'I was with Don,' she said, deciding to bluff it out (=continue to pretend something).
bluff somebody into (doing) something: (=make someone do something by deceiving them)

توپ زدن، حریف را از میدان درکردن، توپ، قمپز،چاخان، سراشیب، پرتگاه

blunder
error; stupid mistake

Longman:

[ countable]
a careless or stupid mistake:
** A last-minute blunder cost them the match.

اشتباه لپی اشتباه بزرگ، سهو، اشتباه لپی، اشتباه کردن، کوکورانه رفتن، دست پاچه شدن و بهم مخلوط کردن

blunt
having a dull edge; abrupt and frank in speech or manner; brusque; (v.) make or become blunt

Longman:

1. not sharp or pointed [≠ sharp]:
** Sharpen all your blunt knives.
** a blunt pencil

2. speaking in an honest way even if this upsets people [↪ bluntly]:
** To be blunt, many of the candidates cannot read or write.
** Julian's blunt words hurt her.

3. blunt instrument:a) a heavy object that is used to hit someone:
** The victim suffered a blow to the head from a blunt instrument.b) a method of doing something that does not work very well because it has a lot of other effects which you do not want:
** The exams are a blunt instrument which will reveal little about children's abilities.

کند، بی نوک، دارای لبه ضخیم، رک، بی پرده، کند کردن

blurt
utter impulsively from nervousness or excitement

Longman:

to say something suddenly and without thinking, usually because you are nervous or excited:
** Peter blurted the news out before we could stop him.


(Verb - transitive) بروزدادن، از دهان بیرون انداختن (کلمات، با out )

blush
become red in the face (from embarrassment or shame); become red or rosy; (n.)

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to become red in the face, usually because you are embarrassed:
** Wilson saw she was watching him and blushed.
** Joan blushed at the unexpected compliment.
** Kate blushed scarlet.

2. to feel ashamed or embarrassed about something
blush to do something:
** I blush to admit that I haven't read it.

3. something that would make somebody blush: something so shocking that it would shock someone who is not normally easily shocked:
** language that would make a sailor blush

4. the blushing bride: a young woman on her wedding day - used humorously

سرخ شدن، شرمنده شدن، سرخی صورت در اثر خجلت

bluster
blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully; speak in a noisy or bullying manner; (cf.) breeze, gust, gale

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to speak in a loud angry way that is not really very impressive:
** 'That's hardly the point,' he blustered.

2. [intransitive] if the wind blusters, it blows violently

باسختی وشدت وسروصدا وزیدن (مثل باد)، پرسروصدا بودن، باد مهیب وسهمگین

bode
foreshadow; portend

Longman:

1. the past tense of bide

2. bode well/ill (for somebody/something): to be a good or bad sign for the future:
** The opinion polls do not bode well for the Democrats.

پیشگویی کردن، نشانه بودن (از)، حاکی بودن از، دلالت داشتن (بر)، شگون داشتن

bog
soft wet land; (v.) hinder or be hindered; (ex.) bogged down in the mud

Longman:

1. an area of low wet muddy ground, sometimes containing bushes or grasses [↪ marsh, swamp]

2. [informal] a toilet


(Noun) باتلاق، سیاه اب، گنداب، لجن زار، درباتلاق فرورفتن

bogus
counterfeit; not authentic; intentionally false; (ex.) bogus interview

Longman:

not true or real, although someone is trying to make you think it is [= false]:
** bogus insurance claims
** bogus applications for asylum


(Adjective) ساختگی، جعلی، قلابی

bohemian
unconventional (in an artistic way)

Longman:

living in a very informal or relaxed way and not accepting society's rules of behaviour:
** bohemian cafes frequented by artists, musicians, and actors

اهل (کمی)که درزندگی یا کار خود برسم وقانون دیگران کاری ندارد

boisterous
violent; rough; noisy

Longman:

someone, especially a child, who is boisterous makes a lot of noise and has a lot of energy:
** a class of boisterous five year olds


(Adjective) خشن وزبر، خشن وبی ادب، قوی، سترک، شدید، مفرط، بلند وناهنجار، توفانی

bolster
support; reinforce

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to help someone to feel better and more positive:
** He is making a bold attempt to bolster the territory's confidence.

2. to improve something:
** his efforts to bolster his career

بالش، متکا، تیری که بطور عمودی زیرپایه گذارده شود،بابالش نگه داشتن، پشتی کردن، تکیه دادن، تقویت کردن

bolt
door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric; large roll of cloth; (v.) dash or dart off; fasten (a door); gobble down

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a metal bar that you slide across a door or window to fasten it

2. a screw with a flat head and no point, for fastening things together

3. a bolt from (out of) the blue: news that is sudden and unexpected:
** Was this money a bolt from the blue or did you know you were going to get it?

4. bolt of lightning: lightning that appears as a white line in the sky:
** There's not much left of his house after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. ➔ thunderbolt

5. make a bolt for it: British English to suddenly try to escape from somewhere:
** They attacked the driver and he straightaway made a bolt for it.

پیچ، توپ پارچه، از جا جستن، رها کردن راست، بطور عمودی، مستقیما، ناگهان

bombardment
attack (as with missiles or bombs); (v.) bombard

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a continuous attack on a place by big guns and bombs:
** The bombardment continued for a terrible nine hours.
aerial/artillery/naval bombardment: (=attack from the air, land, or sea)


(Noun) بمباران

bombast
grandiloquent, pompous speech


(Noun) کتان، جنس پنبه ای (مجازا) گزافه گویی، سخن بزرگ یاقلنبه، مبالغه

bombastic
pompous; using inflated language

Longman:

bombastic language contains long words that sound important but have no real meaning:
** He is best known for three rather bombastic poems.


(Adjective) گزاف، قلنبه، مطنطن

bookish
fond of books and reading

Longman:

someone who is bookish is more interested in reading and studying than in sports or other activities:
** a shy bookish man


(Adjective) (شخص) اهل کتاب
(Adjective) (سبک، بیان) کتابی، لفظ قلم، غیر متداول

boon
blessing; benefit; something very helpful

Longman:

[ countable usually singular]
something that is very useful and makes your life a lot easier or better:
** The bus service is a real boon to people in the village.

استدعا، فرمان یادستوری بصورت استدعا، عطیه، لطف، احسان، بخشش

boor
rude, insensitive person

Longman:

[ countable]
a man who behaves in a very rude way


(Noun) باغبان، روستایی، دهاتی، ادم بی تربیت، ادم خشن

boorish
rude; insensitive


(Adjective) خشن، بی نزاکت، دهاتی

boost
lift by pushing up from below; increase; raise; (n.) push upward; increase

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to increase or improve something and make it more successful:
** The new resort area has boosted tourism.
boost somebody's confidence/morale/ego:
** The win boosted the team's confidence.

2. also boost up to help someone reach a higher place by lifting or pushing them:
** He boosted her up.

3. if a rocket or motor boosts a spacecraft, it makes it go up into space or go in a particular direction

4. [informal] to steal something

ترقی، بالارفتن، ترقی دادن، جلوبردن، بالابردن (قیمت)، کمک کردن بالا بردن، زیاد کردن

botch
mismanage; blow

Longman:

[ transitive]
[informal] to do something badly, because you have been careless or because you do not have the skill to do it properly:
** The builders really botched up our patio.
** a botched investigation

سنبل کردن، خراب کردن، از شکل انداختن، وصله وپینه بدنما، کارسرهم بندی، ورم

bouillon
clear beef (or meat) soup

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a clear soup made by boiling meat and vegetables in water


(Noun) ابگوشت

bound
leap or spring; limit or confine; constitute the limit of; (ex.) bounded by canada; (n.) leap or jumping; boundary; (adj.) certain; having a duty to do something (legally or morally); confined by bonds; (ex.) we are bound to be late; (ex.) i am bound to say my opinion; cf. bounce, rebound

Longman:

the past tense and past participle ofbind

کران، حد، مرز، محدود، سرحد، خیز، جستو خیز، محدود کردن، تعیین کردن، هم مرز بودن،مجاوربودن، مشرف بودن (با on یا with)، جهیدن آماده رفتن، عازم رفتن، مه یا، موجود، مقید، موظف

bountiful
generous; graciously generous; showing bounty

Longman:

1. if something is bountiful, there is more than enough of it:
** bountiful harvests

2. generous:
** bountiful God

بخشنده، سخی، باسخاوت، خوب ومهربان

bourgeois
middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions

Longman:

1. belonging to themiddle class:
** She came from a bourgeois family.
** bourgeois morality

2. too interested in having a lot of possessions and a high position in society:
** the backlash against bourgeois materialism

3. belonging to or typical of the part of society that is rich, educated, owns land etc, according to Marxism

( bourgeois . pl ) عضوطبقه متوسط جامعه، عضو طبقه دوم، طبقه کاسب ودکاندار

bout
match; short period of great activity; (ex.) wrestling bout; bout of drinking/flu

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a bout of depression/flu/sickness etc: a short period of time during which you suffer from an illness

2. a short period of time during which you do something a lot, especially something that is bad for you:
** a drinking bout
bout of:
** a bout of unemployment

3. aboxing or wrestling match


(Noun) کشمکش، تقلا، یک دور مسابقه یا بازی

bovine
cow like; placid and dull; slow-thinking; calm

Longman:

1. [technical] relating to cows:
** bovine diseases

2. [written] slow and slightly stupid, like a cow - used to show disapproval:
** a bovine expression of contentment

گاوی، شبیه گاو، گاو خوی

bowdlerize
expurgate; (cf.) thomas bowlers

Longman:

[ transitive]
to remove all the parts of a book, play etc that you think might offend someone - used to show disapproval:
** a bowdlerized version of 'Antony and Cleopatra'


(Verb - transitive) تزکیه یاتصفیه کردن، قسمت های خارج از اخلاق را حذف کردن از (کتاب وغیره)

brackish
somewhat saline

Longman:

brackish water is not pure because it is slightly salty

شورمزه، بدمزه

brag
boast

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to talk too proudly about what you have done, what you own etc - used to show disapproval [= boast]:
** 'I came out top in the test,' he bragged.
brag about:
** Ben's always bragging about his success with women.
brag that:
** Julia used to brag that her family had a villa in Spain.

لاف زدن، بالیدن، فخرکردن، باتکبر راه رفتن، بادکردن، لاف، مباهات، رجز خواندن

braggadocio
boasting

Longman:

[ uncountable]
proud talk about something that you claim to own, to have done etc


(Noun) ادم لافزن، گزافه گو، متظاهر

braggart
boaster; bragger

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who is always talking too proudly about what they own or have done

لافزن، گزافه گو، رجز خوان

braid
plait; interweave strands or lengths of; make by weaving strands together; (n.) braided segment (as of hair)

Longman:

1. a narrow band of material formed by twisting threads together, used to decorate the edges of clothes:
** a jacket trimmed with red braid

2. a length of hair that has been separated into three parts and then woven together [= plait British English]
in braids:
** Suzy always wears her hair in braids.

قیطان، گلابتون، مغزی، نوار، حاشیه، حرکت سریع، جنبش،جهش، ناگهان حرکت کردن، جهش ناگهانی کردن، بافتن(مثل توری وغیره)، بهم تابیدن وبافتن، مویسر را باقیطان یاروبان بستن

brand
trademark; mark burned on the hide of an animal; mark burned into the flesh of criminals; mark of disgrace; (v.) mark with a brand; give a lasting bad name; stigmatize; (ex.) the press branded him a liar.

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a type of product made by a particular company, that has a particular name or design [↪ make]
brand of:
** What brand of detergent do you use?
brand leader/leading brand: (=the brand that sells the most)
** products which lack a strong brand image
brand loyalty: (=the tendency to always buy a particular brand)
own brand: British English
store brand: American English (=a product made and sold by a particular store)

2. brand of humour/politics/religion etc: a particular type of humour, religion, politics etc:
** a strange macabre brand of humour

3. a mark made or burned on a farm animal's skin that shows who it belongs to

داغ، داغ ودرفش، نشان، انگ، نیمسوز، اتشپاره، جور،جنس، نوع، مارک، علامت، رقم، (مجازا) لکه بدنامی،(درشعر) داغ کردن، داغ زدن، (مجازا) خاطرنشان کردن، لکه دار کردن

brandish
wave around (a weapon); flourish

Longman:

[ transitive]
to wave something around in a dangerous or threatening way, especially a weapon:
** A man leapt out brandishing a kitchen knife.

زرق وبرق دادن (شمشیر)، باهتزاز دراوردن (شمشیروتازیانه)، تکان دادن سلاح (ازروی تهدید)

bravado
swagger; assumed air of defiance; false show of bravery

Longman:

[ uncountable]
behaviour that is deliberately intended to make other people believe you are brave and confident:
** youthful bravado


(Noun) لاف دلیری، خودستا، پهلوان پنبه، دلیر دروغی

brave
face courageously; (ex.) brave the storm

Longman:

1. a) dealing with danger, pain, or difficult situations with courage and confidence [= courageous]:
** brave soldiers
** her brave fight against cancer
it is brave of somebody (to do something):
** It was brave of you to speak in front of all those people.b) the brave: [plural] brave people:
** Today we remember the brave who died in the last war.

2. very good:
** Despite their captain's brave performance, Arsenal lost 2-1.
brave effort/attempt:
** the brave efforts of the medical staff to save his life

3. put on a brave face/front: to pretend that you are happy when you are really very upset

4. brave new world: a situation or a way of doing something that is new and exciting and meant to improve people's lives:
** the brave new world of digital television

دلاور، تهم، شجاع، دلیر، دلیرانه، عالی، بادلیری ورشادت با امری مواجه شدن، اراستن، لاف زدن، بالیدن

brawl
noisy quarrel

Longman:

[ countable]
a noisy quarrel or fight among a group of people, especially in a public place:
** a drunken brawl in the street

داد و بیداد، سرو صدا کردن، نزاع وجدال کردن، جنجال

brawn
human muscle; muscular strength; sturdiness

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. physical strength, especially when compared with intelligence:
** Mina has the brains, I have the brawn.

2. meat from a pig's head that has been boiled and pressed in a container and is often served in thin flat pieces [= headcheese American English]


(Noun) گوشت، ماهیچه، (مجازا) نیرو، نیروی عضلانی

brawny
muscular; having well-developed muscles

Longman:

very large and strong:
** His brawny arms glistened with sweat.


(Adjective) پرعضله، گوشتالو، ماهیچه دار، نیرومند، قوی، سفت

brazen
insolent; without shame; bold; (ex.) brazen lie; (v.) face with bold self-assurance or with unshamed confidence

Longman:

1. used to describe a person or the actions of a person who is not embarrassed about behaving in a wrong or immoral way:
** her brazen admission that she was cheating on him

2. having a shiny yellow colour

برنجی، (مجازا) بی شرم، بی باک، بی پروایی نشان دادن، گستاخی کردن

breach
breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap; opening; (v.)

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] an action that breaks a law, rule, or agreement
breach of:
** This was a clear breach of the 1994 Trade Agreement.
** They sued the company for breach of contract.
** a breach of professional duty
be in breach of something:
** He was clearly in breach of the law.

2. a serious disagreement between people, groups, or countries
breach with:
** Britain did not want to risk a breach with the US over sanctions.
breach between:
** What had caused the sudden breach between Henry and his son?
** She wanted to help heal the breach between them.

3. breach of confidence/trust: an action in which someone does something that people have trusted them not to do:
** We regard the publication of this information as a serious breach of trust.

4. breach of security: an action in which someone manages to learn secret information or manages to get into a place that is guarded:
** There had been a major breach of security at the air base.

5. breach of the peace: British English the crime of making too much noise or fighting in a public place:
** He was arrested and charged with breach of the peace.

نقض عهد، رخنه، نقض کردن، نقض عهد کردن، ایجاد شکاف کردن، رخنه کردن در

breadth
width; extent

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] the distance from one side of something to the other [= width; ↪ broad, depth, length]
breadth of:
** the breadth of the river
5 metres/3 feet etc in breadth:
** The boat measured fifteen feet in length and four feet in breadth.

2. [uncountable] the quality of including a lot of different people, things, or ideas [↪ broad, depth]
breadth of:
** The job wasn't giving him the breadth of experience he wanted.
** His breadth of knowledge was amazing.
** a politician known for his breadth of vision
** We need to provide more breadth in the college curriculum.


(Noun) پهنا، عرض، وسعت نظر

breed
produce young; rear; bring up; produce (an undesirable condition); (n.) kind or sort of animal or plant

Longman:

1. [intransitive] if animals breed, they mate in order to have babies:
** Eagles breed during the cooler months of the year.

2. to keep animals or plants in order to produce babies or new plants, especially ones with particular qualities:
** These dogs were originally bred in Scotland to round up sheep. ➔ crossbreed1, purebred, thoroughbred

3. [transitive] to cause a particular feeling or condition:
** Poor living conditions breed violence and despair.

4. [transitive] if a place, situation, or thing breeds a particular type of person, it produces that type:
** Society's obsession with sex has bred a generation of unhappy children.

پروردن، باراوردن، زاییدن، بدنیااوردن، تولید کردن،تربیت کردن، فرزند، اولاد، اعقاب، جنس، نوع، گونه

brevity
conciseness; shortness of duration

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. the quality of expressing something in very few words [↪ brief]:
** Letters published in the newspaper are edited for brevity and clarity.

2. the quality of continuing for only a short time [↪ brief]:
** the brevity of her visit


(Noun) کوتاهی، اختصار، ایجاز

bridle
harness fitted about a horse’s head (used to restrain); curb; check; (v.) put a bridle on; control or restrain; show anger

Longman:

[ countable]
a set of leather bands put around a horse's head and used to control its movements

افسار، عنان، قید، (مجازا) جلوگیری کردن از، رام کردن، کنترل کردن

brim
uppermost edge of a cup; projecting rim (as on a hat); (ex.) the glass was full to the brim; (v.) be full to the brim

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the bottom part of a hat that sticks out to protect you from sun and rain:
** an old straw hat with a broad brim

2. the top edge of a container:
** She filled each glass to the brim.
filled/full to the brim: (=completely full)
** The cup was filled to the brim with coffee.

لبه، کنار، حاشیه، پرکردن

brindled
tawny or grayish with streaks or spots (of animals)

Longman:

a brindled animal is brown and has marks or bands of another colour


(Adjective) خط دار، راه راه، خال دار

brink
edge (at the top of a cliff); (ex.) on the brink of the grand canyon

Longman:

1. the brink (of something): a situation when you are almost in a new situation, usually a bad one
on the brink of death/disaster/war etc:
** In October 1962 the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war.
** The company had huge debts and was on the brink of collapse.
to the brink (of something):
** managers who have taken their companies to the brink of disaster
back from the brink (of something):
** He will go down in history as the leader who pulled us back from the brink (=saved us from disaster).

2. push/tip somebody over the brink: to make someone start doing crazy or extreme things

3. the brink of something:[literary] the edge of a very high place such as a cliff


(Noun) لب، کنار، حاشیه

brisk
quick and active; marked by liveliness and vigor

Longman:

1. quick and full of energy:
** a brisk walk
** They set off at a brisk pace.

2. quick, practical and showing that you want to get things done quickly:
** Her tone of voice is brisk.

3. trade or business that is brisk is very busy, with a lot of products being sold:
** The public bar was already doing a brisk trade.

4. weather that is brisk is cold and clear


(Adjective) سرزنده وبشاش، تند، چابک، باروح، رایج، چست، تیز، اراسته، پاکیزه

bristle
short stiff hair; (v.) (hair or fur) stand up stiffly

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] a short stiff hair that feels rough:
** His chin was covered with bristles.

2. [countable] a short stiff hair, wire etc that forms part of a brush

موی زبر، موی سیخ، موی خوک، سیخ شدن، رویه تجاوزکارانه داشتن، اماده جنگ شدن

bristling
rising like bristles; showing irritation

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.

brittle
hard but easily broken; difficult; unstable; (ex.) brittle situation

Longman:

1. hard but easily broken:
** The branches were dry and brittle.
** Joanna was diagnosed as having brittle bones.

2. a situation, relationship, or feeling that is brittle is easily damaged or destroyed:
** He spoke with the brittle confidence of someone who, underneath, was very worried.

3. showing no warm feelings:
** a brittle laugh

ترد، شکننده، بی دوام، زودشکن

broach
introduce as a subject; moot; open up

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. broach the subject/question/matter etc: to mention a subject that may be embarrassing or unpleasant or cause an argument:
** I broached the subject of his past.

2. to open a bottle or barrel containing wine, beer etc

سنجاق کراوات، برش، سیخ، شکل سیخ، بشکل مته، سوراخکن، سوراخ کردن، نوشابه دراوردن (از چلیک)، برای نخستین بار بازکردن، بازکردن یامطرح نمودن، بسیخ کشیدن، تخلف کردن از

brocade
rich, figured(patterned) fabric

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
thick heavy decorative cloth which has a pattern of gold and silver threads:
** brocade curtains
** deluxe brocades and satins

زری، زربفت، پارچه ابریشمی گل برجسته

brochure
pamphlet

Longman:

[ countable]
a thin book giving information or advertising something:
** a holiday brochure


(Noun) جزوه، رساله، کتاب کوچک صحافی نشده که گاهی جلدکاغذی دارد

broil
cook by direct heat; (n.)

Longman:

1. to cook something under direct heat, or over a flame on a barbecue[= grill British English]
** broiled chicken

2. [intransitive and transitive] American English to become very hot:
** We lay broiling in the sun.

سرخ کردن (روی اتش)، کباب کردن، سوختن، داد وبیداد

bromide
platitude; chemical compound used to calm excitement

Longman:

1. a chemical which is sometimes used in medicine to make people feel calm

2. [formal] a statement which is intended to make someone less angry but which is not effective


(Noun) (ش.) برمور، نمک الی یامعدنی اسید هیدروبرمیک، اظهار یا بیان مبتذل

brooch
ornamental clasp; pin

Longman:

[ countable]
a piece of jewellery that you fasten to your clothes, usually worn by women [= pin American English]


(Noun) سنجاق سینه، گل سینه، باسنجاق سینه مزین کردن، باسنجاق اراستن

brood
sit on in order to hatch; think deeply or worry anxiously; (n.) the young of certain animals; group of young birds hatched at one time

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to keep thinking about something that you are worried or upset about:
** Don't sit at home brooding all day.
brood over/about/on:
** There's no point brooding over it - she's gone.

2. if a bird broods, it sits on its eggs to make the young birds break out

کلیه جوجه هایی که یکباره سراز تخم درمیاورند،جوجه های یک وهله جوجه کشی، جوجه، بچه، توی فکر فرورفتن

brook
tolerate; endure; (ex.) brook no interference; (n.) small stream

Longman:

[ countable]
a small stream:
** a babbling brook

جوی ،جو،تحمل کردن ،زیرباررفتن

browbeat
bully; intimidate

Longman:

[ transitive]
to try to make someone do something, especially in a threatening way
browbeat somebody into doing something:
** She was determined to browbeat everyone into believing her.

عتاب کردن، تشر زدن، نهیب زدن به

browse
graze; feed on growing grass; skim or glance at casually

Longman:

1. [intransitive] to look through the pages of a book, magazine etc without a particular purpose, just looking at the most interesting parts
browse through:
** Jon was browsing through the photographs.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to look at the goods in a shop without wanting to buy any particular thing
browse around:
** The trip allows you plenty of time for browsing around the shops.
** tourists browsing the boutiques and souvenir stalls

3. [intransitive and transitive] to search for information on a computer or on the Internet:
** a feature that allows you to browse your hard drive and choose the graphic you want to display

4. [intransitive] if a goat, deer etc browses, it eats plants


(Verb - intransitive) (حیوان) چریدن
(Verb - intransitive) گشتی زدن، نگاه کردن، گشت زدن

**

** - browse among/through
** - (کتاب) تورق کردن، نگاه سرسری کردن به
(Noun) چَرا، علف، شاخ و برگ، سرشاخه

bruise
injure without breaking the skin; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen, been hit etc:
** minor cuts and bruises

2. a mark on a piece of fruit that spoils its appearance

کوبیدن، کبود کردن، زدن، ساییدن، کبودشدن، ضربتدیدن، کوفته شدن، کبودشدگی، تباره

brunt
main impact or shock (of an attack or blow); (ex.) brunt of the argument

Longman:

bear/take/suffer etc the brunt of something: to receive the worst part of an attack, criticism, bad situation etc:
** an industry that bore the brunt of the recession
** The car took the full brunt of the explosion.


(Noun) ضربه، لطمه، بار، فشار

brusque
blunt; abrupt; curt; not wanting to waste time being nice

Longman:

using very few words in a way that seems rude [= abrupt]:
** a brusque manner


(Adjective) ( brusk =) خشن در رفتار، بی ادب، پیش جواب

buccaneer
pirate

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone who attacks ships at sea and steals from them [= pirate]

2. someone who is very successful, especially in business, but may not be honest

دزد دریایی

bucolic
rustic; pastoral

Longman:

relating to the countryside

روستایی، دهقانی، اشعار روستایی

buffet
strike forcefully; slap; batter; knock out; (n.) table with food set out for people to server themselves; meal at which people help themselves to food that’s been set

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a meal at a party or other occasion, in which people serve themselves at a table and then move away to eat:
** a cold buffet
buffet breakfast/lunch/supper:
** The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea.

2. a place in a railway station, bus station etc where you can buy and eat food or drink

3. American English a piece of furniture in which you keep the things you use to serve and eat a meal [= sideboard British English]

قفسه جای ظرف، بوفه، اشکاف، رستوران، کافه، مشت، ضربت، سیلی

buffoon
stupid person; clown

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who does silly amusing things


(Noun) لوده، دلقک، مسخرگی کردن

buffoonery
clowning


(Noun) مسخرگی

bugaboo
bugbear; object of baseless terror

Longman:

[ countable]
something that makes people anxious or afraid


(Noun) غول، لولو

bulge
protruding part; swelling of a surface; (ex.) the apple made a bulge in his pocket; (v.) swell outward; protrude

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a curved mass on the surface of something, usually caused by something under or inside it:
** The gun made a bulge under his jacket.

2. a sudden temporary increase in the amount or level of something:
** a bulge in the birthrate

برامدگی، شکم، تحدب، ورم، بالارفتگی، صعود، متورم شدن، باد کردن

bulk
size or volume (esp. when very large); main part; ex. the bulk of the work has already been done; (adj.) bulky: having great size

Longman:

1. the bulk (of something): the main or largest part of something:
** The bulk of consumers are based in towns.

2. [countable usually singular] a big mass or shape of something:
** the great bulk of a building

3. [uncountable] the size of something or someone:
** The dough will rise until it is double in bulk.

4. in bulk: if you buy goods in bulk, you buy large amounts each time you buy them

جسم، جثه، لش، تنه، جسامت، حجم، اندازه، بصورت توده جمع کردن، انباشتن، توده، اکثریت

bullion
gold and silver in the form of bars

Longman:

[ uncountable]
bars of gold or silver:
** gold bullion


(Noun) شمش، شمش زر یا سیم

bully
one who is habitually cruel to weaker people; (v.)

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who uses their strength or power to frighten or hurt someone who is weaker:
** Bullies are often cowards.

قلدر، پهلوان پنبه، گردنکلفت، گوشت، تحکیم کردن، قلدری کردن

bulwark
strong wall built for defense; earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends

Longman:

[ countable]
1. something that protects you from an unpleasant situation
bulwark against:
** a bulwark against dictatorship

2. bulwarks: the sides of a boat or ship above the deck

3. a strong structure like a wall, built for defence

خاکریز، بارو، دیوار(ساحلی)، دیواره سد، موج شکن،(مجازا) پناه، سنگربندی، حامی

bump
hit or knock against with force; (n.)

Longman:

1. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] to hit or knock against something
bump against:
** I ran after him, bumping against people in my hurry.
bump into:
** Tim was a clumsy boy, always bumping into the furniture.
bump something on something:
** She bumped her arm on the table.
** The roof was so low he bumped his head (=his head hit the roof).

2. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move up and down as you move forward, especially in a vehicle:
** A police car bumped down the track.
bump along:
** The plane was bumping along the runway.

3. [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to push or pull something somewhere in an irregular or unsteady way:
** Flora was bumping her bags down the steps.

4. [informal] to move someone or something into a different class or group, or to remove them from a class or group altogether:
** The flight was overbooked, and Dad was the first one to be bumped.
bump somebody up to/out of/from etc something:
** The reforms bumped many families off the state-provided healthcare list.

5. [transitive] to move a radio or television programme to a different time:
** 'Married with Children' will be bumped from Sundays to Saturdays.

دست انداز جاده، ضربت، ضربت حاصله دراثر تکان سخت،برامدگی، تکان سخت (در هواپیماو غیره)، تکانناگهانی، ضربت (توام باتکان) زدن

bungle
mismanage; blunder; botch; blow; spoil by clumsy behavior

Longman:

[ transitive]
to fail to do something properly, because you have made stupid mistakes - used especially in news reports:
** The whole police operation was bungled.

سرهم بندی کردن ،سنبل کردن ،خراب کردن ،خام دستی

buoyant
able to float; cheerful and optimistic; (n.) buoyancy; ex. buoyancy of wood/water/american market

Longman:

1. happy and confident:
** Phil was in buoyant mood.

2. buoyant prices etc tend to rise:
** a buoyant economy

3. able to float or keep things floating:
** Cork is very buoyant.


(Adjective) شناور، سبک، سبکروح، خوشدل

bureaucracy
overregulated administrative system marked by red tape; (adj.) bureaucratic

Longman:

1. a complicated official system which is annoying or confusing because it has a lot of rules, processes etc [↪ red tape]:
** the reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy

2. the officials who are employed rather than elected to do the work of a government, business etc


(Noun) رعایت تشریفات اداری بحد افراط، تاسیسات اداری،حکومت اداری، مجموع گماشتگان دولتی، کاغذ پرانی، دیوان سالاری

burgeon
grow rapidly; grow forth; send out buds; (ex.) burgeoning computer industry; (cf.) bludgeon

Longman:

[ intransitive]
[formal] to grow or develop quickly:
** the burgeoning market for digital cameras

جوانه زدن، درآمدن، شروع برشدکردن

burlesque
give an imitation that ridicules; imitate mockingly

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. speech, acting, or writing in which a serious subject is made to seem silly or an unimportant subject is treated in a serious way

2. a performance involving a mixture of comedy and striptease, popular in America in the past

مسخره آمیز، مضحک، تقلید، رقص لخت، تقلید و هجو کردن

burnish
make shiny by rubbing; polish

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to polish metal or another substance until it shines

2. to work hard in order to improve something:
** He missed no opportunity to burnish his image.

جلا دادن، پرداخت کردن، صیقل دادن، جلا، صیقل

bust
piece of sculpture showing a person’s head, shoulders, and upper chest; (v.) break up; arrest; (ex.) crime buster

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [informal] to break something:
** I bust my watch this morning.
** Tony busted the door down.

2. [informal] if the police bust a place, they go into it to look for something illegal:
** Federal agents busted several money-exchange businesses.

3. [informal][spoken] to try extremely hard to do something:
** I bust a gut trying to finish that work on time.

4. [informal] to use too much money, so that a business etc must stop operating:
** The trip to Spain will probably bust our budget.

