BAMBOO CURTAIN

Meaning of BAMBOO CURTAIN in English

[bamboo curtain] n, often cap B&C (1949): a political, military, and ideological barrier isolating an area of the Orient

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

BAMBOO CURTAIN — noun Usage: often capitalized B&C Date: 1949 a political, military, and ideological barrier isolating an area of eastern Asia
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BAMBOO CURTAIN — noun Usage: often capitalized B&C : a political, military, and ideological barrier in the Orient (as that isolating territory controlled …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BAMBOO CURTAIN — a political and ideological barrier that impeded relations between Communist Asia, esp. China, and the West from 1949 to 1972. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BAMBOO CURTAIN — n. political border and ideological barrier that separated between the West and communist China after the Chinese Revolution
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BAMBOO CURTAIN — Usage: often capitalized B&C Date: 1949 : a political, military, and ideological barrier isolating an area of eastern Asia
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BAMBOO CURTAIN — Function: noun Usage: often cap B&C Date: 1949 : a political, military, and ideological barrier isolating an area of eastern …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BAMBOO CURTAIN — ˌBamboo ˈCurtain, the BrE AmE old-fashioned an expression used to describe all the political limits, difficulties etc that separated China …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BAMBOO CURTAIN
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BAMBOO — bambú
English interlingue dictionary
BAMBOO — kawayan
English-Visayan vocabulary
BAMBOO — noun (plural ~s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Malay bambu Date: 1586 any of various woody or arborescent grasses (as of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BAMBOO — Any of the tall, treelike grass es, found in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions, that make up the …
Английский словарь Британика
CURTAIN — I. ˈkər]t ə n, -ə̄], -əi] sometimes ]tə̇n or ]d.ə̇n noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BAMBOO — I. (ˈ)bam|bü, -aam- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Malay bambu, from Kannada or Tulu 1. : a woody or arborescent …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BAMBOO — (v. t.) To flog with the bamboo.
Английский словарь Webster
BAMBOO — (n.) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
Английский словарь Webster
BAMBOO — ( v. t. ) To flog with the bamboo.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BAMBOO — ( n. ) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CURTAIN — — curtainless , adj. /kerr"tn/ , n. 1. a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BAMBOO — /bam booh"/ , n. , pl. bamboos . 1. any of the woody or treelike tropical and semitropical grasses of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BAMBOO — n. tall tropical grass having a hollow woody stem; stem of the bamboo plant (used to make furniture and as …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CURTAIN — I. ˈkər-t ə n noun Etymology: Middle English curtine, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin cortina (translation of Greek aulaia, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BAMBOO — noun ( plural bamboos ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Malay bambu Date: 1586 : any of various woody or arborescent …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CURTAIN — noun a flag; an ensign; in contempt. 2. curtain ·vt to inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. …
Webster English vocab
BAMBOO — vt to flog with the bamboo. 2. bamboo ·noun a plant of the family of grasses, and genus bambusa, growing …
Webster English vocab
BAMBOO — ■ noun a giant woody grass with hollow jointed stems, grown chiefly in the tropics for use in furniture and …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CURTAIN — [cur.tain] n [ME curtine, fr. OF, fr. LL cortina (trans. of Gk aulaia, fr. aule court), fr. L cohort-, cohors …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BAMBOO — [bam.boo] n, pl bamboos often attrib [Malay bambu] (1586): any of various chiefly tropical woody or arborescent grasses (as of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BAMBOO — any of the tall, treelike grasses comprising the subfamily Bambusoideae of the family Poaceae. More than 75 genera and 1,000 …
Britannica English vocabulary
