Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - liver
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(livers) 1. Your liver is a large organ in your body which processes your blood and helps to clean unwanted substances out of it. N-COUNT 2. Liver is the liver of some animals, especially lambs, pigs, and cows, which is cooked and eaten. ...grilled calves’ liver. N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lifer; akin to Old High German lebra ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a. a large very vascular glandular organ of vertebrates that secretes bile and causes important changes in many of the substances contained in the blood (as by converting sugars into glycogen which it stores up until required and by forming urea) b. any of various large compound glands associated with the digestive tract of invertebrate animals and probably concerned with the secretion of digestive enzymes 2. archaic a determinant of the quality or temper of a man 3. the ~ of an animal (as a calf or chicken) eaten as food 4. a grayish reddish brown — called also ~ brown, ~ maroon II. noun Date: 14th century 1. one that lives especially in a specified way a fast ~ 2. resident ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. 1 a a large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates, functioning in many metabolic processes including the regulation of toxic materials in the blood, secreting bile, etc. b a similar organ in other animals. 2 the flesh of an animal's liver as food. 3 (in full liver-colour) a dark reddish-brown. Phrases and idioms liver chestnut see CHESTNUT. liver fluke either of two types of fluke, esp. Fasciola hepatica, the adults of which live within the liver tissues of vertebrates, and the larvae within snails. liver of sulphur a liver-coloured mixture of potassium sulphides etc., used as a lotion in skin disease. liver salts Brit. salts to cure dyspepsia or biliousness. liver sausage a sausage containing cooked liver etc. Derivatives liverless adj. Etymology: OE lifer f. Gmc 2. n. a person who lives in a specified way (a clean liver). ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) остающаяся кольцевая подкладка (при сварке стыков труб) 2) студневидное образование (в смазочном масле или лакокрасочных материалах) ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1. анат. печень liver complication —- мед. осложнение со стороны печени he has liver trouble —- у него больная (болит) печень 2. кул. печенка; ливер liver sausage —- ливерная колбаса liver extract —- печеночный экстракт Id: hot liver —- страстный (горячий) темперамент Id: white (lily) liver —- трусость, малодушие 3. (живой) человек good liver —- хороший, добродетельный человек; жуир; гуляка free liver —- живущий в свое удовольствие, жуир, бонвиван close liver —- скупец loose liver —- распущенный человек the longest liver —- юр. последний из оставшихся в живых 4. редк. житель; обитатель a liver in cities —- городской житель ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I noun 1) - good liver - loose liver - close liver 2) amer. житель II noun 1) anat. печень 2) печенка (пища) ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. lifer, from P.Gmc. *librn "fatten up." Formerly rivaled the heart as the supposed seat of love and passion, hence lily-livered, etc. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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