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academic year {n} (time period) acclaim {v} (to applaud) acclaim {v} (to shout applause) acid {n} (LSD) add {v} (to append, as a statement) add {v} (to perform the arithmetical operation of addition, to add up) adieu {interj} (farewell) adieu {n} (a farewell) advocate {v} (argue for) advocate {v} (encourage support for) Aegadian Islands {prop} (islands off the coast of Sicily) airborne {adj} (carried by the air) akimbo {adj} (with a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward) akimbo {adv} (with arms akimbo) Akkadian {n} (inhabitant of the Akkad region) a leopard cannot change its spots {proverb} (one cannot change one's own nature) all along {adv} (duration, see also: for the entire time) altar boy {n} (A boy serving as an acolyte) altar girl {n} (a girl serving as an acolyte) an {prep} (in each; to or for each; per) Andes {prop} (mountain range in South America) applaud {v} (to express approval by clapping) Apus {prop} (a constellation of the southern sky) Arcadia {prop} (A district or a prefecture in the central and mid SE Peloponnese) Arcadian {n} (inhabitant of ancient Arcadia) arm to the teeth {v} (to equip with weapons) around the clock {prep} (all the time) attack is the best form of defence {proverb} (attacking the opposition first is better than waiting) audience {n} (formal meeting with a dignitary) auditory {n} (an assembly of hearers; an audience) augur {v} (to foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events) Azores {prop} (an archipelago and an autonomous region) Barbadian {n} (person from Barbados) barking dogs seldom bite {proverb} (people who make big threats never usually carry them out) barricade {v} (to close or block a road etc., using a barricade) beguile {v} (to deceive or delude (using guile)) bell the cat {v} (to undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group) be my guest {v} (do as you wish) bend the truth {v} (change or leave out certain facts of a story) best {adj} (superlative of the adjective good) Big Apple {prop} (a nickname for New York City) biodiesel {n} (fuel) bird of paradise {n} (bird) black {n} (billiards, snooker, pool) blacklist {v} (to place on a blacklist) blindfold {v} (To cover the eyes, in order to make someone unable to see) blow {v} (to explode ) blow up {v} (to explode (intransitive)) bomb {v} (attack with bombs) bombard {v} (to attack something or someone by directing objects at them) bombard {v} (to attack something with bombs, artillery shells, or other missiles) bombard {v} (to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms) bombardier beetle {n} (beetle) bombardment {n} (act of bombing, esp towns or cities) bombing {n} (action of dropping bombs from the air) bottle {v} (feed (an infant) baby formula) breadwinner {n} (primary income-earner in a household) break the bank {v} (win more money than is available to be paid) bring home the bacon {v} (informal: to make a living) Brussels Capital Region {prop} (region of Belgium) burglar {n} (thief who steals from premises) burglary {n} (the crime of breaking into) burn the midnight oil {v} (work through the night) Burundian {n} (person from Burundi) business before pleasure {proverb} (discharging one's obligations should come before one's own gratification) business trip {n} (business trip) call {n} ((medicine): overnight duty in the hospital) call the police {phrase} (call the police) can {v} (to shut up) Canadian {n} (person from Canada) candied fruit {n} (candied fruit, fruits) candy {v} (to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup) Canes Venatici {prop} (constellation) Cape Verdean {n} (a person from Cape Verde or of Cape Verdean descent) Care Bears {n} (Fictional cartoon bears) case study {n} (research performed in detail on a single case) cast pearls before swine {v} (cast pearls before swine) cat got someone's tongue {phrase} (why are you not saying anything?) cede {v} (give up) chanter {n} (the pipe of a bagpipe) character encoding {n} (well-defined correspondence between characters and numbers used to represent them) cheat {v} (being unfaithful) cheer {v} (To shout a cheer or cheers) Chinese {n} (the people of China) chlamydia {n} (sexually transmitted disease) church {n} (worship service) church service {n} (communal worship) circumnavigate {v} (to sail around the world) civil service {n} (the branches of government that are not military, legislative or judicial) clap {v} (To applaud by clapping the hands) collide {v} (to come into conflict, or be incompatible) collide {v} (to impact directly, especially if violent) comedy {n} (dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone) command {v} (to order) commission {v} (put into active service) commissioning {n} (process) conscientious objector {n} (someone refusing to fight in an armed conflict because of religious or moral principles) consolidate {v} (To make stronger or more solid) cordierite {n} (a cyclosilicate) corner {v} (trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment) correspond {v} (To be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc) correspond {v} (To exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period of time) corresponding {adj} (that have a similar relationship) corrode {v} (to have corrosive action) could I see the menu, please {phrase} (said to ask for a menu) courier {n} (company that delivers messages) crime against humanity {n} (a large-scale persecution of, or atrocity against a body of people) cross swords {v} (idiomatic: to have a dispute with someone) customer service {n} (act of providing services) customer support {n} (provision of service) deaf {n} (deaf people considered as a group) deamidate {v} (remove amide group) decode {v} (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) degradation {n} (act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing) degrade {v} (to lower in value or social position) degrade {v} (to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down) delay differential equation {n} (type of differential equations) demesne {n} (a lord's chief manor place) demote {v} (To lower the rank or status of something) denture {n} (complete replacement of all teeth in a mouth) Derek {prop} (given name) dereliction {n} (willful neglect of one's duty) deserve {v} ( to merit) dieldrin {n} (cyclodiene insecticide) dielectric {n} (physics: nonconducting material) diesel {n} (fuel) diesel engine {n} (a type of engine) diet {n} (council of leaders) diethylene glycol {n} (organic compound) diethyl ether {n} (diethyl ether) diffuse {v} (To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means) diffuse {v} (To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means) directory service {n} (software system) dispatcher {n} (A person who controls the movements of vehicles) disservice {n} (an ill turn or injury) divide {v} (calculate quotient) divine service {n} (a service of public Christian worship) do the laundry {v} (to wash the laundry) draft {v} (to conscript a person) earn {v} (deserve) earn {v} (transitive: receive (money) for working) earnings {n} (wages, money earned, income) easement {n} (legal right to use another person's property) educated guess {n} (estimate based on experience) emend {v} (to correct and revise) encoding {n} (character encoding (computing)) encyclopedia {n} (comprehensive reference with articles on a range of topics) eraser {n} (thing used to erase something written or drawn) erode {v} (To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction) etch {v} (to engrave) Etruscan {prop} (extinct language of Etruria) exception that proves the rule {n} (a form of argument) expand {v} ((transitive) to change from a smaller form/size to a larger one) expediency {n} (quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end) explode {v} (to destroy with an explosion) explode {v} (to explode (intransitive)) facepalm {v} (bring the palm of the hand to the face) face the music {v} (to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one's actions) Faroe Islands {prop} (group of islands between Scotland and Iceland) fathom {v} ((transitive) to measure the depth of, take a sounding of) fed up {adj} (frustrated) female condom {n} (device used as a barrier contraceptive) Fennoscandia {prop} (geographic area) Fennoscandia {prop} (geological area) foggy {adj} (obscured by mist or fog) forward {adv} (into the future) French {n} (people of France, collectively) French Canadian {n} (Canadian whose first language is French) frown {v} (to have a frown on one's face) gender studies {n} (academic field) get lost {v} (become lost) get on someone's nerves {v} (annoy or irritate) get the hang of {v} (to learn to handle with some skill) give someone the cold shoulder {v} (to snub) go ballistic {v} (become very angry) Goddess {prop} (single goddess of ditheism) go to the dogs {v} (informal: to decline or deteriorate) grains of paradise {n} (spice) Green Party {prop} (particular green party of a country or region) grit one's teeth {v} (face up to a difficult or disagreeable situation, and deal with it) hall {n} ( corridor or a hallway.) handling {n} (touching, controlling, managing with the hands) haulage {n} (Business of transporting goods) have eyes bigger than one's stomach {v} (take more food than one can eat) hayloft {n} (upper storey of a barn) hazy {adj} (thick with haze) heist {n} (a robbery or burglary) help oneself {v} (to take something freely) history repeats itself {proverb} (Translations) Holy Father {prop} (God) hope springs eternal {proverb} (the feeling of hopefulness endlessly renews itself) hopscotch {n} (child's game) hospice {n} (provision of palliative care for the terminally ill) how do you pronounce this word {phrase} (how do you pronounce this word?) how do you spell this word {phrase} (how do you spell this word?) hunting whip {n} (whip with a hooked horn handle) Iberia {prop} (region south of the Pyrenees) ice cream parlor {n} (business) identity theft {n} (the deliberate assumption of another