(PACKED, CRAMMED, ETC.) LIKE SARDINES

Meaning of (PACKED, CRAMMED, ETC.) LIKE SARDINES in English

( informal ) pressed tightly together in a way that is uncomfortable or unpleasant

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

PACKED — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a capacity/packed audience (= the largest number of people who can fit into a hall, …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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ETC — Airport Name : Tarboro-Edgecombe Airport Airport Location : Tarboro, North Carolina, United States IATA Code : ETC ICAO Code : …
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PACKED — (overfull) plenplen, superplen
English interlingue dictionary
PACKED — adjective Date: 1777 1. compressed , that is crowded or stuffed, filled to capacity
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ETC — abbreviation et cetera
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
PACKED — adjective Etymology: from past participle of pack (II) 1. a. : crowded , stuffed the characteristic packed effects are apt …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ETC — ənˈsōˌf]ōrth ]ȯrth, ]ōəth, ]ȯ(ə)th sometimes ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷; etˈsed.ərə, -setərə, -se.trə also ə̇tˈs- abbreviation Etymology: Latin et cetera et cetera — sometimes …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PACKED — (imp. & p. p.) of Pack
Английский словарь Webster
CRAMMED — (imp. & p. p.) of Cram
Английский словарь Webster
CRAMMED — ( imp. & p. p. ) of Cram
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PACKED — /pakt/ , adj. 1. filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance. 2. pressed together; dense; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LIKE — like 1 — liker , n. /luyk/ , adj., ( Poetic ) liker, likest , prep., adv., conj., n., v., …
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CRAMMED — adj. stuffed
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PACKED — adjective Date: 1777 1. a. : compressed packed snow b. : that is crowded or stuffed — often used in …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ETC — et cetera — usually punctuated
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LIKE — adj likely; probably. 2. like ·adj in a like or similar manner. 3. like ·vi to be pleased; to choose. …
Webster English vocab
CRAMMED — impf & ·p.p. of cram.
Webster English vocab
SARDINES — [treated as sing. ] Brit. a children's game in which one child hides and the other children, as they find …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PACKED — [packed] adj (1777) 1 a: compressed "hard-packed snow" b: that is crowded or stuffed--often used in combination "an action-packed story" …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ETC — [etc] abbreviation et cetera
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ETC. — etc., etcetera, et cetera BrE AmE ( ˌ ) et ˈsetr ə ɪt-, ət-, !! ( ˌ ) ek-, -ˈset …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PACKED — / pækt; NAmE / adjective 1. extremely full of people SYN crowded : The restaurant was packed. The show played …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LIKE — / laɪk; NAmE / preposition , verb , conjunction , noun , adjective , adverb ■ preposition 1. similar to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ETC. — / ˌet ˈsetərə; NAmE ; ˌɪt/ abbreviation used after a list to show that there are other things that you …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CRAMMED — / kræmd; NAmE / adjective crammed (with sb/sth) 1. full of things or people : All the shelves were crammed …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PACKED — packed /pækt/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: noun : ↑ pack , ↑ package , ↑ packaging , ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LIKE — I. like 1 S1 W1 /laɪk/ BrE AmE preposition [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: ⇨ ↑ like 6 ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ETC — etc. BrE AmE ( also etc British English ) /et ˈset ə rə/ adverb (et cetera) used in writing after …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ETC. — etc. BrE AmE ( also etc British English ) /et ˈset ə rə/ adverb (et cetera) used in writing after …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CRAMMED — crammed /kræmd/ BrE AmE adjective crammed with/crammed full of something completely full of things or people SYN packed : The …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LIKE — adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. --adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) (more …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LIKE — adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) (more …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LIKE — 1. adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. --adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) …
Oxford English vocab
LIKE — I. PREPOSITION AND CONJUNCTION USES /laɪk, laɪk/ ( likes) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PACKED — 1. A place that is packed is very crowded. From 3.30 until 7pm, the shop is packed... The streets were …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ETC. — see etc
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ETC — also etc. Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. etc is used at the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CRAMMED — 1. If a place is crammed with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ETC. — see etc
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ETC — also ~. Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. ~ is used at the …
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CRAMMED — 1. If a place is ~ with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly …
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ETC. — adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Combine the champagne with fruit juices such as orange, pineapple, etc.
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CRAMMED — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth ▪ Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PACKED — [adjective] [after verb; not gradable]If someone says they are packed, it means that they have put their things into a …
Cambridge English vocab
CRAMMED — [adjective]a crammed train/roomThe hall was crammed with/crammed full of people trying book tickets.
Cambridge English vocab
PACKED — Synonyms and related words : SRO, aground, alive with, anchored, awash, bloated, blocked, bound, brimful, brimming, bristling, bulging, bursting, capacity, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CRAMMED — Synonyms and related words : SRO, allayed, awash, bloated, brimful, brimming, bristling, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, choked, chuck-full, close, close-knit, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PACKED — adj. Function: adjective Synonyms: FULL 1, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, crammed, crowded, jammed, jam-packed, stuffed Idioms: packed like sardines ( …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
CRAMMED — adj. Function: adjective Synonyms: FULL 1, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, crowded, jammed, loaded, packed, stuffed Idioms: crammed full, crammed to …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
PACKED — adjective Synonyms: full 1, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, crammed, crowded, jammed, jam-packed, stuffed Idioms: packed like sardines ( or herrings)
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
CRAMMED — adjective Synonyms: full 1, awash, brimful, brimming, chock-full, crowded, jammed, loaded, packed, stuffed Idioms: crammed full, crammed to the bursting …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
PACKED — adj. Packed is used with these nouns: ↑ audience , ↑ auditorium , ↑ cinema , ↑ crowd , ↑ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
PACKED — See ↑ CROWD 2, ↑ FULL 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ get packed
Longman Activator English vocab
LIKE — See ↑ ENJOY 1, ↑ EXAMPLE 3, ↑ LIKE 1,7, ↑ WAY 8 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be just like • …
Longman Activator English vocab
LIKE — INDEX: things 1. to like something 2. to like something very much 3. to like something that could be bad …
Longman Activator English vocab
ETC — See ↑ AND/ALSO 3
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PACKED — adj. 25B6; adjective CROWDED, full, filled (to capacity), crammed, jammed, solid, overcrowded, overfull, teeming, seething, swarming; informal jam-packed, chock-full, chock-a-block, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
ETC — ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971).
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
SARDINES — n. 1) a can ( AE ), tin ( BE ) of ~ 2) ( misc. ) to pack in …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
SARDINES — сардинки (детская игра, в конце кот. все играющие оказываются в "доме", набитом как коробка сардин)
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
PACKED — adj. filled, full, loaded, crowded, stuffed, jammed, crammed, brim-full, chock-a-block, chock-full, jam-packed, overloaded, overflowing, loaded or filled to the gunwales, …
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