RAT

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rat¹ I. substantiv

1. (zool.) şobolan, guzgan (Mus);

like a drowning rat ud leoarcă / ciuciulete, ud până la piele;

(fig.) to smell a rat a mirosi / a bănui / a presimţi ceva;

(amer.) rats! fleacuri! prostii!;

(fam.) to give smb. rats a cauza neplăceri cuiva;

(fam.) to have rats in the attics a nu fi în toate minţile, a-i lipsi o doagă;

like a rat in a hole într-o încurcătură fără posibilitate de ieşire, strâns cu uşa, încolţit.

2. (pol. fam.) spion, denunţător; transfug, dezertor.

3. (fam.) spărgător de grevă.

4. funcţionar public.

5. meşă (de păr).

rat¹ II. verb intranzitiv

1. a prinde şoareci, a stârpi şobolanii (mai ales cu ajutorul câinilor).

2. (fam.) a trece de la un partid la altul; a părăsi o organizaţie (în vremuri grele).

3. a lucra cu preţ scăzut.

rat² interjecție vezi drat (II).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

When I look back after a few hours I think I must have been mad for the time, for I behaved much as a rat does in a trap.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

In the case of male fetuses however, the placenta showed changes that would limit fetal growth in the aged pregnant rats.

(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)

They wanted to live, they were helpless, like rats in a trap, and they screamed.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The other was his singular dying reference to a rat.

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

I had only one misfortune, that the rats on board carried away one of my sheep; I found her bones in a hole, picked clean from the flesh.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

It was a grip that, between men of equal strength, would mean a fall; but Hordle John tore him off from him as he might a rat, and hurled him across the room, so that his head cracked up against the wooden wall.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him—that's what I say, and you may lay to it.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Upon administration, adenovirus encoding rat HER-2/neu may induce an immune response against tumor cells expressing the HER-2/neu antigen, which may result in the immune-mediated inhibition of tumor cell proliferation and tumor cell death.

(Adenovirus Encoding Rat HER-2/neu, NCI Thesaurus)

The team also investigated the size of these particles in rats, but found that there were no significant changes by age, although there was a limitation in being able to discern bone-like particles from the tiny blood cells called platelets.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, Editura Global Info)

Since then, the arrival of both humans and invasive predators such as cats and rats on many of the islands drove the birds to develop fear, and fly away at the sight of danger.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)

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