5. crime-busting/union-busting/budget-busting etc:[informal] used with nouns to show that a situation is being ended or an activity is being stopped:
** crime-busting laws

( ing - ed ) مجسمه نیم تنه، بالاتنه، سینه، انفجار،ترکیدگی، ترکیدن (با up )، خرد گشتن، ورشکست شدن، ورشکست کردن، بیچاره کردن

buttress
support; prop up; (n.) stationary structure to support wall; (ex.) flying buttress

Longman:

[ countable]
a brick or stone structure built to support a wall

شمع پشتیبان دیوار، حائل، نگه دار، پایه، شمع زدن، محکم بستن، دارای شمع یاحائل

buxom
full-bosomed; plump; jolly

Longman:

a woman who is buxom is attractively large and healthy and has big breasts


(Adjective) خوش هیکل، چاق وچله، خوش، خوشدل

cabal
small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests

Longman:

[ countable]
a small group of people who make secret plans, especially in order to have political power

دوز و کلک، دسیسه و توطئه، روایت، راز، سر، دسیسه کردن

cache
hiding place; (v.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a number of things that have been hidden, especially weapons, or the place where they have been hidden
cache of:
** a cache of explosives
** a large arms cache

2. [technical] a special part of a computer's memory that helps it work faster by storing information for a short time:
** cache memory

نهانگاه، ذخیره گاه، چیز نهان شده، مخزن، پنهان کردن

cacophonous
discordant; inharmonious; (n.) cacophony: unpleasant mixture of loud sounds


(Adjective) بدصدا، ناهنجار

cadaver
corpse; dead human body

Longman:

[ countable]
[technical] a dead human body, especially one used for study [= corpse]


(Noun) لاشه، نعش (انسان)، جسد (برای تشریح)

cadaverous
like a corpse; pale

Longman:

looking extremely thin, pale, and unhealthy:
** cadaverous cheeks


(Adjective) لاشه مانند، دارای رنگ پریده و مرده، جسدوار

cadence
rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat; regular beat of sound; rhythm

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the way someone's voice rises and falls, especially when reading out loud:
** the cadence of my mother's voice

2. a regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements:
** the Brazilian cadences of the music

3. a set of chords


(Noun) وزن، اهنگ، هم اهنگی، افول

cadet
student at a military school

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who is training to be an officer in the army, navy, air force, or police


(Noun) دانشجوی دانشکده افسری

cajole
persuade by praise or false promise; coax; wheedle

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to gradually persuade someone to do something by being nice to them, or making promises to them
cajole somebody into doing something:
** We do our best to cajole rich countries into helping.

ریشخندکردن، گول زدن، چاپلوسی، گول

calamity
disaster; misery

Longman:

[ countable]
a terrible and unexpected event that causes a lot of damage or suffering [= disaster]:
** It will be a calamity for farmers if the crops failed again.


(Noun) بلا، بیچارگی، بدبختی، مصیبت، فاجعه

calculated
deliberately planned; likely

Longman:

1. a calculated crime or dishonest action is deliberately and carefully planned - used to show disapproval:
** a calculated attempt to deceive the American public

2. a calculated risk/gamble: something risky that you do after thinking carefully about what might happen:
** The police took a calculated risk in releasing him.


(Adjective) محاسبه شده، حساب شده
(Adjective) دارای حساب و کتاب، پیش اندیشانه، از پیش حساب شده

**

** - a calculated risk
** - مخاطرهی پیش بینی شده
(Adjective) عمدا تعبیه یا طرح شده
**

** - the calculated use of violence and torture to achieve their goals
** - کاربرد حسابگرانهی خشونت و زجر برای دستیابی به هدفهایشان
(Adjective) محتمل، متمایل

caldron
large kettle

Longman:

the American spelling of cauldron


(Noun) ( cauldron =) دیگ، کتری بزرگ، پاتیل

caliber
ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a round cylinder; (ex.) work of very high caliber

Longman:

the American spelling of calibre


(Noun) ( calibre =) قطرگلوله، قطردهانه تفنگ یا توپ، کالیبر، (مجازا) گنجایش، استعداد

calk
make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship)

Longman:

an American spelling of caulk

(. n ): ( caulker ، calker ، caulk =) بتونهکاری کردن،زیرپوش سازی کردن، مسدود کردن، نعل زدن، (. vt ):سرخوردن روی یخ، بانعل یالگد اسب مجروح شدن، کپیه کردن، محاسبه کردن، چرت زدن

calligraphy
beautiful writing; excellent penmanship

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the art of producing beautiful writing using special pens or brushes, or the writing produced this way

خوش نویسی، خطاطی

callous
hardened; unfeeling; without sympathy for the sufferings of others; unkind

Longman:

not caring that other people are suffering:
** We were shocked at the callous disregard for human life.
** a callous attitude
** the callous slaughter of seals

سفت، پینه خورده، بیحس، بی عاطفه، سنگ دل، بی حس کردن، پینه زدن، پنبه ای

callow
youthful; immature; inexperienced

Longman:

young and without experience - used to show disapproval [= immature]:
** a callow youth


(Adjective) جوجهای که هنوز پر درنیآورده، شخص بی تجربه وناشی

callus
area of thick hard skin

Longman:

[ countable]
an area of thick hard skin:
** the calluses on his hands

پینه، پینه استخوانی گیاه

calorific
heat-producing; (n.) calorie

Longman:

1. food that is calorific tends to make you fat

2. [technical] producing heat


(Adjective) گرمازا، گرم کننده، گرمایی

calumny
malicious misrepresentation; slander

Longman:

1. [countable] an untrue and unfair statement about someone that is intended to give people a bad opinion of them

2. [uncountable] when someone says things like this


(Noun) بدنامی، رسوایی، بهتان افترا

camaraderie
good-fellowship; (cf.) comrade

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a feeling of friendship that a group of people have, especially when they work together:
** the camaraderie of the women's basketball team


(Noun) همراهی، همدمی، وفاداری، رفاقت

cameo
shell or jewel carved in relief; star’s special appearance in a minor role in a film

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a short appearance in a film or play by a well-known actor
cameo role/appearance:

2. a small piece of jewellery with a raised shape, usually a person's face, on a flat background of a different colour:
** a cameo brooch

3. a short piece of writing that gives a clear idea of a person, place, or event


(Noun) برجسته کاری درجواهر وسنگ های قیمتی، رنگ های مابین قرمز مایل به ابی یا قرمز مایل به زرد، جواهر تراشی کردن

camp
group sharing a common cause or opinion

Longman:

1. in the mountains/forest etc: [uncountable and countable] a place where people stay in tents, shelters etc for a short time, usually in the mountains, a forest etc:
** Let's go back to camp - it's getting dark.
** a camp near Lake Ellen Wilson
** The soldiers broke camp (=took down their tents etc) and left before dawn.
pitch/make camp: (=set up a tent or shelter)
** It was dark by the time we pitched camp.
** We set up camp (=made the camping place ready) at nearby Icicle Lake.
** The expedition's base camp (=main camp) was 6,000 feet below the summit.
mining/logging etc camp: (=a camp where people stay when they are doing these kinds of jobs)

2. prison/labour/detention etc camp: a place where people are kept for a particular reason, when they do not want to be there:
** a refugee camp just across the border ➔ concentration camp

3. for children: [uncountable and countable] a place where young people go to take part in activities, and where they usually stay for several days or weeks:
** The camp offers hiking, fishing, canoeing, and boating.
** scout camp
** Two years ago, she started a summer camp for girls aged 8 and older.
tennis/football etc camp: (=a camp where you can do one particular activity) ➔ day camp, holiday camp

4. group of people: [countable] a group of people or organizations who have the same ideas or principles, especially in politics:
** the extreme right-wing camp of the party
** At least Lynne is definitely in your camp (=supports you rather than someone else, and agrees with your ideas). ➔ have a foot in both camps: at foot1 (21)

5. military: [countable] a permanent place where soldiers live or train:
** Donny is stationed at Camp Pendleton.

اردو، اردوگاه، لشکرگاه، منزل کردن، اردو زدن، چادرزدن (بیشتر با out )

canard
unfounded false rumor; exaggerated false report

Longman:

[ countable]
a piece of news that is false and is told to people deliberately in order to harm someone


(Noun) خبردروغ، شایعات

candor
frankness; open honesty; (adj.) candid


(Noun) ( candour ) سفیدی، خلوص، صفا، رک گویی

canine
related to dogs; doglike

Longman:

relating to dogs:
** canine diseases
** her loyal canine friend

سگی، وابسته به خانواده سگ، سگ مانند

canker
any ulcerous sore; ulcer; any evil; (cf.) cancer

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. an evil influence that spreads quickly among people and is difficult to destroy:
** the canker of violence in modern society

2. a disease that affects trees or plants

ماشرا، خوره، اکله، یکجور افت درختان میوه، نوعی شته یاکرم، فاسدکردن، فاسد شدن

canny
shrewd in money matters; thrifty

Longman:

1. clever, careful, and not easily deceived, especially in business or politics:
** a canny political advisor

2. nice, good - used in Scotland:
** a canny lass

زیرک، عاقل، دارای عقل معاش

cant
insincere speech or expression of piety; jargon of thieves; special words used by a particular group of people

Longman:

1. [uncountable] insincere talk about moral or religious principles by someone who is pretending to be better than they really are

2. special words used by a particular group of people, especially in order to keep things secret [= slang]:
** thieves' cant

اصطلاحات مخصوص یک صنف یا دسته، زبان دزدها وکولی ها،طرزصحبت، زبان ویژه، مناجات، گوشه دار، وارونه کردن،ناگهان چرخانیدن یاچرخیدن، باناله سخن گفتن، بالهجه مخصوصی صحبت کردن، خبرچینی کردن، اواز خواندن، مناجات کردن

cantankerous
ill-humored; irritable

Longman:

bad-tempered and complaining a lot:
** a cantankerous old man


(Adjective) چموش، بدخلق، بداخم

cantata
story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio)

Longman:

[ countable]
a piece of religious music for singers and instruments


(Noun) (موسیقی) شعری که با اواز یکنفری همراه موسیقی خوانده شود

canter
slow gallop; (v.) (cf.) trot

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to ride or make a horse run quite fast, but not as fast as possible [↪ gallop]

چهارنعل، گامی شبیه چهارنعل، گردش، سوار اسب(چهارنعل رونده) شدن، سلانه سلانه راه رفتن

canto
division of a long poem

Longman:

[ countable]
one of the parts into which a very long poem is divided [↪ stanza]


(Noun) سرود، بند(شعر)، قسمت، فصل (کتاب)

canvass
determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.; go through (a region) to solicit votes or orders; conduct a survey; (n.)

Longman:

1. to try to persuade people to support a political party, politician, plan etc by going to see them and talking to them, especially when you want them to vote for you in an election:
** Candidates from all three parties were out canvassing in Darlington today.
canvass for:
** Chapman spent the rest of May canvassing for votes.
** The US has been canvassing support from other Asian states.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to ask people about something in order to get their opinion or to get information:
** Police canvassed the neighborhood, but didn't find any witnesses.

3. to talk about a problem, suggestion etc in detail:
** A committee was set up to canvass the city's educational options.

(. vi &. vt ، . n ): ( canvas =) برای جمع اوری ارا فعالیت کردن، الک یا غربال کردن

capacious
spacious

Longman:

able to contain a lot:
** a capacious suitcase


(Adjective) گنجا، جادار، گنجایش دار، گشاد، فراخ، وسیع

capacity
mental or physical ability; role; position or duty; ability to accommodate; (ex.) in my capacity as president

Longman:

1. [singular] the amount of space a container, room etc has to hold things or people
capacity of:
** The fuel tank has a capacity of 40 litres.
** The room had seating capacity for about 80.
** The orchestra played to a capacity crowd (=the largest number of people who can fit into a hall, theatre etc).
** All the hotels were filled to capacity.

2. [uncountable and countable] someone's ability to do something
capacity for:
** a child's capacity for learning
** an infinite capacity for love
capacity to do something:
** a capacity to think in an original way

3. [formal] someone's job, position, or duty [= role]
in a professional/official etc capacity:
** Rollins will be working in an advisory capacity on this project.
(do something) in your capacity as something:
** I attended the meeting in my capacity as chairman of the safety committee.

4. the amount of something that a factory, company, machine etc can produce or deal with:
** The company has the capacity to build 1500 trucks a year.
** The factory has been working at full capacity. (=making the most amount of things that it can)

5. [singular, uncountable] the size or power of something such as an engine:
** The tax on cars is still based on engine capacity.


(Noun) گنجایش، صلاحیت، استعداد، مقام، ظرفیت
(Noun) گنجایش، ظرفیت

capillary
having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine and slender; (ex.) capillary attraction; (n.) very fine hairlike tube; (cf.) capillarity

Longman:

[ countable]
the smallest type ofblood vessel (=tube carrying blood) in the body


(Noun) (زیست‌شناسی) مویرگ
(Adjective) مویین، مویینه

capitulate
surrender; give up all resistance

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. [formal] to accept or agree to something that you have been opposing for a long time [= give in]:
** Helen finally capitulated and let her son have a car.

2. [formal] to accept defeat by your enemies in a war [= surrender]

تسلیم شدن

caprice
whim; sudden change of mind without any real cause

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] a sudden and unreasonable change of mind or behaviour:
** the caprices of a spoilt child

2. [uncountable] the tendency to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way


(Noun) هوس، تمایل فکری

capricious
unpredictable; fickle

Longman:

1. likely to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way:
** She was as capricious as her mother had been.

2. [literary] changing quickly and suddenly:
** a capricious wind


(Adjective) هوس باز، دمدمی مزاج، بوالهوس

capsize
(of a boat) turn over

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if a boat capsizes, or if you capsize it, it turns over in the water

(نظ.) واژگون کردن کشتی، واژگون شدن

caption
title; chapter heading; text under illustration

Longman:

[ countable]
words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper or on a television screen to explain what the picture is showing [↪ subtitle]

عنوان، سرلوحه، عنوان دادن

captious
faultfinding; too critical


(Adjective) ایرادگیر، فریبنده، عیب جو، حیله گر، وسیع

carafe
glass water bottle; decanter

Longman:

[ countable]
a glass container with a wide neck, used for serving wine or water at meals


(Noun) تنگ

carapace
shell covering the back (of a turtle, tortoise, crab, etc.)

Longman:

[ countable]
a hard shell on the outside of some animals such as a crab or tortoise [= shell]


(Noun) (جانور شناسی) سختپوست (لایهی سختی که همه یا بخشی از پشت برخی جانوران را میپوشاند مانند لاک زبرین سنگ پشت)، پشتلاک، لاک

carat
unit of weight for precious stones; measure of the purity of gold

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a unit for measuring how pure gold is
9/18/22/24 carat gold:
** a 22 carat gold chain
** Pure gold is 24 carats.

2. a unit for measuring the weight of jewels, equal to 200 milligrams:
** the Orloff diamond, a stone of 194.5 carats


(Noun) ( karat =) قیراط، واحد وزن جواهرات، عیار

carcinogenic
causing cancer; (n.) carcinogen

Longman:

likely to cause cancer:
** a carcinogenic substance


(Adjective) سرطان زا

cardinal
chief; most important; (n.) priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a priest of high rank in the Roman Catholic Church

2. a North American bird. The male is a bright red colour

3. a cardinal number

کاردینال، عدداصلی، اعداد اصلی، اصلی، اساسی، سهره کاکل قرمز آمریکایی

cardiologist
doctor specializing in ailments of the heart

Longman:

[ countable]
a doctor who studies or treats heart diseases

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.

careen
lurch; sway from side to side; move with irregular swinging movement; stagger

Longman:

[ intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
American English to move forwards quickly without control, making sudden sideways movements [= career British English]
careen down/over/along etc:
** The car careened around the corner.

کج شدن

career
rush wildly; go at full speed

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a job or profession that you have been trained for, and which you do for a long period of your life
career in:
** a career in journalism
** a teaching career
** He realized that his acting career was over.
career development/advancement/progression etc:
** Career prospects within the company are excellent.
** a physiotherapist who wanted to make a dramatic career change by becoming an author
** Nurses want an improved career structure (=better opportunities to move upwards in their jobs).

2. career soldier/teacher etc: someone who intends to be a soldier, teacher etc for most of their life, not just for a particular period of time:
** a career diplomat

3. the period of time in your life that you spend doing a particular activity:
** She had not had a very impressive school career up till then.
** My career as an English teacher didn't last long.
** Beating the defending champion has to be the highlight of my career.


(Noun) سیر (زندگی)، دوره (زندگی)، زندگانی، زندگی، احوال، سیره
(Noun) پیشه، کار، شغل، حرفه، (صفت‌گونه) حرفه‌ای، شغلی

**

** - careers guidance
** - راهنماییِ شغلی
** - a careers officer
** - مشاورِ شغلی
(Noun) سرعت، حرکت، شتاب
(Verb - intransitive) تند رفتن، به تاخت رفتن، مثل برق رفتن

carefree
free from worries; having no problems

Longman:

having no worries or problems:
** He thought back to the carefree days of his childhood.
** a carefree attitude


(Adjective) بی‌خیال، سرخوش، فارغ‌بال، آسوده خاطر، بی‌غم، راحت، خوش

caricature
distortion; burlesque

Longman:

1. a funny drawing of someone that makes them look silly
caricature of:
** caricatures of politicians.

2. a description of someone or something that is only partly true and makes them seem silly
caricature of:
** The report presents a caricature of the true situation.

3. the activity of drawing or writing caricatures

کاریکاتور، ادمک، کاریکاتور ساختن

carillon
a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played

Longman:

[ countable]
a set of bells in a tower that are controlled from a piano keyboard, or a tune played on these bells

زنگهای موسیقی، سنتور زنگی

carnage
destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large numbers of people or animals

Longman:

[ uncountable]
when a lot of people are killed and injured, especially in a war:
** a scene of terrible carnage


(Noun) لاشه ها، کشتار، قتل عام، خونریزی، قصابی

carnal
fleshly; sensual; concerning the desires of the body

Longman:

1. relating to sex or someone's body:
** carnal desires

2. carnal knowledge/relations: sexual activity


(Adjective) جسمانی، جسمی، نفسانی، شهوانی

carnivorous
meat-eating; (n.) carnivore; (cf.) herbivore


(Adjective) حیوان گوشتخوار

carousal
drunken revel; (v.) carouse


(Noun) میگساری، عیاشی و بزن و بکوب (رجوع شود به: carouse)

carping
petty criticism; fault-finding; fretful complaining; quibble


(Adjective) ایرادگیر، نقنقو، عیب جو، اهل نق زدن و غرغر کردن، دپر پسند، بهانه گیر، ایراد گیر، نقنقو

carrion
rotting flesh of a dead body; (cf.) vulture

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the decaying flesh of dead animals, which is eaten by some animals and birds


(Noun) مردار، لاشه (به ویژه لاشه‌ی در حال پوسیدگی که خوراک برخی جانوران مانند کفتار است)

**

** - vultures feed on carrion
** - کرکس‌ها از مردار تغذیه می‌کنند

cartographer
map-maker


(Noun) نقشه کش، طراح

cascade
small waterfall

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a small steep waterfall that is one of several together

2. something that hangs down in large quantities
cascade of:
** Her hair fell over her shoulders in a cascade of curls.

ابشار، ابشاری ابشیب، ابشار کوچک، بشکل ابشار ریختن

caste
one of the hereditary classes in hindu society; social stratification; prestige

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. one of the fixed social classes, which cannot be changed, into which people are born in India:
** the caste system

2. a group of people who have the same position in society


(Noun) طبقه، صنف، قبیله، طبقات مختلف مردم هند

castigation
punishment; severe criticism or disapproval

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

castrate
remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to remove the testicles of a male animal or a man


(Verb - transitive) اخته کردن، تضعیف کردن

casual
happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; (ex.) casual reader/labor/remark

Longman:

1. relaxed: relaxed and not worried, or seeming not to care about something:
** a casual manner
** His eyes were angry, though he sounded casual.
** Marsha was quite casual about appearing on TV.
** She had a casual attitude to life.

2. not formal or not for a formal situation [≠ formal]:
** Jean felt more comfortable in casual clothes.
** a casual jacket

3. employed as a temporary worker or working for only a short period of time:
** casual labour
** staff employed on a casual basis
** Chris has occasional casual work but mostly he is unemployed.

4. relationship: knowing someone or having sex with someone without wanting a close relationship with them [≠ serious]:
** She will never be more than a casual acquaintance.
** They had been conducting a casual affair for years.
** John just wanted casual sex.

5. without attention: without any serious interest or attention:
** He gave us a casual glance as he walked by, but didn't stop.
** To the casual observer (=to someone who is not looking carefully) Mary seemed quite calm.

اتفاقی، غیر مهم، غیر جدی

casualty
serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle

Longman:

1. [countable] someone who is hurt or killed in an accident or war:
** Our aim is to reduce road casualties.
** civilian casualties (=people who are not soldiers who are injured or killed)
cause/inflict casualties:
** The rebels have inflicted heavy casualties.

2. [singular] someone or something that suffers as a result of a particular event or situation
casualty of:
** The Safer City Project is the latest casualty of financial cutbacks.

3. the part of a hospital that people are taken to when they are hurt in an accident or suddenly become ill [= Emergency Room American English]
in casualty:
** Jean ended up in casualty last night.


(Noun) تلفات، تصادفات

cataclysm
deluge; upheaval; earthquake; violent and sudden event or change

Longman:

[ countable]
[literary] a violent or sudden event or change, such as a serious flood or earthquake


(Noun) سیل بزرگ، طوفان، تحولات ناگهانی وعمده

catalyst
agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged; (cf.) catalysis

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [technical] a substance that makes a chemical reaction happen more quickly without being changed itself

2. something or someone that causes an important change or event to happen
catalyst for:
** They hope his election will act as a catalyst for reform.


(Noun) عامل فعل وانفعال اجسام شیمیایی دراثر مجاورت،(مجازا) تشکیلات دهنده، سازمان دهنده، فروگشا

catapult
slingshot; hurling machine; (v.) fire from catapult

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a large weapon used in former times to throw heavy stones, iron balls etc

2. British English a small stick in the shape of a Y with a thin rubber band fastened over the two ends, used by children to throw stones [= slingshot American English]

3. a piece of equipment used to send an aircraft into the air from a ship

سنگ انداز، هرجسمی که دارای خاصیت فنری بوده وبرای پرتاب اجسام بکار میرود، منجنیق انداختن، با منجنیق پرت کردن، منجنیق

cataract
great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a gradual loss of eyesight)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a medical condition that causes the lens of your eye to become white, so that you slowly lose your sight

2. a large waterfall


(Noun) ابشار بزرگ، (پزشکی) اب مروارید، اب اوردن (چشم)

catastrophe
calamity ; disaster

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] a terrible event in which there is a lot of destruction, suffering, or death [= disaster]
environmental/nuclear/economic etc catastrophe:
** The Black Sea is facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution.
prevent/avert a catastrophe:
** Sudan requires food immediately to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

2. [countable] an event which is very bad for the people involved [= disaster]
catastrophe for:
** If the contract is cancelled, it'll be a catastrophe for everyone concerned.


(Noun) عاقبت داستان، مصیبت، بلای ناگهانی، فاجعه

catcall
shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; (v.)

Longman:

[ countable]
a loud whistle or shout expressing disapproval of a speech or performance:
** jeers and catcalls from the audience

صدای سوت، جیغ، سوت (مخصوصا در نمایش که نشانه نارضایتی مردم است)

catechism
book for religious instruction in questionand- answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; (v.) catechize

Longman:

[ singular]
a set of questions and answers about the Christian religion that people learn in order to become full members of a church:
** We were taught to recite the catechism.


(Noun) پرسش نامه مذهبی، کتاب سوال وجواب دینی، تعلیم و دستور مذهبی

categorical
without exceptions; made without any doubt in mind; unqualified; absolute

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
a categorical statement is a clear statement that something is definitely true or false
categorical denial/assurance etc:
** Can you give us a categorical assurance that no jobs will be lost?


(Adjective) قاطع، حتمی، جزمی، قیاسی، قطعی، (من.) مطلق، بی قید، بی شرط

cater
provide food and drink (for); cater to: try to satisfy (desires of a bad kind)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to provide and serve food and drinks at a party, meeting etc, usually as a business
cater for:
** This is the biggest event we've ever catered for.
** Joan has catered functions for up to 200 people.

to provide a particular group of people with the things they need or want:
** an LA bank catering to Asian businesses
** Vegetarians are well catered for.
** Most perfume ads cater to male fantasies.

اذوقه رساندن، خواربار رساندن، تهیه کردن، فراهم نمودن

catharsis
purging or cleansing of any passage of the body; purging and weakening of strong emotions as a result of experiencing a dramatic work of art

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the act or process of removing strong or violent emotions by expressing them through writing, talking, acting etc:
** Music is a means of catharsis for me.


(Noun) ( purgation =)( catharses . pl ) روان پاکسازی، تصفیه، تطهیر، تصفیه وتزکیه نفس بوسیله هنر

cathartic
purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; (adj.)

Longman:

helping you to remove strong or violent emotions:
** a cathartic experience

مسهل، تصفیه کننده، روان پاک ساز

catholic
(of likings and interests) universal; general; broad; including many different parts; wide-ranging liberal; (ex.) catholic opinions/tastes

Longman:

including a very wide variety of things:
** She has catholic tastes (=likes a lot of different things).
** a catholic collection of records

جامع، بلند نظر، آزاده، کاتولیک، عضو کلیسای کاتولیک

caucus
private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy; (cf.) the caucus club of boston

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a meeting of the members of a political party to choose people to represent them in a larger meeting, election etc

2. American English an organized group of people who have similar aims or interests, especially political ones:
** the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus

انجمن حزبی، کمیته های پارلمانی، نمایندگان حزب کارگر درپارلمان یا انجمن

cauldron
Longman:

[ countable]
a large round metal pot for boiling liquids over a fire:
** a witch's cauldron


(Noun) ( caldron =) پاتیل، دیگ

caulk
make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to fill the holes or cracks in a ship with an oily or sticky substance in order to keep water out

( calk =) شکاف وسوراخ چیزی را گرفتن، بتونه گیری کردن، درز گرفتن، اب بندی کردن

causal
implying a cause-and-effect relationship; (n.) causality

Longman:

1. relating to the connection between two things, where one causes the other to happen or exist [↪ cause]
causal relationship/link/factor etc:
** a causal relationship between unemployment and crime

2. [technical] a causal conjunction, such as 'because', introduces a statement about the cause of something


(Adjective) علی، سببی، علتی، بیان کننده علت، مبنی بر سبب

caustic
burning; corrosive; able to burn by chemical action; sarcastically biting; (of remarks) intended to hurt; bitter; harmful; op. harmless

Longman:

1. a caustic substance can burn through things by chemical action:
** caustic soda (=a chemical used for cleaning things)

2. a caustic remark criticizes someone in a way that is unkind but often cleverly humorous
caustic wit/comments/remark etc:
** Eliot appreciated Pound's caustic wit.

(مجازا) نیشدار، تند، تیز، هجو آمیز، سوزش اور

cauterize
burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection

Longman:

[ transitive]
[medical] to treat a wound or a growth on your body by burning it with hot metal, a laser, or a chemical


(Verb - transitive) داغ کردن، داغ زدن، سوزاندن

cavalcade
procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; (cf.) cavalry

Longman:

[ countable]
a line of people on horses or in cars or carriages moving along as part of a ceremony


(Noun) دسته اسب سواران، سواری، گردش سواره

cavalier
casual and offhand; arrogant; (n.) knight

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
not caring enough about rules, principles, or people's feelings:
** a cavalier attitude to the laws

اسب سوار، شوالیه

cavil
quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to make unnecessary complaints about someone or something
cavil at:
** They cavilled at our calculations.

خردهگیری کردن، عیب جویی کردن، خرده گیری، عیب جویی

cede
yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; (n.) cession

Longman:

[ transitive]
to give something such as an area of land or a right to a country or person, especially when you are forced to
cede something to somebody:
** Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1842.

واگذار کردن، تسلیم کردن، صرفنظرکردن از

celerity
speed; rapidity


(Noun) سرعت، تندی، فرزی، چابکی

celestial
heavenly

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
1. relating to the sky or heaven
celestial bodies: (=the sun, moon, stars etc)

2. [literary] very beautiful


(Adjective) الهی، علوی، اسمانی، سماوی

celibate
abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; n. celibacy

Longman:

not married and not having sex, especially because of your religious beliefs [↪ virgin]:
** Catholic priests are required to be celibate.

بی جفت، عزب، مجرد، شخص بی جفت

cemetery
place for burying the dead

Longman:

[ countable]
a piece of land, usually not belonging to a church, in which dead people are buried [↪ graveyard]


(Noun) گورستان، قبرستان، ارامگاه

censor
(in ancient rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; v.

Longman:

[ countable]
someone whose job is to examine books, films, letters etc and remove anything considered to be offensive, morally harmful, or politically dangerous [↪ censorship]

مامور سانسور، بازرس مطبوعات و نمایشها

censorious
severely critical

Longman:

criticizing and expressing disapproval:
** His tone was censorious.


(Adjective) خردهگیر، عیب جو، عیب جویانه

censure
blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; (n.) severe criticism; strong disapproval

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] the act of expressing strong disapproval and criticism:
** a vote of censure

انتقاد، سرزنش، سرزنش کردن

centaur
mythical figure, half man and half horse

Longman:

[ countable]
a creature in ancient Greek stories with the head, chest, and arms of a man and the body and legs of a horse


(Noun) حیوان افسانه ای با بالاتنه انسان وپایین تنه اسب، قنطورس

centigrade
denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as celsius)

سانتیگراد، صدبخشی

centrifugal
radiating; departing from the center

گریزنده از مرکز، فرار از مرکز

centrifuge
machine that separates substances by whirling them

Longman:

[ countable]
a machine that spins a container around very quickly so that the heavier liquids and any solids are forced to the outer edge or bottom

ماشین کره گیری، تفکیک کردن

centripetal
tending toward the center


(Adjective) مایل به مرکز

centurion
roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)

Longman:

[ countable]
an army officer of ancient Rome, who was in charge of about 100 soldiers


(Noun) (روم قدیم) رئیس دسته صد نفر، یوزباشی

cerebral
pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; (cf.) cerebrum

Longman:

1. [medical] relating to or affecting your brain:
** a cerebral haemorrhage (=bleeding in the brain)

2. having or involving complicated ideas rather than strong emotions:
** a cerebral film

مخی، دماغی، مغزی، فکری

cerebration
thought; working of the brain


(Noun) بکاربردن مغز، تفکر

ceremonious
marked by formality; extremely formal and polite; (cf.) ceremony: conventional social courtesy

Longman:

done in a formal serious way, as if you were in a ceremony


(Adjective) پای بند تشریفات وتعارف، رسمی

certitude
certainty

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] the state of being or feeling certain about something


(Noun) اطمینان، یقین، دقت

cessation
stoppage

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a pause or stop [↪ cease]
cessation of:
** a cessation of hostilities (=when the fighting stops in a war)


(Noun) ایست، توقف، انقطاع، پایان

cession
yielding to another; ceding

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
the act of giving up land, property, or rights, especially to another country after a war, or something that is given up in this way [↪ cede]:
** Spanish cession of the territory in 1818


(Noun) واگذاری، نقل وانتقال، انتقال قرض یا دین

chafe
warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; (n.)

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] if a part of your body chafes or if something chafes it, it becomes sore because of something rubbing against it:
** Wear a T-shirt under your wetsuit to stop it chafing.

2. [intransitive] to feel impatient or annoyed
chafe at/against/under:
** Some hunters are chafing under the new restrictions.

3. [transitive] British English to rub part of your body to make it warm

مالش دادن، خراشیدن، ساییدن، بوسیله اصطکاک گرم کردن، (مجازا) به هیجان اوردن، اوقات تلخی کردن به،عصبانیت، ساییدگی، پوست رفتگی

chaff
worthless products of an endeavor; husk(outer seed cover) separated from grain; (ex.) separate the wheat from the chaff

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. the outer seed covers that are separated from grain before it is used as food

2. dried grasses and plant stems that are used for food for farm animals

کاه، پوشال، پوسته، سبوس، (مجازا) چیزکم بها یا بی اهمیت

chaffing
bantering; joking

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:
** chaffinch

chagrin
annoyance and disappointment; vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride)

Longman:

[ uncountable]
annoyance and disappointment because something has not happened the way you hoped
to somebody's chagrin:
** Much to her chagrin, I got the job.

ازردگی، غم وغصه، اندوه، الم، تنگدلی، اندوهگین کردن، ازرده کردن

chalice
goblet; consecrated cup

Longman:

[ countable]
a gold or silver decorated cup used, for example, to hold wine in Christian religious services


(Noun) جام باده، (درعشا ربانی)، جام، پیاله، کاسه

chameleon
lizard that changes color in different situations

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a lizard that can change its colour to match the colours around it

2. someone who changes their ideas, behaviour etc to fit different situations


(Noun) (جانورشناسی) حربا ، سوسمار کوچک، ادم متلون المزاج ودمدمی

champion
support militantly; fight for; (n.) person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone or something that has won a competition, especially in sport:
** the world heavyweight boxing champion
** the Olympic champion
reigning/defending champion: (=the champion at the present time)

2. champion of something/somebody: someone who publicly fights for and defends an aim or principle, such as the rights of a group of people:
** a champion of women's rights

پهلوان، قهرمان، مبارزه، دفاع کردن از، پشتیبانی کردن نشخوار کردن

championship
position of champion; defense or support; competition held to determine a champion

Longman:

1. [countable] also championships [plural] a competition to find which player, team etc is the best in a particular sport:
** the women's figure skating championships
** Greece won the European Championship.

