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load¹ [loud] samostalnik
tovor; breme (tudi fig); naboj (električni, strelnega orožja); upor (mehanični)
arhitektura obremenitev, nosilnost; število delovnih ur, delovna norma
množina, pogovorno obilje
ameriško, sleng dobra mera alkohola

load factor faktor obremenitve
cart-load breme (sena, krompirja)
loads of na kupe, mnogo
a load on the mind breme na duši
to take a load off one's mind rešiti se skrbi, odvaliti kamen od srca
under load natovorjen
ameriško, sleng get a load of this dobro poslušaj
ameriško, sleng to have a load on biti nacejen

ločítev separation, disjunction; severance; (slovo) leaving, parting; (zakona) divorce

ločítev od postelje in mize separation from bed and board
tožba za ločítev zakona suit for divorce, divorce suit
sodna ločítev (zakona) judicial separation
doseči ločítev to obtain a separation order
ura ločítve hour of parting (ali leave-taking), time to part
verska ločítev (razkol) schism
ločítev od separation from, severance from

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

long-fleld [lɔ́ŋfi:ld] samostalnik
šport igrišče za metalcem (kriket)

long-fleld off položaj daleč desno od metalca
long-fleld on položaj daleč levo od metalca

look to neprehodni glagol
paziti na kaj, kazati na kaj

look to it that pazi, da; glej, da
it looks to acquittal kaže na oprostilno sodbo
to look to s.o. for pričakovati kaj od koga, računati na koga

lord¹ [lɔ:d] samostalnik
gospodar, vladar (of)
figurativno mogočnik, velikaš, magnat
zgodovina fevdni gospod
poetično & šaljivo soprog, mož; lord (član angl. Zgornjega doma)
poetično posestnik
astronomija dominanten planet

Lord lord (član angl. višjega plemstva od barona do vojvode, naslov za mlajšega sina vojvode ali markiza), naslavljanje nekih angl. dostojanstvenikov
the Lord bog
our Lord Kristus
Lord's prayer očenaš
Lord's supper evharistija zadnja večerja, obhajilo
Lord's day gospodov dan, nedelja
Lord's table oltar; zadnja večerja, obhajilo
the lords of creation človeštvo; šaljivo krone stvarstva, možje
her lord and master (ali mate) njen mož
to live like a lord gosposko živeti
drunk as a lord pijan ko krava
to act the lord vesti se ko lord
to swear as a lord preklinjati ko Turek
House of Lords Hiša lordov, angl, Zgornji dom
Lords Commissioners visoki predstavniki angl. vlade
Lord Chancellor angl. vrhovni sodnik
Lords of the Admiralty ministrstvo mornarice
Lords of the Treasury finančno ministrstvo
First Lord minister
Lord Mayor londonski župan
Lord Privy Seal varuh kraljevega pečata
lords spiritual škofje, člani Zgornjega doma
lords temporal ostali lordi v Zgornjem domu
Lord Justice sodnik prizivnega sodišča
Lord Protector lord protektor, vzdevek Oliverja Cromwella

lóv -a hunt, hunting; chase; (s puško) shooting

na lóv, -au za... out hunting for...
divji lóv, -a poaching
lóv, -a na jelenjad deer-stalking
lóv, -a na veliko divjad big-game hunting
lóv, -a na jerebice partridge-shooting
lóv, -a na lisico foxhunting
lóv, -a na merjasca boarhunting, (s kopjem) pigsticking
lóv, -a s sokolom hawking
lóv, -a za efekti (figurativno) staginess
dovolilnica za lóv, -a shooting licence
začetek lóv, -aa the first day of the shooting season
iti na lóv, -a to go out shooting, (na konju) hunting, to hunt, (s psi) to ride to hounds
ste imeli dober lóv, -a? have you had good sport?
lóv, -a se je začel the hunt is up
živel je od lóv, -aa he lived on the game he killed
biti na lóv, -au za avtograme to be hunting for autographs
čas, doba prepovedi lóv, -aa close season

lučáj throw; cast; fling

za lučáj kamna od... a stone's throw from...

