SPIT

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Traducere în limba română

spit¹ I. substantiv

1. frigare.

2. (geogr.) limbă de pământ; ieşind al ţărmului; bane de nisip (ieşind la suprafaţa apei).

3. cazma, hârleţ.

4. cazma (grosime a stratului de pământ);

to dig the ground two-spit(s) deep a săpa pământul (până) la o adâncime de două cazmale.

5. (cantitate de pământ etc. care încape pe o) cazma, lopată.

spit¹ II. verb tranzitiv

1. a pune pe frigare.

2. a străpunge.

spit² I. past şi part. trec. spat (rar) spit verb A. intranzitiv

1. a scuipa;

to spit at / (up)on a) a scuipa pe; b) (fig.) a arăta ură / duşmănie sau dispreţ faţă de;

to spit in smb.’s face a scuipa pe cineva în faţă / obraz.

2. (despre pisici) a scuipa.

3. (despre foc) a trosni, a svârli scântei; (despre o lumânare etc.) a sfârâi.

4. a bura, a ploua mărunt, a cerne;

it is spitting with rain burează, cerne.

spit² I. past şi part. trec. spat (rar) spit verb B. tranzitiv

(şi to spit forth) a expectora, a scuipa;

to spit blood a scuipa sânge;

to spit out a) a expectora, a scuipa; b) (amer. sl.) a divulga, a destăinui, a da în vileag, a da pe faţă, a trăda;

(sl.) to spit it out a vorbi pe faţă, a-şi da gândul în vileag / pe faţă;

(sl.) spit it out! spune! dă-i drumul!

spit² II. substantiv

1. salivă, scuipat.

2. expectorare, expectoraţie, scuipare;

(sl.) spit and polish a) (mil.) curăţitul armei; b) (mar.) curăţenie perfectă / desăvârşită.

3. (fam.) ploiţă, bură (de ploaie); ninsoare slabă, fulguială.

4. chip leit;

to be the dead spit of / the very spit of a semăna leit cu;

he is the dead / the very spit of his father e leit tatăl său, e leit chipul tatălui său, seamănă leit cu tatăl său.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

And he filled a pipe and lighted it; and the two men sat silently smoking for quite a while, now looking each other in the face, now stopping their tobacco, now leaning forward to spit.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

When the master had turned his back, Gretel laid the spit with the fowls on one side, and thought: Standing so long by the fire there, makes one sweat and thirsty; who knows when they will come?

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

But the white man! When his mouth is full with the juice, what does he do? That juice, that juice of great value, he spits it out in the snow and it is lost.

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

I was pretty far down on the low, sandy spit that encloses the anchorage to the east, and is joined at half-water to Skeleton Island; and now, as I rose to my feet, I saw, some distance further down the spit and rising from among low bushes, an isolated rock, pretty high, and peculiarly white in colour.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

After that, we kept under cover of the bulwarks, and when next I looked out they had disappeared from the spit, and the spit itself had almost melted out of sight in the growing distance.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was to go down the sandy spit that divides the anchorage on the east from the open sea, find the white rock I had observed last evening, and ascertain whether it was there or not that Ben Gunn had hidden his boat, a thing quite worth doing, as I still believe.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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