2. [countable] the position or period of being a champion [= title]:
** Warwickshire are the current holders of the cricket championship.

3. [written] the act of championing something or someone


(Noun) پهلوانی، قهرمانی، مسابقه قهرمانی

chancellor
legal official of high rank; (cf.) chancellery( chancellory): position of a chancellor

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the Chancellor of the Exchequer

2. a) the person in charge of some American universities

3. the leader of the government or the main government minister of some countries:
** Helmut Kohl, the former German Chancellor


(Noun) صدراعظم، رئیس دانشگاه

chant
tune(melody) in which a number of words are sung on the same note; (v.) sing (a chant); utter (a slogan) in the manner of a chant

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
1. to repeat a word or phrase again and again:
** protestors chanting anti-government slogans

2. to sing or say a religious song or prayer in a way that involves using only one note ortone:
** a priest chanting the liturgy

اهنگ ساده و کشیده، مناجات، سرود، سرود یا اهنگ خواندن

chaotic
in utter disorder

Longman:

a chaotic situation is one in which everything is happening in a confused way:
** a chaotic mixture of images


(Adjective) پرهرج ومرج، بی نظم

chapel
small church (in a prison, college, or hospital)

Longman:

1. a small church, or a room in a hospital, prison, big church etc in which Christians pray and have religious services

2. [countable] a building where Christians who are Nonconformists have religious services

3. British English the religious services held in a chapel:
** Bethan goes to chapel every Sunday.

4. [countable] British English the members of a union in the newspaper or printing industry


(Noun) کلیسای کوچک

chaperon
older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman

شخصی که همراه خانم های جوان میرود، نگهبان یاملازم خانم های جوان، نگهبانی کردن، همراه دختران جوان رفتن (برای حفاظت انها)، اسکورت

chaplain
clergyman attached to a chapel

Longman:

[ countable]
a priest or other religious minister responsible for the religious needs of a club, the army, a hospital etc:
** the prison chaplain


(Noun) دین یار، کشیشی که عبادتگاه ویژه دارد، قاضی عسگر

char
make or become black by burning; reduce or be reduced to carbon or charcoal(black substance made by burning wood) by incomplete combustion

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to burn something so that its outside becomes black:
** Roast the peppers until the skin begins to char and blister. ➔ charred

2. [old-fashioned] to work as a cleaner in a house, office, public building etc

( charr =) زغال، تبدیل به زغال کردن برگشتن، انجام دادن، کردن، بازگشت، فرصت، کار روزمزد و اتفاقی تبدیل به زغال کردن، نیمسوز کردن، نیمسوز شدن، زغال، جسم زغال

charisma
divine gift; great popular charm or appeal; magnetism

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a natural ability to attract and interest other people and make them admire you:
** He lacks charisma.


(Noun) ( charism =) عطیه الهی، جذبه روحانی، گیرایی، گیرش، فره

charlatan
quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine)

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who pretends to have special skills or knowledge - used to show disapproval


(Noun) ادم حقه باز، شارلاتان، ادم زبان باز

charm
quality of pleasing; amulet; action or formula thought to have magical power; spell; (v.) attract; cast a spell on; bewitch

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] a special quality someone or something has that makes people like them, feel attracted to them, or be easily influenced by them - used to show approval [↪ charming]:
** Joe's boyish charm
charm of:
** the charm of this small Southern city
** She turned on the charm (=used her charm) to all the men.
** The room had no windows and all the charm of a prison cell (=used to say that something has no charm).

2. [countable] a very small object worn on a chain or bracelet:
** a charm bracelet
** a small gold horseshoe worn as a lucky charm

3. [countable] a phrase or action believed to have special magic powers [= spell]

4. work like a charm: to work exactly as you had hoped:
** The new sales program has worked like a charm.

(. n ):افسون، طلسم، فریبندگی، دلربایی، سحر، (. vi &. vt ): افسون کردن، مسحور کردن، فریفتن، شیفتن

chary
cautious; unwilling to take risks; sparing or restrained about giving; op. bold

Longman:

unwilling to risk doing something
chary about/of doing something:
** Banks were chary of lending the company more money.


(Adjective) عزیز، محبوب، با احتیاط ودقیق، محتاط، کمرو

chase
ornament a metal surface by indenting; follow rapidly to catch

Longman:

1. follow: [intransitive and transitive] to quickly follow someone or something in order to catch them:
** The dogs saw him running and chased him.
** kids chasing around the house
chase somebody along/down/up something etc:
** The police chased the suspect along Severn Avenue.
chase after:
** A gang of boys chased after her, calling her names.

2. make somebody/something leave: [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to make someone or something leave, especially by following them for a short distance and threatening them
chase somebody away/off:
** The men were chased off by troops, who fired warning shots.
chase somebody out of something:
** Anne went to chase the dog out of the garden.

3. try to get something: [intransitive and transitive] to use a lot of time and effort trying to get something such as work or money:
** Top graduates from the university are chased by major companies.
chase after:
** reporters chasing after a story

4. hurry: [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] British English to rush or hurry somewhere
chase around/up/down etc:
** I was chasing around getting everything organized.

5. romance: [transitive] to try hard to make someone notice you and pay attention to you, because you want to have a romantic relationship with them:
** 'Sometimes a girl wants to be chased,' Amelia said.

تعقیب کردن، دنبال کردن، شکار کردن، واداربه فرارکردن، راندن واخراج کردن(با away و out و off )،تعقیب، مسابقه، شکار

chasm
abyss; very deep crack

Longman:

1. a very deep space between two areas of rock or ice, especially one that is dangerous:
** a rope bridge across the chasm

2. [singular] a big difference between two people, groups, or things
chasm between:
** the chasm between rich and poor


(Noun) شکاف، وقفه، (مجازا) فرق بسیار، پرتگاه عظیم

chassis
framework and working parts of an automobile; framework to which components are attached

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the frame on which the body, engine, wheels etc of a vehicle are built

2. the landing equipment of a plane


(Noun) شاسی اتومیل، اسکلت، کالبد
شاسی

chaste
morally pure; virginal; abstaining from illicit sexual acts; modest; simple (of a style of writing); not highly decorated; austere

Longman:

1. [old-fashioned] not having sex with anyone, or not with anyone except your husband or wife [↪ celibate, chastity]:
** She led a chaste, decent life.

2. not showing sexual feelings:
** a chaste kiss on the cheek

3. simple and plain in style:
** a chaste nightgown


(Adjective) عفیف، پاکدامن، خالص ومهذب

chasten
discipline; punish in order to correct; (cf.) castigate

Longman:

[ transitive usually passive]
to make someone realize that their behaviour was wrong or mistaken:
** Party workers have returned to their home towns, chastened by their overwhelming defeat.


(Verb - transitive) تصفیه وتزکیه کردن

chastise
punish as by beating; criticize severely

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [formal] to criticize someone severely:
** 'You're a fool,' she chastised herself.

2. [old-fashioned] to physically punish someone


(Verb - transitive) تنبیه کردن، توبیخ وملامت کردن

chauvinist
blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group, cause, or sex; (adj.) chauvinistic; (cf.) chauvinism; nicolas chauvin

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone, especially a man, who believes that their own sex is better or more important than the other sex:
** He's a bit of a male chauvinist.
** a male chauvinist pig (=an insulting name for a male chauvinist)

2. someone who believes that their own country or race is better or more important than any other


(Noun) میهن پرست متعصب

check
stop motion; curb or restrain

Longman:

1. find out: [intransitive and transitive] to do something in order to find out whether something really is correct, true, or in good condition:
** Check the tiles carefully before you buy them.
** A first rule in solving any mystery is to check the facts.
** Fill in the cash book carefully and always check your calculations.
check (that):
** Check that all the doors are locked securely.
check whether/how/who etc:
** Let me just check whether the potatoes are cooked.
** They paused to check how the other climbers were getting on.
check (something) for something:
** I checked the typing for errors.
** Turn the tap on and check for leaks.
check something against/with something: (=compare something with something else to see whether they are the same)
** You must check the evidence against other sources and decide if it is reliable.
** Positive test results are double checked (=looked at twice) to make absolutely sure.

2. ask somebody: [intransitive and transitive] to ask someone whether something is correct, true, or allowed:
** I'm not authorized to give you a refund - I'll have to check first.
check (that):
** Make a phone call to check that you're writing to the right person.
check whether/how/who etc:
** Call the factory to check whether the beds can be delivered today.
check with:
** Check with your doctor before going on a diet.

3. not do something: [transitive] to suddenly stop yourself from saying or doing something because you realize it would be better not to:
** I had to check the urge to laugh out loud.
check yourself:
** He grinned, and then checked himself, not wanting to upset Jack.

4. stop something: [transitive] to stop something bad from getting worse or continuing to happen:
** The police are failing to take adequate measures to check the growth in crime.

5. to leave your bags at an official place so they can be put on a plane or a train, or to take someone's bags in order to do this:
** Any luggage over five kilos must be checked.

جلوگیری کردن از، ممانعت کردن، سرزنش کردن، رسیدگی کردن، مقابله کردن، تطبیق کردن، نشان گذاردن، چک بانک مقابله، مقابله کردن، بررسی، بررسی کردن

checkered
marked by great changes in fortune; with many changes of fortune; (cf.) checked: having a pattern of squares

Longman:

1. having a pattern made up of squares of two different colours:
** a red and white checkered tablecloth
** a checkered marble floor

2. have a checkered history/career/past etc: to have had periods of failure as well as successful times in your past:
** This is an unusual building with a checkered history.


(Adjective) شطرنجی، خانهخانه
(Adjective) گوناگون (به ویژه از نظر رنگ)، پر الوان، رنگارنگ
(Adjective) متنوع، پر پستی و بلندی، پر ماجرا

**

** - a checkered life
** - زندگی پرفراز و نشیب

cherubic
angelic; innocent-looking; (n.) cherub; (cf.) seraph: winged angel of the highest order


(Adjective) کروبی

chicanery
trickery; deception

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the use of clever plans or actions to deceive people:
** Clearly there is some chicanery going on.


(Noun) حیله بازی، ضد ونقیض گویی، مغالطه

chide
scold; rebuke (someone who has done wrong)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to tell someone that you do not approve of something that they have done or said [= scold]:
** 'Edward, you are naughty,' Dorothy chided.
chide somebody for (doing) something:
** She chided him for not responding to her Christmas cards.
** He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts.

سرزنش کردن، گله کردن از، غرغرکردن

chimerical
fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; n. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature

Longman:

imaginary or not really possible


(Adjective) واهی، خیالی، ذوقی، هوس باز، هوس آمیز، دمدمی

chip
lose a small piece from the surface or edge; (n.) small piece broken off something; (cf.) french fry; potato chip/crisp

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a thin flat round piece of food such as potato cooked in very hot oil and eaten cold [= crisp British English]
** a bag of potato chips

2. a small piece of silicon that has a set of complicated electrical connections on it and is used to store and process information in computers:
** the age of the silicon chip
** chip technology

3. piece: a small piece of wood, stone, metal etc that has been broken off something:
** Wood chips covered the floor of the workshop.
** a chocolate chip cookie (=one that contains small pieces of chocolate)

4. mark: a small hole or mark on a plate, cup etc where a piece has broken off
chip in:
** There's a chip in this bowl.

5. have a chip on your shoulder: to easily become offended or angry because you think you have been treated unfairly in the past

لپ پریده کردن یا شدن، ژتن، ریزه، تراشه، مهره ای که دربازی نشان برد وباخت است، ژتون، ورقه شدن، رنده کردن، (بصورت جمع) سیب زمینی سرخ کرده تراشه

chisel
swindle or cheat; (n.) wedge like tool for cutting

Longman:

[ countable]
a metal tool with a sharp edge, used to cut wood or stone

اسکنه، قلم درز، بااسکنه تراشیدن

chivalrous
courteous; faithful; brave; (n.) chivalry

Longman:

a man who is chivalrous behaves in a polite, kind, generous, and honourable way, especially towards women


(Adjective) ( chivalric =) دلیرانه، جوانمرد، بلند همت

choice
delicate; of very fine quality

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] if you have a choice, you can choose between several things [↪ choose]
choice between:
** Voters have a choice between three main political parties.
choice of:
** You have a choice of hotel or self-catering accommodation.
** You have a choice - you can stay here on your own or you can come with us.
** She was faced with an agonizing choice.
** We must encourage children to exercise choice and make their own decisions.
** He has to make some important choices.
** The booklet is supposed to help parents make informed choices (=good choices because they have the right information) for their children.
** They gave us no choice in the matter.
** We had no choice but to destroy the animal.
** You have left me with no choice.

2. [singular] the range of people or things that you can choose from:
** It was a small shop and there wasn't much choice.
choice of:
** There is a choice of four different colours.
** We offer a wide choice of wines and beers.
** Consumers these days are spoilt for choice (=have a lot of things to choose from). British English

3. [countable] the person or thing that someone chooses
choice of:
** I don't really like her choice of jewellery.
** I think London was a good choice as a venue.

4. by choice: if you do something by choice, you do it because you want to do it and not because you are forced to do it:
** She lives alone by choice.

5. the something of your choice: the person or thing of your choice is the one that you would most like to choose:
** My children cannot go to the school of their choice.

پسند، انتخاب، چیز نخبه، برگزیده، منتخب

choir
group of people who sing together (esp. during religious services); place for choir

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a group of people who sing together for other people to listen to [↪ choral]:
** He joined a church choir at the age of eight.

2. the part of a church in which a choir sits during religious ceremonies


(Noun) دسته سرایندگان، کر، بصورت دسته جمعی سرود خواندن، هم سرایان

choleric
hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered; (cf.) cholera

Longman:

bad-tempered or angry:
** He was a choleric, ill-tempered man.


(Adjective) سودایی مزاج، عصبانی

chore
daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping); unpleasant task

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a small job that you have to do regularly, especially work that you do to keep a house clean:
** everyday chores like shopping and housework
** We share the domestic chores.

2. something you have to do that is very boring and unpleasant:
** I find driving a real chore.


(Noun) کارهای عادی و روزمره، کار مشکل، کارسخت وطاقت فرسا

choreography
art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the art of arranging how dancers should move during a performance


(Noun) رقص ارایی، هنررقص، رقص مخصوصا درتئاتر وغیره

chortle
chuckle with delight; (n.)

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to laugh because you are amused or pleased about something:
** Harry chortled with delight.

صدای خورخور یاخنده، سرود وتسبیح خواندن، مناجات کردن، صدای خرخرکردن، صدای خرناس کردن، خندیدن

chorus
phrase repeated throughout a song or poem

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the part of a song that is repeated after each verse:
** Everyone joined in the chorus.

2. a large group of people who sing together [= choir]:
** I sing with the university chorus.

3. a piece of music written to be sung by a large group of people:
** a recording of the Hallelujah Chorus

4. a group of singers, dancers, or actors who act together in a show but do not have the main parts:
** New voices are needed to join the chorus for the annual festival in October.

5. a chorus of thanks/disapproval/protest etc: something that a lot of people all say at the same time:
** The minister was greeted with a chorus of boos.
** There was a chorus of agreement from the committee.
** More politicians have now joined in the chorus of complaints.

هم سرایان، هم سرایی کردن، دسته خوانندگان، نغمه سرایان هم اهنگ

chronic
long established as a disease

Longman:

1. a chronic disease or illness is one that continues for a long time and cannot be cured [↪ acute]:
** chronic arthritis
** chronic asthma
** chronic heart disease

2. a chronic problem is one that continues for a long time and cannot easily be solved:
** chronic unemployment
** There is a chronic shortage of teachers.

3. chronic alcoholic/gambler etc: someone who has behaved in a particular way for a long time and cannot stop:
** He was a chronic alcoholic and unable to hold down a job.
** a chronic smoker

4. [informal] extremely bad:
** The food was absolutely chronic!


(Adjective) دیرینه، مزمن، سخت، شدید، گرانرو

chronicle
report; record (in chronological order)

Longman:

[ countable]
a written record of a series of events, especially historical events, written in the order in which they happened
chronicle of:
** a chronicle of his life during the war years

شرح وقایع بترتیب تاریخ، تاریخچه

chuckle
laugh quietly

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to laugh quietly:
** What are you chuckling about?


(Noun) خنده‌ی نُخودی
(Verb - transitive) نخودی خندیدن، هوم هوم خندیدن، با دهان بسته خندیدن، پیش خود خندیدن

**

** - every time he thought of her big nose he chuckled
** - هر وقت به دماغ گنده‌ی او فکر می‌کرد پیش خود می‌خندید

churlish
boorish; rude; (n.) churl: boor; yahoo

Longman:

[formal] not polite or friendly:
** It seemed churlish to refuse his invitation.


(Adjective) (شخص) بی‌تربیت، بی ادب، بی نزاکت،بی کِلاس و دهاتی، زمخت، بد اخلاق، بدخُلق

ciliated
having minute hairs; (cf.) cilium; (cf.) cilia: eyelash

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cipher
nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; (v.)

Longman:

1. [formal] a system of secret writing [= code]:
** an expert in ciphers
** messages written in cipher

2. [countable]someone who is not important and has no power or influence:
** At work, she was a cipher, a functionary, nothing more.

3. [countable] the number 0 [= zero]

صدر، سر، سری کردن عدد صفر، رمز، حروف یا مهر رمزی، حساب کردن(بارقام)، صفر گذاردن، برمز دراوردن

circlet
small ring; band of gold, silver, jewel, etc. (worn on the head, arms, or neck as decoration)

Longman:

[ countable]
a narrow band of gold, silver, or jewels worn around someone's head or arms


(Noun) دایره کوچک، حلقه زر یاگوهر، انگشتری، تشکیل دایره کوچک دادن، دایره وارحرکت کردن

circuit
closed circular line around an area; circumference; regularly repeated journey from place to place

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a path that forms a circle around an area, or a journey along this path:
** We did a circuit of the old city.

2. a track that cars, motorbikes etc race around

3. the tennis/lecture/cabaret etc circuit: all the places that are usually visited by someone who plays tennis etc:
** a well-known entertainer on the club circuit

4. the complete circle that an electric current travels:
** an electrical circuit

5. a regular trip around an area made by a judge or a religious leader, so that a court of law or church can meet in several different places:
** a circuit judge
** a circuit preacher

(حقوق) حوزه قضایی یک قاضی، دور، دوره، گردش، جریان،حوزه، مدار، اتحادیه، کنفرانس، دورچیزی گشتن، درمداری سفر کردن، احاطه کردن مدار

circuitous
roundabout

Longman:

going from one place to another in a way that is longer than the most direct way:
** a hard, circuitous hike


(Adjective) غیرمستقیم

circumlocution
indirect or roundabout expression (by using an unnecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
the practice of using too many words to express an idea, instead of saying it directly


(Noun) طول وتفصیل در کلام، بیان غیر مستقیم

circumscribe
limit; confine; draw a line around

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [formal] to limit power, rights, or abilities [= restrict]:
** The President's power is circumscribed by Congress and the Supreme Court.

2. [technical] to draw a line around something:
** a circle circumscribed by a square


(Verb - transitive) نوشتن در دور، محدود ومشخص کردن

circumspect
prudent; cautious; acting after careful thought

Longman:

thinking carefully about something before doing it, in order to avoid risk [= cautious]:
** The governor was usually circumspect when dealing with the media.


(Adjective) بااحتیاط، ملاحظه کار، مال اندیش، باتدبیر

circumvent
outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to avoid a problem or rule that restricts you, especially in a clever or dishonest way - used to show disapproval:
** The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.

2. to avoid something by changing the direction in which you are travelling:
** We went north in order to circumvent the mountains.


(Verb - transitive) باحیله پیش دستی کردن، گیر انداختن

cistern
reservoir or water tank

Longman:

[ countable]
a container in which the supply of water for a building is stored inside the building [= tank]


(Noun) اب انبار، مخزن اب، قدح بزرگ مسی، منبع

citadel
fortress

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a strong fort (=small castle) built in the past as a place where people could go for safety if their city was attacked [= fortress]

2. the citadel of something:[literary] a place or situation in which an idea, principle, system etc that you think is important is kept safe [= stronghold]:
** the last citadel of freedom


(Noun) ارک، دژ، قلعه نظامی، سنگر

cite
quote; commend; (ex.) cited for bravery in an official record

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to mention something as an example, especially one that supports, proves, or explains an idea or situation:
** The judge cited a 1956 Supreme Court ruling in her decision.
cite something as something:
** Several factors have been cited as the cause of the unrest.

2. to give the exact words of something that has been written, especially in order to support an opinion or prove an idea [= quote]:
** The passage cited above is from a Robert Frost poem.

3. to order someone to appear before a court of law
cite somebody for something:
** Two managers had been cited for similar infractions.

4. to mention someone by name in a court case:
** Sue was cited in the divorce proceedings.

5. to mention someone because they deserve praise
cite somebody (for something):
** Garcia was cited for her work with disabled children.


(Verb - transitive) ذکر کردن، اتخاذ سند کردن، گفتن

civil
having to do with citizens; not military or religious; courteous and polite; (ex.) married in a civil ceremony; ex. civil strife/disorder/law; (n.) civility; (cf.) civic

Longman:

1. [only before noun] relating to the people who live in a country
civil war/disturbance/unrest etc: (=fighting etc between different groups of people living in the same country) ➔ civil liberty, civil rights

2. [only before noun] relating to the ordinary people or things in a country that are not part of military, government, or religious organizations:
** They were married in a civil ceremony in May.

3. relating to the laws about the private affairs of citizens, such as laws about business or property, rather than laws about crime [↪ civil law, criminal]:
** Many civil cases can be settled out of court.

4. polite in a formal but not very friendly way [↪ civility]:
** Try at least to be civil.


(Adjective) غیرنظامی، مدنی

clairvoyant
having foresight; fortuneteller; (n.) clairvoyance

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who says they can see what will happen in the future

روشن بین، نهان بین

clamber
climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble

Longman:

[ intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
to climb or move slowly somewhere, using your hands and feet because it is difficult or steep
clamber over/across etc:
** They clambered over the slippery rocks.
** We all clambered aboard and the boat pulled out.

بادست وپا بالارفتن، بسختی بالارفتن

clamor
loud continuous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; (v.) make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; adj. clamorous

( clamour =) بانگ، غوغا، سروصدا، غریو کشیدن، مصرانه تقاضا کردن

clandestine
secret

Longman:

done or kept secret:
** a clandestine affair
** clandestine meetings


(Adjective) مخفی، غیرمشروع، زیرجلی

clangor
loud resounding noise; sound of repeated clanging

( clangour =) جرنگ جرنگ، طنین ناقوس ها

clap
strike the palms of the hands together with a sudden explosive sound; come together suddenly with a sharp sound; put or send promptly; (ex.) clap the thief in jail; (n.) clapping; loud or explosive sound; (cf.) applause

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to hit your hands against each other many times to make a sound that shows your approval, agreement, or enjoyment [↪ applause]:
** One man began to clap, and others joined in.
** The couple were cheered and clapped on their arrival.
** The audience clapped politely but without much enthusiasm.

2. [transitive] if you clap your hands, you hit your hands together a few times to attract someone's attention or to show that you are pleased:
** Narouz clapped his hands and a servant entered.
** Mandy laughed and clapped her hands in delight.

3. [transitive] to put your hand on something quickly and firmly:
** 'Mick!' She clapped her hand over her mouth. 'I'd forgotten!'
** Ben grinned and clapped me amiably on the shoulder.

4. clap eyes on somebody/something:[informal] to see someone or something, especially when you did not expect to:
** Mark had loved the house from the moment he clapped eyes on it.

5. clap somebody in prison/jail/irons:[literary] to suddenly put someone in prison or chains

کف زدن، صدای دست زدن، ترق تراق، صدای ناگهانی

clapper
striker (tongue) of a bell

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the metal part inside a bell that hits it to make it ring

2. run/go/drive etc like the clappers:[informal] to run, drive etc very fast

زبانه زنگ، کف زننده

clarion
shrill, trumpet like sound; kind of trumpet used in former times

شیپورتیز، شیپور

clasp
hold firmly within arms

Longman:

1. a small metal object for fastening a bag, belt, piece of jewellery etc

2. [singular] a tight hold [= grip]:
** the firm clasp of her hand

گیره قزن قفلی، جفت چپ راست، قلاب، دراغوش گرفتن، بستن

claustrophobia
fear of being locked in

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a strong fear of being in a small enclosed space or in a situation that limits what you can do [↪ agoraphobia]


(Noun) تنگناترس، (پزشکی) مرض ترس از فضای تنگ ومحصور

clavicle
collarbone

Longman:

[ countable]
[medical] a collarbone


(Noun) (کالبد شناسی) ترقوه، چنبر

cleave
split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to; (n.) cleavage; (adj.) cloven

Longman:

1. [literary] to cut something into separate parts using a heavy tool, or to be able to be cut in this way:
** The wooden door had been cleft in two.

2. [formal] to divide something into two completely separate parts:
** the racial problems that still cleave American society

3. cleave the air/darkness etc:[literary] to move quickly through the air etc:
** His fist cleft the air.

1. [formal] to continue to think that a method, belief, person etc is true or valuable, even when this seems unlikely:
** John still cleaves to his romantic ideals.

2. [literary] to stick to someone or something, or seem to surround them

شکافتن، جدا کردن، شکستن، ورآمدن، چسبیدن، پیوستن، تقسیم شدن، شکافتن سلول

cleft
(n.) split

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a natural crack in something, especially the surface of rocks or the Earth etc

2. an area on the chin or lip that goes slightly inwards

شکاف، ترک، چنگال، شکاف دار، ترک خورده

clemency
disposition to be lenient in deciding punishments; mildness as of the weather; (adj.) clement

Longman:

[ uncountable]
forgiveness and less severe punishment for a crime
grant/give somebody clemency:
** She was granted clemency after killing her violent husband.


(Noun) بخشایندگی، رحم، اعتدال عناصر

cliche
phrase dulled in meaning by repetition; platitude; adj. clichéd

Longman:

[ countable]
an idea or phrase that has been used so much that it is not effective or does not have any meaning any longer:
** There is plenty of truth in the cliché that a trouble shared is a trouble halved.


(Noun) کلمه مبتذل

clientele
body of customers

Longman:

[ singular]
all the people who regularly use a shop, restaurant etc:
** The restaurant attracts a young clientele.


(Noun) ارباب رجوع، مشتریان، پیروان، موکلین

climactic
relating to the highest point; (n.) climax; (cf.) climatic

Longman:

forming a very exciting or important part of an event or story, especially near the end of it [↪ climax]:
** a climatic moment


(Adjective) اوجی، باوج رسیده

clime
climate

Longman:

[ countable usually plural]
a place that has a particular type of climate:
** sunnier climes


(Noun) سرزمین، اب وهوا

clip
cut off with shears; fasten; (n.) something clipped off (as a short extract from film); clasp or fastener

Longman:

1. a small metal or plastic object that holds or fastens things together:
** The wire is held on with a metal clip.
** a wad of money in a gold clip ➔ Bulldog clip, paperclip

2. a short part of a film or television programme that is shown by itself, especially as an advertisement:
** clips from the new James Bond film

3. a container for bullets which passes them quickly into the gun so that they can be fired

4. at a good/rapid/fast etc clip: quickly:
** Traffic was moving at a good clip.

5. cut: [singular] British English the act of cutting something to make it shorter or tidier:
** I gave the hedge a clip.

کوتاه کردن، گیره کاغذ برش، موزنی، پشم چینی، شانه فشنگ، گیره کاغذ، گیره یاپنس، چیدن، بغل گرفتن، محکم گرفتن

clipper
sailing vessel built for great speed

Longman:

1. clippers: a special tool with two blades, used for cutting small pieces from something:
** nail clippers

2. [countable] a fast sailing ship used in the past


(Noun) اسب یا کشتی تندرو، طیاره تندرو، بادپا، (درجمع)ماشین موزنی، قیچی باغبانی

clique
small exclusive group of people

Longman:

[ countable]
a small group of people who think they are special and do not want other people to join them - used to show disapproval
clique of:
** a ruling clique of officials
** the cliques formed by high school students


(Noun) دسته، گروه، محفل

cloister
monastery or convent

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a covered passage that surrounds one side of a square garden in a church, monastery etc

2. a building where monks or nuns live

راهرو سرپوشیده، اطاق یا سلول راهبان وتارکان دنیا،ایوان، دیر، صومعه، گوشه نشینی کردن، درصومعه گذاشتن

clot
half-solid lump formed from a liquid (or blood); (v.)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if a liquid such as blood or milk clots, or if something clots it, it becomes thicker and more solid

توده، لخته خون، دلمه شدن، لخته شدن (خون)

clout
great influence (especially political or social); hard blow with fist

Longman:

1. [informal] power or the authority to influence other people's decisions
political/economic etc clout:
** people with financial clout
the clout to do something:
** Few companies have the clout to handle such large deals.
** An official protest could carry considerable clout.

2. [informal] a hard blow given with the hand:
** He gave him a clout round the ear.

زدن، وصله کردن، چرم یا پارچه مندرس، پارچه کهنه، کهنه

clown
act stupidly; play the fool; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone who wears funny clothes, a red nose, bright make-up on their face etc, and does silly things to make people laugh, especially at a circus

2. someone who often makes jokes or behaves in a funny way:
** Frankie's a bit of a clown.
class clown: (=someone in a school class who behaves in a funny or silly way)

3. a stupid or annoying person:
** I can't understand what she sees in that clown.

لوده، مسخره، مقلد، مسخرگی کردن، دلقک شدن

cloying
distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental; (v.) cloy: become unpleasant through too much sweetness or excess

Longman:

1. a cloying attitude or quality annoys you because it is too sweet or nice:
** cloying sentimentality

2. cloying food or smells are sweet and make you feel sick:
** the thick cloying smell of cheap perfume

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

coagulate
congeal; thicken; clot; (n.) coagulant

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if a liquid coagulates, or something coagulates it, it becomes thick and almost solid:
** The blood had not coagulated.

بستن، دلمه کردن، لخته شدن (خون)

coalesce
combine; fuse; (n.) coalescence

Longman:

[ intransitive]
if objects or ideas coalesce, they combine to form one single group
coalesce into/with:
** Gradually the different groups of people coalesced into one dominant racial group.

بهم امیختن، یکی شدن، منعقد شدن ائتلاف کردن

coalition
partnership; league; union of separate political parties

Longman:

1. a union of two or more political parties that allows them to form a government or fight an election together
coalition of:
** a coalition of democratic forces
** the centre-right coalition government
** an emergency meeting of the three coalition parties

2. [countable] a group of people who join together to achieve a particular purpose, usually a political one
coalition of:
** a coalition of environmental groups

3. a process in which two or more political parties or groups join together:
** He hoped to convert his party members to a belief in coalition.
in coalition with somebody:
** He was working in coalition with other Unionist leaders.


(Noun) ائتلاف، پیوستگی، اتحاد موقتی

coax
persuade by flattery

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to persuade someone to do something that they do not want to do by talking to them in a kind, gentle, and patient way:
** 'Please, Vic, come with us,' Nancy coaxed.
coax somebody into/out of (doing) something:
** We had to coax Alan into going to school.
coax somebody to do something:
** We watched the bear coax its cubs to enter the water.
coax somebody down/out/back etc:
** Firefighters managed to coax the man down from the roof.

2. to make something such as a machine do something by dealing with it in a slow, patient, and careful way
coax something out of/from/into etc something:
** He coaxed a fire out of some dry grass and twigs.
** The driver coaxed his bus through the snow.

to persuade someone to tell you something or give you something:
** I managed to coax some money out of Dad.