máček zoologija male cat, he-cat, tom-cat; (sidro) anchor; (kavelj) hook

obuti máček puss in boots; figurativno (po krokanju) žargon hangover; morning after the night before
kupiti máčka v žaklju (figurativno) to buy a pig in a poke, ZDA to buy something sight unseen
imeti máčka (figurativno) to have a hangover
opomoči si od máčka (figurativno) to recover from one's hangover

mádež stain, spot; soil (tudi figurativno), (moralni) blemish, (majhen) speck; (sramotni) slur; mineralogija macula, macle

mádež od čaja a tea stain
brez mádeža stainless, spotless, taintless
poln tintnih mádežev ink-stained
sramotni mádež stigma, pl -s, -mata; taint
očistiti od mádežev to clean stains
odstraniti mádež to remove a stain
to blago bo v dežju dobilo mádeže that material will spot in rain
belo platno dobi hitro mádeže white linen spots easily
izvlekel se je iz zadeve brez mádeža na svojem ugledu he has come out without a stain on his reputation
vreči mádež na... to cast a slur on...
se ta mádež vidi? does this spot show?

majáti to shake; to sway; (močno) to rock

potres maje tla an earthquake rocks the ground
veter maje drevesa the wind sways the trees
majáti z glavo to shake one's head
majáti se to shake, to sway, to vacillate, to waver, to totter; (zob) to be loose; (v hoji) to stagger, to totter
drevesa se majejo v vetru the trees sway in the wind
hiša se je majala od eskplozij the house was rocked by (ali with) explosions

make^*2 [méik]

1. prehodni glagol
delati, napraviti; izdelati, izdelovati (from, of, out, of iz)
predelati, predelovati, tvoriti, oblikovati (to, into v)
pripraviti (kavo, čaj); uvesti (pravila, zakone), sestaviti, spisati (pesem); zbrati (glasove); ustvariti
figurativno napraviti kaj iz koga (to make a doctor of s.o.)
povzročiti, prinašati (zadovoljstvo); pokazati se, postaviti, biti (she makes him a good wife)
znesti, znašati; imenovati za (he was made a general)
(z nedoločnikom brez "to" v aktivu, s "to" v pasivu) pripraviti koga do česa (they made him talk, he was made to talk)
meniti, misliti, predstavljati si (what do you make of it)
pogovorno imeti koga za kaj (I make him an honest man)
zaslužiti, ustvariti dobiček; doseči (hitrost), premeriti (pot)
sleng zapeljati, posiliti; prispeti (ladja v pristanišče), doseči
navtika zagledati (kopno)
britanska angleščina jesti; imeti (govor); mešati karte
elektrika spojiti
ameriško, sleng identificirati koga

2. neprehodni glagol
nameniti se, poskusiti, napotiti se, peljati (pot) razprostirati se, teči (reka) (to)
nastopiti (plima), naraščati (voda)
figurativno povzročiti, pripeljati do

