Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - graze
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Graze
graze
(grazes, grazing, grazed) 1. When animals graze or are grazed, they eat the grass or other plants that are growing in a particular place. You can also say that a field is grazed by animals. Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak... The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed... Several horses grazed the meadowland. ...a large herd of grazing animals. VERB: V, be V-ed, V n, V -ing 2. If you graze a part of your body, you injure your skin by scraping against something. I had grazed my knees a little. VERB: V n • grazed ...grazed arms and legs. ADJ 3. A graze is a small wound caused by scraping against something. N-COUNT 4. If something grazes another thing, it touches that thing lightly as it passes by. A bullet had grazed his arm... VERB: V n
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I. verb (~d; grazing) Etymology: Middle English grasen, from Old English grasian, from gr?s grass Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton 2. to eat small portions of food throughout the day transitive verb 1. a. to crop and eat in the field b. to feed on the herbage of 2. a. to put to ~ ~d the cows on the meadow b. to put cattle to ~ on 3. to supply herbage for the grazing of • ~able or grazable adjective • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1857 1. an act of grazing 2. herbage for grazing III. verb (~d; grazing) Etymology: perhaps from 1~ Date: 1604 transitive verb 1. to touch lightly in passing 2. abrade, scratch ~d her knee when she fell intransitive verb to touch or rub against something in passing IV. noun Date: 1847 a scraping along a surface or an abrasion made by it; especially a superficial abrasion of the skin ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. v. 1 intr. (of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat growing grass. 2 tr. a feed (cattle etc.) on growing grass. b feed on (grass). 3 intr. pasture cattle. Derivatives grazer n. Etymology: OE grasian f. gr{aelig}s GRASS 2. v. & n. --v. 1 tr. rub or scrape (a part of the body, esp. the skin) so as to break the surface without causing bleeding. 2 a tr. touch lightly in passing. b intr. (foll. by against, along, etc.) move with a light passing contact. --n. an act or instance of grazing. Etymology: perh. a specific use of GRAZE(1), as if 'take off the grass close to the ground' (of a shot etc.) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1) пастьба; пастись, щипать траву 2) трава, пригодная для пастьбы 3) обгрызать, обкусывать, общипывать ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. пасти to graze cattle on the meadows —- пасти скот на лугах to graze cattle all the winter —- пасти скот всю зиму a field to graze cows —- выпас для коров 2. держать на подножном корму 3. кормить 4. пастись, щипать траву the sheep are grazing upon the hills —- овцы пасутся в горах 5. подстригать to graze grass —- подстригать траву 6. использовать как пастбище to graze a the herbage —- выпускать скот на травы 7. диал. выращивать травы на корм скоту Id: to send to graze —- выставлять, выпроваживать 8. задевание, касание 9. легкая рана, царапина 10. воен. разрыв при ударе 11. воен. клевок 12. слегка касаться, задевать, дотрагиваться the bullet grazed the wall —- пуля оцарапала стену the sun's rays grazed the summit of the mountain —- солнечные лучи коснулись вершины горы 13. опт. падать под скользящим углом (о лучах) 14. содрать, натереть (кожу) to graze one's arm —- оцарапать руку to graze the skin —- содрать кожу 15. воен. обстреливать настильным огнем ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I 1. v. 1) слегка касаться, задевать the bullet grazed the wall - пуля оцарапала стену 2) содрать, натереть (кожу) 3) mil. обстреливать настильным огнем 2. noun 1) задевание, касание 2) легкая рана, царапина 3) mil. клевок II v. 1) пасти, держать на подножном корму 2) пастись, щипать траву 3) использовать как пастбище ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 »EAT GRASS« a) if an animal grazes, it eats grass that is growing (The sheep continued to graze.) b) to let animals eat grass (fields where they used to graze their sheep) 2 »INJURE YOURSELF« to break the surface of your skin by rubbing it against something (Oliver grazed his knee when he fell over.) 3 »TOUCH STH« to touch something lightly while passing it (As the plane climbed away, its wing seemed to graze the treetops.) 4 »EAT« to eat small amounts of food all through the day instead of having regular meals 5 »TELEVISION« to keep changing television channels, watching only a little of each programme ~2 n a wound caused by rubbing that slightly breaks the surface of your skin ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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