ریشخندکردن، نوازش کردن، چرب زبانی کردن

coda
concluding section of a musical or literary composition

Longman:

[ countable]
1. an additional separate part at the end of a piece of music

2. a separate piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or a speech


(Noun) قطعه اخریک اهنگ

coddle
treat gently; indulge excessively; pamper; mollycoddle; baby; cook in water just below boiling point; ex. coddled eggs

Longman:

[ transitive]
to treat someone in a way that is too kind and gentle and that protects them from pain or difficulty:
** Don't coddle the child - he's fine!

نیم پزکردن، اهسته جوشاندن یا پختن، بادقت زیادبکاری دست زدن، نازپرورده کردن، نوازش کردن

codicil
supplement to the body of a will; later addition to a will

Longman:

[ countable]
a document making a change or addition to a will (=a legal document saying who you want your money and property to go to when you die)


(Noun) متمم وصیت نامه

codify
arrange (laws or rules) as a code; classify; (n.) code: system of words used instead of ordinary writing; collection of laws, rules, established social customs

Longman:

[ transitive]
to arrange laws, principles, facts etc in a system

قانون وضع کردن، بصورت رمز دراوردن، تدوین کردن رمزی کردن، تدوین کردن

coercion
use of force to get someone to object; compelling; v. coerce

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the use of threats or orders to make someone do something they do not want to do:
** The defendant explained that he had been acting under coercion.


(Noun) اجبار، اضطرار، تهدید واجبار

coeval
living at the same time as; existing during the same period of time; contemporary; of the same age

هم سال، هم تاریخ

cog
tooth projecting from a wheel

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a wheel with small bits sticking out around the edge that fit together with the bits of another wheel as they turn in a machine

2. one of the small bits that stick out on a cog

3. a cog in the machine/wheel: someone who only has a small unimportant job in a large organization

دندانه، دنده چرخ، دندانه دار کردن، حقه بازی، طاس گرفتن (درتخته نرد)

cogent
convincing

Longman:

if a statement is cogent, it seems reasonable and correct
cogent argument/reason/case etc:
** a cogent argument for banning the drug

متقاعد کننده، دارای قدرت وزور

cogitate
think over; ponder

Longman:

[ intransitive + about/on]
[formal] to think carefully and seriously about something

اندیشه کردن، درعالم فکر فرورفتن

cognate
having a common origin; related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature; (ex.) cognate languages; (n.)

Longman:

cognate words or languages have the same origin

هم ریشه، همجنس، واژه هم ریشه

cognitive
having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental processes; (n.) cognition: the mental process of knowing

Longman:

related to the process of knowing, understanding, and learning something:
** cognitive psychology


(Adjective) وابسته بدانش یااگاهی ،دانستنی ،شناسنده

cognizance
knowledge; (adj.) cognizant; having knowledge; aware

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. knowledge or understanding of something

2. take cognizance of something: to understand something and consider it when you take action or make a decision


(Noun) معرفت، ادراک، شناسایی، اگاهی، تصدیق ضمنی

cohabit
live together

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to live with another person and have a sexual relationship with them without being married

باهم زندگی کردن (زن ومرد)، رابطه جنسی داشتن

cohere
stick together

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. if ideas, arguments, beliefs, statements etc cohere, they are connected in a clear and reasonable way [↪ coherent]:
** All the details are there and are correct but they don't cohere.

2. if two objects cohere, they stick together

چسبیدن، رابطه خویشی داشتن

cohesion
tendency to keep together

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. if there is cohesion among a group of people, a set of ideas etc, all the parts or members of it are connected or related in a reasonable way to form a whole:
** a sense of community and social cohesion

2. [technical] a close relationship, based on grammar or meaning, between two parts of a sentence or a larger piece of writing


(Noun) پیوستگی، چسبندگی، هم بستگی، جاذبه مولکولی

cohorts
group of people who share some common quality; armed band; a group of between 300 and 600 soldiers under one commander (in the ancient rome)

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coiffure
hairstyle

Longman:

[ countable]
the way someone's hair is arranged [= hairstyle]

ارایش مو، مردی که سلمانی زنانه باشد

coin
make coins; invent or fabricate (a word or phrase); n. coinage: word or phrase recently invented

Longman:

1. [countable] a piece of metal, usually flat and round, that is used as money [↪ bill, note]

2. toss/flip a coin: to choose or decide something by throwing a coin into the air and guessing which side of it will show when it falls:
** Toss a coin to see who goes first.

3. the other/opposite side of the coin: a different or opposite way of thinking about something:
** Making the rules is only part of it. How the rules are carried out is the other side of the coin.

4. two sides of the same coin: two problems or situations that are so closely connected that they are really just two parts of the same thing:
** Great opportunity and great danger are two sides of the same coin.

5. [uncountable] money in the form of metal coins

سکه، سکه زدن، اختراع وابداع کردن

coincidence
the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events; (v.) coincide: happen at the same time; be in agreement; (cf.) coincident; cf. coincidental

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] when two things happen at the same time, in the same place, or to the same people in a way that seems surprising or unusual [↪ coincide, coincidental]:
** 'I'm going to Appleby tomorrow.' ' What a coincidence!I'm going up there too.'
by coincidence:
** By coincidence, John and I both ended up at Yale.
sheer/pure coincidence: (=completely by chance)
** I didn't set out to find you - it's sheer coincidence that I should walk along the same street.
not a coincidence/more than coincidence:
** After the fourth attack on her car she was convinced that the vandalism was more than just coincidence.
** It was a happy coincidence that Robert arrived at the same time.

2. [formal] when two ideas, opinions etc are the same
coincidence of:
** a coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians


(Noun) انطباق
(Noun) تصادف، توافق، اقتران، انطباق، هم روی داد

colander
utensil with perforated bottom used for straining

Longman:

[ countable]
a metal or plastic bowl with a lot of small holes in the bottom and sides, used to separate liquid from food


(Noun) کفگیر، صافی

collaborate
work together; cooperate treasonably with the enemy

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to work together with a person or group in order to achieve something, especially in science or art [↪ collaborator]
collaborate on:
** The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects.
collaborate with:
** During the late seventies, he collaborated with the legendary Muddy Waters.
collaborate to do something:
** Researchers are collaborating to develop the vaccine.
collaborate in (doing) something:
** Elephants collaborate in looking after their young.

2. to help a country that your country is fighting a war with, especially one that has taken control of your country [↪ collaborator]
collaborate with:
** Vigilantes began combing the city for anyone known to have collaborated with the enemy.

همدستی کردن، باهم کار کردن، تشریک مساعی

collage
work of art put together from fragments

Longman:

1. a picture made by sticking other pictures, photographs, cloth etc onto a surface

2. the art of making pictures in this way


(Noun) اختلاط رنگهای مختلف درسطح پرده نقاشی، هنر اختلاط رنگها

collate
examine and compare in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order (the sheets of a book before they are bound)

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [formal] to gather information together, examine it carefully, and compare it with other information to find any differences
collate information/results/data/figures:
** A computer system is used to collate information from across Britain.

2. to arrange sheets of paper in the correct order [= sort]


(Verb - transitive) مقابله وتطبیق کردن
(Verb - transitive) تلفیق

collateral
security given for loan; (adj.) secondary; descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters

Longman:

[ uncountable]
property or other goods that you promise to give someone if you cannot pay back the money they lend you [= security]:
** We put up our home as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.

هم بر، پهلو به پهلو، متوازی، تضمین، (امر.) وثیقه

collation
a light meal; collating


(Noun) مقابله، تطبیق، مقایسه، تطبیق دستخط ها

collected
composed; calm; self-possessed

Longman:

1. in control of yourself and your thoughts, feelings etc:
** She wanted to arrive feeling cool, calm, and collected.

2. collected works/poems/essays/edition: all of someone's books, poems etc printed in one book or set of books:
** the Collected Works of Shakespeare


(Adjective) دارای حواس جمع ،متین ،خوددار

colloquial
pertaining to conversational or common speech; informal; (n.) colloquialism: colloquial expression

Longman:

language or words that are colloquial are used mainly in informal conversations rather than in writing or formal speech


(Adjective) گفتگویی، محاوره ای، مصطلح، اصطلاحی

colloquy
informal discussion; conversation

Longman:

[ countable]
a conversation


(Noun) گفتگو، صحبت، محاوره

collusion
conspiring in a fraudulent scheme to cheat or deceive others; (v.) collude

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a secret agreement that two or more people make in order to do something dishonest


(Noun) ساخت وپاخت، تبانی، سازش، هم نیرنگ، بست وبند

colossal
huge

Longman:

used to emphasize that something is extremely large:
** a colossal statue of the King
** The whole holiday was a colossal waste of money.


(Adjective) بسیاربزرگ ،عظیم الجثه

colossus
gigantic statue; person or thing of great size or importance

Longman:

[ countable]
someone or something that is extremely big or extremely important:
** an intellectual colossus like Leonardo

عظیم الجثه، چیز غول پیکر وگنده

coma
deep prolonged unconsciousness caused by disease, poison, or a severe blow

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
someone who is in a coma has been unconscious for a long time, usually because of a serious illness or injury
be in/go into/come out of a coma:
** He went into a coma and died soon afterwards.


(Noun) اغما ، بیهشی

comatose
in a coma; extremely sleepy

Longman:

[technical] in a coma


(Adjective) (پزشکی) اغما ، بیهش، بیهوش

combustible
easily burned; (n.) (cf.) combustion

Longman:

able to burn easily
combustible material/gas etc:

سوزا، احتراق پذیر، قابل تحریک وبرانگیختنی

comeback
retort; quick clever reply; return to former status

Longman:

[ countable usually singular]
1. make/stage a comeback: if a person, activity, style etc makes a comeback, they become popular again after being unpopular for a long time:
** The miniskirt made a comeback in the late 1980s.

2. a quick reply that is often clever, funny, and insulting [= retort]:
** I couldn't think of a good comeback.

3. a way of getting payment or a reward for something wrong or unfair that has been done to you:
** Check your contract carefully, or you may have no comeback if something goes wrong.


(Noun) باز گشت (به وضع یا مقام یا قدرت سابق)، رجعت، دستیابی مجدد

**

** - his comeback to power surprised everyone
** - بازگشت او به قدرت همه را متعجب کرد
** - to make (or stage) a comeback
** - بازگشتن (به وضع یا مقام یا قدرت و غیرهی سابق)
** - Mohammad Ali made his comeback in the ring
** - محمد علی دوباره به عرصهی مشتبازی رجعت نمود
(Noun) جواب (زیرکانه یا دندان شکن)
(Noun) توجیه، دلیل قانونی، بهانه

comely
attractive; agreeable; having a pleasing appearance

Longman:

a comely woman is attractive


(Adjective) خوبرو، خوش ایند، خوش منظر

comestible
something fit to be eaten

خوردنی، خوراکی (درجمع)، قابل خوردن

comeuppance
deserts; well-deserved punishment or misfortune; rebuke

Longman:

[ singular]
a punishment or something bad which happens to you that you really deserve:
** You'll get your comeuppance one day!


(Noun) توبیخ بیجا، مزد عمل بد

comity
courtesy; civility; (ex.) comity of nations


(Noun) تعارف، نزاکت

commandeer
take (private property) for military use without needing permission or giving payment; draft for military purposes

Longman:

[ transitive]
to take someone else's property for your own use, especially during a war:
** The local hotel was commandeered for the wounded.


(Verb - transitive) وارد بخدمت اجباری کردن، برای ارتش برداشتن، مصادره کردن

commemorate
honor the memory of; serve as a memorial to; (ex.) commemorate the 100th anniversary/those who died in the war

Longman:

[ transitive]
to do something to show that you remember and respect someone important or an important event in the past:
** a parade to commemorate the town's bicentenary


(Verb - transitive) مجلس یاداوری، نگاه داشتن، جشن گرفتن، بیادگار نگاه داشتن

commemorative
remembering; honoring the memory of; (ex.) commemorative stamp

مربوط به جشن یاد بود، یادبودی

commensurate
equal in extent; of the same size

Longman:

matching something in size, quality, or length of time
commensurate with:
** Salary will be commensurate with age and experience.


(Adjective) متناسب

commiserate
feel or express pity or sympathy for

Longman:

[ intransitive + with]
to express your sympathy for someone who is unhappy about something

دلسوزی کردن، ترحم کردن بر، تسلیت گفتن بر، اظهارتاسف کردن

commodious
spacious and comfortable

Longman:

a house or room that is commodious is very big


(Adjective) جادار، بکار خور، مقرون بصرفه، سودمند

commonplace
ordinary; (n.) something ordinary or common; trite remark

Longman:

happening or existing in many places, and therefore not special or unusual:
** Car thefts are commonplace in this part of town.

پیش پا افتاده، معمولی، مبتذل، همه جایی

commonwealth
nation governed by the people; republic; people of a nation

Longman:

1. the Commonwealth: an organization of about 50 countries that were once part of the Britishempire:
** the Commonwealth Games

2. [countable] an association of countries with political or economic connections
commonwealth of:
** a commonwealth of nations

3. [countable]American English the official legal title of some US states


(Noun) جمهور،هیئت ملت ،دولت ،کشور

communal
held in common; public; of a group of people; of a commune

Longman:

1. shared by a group of people or animals, especially a group who live together:
** a communal bathroom

2. involving people from many different races, religions, or language groups:
** the worst communal violence in two years

3. relating or belonging to all the people living in a particular community:
** crops grown on communal land


(Adjective) اشتراکی، همگانی

commune
small (often rural) community whose members share work and income; (v.) exchange thoughts or feelings; (ex.) commune with nature

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a group of people who live together and who share the work and their possessions:
** a hippie commune

2. the smallest unit of local government in countries such as France and Belgium

3. a group of people in a Communist country who work as a team on a farm, and give what they produce to the state

بخش، مزرعه اشتراکی، صمیمانه گفتگو کردن، راز دل گفتن

compact
agreement; contract; (adj.) tightly packed; firm; brief; concise; (ex.) compact statement

Longman:

1. small, but arranged so that everything fits neatly into the space available - used to show approval:
** The compact design of the machine allows it to be stored easily.
** The students' rooms were compact, with a desk, bed, and closet built in.

2. packed or put together firmly and closely:
** The bushes grew in a compact mass.

3. small, but solid and strong:
** a short compact-looking man

فشرده، فشرده کردن، جمع و جور، بهم پیوسته، پیمان، معاهده،متراکم بهم فشردن، بهم متصل کردن، ریز بافتن

compartment
one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a smaller enclosed space inside something larger:
** The bag is divided into separate compartments.
** engine compartment
** She kept the money hidden in a secret compartment in her briefcase. ➔ glove compartment

2. one of the separate areas into which a plane, ship, or train is divided:
** a first-class compartment


(Noun) (درقطار) کوپه، قسمت، تقسیم کردن

compassion
sympathy for the suffering of others; (adj.) compassionate

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a strong feeling of sympathy for someone who is suffering, and a desire to help them
compassion for:
** compassion for the sick
feel/show/have compassion:
** Did he feel any compassion for the victim of his crime?
with compassion:
** Lieberman explores this sensitive topic with compassion.
** I was shocked by the doctor's lack of compassion.


(Noun) رحم، دلسوزی، ترحم، شفقت، غمخواری

**

** - have/take compassion on somebody
** - به کسی ترحم کردن، بر کسی دل سوزاندن، دل (کسی) برای کسی سوختن
** - out of compassion
** - از سرِ ترحم، از روی دلسوزی

compatible
harmonious; in harmony with; able to exist together

Longman:

1. if two pieces of computer equipment are compatible, they can be used together, especially when they are made by different companies [↪ compatibility]:
** The new software is IBM compatible (=can be used with IBM computers).

2. able to exist or be used together without causing problems [↪ compatibility]
compatible with:
** Stephen's political views often weren't compatible with her own.

3. two people that are compatible are able to have a good relationship because they have similar opinions or interests [↪ compatibility]


(Adjective) همساز
(Adjective) سازگار، موافق، دمساز، جور

compelling
overpowering; irresistible in effect; holding one’s attention; that compels one to do something; (ex.) a compelling adventure story; (v.) compel

Longman:

1. compelling reason/argument/case etc: an argument etc that makes you feel certain that something is true or that you must do something about it:
** Lucy had no compelling reason to go into town.
** The court was presented with compelling evidence that she'd murdered her husband.

2. very interesting or exciting, so that you have to pay attention:
** His life makes a compelling story.

3. compelling need/desire/urge (to do something): a strong need, desire etc to do something, making you feel that you must do it:
** He felt a compelling need to tell someone about his idea.


(Adjective) وادار کننده، تحمیلگر، الزام آور

**

** - compelling circumstances
** - شرایط الزام آور
(Adjective) (بیشتر در مورد رمان و نمایش و غیره) گیرا، بسیار جالب، آنچه که سخت تحت تاثیر قرار دهد
**

** - a compelling story
** - داستانی گیرا
(Adjective) (در مورد استدلال و غیره) مجاب کننده، قانع کننده
**

** - compelling reasons
** - دلایل قانع کننده

compendium
brief, comprehensive summary; (adj.) compendious

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [formal] a book that contains a complete collection of facts, drawings etc on a particular subject:
** a cricketing compendium

2. a set of different board games in a box


(Noun) خلاصه، زبده، مختصر، کوتاهی، اختصار

compensatory
making up for; repaying

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
1. compensatory payments are paid to someone who has been harmed or hurt in some way:
** She was awarded a large sum in compensatory damages.

2. intended to reduce the bad effects of something:
** Workers are given a compensatory day off when a national holiday falls on a weekend.


(Adjective) جبران کننده ،پاداش دهنده ،تاوانی

compilation
listing of information in tabular or book form; compiling

Longman:

1. a book, list, record etc which consists of different pieces of information, songs etc
compilation of:
** a compilation of love songs
compilation CD/album/tape:

2. [uncountable] the process of making a book, list, record etc from different pieces of information, songs etc:
** dictionary compilation


(Noun) گرداوری، تالیف، تلفیق
(Noun) هم گردانی

compile
assemble; gather; accumulate; make (a report or a book) from facts and information found in various places; (ex.) compile a dictionary

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to make a book, list, record etc, using different pieces of information, music etc [↪ compilation]:
** The document was compiled by the Department of Health
compile something from/for something:
** The report was compiled from a survey of 5000 households.

2. [technical] to put a set of instructions into a computer in a form that it can understand and use


(Verb - transitive) همگرادنی کردن
(Verb - transitive) گرداوردن، تالیف کردن

complacency
self-satisfaction; smugness; (adj.) complacent

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a feeling of satisfaction with a situation or with what you have achieved, so that you stop trying to improve or change things - used to show disapproval:
** Doctors have warned against complacency in fighting common diseases.
** Despite yesterday's win, there is clearly no room for complacency if the team want to stay top of the league.


(Noun) ( complacence =) خوشنودی از خود، خود خوشنودی

complaisant
trying to please; obliging; willing to please others


(Adjective) مهربان، خوشخو، با ادب

complement
complete; consummate; make perfect; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone or something that emphasizes the good qualities of another person or thing
complement to:
** This wine would be a nice complement to grilled dishes.

2. the number or quantity needed to make a group complete
complement of:
** Each new cell will carry its full complement of chromosomes.

3. [technical] a word or phrase that follows a verb and describes the subject of the verb. In 'John is cold' and 'John became chairman', 'cold' and 'chairman' are complements.


(Noun) مکمل، متمم، تکمله
(Noun) کلیه، تمامی، مجموعه، همگی، تمامی اعضا، کلیه‌ی خدمه
(Noun) (ریاضی) (زاویه) متمم
(Noun) (دستور) متمم، مسند
(Verb - transitive) کامل کردن، تکمیل کردن، متمم چیزی/کسی بودن

complementary
serving to complete something

Longman:

1. complementary things go well together, although they are usually different:
** The computer and the human mind have different but complementary abilities.

2. [technical] complementary colours of light are very different and combine to make white

3. [technical] two angles that are complementary add up to 90 degrees


(Adjective) تکمیلی، تکمیل‌کننده، متمم، مکمل

**

** - complementary function
** - (ریاضی) تابع مکمل
** - a husband and wife are complementary to one another
** - زن و شوهر مکمل یکدیگرند

compliance
conformity in fulfilling requirements; readiness to yield; disposition to yield to others; (v.) comply

Longman:

[ uncountable]
when someone obeys a rule, agreement, or demand [↪ comply]
in compliance with something:
** He changed his name to Lee in 1815 in compliance with his uncle's will.
compliance with:
** Patients should have a history of good compliance with treatment.
ensure/secure/enforce compliance:
** The staff involved should be monitored to ensure compliance with the policy.


(Noun) قبول، اجابت، بر اوردن

compliant
readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others; yielding; conforming to requirements

Longman:

1. willing to obey or to agree to other people's wishes and demands [↪ comply]:
** For years I had tried to be a compliant and dutiful wife.

2. made or done according to particular rules or standards [↪ comply]
compliant with:
** Future versions will be fully compliant with the industry standard.


(Adjective) اماده انجام ،قبول کننده ،فروتن ،تسلیم شونده

complicity
participation; involvement (in a questionable act or a crime)

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. involvement in a crime, together with other people
complicity in:
** Jennings denied complicity in the murder.

2. involvement in or knowledge of a situation, especially one that is morally wrong or dishonest
complicity with:
** His complicity with the former government had led to his downfall.


(Noun) (حقوق) همدستی درجرم، شرکت در جرم

component
element; ingredient

Longman:

[ countable]
one of several parts that together make up a whole machine, system etc [= constituent]:
** companies that make electronic components for computer products
component of:
** each component of their work
key/major/important etc component:
** Exercise is one of the key components of a healthy lifestyle.

مولفه اجزا ، ترکیب کننده، ترکیب دهنده، جز

comport
bear one’s self; behave; (ex.) comport oneself; n. comportment

Longman:

comport yourself: to behave in a particular way:
** He comported himself in a way that won him respect.

to follow or be in agreement with an idea, belief, or rule

سازش کردن، جور بودن، تحمل کردن، دربرداشتن، حامل بودن، رفتار

compost
mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer; (v.) put or make compost

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a mixture of decayed plants, leaves etc used to improve the quality of soil

مخلوط، مواد مقوی نباتات، کود دادن

composure
mental calmness

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the state of feeling or seeming calm
recover/regain your composure: (=become calm after feeling angry or upset)
** Carter looked stunned, but he soon regained his composure.
keep/maintain your composure: (=stay calm)
** The widow broke down in tears, but her daughters maintained their composure.
** He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation.


(Noun) ارامش، خودداری، تسلط بر نفس، خونسردی

compound
combine; produce by combining; increase; make worse by adding to or increasing; exacerbate; (ex.) compound an error; (adj.) consisting of two or more parts; (n.) combination of two or more parts; area enclosed by a wall containing a group of buildings; (ex.) factory compound; (cf.) complex

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [technical] a substance containing atoms from two or moreelements:
** man-made organic compounds
compound of:
** Sulphur dioxide is a compound of sulphur and oxygen.

2. a combination of two or more parts, substances, or qualities
compound of:
** Teaching is a compound of several different skills.
** Brush on a damp-proofing compound.

3. an area that contains a group of buildings and is surrounded by a fence or wall:
** a prison compound

4. [technical] a noun, adjective etc that is made up of two or more words. The noun 'flower shop' and the adjective 'self-made' are compounds

مرکب، چند جزئی، جسم مرکب، لفظ مرکب، بلور دوتایی محوطه، عرصه، حیاط، ترکیب، جسم مرکب ترکیب کردن، آمیختن

comprehend
include; understand

Longman:

[ intransitive,transitive not in progressive]
to understand something that is complicated or difficult [= understand, grasp; ↪ comprehension]:
** She cannot comprehend the extent of the disaster.
** I did not fully comprehend what had happened.
comprehend what/how/why etc:
** It may be hard to comprehend how much this gift means for my country.
comprehend that:
** Finally, she comprehended that he wanted his pay.! In spoken English and ordinary written English, it is more usual to use understand.

دریافتن، درک کردن، فهمیدن، فرا گرفتن

comprehensive
broad; including a lot or everything; thorough; inclusive

Longman:

1. including all the necessary facts, details, or problems that need to be dealt with [= thorough]:
** We offer our customers a comprehensive range of financial products.
** a comprehensive guide to British hotels and restaurants
** The following guidelines do not aim to be totally comprehensive.
comprehensive review/study/survey/account etc:
** a thorough and comprehensive review of the case
** a comprehensive study of alcoholism! Do not confuse with comprehensible(=possible to understand) or understanding (=sympathetic about people's problems): His report was barely comprehensible. | My parents are very understanding.

2. comprehensive insurance/cover/policy: car insurance that pays for damage whether it is caused by you or someone else

3. comprehensive education/system: a system of education in Britain in which children of different abilities go to the same school and are taught together

جامع، فرا گیرنده، وسیع، محیط، بسیط

compress
force into less space; squeeze; contract; put into fewer words; (n.) thick mass of cloth pressed to part of the body to stop bleeding or swelling, reduce fever, etc.

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to press something or make it smaller so that it takes up less space, or to become smaller:
** Light silk is best for parachutes, as it compresses well and then expands rapidly.
** Isobel nodded, her lips compressed.
compress something into something:
** Snow falling on the mountainsides is compressed into ice.
** The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to make a computer file smaller by using a special computer program, which makes the file easier to store or send, or to become smaller in this way:
** The program compresses any data saved to the disk.

3. [transitive] to write or express something using fewer words [= condense]
compress something into something:
** In this chapter we compress into summary form the main issues discussed so far.

4. [transitive ] to reduce the amount of time that it takes for something to happen or be done
compress something into something:
** Many couples want to compress their childbearing into a short space of time in their married life.

متراکم کردن هم فشرده کردن، بهم فشردن، خلاصه شدن یا کردن

comprise
include; consist of

Longman:

[ not in progressive]
1. [linking verb] to consist of particular parts, groups etc:
** The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room.
be comprised of somebody/something:
** The committee is comprised of well-known mountaineers.

2. [transitive] to form part of a larger group of people or things [= constitute, make up]:
** Women comprise a high proportion of part-time workers.


(Verb - transitive) دربرداشتن، شامل بودن

compromise
adjust or settle by making mutual concessions; endanger the interests or reputation of; put into danger, disrepute, or a dishonorable position; (ex.) compromise one’s principle; (n.)

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] an agreement that is achieved after everyone involved accepts less than what they wanted at first, or the act of making this agreement:
** Compromise is an inevitable part of marriage.
** To stop the argument they decided on a compromise.
compromise with:
** Fresh attempts at compromise with the legislature were also on the agenda.
compromise between:
** a compromise between government and opposition
** If moderates fail to reach a compromise, the extremists will dominate the agenda.
** Be prepared to make compromises.

2. [countable] a solution to a problem in which two things or situations are changed slightly so that they can exist together
compromise between:
** a happy compromise between the needs of family and work

تراضی، مصالحه، توافق، مصالحه کردن، تسویه کردن

compulsion
compelling; strong desire that is difficult to control; irresistible impulse

Longman:

1. [countable] a strong and unreasonable desire to do something [↪ compel]:
** The desire to laugh became a compulsion.
compulsion to do something:
** Leith felt an overwhelming compulsion to tell him the truth.
** the compulsion to smoke or eat too much

2. [singular, uncountable] the act of forcing or influencing someone to do something they do not want to do [↪ compel]
under (no) compulsion to do something:
** Owners are under no compulsion to sell their land.
** The use of compulsion in psychiatric care cannot be justified.


(Noun) اجبار، اضطرار

compulsive
resulting from compulsion

Longman:

1. compulsive behaviour is very difficult to stop or control, and is often a result of or a sign of a mental problem [↪ obsessive]
compulsive gambling/overeating/spending etc:
** Compulsive overspending in these days of credit cards has become more common.

2. compulsive overeater/gambler/spender/liar etc: someone who has such a strong desire to eat too much etc that they are unable to control it:
** a help group for compulsive overeaters

3. a book, programme etc that is compulsive is so interesting that you cannot stop reading or watching it
compulsive reading/viewing:
** 'Gardening World' is compulsive viewing for gardeners.

اجباری، اضطراری

compulsory
obligatory; that must be done

Longman:

something that is compulsory must be done because it is the law or because someone in authority orders you to [= mandatory; ↪ voluntary]:
** the threat of compulsory redundancies
compulsory schooling/education:
** 11 years of compulsory education
** Car insurance is compulsory.


(Adjective) اجباری، قهری

compunction
remorse; strong uneasiness caused by guilt

Longman:

[ uncountable usually in negatives]
a feeling that you should not do something because it is bad or wrong
have/feel no compunction about (doing) something:
** He had no compunction about interfering in her private affairs.
** They used their tanks against the leftists without compunction.


(Noun) پشیمانی، ندامت، رحم

compute
reckon; calculate

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to calculate a result, answer, sum etc:
** Final results had not yet been computed.

محاسبه کردن حساب کردن، تخمین زدن

concatenate
link as in a chain

بهم پیوستن، مسلسل کردن الحاق کردن

concave
hollow; curved inwards; op. convex

Longman:

a concave surface is curved inwards in the middle [≠ convex]:
** a concave lens

کار، مقعر کاو، مقعر

concede
admit; acknowledge as being true (often reluctantly); yield; grant; (ex.) concede a goal

Longman:

1. admit something is true: [intransitive and transitive] to admit that something is true or correct, although you wish it were not true [↪ concession]:
** 'That's the only possible solution.' 'Yes, I suppose so,' Charles conceded.
concede (that):
** I conceded that I had made a number of errors.

2. admit defeat: [intransitive and transitive] to admit that you are not going to win a game, argument, battle etc [↪ concession]:
** The Georgian forces defended the capital but were finally obliged to concede.
** In May 1949, Stalin conceded defeat and reopened land access to Berlin.

3. concede a goal/point/penalty: to not be able to stop your opponent from getting a goal during a game:
** The team has conceded only 19 goals in 28 games.

4. give something as a right: [transitive] to give something to someone as a right or privilege, often unwillingly [↪ concession]
concede something to somebody:
** The king finally agreed to concede further powers to Parliament.
** Finally the company conceded wage increases to their workers.

واگذار کردن، دادن، تصدیق کردن

conceit
vanity or self-love; too high opinion of one’s own value; extravagant metaphor (in poetry)

Longman:

1. [uncountable] an attitude that shows you have too high an opinion of your own abilities or importance [= conceitedness]:
** The conceit of the woman!

2. [technical] an unusual way of showing or describing something in a play, film, work of art etc:
** His sermons were full of puns and conceits.

خودبینی، غرور، استعاره

concentric
having a common center

Longman:

having the same centre [↪ eccentric]:
** concentric circles


(Adjective) هم مرکز، متحد المرکز

conception
beginning; forming of an idea; fertilization; v. conceive: form an idea in the mind; devise; become pregnant; (cf.) inception

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] an idea about what something is like, or a general understanding of something [↪ concept]
conception of:
** the conception of parliamentary democracy
** changing conceptions of the world
have (no) conception of something:
** They have no conception of what women really feel and want.

2. [uncountable] a process in which someone forms a plan or idea [↪ conceive]:
** the original conception of the book

3. [uncountable and countable] the process by which a woman or female animal becomes pregnant, or the time when this happens [↪ conceive]:
** the moment of conception


(Noun) تصور، درک، فهم، دریافت، فکر، اندیشه، ایده

**

** - i have no conception of what will happen
** - تصوری از آنچه که روی خواهد داد ندارم
(Noun) بارداری، آبستنی، حاملگی، لقاح، گشن، بسته شدن نطفه
**

** - conception is the union of spermatozoid and ovum
** - گشن (لقاح) عبارت است از آمیزش اسپرماتوزئید و تخمک
** - conception control
** - (پزشکی) کنترل موالید، کنترل زاد و ولد

concerted
mutually agreed on; done together by agreement; ex. concerted effort; (cf.) in concert: working together

Longman:

concerted effort/action/attack etc: a concerted effort etc is done by people working together in a carefully planned and very determined way:
** Libraries have made a concerted effort to attract young people.