to make advances truditi se koga pridobiti
to make no account of ne ozirati se na kaj
to make allowance for upoštevati, biti uvideven
to make amends for odškodovati, oddolžiti se za kaj
to make angry zjeziti
to make an appointment dogovoriti se za sestanek
to make as if (ali as though) pretvarjati se, hliniti
as you make your bed so you must lie upon it kakor boš postlal, tako bož ležal
to make a bag imeti dober lov
to make the bed postlati
to make believe pretvarjati se, hliniti
to make a bid for truditi se za, potegovati se za kaj
to make bold drzniti si, upati si
to make no bones about povedati odkrito brez strahu, požvižgati se na kaj
to make one's bread vzdrževati se sam
sleng to make book ilegalno sklepati stave na konjskih dirkah
this book makes good reading ta knjiga se dobro bere
to make or break s.o. pripeljati koga do uspeha ali poloma
to make a clean breast of priznati, olajšati si srce
to make bricks without straw delati nekaj neizvedljivega
to make the best of izkoristiti kar najbolje, napraviti kar se le da, sprijazniti se s čim
to make cards mešati karte
to make certain prepričati se
to make clear objasniti, razložiti
to make the door upon s.o. zapreti komu vrata
to make a difference to biti važno, spremeniti stvar
to make s.th. do; ali to make do with a.th. zadovoljiti se s čim
to make no doubt ne dvomiti
to make both ends meet shajati s svojimi sredstvi, prilagoditi izdatke dohodkom
to make eyes at spogledovati se, zaljubljeno koga gledati
to make an effort potruditi se
to make excuses opravičevati se, izgovarjati se, izvijati se
to make an example of eksemplarično kaznovati
to make an exhibition of o.s. spozabiti se
to make faces at pačiti se komu
to make a face nakremžiti se
to make a figure zgledati smešen
to make a fire zakuriti
you are made for this job si kot ustvarjen za to delo
to make one's fortune obogateti
to make a fool of o.s. biti za norca
to make a fool of s.o. imeti koga za norca
to make free with brez zadrege uporabljati, razpolagati s čim
to make friends with sprijateljiti se s kom
to make fun (ali game) of zasmehovati koga, zafrkavati
to make a go of uspeti v čem
to make good uspeti
to make s.th. good povrniti, kriti, nadoknaditi
to make a hash of pokvariti, zavozlati (zgodbo)
to make a habit of it priti v navado
to make haste pohiteti
to make hay pospraviti seno
to make hay of napraviti zmešnjavo
to make hay while the sun shines kovati železo dokler je vroče
to make head(way) napredovati
to make headway against premagati (težave)
not to make head or tail of ne razumeti
ameriško to make a hit postati popularen
to make o.s. at home biti kakor doma
ameriško to make it uspeti
navtika to make it so izvršiti nalog
to make it hot for s.o. naščuvati javnost proti komu, preganjati koga
to make things šaljivo gladko izpeljati (da teče kot po maslu)
ameriško to make a killing nenadoma zaslužiti ali priti do denarja
to make known sporočiti, objaviti
to make land zagledati kopno, pripluti v pristanišče
to make light (ali little) of podcenjevati, nalahko jemati
sleng to make like posnemati
to make a living preživljati se
to make one's own life živeti svoje življenje, hoditi svojo pot
to make love to ljubimkati, spolno občevati s kom
to make one's mark napraviti karijero, izkazati se
to make one's mark on vtisniti svoj pečat
to make or mar pripeljati do uspeha ali poloma
to make a match dobro se omožiti (oženiti)
to make a good meal dobro jesti
to make merry hrupno proslavljati, bučno se veseliti
to make minoemeat of izpodbiti, popolnoma premagati
to make a monkey out of osmešiti koga
to make money dobro zaslužiti, obogateti
to make the most of čim bolj izrabiti
to make a mountain out of a molehill napraviti iz muhe slona
to make mouths at pačiti se komu
to make s.o.'s mouth water vzbuditi zavist ali željo
to make move lotiti se česa, odpraviti se, kreniti
to make much of ceniti, pripisovati važnost čemu, imeti od česa veliko koristi
to make a name for o.s. napraviti si ime
to make a night of it prekrokati vso noč
to make a noise in the world postati slaven, zasloveti
to make nothing of ne razumeti, biti zmeden
to make of tolmačiti, razlagati si
to make one of priključiti se
to make the pace voditi, diktirati tempo
to make passes at objemati, ljubkovati, dvoriti
to make peace skleniti mir
to make one's pile obogateti, spraviti denar na kup
to make a play for poskužati pridobiti
to make a plunge lotiti se brez pomisleka, visoko staviti
navtika to make port pripluti v pristanišče
to make a point of vztrajati pri čem, predvsem se potruditi
to make a price nastaviti ceno
to make a practice of imeti navado, navaditi se
to make a racket biti zelo hrupen, razgrajati
to make ready pripraviti
to make the rounds obhoditi (stražar)
to make sail odpluti, odjadrati
to make o.s. scarce izginiti
to make a scene napraviti komu neprijetno sceno
to make no secret of ne prikrivati, odkrito pokazati ali povedati
to make shift with pomagati si, nekako urediti
to make s.o. sit up koga zelo presenetiti
to make a good (poor) showing dobro (slabo) se izkazati
to make it snappy podvizati se
to make s.o. sore razjeziti koga
to make a splash napraviti senzacijo
to make a speech imeti govor
to make great strides hitro napredovati
to make a stab at poskusiti kaj narediti
navtika to make sternway ritensko pluti, zaostajati, nazadovati
to make a stand zaustaviti se, postaviti se v bran (vojska)
to make sure prepričati se
to make a clean sweep of dobro pomesti, vse odstraniti
to make tick pripraviti do dela
to make good time hitro napredovati
this makes the 10th time to je že desetič
to make a good thing of obrniti v svojo korist
to make a touch sposoditi si, poskušati si sposoditi
to make hacks for odpraviti se kam, napotiti se
ameriško to make the team biti sprejet v moštvo
to make a train ujeti vlak
to make a trial of poskusiti, preizkusiti kaj
to make o.s. understood jasno se izraziti
to make use of uporabiti kaj
to make way utreti si pot, napredovati
to make one's way in the world uspeti v življenju
to make one's way out oditi
to make way for umakniti se komu
to make s.o. out of his wits spraviti koga ob pamet
to make war upon vojskovati se s kom
navtika to make heavy weather prebijati se po razburkanem morju
to make short work of hitro kaj končati
to make water scati

