RAKING

Traducere în limba română

raking¹ adjectiv

(despre tir) în direcţia lungimii.

raking² substantiv

1. greblare.

2. plural ceea ce se strânge cu grebla.

3. scotocire (în hârtii etc.).

4. (fam.) mustrare.

raking³ adjectiv

1. (despre un catarg) înclinat spre spate.

2. (despre un acoperiş etc.) în pantă.

3. (mar., despre prova etc.) zvelt.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

But if not, there is no object in raking up this scandal against a dead man, foully as he has acted.

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

They had spent the morning raking among the ashes of the burned wood-pile, and besides the charred organic remains they had secured several discoloured metal discs.

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

And, while the pharmaceutical industry is raking in billions by catering to insomniacs, Walker warns that the pills designed to help us doze off are a poor substitute for the natural sleep cycles that the brain needs in order to function well.

(Deep Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age, Editura Global Info)

In that field, Adele, I was walking late one evening about a fortnight since—the evening of the day you helped me to make hay in the orchard meadows; and, as I was tired with raking swaths, I sat down to rest me on a stile; and there I took out a little book and a pencil, and began to write about a misfortune that befell me long ago, and a wish I had for happy days to come: I was writing away very fast, though daylight was fading from the leaf, when something came up the path and stopped two yards off me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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