English abbreviation dictionary - spade
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~ n 1 a tool for digging that has a long handle and a broad metal blade you push into the ground 2 a playing card belonging to the set of cards that have one or more black shapes that look like pointed leaves printed on them (the queen of spades) 3 call a spade a spade to say exactly what you think is true, without trying to be polite 4 in spades informal especially AmE to a much greater degree, or in a much greater amount, than you expected (It may have been tough, but Ginny's effort was repaid in spades.) 5 old-fashioned a very offensive word for a black person ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(spades) 1. A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle. ... a garden spade... The girls happily played in the sand with buckets and spades. N-COUNT 2. Spades is one of the four suits in a pack of playing cards. Each card in the suit is marked with one or more black symbols: ¦. ...the ace of spades. N-UNCOUNT-COLL • A spade is a playing card of this suit. N-COUNT 3. If you say that someone calls a spade a spade, you mean that they speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things. I’m not at all secretive, and I’m pretty good at calling a spade a spade. PHRASE: V inflects c darkgreen]approval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spadu; akin to Greek spathe blade of a sword or oar Date: before 12th century 1. a digging implement adapted for being pushed into the ground with the foot 2. a ~-shaped instrument • ~ful noun II. verb (~d; spading) Date: circa 1647 transitive verb to dig up or out or shape with or as if with a ~ intransitive verb to use a ~ • ~r noun III. noun Etymology: Italian spada or Spanish espada broadsword; both from Latin spatha, from Greek spathe blade Date: circa 1598 1. a. plural but singular or plural in construction the suit comprising cards marked ~s b. a black figure that resembles a stylized spearhead on each playing card of one of the four suits; also a card marked with this figure 2. usually offensive black 4 SPADE-BEARDED adjective see spade beard ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a tool used for digging or cutting the ground etc., with a sharp-edged metal blade and a long handle. 2 a tool of a similar shape for various purposes, e.g. for removing the blubber from a whale. 3 anything resembling a spade. --v.tr. dig over (ground) with a spade. Phrases and idioms call a spade a spade speak plainly or bluntly. spade beard an oblong-shaped beard. spade foot a square spadelike enlargement at the end of a chair-leg. Derivatives spadeful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: OE spadu, spada 2. n. 1 a a playing-card of a suit denoted by black inverted heart-shaped figures with small stalks. b (in pl.) this suit. 2 sl. offens. a Black. Phrases and idioms in spades sl. to a high degree, with great force. spade guinea hist. a guinea of George III's reign with a spade-shaped shield on the reverse. Etymology: It. spade pl. of spada sword f. L spatha f. Gk spathe, rel. to SPADE(1): assoc. with the shape of a pointed spade ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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штыковая (копальная) лопата air spade coffered spade draining spade garden spade grafting spade socketed spade strapped spade trenching spade ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
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система "Спэйд" (ИКМ-система с многостанционным доступом, предоставлением каналов по требованию и независимыми несущими для каждого канала) ...Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
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1. лопата, лопатка; заступ 2. скребок 3. совок 4. нож (для разлелки китовых туш) 5. воен. сошник Id: to call a spade a spade —- называть вещи своими именами 6. копать лопатой to spade a garden —- вскапывать сад 7. разделывать (китовую тушу) 8. карт. пики, пиковая масть queen of spades —- пиковая дама 9. пика, карта пиковой масти, пиковка to play a spade —- ходить с пики Id: in spades —- в пиках, в пиковой масти; сильно, в высшей степени Id: you've got trouble - in spades! —- у вас куча неприятностей - и еще каких! Id: in spades —- решительно, без колебаний Id: I was going to tell him off - in spades —- я собирался отбрить его не стесняясь в выражениях Spade 1. сл. черномазый, цветной (об африканце или вестиндце) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I 1. noun 1) лопата; заступ 2) pl.; cards пики 3) mil. сошник орудия to call a spade a spade - называть вещи своими именами 2. v. копать лопатой; The garden needs spading up well before we can plant the seeds. II = spado ...Англо-русский словарь
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