HOLLOW

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hollow I. adjectiv

1. gol (pe dinăuntru), găunos, scobit;

a hollow tree un copac scorburos.

2. fragil, care se sparge uşor.

3. (despre obraji) supt, scofâlcit; (despre ochi) intraţi în orbite, (duşi) în fundul capului.

4. (despre sunete, voce) cavernos, sepulcral, surd, ca din puţ.

5. (fig., despre prietenie) ipocrit, fals, nesincer; (despre promisiuni) amăgitor, deşert; (despre pace etc.) aparent, amăgitor.

6. (fam.) flămând, cu stomacul gol.

hollow II. adverb

complet, cu desăvârşire;

to beat (all) hollow a bate / a învinge cu uşurinţă, a face praf, a da gata;

he beat him hollow l-a învins, l-a bătut cu desăvârşire, l-a făcut praf, l-a dat gata.

hollow III. substantiv

1. gol, cavitate, excavaţie, scobitură, scorbură, găunoşitură.

2. (tehn.) racordare (zonă din suprafaţa unei piese).

3. depresiune, adâncitură, vale, vâlcea.

4. groapă, gaură.

5. scofâlcitură.

hollow IV. verb tranzitiv

1. a excava; a săpa, a scobi.

2. to hollow out a) a scobi (linguri etc.); b) a sufla (vase de sticlă).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

A short walk across the moor took us to the hollow in which the body had been found.

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

An abnormal collection of fluid in hollow spaces or between tissues of the body.

(Effusion, NCI Dictionary)

I have them in the hollow of my hand.

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

"Good evening!" he repeated, in a voice low and hollow as an echo.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Any volcanic action would surely be down in the hollow and not high among the rocks.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of many small hollow spaces in the bones around the nose.

(Paranasal sinus, NCI Dictionary)

Squamous cells are thin, flat cells that look like fish scales, and are found in the tissue that forms the surface of the skin, the lining of the hollow organs of the body, and the lining of the respiratory and digestive tracts.

(Epidermoid carcinoma, NCI Dictionary)

It was but last week that, having to raise some money, I called up to the castle Jean Goubert, who, as all men know, has a casketful of gold pieces hidden away in some hollow tree.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fluid that flows in and around the hollow spaces of the brain and spinal cord, and between two of the meninges (the thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord).

(Cerebrospinal fluid, NCI Dictionary)

These two baby wolves! If I am lean like a starved cat, they are lean like cats that have never eaten and have died. Their eyes are sunk deep in their heads, bright sometimes as with fever, dim and cloudy sometimes like the eyes of the dead. Their cheeks are hollow like caves in a cliff. Also are their cheeks black and raw from many freezings.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

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