máli -a, -o little; small

Mala Azija Asia Minor
mála črka small letter, minuscule
mála južina (malica) snack, lunch
máli oglasi small advertisements (krajšava: small ads) pl
máli, -a, -o traven April
mála divjad small deer
z málega (od mladih nog) from the cradle

man¹ [mæn] samostalnik (množina men)
mož, človek, človeštvo; sluga, vojak, mornar; figura (šah, dama)
zgodovina vazal
množina vojaki, mornarji, delavci, moštvo

the rights of man človeške pravice
man of God božji služabnik
an Oxford man kdor je študiral v Oxfordu
a man and a brother pravi tovariš
man and wife mož in žena
a man of few words redkobeseden človek
man alive! človek božji!
as one man kot en mož, enoglasno
to be a man biti možat
to be only half a man biti nemožat, biti samo pol moža
to be one's own man biti svoj gospodar
best man ženinova priča pri poroki
man and boy od deških let dalje
every man Jack vsak posameznik
to feel like a new man počutiti se ko prerojen
man Friday; ali man of all work faktotum, desna roka
inner man duša, šaljivo želodec
outer man telo
I'm your man jaz sem pravi človek za to
he's your man on bo pravi človek za to
man of letters pisatelj
to the last man do zadnjega moža
(all) to a man vsi, do zadnjega moža, enoglasno
a man of mark pomembna osebnost
no man nihče
a man of parts izredno zmožen človek
to play the man izkazati se moža
a man of straw lutka, človek zvenečega imena a brez denarja
the man in (ali on) the street povprečen človek
man about town lahkoživec, gizdalin
a man of his word mož beseda
the man of the world svetovljan
old man botanika božje drevce, navtika, sleng kapitan

mánjkati to lack, to be lacking, to be wanting (in); to want; to fail; to be missing

manjka nam 5 knjig we have 5 books missing, we are missing 5 books, we are 5 books short
nekaj manjka something is missing (ali wanting)
dosti mi manjka do cilja I am far from the mark
mánjkati v šoli (zaradi bolezni) to stay away from school (ali off school)
on je manjkal he was absent, he was not present
manjka samo še 5 minut do 10ih it's still five to ten, it won't be ten o'clock for five minutes
nihče ne manjka nobody is missing
manjka mi denarja I am short of money
manjka ti zaupanja váse you are wanting in self-confidence
nič ne manjka tu there's nothing missing here
en list manjka v knjigi there's a leaf missing in that book
nič mi ne manjka I want for nothing
manjka ji eno leto do polnoletnosti she is one year short of her majority
manjka nam delovne sile we are short of staff, we are undermanned, we are shorthanded
manjka mu prave vneme he is wanting in zeal
vode vam tu ne bo nikoli manjkalo water will never fail you here, you will never lack water (ali be short of water) here
naročil ne manjka there is no lack of orders
podrobnosti še manjkajo details are lacking
prav to nam je še manjkalo! that's all we needed!, that beats everything!
malo je manjkalo, pa bi bil počil od smeha pogovorno I laughed fit to burst