CURTAIN — curtain BrE AmE ˈkɜːt ə n AmE \ ˈkɝːt- ▷ curtain|ed d ▷ curtain|ing ‿ɪŋ ▷ curtain|s z ▶ ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BAMBOO — bamboo BrE AmE ˌbæm ˈbuː ◂ ▷ bamboo|s z ▶ ˌ bamboo ˈ furniture BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CURTAIN — / ˈkɜːtn; NAmE ˈkɜːrtn/ noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a piece of cloth that is hung …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BAMBOO — / ˌbæmˈbuː; NAmE / noun [ C , U ] ( pl. -oos ) a tall tropical plant that is …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CURTAIN — I. cur ‧ tain 1 S3 W3 /ˈkɜːtn $ ˈkɜːrtn/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BAMBOO — bam ‧ boo /ˌbæmˈbuː◂/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable and countable] [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Language: Malay ; Origin: bambu ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CURTAIN — n. & v. --n. 1 a piece of cloth etc. hung up as a screen, usu. moveable sideways or upwards, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BAMBOO — n. 1 a mainly tropical giant woody grass of the subfamily Bambusidae. 2 its hollow jointed stem, used as a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CURTAIN — n. & v. n. 1 a piece of cloth etc. hung up as a screen, usu. moveable sideways or upwards, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CURTAIN — n. & v. --n. 1. a piece of cloth etc. hung up as a screen, usu. moveable sideways or upwards, …
Oxford English vocab
CURTAIN — ( curtains) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Curtains are large pieces …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BAMBOO — ( bamboos) Bamboo is a tall tropical plant with hard, hollow stems. The young shoots of the plant can be …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BAMBOO — (~s) Bamboo is a tall tropical plant with hard, hollow stems. The young shoots of the plant can be eaten …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
CURTAIN — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a veil/curtain of mist (= an amount of mist that prevents you seeing something …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BAMBOO — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cane ▪ Ann's boyfriend hits Tommy around the head with a bamboo cane spiked …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BAMBOO — [noun] [U] - a tall tropical grass with hard hollow stems, or the stems of this plantI looked at the …
Cambridge English vocab
BAMBOO — n. Any of the tall, treelike grass es, found in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions, that make up …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CURTAIN
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CURTAIN — noun 1 fabric that covers a window/opening ⇨ See also ↑ drape ADJECTIVE ▪ shower ▪ closed , drawn , …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BAMBOO — noun Bamboo is used before these nouns: ↑ basket , ↑ hut , ↑ shoot
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CURTAIN — 1. сущ. 1) занавеска, шторы under the necessity of using mosquito curtains ≈ вынужденные пользоваться занавесками от москитов to draw …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BAMBOO — 1. сущ. бамбук 2. прил. бамбуковый (ботаника) бамбук (Bambusa и др.) (ботаника) винная пальма (Raphia vinifera) бамбуковая трость бить палкой, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CURTAIN — curtain.ogg 1. ʹkɜ:tn n 1. занавеска; штора; портьера to draw the curtain - задёрнуть или отдёрнуть занавеску 2. театр. 1> …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BAMBOO — bamboo.ogg 1. ͵bæmʹbu: n 1. бот. 1> бамбук ( Bambusa и др. ) 2> винная пальма ( Raphia vinifera ) …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CURTAIN — 1) завеса 2) (отражающий) экран; отражатель 3) полотно ( антенны ) 4) кфт. шторка ( затвора ) ; занавес ( …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
CURTAIN — 1) завеса 2) (отражающий) экран; отражатель 3) полотно (антенны) 4) кфт. шторка (затвора); занавес (экрана) 5) шторка (вид монтажного перехода) 6) мн. ч. неполная подкладка …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
CURTAIN — 1. ʹkɜ:tn n 1. занавеска; штора; портьера to draw the curtain - задёрнуть или отдёрнуть занавеску 2. театр. 1> занавес …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
CURTAIN — 1. сущ. 1) занавеска, шторы under the necessity of using mosquito curtains — вынужденные пользоваться занавесками от москитов - draw …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CURTAIN — 1. сущ. 1) занавеска, шторы under the necessity of using mosquito curtains — вынужденные пользоваться занавесками от москитов - draw the curtain 2) занавес the …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CURTAIN — штора, шторка; диафрагма; гибкая перегородка - bellows-type curtain - infrared light curtain - light curtain - partition curtain - partitioning …
Англо-Русский словарь по машиностроению и автоматизации производства 2
CURTAIN — штора, шторка; диафрагма; гибкая перегородка - bellows-type curtain - infrared light curtain - light curtain - partition curtain - partitioning curtain - photoelectric light curtain - safety …
Англо-Русский словарь по машиностроению и автоматизации производства
BAMBOO — бамбук; pl бамбуковые (Bambuseae) - giant bamboo - golden bamboo - male bamboo - red-berry bamboo - vine bamboo
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
BAMBOO — бамбук; pl бамбуковые ( Bambuseae ) - giant bamboo - golden bamboo - male bamboo - red-berry bamboo - vine …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
CURTAIN — 1. _n. 1> занавеска - draw the curtain 2> занавес - drop the curtain; the curtain falls/drops/is dropped - занавес …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
CURTAIN — 1. n. 1. занавеска - draw the curtain 2. занавес - drop the curtain; the curtain falls/drops/is dropped - занавес …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed

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