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woodless [wúdlis] pridevnik
brez gozdov, gol

wordless [wə́:dlis] pridevnik
ki je brez besede, onemel, nem; neizražen (misel)

workaday [wə́:kədei]

1. pridevnik
vsakdanji, običajen; ki je brez dogodkov, prozaičen; deloven (clothes obleka)

workaday life vsakdanje življenje

2. samostalnik
delavnik, delovni dan

this workaday world ta prozaični svet

workless [wə́:klis] pridevnik
brez dela, brezposeln, nezaposlen

workmanless [wé:kmənlis] pridevnik
(ki je) brez delavcev

worthless [wə́:ɵlis] pridevnik (worthlessly prislov)
(ki je) brez vrednosti, nevreden, nepomemben; ničvreden, prezira vreden

a worthless fellow pridanič

yes man množina yes men [jésmən] samostalnik
pogovorno kdor k vsemu reče da; kimavec, oseba brez hrbtenice, brez iniciative, slabič

yokeless [jóuklis] pridevnik
(ki je) brez jarma, nepodvržen kakemu jarmu

yolkless [jóuklis] pridevnik
(ki je) brez rumenjaka

youthless [jú:ɵlis] pridevnik
brez mladosti, nemlad, nemladosten

zain [zéin] samostalnik
temen konj brez svetlih lis

zestless [zéstlis] pridevnik
brez začimbe, nezačinjen
figurativno brez draži, brez mikavnosti, nemikaven

abatement [abéitmənt] samostalnik
manjšanje, popuščanje; pocenitev; razveljavljenje, ukinitev; ublažitev, oslabitev

trgovina no abatement trdne cene, brez popusta

absence [ǽbsəns] samostalnik (from)
odsotnost; raztresenost; pomanjkanje

absence of mind raztresenost
leave of absence dopust
vojska absence without leave odhod brez dovoljenja

ado [ədú:] samostalnik
hrup, trušč; trud; razburjanje

much ado about nothing mnogo krika za prazen nič
he had much ado mnogo truda ga je stalo
without more (ali further) ado brez nadaljnjega obotavljanja

adrift [ədríft] prislov
na slepo srečo gnan

to be all adrift biti zbegan, biti ves iz sebe
navtika to break adrift splavati
to break adrift from the moorings odtrgati se od sidra
to cut o.s. adrift from pretrgati zveze s kom
to run adrift potepati se brez cilja
to set (ali turn) adrift spoditi

adút trump, trump card

brez adúta no trumps
adút v rezervi (figurativno) an ace up one's sleeve
kaj je adút? what are trumps?
srce je adút hearts are trumps
izigrati adúta to lead trumps ali a trump
igrati adút (tudi figurativno) to play a trump card, to trump
imeti vse adúte v rokah to hold all the trumps (ali all the winning cards)
vzeti z adútom to trump, to take with a trump
(pre)vzeti vzetek z adútom to take a trick with a trump
to je eden naših najboljših adútov (figurativno) it is one of our best assets
uporabiti svoj zadnji adút to play one's last card

apart [əpá:t] prislov
posebej, ločeno, narazen, neodvisno, zase

apart from ne glede na
to keep apart ločeno pustiti
jesting (ali joking) apart brez šale
to set apart for ločiti, prihraniti za

apartment [əpá:tmənt] samostalnik
opremljena soba
ameriško stanovanje

ameriško apartment houses stanovanjski bloki
walk-up apartment stanovanje v hiši brez dvigala

apetít appetite (za for)

velikanski apetít a ravenous appetite
dobiti apetít to get an appetite
narediti, delati apetít to give an appetite
biti brez apetíta to be off one's food
nimam veliko apetíta pogovorno I'm off my feed
dražiti apetít to whet (ali to stimulate) the appetite, to sharpen the appetite, to give an edge to the appetite
izgubiti apetít to lose one's appetite
z apetítom jesti to eat with gusto
pokvariti komu apetít to spoil someone's appetite
apetít pride z jedjo start eating, and you work up an appetite; much must have more; the appetite grows with what it feeds on; appetite comes with eating