manner [mǽnə] samostalnik
način; nastop, stil
množina običaji, šege
množina obnašanje, olika, vedenje, manire, način življenja
arhaično vrsta

adverb of manner prislov načina
all manner of vsake vrste
after (ali in) this manner na tak način, tako
it is bad manners neolikano je
to the manner born kakor rojen za kaj, kakor da bi bil od rojstva tak
the grand manner staromodna dostojanstvenost
good manners lepo vedenje; olika
he has quite a manner ima dober nastop
to have no manners ne imeti manir
to have no manner of right ne imeti nikakšne pravice
to make one's manners prikloniti se
in a manner v neki meri
in a singular manner čudno, nenavadno
by all manner of means na vsak način
by no manner of means na noben način
in a manner of speaking tako rekoč
other times, other manners drugi časi; drugi običaji

many¹ [méni] pridevnik
mnogi, številni, mnogo, veliko

as many prav toliko
as many as 20 ne manj od dvajset
as many again; ali twice as many še enkrat toliko
many times velikokrat, često
many a time pogosto
how many? koliko?
how many times? kolikokrat?
many a man marsikateri
to be one too many for biti premočen za, biti prekanjen
too many by half za polovico preveč
one too many odveč, nezaželjen, eden preveč
many's the time pogosto
for many a long day zelo dolgo
in so many words dobesedno, izrecno
his reasons are many and good ima mnogo dobrih razlogov
many's the mnogo jih je, ki

measurable [méžərəbl] pridevnik (measurably prislov)
izmerljiv; dogleden

within measurable distance od blizu

measure¹ [méžə] samostalnik
mera, merilo (tudi figurativno)
stopnja, obseg; del, delež; razmerje, meja
poetično metrum, pesniška mera
glasba takt, ritem
arhaično ples
kemija menzura, stopnja
geologija, množina sloji, ležišča
pravno ukrep

cubic measure prostorninska mera
lineal (ali long) measure dolžinska mera
square (ali superficial) measure ploskovna mera
measure of capacity votla mera
unit of measure merska enota
matematika greatest common measure (G.C.M.) največja skupna mera
beyond (ali out of all) measure prekomeren, čez mero
in a great measure v veliki meri
to have s.o.'s measure oceniti značaj koga
to take s.o.'s measure vzeti komu mero, umeriti; figurativno oceniti značaj koga
to have hard measures biti vtežkih okoliščinah
he is our measure takega človeka potrebujemo
man is the measure of all things človek je merilo za vse
(made) to measure po meri (narejen)
in some (ali in a certain) measure vneki meri
to set measures to omejiti
short (full) measure slaba (dobra) mera
for good measure povrh
to take measures podvzeti korake, ukreniti kaj
without measure neizmeren
the measure of my days trajanje mojega življenja
2 is a measure of 4 2 je deljenec od 4
arhaično to tread a measure plesati

measure² [méžə]

1. prehodni glagol
meriti, izmeriti, odmeriti; umeriti (obleko); oceniti, soditi, presoditi (by po)
primerjati, meriti (with s, z)
prehoditi

2. neprehodni glagol
meriti

it measures 8 inches meri 8 inčev
to measure s.o. for (a suit of clothes) vzeti komu mero (za obleko)
to be (ali get) measured for (a suit) dati si vzeti mero (za obleko)
to measure one's length pasti ko dolg in širok
to measure swords with preizkusiti svojo moč
to measure one's strength with s.o. meriti se s kom
to measure other people's corn by one's own bushel soditi druge po sebi
to measure s.o. with one's eye premeriti koga z očmi
to measure s.o. from top to toe premeriti koga od glave do pete