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lép -a, -o beautiful, fine; pretty, nice, handsome; sweet; (obraz) good-looking; pesniško beauteous; (vreme) fair, fine, favourable; (rast, stas) wellmade, well-proportioned, well-formed, wellshaped, shapely; (ljubek) lovely, graceful, charming

lép, -a, -o kot slika as pretty as a picture
lép, -a, -oo darilo (premoženje, kompliment) a handsome present (fortune, compliment)
lép, -a, -oa godlja, zmeda a nice mess
lép, -a, -oa pot good road
lép, -a, -oi spol the fair sex
lép, -a, -oa priložnost (znesek) a fair chance (amount)
lép, -a, -oa vsota a round (ali respectable) sum
lép, -a, -oe goré beautiful mountains pl
lép, -a, -oo vreme fine weather
lép, -a, -oe umetnosti fine (ali liberal) arts pl
lép, -a, -o začetek a nice beginning
lép, -a, -oe pozdrave tvoji sestri! best regards to your sister!
lép, -a, -oega dne one fine day
lép, -a, -oa pisava a fair hand
imeti lép, -a, -oo pisavo to write a fair hand
od lép, -a, -oih besed se ne da živeti fine words butter no parsnips
lép, -a, -oo mnenje boste imeli o meni you will have a fine opinion of me, what are you going to think of me?
barometer kaže "lepo" the barometer stands at fair
to ni lepó od tebe that's not nice of you
ta je pa lép, -a, -oa! a fine (ali story), this is!
to je vse lép, -a, -oo, toda... that's all very well (ali fine), but...
kar praviš, je vse prav lép, -a, -oo, toda... what you say is all very fine, but...
to bi bilo še lepše! that would beat everything!, that would cap it all!

lickety [líkəti] prislov

ameriško, pogovorno lickety-brindle (ali -cut, -split) kot blisk

lief [li:f] prislov
rad, z veseljem

I had (ali would) as lief go there as anywhere else prav tako rad bi šel tja kot kam drugam
I would (ali had) a lief die as betray him rajši bi umrl kot da bi ga izdal
I'd liefer (than ) rajši (kot)

lightning [láitniŋ] samostalnik
blisk, strela

like lightning; ali with lightning speed hitro ko blisk
lightning struck a house strela je udarila v neko hišo
figurativno like (greased) lightning kot blisk

like¹ [laik] pridevnik
enak, podoben, sličen (komu, čemu)
arhaično verjetno (we are like to have war)

vulgarno as like as not zelo verjetno
on this and the like problems o tem in o sličnih problemih
and (ali or) the like in tako dalje, in temu slično
as like as two peas podobna kot jajce jajcu
what is he like? kakšen je?
a like amount enaka vsota
liker to God than man bolj podoben bogu kakor človeku
in like wise (ali manner) na enak način

like³ [laik] predlog
kakor (a house like yours)
približno, blizu (something like 100)

to look like biti podoben komu, čemu
what does he look like? kako izgleda?
it looks like rain kaže na dež
to feel like s.th. biti pri volji za kaj, biti razpoložen za kaj
I feel like sleeping rad bi spal, želim si spati
like that tak, tako, na tak način
nothing like as bad as that še zdaleč ne tako slab
there is nothing like that nič ni boljšega od tega
something like a day res krasen dan
pogovorno this is something like! to se lepo sliši, to je že boljše
pogovorno that is more like it! to se že boljše sliši
like father, like son jabolko ne pade daleč od drevesa
like master, like man kakršen gospodar, tak sluga
like a shot kot bi izstrelil, brez pomisleka
pogovorno like anything besno, noro, kot nor

likeness [láiknis] samostalnik
podobnost, sličnost, enakost (between med, to s, z)
podoba, videz; slika, portret

to have one's likeness taken dati se fotografirati
an enemy in the likeness of a friend sovražnik v podobi prijatelja
he is the exact likeness of his father je prav tak kot oče

lílija botanika lily

bel kot lílija lily, lily-white
lepa kot lílija fair as a lily
francoske lílije (figurativno Burbonci) the Bourbons pl

limóna botanika (kisla) lemon, (sladka) lime

ožemalo za limóne lemon squeezer
odvreči kot ožeto limóno to throw aside like a squeezed lemon
iztisniti, ožeti limóno to squeeze the lemon dry
limónast lemony

lion [láiən] samostalnik
zoologija lev
figurativno junak, ugleden človek
britanska angleščina, množina mestne znamenitosti; znameniti ali zloglasni ljudje

