Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - thatch
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Thatch
thatch
(thatches) 1. A thatch or a thatch roof is a roof made from straw or reeds. They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch. N-COUNT 2. Thatch is straw or reeds used to make a roof. N-UNCOUNT 3. You can refer to someone’s hair as their thatch of hair, especially when it is very thick and untidy. Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair. N-SING: oft N of n
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I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English thecchen, from Old English theccan to cover; akin to Old High German decchen to cover, Latin tegere, Greek stegein to cover, stegos roof, Sanskrit sthagati he covers Date: 14th century to cover with or as if with ~ • ~er noun II. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. a plant material (as straw) used as a sheltering cover especially of a house b. a sheltering cover (as a house roof) made of such material c. a mat of undecomposed plant material (as grass clippings) accumulated next to the soil in a grassy area (as a lawn) 2. something likened to the ~ of a house; especially the hair of one's head ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a roof-covering of straw, reeds, palm-leaves, or similar material. 2 colloq. the hair of the head. --v.tr. (also absol.) cover (a roof or a building) with thatch. Derivatives thatcher n. Etymology: n. late collateral form of thack (now dial.) f. OE th{aelig}c, after v. f. OE theccan f. Gmc, assim. to thack ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. соломенная или тростниковая крыша; крыша из пальмовых листьев 2. солома, тростник или пальмовые листья (для кровли) 3. разг. пальма 4. копна волос, густые волосы 5. крыть соломой, тростником или пальмовыми листьями to thatch a roof —- сделать соломенную крушу 6. служить кровлей, крышей 7. быть кровельщиком ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) соломенная или тростниковая крыша, крыша из пальмовых листьев 2) солома или тростник (для кровли) 3) coll. густые волосы 2. v. крыть соломой или тростником ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v to make the roof of a building with dried straw (=strong stems), reeds etc - thatched adj (a thatched cottage) - thatcher n ~2 n 1 a roof made of dried straw, reeds etc 2 straw or reeds used to make a roof 3 humorous a thick untidy pile of hair on someone's head ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. юeccan "to cover," related to южc "roof, thatching material," from P.Gmc. *thakan, from PIE *tog-/ *teg- "cover." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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