QUICKSANDS

Meaning of QUICKSANDS in English

➡ quicksand

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

QUICKSANDS — loose wet sand that sucks in anything resting on it. → quicksand
Concise Oxford English vocab
QUICKSANDS — Зыбучий песок
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
QUICKSANDS, THE — more properly THE Syrtis, The, (Acts 27:17) the broad a deep bight on the north African coast between Carthage and …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
QUICKSAND — State in which water-saturated sand loses its supporting capacity and acquires the characteristics of a liquid. Quicksand is usually found …
Английский словарь Британика
TREACHEROUS — ˈtrech(ə)rəs adjective Etymology: Middle English trecherous, tricherous, from Middle French trechereus, trichereus, from Old French, from trecherie, tricherie + -eus …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SYRTIS — ˈsərd.ə̇s noun or syrt ˈsərt ( plural syr·tes -rd.(ˌ)ēz, -rˌtēz ; or syrts ) Etymology: Latin Syrtis (from Greek), either …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHAKING PRAIRIE — noun : a plain of delta land (as in Louisiana) with a soil of matted vegetable mold resting upon water, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
QUICKSAND — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English qwykkesand, from quik, quike quick + sand — more at quick , …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DILATANT — -āt ə nt adjective Etymology: Latin dilatant-, dilatans dilating, present participle of dilatare to dilate 1. : having the property …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
QUICKSAND — state in which saturated sand loses its supporting capacity and acquires the character of a liquid. Quicksand is usually found …
Britannica English vocabulary
TEYATEYANENG — village, northwestern Lesotho, 19 miles (31 km) northeast of Maseru, on the country's main north-south road. Named after the Teja-Tejane …
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UNWARY — If you describe someone as unwary , you mean that they are not cautious or experienced and are therefore likely …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
QUICKSAND — ( quicksands) 1. Quicksand is deep, wet sand that you sink into if you try to walk on it. The …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UNWARY — If you describe someone as ~, you mean that they are not cautious or experienced and are therefore likely to …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
QUICKSAND — n. State in which water-saturated sand loses its supporting capacity and acquires the characteristics of a liquid. Quicksand is usually …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
UNDERTOW — Synonyms and related words : affluence, afflux, affluxion, concourse, confluence, conflux, coral heads, course, crosscurrent, current, defluxion, downflow, downpour, drift, …
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UNDERCURRENT — Synonyms and related words : affect, affection, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air current, allegory, allusion, ambiance, ambience, arcane meaning, assumption, atmosphere, …
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SNAKE IN THE GRASS — Synonyms and related words : Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Quisling, abomination, archtraitor, atrocity, bad, bane, befoulment, betrayer, blight, …
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SNAG — Synonyms and related words : baby tooth, bag, bar, bicuspid, blemish, block, blockade, bottleneck, brake, bucktooth, bug, canine, catch, clog, …
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SHOAL — Synonyms and related words : a mass of, a world of, ankle-deep, army, bank, bar, barrier, bevy, bunch, cloud, clutter, …
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SANDBAR — Synonyms and related words : ait, archipelago, atoll, bank, bar, cay, continental island, coral head, coral heads, coral island, coral …
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SANDBANK — Synonyms and related words : ait, archipelago, atoll, bank, bar, cay, continental island, coral head, coral heads, coral island, coral …
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ROCKBOUND COAST — Synonyms and related words : bank, beach, berm, coast, coastland, coastline, coral heads, embankment, foreshore, ironbound coast, ledges, lee shore, …
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REEF
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QUICKSAND
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PITFALL — Synonyms and related words : Dionaea, bait, baited trap, booby trap, catch, cobweb, coral heads, danger, deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, difficulty, …
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LEDGE — Synonyms and related words : band, bank, beam-end, bed, bedding, belt, billiard table, board, border, bordure, bowling green, brim, brink, …
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QUICKSAND — n 1> геол. плывун, зыбучий песок, рыхлая порода 2> засасывающее болото, трясина, топь the quicksands of human nature - глухие …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
QUICKSAND — n 1> геол. плывун, зыбучий песок, рыхлая порода 2> засасывающее болото, трясина, топь the quicksands of human nature - глухие …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
ЗЫБУЧИЙ — unsteady, unstable; ~ие пески quicksands unsteady, unstable зыбучие пески — quicksands
Русско-Английский словарь общей тематики
ЗЫБУЧИЙ — прил. unsteady, unstable зыбучие пески – quicksands зыбуч|ий - unsteady, unstable ~ие пески quicksands
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