person's identity) idolatry {n} (worship of idols) if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen {proverb} (if you cannot handle the pressure, you should not be in a position where you have to deal with it) I'll call the police {phrase} (I'll call the police) impact {v} (to collide or strike) India {prop} (the country) ingredient {n} (substance present in a mixture) instant {adj} (of the current month) intelligence {n} (a department, agency or unit designed to gather such information) intelligence {n} (information about the enemy) intelligence agency {n} (governmental agency devoted to information gathering) Internationale {prop} (proletarian song) in vino veritas {proverb} (one tells the truth under the influence of alcohol) junk DNA {n} (portion of DNA that has no identified function) keep one's fingers crossed {v} (hope for the best) kiddie {n} (a child (hypocorism)) kleptocracy {n} (corrupt and dishonest government) knit one's brows {v} (to scowl, indicating anger, worry, or puzzlement) ladies first {proverb} (A phrase encouraging gentlemanliness) ladyship {n} (Term of respect) laughter is the best medicine {proverb} (Translations) learn {v} (to attend educational activity) let the cat out of the bag {phrase} (to disclose a secret, often inadvertently) liquidate {v} (to convert assets into cash) liquidate {v} (to kill someone) liquidate {v} (to settle a debt) liquidate {v} (to settle the affairs) living hell {n} (continuing state of extreme pain, punishment or torment) lose one's cool {v} (to lose one's temper) lose one's temper {v} (to be explosively angry) lungeing rein {n} (lunge line) Lydia {prop} (historical region) lysergic acid diethylamide {n} (a powerful hallucinogen) maid {n} (female servant or cleaner) make a living {v} (earn enough income) make ends meet {v} (get by financially) mangle {v} (to change, mutilate or disfigure) maraud {v} (intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder) mass media {n} (public communication that reaches a large audience) may the Force be with you {phrase} (wish someone luck) media {n} (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) Media {prop} (historical region in northwestern Iran) Media {prop} (territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Media) media circus {n} (media circus) media democracy {n} (media democracy) media-historical {adj} (of media history) media studies {n} (academic discipline) melody {n} (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase) memorial {n} (service) Mennonite Low German {prop} (variety of Low German, see also: Plautdietsch) merit {n} (Something worthy of a high rating) military service {n} (service in an army) ministration {n} (act of ministering) mislead {v} (lead in a false direction) mislead {v} (to deceive by lies or other false impression) mislead {v} (to deceptively trick into something wrong) moonlighter {n} (person who has a secondary job) moreover {adv} (in addition to what has been said) morning glory {n} (plant) most {determiner} ( majority of ) my name is {phrase} (a way to identify oneself) necessity is the mother of invention {proverb} (a person in need will find a way) net {v} (receive as profit) Netherlands {prop} (country in northwestern Europe) next {n} (the one that follows after this one (in languages with a definite article that is generally required in this sense)) Normandy {prop} (region of France) Numidia {prop} (region in northern Africa) office {n} (ceremonial service) official {adj} (relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant) oldie {n} (something or someone old) oldie {n} (song or record from a long time ago) on call {prep} (when requested) one's bark is worse than one's bite {phrase} (acts in a threatening way but is relatively harmless) on your mark, get set, go {phrase} (three-command start of racing) orthodontics {n} (correcting misalignment of teeth) orthopedics {n} (medicine: a branch of medicine) out of the frying pan, into the fire {adv} (from an already bad situation to a worse one) paradisaic {adj} (relating to paradise) paradise {n} (heaven) paradisiacal {adj} (resembling paradise) parody {n} (expression making fun of something else) parody {v} (to make a parody of something) pay the bills {v} (provide enough income) perceived temperature {n} (apparent temperature of the environment) perfuse {v} (to permeate or suffuse) peruse {v} (to examine or consider with care) petard {v} (to attack) petty theft {n} (theft of property of low value) Picardy {prop} (region of France) pick {n} (tool to open a lock) picklock {n} (device designed to pick locks) pickpocket {n} (one who steals from the pocket of a passerby) pilferer {n} (one who has pilfered) Plautdietsch {prop} (variety of Low German, see also: Mennonite Low German) play truant {v} (to be absent from school without permission) plead {v} (to present an argument) poacher {n} (a person who trespasses in order to take game illegally) poaching {n} (trespassing in search of game) podiatry {n} (podiatry, care