(Adjective) مجتمعا، باهم، موزون، هم نوا

concession
an act of yielding; conceding; something conceded; point, right, etc. given unwillingly; privilege of maintaining a business in a certain place; (ex.) oil concessions in the north sea; (cf.) concessionaire

Longman:

1. something you allow somebody: [countable] something that you allow someone to have in order to end an argument or a disagreement [↪ concede]
concession to:
** a policy of no concessions to terrorists
** The British were not prepared to make any concessions.
concession on:
** his readiness to make concessions on many of the issues raised
concession from:
** We will try to force further concessions from the government.
major/important/substantial concession:
** The committee has won a number of major concessions from the prison authorities.

2. a right: [uncountable and countable] a special right that a particular person or group of people is allowed to have, for example by the government or an employer, or the act of giving or allowing something as a right:
** the ending of tax concessions for home owners
** the import/export concessions that had been granted to the island
concession of:
** the concession of autonomy to the universities

3. a reduction in the price of tickets, fees etc for certain groups of people, for example old people or children [= reduction]:
** To qualify for travel concessions you have to be 60.
** Open daily, adults £4, concessions £2 (=people who have the right to a concession pay £2).

4. a change in your behaviour that you make because of a particular situation or idea:
** He took off his jacket as a concession to the heat.
** He made no concessions to fashion.

5. a small business that sells things in a place owned by someone else:
** Joe runs a hamburger concession in the mall.


(Noun) اعطا ، امتیاز، امتیاز انحصاری

conciliatory
reconciling; soothing; (v.) conciliate: reconcile; soothe; win the friendly feelings (by removing anger)

Longman:

doing something that is intended to make someone stop arguing with you
conciliatory approach/tone/gesture etc:
** Perhaps you should adopt a more conciliatory approach.
** Brooks felt in no mood to be conciliatory.


(Adjective) استمالت میز،صلح میز

concise
brief and compact

Longman:

1. short, with no unnecessary words [= brief]:
** Your summary should be as clear and concise as possible.

2. [only before noun] shorter than the original book on which something is based:
** the Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese


(Adjective) مختصر، موجز، کوتاه، لب گو، فشرده ومختصر

conclave
private secret meeting

Longman:

[ countable]
a private and secret meeting


(Noun) انجمن محرمانه، کنفرانس

conclusive
decisive; ending all debate

Longman:

showing that something is definitely true [≠ inconclusive]
conclusive proof/evidence/findings etc:
** The investigation failed to provide any conclusive evidence.


(Adjective) قطعی، قاطع، نهایی

concoct
prepare by mixing or combining; make up in concert; devise (something false) so as to deceive; (ex.) concoct an elaborate excuse for being late; (n.) concoction

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to invent a clever story, excuse, or plan, especially in order to deceive someone:
** John concocted an elaborate excuse for being late.

2. to make something, especially food or drink, by mixing different things, especially things that are not usually combined:
** Jean concocted a great meal from the leftovers.


(Verb - transitive) درست کردن، جعل کردن، اختراع کردن، ترکیب کردن، پختن، (م.م.) گواریدن

concomitant
that which accompanies; (ex.) deafens is a frequent concomitant of old age; (adj.) existing or happening together with something else

Longman:

existing or happening together, especially as a result of something:
** war with all its concomitant sufferings

همراه، ملازم، پیوسته

concord
harmony; accord

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. [formal] the state of having a friendly relationship, so that you agree on things and live in peace [≠ discord]

2. in grammar, concord between words happens when they match correctly, for example when a plural noun has a plural verb following it


(Noun) توافق، مطابقت، یکجوری، پیمان، قرار

concordat
formal agreement


(Noun) پیمان دولت با جماعت مذهبی، پیمان رسمی میان دوفرقه مذهبی، موافقت نامه

concur
agree; coincide; happen at the same time

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to agree with someone or have the same opinion as them
concur with:
** The committee largely concurred with these views.

2. to happen at the same time [= coincide]
concur to do something:
** Everything concurred to produce the desired effect.

موافقت کردن، هم رای بودن، دمساز شدن

concurrent
happening at the same time; in agreement

Longman:

1. existing or happening at the same time:
** The exhibition reflected concurrent developments abroad.

2. [formal] in agreement
concurrent with:
** My opinions are concurrent with yours.

همزمان دریک وقت واقع شونده، موافق، متقارن، همرو

condescend
(derog.) bestow courtesies with a superior air; descend to the level of one considered inferior

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to behave as if you think you are better, more intelligent, or more important than other people - used to show disapproval
condescend to:
** Take care not to condescend to your readers.

2. to do something in a way that shows you think it is below your social or professional position - used to show disapproval
condescend to do something:
** 'Yes. I know,' Clara said, condescending to look at Rose for the first time.


(Verb - intransitive) (به طعنه) (به زیر دست) لطف کردن، محبت کردن، عنایت کردن، مرحمت کردن، تفضل کردن، بنده نوازی کردن، سر فرود آوردن، تمکین کردن، خود را همتراز مادون خود کردن (از روی لطف)، فروتنی کردن
(Verb - intransitive) افاده کردن، (برتری خود را) به رخ کشیدن، (به طور مصنوعی و زننده) رعایت ادب کردن

**

** - once a year, she condescended to visit his slum-dwelling parents
** - او سالی یک بار با فیس و افاده سراغ والدین کوخ نشینش می‌رفت
** - he looked at me condescendingly
** - او نگاه عاقل اندر سفیه به من کرد
** - condescend to somebody
** - منت سر کسی گذاشتن، کسی را ممنون خود کردن، کسی را رهین منت خود کردن، به کسی افتخار دادن

condign
adequate; (of punishment) severe and well deserved


(Adjective) سزاوار، فراخور، مناسب

condiments
seasonings; spices

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condole
express condolences; (n.) condolence: sympathy for someone who has experienced great sorrow

تسلیت دادن، اظهار تاسف کردن

condone
overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse

Longman:

[ transitive]
to accept or forgive behaviour that most people think is morally wrong:
** I cannot condone the use of violence under any circumstances.


(Verb - transitive) چشم پوشی کردن از، اغماض کردن، بخشیدن

conducive
helpful; contributive; (v.) conduce; (ex.) conduce to/towards

Longman:

be conducive to something:[formal] if a situation is conducive to something such as work, rest etc, it provides conditions that make it easy for you to work etc:
** an environment conducive to learning


(Adjective) موجب شونده، سودمند، مساعد، منجر شونده

conduit
aqueduct; passageway for fluids

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a pipe or passage through which water, gas, a set of electric wires etc passes

2. [formal] a connection between two things that allows people to pass ideas, news, money, weapons, drugs etc from one place to another
conduit for:
** Drug traffickers have used the country as a conduit for shipments to the U.S.


(Noun) مجرای اب، ابگذر، معبر، کانال، مجرا
(Noun) لوله، مجرای سیم

confidant
trusted friend (to whom one tells one’s secret)

Longman:

[ countable]
someone you tell your secrets to or who you talk to about personal things


(Noun) رازدار، محرم اسرار، دمساز

confidante
trusted friend (to whom one tells one’s secret)

Longman:

[ countable]
a female confidant


(Noun) زن رازدار، زن محرم اسرار

confide
tell in confidence (to a person one trusts); be confident about

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to tell someone you trust about personal things that you do not want other people to know
confide to somebody that:
** He confided to his friends that he didn't have much hope for his marriage.

2. [formal] to give something you value to someone you trust so they look after it for you
confide something to somebody:
** He confided his money to his brother's safekeeping.

to tell someone about something very private or secret, especially a personal problem, because you feel you can trust them:
** I've never felt able to confide in my sister.

سپردن، محرمانه گفتن (به)، اطمینان کردن، اعتمادداشتن به

confidence
self-assurance; calm unworried feeling based on a strong belief in one’s abilities; strong belief in the ability of a person or plan; trust or faith in a person or thing; something confided; secret; (ex.) confidence in your ability; (ex.) i’m telling you this in confidence; ex. exchange confidences about their boyfriends; (adj.) confident

Longman:

1. feeling somebody/something is good: [uncountable] the feeling that you can trust someone or something to be good, work well, or produce good resultsCOLLOCATIONS COLLOCATIONS
lack of confidence:
have confidence in somebody/something:
have every/complete/absolute confidence in somebody/something:
lose (your) confidence in somebody/something:
gain/win somebody's confidence:
increase confidence (in somebody/something):
inspire confidence (in somebody/something): (=make people have confidence)
restore confidence (in somebody/something): (=bring back people's confidence)
destroy/shatter (somebody's) confidence (in somebody/something):
undermine (somebody's) confidence (in somebody/something): (=make someone have less confidence)
public confidence:
business confidence: (=when businesses think the economic situation is good)
consumer confidence: (=when ordinary people think the economic situation is good)
confidence in:
** Our first priority is to maintain the customer's confidence in our product.
** The survey reveals a lack of confidence in the police.
** She had complete confidence in the doctors.
** Opinion polls show that voters have lost confidence in the administration.
** the school's campaign to win back the confidence of parents
** The Bank immediately took action to restore confidence.
** Miscarriages of justice undermined confidence in our legal system.
** Public confidence in the government is at an all-time low.
** an improvement in business confidence

2. belief in yourself: [uncountable] the belief that you have the ability to do things well or deal with situations successfully
confidence in:
** Minton is an outstanding boxer, with tremendous confidence in his own ability.
** I didn't have any confidence in myself.
lack confidence/be lacking in confidence:
** She's a good student, but she lacks confidence.
** Living on her own in a foreign country for a year gave her a lot of confidence.
confidence to do something:
** Good training will give a beginner the confidence to enjoy skiing.
gain (in)/lose confidence:
** You do lose confidence when you spend years and years at home with children.
somebody's confidence is growing/somebody is growing in confidence:
** I felt I was doing well and my confidence began to grow.
boost/increase etc somebody's confidence: (=make someone feel more confident)
shake/damage etc somebody's confidence: (=make someone feel less confident)
** Julie's confidence was badly shaken by her car accident.
with confidence:
** Our goal is to prepare students to go into the business world with confidence.

3. feeling something is true: [uncountable] the feeling that something is definite or true
say/speak/predict etc with confidence:
** How can anyone say with confidence that the recession is over?
confidence in:
** I have complete confidence in Mr Wright's analysis of the situation.
have confidence (that):
** I have every confidence that the job will be completed satisfactorily on time.

4. gain/win/earn somebody's confidence: if you gain someone's confidence, they begin to trust you:
** The new director began to win the confidence of the villagers.

5. [uncountable] if you tell someone something in confidence, you tell them something on the understanding that they will not tell anyone else [↪ confide]
in confidence:
** I'll tell you about Moira - in confidence, of course.
in strict/the strictest confidence:
** Any information given during the interview will be treated in the strictest confidence.
breach of confidence: (=when someone tells someone something that they were told in confidence)
** Lawyers are satisfied that no breach of confidence took place.


(Noun) اطمینان، اعتقاد، اعتماد، رازگویی، صمیمیت
(Noun) اطمینان

confidential
spoken or written in secret; trusted with private matters; (ex.) confidential secretary

Longman:

1. spoken or written in secret and intended to be kept secret:
** a confidential government report
** Doctors are required to keep patients' records completely confidential.
** The information will be regarded as strictly confidential (=completely confidential).

2. a confidential way of speaking or behaving shows that you do not want other people to know what you are saying:
** His voice sank into a confidential whisper.


(Adjective) محرمانه، دارای ماموریت محرمانه، راز دار

confine
shut in an enclosed space; restrict; keep within limits; (n.) confinement

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. limit: to keep someone or something within the limits of a particular activity or subject [= restrict]
confine something to something:
** The police cadet's duties were confined to taking statements from the crowd.
** We confined our study to 10 cases.
confine yourself to (doing) something:
** Owen did not confine himself to writing only one type of poem.

2. keep somebody in a place: to keep someone in a place that they cannot leave, such as a prison
confine somebody to something:
** Any soldier who leaves his post will be confined to barracks (=made to stay in the barracks).
be confined in something:
** He was allegedly confined in a narrow, dark room for two months.

3. stop something spreading: to stop something bad from spreading to another place
confine something to something:
** Firefighters managed to confine the fire to the living room.

4. if you are confined to a place, you have to stay in that place, especially because you are ill:
** Vaughan is confined to a wheelchair.
** She's confined to bed with flu.

حد، محدوده، محدود کردن، منحصر کردن، محبوس کردن

confiscate
seize; take possession of (private property) by official order (usu. as a punishment); commandeer

Longman:

[ transitive]
to officially take private property away from someone, usually as a punishment:
** Miss Williams confiscated all our sweets.
** Many opposition supporters had their goods confiscated.

ضبط کردن، توقیف کردن، مصادره کردن

conflagration
great fire

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a very large fire that destroys a lot of buildings, forests etc

2. a violent situation or war


(Noun) اتش سوزی بزرگ، حریق مدهش

confluence
flowing together; the place where two rivers flow together; crowd; gathering together

Longman:

[ singular]
1. [technical] the place where two or more rivers flow together

2. [formal] a situation in which two or more things combine or happen at the same time
confluence of:
** a confluence of unhappy events


(Noun) اتصال یا تلاقی دو نهر، هم ریختنگاه، هم ریزگاه

conformist
person who uncritically conforms to the customs of a group; op. nonconformist: one who does not conform to accepted beliefs of norms

Longman:

thinking and behaving like everyone else, because you do not want to be different, or forcing people to do this - often used to show disapproval [↪ nonconformist]:
** a country with a conformist education system

کسیکه پیویین کلیسای انگلستان است

conformity
harmony; agreement with established rules or customs; similarity; (ex.) behave in conformity with; v. conform: be similar; act in agreement; comply; (ex.) conform to the rule; (cf.) conformance

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. behaviour that obeys the accepted rules of society or a group, and is the same as that of most other people:
** an emphasis on conformity and control
conformity to:
** conformity to social expectations

2. in conformity with something:[formal] in a way that obeys rules, customs etc:
** We must act in conformity with local regulations.


(Noun) انطباق، پیروی از رسوم یا عقاید، همنوایی

confound
confuse; puzzle

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to confuse and surprise people by being unexpected:
** His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.

2. to prove someone or something wrong
confound the critics/pundits/experts etc:
** United's new striker confounded the critics with his third goal in as many games.

3. [formal] to defeat an enemy, plan etc

4. [formal] if a problem etc confounds you, you cannot understand it or solve it:
** Her question completely confounded me.

5. confound it/him/them etc:[old-fashioned] used to show that you are annoyed with someone or something


(Verb - transitive) پریشان کردن، گیج کردن، عاجز کردن

congeal
freeze; coagulate

Longman:

[ intransitive]
if a liquid such as blood congeals, it becomes thick or solid:
** a pan full of congealed fat

ماسیدن، یخ بستن، بستن، منجمد شدن، سفت کردن

congenial
pleasant; friendly; in agreement with one’s tastes and nature; (ex.) congenial weather

Longman:

1. pleasant in a way that makes you feel comfortable and relaxed
congenial atmosphere/surroundings/environment:
** The department provides a congenial atmosphere for research.
** Frank was a very congenial colleague.
congenial to:
** The summers out here are not congenial to the average North European.

2. suitable for something:
** Compost provides congenial conditions for roots to develop.


(Adjective) همخو، هم مشرب، دارای تجانس روحی، هم سلیقه

congenital
existing at birth

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
1. a congenital medical condition or disease has affected someone since they were born:
** congenital abnormalities
** a congenital defect

2. a congenital quality is one that has always been part of your character and is unlikely to change:
** He's a congenital liar.
** her congenital inability to make decisions


(Adjective) مادر زادی، ارثی، موروثی، ذاتی، خلقتی

conglomerate
corporation made up of several different companies in diversified fields; mass of various material gathered together; rock consisting of small stones held together by clay; (v.)

Longman:

1. a large business organization consisting of several different companies that have joined together:
** an international conglomerate
industrial/financial/media etc conglomerate:

2. [technical] a rock consisting of different sizes of stones held together by clay

3. [formal] a group of things gathered together

اختلاط، کلوخه شده، گرد شدن، جوش سنگ

conglomeration
mass of material sticking together

Longman:

[ countable]
a group of different things gathered together
conglomeration of:
** the loose conglomeration of artists known as L'École de Paris


(Noun) گلوه شدگی، توده، اختلاط شرکتها

congruence
correspondence of parts; harmonious relationship; cf. congruity


(Noun) ( congruency =) موافقت، تناسب، تجانس

congruent
in agreement; harmonious; corresponding; coinciding exactly; (cf.) congruous

Longman:

1. [formal] fitting together well

2. [technical] congruent triangles are the same size and shape


(Adjective) موافق، متجانس

conifer
pine tree (usu. evergreen); cone-bearing tree; adj. coniferous; (cf.) deciduous; (cf.) evergreen

Longman:

[ countable]
a tree such as a pine or fir that has leaves like needles and produces brown cones that contain seeds. Most types of conifer keep their leaves in winter


(Noun) رسته درختانی (مثل کاج) که میوه مخروطی دارند

conjecture
surmise; guess; (v.)

Longman:

1. [uncountable] when you form ideas or opinions without having very much information to base them on:
** What she said was pure conjecture.
** There has been some conjecture about a possible merger.

2. [countable] an idea or opinion formed by guessing [= guess, hypothesis]:
** My results show that this conjecture was, in fact, correct.

حدس، ظن، گمان، تخمین، حدس زدن، گمان بردن گمان، حدس

conjugal
pertaining to marriage

Longman:

[ only before noun]
1. relating to marriage:
** conjugal love

2. conjugal visit: a private meeting between a prisoner and his or her wife or husband, during which they are allowed to have sex


(Adjective) نکاحی، ازدواجی

conjure
cause to appear by magic; summon (a devil or a spirit) by magical power; practice magic (esp. by very quick movement of the hands); evoke; conjure up: bring into the mind; (ex.) the magician conjured a rabbit out of his hat.

Longman:

1. to perform clever tricks in which you seem to make things appear, disappear, or change by magic:
** The magician conjured a rabbit out of his hat.

2. [transitive] to make something appear or happen in a way which is not expected:
** He has conjured victories from worse situations than this.

3. a name to conjure with: the name of a very important person

1. to bring a thought, picture, idea, or memory to someone's mind
conjure up images/pictures/thoughts etc (of something):
** Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads.

2. to make something appear when it is not expected, as if by magic:
** Somehow we have to conjure up another $10,000.

التماس کردن به، سوگند دادن، جادو کردن

connivance
pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend; (v.) connive: feign ignorance (of a wrong); cooperate secretly in an illegal action; conspire


(Noun) چشم پوشی، اغماض، اجازه ضمنی

connoisseur
person competent to act as a judge of art, etc. (whose judgments are respected); a lover of an art

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who knows a lot about something such as art, food, or music:
** a wine connoisseur
connoisseur of:
** Fry was a connoisseur of Renaissance art.


(Noun) خبره

connotation
suggested or implied meaning of an expression; v. connote

Longman:

[ countable]
a quality or an idea that a word makes you think of that is more than its basic meaning [↪ denotation]
connotation of:
** The word 'professional' has connotations of skill and excellence.
** a negative connotation


(Noun) دلالت ضمنی، توارد ذهنی، معنی

connubial
pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state

Longman:

connubial bliss:[formal] the state of being happily married:
** living in connubial bliss


(Adjective) وابسته به زناشویی

consanguine
having a common ancestor

( consanguinous =) هم خون، از یک صلب، صلبی

consanguineous
having a common ancestor


(Adjective) هم نیا، همخون، همتبار، خویش، خویشاوند (consanguine هم میگویند)

consanguinity
kinship; relationship by birth

Longman:

[ uncountable]
when people are members of the same family


(Noun) خویشی صلبی، قوم وخویشی

conscientious
scrupulous; through and careful; (ex.) conscientious worker

Longman:

careful to do everything that it is your job or duty to do:
** A conscientious teacher may feel inclined to take work home.
** a conscientious and hard-working student


(Adjective) باوجدان، وظیفه شناس

conscript
draftee; person forced into military service; (v.)

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to make someone join the army, navy etc [= draft American English]
conscript somebody into something:
** Young Frenchmen were conscripted into the army and forced to fight in Algeria.

2. to make someone become a member of a group or take part in a particular activity [= recruit]

سرباز وظیفه، مشمول نظام کردن

consecrate
dedicate; sanctify; declare as sacred; (ex.) consecrate one’s life to helping the poor

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to officially state in a special religious ceremony that a place or building is holy and can be used for religious purposes:
** The bones will be reburied in consecrated ground.

2. to officially state in a special religious ceremony that someone is now a priest, bishop etc

وقف شده، ویژه کردن، تخصیص دادن، تقدیس کردن

consensus
general agreement; opinion reached by a group

Longman:

[ singular, uncountable]
an opinion that everyone in a group agrees with or accepts
consensus on/about:
** a lack of consensus about the aims of the project
consensus that:
** There is a consensus among teachers that children should have a broad understanding of the world.
** The EU Council of Finance Ministers failed to reach a consensus on the pace of integration.
** the current consensus of opinion
** The general consensus was that technology was a good thing.
** the consensus politics of the fifties


(Noun) توافق عام، رضایت وموافقت عمومی، وفاق، اجماع

consequential
self-important; significant; consequent; following as a result; (ex.) consequential air; (cf.) subsequent

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
1. happening as a direct result of a particular event or situation:
** redundancy and the consequential loss of earnings

2. important [= significant; ≠ inconsequential]:
** a consequential decision


(Adjective) نتیجه ای، مهم، دارای اهمیت، پربرایند

conservatoire
school of the fine arts (especially music or drama); glass-enclosed area; (cf.) conservancy

Longman:

[ countable]
a school where people are trained in music or acting [= conservatory American English]


(Noun) ( conservatory ) (موسیقی) اموزشگاه هنرهای زیبا

conservatory
school of the fine arts (especially music or drama); glass-enclosed area; (cf.) conservancy

Longman:

[ countable]
1. British English a room with glass walls and a glass roof, where plants are grown, that is usually added on to a house

2. a conservatoire

هنرستان هنرهای زیبا (بخصوص موسیقی)

consign
send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially; entrust; put into the care of another; set apart (for a special purpose); (n.) consignment; (cf.) consignor, consignee

Longman:

[formal] to send something somewhere, especially in order to sell it

1. to make someone or something be in a particular situation, especially a bad one:
** It was a decision which consigned him to political obscurity.
consign somebody/something to the dustbin/scrapheap/rubbish heap etc: British English
** Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.

2. to put something somewhere, especially in order to get rid of it:
** The shoes looked so tatty that I consigned them to the back of the cupboard.

سپردن، تسلیم کردن، امانت گذاردن، ارسال کردن

consistency
absence of contradictions; uniformity; degree of thickness or firmness; (ex.) consistency of thick cream; (cf.) viscous

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. the quality of always being the same, doing things in the same way, having the same standards etc - used to show approval [≠ inconsistency]
consistency in:
** Consumer groups are demanding greater consistency in the labelling of food products.
consistency of:
** Consistency of performance depends on several factors.
consistency between/among:
** There are checks to ensure consistency between interviewers.

2. how thick, smooth etc a substance is
consistency of:
** Beat the mixture until it has the consistency of thick cream.


(Noun) (کار، رفتار، استدلال) ثبات، دوام، تداوم، استقامت، پایداری

**

** - his arguments lacked consistency
** - بحث‌های او پیوستگی منطقی نداشت
(Noun) انسجام، استحکام، یکدستی، یکپارچگی، همسازی، سازگاری
**

** - the need for consistency and continuity in government policy
** - نیاز به هماهنگی و تداوم در سیاست دولت
(Noun) (مایعات) غلظت، قوام، سفتی
**

** - boil the grape juice to the consistency of syrup
** - آب انگور را آنقدر بجوشانید تا به غلظت شیره برسد

console
lessen sadness or disappointment; give comfort; allay the sorrow of; (n.) consolation

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make someone feel better when they are feeling sad or disappointed [↪ consolation]:
** No one could console her when Peter died.
console yourself with something:
** She consoled herself with the fact that no one else had done well in the exam either.
console yourself that:
** He consoled himself that he would see Kate again soon.


(Verb - transitive) تسلی دادن، دلداری دادن، آرام کردن

**

** - i tried to console the bereaved mother
** - کوشیدم مادر داغ دیده را تسلی بدهیم
(Noun) (تاقچه و غیره) پایه‌ی بازویی، پایه‌ی سه‌گوش، گونیا
(Noun) (اُرگ) میز، پیشخوان
(Noun) (رادیو، تلویزیون و غیره) جعبه، کنسول
(Noun) (برق، فنی) میز فرمان، پیشانه
(Noun) (معماری) پایه‌ی گچبری

consolidation
unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger; (v.) consolidate: merge; strengthen


(Noun) تحکیم، تثبیت، تقویت، ترکیب، اتحاد، قوام

consonance
harmony; agreement


(Noun) هم اهنگی، هم صدایی، توافق صدا

consonant
harmonious; in agreement; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a speech sound made by partly or completely stopping the flow of air through your mouth [↪ vowel]

2. a letter that represents a consonant sound. The letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', and sometimes 'y' represent vowels, and all the other letters are consonants


(Noun) هم آهنگ، حرف صامت، حرف بی صدا، همخوان

consort
associate with; keep company; (n.) husband or wife (or a ruler)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the wife or husband of a ruler ➔ prince consort

2. a group of people who play very old music, or the group of old-fashioned instruments they use

3. in consort (with somebody):[formal] doing something together with someone

همسر، شریک، مصاحب، هم نشین شدن، جور کردن

conspiracy
treacherous plot; secret plan against the law (by two or more people)

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. a secret plan made by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal [↪ conspire]
conspiracy to do something:
** He was charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
conspiracy against:
** a conspiracy against the government
** There were many conspiracy theories (=beliefs that something is the result of a conspiracy)surrounding Princess Diana's death.

2. conspiracy of silence: an agreement not to talk about something, even though it should not be a secret:
** There's often a conspiracy of silence surrounding bullying in schools.


(Noun) توطئه، دسیسه، نقشه خیانت آمیز

conspire
take part in a conspiracy; (of events) work together; combine; (ex.) events conspired to produce great difficulties.

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to secretly plan with someone else to do something illegal [↪ conspiracy]
conspire (with somebody) to do something:
** All six men admitted conspiring to steal cars.
conspire against:
** There was some evidence that he had been conspiring against the government.

2. if events conspire to do something, they happen at the same time and make something bad happen
conspire to do something:
** Pollution and neglect have conspired to ruin the city.
conspire against:
** Emily felt that everything was conspiring against her.

توطئه چیدن برای کار بد، هم پیمان شدن، در نقشه خیانت شرکت کردن

consternation
great shock; dismay

Longman:

[ uncountable]
a feeling of worry, shock, or fear:
** The government's plans have caused considerable consternation among many Americans.
** A new power station is being built much to the consternation of environmental groups (=they are very worried about it).
in consternation:
** He looked at her in consternation.


(Noun) بهت، اشفتگی، حیرت، بهت وحیرت

constituency
voters represented by an elected official; district so represented; group of supporters (or constituents)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. British English an area of a country that elects a representative to a parliament:
** a rural constituency
** constituency boundaries
** He represents the Essex constituency of Epping Forest.

2. the people who live and vote in a particular area

3. any group that supports or is likely to support a politician or a political party:
** The trade unions were no longer the constituency of the Labour Party alone.


(Noun) (مجلس) حوزه‌ی انتخاباتی، حوزه انتخابی
(Noun) (حوزه انتخاباتی) رای دهندگان، موکلان
(Noun) حامیان، هواداران

constituent
supporter; voter; member of a constituency; component

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone who votes in a particular area

2. one of the substances or things that combine to form something
constituent of:
** Sodium is one of the constituents of salt.


(Adjective) (جزء، عنصر) سازنده، تشکیل دهنده، سازا
(Adjective) (سیاسی) دارای حق انتخاب، گزیننده، انتخاب کننده
(Adjective) (سیاسی) (هیئت، شورا) مؤسس، قانون گذار
(Noun) سازه، مؤلفه، جزء سازنده
(Noun) (سیاسی) رأی دهنده، انتخاب کننده، موکلان

constitution
constituting; system of laws; composition of something; physical makeup or structure of a person; ex. men with strong constitutions

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a set of basic laws and principles that a country or organization is governed by:
** The right to speak freely is written into the Constitution of the United States.

2. your health and your body's ability to fight illness
(have) a strong/good/weak etc constitution:
** She's got a strong constitution - she'll recover in no time.

3. [formal] the parts or structure of something
constitution of:
** What's the chemical constitution of the dye?


(Noun) (سیاسی) قانون اساسی، (حکومت) مشروطیت مشروطه

**

** - an unwritten constitution
** - قانون اساسی عرفی، قانون اساسی نانوشته
** - a written constitution
** - قانون اساسی مدون، قانون اساسی نوشته
(Noun) (شرکت‌ها) اساسنامه
(Noun) (شخص) سرشت، طبیعت، مزاج، نهاد، طینت، ذات، خمیره
(Noun) (رسمی) ساخت، ساختمان، سازمان، ترکیب، ریخت، (حکومت) نظام، تشکیلات

constraint
restraint; compulsion; repression of feelings; reticence; (v.) constrain: hold back; restrain; compel; oblige; confine forcibly; imprison

Longman:

1. [countable] something that limits your freedom to do what you want [= restriction]
constraint on:
** Constraints on spending have forced the company to rethink its plans.
** the constraints of family life
financial/environmental/political etc constraints:
** There have been financial and political constraints on development.
impose/place constraints on somebody/something:
** constraints imposed on teachers by large class sizes

2. [uncountable] control over the way people are allowed to behave, so that they cannot do what they want:
** freedom from constraint


(Noun) اجبار، اضطرار، فشار، قید، گرفتاری، توقیف
(Noun) قید، محدودیت

construe
explain; interpret; (ex.) construe her silence as meaning that she agreed; (cf.) misconstrue

Longman:

[ transitive usually in passive]
to understand a remark or action in a particular way [↪ misconstrue]
construe something as something:
** comments that could be construed as sexist
** The term can be construed in two different ways.

تفسیر کردن، تعبیر کردن، استنباط کردن

consummate
complete; (v.)

Longman:

[ only before noun]
1. showing a lot of skill:
** a great performance from a consummate actor
** He won the race with consummate ease (=very easily).
** De Gaulle conducted his strategy with consummate skill.

2. used to emphasize how bad someone or something is:
** his consummate lack of tact
** The man's a consummate liar.

بپایان رساندن، انجام دادن، عروسی کردن، بوصالرسیدن، رسیده، تمام وکمال، بحدکمال

contagion
infection (by contact); (adj.) contagious; (cf.) infectious: that can be passed by infection in the air

Longman:

1. [technical] a situation in which a disease is spread by people touching each other:
** There is some danger of contagion.

2. [technical] a disease that can be passed from person to person by touch

3. [formal] a feeling or attitude that spreads quickly between people or places:
** a contagion of fear spread from city to city


(Noun) (پزشکی) واگیری، سرایت، ناخوشی واگیر

contaminate
pollute

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to make a place or substance dirty or harmful by putting something such as chemicals or poison in it:
** Drinking water supplies are believed to have been contaminated.

2. to influence something in a way that has a bad effect:
** He claims the poster ads have 'contaminated Berlin's streets'.

الودن، ملو کردن، سرایت دادن

contempt
scorn; disdain; (adj.) contemptuous; (cf.) contemptible

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. a feeling that someone or something is not important and deserves no respect
contempt for:
** The contempt he felt for his fellow students was obvious.
utter/deep contempt:
** The report shows utter contempt for women's judgement.
open/undisguised contempt:
** She looked at him with undisguised contempt.
** The public is treated with contempt by broadcasters.
** How could she have loved a man who so clearly held her in contempt?
beneath contempt:
** That sort of behaviour is simply beneath contempt (=does not deserve respect or attention).

2. [law] disobedience or disrespect towards a court of law:
** He was jailed for 7 days for contempt of court.
in contempt of something:
** He was found in contempt of the order.

3. complete lack of fear about something
contempt for:
** his contempt for danger


(Noun) تحقیر، اهانت، خفت، خواری

contend
struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly

Longman:

1. [intransitive] to compete against someone in order to gain something
contend for:
** Three armed groups are contending for power.
** Inevitably, fights break out between the members of contending groups.

2. [transitive] to argue or state that something is true
contend (that):
** Some astronomers contend that the universe may be younger than previously thought.

to have to deal with something difficult or unpleasant:
** The rescue team also had bad weather conditions to contend with.

