SHEER

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Traducere în limba română

sheer I. adjectiv

1. simplu, clar, curat, limpede;

sheer nonsense prostii şi nimic altceva, nimicuri, fleacuri.

2. vertical, perpendicular; râpos, prăpăstios, povârnit.

3. fraged, gingaş, plăpând, delicat.

sheer II. adverb

cu desăvârşire, în întregime.

sheer III. verb intranzitiv

(mar.) a se legăna, a se clătina;

to sheer off a intra în larg(ul mării);

to sheer up/ alongside a se apropia, a trage la chei.

sheer IV. substantiv (mar.)

1. selatură, ambardee.

2. formă, linie, siluetă; (a unui vapor).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The captain had thrust his head and shoulders out of the pilot-house, and was staring intently into the fog as though by sheer force of will he could penetrate it.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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