WILES

Meaning of WILES in English

/ waɪlz; NAmE / noun

[ pl. ] clever tricks that sb uses in order to get what they want or to make sb behave in a particular way

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

WILES — wiles /waɪlz/ BrE AmE noun [plural] [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Origin: Perhaps from an unrecorded Old North French wile (singular), …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WILES — Wiles are clever tricks that people, especially women, use to persuade other people to do something. She claimed that women …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WILES — Wiles are clever tricks that people, especially women, use to persuade other people to do something. She claimed that women …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
WILES — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Am I proud of resorting to stereotypical womanly wiles when I am supposed to be …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WILES — [plural] [noun] [formal] - methods of persuasion that cleverly trick someone into doing somethingHe'll have to use all his wiles …
Cambridge English vocab
WILES — n. 25B6; plural noun TRICKS, ruses, ploys, schemes, dodges, manoeuvres, subterfuges, artifices; guile, artfulness, cunning, craftiness.
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
WILES — lewis
Anagrams English vocabulary
WILES — Хитрость
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WILES — Ухищрения
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
WILES — Ухищрение
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
WILES — Хитрость
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WILES, ANDREW JOHN — born April 11, 1953, Cambridge, Eng. British mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem; in recognition he was awarded a special …
Britannica English vocabulary
WILY — adjective (wilier; -est) Date: 14th century full of wiles ; crafty , see: sly wilily adverb wiliness noun
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
VAMP — I. noun see: vanguard Date: 14th century the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
INVEIGLE — transitive verb (~d; inveigling) Etymology: Anglo-French enveegler, aveogler, avogler to blind, hoodwink, from avogle, enveugle blind, from Medieval Latin ab …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BEGUILE — verb (~d; beguiling) Date: 13th century transitive verb to lead by deception, hoodwink , to while away especially by some …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM — Statement that there are no natural numbers x , y , and z such that x n + y n …
Английский словарь Британика
WILE — I. ˈwīl, esp before pause or consonant ˈwīəl noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English wil, from (assumed) Old North …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
VAMP — I. ˈvamp, -aa(ə)-, -ai- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English vaumpe, vampe, from Old French avantpié, from avant- fore- …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SNARL — I. R ˈsnärl, chiefly before pause or consonant -rəl, - R ˈsnȧl noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English snarle, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BEGUILE — bə̇ˈgīl, bē, esp bef pause or cons -īəl verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English begilen, from be- + gilen …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
VAMP — I. noun Etymology: Middle English vampe part of a hose leg or shoe covering the forefoot, vamp, from Anglo-French, alteration …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
VAMP — [vamp] vb [ [2]vamp] vt (1599) 1 a: to provide (a shoe) with a new vamp b: to piece (something …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
YEAR IN REVIEW 2001: MATHEMATICS-AND-PHYS-SCIENCES — Astronomy Mathematics In August 2000 the American Mathematical Society convoked a weeklong meeting in Los Angeles devoted to "Mathematical Challenges …
Britannica English vocabulary
YEAR IN REVIEW 2000: MATHEMATICS-AND-PHYS-SCIENCES — Astronomy (For information on Eclipses, Equinoxes and Solstices, and Earth Perihelion and Aphelion in 2000, see Table. Physics Atomic and …
Britannica English vocabulary
YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: LITERATURE: SPANISH — SPANISH: Latin America. Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez' novel Of Love and Other Demons was published in English in 1995. …
Britannica English vocabulary
WARM — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cold/warm/hot spell ▪ There was a very cold spell in late November. a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
S
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FEMININE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WILE — n. Often, wiles. trick, stratagem, ruse, artifice, subterfuge, dodge, trap, snare, manoeuvre, ploy, contrivance, move, gambit, plot, scheme, machination, Colloq …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

← WILD WEST WILFUL→