ستیزه کردن، مخالفت کرده با، رقابت کردن، ادعا کردن

contention
assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition

Longman:

1. [formal] a strong opinion that someone expresses
somebody's contention that:
** Her main contention is that doctors should do more to encourage healthy eating.

2. [formal] argument and disagreement between people
source/area/point of contention:
** The issue of hunting is a source of contention. ➔ bone of contention: at bone1 (5)

3. in contention: having a chance of winning something:
** Owen's goal kept England in contention.

4. out of contention: no longer having a chance of winning something:
** Injury has put him out of contention for the title.


(Noun) درگیری
(Noun) ستیزه، مشاجره، نزاع، مجادله، مباحثه

contentious
quarrelsome; controversial; likely to cause arguments

Longman:

1. causing a lot of argument and disagreement between people
contentious issue/area/subject etc:
** Animal welfare did not become a contentious issue until the late 1970s.

2. someone who is contentious often argues with people


(Adjective) ستیزه جو، دعوایی، متنازع فیه، ستیزگر

contest
dispute; argue about the rightness of; compete for; try to win; (ex.) contest the election results; (ex.) contest a seat in parliament; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a competition or a situation in which two or more people or groups are competing with each otherCOLLOCATIONS COLLOCATIONS
hold a contest:
enter a contest: (=start taking part in one)
win/lose a contest:
beauty contest: (=a competition to find the most beautiful person)
talent contest: (=a competition to find the best performer)
popularity contest: (=a situation in which people decide which person they like the most)
unequal contest: British English (=when one person has a much greater chance of winning)
fair contest: (=when everyone has the same chance of winning)
close contest: (=when someone wins by only a very small amount)
leadership contest: (=when two politicians compete to become the leader of their party)
contest for:
** the bitter contest for the Republican presidential nomination
** Stone decided to hold a contest to see who could write the best song.
** I only entered the contest for fun.
** It is clear that the election will be a close contest.
contest between/against:
** the 1960 contest between Kennedy and Nixon
** the 1975 Liberal leadership contest

2. no contest:[informal]a) [spoken] used to say that someone or something is the best of its kind:
** I think you're the best rider here, no contest.b) if a victory is no contest, it is very easy to achieve

3. plead no contest:[law] to state that you will not offer a defence in a court of law for something wrong you have done

مباحثه وجدل کردن، اعتراض داشتن بر، ستیزه کردن،مشاجره، مسابقه، رقابت، دعوا

context
writings preceding and following the passage quoted; circumstance in which an event occurs

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. the situation, events, or information that are related to something and that help you to understand it
political/social/historical etc context:
** the political context of the election
place/put/see etc something in context:
** To appreciate what these changes will mean, it is necessary to look at them in context.
in the context of something:
** These incidents are best understood in the broader context of developments in rural society.

2. the words that come just before and after a word or sentence and that help you understand its meaning:
** The meaning of 'mad' depends on its context.

3. take/quote something out of context: to repeat part of what someone has said or written without describing the situation in which it was said, so that it means something quite different:
** His comments, taken out of context, seem harsh.


(Noun) (سخن) بافت، متن، سیاق عبارت، فحوای کلام

**

** - sometimes the context of a word reveals its meaning
** - برخی اوقات متن (هم‌بافت) واژه معنی آن را آشکار می‌کند
(Noun) (پدیده) موقعیت، زمینه، شرایط، قراین
**

** - out of context
** - بدون در نظر گرفتن همبافت یا متن، تحریف شده
** - he took my remarks out of context
** - او اظهارات مرا تحریف کرد.

contiguous
adjacent to; touching upon

Longman:

next to something, or next to each other:
** America's 48 contiguous states


(Adjective) نزدیک، مجاور، پیوسته، متصل، مربوط بهم
(Adjective) همجوار

continence
self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; adj. continent

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. [medical] the ability to control your bowels and bladder [≠ incontinence]

2. [old-fashioned] the ability to control your sexual desires


(Noun) خودداری، خویشتن داری، پرهیزگاری

contingent
dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; (n.) a group of soldiers, ships to a larger force; (cf.) contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; ex. prepare for every contingency

Longman:

depending on something that may happen in the future
contingent on/upon:
** Further investment is contingent upon the company's profit performance.

محتمل الوقوع، تصادفی، مشروط، موکول

contortions
twisting; distortions; (v.) contort: twist violently out of shape; (cf.) contortionist

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

contraband
illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods; adj.

Longman:

[ uncountable]
goods that are brought into a country illegally, especially to avoid tax:
** a cargo of contraband

کالای قاچاق، تجارت قاچاق یاممنوع، قاچاق

contravene
contradict; oppose; violate (a rule, law, or custom); (n.) contravention

Longman:

[ transitive]
to do something that is not allowed according to a law or rule [= violate]:
** Some portions of the bill may contravene state law.


(Verb - transitive) تخلف کردن از، نقض کردن، تخطی کردن

contrite
penitent; repentant; (n.) contrition

Longman:

feeling guilty and sorry for something bad that you have done:
** a contrite apology


(Adjective) پشیمان، توبه کار، از روی توبه وپشیمانی

contrivance
something contrived; machine or apparatus; clever deceitful plan; scheme

Longman:

1. [countable]something that is artificial or does not seem natural, but that helps something else to happen - usually used to show disapproval:
** A ridiculous series of plot contrivances moves the film along.

2. [uncountable and countable] a plan or trick to make something happen or get something for yourself, or the practice of doing this:
** Harriet's matchmaking contrivances

3. [countable] a machine or piece of equipment that has been made for a special purpose:
** a steam-driven contrivance used in 19th century factories


(Noun) اختراع، تدبیر، تمهید، اسباب

contrive
invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation); manage; (ex.) contrive to attract his attention

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. [formal] to succeed in doing something in spite of difficulties
contrive to do something:
** Schindler contrived to save more than 1,000 Polish Jews from the Nazis.

2. to arrange an event or situation in a clever way, especially secretly or by deceiving people:
** The lawsuit says oil companies contrived the oil shortage in the 1970s.

3. to make or invent something in a skilful way, especially because you need it suddenly:
** In 1862, a technique was contrived to take a series of photographs showing stages of movement.


(Verb - transitive) تعبیه کردن، طرح ریزی کردن، تدبیر کردن

contrived
unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous; ex. the ending was rather contrived.

Longman:

seeming false and not natural:
** The characters are as contrived as the plot.


(Adjective) ساختگی، وانمود شده، تصنعی، مصنوعی، تمهید شد

**

** - a contrived smile
** - لبخند مصنوعی

controvert
oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict; (adj.) controversial; (n.) controversy


(Verb - transitive) ردکردن، هم ستیز کردن، مخالفت کردن، منکر شدن

contumacious
stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court)


(Adjective) سرکش، خودسر، سرپیچ، متمرد، یاغی

contusion
bruise

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a bruise or bruising


(Noun) (پزشکی) کوفتگی، ضرب، ضربت، کوفتگی انساج، ضغطه

conundrum
riddle; difficult problem

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a confusing and difficult problem:
** the conundrum of our purpose on earth

2. a trick question asked for fun [= riddle]


(Noun) معما، چیستان، لغز، مسئله بغرنج وپیچیده

convene
come together; assemble; call to meet; (ex.) convene the council

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if a group of people convene, or someone convenes them, they come together, especially for a formal meeting:
** a report by experts convened by the National Institutes of Health

گردآمدن، دورهم جمع شدن، جمع کردن، تشکیل جلسه دادن، هم ایش کردن

convention
social or moral custom; established practice; formal meeting; international agreement

Longman:

1. [countable] a large formal meeting for people who belong to the same profession or organization or who have the same interests:
** a teachers' convention
** the city's new convention center
** a convention for science fiction fans

2. a formal agreement, especially between countries, about particular rules or behaviour [= pact, treaty]
convention on:
** the European convention on human rights

3. [uncountable and countable] behaviour and attitudes that most people in a society consider to be normal and right [= custom]:
** Playing together teaches children social conventions such as sharing.
** They defied the conventions of the time by living together without being married.
by convention:
** By convention, the bride's father gives her away at her wedding.

4. a method or style often used in literature, art, the theatre etc to achieve a particular effect:
** the conventions of the nineteenth century novel


(Noun) هم ایش، هم ایی، پیمان نامه، انجمن، مجمع، میثاق
(Noun) عرف، قرار داد

conventional
ordinary; typical; not nuclear; (ex.) conventional weapons

Longman:

1. [only before noun] a conventional method, product, practice etc has been used for a long time and is considered the usual type:
** Internet connections through conventional phone lines are fairly slow.
** Bake for 20 minutes in a conventional oven; 8 in a microwave.

2. always following the behaviour and attitudes that most people in a society consider to be normal, right, and socially acceptable, so that you seem slightly boring:
** a strong believer in conventional morals
conventional in:
** He is conventional in his approach to life.

3. (the) conventional wisdom: the opinion that most people consider to be normal and right, but that is sometimes shown to be wrong:
** As traffic grew, the conventional wisdom was to widen the roads.

4. conventional weapons and wars do not use nuclear explosives or weapons:
** conventional forces

5. conventional medicine: the usual form of medicine practised in most European and North American countries [= western medicine]

مرسوم، مطابق ایین وقاعده، پیرو سنت ورسوم عرفی، قراردادی

converge
approach; tend to meet; come together

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to come from different directions and meet at the same point to become one thing [≠ diverge]:
** The two rivers converge into one near Pittsburgh.

2. if groups of people converge in a particular place, they come there from many different places and meet together to form a large crowd
converge on:
** Reporters converged on the scene.

3. if different ideas or aims converge, they become the same [≠ diverge]:
** Cultural beliefs about the role of women converge with government policies.

همگرا بودن توجه بیک نقطه یا یک مقصد مشترک، (ر.) تقارب خطوط، وجود تشابه، همگراشدن

conversant
familiar with; having knowledge of

Longman:

[ not before noun]
1. [formal] having knowledge or experience of something
conversant with:
** Staff members are conversant with the issues.

2. able to hold a conversation in a foreign language, but not able to speak it perfectly
conversant in:
** Kim was conversant in Russian.


(Adjective) اگاه، بصیر، (با with ) وارد، متبحر

converse
opposite; (adj.)

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to have a conversation with someone
converse with:
** She enjoyed the chance to converse with another French speaker.

به العکس، معکوس، واژگون، وارونه، مخالف، گفتگو صحبت کردن، مذاکره کردن،محاوره کردن، آمیزش، صحبت

convert
one who has adopted a different religion or opinion; (v.) change into another form; (persuade to) adopt a particular religion or belief

Longman:

1. a) [transitive] to change something into a different form of thing, or to change something so that it can be used for a different purpose or in a different way
convert something to/into something:
** They converted the spare bedroom into an office.
** The stocks can be easily converted to cash.
** a 19th century converted barn (=barn changed into a house)b) [intransitive] to change into a different form of thing, or change into something that can be used for a different purpose or in a different way
convert to/into:
** a sofa that converts into a bed
** In the process, the light energy converts to heat energy.

2. a) [transitive] to persuade someone to change to a different religion
convert somebody to something:
** European missionaries converted thousands to Christianity.b) [intransitive] to change to a different religion
convert to:
** She converted to Catholicism.

3. a) [intransitive] to change to a different set of ideas, principles, or ways of doing something
convert to:
** people who have recently converted to vegetarianismb) [transitive]to persuade someone to change to a different set of ideas, principles, or ways of doing something
convert somebody to something:
** She succeeded in converting me to her point of view.
newly/freshly converted:
** newly converted feminists

4. [intransitive and transitive] to make a conversion inrugby or American football

تبدیل کردن، معکوس کردن برگرداندن، وارونه کردن، معکوس کردن، بکیش دیگری اوردن، تازه کیش

convex
curving outward

Longman:

curved outwards, like the surface of the eye [≠ concave]:
** a convex lens
** a convex mirror

کوژ، محدب محدب، کوژ، گرده ماهی

conveyance
vehicle; transfer; act of conveying; (ex.) public conveyance

Longman:

1. a vehicle:
** Wheeled conveyances of any kind are not allowed in the park.

2. [formal] when you take something from one place to another:
** the conveyance of goods

3. [uncountable] when you communicate or express something, with or without words:
** Facial expressions are part of the conveyance of meaning.

4. [law] a legal document that gives land, property etc to one person from another


(Noun) حمل، واگذاری، انتقال، سند انتقال، وسیله نقلیه

conviction
judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief

Longman:

1. [countable] a very strong belief or opinion
religious/political etc convictions:
** a woman of strong political convictions
deep/strong conviction:
** The Dotens have a deep conviction that marriage is for life.
conviction that:
** The students possess the conviction that they can make a difference to their community.

2. [uncountable] the feeling of being sure about something and having no doubts
with/without conviction:
** He was able to say with conviction that he had changed.
** 'No,' she said, without conviction.
** It was a reasonable explanation, but his voice lacked conviction.
** It took her so much effort to speak that what she said carried great conviction (=showed she felt sure of what she said).

3. a decision in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime, or the process of proving that someone is guilty [≠ acquittal]:
** They had no previous convictions.
** Applicants are checked for criminal convictions.
conviction for:
** This was her third conviction for theft.
** the trial and conviction of Jimmy Malone

محکومیت ،مجرمیت ،مجاب کردن ،ایمان ،متقاعدکردن

convivial
pleasantly merry; festive; joyous; gay; characterized by joviality; jovial

Longman:

friendly and pleasantly cheerful:
** a convivial atmosphere


(Adjective) جشنی، اهل کیف وخوشگذرانی، وابسته به جشن وعشرت

convoke
call together; (ex.) convoke parliament; (n.) convocation

Longman:

[ transitive]
to tell people that they must come together for a formal meeting:
** Separate meetings had been convoked by the two opposing factions.


(Verb - transitive) برای تشکیل جلسه وشورا یاکمیسیون دعوت کردن

convoluted
coiled around; twisted; involved; complicated; intricate; complex; (n.) convolution: twist; one of the convex folds of the surface of the brain

Longman:

1. complicated and difficult to understand:
** long paragraphs and convoluted sentences
** The argument is rather convoluted.

2. [formal] having many twists and bends:
** a tightly-coiled convoluted tube

بهم پیچیده، بهم تابیده، حلقوی، پیچاپیچ

convulsion
violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness); (v.) convulse; (adj.) convulsive

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a shaking movement of your body that you cannot control, which happens because you are ill [= seizure]:
** His temperature was very high and he went into convulsions.

2. [usually plural] a great change that affects a country:
** the 19th-century political convulsions in France

3. be in convulsions: to be laughing a lot


(Noun) شنج، تشنج، پرش، تکان، اشوب

copious
plentiful

Longman:

[ usually before noun]
existing or being produced in large quantities:
** He could drink copious amounts of beer without ill effect.
** She listened to me and took copious notes.


(Adjective) فراوان، مفصل، زیاد، خیلی

coquette
flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; v.

Longman:

[ countable]
a woman who frequently tries to attract the attention of men without having sincere feelings for them [= flirt]


(Noun) ( coquet ) لوند، عشوه گری، عشوه گر، طناز، لاسی، طنازی کردن، زن عشوه گر، زن لاسی، لوند

cordial
warmly friendly; gracious; heartfelt; (ex.) cordial welcome

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. sweet fruit juice that you add water to before you drink it:
** lime cordial

2. [old-fashioned] a strong sweet alcoholic drink [= liqueur]:
** an after-dinner cordial

قلبی، صمیمی، مقوی

cordon
extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress

Longman:

[ countable]
a line of police officers, soldiers, or vehicles that is put around an area to stop people going there
cordon of:
** A cordon of police surrounded the building.
cordon around:
** the security cordon around the capital

(مع.) کمربند، قیطان، یک عده پاسبان یانظامی که درفواصل معین محلی را احاطه کنند، خط قرنطینه

cornice
projecting molding on building (usually above columns or pillars)

Longman:

[ countable]
wood or plaster that runs along the top edge of a wall, used for decoration:
** A carved cornice runs around the high-ceilinged room.

قرنیس، کتیبه، گچ بری بالای دیوار زیر سقف

cornucopia
horn (or horn-shaped container) overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance; horn of plenty

Longman:

[ singular]
1. a container in the shape of an animal's horn, full of fruit and flowers, used to represent a time when there are large supplies of food

2. [literary] a lot of good things
cornucopia of:
** a cornucopia of delights


(Noun) شاخ amalthaea یا شاخ وفور نعمت، ظرفی شبیه بشاخ یاقیف

corollary
natural consequence (which naturally follows from something else)

Longman:

[ countable]
something that is the direct result of something else
corollary of/to:
** Is social inequality the inevitable corollary of economic freedom?

نتیجه، فرع، همروند استنباط، نتیجه فرعی

coroner
public official who investigates any death thought to be of other than natural causes

Longman:

[ countable]
an official whose job is to discover the cause of someone's death, especially if they died in a sudden or unusual way:
** The coroner recorded a verdict of death by natural causes.
** the coroner's court


(Noun) طبیب قانونی

corporeal
bodily (rather than spiritual); of a bodily form; material; tangible

Longman:

1. relating to the body, rather than to the mind, feelings, or spirit [= physical]:
** corporeal desires

2. existing in a physical form and able to be touched


(Adjective) جسمانی، جسمی، مادی، بدنی، دارای ماده

corpulent
very fat; (n.) corpulence

Longman:

fat


(Adjective) فربه، تنومند، گوشتالو، جسیم

corpus
collection (of writings or information); (ex.) the corpus of shakespeare’s works; cf. corpse

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a collection of all the writing of a particular kind or by a particular person:
** the entire corpus of Shakespeare's works

2. [technical] a large collection of written or spoken language, that is used for studying the language:
** a corpus of spoken English


(Noun) مجموعه ای از نوشتجات، (م.ل.) تن، جسم، تنه

corpuscle
red or white cell in the blood

Longman:

[ countable]
one of the red or white cells in the blood


(Noun) تنیزه، ذره، جسمک، (کالبد شناسی) گویچه(سفید یاسرخ خونوبافت های غضروفی وغیره)، گلبول

correlate
either of the correlated things; (v.)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if two or more facts, ideas etc correlate or if you correlate them, they are closely connected to each other or one causes the other
correlate with:
** Poverty and poor housing correlate with a shorter life expectancy.
correlate strongly/significantly/closely:
** Lack of prenatal care correlates strongly with premature birth.

قرین، مرتبط، وابسته، همبستگی داشتن، مرتبط کردن

correlation
mutual relationship

Longman:

a connection between two ideas, facts etc, especially when one may be the cause of the other
correlation between:
** a strong correlation between urban deprivation and poor health
strong/high/close/significant etc correlation:
** There is a direct correlation between the best-known brands and the best-selling brands.
correlation with:
** There's also some correlation with social class.


(Noun) ارتباط، ربط، همبستگی، بستگی دوچیز باهم
(Noun) همبستگی

corroborate
confirm; support; strengthen

Longman:

[ transitive]
to provide information that supports or helps to prove someone else's statement, idea etc:
** We now have new evidence to corroborate the defendant's story.
** Experiments elsewhere corroborate these results.

تایید کردن، تقویت کردن، اثبات کردن

corrode
destroy or wear away gradually by chemical action (over a long period)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
1. if metal corrodes, or if something corrodes it, it is slowly destroyed by the effect of water, chemicals etc:
** Acidic water will corrode the pipes.

2. [written] to gradually make something weaker or destroy it completely:
** Corruption has corroded our confidence in the police force.

خوردن (اسیدوفلزات)، پوسیدن، زنگ زدن (فلزات)

corrosive
eating away by chemicals or disease; (of language) fierce

Longman:

1. a corrosive liquid such as an acid can destroy metal, plastic etc:
** a highly corrosive substance

2. [written] gradually making something weaker, and possibly destroying it [= damaging]:
** the corrosive effect of money in sport

خورنده، تباه کننده، فاسد کننده، ماده اکاله، موجدزنگ (در فلز وگیاه)

corrugated
wrinkled; ridged

Longman:

in the shape of waves or folds, or made like this in order to give something strength:
** corrugated cardboard

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:
** corrugate

cosmic
pertaining to the universe; vast

Longman:

1. relating to space or the universe

2. extremely large:
** a scandal of cosmic proportions


(Adjective) وابسته بگیتی، کیهانی، مربوط بعالم هستی

coterie
group that meets socially; select circle; close group of people with shared interests

Longman:

[ countable]
a small group of people who enjoy doing the same things together, and do not like including others [↪ clique]


(Noun) گروه هم مسلک، انجمن (ادبی واجتماعی)

countenance
approve; support; tolerate; (ex.) countenance his rude behavior; (n.) face; appearance

Longman:

[literary] your face or your expression:
** All colour drained from her countenance.

سیما، قیافه، رخ، تشویق کردن، پشتیبانی کردن

countermand
cancel; revoke (an order)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to officially tell people to ignore an order, especially by giving them a different one:
** Terrorists tried to force him to countermand the order to attack.

فسخ کردن، لغو کردن، برگرداندن حکم صادره، ممنوع کردن

counterpart
thing that completes another; things very much alike; thing that has the same purpose in a different system

Longman:

[ countable]
someone or something that has the same job or purpose as someone or something else in a different place
somebody's counterpart:
** Belgian officials are discussing this with their French counterparts.


(Noun) نقطه مقابل، قرین، همکار، رونوشت، همتا

coup
highly successful action or sudden attack; cf. coup de grace: deathblow or shot which kills

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a sudden and sometimes violent attempt by citizens or the army to take control of the government [= coup d' état]:
** Haiti's first elected president was deposed in a violent military coup.
** a coup attempt by junior officers
** He evaded capture after the failed coup.

2. an achievement that is extremely impressive because it was very difficult:
** Beating Arsenal was a major coup for the club.

برهم زدن، ضربت، کودتا

couple
join; unite; op. uncouple

Longman:

1. a couple:a) two things or people of the same kind
a couple of:
** There are a couple of girls waiting for you.b) a small number of things:
** I just need to make a couple more calls.
a couple of:
** You'll be all right in a couple of days.

2. [countable] two people who are married or having a sexual or romantic relationship:
** a newly married couple
** the couple next door

زوج، جفت، دوتا، زن وشوهر، بهم بستن، پیوستن، جفت شدن جفت، جفت کردن، جفت شدن، وصل کردن

courier
messenger

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a person or company that is paid to take packages somewhere

2. a rep


(Noun) پیک، قاصد

court
attempt to gain; seek; woo; risk; behave so as to invite; attempt to gain the favor of by attention; (ex.) court disaster

Longman:

1. for deciding about a legal case: [uncountable and countable] the place where a trial is held, or the people there, especially the judge and the jury who examine the evidence and decide whether someone is guilty or not guiltyCOLLOCATIONS COLLOCATIONS
court of law:
court case:
appear in court:
go to court:
take somebody to court: (=bring a legal case against someone)
bring a case to court:
a case comes to court:
settle something out of court: (=reach an agreement about a dispute without using the court)
be thrown out of court: (=a judge refuses to consider a case)
a case is heard in court: (=a case is dealt with by a court)
the court: (=the judge, the jury, and the other people in a court)
criminal court: (=a court where cases about crimes are heard)
civil court: (=a court where cases about civil disagreements are heard)
** A crowd of reporters had gathered outside the court.
** It could not be proved in a court of law.
** The court case lasted six weeks.
** Four people will appear in court today, charged with fraud.
** I'd rather resolve our differences without going to court.
** She threatened to take the magazine to court if they didn't publish an immediate apology.
** We hadn't enough evidence to bring the case to court.
** Victims are often not told when a case comes to court.
** The matter was settled out of court.
** The case was thrown out of court.
** The court ruled that no compensation was due.
** The court upheld the earlier decision (=decided that the earlier decision was correct).
** Dr Porter told the court that the post-mortem revealed signs of strangulation. ➔ county court, crown court, high court, kangaroo court, magistrates' court, small claims court, state court, Supreme Court, tribunal

2. an area made for playing games such as tennis [↪ field, pitch]
squash/tennis/basketball etc court:
** Can you book a squash court for tomorrow?
on court:
** The players are due on court in an hour.

3. the court: the king, queen, their family, and their friends, advisers etc:
** Several members of the court were under suspicion.
** There was a taste in court circles for romantic verse.
** Court officials denied the rumours.

4. hold court:[formal] to speak in an interesting, amusing, or forceful way so that people gather to listen
hold court to:
** Dylan was holding court upstairs to a group of fans.

5. pay court to somebody:[old-fashioned] to give someone a lot of attention to try and make them like you

بارگاه، حیاط، دربار، دادگاه، اظهار عشق، خواستگاری

covenant
binding agreement between two groups or people; compact; (v.) enter into a covenant; promise

Longman:

[ countable]
a legal agreement in which someone promises to pay a person or organization an amount of money regularly [↪ endowment]

پیمان، میثاق، عهد، پیمان بستن، میثاق بستن

covert
secret; hidden; implied; op. overt

Longman:

secret or hidden [≠ overt]:
** covert operations

نهان، راز، پناهگاه، پوشیده، پوشپر

covetous
avaricious; desirous of (someone else’s possessions); v. covet: desire eagerly (someone else’s possessions)

Longman:

having a very strong desire to have something that someone else has:
** They began to cast covetous eyes on their neighbours' fields.


(Adjective) ازمند

cow
terrorize; intimidate

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a large female animal that is kept on farms and used to produce milk or meat [↪ bull]

2. a male or female animal of this type [↪ bull]:
** a herd of cows

3. the female of some large animals, such as the elephant or the whale [↪ bull]

4. [spoken][not polite] an offensive word for a woman who you think is stupid or unpleasant

5. have a cow:[informal] to be very angry or surprised about something

گاوماده، ماده گاو، ترساندن، تضعیف روحیه کردن

cower
shrink quivering as from fear; cringe

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to bend low and move back because you are frightened
cower back/against/under etc:
** He cowered against the wall.

از ترس دولاشدن، چندک زدن

coy
shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; (cf.) job offer

Longman:

1. shy or pretending to be shy in order to attract people's interest:
** She gave him a coy smile.

2. unwilling to give information about something [≠ open]
coy about:
** Tania was always coy about her age.

خجالتی، کمرو، (غالبا درمورد زن گفته می‌شود)، نازکن

cozen
cheat; hoodwink; swindle

Longman:

[ transitive]
to trick or deceive someone

گول زدن، فریب دادن، اغوا کردن کلاه (سر کسی) گذاشتن، گوش بریدن

crabbed
sour; bad-tempered; peevish; difficult to read as handwriting

Longman:

[literary] writing which is crabbed is small, untidy, and difficult to read


(Adjective) ترشرو، عبوس، تند مزاج

craft
skill (esp. with one’s hands); skill in deceiving people; guile; (adj.) crafty: cleverly deceitful; cunning

Longman:

1. a job or activity in which you make things with your hands, and that you usually need skill to do [↪ handicraft]:
** traditional rural crafts
** arts and crafts

2. an aircraft or spacecraft

3. [formal] a profession, especially one needing a special skill:
** The musician spends years perfecting his craft.

4. [uncountable] skill in deceiving people:
** Craft and cunning were necessary for the scheme to work.

پیشه، هنر، صنعت، مهارت، نیرنگ

crass
very unrefined; grossly insensible; crude and undiscriminating; (ex.) crass behavior

Longman:

behaving in a stupid and offensive way which shows that you do not understand or care about other people's feelings [↪ insensitive]:
** a crass remark
** an act of crass stupidity


(Adjective) زمخت، درشت، کودن

crave
desire; want intensely

Longman:

[ transitive]
to have an extremely strong desire for something:
** an insecure child who craves attention

ارزو کردن، طلبیدن، اشتیاق داشتن

craven
cowardly

Longman:

[formal] completely lacking courage [= cowardly]:
** He had a craven fear of flying.

شکست خورده، (ادم) ترسو وپست، نامرد

credence
belief

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] the acceptance of something as true
give credence to something: (=to believe or accept something as true)
** I don't give any credence to these rumors.
gain credence: (=to become more widely accepted or believed)
** His ideas quickly gained credence among economists.
lend credence to something: (=to make something more believable)
** The DNA results lend credence to Hausmann's claims of innocence.


(Noun) اعتماد، باور، اعتقاد

credential
evidence concerning one’s authority; written proof of a person’s position; (ex.) the new ambassador presented his credentials to the court.

استوار نامه، گواهی نامه، اعتبار نامه، اختیار

credo
creed

Longman:

[ countable]
a formal statement of the beliefs of a particular person, group, religion etc:
** American Express is emphasizing its 'the customer is first' credo.


(Noun) عقیده، ایمان

credulity
belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté; adj. credulous

Longman:

[ uncountable]
willingness or ability to believe that something is true:
** Advertisers were accused of exploiting consumers' credulity.
strain/stretch credulity: (=seem very difficult to believe)
** It strained credulity to believe that a nuclear war would not lead to the destruction of the planet.


(Noun) زودباوری، ساده لوحی

creed
system of religious or ethical belief

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a set of beliefs or principles:
** Marxism has never been weaker as a political creed.
** a religious creed
** people of all colours and creeds

2. the Creed: a formal statement of belief spoken in certain Christian churches


(Noun) کیش، عقیده

creep
move with body close to the ground; move stealthily or slowly; (n.)

Longman:

[ intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
1. to move in a quiet, careful way, especially to avoid attracting attention
creep into/over/around etc:
** Johann would creep into the gallery to listen to the singers.
** He crept back up the stairs, trying to avoid the ones that creaked.

2. if something such as an insect, small animal, or car creeps, it moves slowly and quietly [↪ crawl]
creep down/along/away etc:
** a caterpillar creeping down my arm

3. to gradually enter something and change it
creep in/into/over etc:
** Funny how religion is creeping into the environmental debate.

4. if a plant creeps, it grows or climbs up or along a particular place
creep up/over/around etc:
** ivy creeping up the walls of the building

5. if mist, clouds etc creep, they gradually fill or cover a place
creep into/over etc:
** Fog was creeping into the valley.

خزیدن، مورمور شدن، جنبیدن

cremate
incinerate (a corpse); (n.) crematory, crematorium

Longman:

[ transitive]
to burn the body of a dead person at a funeral ceremony


(Verb - transitive) سوزانیدن وخاکستر کردن

crescendo
increase in the volume or intensity as in a musical passage; climax; (cf.) crescent

Longman:

[ countable]
1. if a sound or a piece of music rises to a crescendo, it gradually becomes louder until it is very loud [≠ diminuendo]:
** The shouting rose to a deafening crescendo.
** The curtains opened as the music reached a crescendo.

2. if an activity or feeling reaches a crescendo, it gradually becomes stronger until it is very strong:
** The campaign reached its crescendo in the week of the election.

(موسیقی) قوی شدن صدا بطور تدریجی، اوج

crest
top (as of a hill or wave); showy feathers on the head of a bird

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the top or highest point of something such as a hill or a wave
crest of:
** It took us over an hour to reach the crest of the hill.

2. a special picture that is used as a sign of a family, town, school, or organization [↪ coat of arms]
school/family crest:

3. a group of feathers that stick up on the top of a bird's head:
** exotic birds with colourful crests

4. a decoration of long bright feathers that soldiers wore in the past on top of their hats

5. be on/riding the crest of a wave: to be very successful:
** a young film director who is on the crest of a wave at the moment

تاج، کلاله، قله، یال، بالاترین درجه، به بالاترین درجه رسیدن، ستیغ

crestfallen
dejected; dispirited

Longman:

looking disappointed and upset:
** He came back looking crestfallen.


(Adjective) سرافکنده

crevice
crack; fissure

Longman:

[ countable]
a narrow crack in the surface of something, especially in rock:
** small creatures that hide in crevices in the rock


(Noun) درز، شکاف

cringe
shrink back as if in fear; cower

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to move away from someone or something because you are afraid:
** A stray dog was cringing by the door.
** She cringed away from him.

2. to feel embarrassed by something you have said or done because you think it makes you seem silly [↪ wince]
cringe at:
** She cringed at the sound of her own voice.
** It makes me cringe when I think how stupid I was.

چاپلوسانه فروتنی کردن، انقباض غیر ارادی ماهیچه

crinkle
wrinkle

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
1. if you crinkle part of your face, or if it crinkles, you move it so that small lines appear on it:
** His mouth crinkled into a smile.
** He smiled boyishly, crinkling his eyes.
** Her face crinkled up in disgust.