of the feet) podium {n} (platform) police dog {n} (trained dog for police work) police station {n} (building of police force) powers that be {n} (holders of power) prayer {n} [1,3,4] Gebet presenter {n} (computing: Device for remote control) preside {v} (to act as a president or chairperson) prevail {v} (To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand) prime {v} (to apply a coat of primer paint to) primer {n} (layer of paint) primer {n} Zündkapsel progredient {adj} (progressive) prosody {n} (linguistics: study of rhythm and other attributes in speech) pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire {v} (do someone's difficult work) pull someone's leg {v} (to tease someone) pushing up daisies {adj} ((euphemism) dead) put out of one's misery {v} (informal: to euthanize) queueing theory {n} (the study of the behaviour of queues) radish {n} (plant) rank {n} (a level in an organization such as the military) read {v} (make a study of) remote {n} (remote control) remote control {n} (device used to operate an appliance or mechanical toy from a short distance away) Republic of India {prop} (official name of India) revise {v} (to review, alter and amend, especially of written material) Revised Romanization of Korean {prop} (Romanization standard for Korean) roll {n} (an official or public document) roll {n} (one of a set of revolving cylinders between which metal is pressed) roll {n} (shortened raised biscuit or bread) roll {n} (that which is rolled up) roll one's eyes {v} (turn one's eyes upwards) room service {n} (provision of food and drink to a guest room) rubber {n} (eraser) rub out {v} (delete or erase by rubbing) rub salt in the wound {v} (to make an injury feel worse) ruin {v} (to cause the ruin of) run {v} (to be a candidate in an election) rustler {n} (cattle thief) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines {prop} (country in the Caribbean) same old story {n} (the repetition of an annoying occurrence) scam {n} (fraudulent deal) scan {v} (form a poetic metre) scansion {n} (the rhythm or meter of a line or verse) scowl {v} (to wrinkle the brows) script kiddie {n} (hacker who compromises files on others' computers) secret service {n} (government organization) security {n} (organization or department responsible for providing security) security guard {n} (person employed to provided security) Security Service {n} (government organisation that aims to protect its nation and its secrets from enemies) sedate {v} (to tranquilize) selfsame {adj} (the very same) self-service {adj} (describing an establishment where the customer is not waited on) self-service {n} (the practice of serving oneself) send-up {n} (satirical imitation) separate the wheat from the chaff {v} (to select only that which is of value) servant {n} (one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation) serve {v} (to work for) server {n} (one who serves) server {n} (preferred unisex term for a waitress or waiter) service {n} (economics: work performed) service {n} (religious rite or ritual) service {n} (the military) service {v} (to serve) service-oriented architecture {n} (software architectural concept) set the Thames on fire {v} (to achieve something amazing) Seven Sages {prop} (the seven ancient Greeks) sheathe {v} (to put something, such as a knife, into a sheath) shoplift {v} (intransitive: to steal) shoplifter {n} (one who steals from shops) shoplifting {n} (action of the verb to shoplift) shout {v} (to buy food or drinks for others) Shrove Tuesday {n} (day before the beginning of Lent) shut up {v} (imperative: "Shut up!") skit {n} (comedy) skyrocket {v} (to increase suddenly and extremely) slope {n} (math: slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point) soaked to the bone {adj} (extremely wet) socage {n} (medieval form of land tenure) Sogdiana {prop} (an ancient Iranian-speaking civilization) sound {v} (to probe) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands {prop} (territory) sow one's wild oats {v} (to spend a period of one's youth behaving irresponsibly) specious {adj} (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious) speciousness {n} (state or quality of being specious) spur {v} (to prod) stand {v} (to seek election) stand in {v} (to substitute for) steal {n} (the act of stealing) strike {v} (nautical: to surrender) strut {v} (to walk proudly or haughtily) student {n} (person enrolled at a university) student {n} (person who studies an academic subject) study {n} (artwork) study {v} (look at minutely) study {v} (to acquire knowledge) study {v} (to take a course) subject {n} (particular area of study) subservience {n} (state of being subservient) such-and-such {n} (generic placeholder) sun {prop} (the star around which the Earth revolves) suspend {v} (To halt temporarily) swag {n} (burglar's or thief's booty; a boodle) take the liberty {v} ((idiomatic) to act on one's own authority) tally {v} (to correspond or agree) tax haven {n} (country that levies low taxes on foreign businesses) temporal {adj} (of or relating to the material world) tend {v} (to be probable or likely) tendency {n} (likelihood of behaving in a particular way) testimonial {n} (tribute of someone's service) that {pron} (that thing) that {pron} (which) the {article} (article) the {article} (stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention) the {article} (this) the {article} (used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class) the {article} (with a superlative) the bill, please {phrase} (the bill, please) the die is cast {phrase} (the future is determined) the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on {proverb} (life goes on even if some will try to stop progress) the end justifies the means {proverb} (morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary) theft {n} (act of stealing property) the grass is always greener on the other side {proverb} (desirability of other's circumstances) the line is busy {phrase} (the line is busy) theme song {n} (a song accompanying a program) the pen is mightier than the sword {proverb} (more power can achieved writing than fighting) these {determiner} (plural of this) the shoemaker's children go barefoot {proverb} (one often neglects those closest to oneself) thief {n} (one who carries out theft) thief in law {n} (high-status criminal in Russia, etc.) this {determiner} (known (thing) about to be mentioned) this {determiner} (known (thing) just mentioned) this {determiner} (the (thing) here) this {pron} (The thing, item, etc. being indicated) this and that {pron} (things, stuff) this one {pron} (a specified object) this time {n} (now, today, on this occasion) threnody {n} (a song or poem of lamentation) throw in the towel {v} ((idiomatic) to quit; to give up) tick off {v} (to annoy, aggravate) time heals all wounds {proverb} (negative feelings eventually erode away) time is of the essence {phrase} (express a need for haste) tip one's hat {v} (briefly tap one's hat) top {n} (garment worn to cover the torso) torpedo {v} (to send a torpedo) total {v} (to add up) to tell the truth {adv} (attestation of truthfulness and frankness) to whom this may concern {phrase} (phrase used to begin a formal letter to an unknown recipient) tragedy {n} (disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury) tragedy {n} (drama or similar work) tragedy {n} (genre of such works, and the art of producing them) tragicomedy {n} (drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy) transcript {n} (inventory of courses and grades) transfuse {v} (administer a transfusion) transpose {n} (reverse or change the order of two) Tuesday {adv} (on Tuesday) Tuesday {n} (day of the week) tuition {n} (sum of money paid for instruction) tune {n} (melody) turn the other cheek {v} (accept injury without revenge) Twelve Days of Christmas {n} (the season or time made up of the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany) underfoot {adv} (under one's feet) undeserved {adj} (not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair) unemployed {n} (the unemployed as a group) unpublished {adj} (not published) USA {prop} (United States of America) user interface {n} (the part of a software application that a user sees and interacts with) usher {n} (doorkeeper in a courtroom) valet {n} (a man's personal male attendant) validate {v} (check the validity of) validator {n} (one who validates) Virgin {prop} (constellation or star sign) Virgin {prop} (Mary, the mother of Jesus) wait {v} (to serve customers) walk the plank {v} (to be forced to resign from a position in an organization) wear the trousers {v} (to be the dominant partner) well-founded {adj} (based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement) West Indies {prop} (islands of the Caribbean sea) what {pron} (nonstandard relative pronoun) what goes around comes around {proverb} (actions have consequences) what is more {adv} (furthermore) when Hell freezes over {adv} (never) when the cat's away {proverb} (People take advantage of the absence of authority) when the cat's away the mice will play {proverb} (in the absence of a controlling entity, subordinates will take advantage of circumstances) where does this bus go {phrase} (where does this bus go?) where does this train go {phrase} (where does this train go?) where is the toilet {phrase} (where is the toilet?) who {pron} (who (relative pronoun)) whom {pron} (relative pronoun) wipe out {v} (to erase) work-to-rule {n} (protest) worship {n} (the religious ceremonies that express this devotion) worst {adj} (Most inferior) worth {prep} (deserving of) would {v} (indicating a possible (but not definite) future action or state) zapper {n} (remote control) 24.Jul {adv} (abbreviation of twenty-four seven)

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Die Chinesen nennen ihren Vater und ihre Mutter "Diē" und "Niáng".



The Chinese call their father and mother Diē and Niáng .
Die Chinesen nennen ihren Vater und ihre Mutter Diē und Niáng 0

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