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(sieges) 1. A siege is a military or police operation in which soldiers or police surround a place in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place. We must do everything possible to lift the siege... The journalists found a city virtually under siege. N-COUNT: also under N see also state of siege 2. If police, soldiers, or journalists lay siege to a place, they surround it in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place. The rebels laid siege to the governor’s residence... PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR to n
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noun Etymology: Middle English sege, from Anglo-French, seat, blockade, from Old French *siegier to seat, settle, from Vulgar Latin *sedicare, from Latin sedere to sit — more at sit Date: 13th century 1. obsolete a seat of distinction ; throne 2. a. a military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender b. a persistent or serious attack (as of illness) • ~ transitive verb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a a military operation in which an attacking force seeks to compel the surrender of a fortified place by surrounding it and cutting off supplies etc. b a similar operation by police etc. to force the surrender of an armed person. c the period during which a siege lasts. 2 a persistent attack or campaign of persuasion. Phrases and idioms lay siege to esp. Mil. conduct the siege of. raise the siege of abandon or cause the abandonment of an attempt to take (a place) by siege. siege-gun hist. a heavy gun used in sieges. siege-train artillery and other equipment for a siege, with vehicles etc. Etymology: ME f. OF sege seat f. assegier BESIEGE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. осада state of siege —- осадное положение to declare a state of siege —- ввести осадное положение to lay siege (to a town) —- осадить (город) to lay siege to a lady's heart —- добиваться благосклонности дамы to raise a siege —- снять осаду to stand a siege —- выдержать осаду 2. разг. долгий, мучительный период (времени) a siege of illness —- продолжительная болезнь 3. ист. престол, трон 4. ранг, положение 5. тех. верстак 6. тех. под стекловаренной печи siege-artillery 1. воен. ист. осадная артиллерия ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) осада; to lay siege to - осадить; to raise the siege - снять осаду; to stand a siege - выдерживать осаду 2) долгий, тягостный период времени ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 a military operation during which an army surrounds a place and tries to gain control of it by stopping supplies of food, weapons etc from reaching it (The siege lasted almost four months. | lay siege to (=start a siege)) (In June 1176 King Richard laid siege to Limoges. | raise a siege (=end it)) 2 a situation in which the police surround a building to try and force the people inside to come out (lay siege to) (When the scandal broke, dozens of journalists laid siege to Mellor's apartment.) 3 be under siege a) to be surrounded by an army in a seige b) to be continually criticized, or attacked by questions, problems, threats etc (The TV station has been under siege from irate viewers phoning in to complain.) 4 siege mentality the feeling among a group of people that they are surrounded by enemies and must do everything they can to protect themselves ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 12c., from O.Fr. sege "seat, throne," from V.L. *sedicum "seat," from L. sedere "sit." The notion is of an army sitting down before a fortress. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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