2. to become covered with small folds, or make something do this:
** The heat was beginning to make the cellophane crinkle.

پیچاندن، تاب دادن، مضرس، زیگ زاگ، دندانه دندانه

criteria
standards used in judging; (cf.) criterion


(Plural) جمع واژه‌ی criterion

crochet
make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle; (n.) (cf.) crotchet

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
to make clothes etc from wool or cotton, using a special needle with a hook at one end [↪ knit]

قلابدوزی، بامیل سرکج بافتن، قلابدوزی کردن

crone
hag; ugly old woman

Longman:

[ countable]
an ugly or unpleasant old woman


(Noun) پیرزن فرتوت، عجوزه

cross
bad-tempered; showing ill-humor; angry

Longman:

1. go from one side to another: [intransitive and transitive] to go or stretch from one side of something such as a road, river, room etc to the other
cross to:
** He crossed to the window.
cross (over) the road/street/river etc:
** It's easy to have an accident just crossing the road.
** He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station.
cross the Atlantic/the Channel etc:
** the first steamship to cross the Atlantic
** An old bridge crosses the river.
cross over:
** She crossed over to sit beside Dot.

2. cross a line etc: [transitive] if you cross a line, track etc you go over and beyond it:
** He raised his arms in triumph as he crossed the line for his 100-metres win.

3. two roads/lines etc: [intransitive and transitive] if two or more roads, lines, etc cross, or if one crosses another, they go across each other:
** The by-pass crosses Wilton Lane shortly after a roundabout.

4. if you cross your legs, arms, or ankles, you put one on top of the other:
** She was sitting on the floor with her legs crossed.

5. cross somebody's mind: [usually in negatives] if you say that an idea, thought etc never crossed your mind, you mean that you did not think of it [= occur to somebody]:
** It didn't cross her mind that she might be doing something illegal.
the thought has (never) crossed my mind: (=used to tell someone you have thought of the thing they are suggesting, or have never thought of it)

صلیب، خاج، چلیپا، علامت ضربدر یاباضافه، حدوسط،ممزوج، دورگه، اختلاف، مرافعه، تقلب، نادرستی، قلم کشیدن بروی، خط بطلان کشیدنبر(با out یا off )، گذشتن،عبوردادن، مصادف شدن با، روبروشدن، قطع کردن، دورگه کردن، پیوند زدن، کج خلقی کردن، خلاف میل کسی رفتار کر

crossbreed
hybridize; (n.) hybrid; (cf.) interbreed; (cf.) inbreed

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if one breed of plant or animal crossbreeds with another, or if you crossbreed them, they breed, producing a new type of plant or animal

پیوند زدن، دورگه

crotchety
(of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; (n.) crotchet: odd or whimsical notion

Longman:

easily annoyed or made slightly angry [= grumpy]:
** a crotchety old man


(Adjective) قلاب مانند، قلاب دار، بلهوس

crust
hard outer covering (as of earth or snow)

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. the hard brown outer surface of bread:
** sandwiches with the crusts cut off

2. the baked outer part of foods such as pies or pizzas:
** a thin crust pizza

3. a thin hard dry layer on the surface of something:
** A hard gray crust had formed on the bottom of the tea kettle.

4. the hard outer layer of the Earth:
** deep within the Earth's crust

کبره، کبره بستن، قسمت خشک و سخت نان، پوست نان،قشر، پوسته سخت هر چیزی، ادم جسور و بیادب

crux
essential or main point; (ex.) the crux of the problem; adj. crucial: of deciding importance

Longman:

the crux: the most important part of a problem, question, argument etc
the crux of:
** The crux of the matter is how do we prevent a flood occurring again?
** The crux of the problem lay in the lack of equipment.


(Noun) لغز، چیستان، معما، مسئله دشوار

crypt
secret recess or vault usually used for burial; underground room (under a church)

Longman:

[ countable]
a room under a church, used in the past for burying people [↪ vault]


(Noun) دخمه، سردابه، غار، حفره غده ای، سری، رمز

cryptic
mysterious; hidden; secret

Longman:

having a meaning that is mysterious or not easily understood
cryptic remark/comment/statement etc:
** a cryptic note at the end of the letter


(Adjective) پنهان، مرموز، رمزی

cubicle
small chamber used for sleeping or work

Longman:

[ countable]
a small part of a room that is separated from the rest of the room:
** a shower cubicle
** office workers in their cubicles


(Noun) خوابگاه (جداگانه)، اطاقک

cue
word or signal (as in a play to prompt another actor’s speech or entrance); reminder or hint; (v.) give a cue to

Longman:

[ countable]
1. an action or event that is a signal for something else to happen
cue for:
** Our success was the cue for other companies to press ahead with new investment.
somebody's cue to do something:
** I think that's my cue to explain why I'm here.

2. a word, phrase, or action in a play that is a signal for the next person to speak or act:
** She stood nervously in the wings waiting for her cue.
miss your cue: (=not speak or act when you are supposed to)

3. (right/as if) on cue: happening or done at exactly the right moment:
** And then, on cue, the weather changed.
** As if on cue, Sam arrived.

4. take your cue from somebody: to use someone else's actions or behaviour to show you what you should do or how you should behave:
** With interest rates, the smaller banks will take their cue from the Federal Bank.

5. a long straight wooden stick used for hitting the ball in games such as billiards and pool

سخن رهنما، ایما ، اشاره برای راهنمایی خواننده یاگوینده یا بازیگر، چوب بیلیارد، صف، ردیف،(. vt &. vi ): اشاره کردن، راهنمایی کردن، باچوب بیلیارد زدن، صف بستن اشارت، اشاره کردن

cuisine
style of cooking; (ex.) french cuisine

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. a particular style of cooking:
** French cuisine
** vegetarian cuisine
cuisine of:
** the traditional cuisine of the Southwest

2. the food cooked in a particular restaurant or hotel, especially when it is very good:
** Enjoy the delicious cuisine created by our award-winning chef.


(Noun) دست پخت، روش اشپزی، خوراک، غذا

culinary
relating to cooking or kitchen

Longman:

[ only before noun]
relating to cooking:
** culinary skills
** mushrooms dried for culinary use
** the region's culinary delights (=food that tastes very good)


(Adjective) مربوط به اشپزخانه، اشپخانه ای، پختنی

cull
pick out from others (to kill the weakest members); reject; select; collect (information); (n.)

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to kill some animals of a group, usually the weakest ones, especially so that the size of the group does not increase too much

2. [formal] to find or choose information from many different places
cull something from something:
** The data had been culled from a variety of sources.

گلچین کردن، جمع اوری کردن

culmination
highest point; climax; (v.) culminate in: reach the highest point in; end in; (ex.) a series of minor clashes culminating in war

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the culmination of something: something, especially something important, that happens at the end of a long period of effort or development:
** This little book represented the culmination of 15 years' work.


(Noun) اوج، قله، حد اعلی

culpable
deserving blame; blameworthy

Longman:

1. [formal] deserving blame:
** Both parties were held to be to some extent culpable.

2. a culpable action is one that is considered criminal
culpable homicide/negligence etc:
** He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide.


(Adjective) مقصر، مجرم، سزاوار سرزنش، قابل مجازات

culprit
one guilty of a crime

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the person who is guilty of a crime or doing something wrong [↪ victim]:
** Police finally managed to catch the culprit.

2. [informal] the reason for a particular problem or difficulty:
** High production costs are the main culprit.


(Noun) متهم، مقصر، ادم خطاکار یا مجرم

culvert
artificial channel for water; drain crossing under a road

Longman:

[ countable]
a pipe that takes a stream under a road, railway line etc

اب گذر، نهر سرپوشیده، مجرای اب زیر جاده، لوله مخصوص کابل برق زیر زمینی

cumbersome
heavy and awkward to carry or wear; burdensome; ex. cumbersome parcel/uniform

Longman:

1. a process or system that is cumbersome is slow and difficult:
** Doctors are complaining that the system is cumbersome and bureaucratic.
** cumbersome procedures

2. heavy and difficult to move:
** a large cumbersome machine

3. words or phrases that are cumbersome are long or complicated


(Adjective) سنگین، طاقت فرسا، مایه زحمت، بطی

cumulative
growing by addition; accumulative

Longman:

increasing gradually as more of something is added or happens:
** Learning is a cumulative process.
cumulative effect (of something):
** Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork.


(Adjective) جمع شونده
(Adjective) انباشته، یکجا

cunning
clever in deceiving; sly; (n.) cleverness in deceiving; deceit

Longman:

1. someone who is cunning is clever and good at deceiving people in order to get what they want [= crafty]:
** a cunning opponent

2. behaviour or actions that are cunning are clever but dishonest and unfair, and are used to get what you want:
** a cunning plan

3. a cunning object or piece of equipment is clever and unusual:
** a cunning little device for keeping out draughts

4. [old-fashioned] attractive:
** a cunning little dress

زیرک، مکار، حیله باز، ماهر، زیرکی، حیله گری

cupidity
greed (for wealth); (cf.) cupid; (cf.) cupid

Longman:

[ uncountable]
very strong desire for something, especially money or property [= greed]:
** the cupidity of some businessmen


(Noun) حرص واز برای بدست اوردن مال

curator
superintendent; manager (in charge of a museum or a library)

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who is in charge of a museum or zoo:
** He's Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan.


(Noun) کتابدار، موزه دار، نگهبان، متصدی

curb
chain or strap used with a bit to restrain a horse; something that checks; (v.) check; restrain

Longman:

[ transitive]
to control or limit something in order to prevent it from having a harmful effect:
** measures to curb the spread of the virus

زنجیر، بازداشت، جلوگیری، لبه پیاده رو، محدود کردن،دارای دیواره یا حایل کردن، تحت کنترل دراوردن، فرونشاندن

curfew
regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times; signal (as a bell) announcing the hour of a curfew

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
1. a law that forces people to stay indoors after a particular time at night, or the time people must be indoors:
** The government imposed a night-time curfew throughout the country.
** The curfew was lifted (=ended) on May 6th.
** The whole town was placed under curfew.
** Anyone found in the streets after curfew was shot.

2. American English the time, decided by a parent, by which a child must be home or asleep in the evening


(Noun) مقررات حکومت نظامی وخاموشی در ساعت معین شب

curmudgeon
churlish, miserly individual; bad-tempered old person

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who is often annoyed or angry, especially an old person


(Noun) ادم خسیس، لئیم، بخیل، ادم جوکی

cursive
(of writing) flowing; running; having the successive letters joined

Longman:

written in a style of writing with the letters joined together:
** cursive script

پیوسته، روان، خط شکسته

cursory
casual; hastily done with little attention to detail

Longman:

done very quickly without much attention to details
cursory glance/look:
** Even a cursory glance at the figures will tell you that sales are down.
cursory examination/inspection:
** a cursory examination of the evidence


(Adjective) سرسری، از روی سرعت وعجله، باسرعت وبیدقتی

curtail
shorten; reduce

Longman:

[ transitive]
to reduce or limit something:
** The new law will curtail police powers.
severely/drastically curtail:
** Budget cuts have drastically curtailed training programs.


(Verb - transitive) کوتاه کردن، مختصر نمودن

cynical
skeptical or distrustful of human motives; (n.) cynicism; (cf.) cynic: person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness

Longman:

1. unwilling to believe that people have good, honest, or sincere reasons for doing something:
** a cynical view of human nature
cynical about:
** The public is cynical about election promises.

2. not caring that something might not be morally right, might hurt someone etc, when you are trying to get something for yourself:
** a cynical disregard for international agreements


(Adjective) بدگمان نسبت به درستی ونیکوکاری بشر، غرغرو، عیبجو، کلبی

cynosure
object of general attention; person or thing that is a center of attention; (cf.) ursa minor


(Noun) (شخص یا چیزی که مرکز توجه است) مورد توجه، نگرانگیز، اندیشگیر
(Noun) (نجوم) نام پیشین استارگان (مجمعالکواکب) دب اصغر

dabble
work at in a non-serious fashion; splash around; move noisily in a liquid

Longman:

1. [intransitive] to do something or be involved in something in a way that is not very serious
dabble in/at/with:
** people who dabble in painting as a way of relaxing

2. [transitive]British English to move your hands, feet etc about in water
dabble something in something:
** children dabbling their feet in the sea

رنگ پاشیدن، نم زدن، (کمکم) تر کردن، دراب شلپ شلپ کردن، سرسری کارکردن، بطور تفریحی کاری راکردن

dainty
delicate; delicately beautiful; fastidious; not easy to please; (ex.) dainty movement/dress

Longman:

1. small, pretty, and delicate:
** a dainty gold chain
** a child with dainty features

2. moving or done in a careful way, using small movements:
** a dainty walk

هر چیز ظریف و عالی، گوشت یا خوراک لذیذ، مطبوع

dais
raised platform for speakers or other important people

Longman:

[ singular]
a low stage in a room that you stand on when you are making a speech or performing, so that people can see and hear you


(Noun) سکوب مخصوص جلوس اشخاص برجسته، سایبان یا تخت پادشاه

dally
trifle with; toy with; treat without the necessary seriousness; procrastinate; waste time

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to waste time, or do something very slowly:
** Don't dally along the way! We haven't got much time.

1. to do something or think about something, but not in a very serious way:
** They've dallied with the idea of touring round the world.

2. [old-fashioned] to have a romantic relationship with someone, but not in a serious way

وقت را ببازی گذراندن، طفره زدن، تاخیر کردن

damn
condemn; criticize severely; condemn to everlasting punishment; doom; bring to ruin; (n.) damnation

Longman:

1. used when you are very annoyed or disappointed:
** • Damn! I've left my keys in the office.

2. used when something is impressive or surprising:
** • Damn, she's old.

لعنت کردن، لعنت، فحش، بسیار، خیلی

dank
damp; unpleasantly wet

Longman:

unpleasantly wet and cold:
** a dank prison cell


(Adjective) نمناک، مرطوب و سرد، مرطوب کردن

dapper
neat and trim (in appearance); (of small men) neat in appearance and quick in movements; neat; spry

Longman:

a man who is dapper is nicely dressed, has a neat appearance, and is usually small or thin:
** a dapper little man in a grey suit


(Adjective) تمیز، شیک، زنده دل، زرنگ

dappled
spotted

Longman:

marked with spots of colour, light, or shade:
** the dappled shade of the trees

خال خالی ،لکه لکه

dart
move or throw suddenly and quickly

Longman:

1. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction:
** Jill darted forward and pulled him away from the fire.

2. [literary] to look at someone or something very quickly:
** Tom darted a terrified glance over his shoulder at his pursuers.

زوبین، نیزه، تیر، بسرعت حرکت کردن، حرکت تند، پیکان

daub
smear (as with paint); cover with something sticky; (ex.) daub one’s clothes with mud/paint; (n.) small bit of sticky substance; (ex.) a daub of paint

Longman:

[ transitive]
to put paint or a soft substance on something without being very careful:
** soldiers' faces daubed with black mud

اندودن، مالیدن، ناشیانه رنگ زدن

daunt
intimidate; frighten; discourage; dishearten

Longman:

[ transitive usually passive]
1. to make someone feel afraid or less confident about something:
** He felt utterly daunted by the prospect of moving to another country.
** Don't be daunted by all the technology.

2. nothing daunted:[old-fashioned] used to say that someone continues or starts to do something in spite of difficulties:
** It was steep but, nothing daunted, he started climbing.


(Verb - transitive) ترساندن، تو دل کسی را خالی کردن، مرعوب کردن

**

** - he was daunted by the volume of work to be done
** - حجم کاری که باید انجام می‌شد او را هراسان کرد
** - nothing daunted
** - (رسمی) بدون ذره‌ای ترس
(Verb - transitive) مایوس کردن، نومید کردن، دلسرد کردن
**

** - they were determined and nothing would daunt them
** - آنان مصمم بودند و هیچ چیز نمی‌توانست آنها را دلسرد کند

dauntless
bold; fearless

Longman:

confident and not easily frightened:
** dauntless optimism


(Adjective) (شخص) نترس، بی‌باک، جسور، متهور، بی‌پروا، پردل، پر جرئت، شجاع

dawdle
loiter; hang around; waste time doing nothing

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to take a long time to do something or walk somewhere:
** Don't dawdle - we're late already!
dawdle over:
** I dawdled over a second cup of coffee.

بیهوده وقت گذراندن، اتلاف وقت، اهمال کار

daze
stun as with a blow or shock; bemuse; benumb; (n.)

Longman:

in a daze: feeling confused and not able to think clearly:
** She wandered round in a daze, not quite sure what to do.

گیج کردن، خیرگی، (دراثرضربت یا سرما ویا نور زیادوغیره)

dazzle
make blind with a sudden intense light; amaze; fill with wonder

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. if a very bright light dazzles you, it stops you from seeing properly for a short time:
** a deer dazzled by the headlights

2. to make someone feel strong admiration:
** As children, we were dazzled by my uncle's good looks and charm.

خیره کردن، تابش یا روشنی خیره کننده

deadlock
standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces; stalemate

Longman:

[ singular, uncountable]
1. a situation in which a disagreement cannot be settled [= stalemate]:
** The talks have reached a complete deadlock.
** a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock
** Negotiations ended in deadlock.

2. British English a deadbolt

حالت عدم فعالیتی که در اثر وجود دو نیروی متعادل ایجاد گردد، وقفه، بیتکلیفی، دچار وقفه یا بی تکلیفی شدن، بن بست بنبست

deadpan
wooden; impassive; with no show of feeling; with an expressionless face

Longman:

sounding and looking completely serious when you are saying or doing something funny
deadpan voice/expression etc:
** deadpan humour

قیافه خشک و بی روح، قیافه خشک و بی روح داشتن

dearth
scarcity

Longman:

[ singular]
a lack of something
dearth of:
** a dearth of job opportunities


(Noun) کمیابی و گرانی، قحط و غلا، کمبود

debacle
sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster

Longman:

[ countable]
an event or situation that is a complete failure:
** the debacle of the 1994 elections


(Noun) افتضاح، سقوط ناگهانی حکومت و غیره، سرنگونی

debar
bar; forbid; exclude; (ex.) debarred from jury services

Longman:

[ transitive usually passive]
to officially prevent someone from doing something [= ban]
debar somebody from (doing) something:
** All five men were debarred from entering France for three years.

مانع شدن، بازداشتن، ممنوع کردن

debase
degrade; reduce in quality or value; degenerate; lower in esteem; disgrace; (n.) debasement

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make someone or something lose its value or people's respect:
** The medical profession has been debased by these revelations.
debase yourself:
** actors who debased themselves by participating in the show
debase a currency/coinage: (=reduce its value)


(Verb - transitive) مقام کسی را پایین بردن، پست کردن

debauch
corrupt morally; seduce from virtue; (n.) debauchery: wild behavior (with sex and alcohol)

هرزگی، هرزه کردن، فاسد کردن، الواطی کردن، عیاشی

debilitate
weaken (esp. through heat, hunger, illness); enfeeble

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to make someone ill and weak

2. to make an organization or system less effective or powerful:
** Progress has been debilitated by a refusal to share ideas.


(Verb - transitive) ناتوان کردن، ضعیف کردن

debonair
(of men) friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed; aiming to please; (cf.) of good disposition

Longman:

a man who is debonair is fashionable and confident


(Adjective) مودب، متمدن، خوشرفتار، شاد

debris
rubble; wreckage; scattered remains of something broken or destroyed

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. the pieces of something that are left after it has been destroyed in an accident, explosion etc:
** She was hit by flying debris from the blast.

2. [technical] pieces of waste material, paper etc
plant/garden/industrial etc debris:
** Clean the ventilation ducts to remove dust and insect debris.


(Noun) خرده، باقی مانده، اثار مخروبه، اشغال روی هم ریخته، اوار

debunk
expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule

Longman:

[ transitive]
to show that an idea or belief is false:
** His claims were later debunked by fellow academics.


(Verb - transitive) احساسات غلط و پوچ را از کسی دور کردن، کسی را اگاه و هدایت کردن، کم ارزش کردن

debut
début; first public appearance; formal presentation of a young woman to society

Longman:

[ countable]
the first public appearance of an entertainer, sports player etc or of something new and important
somebody's debut:
** He made his Major League debut as shortstop.
film/acting/directorial etc debut:
** His Broadway debut was 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'.
debut album/CD/single etc:
** Their debut album was recorded in 1991.
debut match/performance etc:
** He scored in his debut match for the club.


(Noun) اغاز کار، نخستین مرحله دخول در بازی یا جامعه، شروع بکار کردن

debutante
young woman making formal entrance into society

Longman:

[ countable]
a young rich upper-class woman who starts going to fashionable events as a way of being introduced to upper-class society


(Noun) (دختر دم بخت که برای نخستین بار در مجامع ظاهر و معرفی میشود) پیشنماگر، پیشنما

decadence
decay; fall to a lower level (of morality, civilization, or art); (adj.) decadent

Longman:

[ uncountable]
behaviour that shows that someone has low moral standards and is more concerned with pleasure than serious matters


(Noun) زوال، تنزل، انحطاط، فساد، اغاز ویرانی

decant
pour off gently (wine or liquid)

Longman:

[ transitive]
to pour liquid, especially wine, from one container into another
decant something into something:
** Never decant cleaning products into old pop bottles.

ریختن شراب (از تنگ و غیره)، اهسته خالی کردن، سرازیر کردن

decapitate
behead

Longman:

[ transitive]
to cut off someone's head:
** a decapitated body


(Verb - transitive) سراز تن جدا کردن، گردن زدن

decelerate
slow down

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to go slower, especially in a vehicle [= slow down; ≠ accelerate]

از سرعت چیزی کاستن، اهسته کردن کاستن سرعت، کندکردن

deciduous
falling off at a specific season or stage of growth as of leaves; (ex.) deciduous tree/teeth

Longman:

deciduous trees lose their leaves in winter [≠ evergreen]


(Adjective) گیاهی که در زمستان برگ میریزد، برگریز

decimate
kill (usually one out of ten or every tenth man); destroy or kill a large part of

Longman:

[ transitive]
to destroy a large part of something:
** The population has been decimated by disease.


(Verb - transitive) از هرده نفر یکی را کشتن، تلفات زیاد وارد کردن

decipher
decode; (cf.) indecipherable

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to find the meaning of something that is difficult to read or understand [↪ indecipherable]:
** She studied the envelope, trying to decipher the handwriting.

2. to change a message written in a code into ordinary language so that you can read it [= decode]


(Verb - transitive) کشف رمز نمودن، کشف کردن
(Verb - transitive) گشودن سر، فاش کردن سر

declivity
downward slope


(Noun) سرازیری، شیب

decollete
(of a dress) having a low-cut neckline; (cf.) décolletage: low neckline (on a dress)

Longman:

[ uncountable]
the top edge of a woman's dress that is cut very low to show part of her shoulders and breasts

دکولته، (در موردپیراهن) یقه باز

decomposition
decay; (v.) decompose: decay; break and separate into simple parts


(Noun) تجزیه

decorous
proper (in behavior, conduct, or appearance)

Longman:

[formal] having the correct appearance or behaviour for a particular occasion


(Adjective) اراسته، زینت دار، مودب

decorum
propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners; appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Longman:

[ uncountable]
[formal] behaviour that shows respect and is correct for a particular situation, especially a formal occasion:
** He was disciplined for breaching the Senate's rules of decorum.


(Noun) ادب، اداب دانی، مناسبت، رفتاربجا

decoy
lure or bait; (v.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone or something that is used to trick someone into going somewhere or doing something, so that you can catch them, attack them etc:
** Officer Langley acted as a decoy to catch the rapist.

2. a model of a bird used to attract wild birds so that you can watch them or shoot them

طعمه یا دام یا توری برای گرفتن اردک و مرغان دیگر،(مجازا) تله، دام، وسیله تطمیع، بدام انداختن، فریفتن

decree
authoritative order; edict; judgment of a court of law; (v.) order or judge by decree

Longman:

[ countable]
1. an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country:
** The Emperor issued the decree repealing martial law.

2. a judgment in a court of law

حکم کردن، حکم، فرمان

decrepit
weak and in bad condition from old age or hard use; (ex.) decrepit old chair/man

Longman:

old and in bad condition:
** The buildings were in a decrepit state.


(Adjective) سالخورده و فرتوت، ضعیف و ناتوان، خیلی پیر

decrepitude
state of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age


(Noun) حالت ضعف و ناتوانی، فرتوتی، شکستگی

decry
express strong disapproval of; condemn openly (something dangerous to the public); disparage; (ex.) decry the violence of modern films

Longman:

[ transitive]
[formal] to state publicly that you do not approve of something [= condemn]

رسوا کردن، تقبیح کردن

deducible
derived by reasoning; (v.) deduce: infer; derive by reasoning

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

deface
mar; disfigure

Longman:

[ transitive]
to spoil the surface or appearance of something, especially by writing on it or breaking it:
** Most of the monuments had been broken or defaced.


(Verb - transitive) بدشکل کردن، ازشکل انداختن، محو کردن

defalcate
embezzle

کسر کردن(ازپول یا حساب)، اختلاس کردن، دستبردزدن(به پول)

defame
harm someone’s reputation; malign; speak evil of; slander; (n.) defamation; (adj.) defamatory

Longman:

[ transitive]
to write or say bad or untrue things about someone or something, so that people will have a bad opinion of them


(Verb - transitive) بدنام کردن

default
failure to act; failure to perform a task or be present; (v.)

Longman:

1. by default:a) if you win a game, competition etc by default, you win it because your opponent did not play or because there were no other competitorsb) if something happens by default, it happens because you did not do anything to change it

2. [formal] failure to pay money that you owe at the right time
in default:
** The company is in default on its loan agreement.
default in:
** The bank can seize the asset in the event of a default in payment.
** the risk of default by borrowers

3. [law] failure to do something that you are supposed to do according to the law or because it is your duty

4. [technical] the way in which things are arranged on a computer screen unless you decide to change them:
** You can change the default settings to suit your needs.

5. in default of something:[formal] because of the lack or absence of something

کوتاهی، قصور، غفلت، نکول کردن قرار داد، قرار دادی

defeatist
resigned to defeat or failure; accepting defeat or failure as a natural outcome; (n.) (cf.) defeatism

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who believes that they will not succeed

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.

defect
shortcoming; (v.) desert (in order to join the opposite one)

Longman:

[ countable]
a fault or a lack of something that means that something or someone is not perfect:
** All the cars are tested for defects before they leave the factory.
** a genetic defect

کاستی، اهو، عیب، نقص، ترک کردن، مرتدشدن، معیوب ساختن

defection
desertion


(Noun) پناهندگی، فرار، ارتداد، عیب

defer
give in respectfully; submit; delay till later; exempt temporarily; (n.) deferment; (cf.) show respect, comply with, courteous

Longman:

[ transitive]
to delay something until a later date [= put back]
defer something until/to something:
** Further discussion on the proposal will be deferred until April.
** The committee deferred their decision.

to agree to accept someone's opinion or decision because you have respect for that person:
** I will defer to your wishes.

عقب انداختن، بتعویق انداختن، تاخیرکردن، تسلیم شدن، احترام گذاردن

deference
courteous regard for another’s wish; courteous yielding to another’s wish or opinion (showing respect); adj. deferential; op. effrontery

Longman:

[ uncountable]
polite behaviour that shows that you respect someone and are therefore willing to accept their opinions or judgment
deference to:
** Lewis was annoyed that Adam did not show enough respect and deference to him.
out of/in deference to something: (=because you respect someone's beliefs, opinions etc)
** They were married in church out of deference to their parents' wishes.


(Noun) تن دردهی، تسلیم، تمکین، احترام(گذاری)

defiance
refusal to yield; resistance; (v.) defy; (adj.) defiant

Longman:

[ uncountable]
behaviour that shows you refuse to do what someone tells you to do, especially because you do not respect them [↪ defy]
act/gesture of defiance:
** Running away was an act of defiance against his parents.
in defiance (of something):
** Many people were drinking in the streets, in flagrant defiance of the ban.
** Her fists clenched in defiance.

مبارزه طلبی، دعوت به جنگ، بی اعتنایی، مخالفت، مقاومت، اعتراض

defile
pollute; make filthy or dirty; corrupt morally; profane; desecrate; (n.) narrow passage or gorge through mountains

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make something less pure and good, especially by showing no respect:
** Hallam's tomb had been defiled and looted.

الوده کردن، بی حرمت کردن، بی عفت کردن، گردنه، رژه رفتن، گذرگاه

definitive
most reliable; authorative and complete; that cannot be improved; conclusive; decisive; definite; (ex.) definitive decision by the supreme court

Longman:

1. [usually before noun] a definitive book, description etc is considered to be the best and cannot be improved
definitive study/work/guide etc:
** the definitive study of Victorian railway stations

2. a definitive agreement, statement etc is one that will not be changed:
** a definitive agreement to buy the company

قطعی، قاطع، صریح، معین کننده، نهایی

deflect
turn aside; turn away from a straight course

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] if someone or something deflects something that is moving, or if it deflects, it turns in a different direction:
** He deflected the blow with his forearm.

2. [transitive] to do something to stop people paying attention to you, criticizing you etc
deflect something (away) from something:
** his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life
** The committee is seeking to deflect criticism by blaming me.

3. [transitive] to take someone's attention away from something
deflect somebody from (doing) something:
** Nothing can deflect me from reaching my goal.

کج کردن، منحرف کردن منکسر کردن، شکستن

defoliate
destroy leaves; deprive of leaves (by the use of chemicals); (n.) defoliant

Longman:

[ transitive]
to use defoliant on a plant or tree

بی برگ کردن، برگ ریختن

defray
provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay

Longman:

defray costs/expenses:[formal] to give someone back the money that they have spent on something:
** The proceeds from the competition help to defray the expenses of the evening.


(Verb - transitive) پرداختن، متحمل شدن، تسویه کردن

defrock
strip a priest or minister of church authority; unfrock

Longman:

[ transitive]
to officially remove a priest from his or her job because he or she did something wrong


(Verb - transitive) خلع کسوت روحانی کردن

deft
neat; skillful

Longman:

1. a deft movement is skilful, and often quick:
** He sketched her with quick, deft strokes.
** deft footwork

2. skilful at doing something:
** his deft chairmanship of the company


(Adjective) ماهر، زبردست، کاردان، چالاک، استادانه

defunct
dead; no longer in use or existence

Longman:

not existing any more, or not useful any more:
** the now-defunct nuclear reactor


(Adjective) ازبین رفته، تمام شده، مرده، درگذشته

degenerate
become worse in quality; deteriorate; (adj.) having become worse; (ex.) a degenerate species; (n.) depraved or corrupt person

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to become worse
degenerate into:
** The conference degenerated into a complete fiasco.

رو به انحطاط گذاردن، فاسد شدن، منحط

degradation
humiliation; debasement; degeneration; (v.) degrade: debase; disgrace; degenerate; reduce (something) in worth; demote (someone); reduce in rank

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] an experience or situation that makes you feel ashamed and angry:
** a life of poverty and degradation

2. [uncountable] the process by which something changes to a worse condition


(Noun) تنزل
(Noun) پستی، خفت، تنزل رتبه

dehydrate
remove water from; dry out

Longman:

1. [transitive] to remove the liquid from a substance such as food or a chemical [↪ rehydrate, hydrate]:
** The substance is dehydrated and stored as powder.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to lose too much water from your body, or to make this happen:
** Alcohol dehydrates the body.

اب چیزی را گرفتن، بیاب کردن، پسابش داشتن، وابشت کردن

deify
turn into a god; make a god of; idolize; (ex.) kings were deified; (cf.) deity

Longman:

[ transitive]
to treat someone or something with extreme respect and admiration

خدا دانستن، پرستیدن، مقام الوهیت قائل شدن(برای)

deign
condescend; stoop

Longman:

deign to do something: to do something that you think you are really too important to do - often used humorously:
** Travis called after her, but she didn't deign to answer.


(Verb - transitive) لطفا پذیرفتن، تمکین کردن

delete
erase; strike out

Longman:

[ transitive]
to remove something that has been written down or stored in a computer:
** His name was deleted from the list.
** I deleted the file by mistake.


