SILVER

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Traducere în limba română

silver I. substantiv

1. argint.

2. arginţi, bani; monedă de argint;

a pound in silver o liră în monede de argint.

3. argintărie, veselă de argint.

silver II. adjectiv

1. de argint, din argint;

silver spoon lingură de argint;

(fam.) he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth s-a născut cu căiţă / într-o zodie bună.

2. argintiu;

silver hair păr cărunt.

3. argintat.

silver III. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a arginta (tacâmuri, obiecte de podoabă, oglinzi etc.).

2. a albi, a încărunţi;

(fam.) grief had silvered his hair necazurile îi albiseră părul.

silver III. verb B. intranzitiv

(despre păr, barbă etc.) a albi, a încărunţi, a deveni cărunt.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Then he gave him a lump of silver as big as his head.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Silver struck the barrel with his open hand.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

He took out a beautiful brown-and-silver rifle.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he asked me what you looked like, and when I mentioned your silver shoes he was very much interested.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

I have no doubt that my own ideas were quite wild, but you must admit that they have ended in discovering the silver.

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

And there beyond I see the red and silver of the Worsleys of Apuldercombe, who like myself are of Hampshire lineage.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon binding, ionic silver alters the molecular structure of proteins with a role in normal microbial cell functions thereby interfering with cell wall synthesis, transcription, translation, electron transport across membranes and protein folding, resulting in microbial cell death.

(Ionic Silver-Impregnated Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose Antimicrobial Dressing, NCI Thesaurus)

“Ex-actly so! And Joram's at work, at this minute, on a grey one with silver nails, not this measurement”—the measurement of the dancing child upon the counter—“by a good two inches.—Will you take something?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Any silver?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During the day I was sustained and inspirited by the hope of night, for in sleep I saw my friends, my wife, and my beloved country; again I saw the benevolent countenance of my father, heard the silver tones of my Elizabeth’s voice, and beheld Clerval enjoying health and youth.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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