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Butter
butter
(butters, buttering, buttered) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Butter is a soft yellow substance made from cream. You spread it on bread or use it in cooking. ...bread and butter... Pour the melted butter into a large mixing bowl. N-MASS 2. If you butter something such as bread or toast, you spread butter on it. She spread pieces of bread on the counter and began buttering them. ...buttered scones. VERB: V n, V-ed 3. see also bread and butter, peanut butter
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English butere, from Latin butyrum, from Greek boutyron, from bous cow + tyros cheese; akin to Avestan tuiri- curds — more at cow Date: before 12th century 1. a solid emulsion of fat globules, air, and water made by churning milk or cream and used as food 2. a ~y substance: as a. any of various fatty oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures b. a creamy food spread; especially one made of ground roasted nuts peanut ~ 3. flattery • ~less adjective II. transitive verb Date: 15th century to spread with or as if with ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking. b a substance of a similar consistency or appearance (peanut butter). 2 excessive flattery. --v.tr. spread, cook, or serve with butter (butter the bread; buttered carrots). Phrases and idioms butter-and-eggs any of several plants having two shades of yellow in the flower, e.g. toadflax. butter-bean 1 the flat, dried, white lima bean. 2 a yellow-podded bean. butter-cream (or -icing) a mixture of butter, icing sugar, etc. used as a filling or a topping for a cake. butter-fingers colloq. a clumsy person prone to drop things. butter-knife a blunt knife used for cutting butter at table. butter muslin a thin, loosely-woven cloth with a fine mesh, orig. for wrapping butter. butter-nut 1 a N. American tree, Juglans cinerea. 2 the oily nut of this tree. butter up colloq. flatter excessively. look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth seem demure or innocent, probably deceptively. Etymology: OE butere f. L butyrum f. Gk bouturon ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) масло 2) полутвёрдый жир 3) с.-х. снопоуравниватель, подбойка 4) намазывать, покрывать (напр. кирпичи раствором с помощью кельмы) - dairy butter - mineral butter - paraffin butter - petroleum butter ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. масло bread and butter —- хлеб с маслом cocoa butter —- какао-масло vegetable butters —- растительные масла butter churn —- маслобойка 2. ам. повидло apple butter —- яблочное повидло 3. разг. грубая лесть; низкопоклонство to lay the butter on —- грубо льстить Id: to look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth —- притворяться (прикидываться) тихоней; воды не замутит; тише воды, ниже травы 4. намазывать, смазывать маслом to butter a slice of bread —- намазать кусок хлеба маслом 5. разг. грубо льстить; умасливать (также butter up) Id: kind (soft, fine) words butter no parsnips —- из спасиба шубу не сошьешь; соловья баснями не кормят Id: to know on which side one's bread is buttered —- знать свою выгоду, быть у себя на уме; губа не дура 6. бодливое животное 7. станок для торцовки бревен ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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up грубо льстить If you butter Father up, do you think hell lend us the car? He was just buttering up to the director to try to get a favour from him. BUTTER 1. noun 1) масло 2) coll. грубая лесть he looks as if butter would not melt in his mouth - словно и воды не замутит; он только кажется тихоней 2. v. 1) намазывать маслом 2) грубо льстить fine/kind/soft words butter no parsnips prov. - соловья баснями не кормят ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 a solid yellow food made from milk or cream that you spread on bread or use in cooking (Beat the butter and sugar together.) 2 butter wouldn't melt in sb's mouth used to say that someone seems to be very kind and sincere but is not really - buttery adj ~2 v to spread butter on something (buttered toast) butter sb up ~ phr v informal to say nice things to someone so that they will do what you want (Don't think you can butter me up that easily.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. butere, an early loan word, from L. butyrum "butter," from Gk. boutyron, lit. "cow-cheese," from bous "ox, cow" + tyros "cheese." The product was used from an early date in India, Iran and northern Europe, but not in ancient Greece and Rome. Herodotus described it (along with cannabis) among the oddities of the Scythians. The verb meaning "to flatter lavishly" is from 1816. Butter-fingered is attested from 1615; buttermilk from 1528. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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