Lion Lev (v zodiaku)
the lion's mouth levje žrelo, figurativno tveganje, nevarnost
to put one's head into the lion's mouth; ali to go into the lion's den podajati se v nevarnost, tvegati
the British Lio britanski lev, Britanci
like a lion hrabro, kot lev
lion's share levji delež
lion's skin levja koža, figurativno junačenje
to twist the lion's tall izzivati, žaljivo pisati o Angliji, dražiti angleškega leva
lion in the way (ali path) nevarnost, ovira (zlasti namišljena)

lipov (made of) lime; linden

lipovo cvetje lime(-tree) blossoms pl
lipov čaj lime-blossom tea, decoction of lime blossoms and leaves
stati (stojim) kot lipov bog (figurativno) to stand like a graven image (ali like a stone idol); to stand stock-still

lithe [laið] pridevnik (lithely prislov)
upogljiv, gibčen, okreten

as lithe as an eel gibčen kot jegulja

líti tehnika (vlivati) to found; (dež) to rain hard, to pour

lije kot iz škafa it is pouring (ali pelting) down, it is pouring (ali pelting) with rain, it is bucketing down, it's coming down in bucketfuls (ali torrents), it's a real downpour, it's raining cats and dogs
solze líti to shed tears

ljúb dear; (v pridigah) dearly beloved

zaradi ljúbega miru for peace and quiet, for a quiet life
karkoli ti je ljúbo anything you like (ali please)
stori to meni na ljúbo do if for my sake, do it to please me
napravi, kar ti je ljúbo! do as you like
tebi na ljúbo bom to naredil I shall do it to please you
ljúbo bi mi bilo, če... I should like (ali appreciate) it if...
kava mi je ljubša kot čaj I prefer coffee to tea
ta roman je moja najljubša knjiga this novel is my favourite book
najljubše opravilo (»konjiček«) hobby

loaf¹ [louf] samostalnik
hlebec, štruca; čok sladkorja
britanska angleščina glava (zeljnata, salate)
sleng buča (glava)

half a loaf is better than no bread bolje malo ko nič
figurativno loaves and fishes osebni dobiček, korist (kot razlog za opravljanje javne službe ali izpoved vere)

ločíti to separate; to sever; (razlikovati) to distinguish, to differentiate; (razporočiti) to divorce, to separate by divorce

ločíti se kot prijatelji to part as friends
ločíti se (razporočiti se) to divorce
ločíti se od moža (žene) to divorce one's husband (one's wife)
ločíti se (odcepiti se) to secede (od from)
dati se ločíti od moža to obtain a divorce from one's husband
ločíti se (raziti se) to part company
ločíti se (razlikovati se) to be distinguished by, to differ from, to vary (from)
zakon je bil ločen (razvezan) the marriage has been dissolved
preden se ločimo (razidemo) before parting

log¹ [lɔg] samostalnik
hlod, klada, (posekano) deblo, dolgi les
navtika brzinomer na ladji, ladijski dnevnik
avstralsko, sleng, množina zapor

in the log neobtesan (deblo)
like a log kot klada
to fall like a log pasti kot klada
to sleep like a log spati kot polh
King Log nesposoben človek na visokem položaju
politika roll my log and I'll roll yours roka roko umiva
ameriško to roll a log for s.o. napraviti komu uslugo
ameriško as easy as falling off a log otročje lahko
log of wood seženjsko poleno
navtika to heave (ali throw) the log meriti brzino ladje

lój (ovčji, volovski, za jedi) suet; tallow

podoben lóju tallowish
vse gre kot po lóju (figurativno) everything is going like clockwork, it is all going without a hitch, it's all plain sailing

lokomotíva engine; locomotive

električna lokomotíva electric locomotive
ranžirna lokomotíva shunting engine
(so)pihati kot lokomotíva (figurativno) to puff like a shunting engine
lopa, klonica za lokomotíve engine shed, running shed, roundhouse
menjava lokomotíve change of engine
vozač lokomotíve engine driver, ZDA engineer, (podzemeljske železnice) motorman, pl -men

lómen

lómni kot angle of refraction