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u.k. |
| 释义 |
U.K.
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | U.K. - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United KingdomBritain, Great Britain, UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelandballs-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddledclanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger"clawback - finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way; "the Treasury will find some clawback for the extra benefits members received"lucky dip - a selection or decision purely at random; "their system of hiring people seemed to be a sort of lucky dip"flit - a secret move (to avoid paying debts); "they did a moonlight flit"rustication - temporary dismissal of a student from a universityperambulation - a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundariesfare-stage - a section along the route of a bus for which the fare is the samepony-trekking - a sport in which people ride across country on poniesrugby, rugby football, rugger - a form of football played with an oval ballfives - a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side wallsbar billiards, bagatelle - a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked overtombola - a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drumludo - a simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of diceshove-halfpenny, shove-ha'penny, shovel board - a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a marklucky dip - a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at randompiss-up - vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinkingrag - a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)hornpipe - a British solo dance performed by sailorspanto - an abbreviation of pantomimedoddle - an easy taskminister - the job of a head of a government departmentheadship - the position of headmaster or headmistresscosting - cost accounting11-plus, eleven-plus - (formerly in Britain) an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students to select suitable candidates for grammar schoolswiz - British slang for a swindleMinistry of Transportation test, MOT test, MOT - a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumesfire watching - (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the skysnogging - (British informal) cuddle and kisszizz - a nap; "Arthur's taking a short zizz"dekko - British slang for a looksquare-bashing - drill on a barracks squarerub up - a review that refreshes your memory; "I need a rub up on my Latin"shufti - a quick look around (originally military slang); "take a shufti while you're out there"lie-in - a long stay in bed in the morningpoint duty - the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersectionnational assistance, social assistance, supplementary benefit - benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by lawboot sale, car boot sale - an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their carinvigilation - keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheatingaggro - (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression; "I skipped it because it was too much aggro"punch-up - a fistfight; "the quarrel ended in a punch-up"go-slow - a form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employersBattle of Britain - the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied itarterial road - a major or main routebackbench - any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commonsbar - a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars"betting shop - a licensed bookmaker's shop that is not at the race trackbin liner - a plastic bag used to line a trash or garbage binboot - British term for the luggage compartment in a carbottle bank - a place where bottles can be deposited for recyclingcaff - informal British term for a cafecarriageway - one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanesclearway - a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) |
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- sokolov, dmitrii ivanovich
- sokolov, egor
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- sokolov, fedor
- sokolov, fedor fedorovich
- sokolov, ivan
- sokolov, ivan mikhailovich
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- sokolov-mikitov, ivan sergeevich
- sokolov, nikolai
- sokolov, nikolai aleksandrovich
- sokolov, nikolai alekseevich
- sokolov, nikolai nikolaevich
- sokolov, nikolai vasilevich
- sokolovo
- sokolovo-kundriuchenskii
- sokolov, pavel
- sokolov, pavel petrovich
- sokolov, petr
- sokolov, petr fedorovich
- sokolov, petr petrovich
- sokolov, sergei
- sokolov, sergei iakovlevich
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