POWDER

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Traducere în limba română

powder I. substantiv

1. praf, pulbere.

2. pudră.

3. praf de puşcă, pulbere;

blasting powder explozibil; dinamită;

smokeless powder pulbere fără fum;

food for powder carne de tun;

not worth powder and shot mai mare daraua decât ocaua, nu merită osteneala;

put more powder into it! trage/ loveşte mai energic/ cu mai multă putere!

powder II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a prăfui, a acoperi cu praf; a presăra cu pulbere etc.; a săra.

2. a pudra.

3. a puncta (un material).

4. a străpunge cu gloanţe.

5. a preface în pulbere; a pisa (zahăr).

powder II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se preface în pulbere.

2. a se pudra.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

We were all hard at work, changing the powder and the berths, when the last man or two, and Long John along with them, came off in a shore-boat.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

“You remember, Inspector Martin, when the servants said that on leaving their room they were at once conscious of a smell of powder, I remarked that the point was an extremely important one?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cocaine is a white powder.

(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

“Blaze away! You've little enough powder already, my lads.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

No powder on her nose—that proved to be the correct solution.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not only that, but it flashed into my mind at the same moment that the round-shot and the powder for the gun had been left behind, and a stroke with an axe would put it all into the possession of the evil ones abroad.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Jordan's fingers, powdered white over their tan, rested for a moment in mine.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Bles-sed pre-cious! Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair? Stand up now, and say How-de-do.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Gatsby stood in the center of the crimson carpet and gazed around with fascinated eyes. Daisy watched him and laughed, her sweet, exciting laugh; a tiny gust of powder rose from her bosom into the air.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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