Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - cure
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Cure
cure
~1 v 1 to make someone who is ill well again (The doctors did everything they could to cure her, but she died three months later. | When I left hospital I was completely cured.) 2 to make an illness disappear completely, usually by medical treatment (an operation to cure a hernia problem) 3 to remove a problem, or improve a bad situation (Attempts to cure unemployment have so far failed. | cure sb of) (Even whisky could not cure him of his anxieties.) 4 to preserve food, tobacco etc by drying it, hanging it in smoke, or covering it with salt (cured ham) ~2 n 1 a medicine or medical treatment that can cure an illness + for (a cure for cancer) 2 something that removes a problem, or improves a bad situation (a cure for inflation) 3 the act of making someone well again after an illness (The new treatment effected a miraculous cure.) 4 take the cure the practice in former times of going to a spa (1) in order to improve your health
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(cures, curing, cured) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear. Her cancer can only be controlled, not cured. VERB: V n 2. If doctors or medical treatments cure a person, they make the person well again after an illness or injury. MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide... Almost overnight I was cured... Now doctors believe they have cured him of the disease. = heal VERB: V n, V n, V n of n 3. A cure for an illness is a medicine or other treatment that cures the illness. Atkinson has been told rest is the only cure for his ankle injury. N-COUNT: oft N for n 4. If someone or something cures a problem, they bring it to an end. Private firms are willing to make large scale investments to help cure Russia’s economic troubles... VERB: V n 5. A cure for a problem is something that will bring it to an end. The magic cure for inflation does not exist. = solution N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N for n 6. If an action or event cures someone of a habit or an attitude, it makes them stop having it. The experience was a detestable ordeal, and it cured him of any ambitions to direct again... He went to a clinic to cure his drinking and overeating. VERB: V n of n, V n 7. When food, tobacco, or animal skin is cured, it is dried, smoked, or salted so that it will last for a long time. Legs of pork were cured and smoked over the fire. ...sliced cured ham. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin cura, ~ of souls, from Latin, care Date: 14th century 1. a. spiritual charge ; care b. pastoral charge of a parish 2. a. recovery or relief from a disease b. something (as a drug or treatment) that ~s a disease c. a course or period of treatment take the ~ for alcoholism d. spa 1 3. a complete or permanent solution or remedy seeking a ~ for unemployment 4. a process or method of curing • ~less adjective II. verb (~d; curing) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to restore to health, soundness, or normality ~ a patient of his illness b. to bring about recovery from ~ a disease 2. a. to deal with in a way that eliminates or rectifies his small size, which time would ~ for him — William Faulkner b. to free from something objectionable or harmful trying to ~ him of a bad habit 3. to prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use fish ~d with salt intransitive verb 1. a. to undergo a curing process b. set 11 2. to effect a ~ • ~r noun CURE noun Etymology: French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin curatus — more at curate Date: 1655 a parish priest ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. (often foll. by of) restore (a person or animal) to health (was cured of pleurisy). 2 tr. eliminate (a disease, evil, etc.). 3 tr. preserve (meat, fruit, tobacco, or skins) by salting, drying, etc. 4 tr. a vulcanize (rubber). b harden (concrete or plastic). 5 intr. effect a cure. 6 intr. undergo a process of curing. --n. 1 restoration to health. 2 a thing that effects a cure. 3 a course of medical or healing treatment. 4 a the office or function of a curate. b a parish or other sphere of spiritual ministration. 5 a the process of curing rubber or plastic. b (with qualifying adj.) the degree of this. Phrases and idioms cure-all a panacea; a universal remedy. Derivatives curer n. Etymology: ME f. OF curer f. L curare take care of f. cura care ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) отверждение отверждаться 2) вулканизация вулканизовать(ся) 3) структурирование 4) затвердевать (о синтетической смоле, бетоне) 5) электрон. термоотвержденис 6) текст. термофиксация, термостабилизация 7) консервирование консервировать 8) сушка; вяление сушить; вялить 9) посол солить 10) выдержка; созревание; пищ. тж. дозаривание выдерживать; созревать; пищ. тж. дозаривать - accelerated cure - acid cure - addition cure - air cure - chemical cure - cold cure - continuous cure - drum cure - effective cure - epoxy cure - hot-air cure - hot-air steam cure - kettle cure - low-temperature cure - microwave cure - mold cure - nonsulfur cure - open steam cure - optimum cure - peroxide cure - press cure - radiation cure - rod cure - salt bath cure - semieffective cure - sulfur cure - water cure ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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созревание; вулканизация; отверждение, затвердение; выдерживание уход за бетоном, выдерживание бетона ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский словарь по машиностроению
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1. лекарство, средство cure for a cough —- средство от кашля cure for unemployment —- меры против безработицы 2. лечение; курс лечения the hot water cure —- лечение горячими ваннами a disease beyond cure —- неизлечимая болезнь to undergo a cure —- пройти курс лечения to take the cure —- ам. пройти курс лечения от алкоголизма или наркомании 3. отказаться от удовольствия, дурной привычки и т. п.; исправиться 4. излечение the doctor cannot guarantee a cure —- доктор не ручается за выздоровление 5. церк. приход; паства; попечение (о пастве) 6. спец. вулканизация (резины) 7. спец. отверждение (пластмассы); выдержка (бетона) 8. вылечивать, излечивать, исцелять to cure a patient —- вылечить больного to cure a disease —- излечить от болезни to cure drunkenness —- излечить от пьянства to cure smb. of habits —- отучить кого-л. от дурных привычек 9. вылечиться, излечиться, исцелиться his grief soon cures —- его горе быстро проходит, он недолго страдает 10. заготовлять впрок; консервировать; солить, вялить to cure fish —- коптить рыбу to cure bacon —- солить бекон 11. спец. вулканизировать 12. спец. отверждать 13. спец. выдерживать Id: what can't be cured must be endured —- посл. приходиться мириться с тем, чего нельзя исправить 14. странный тип, чудак 15. церк. кюре ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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veterin. abbr. Connecticut United for Research Excellence onc. abbr. Continuing Umbrella Of Research Experience U.S. gov. abbr. Constitutionally Unified Republic For Everyone univ. abbr. Continuing Umbrella Of Research Experiences non-prof. org. abbr. Citizens United Resisting Euthanasia NASDAQ abbr. Curative Health Services, Inc. ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- 13c., from L. cura "care, concern, trouble," from PIE base *kois- "be concerned." Cure-all is from 1870. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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