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UMBRELLA
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umbrella substantiv
1. umbrelă, parasol;
stumpy / dwarf umbrella, Tom Thumb umbrella umbrelă scurtă (telescopică);
carriage umbrella umbrelă mare (pentru mese etc.);
to put up one's umbrella a-şi deschide umbrela;
to take / to put down one's umbrella, to fold up one's umbrella a-şi închide umbrela.
2. (fig.) paravan, perdea;
to come under the Labour umbrella a aparţine Partidului Laburist.
3. (mil.) (şi aerial umbrella) formaţie de avioane de vânătoare cu misiune de escortă (a avioanelor de transport sau a navelor).
4. (av. mil.) (şi umbrella barrage) tir / foc de baraj antiaerian.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
No, you shall not go there to borrow an umbrella, or find out where he is, from his friends.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
But her face, as she turned it up to mine, was so earnest; and when I relieved her of the umbrella (which would have been an inconvenient one for the Irish Giant), she wrung her little hands in such an afflicted manner; that I rather inclined towards her.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
I didn't like to say anything, but I was sadly disappointed in my umbrella.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when he said that as they stood upon the steps, she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, Not empty now, and stooping down, kissed her Friedrich under the umbrella.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)