(Verb - transitive) خط زدن، حذف کردن، برداشتن، انداختن

deleterious
harmful

Longman:

damaging or harmful:
** the deleterious effects of smoking


(Adjective) زیان اور، اسیب رسان

deliberate
consider; ponder; (adj.) done on purpose; slow

Longman:

1. intended or planned [≠ unintentional; = intentional]:
** a deliberate attempt to humiliate her
** The attack on him was quite deliberate.

2. deliberate speech, thought, or movement is slow and careful:
** He approached her with slow, deliberate steps.

تعمد کردن، عمدا انجام دادن، عمدی، تعمدا، تعمق کردن، سنجیدن، اندیشه کردن، کنکاش کردن

delineate
portray; depict; sketch; describe; (n.) delineation

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to describe or draw something carefully so that people can understand it:
** The document delineates your rights and your obligations.

2. to make the borders between two areas very clear:
** The boundaries of these areas should be clearly delineated.


(Verb - transitive) مشخص کردن، ترسیم نمودن، معین کردن

delirium
mental disorder marked by confusion; uncontrolled excitement; (adj.) delirious

Longman:

1. a state in which someone is delirious, especially because they are very ill:
** Before she died she had fits of delirium.

2. [singular,uncountable] extreme excitement


(Noun) سرسام، هذیان، پرتگویی، دیوانگی

delta
flat plain of mud or sand between branches of a river

Longman:

[ countable]
1. the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet

2. an area of low land where a river spreads into many smaller rivers near the sea:
** the Nile delta


(Noun) حرف چهارم زبان یونانی ( Δδ )
(Noun) دلتا در دانش جغرافیا زمینی است مثلثی شکل که از آبرفت رودخانه پدید آمده باشد

delude
deceive

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make someone believe something that is not true [= deceive]:
** I was angry with him for trying to delude me.
delude somebody/yourself into doing something:
** It is easy to delude yourself into believing you're in love.
** Don't be deluded into thinking your house is burglarproof.


(Verb - transitive) فریب دادن، اغفال کردن

deluge
flood; rush; (v.)

Longman:

[ countable ]
1. [usually singular] a large amount of something such as letters or questions that someone gets at the same time [= flood]
deluge of:
** Viewers sent a deluge of complaints about the show.

2. [formal] a large flood, or period when there is a lot of rain [= flood]

سیل، طوفان، غرق کردن، طوفان ایجاد کردن

delusion
false belief; hallucination; deluding; (ex.) delusions of grandeur; (ex.) under the delusion that

Longman:

1. [uncountable and countable] a false belief about yourself or the situation you are in
under a delusion (that):
** He is under the delusion that I am going to cheat him.

2. delusions of grandeur: the belief that you are much more important or powerful than you really are


(Noun) فریب، اغفال، پندار بیهوده، وهم

delusive
deceptive; likely to delude; misleading; raising vain hopes; (ex.) delusive promises


(Adjective) فریبنده، گمراه کننده، موهوم، واهی، بی اساس

delve
dig; search deeply; investigate

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. to try to find more information about someone or something
delve into:
** research that delves deeply into this issue

2. [always + adverb/preposition] to search for something by putting your hand deeply into a bag, container etc
delve into/in:
** He delved into his pocket and brought out a notebook.

حفرکردن(زمین)، سوراخ کردن، گودی، حفره، کاوش کردن

demagogue
person who appeals to people’s prejudice; false leader of people; (cf.) demagoguery

Longman:

[ countable]
a political leader who tries to make people feel strong emotions in order to influence their opinions - used to show disapproval


(Noun) ادم عوام فریب، هوچی

demean
disgrace; humiliate; debase in dignity; behave

Longman:

[ transitive]
to do something that makes people lose respect for someone or something [↪ degrade]:
** language that demeans women
demean yourself (by doing something):
** I wouldn't demean myself by begging him for a job.


(Verb - transitive) پست کردن، رفتار کردن

demeanor
behavior; bearing


(Noun) رفتار، طرز برخورد با، کردار

**

** - rude in speech and demeanor
** - بیادب در گفتار و رفتار
(Noun) قیافه، وجنات، ریخت

demented
insane

Longman:

1. crazy or behaving in a very strange way:
** She was almost demented with grief.

2. [old-fashioned] suffering from dementia


(Adjective) دیوانه، مجنون

demerit
fault; bad quality

Longman:

[ countable]
1. [formal] a bad quality or feature of something
demerit of:
** The merits and demerits (=the good and bad qualities) of this argument have been explored.

2. a mark showing that a student has behaved badly at school [↪ merit]

عدم لیاقت، ناشایستگی، ناسزاواری، سرزنش

demise
death

Longman:

[ uncountable]
1. [formal] the end of something that used to exist
demise of:
** the imminent demise (=happening soon) of the local newspaper

2. [formal][law] death:
** the mystery surrounding Elena's untimely demise (=when death happens sooner than is normal or expected)

مردن، وفات یافتن، انتقال دادن

demographic
related to population balance; (n.) demography: statistical study of human population

Longman:

1. demographics: [plural] information about a group such as the people who live in a particular area:
** the demographics of a newspaper's readership

2. [countable] a part of the population that is considered as a group, especially by advertisers who want to sell things to that group:
** the 21-40 demographic


(Adjective) وابسته به امارگیری نفوس

demolition
destruction; (v.) demolish

ویرانی، خرابی، ویران سازی، انهدام، تخریب

demoniac
fiendish; cruel; (n.) demon: evil supernatural being; devil

دیوانه وار، دیوسان، شیطانی، دیوی

demoniacal
fiendish; cruel; (n.) demon: evil supernatural being; devil

Longman:

wild, uncontrolled, and evil:
** the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes

دیوانه وار، دیوسان، شیطانی، دیوی

demotic
of or pertaining to the people

Longman:

used by or popular with most ordinary people

معروف، متداول، وابسته بحروف جدید هیروگلیفی

demur
object (because of doubts, scruples); raise an objection (showing qualms); hesitate; (ex.) demur at the idea of working on sunday

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to express doubt about or opposition to a plan or suggestion:
** They demurred politely, but finally agreed to stay.

کمرویی کردن، ناز، (حقوق) تقاضای درنگ یا مکث کردن،(م.م.) درنگ کردن، مهلت خواستن، استثنا قائل شدن، تاخیر، تردید رای

demure
(of a woman or child) grave; quiet and serious; coy; pretending to be demure

Longman:

1. quiet, serious, and well-behaved - used especially about women in the past:
** Old photos of Maggie show her young and demure.

2. demure clothes do not show much of a woman's body:
** a demure white dress


(Adjective) متین، موقر، محتاط، جدی، سنگین

denigrate
blacken; defame

Longman:

[ transitive]
to say things to make someone or something seem less important or good:
** people who denigrate their own country

لکه دار کردن، سیاه کردن، بد نام کردن

denizen
(animal, person, or plant) inhabitant or resident of a particular place; regular visitor

Longman:

[ countable + of]
an animal, plant, or person that lives or is found in a particular place

ساکن، مقیم، ساکن کردن

denomination
religious group; unit in a system; name or designation; (cf.) denominator: common trait or characteristic

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a religious group that has slightly different beliefs from other groups within the same religion:
** Christians of all denominations

2. [technical] the value shown on a coin, paper money, or a stamp


(Noun) نام گذاری، تسمیه، لقب یا عنوان، طبقه بندی، مذهب، واحد جنس، پول

denotation
meaning; distinguishing by name; (v.) denote: indicate; refer to directly; mean; (cf.) connotation


(Noun) تشخیص، تفکیک، علامت تفکیک، معنی و مفهوم

denouement
final outcome; final development of the plot of a play or other literary work; the end of a story when everything is explained

Longman:

[ countable]
the exciting last part of a story or play:
** The plot takes us to Paris for the denouement of the story.


(Noun) نتیجه نمایش، پایان نمایش، نتیجه عمل

denounce
condemn; criticize; (n.) denunciation

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to express strong disapproval of someone or something, especially in public [↪ denunciation]:
** Amnesty International denounced the failure by the authorities to take action.
denounce somebody/something as something:
** He denounced the election as a farce.

2. to give information to the police or other authority about someone's illegal political activities
denounce somebody to somebody:
** She denounced him to the police.


(Verb - transitive) علیه کسی اظهاری کردن، کسی یا چیزی را ننگین کردن، تقبیح کردن

depict
portray

Longman:

[ transitive]
to describe something or someone in writing or speech, or to show them in a painting, picture etc:
** a book depicting life in pre-revolutionary Russia
depict somebody/something as something:
** The god is depicted as a bird with a human head.


(Verb - transitive) نمایش دادن (بوسیله نقشه و مانند ان)، نقش کردن،مجسم کردن، رسم کردن، شرح دادن

deplete
reduce; exhaust

Longman:

[ transitive usually passive]
to reduce the amount of something that is present or available:
** Salmon populations have been severely depleted.


(Verb - transitive) تهی کردن، خالی کردن، به ته رسانیدن

deplore
regret; express sorrow and severe disapproval for something bad; (ex.) deplore their violent behavior; adj. deplorable: very bad; deserving severe disapproval; ex. deplorable living condition

Longman:

[ transitive]
to disapprove of something very strongly and criticize it severely, especially publicly:
** The UN deplored the invasion as a 'violation of international law'.


(Verb - transitive) دلسوزی کردن بر، رقت اوردن بر

deploy
spread out (troops) in an extended though shallow battle line; distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to organize or move soldiers, military equipment etc so that they are in the right place and ready to be used
deploy forces/troops/weapons etc:
** NATO's decision to deploy cruise missiles

2. [formal] to use something for a particular purpose, especially ideas, arguments etc:
** a job in which a variety of professional skills will be deployed

گسترش، جبهه، گسترش یافتن، بحالت صف دراوردن، قراردادن قشون

deport
send out of the country; behave; (n.) deportation, deportment

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make someone leave a country and return to the country they came from, especially because they do not have a legal right to stay [↪ export]
deport somebody from/to something:
** He was deported from Ecuador when his visa expired.


(Verb - transitive) تبعید کردن، حمل، اخراج

depose
dethrone; remove from office; give a deposition; testify

Longman:

[ transitive]
to remove a leader or ruler from a position of power

معزول کردن، عزل نمودن، خلع کردن

deposition
testimony under oath; deposing; dethroning

Longman:

1. [technical] the natural process of depositing a substance on rocks or soil:
** the deposition of marine sediments

2. [law] a statement written or recorded for a court of law, by someone who has promised to tell the truth

3. [uncountable and countable] the act of removing someone from a position of power


(Noun) گواهی، نوشته، ورقه استشهاد، خلع، عزل

depravity
extreme corruption; wickedness; (v.) deprave


(Noun) تباهی، فساد، هرزگی، بدکرداری، شرارت

deprecate
express disapproval of; deplore; protest against; belittle; (adj.) deprecatory

Longman:

[ transitive]
to strongly disapprove of or criticize something


(Verb - transitive) بد دانستن، قبیح دانستن، ناراضی بودن از

depreciate
lessen in value; belittle; represent as of little value

Longman:

1. [intransitive] to decrease in value or price [≠ appreciate]:
** New cars depreciate in value quickly.

2. [technical] to reduce the value of something over time, especially for tax purposes:
** Company computers are depreciated at 50% per year.

3. [formal] to make something seem unimportant:
** those who depreciate the importance of art in education

کم بها کردن، مستهلک کردن

depredation
plundering; destruction

Longman:

[ countable usually plural]
an act of taking or destroying something


(Noun) غارت ،تاراج

deputize
work or appoint as a deputy; (n.) deputy: person who has the power to take charge when the leading person is away

Longman:

1. [intransitive] British English to do the work of someone of a higher rank than you for a short time because they are unable to do it
deputize for:
** Jed could deputise for Stewart, if necessary.

2. [transitive] American English to give someone below you in rank the authority to do your work for a short time, usually because you are unable to do it [↪ delegate]

نمایندگی دادن، نیابت کردن، نمایندگی کردن

deranged
insane

Longman:

someone who is deranged behaves in a crazy or dangerous way, usually because they are mentally ill:
** a deranged gunman


(Adjective) اشفته ،دیوانه ،درهم برهم ،مختل

derelict
negligent; (of someone) neglectful of duty; (of something) deserted by an owner; abandoned; (n.) abandoned property; homeless or vagrant person

Longman:

a derelict building or piece of land is in very bad condition because it has not been used for a long time

متروک، ترک شده بوسیله مالک یا قیم، بی سرپرست، کشتی متروکه

dereliction
neglect of duty; abandonment

Longman:

1. dereliction of duty:[formal] when someone fails to do what they should do as part of their job

2. [uncountable] the state of being derelict:
** areas of industrial dereliction


(Noun) ترک، رهاسازی، فتور و سستی

deride
ridicule; treat with contempt; make fun of; op. respect

Longman:

[ transitive]
to make remarks or jokes that show you think someone or something is silly or useless [= mock]:
** You shouldn't deride their efforts.
deride somebody as something:
** The party was derided as totally lacking in ideas.


(Verb - transitive) تمسخر کردن، بکسی خندیدن، استهزا کردن

derision
ridicule; (adj.) derisive; (cf.) derisory

Longman:

[ uncountable]
when you show that you think someone or something is stupid or silly:
** His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.


(Noun) استهزا ، تمسخر، مایه خنده و تمسخر

derivation
deriving; origin or source of something; (ex.) the derivation of the word

Longman:

[technical] the origin of something, especially a word


(Noun) اخذ، گرفتن، استخراج، بیرون کشیدن، (زبان‌شناسی) اشتقاق، (ریاضی) مشتق گیری

**

** - what is the derivation of this word?
** - اشتقاق این واژه چیست؟
** - the derivation of human laws from natural laws
** - نشات گرفتن قوانین بشری از قوانین طبیعی
(Noun) اصل، مأخذ، منشأ، مبدأ، سرچشمه، (زبان شناسی) ریشه، اصل
**

** - he claimed derivation from the Sassanians
** - او ادعا می‌کرد که از نسل ساسانیان است
(Noun) (زبان‌شناسی، ریاضی) مشتق

derivative
unoriginal; obtained from another source; ex. derivative prose style; (n.)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. something that has developed or been produced from something else
derivative of:
** Heroin is a derivative of morphine.

2. a type of financial investment:
** the derivatives market


(Adjective) برگرفته، مأخوذ، گرفته شده، (زبان‌شناسی، شیمی، ریاضی) مشتق، (کارهای ادبی) اقتباس شده، اقتباسی
(Noun) (زبان‌شناسی، شیمی، ریاضی) مشتق، (ادبی) اقتباس

**

** - a derivative of a function
** - واحد تابع، مشتق تابع
(Noun) (شیمی) (ماده‌ای که از راه تغییرات شیمیایی از ماده‌ی دیگری مشتق شده است) فرآمده

dermatologist
one who studies the skin and its diseases

متخصص امراض پوست

derogatory
expressing a low opinion; disparaging; (v.) derogate: detract; disparage

Longman:

derogatory remarks, attitudes etc are insulting and disapproving:
** Their conversation contained a number of derogatory racial remarks.


(Adjective) موهن، مضر، زیان اور و مایه رسوایی، خفت اور

descry
catch sight of (something distant)

دیدن، تشخیص دادن، فاش کردن

desecrate
profane; violate the sanctity of

Longman:

[ transitive]
to spoil or damage something holy or respected


(Verb - transitive) بی حرمت کردن

deserts
what someone deserves

Longman:

get/receive your (just) deserts: to be punished in a way that you deserve:
** Offenders should receive their just deserts.

لغت مورد نظر شما یافت نشد.واژه‌ها‌ی پیشنهادی:

desiccate
dry up


(Verb - transitive) خشک کردن، در جای خشک نگه داشتن

desolate
make desolate; forsake; abandon and desert

Longman:

1. a place that is desolate is empty and looks sad because there are no people there:
** a desolate landscape

2. someone who is desolate feels very sad and lonely

ویران کردن، از ابادی انداختن، مخروبه کردن، ویران،بی جمعیت، متروک، حزین

desperado
reckless, desperate outlaw

Longman:

[ countable]
[old-fashioned] a violent criminal who is not afraid of danger


(Noun) جنایت کار، از جان گذشته

desperate
having lost all hope; despairing; reckless and violent because of loss of hope or despair; undertaken as a last resort

Longman:

1. willing to do anything to change a very bad situation, and not caring about danger:
** I had no money left and was desperate.
** Time was running out and we were getting desperate.
** the missing teenager's desperate parents
desperate with:
** She was desperate with fear.

2. needing or wanting something very much
desperate for:
** The team is desperate for a win.
** I was desperate for a cigarette.
desperate to do something:
** He was desperate to get a job.

3. a desperate situation is very bad or serious:
** a desperate shortage of doctors
** We're in desperate need of help.

4. a desperate action is something that you only do because you are in a very bad situation
desperate attempt/bid/effort:
** a desperate attempt to escape
** We resorted to desperate measures.
desperate battle/struggle/fight:
** a desperate struggle to rescue the men


(Adjective) بی امید، بیچاره، از جان گذشته، بسیار سخت، بسیار بد

despise
look on with scorn; regard as worthless or distasteful; adj. despicable: contemptible

Longman:

[ transitive not in progressive]
to dislike and have a low opinion of someone or something:
** She despised her neighbours.


(Verb - transitive) خوار شمردن، حقیر شمردن، تحقیر کردن، نفرت داشتن

despoil
plunder; sack; (ex.) despoil the village

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to make a place much less attractive by removing or damaging things [↪ spoil]

2. to steal from a place or people using force, especially in a war


(Verb - transitive) غارت کردن، ربودن (بیشتر با of )

despondent
without hope and courage; depressed; gloomy; (n.) despondency: loss of hope with gloom; dejection

Longman:

extremely unhappy and without hope:
** Gill had been out of work for a year and was getting very despondent.
despondent about:
** He was becoming increasingly despondent about the way things were going.


(Adjective) محزون، دلسرد

despot
tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler; (cf.) despotism

Longman:

[ countable]
someone, especially a ruler, who uses power in a cruel and unfair way [= tyrant]


(Noun) حاکم مطلق، سلطان مستبد، ستمگر، ظالم

destitute
extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence; utterly lacking; devoid; (ex.) destitute of any experience

Longman:

1. having no money, no food, no home etc:
** The floods left many people destitute.

2. be destitute of something:[literary] to be completely without something:
** a man who is destitute of mercy


(Adjective) بینوا، بیچاره، خالی، تهی(با of )، نیازمند

desultory
aimless; haphazard; digressing at random

Longman:

done without any particular plan or purpose:
** They talked briefly in a desultory manner.


(Adjective) بی قاعده، پرت، بی ترتیب، درهم و برهم، بی ربط

detached
emotionally removed; free from emotional involvement; calm and objective; physically separate; (n.) detachment; (cf.) attachment

Longman:

1. not reacting to or becoming involved in something in an emotional way [≠ involved]:
** Try to take a more detached view.
detached from:
** He appeared totally detached from the horrific nature of his crimes.
detached way/manner:
** She described what had happened in a cold and detached manner.

2. especially British English a detached house or garage is not joined to another building


(Adjective) جدا، غیر ذیعلاقه

detain
keep waiting; prevent from leaving or going; (n.) detention

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to officially prevent someone from leaving a place:
** Two suspects have been detained by the police for questioning.
** She was detained in hospital with a suspected broken leg.

2. [formal] to stop someone from leaving as soon as they expected [= delay]:
** He was detained in Washington on urgent business.


(Verb - transitive) بازداشتن، معطل کردن، توقیف کردن

determinate
having a fixed order of procedure; precisely defined; invariable; fixed; conclusive; final

Longman:

[formal] definite or with an exact limit [≠ indeterminate]:
** a determinate prison sentence of five years


(Adjective) معلوم، معین
(Adjective) تعیین شده، محدود، مستقر شده

determination
resolve; firmness of purpose; measurement or calculation; decision

Longman:

1. [uncountable] the quality of trying to do something even when it is difficult
determination to do something:
** Yuri shows great determination to learn English.
** his dogged determination (=very strong determination) to succeed

2. [formal] the act of deciding something officially
determination of:
** the determination of government policy

3. [formal] the act of finding the exact level, amount, or cause of something
determination of:
** accurate determination of the temperature


(Noun) تعیین، عزم، تصمیم، قصد

deterrent
something that discourages or deters

Longman:

[ countable]
1. something that makes someone less likely to do something, by making them realize it will be difficult or have bad results:
** The small fines for this type of crime do not act as much of a deterrent.
deterrent to/for/against:
** Window locks are an effective deterrent against burglars.
** the deterrent effect of prison sentences

2. nuclear deterrent: the nuclear weapons that a country has in order to prevent other countries from attacking it

مانع شونده، منع کننده، بازدارنده، ترساننده

detonation
explosion


(Noun) انفجار

detraction
slandering; aspersion; detracting; (cf.) detractor


(Noun) بدگویی، افترا، کاهش، کسرشان، کسر

detrimental
harmful; damaging; (n.) detriment

Longman:

causing harm or damage [= damaging]
detrimental to:
** Smoking is detrimental to your health.
** the detrimental effect of pollution on the environment


(Adjective) زیان اور، مضر، خسارت اور، درد ناک

deviate
turn away from (a principle, norm); move away from an accepted standard; swerve; depart; diverge; (n.) deviation; (ex.) deviation of the path of light by a prism

Longman:

[ intransitive]
to change what you are doing so that you are not following an expected plan, idea, or type of behaviour
deviate from:
** The plane had to deviate from its normal flight path.

منحرف، کجرو شدن، انحراف ورزیدن، غیر سالم منحرف شدن

devious
roundabout; erratic; deviating from the straight course; not straightforward; not completely honest; (ex.) devious route

Longman:

1. using dishonest tricks and deceiving people in order to get what you want [↪ deceitful]:
** a devious politician

2. [formal] not going in the most direct way to get to a place:
** a devious route


(Adjective) بی راهه، کج، غیر مستقیم، منحرف، گمراه

devise
think up; invent; plan; bequeath; (n.) bequest

Longman:

[ transitive]
to plan or invent a new way of doing something:
** She devised a method for quicker communications between offices.

تدبیر کردن، درست کردن، اختراع کردن، تعبیه کردن،وصیت نامه، ار بری، ار گذاری

devoid
empty; lacking

Longman:

be devoid of something: to be completely lacking in something:
** His face was devoid of any warmth or humour.


(Adjective) تهی، عاری، خالی از (معمولا با of )

devolve
deputize; pass or be passed to others (power, work, or property); (ex.) devolve on/upon/to

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] if you devolve responsibility, power etc to a person or group at a lower level, or if it devolves on them, it is given to them
devolve something to somebody/something:
** The federal government has devolved responsibility for welfare to the states.
devolve on/upon:
** Half of the cost of the study will devolve upon the firm.

2. [intransitive and transitive] if land, money etc devolves to someone, it becomes their property when someone else dies

واگذاردن، تفویض کردن، محول کردن

devotee
enthusiastic follower; enthusiast; (ex.) devotee of bach

Longman:

[ countable]
1. someone who enjoys or admires someone or something very much
devotee of:
** a devotee of 1930s films

2. a very religious person:
** a Sikh devotee


(Noun) مرید، جانسپار، فدایی، مخلص، پارسا، زاهد، هواخواه، مجاهد

devout
pious; deeply religious; sincere; earnest; (ex.) my devout hope

Longman:

1. someone who is devout has a very strong belief in a religion:
** a devout Catholic

2. [formal] a devout hope or wish is one that you feel very strongly:
** It is my devout hope that we can work together in peace.


(Adjective) دیندار، پارسا منش، مذهبی، عابد

dexterous
skillful; skill in using hands or mind; (n.) dexterity

Longman:

1. skilful and quick when using your hands:
** dextrous use of the needle

2. skilful in using words or your mind:
** his dexterous accounting abilities


(Adjective) ماهر، چالاک، زبردست، چیره دست

diabolical
diabolic; devilish; fiendish

Longman:

1. also di‧a‧bol‧ic evil or cruel:
** diabolical abuse

2. [informal] extremely unpleasant or bad:
** The toilets were in a diabolical state.

شیطانی، اهریمنی

diadem
crown

Longman:

[ countable]
a circle of jewels that a queen, princess etc wears on her head

دیهیم، تارک، نیم تاج، سربند یا پیشانی بند پادشاهان

dialectical
relating to the art of debate; mutual or reciprocal; ex. dialectical situation; (n.) dialectic: art of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments


(Adjective) منطقی، مناظره ای، جدلی، لهجه ای، گویشی

diaphanous
sheer; transparent

Longman:

diaphanous cloth is so thin that you can almost see through it


(Adjective) روشن، شفاف

diatribe
bitter scolding or denunciation; invective; abuse

Longman:

[ countable]
a long speech or piece of writing that criticizes someone or something very severely
diatribe against:
** a diatribe against contemporary American civilization


(Noun) سخن سخت، انتقاد تلخ، زخم زبان

dichotomy
division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)

Longman:

[ countable]
the difference between two things or ideas that are completely opposite
dichotomy between:
** a dichotomy between his public and private lives


(Noun) دورستگی، دوگانگی
(Noun) تقسیم به دو بخش، انشعاب به دو شعبه، دو حالتی

dictum
authoritative and weighty statement (made by a judge in court); saying; maxim; (cf.) obiter dictum: incidental, nonbinding remark (something said in passing)

Longman:

[ countable]
1. a formal statement of opinion by someone who is respected or has authority

2. a short phrase that expresses a general rule or truth:
** Descartes' famous dictum: 'I think; therefore, I am'


(Noun) (حقوق) حکم، قرار، رای، گفته، اظهار نظر قضایی

didactic
(of speech or writing) intended to teach a moral lesson; teaching; instructional; (n.) didacticism

Longman:

1. speech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a moral lesson:
** His novel has a didactic tone.

2. someone who is didactic is too eager to teach people things or give instructions


(Adjective) اموزشی، تعلیمی، یاد دهنده، ادبی

die
metal block used for shaping metal or plastic; device for stamping or impressing; mold; (cf.) dice

Longman:

[ intransitive]
1. become dead: to stop living and become dead:
** He died in 1985 at the age of 76.
** Her father died suddenly in an accident when she was only ten.
die of/from:
** The animals died of starvation in the snow.
** patients who are dying from cancer
** She died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 98.
die for something: (=be killed while fighting to defend something)
** Do you believe in anything enough to die for it?
die young/happy/poor:
** She died young, at the age of 27.
** The bullet went straight through his head, and he died instantly.
to your dying day/until the day you die: (=until you die)
** It must remain a secret until the day I die.
somebody's dying breath/wish: (=someone's last breath or wish)
** It was his dying wish that the house be opened to the public.
die a hero/martyr/rich man etc:
** My uncle died a hero.
die a natural/violent/agonizing death:
** Did she die a natural death (=did she die naturally, or did someone kill her?)?

2. disappear: to disappear or stop existing:
** Our love will never die.
** The family name will die with him (=disappear when he dies).
** He's one of a dying breed (=a type of person that is no longer common).

3. to stop working [= break down]:
** The engine spluttered and died.
die on somebody: (=stop working while they are using it)
** The mower just died on me.

4. be dying for something/to do something:[spoken] to want something very much:
** I'm dying for a cup of tea.
** She was dying to ask where he'd got it.
** I'm dying to see what it is.

5. be dying of hunger/thirst/boredom:[spoken] to be very hungry, thirsty, bored etc:
** Do you fancy a cup of tea? I'm dying of thirst.

(. vi ): مردن، درگذشتن، جان دادن، فوت کردن، (. n ):طاس، طاس تخته نرد، مهره، سرپیچ، بخت، قمار، (مجازا)سرنوشت(. vt ):بشکل حدیده یاقلاویزدر اوردن، با حدیده و قلاویز رزوه کردن، قالب گرفتن، سر سکه جفت طاس

diffidence
shyness; lack of self-confidence; timidity; adj. diffident


(Noun) عدم اعتماد به نفس، کم رویی، ترس بیم از خود

diffuse
wordy; verbose; rambling; spread out (like a gas); (v.) spread out in all directions; disperse; (n.) diffusion; cf. suffuse

Longman:

1. [intransitive and transitive] to make heat, light, liquid etc spread through something, or to spread like this
diffuse through/into/across:
** The pollutants diffuse into the soil.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to spread ideas or information among a lot of people, or to spread like this:
** Their ideas diffused quickly across Europe.

3. [transitive] to make a bad feeling or situation less strong or serious:
** an attempt to diffuse his anger

منتشر شده، پراکنده، پخش شده، افشانده، افشاندن، پخش کردن، (مجازا) منتشر کردن پخش کردن

dignitary
person of high rank or position

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who has an important official position [= VIP]:
** Flowers were presented to visiting dignitaries.


(Noun) شخص بزرگ، عالی مقام

digression
wandering away from the subject; (v.) digress


(Noun) انحراف، گریز، پرت شدگی از موضوع

dilapidated
falling to pieces; in a bad condition; ruined because of neglect; (ex.) dilapidated old car/castle; (n.) dilapidation

Longman:

a dilapidated building, vehicle etc is old and in very bad condition [↪ derelict]


(Adjective) مخروبه، ویران

dilate
expand; dilate on/upon: speak or write at length on (a subject)

Longman:

[ intransitive and transitive]
if a hollow part of your body dilates or if something dilates it, it becomes wider [≠ contract]:
** dilated pupils

to speak or write a lot about something:
** He dilated upon their heroism.

اتساع دادن، گشاد کردن، بزرگ کردن

dilatory
delaying; tending to delay

Longman:

slow in doing something


(Adjective) اتساعی، ورمی، تاخیری، کند، بطی

dilemma
situation that requires a choice between equally unfavorable options; problem; choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives

Longman:

[ countable]
a situation in which it is very difficult to decide what to do, because all the choices seem equally good or equally bad:
** a moral dilemma
in a dilemma:
** I'm in a dilemma about this job offer.
** This placed Robert Kennedy in a dilemma.
** Many women are faced with the dilemma of choosing between work and family commitments.


(Noun) مسئله غامض، معمای غیر قابل حل، وضع دشوار

dilettante
aimless follower of an art or a field of knowledge (not taking it seriously); amateur; dabbler; (cf.) delight

Longman:

[ countable]
someone who is not serious about what they are doing or does not study a subject thoroughly

( dilettanti . pl ) ناشی، دوستدار تفننی صنایع زیبا، غیر حرفه

diligence
steadiness of effort; persistent hard work


(Noun) کوشش پیوسته، سعی و کوشش، پشت کار

dilute
make (a liquid) less concentrated; reduce in strength; (ex.) dilute the influence of the president

Longman:

[ transitive]
1. to make a liquid weaker by adding water or another liquid [↪ water down]:
** diluted fruit juice
dilute something with/in something:
** Dilute the paint with a little oil.

2. to make a quality, belief etc weaker or less effective [↪ water down]:
** an attempt to dilute the proposals

رقیق کردن، ابکی کردن

diminution
lessening; reduction in size; (v.) diminish

Longman:

[ uncountable and countable]
a reduction in the size, number, or amount of something
diminution of/in:
** a diminution in value


(Noun) کاهش، کسر، تقلیل، کمشدگی، تحقیر

din
continued loud noise; (v.) make a din; instill by wearying repetition

Longman:

[ singular]
a loud unpleasant noise that continues for a long time
din of:
** The din of the engines was deafening.
above the din:
** Ged was trying to make himself heard above the din.

صدای بلند، غوغا، طنین بلند، طنین افکندن

dinghy
small boat (often ship’s boat)

Longman:

[ countable]
a small open boat used for pleasure, or for taking people between a ship and the shore


(Noun) قایق هند شرقی، قایق تفریحی

dingy
(of things and place) dirty and dull; (ex.) dingy street/curtain

Longman:

dark, dirty, and in bad condition:
** a dingy room
** a dingy side-street


(Adjective) تیره رنگ، چرک، دودی رنگ

dint
means; effort; (ex.) by dint of hard work

Longman:

by dint of (doing) something: by using a particular method:
** By dint of hard work and persistence, she had got the job of manager.

زور، (م.م.) ضربت، تو رفتگی، گودی

diorama
life-size, three-dimensional scene from nature or history; three-dimensional scene with modeled figures against a painted background


(Noun) تصاویر متغیر، شهر فرنگ