Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - thorn
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(thorns) 1. Thorns are the sharp points on some plants and trees, for example on a rose bush. N-COUNT 2. A thorn or a thorn bush or a thorn tree is a bush or tree which has a lot of thorns on it. ...the shade of a thorn bush. N-VAR 3. If you describe someone or something as a thorn in your side or a thorn in your flesh, you mean that they are a continuous problem to you or annoy you. The Party was a thorn in the flesh of his coalition. PHRASE: v-link PHR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German dorn ~, Sanskrit t??a grass, blade of grass Date: before 12th century 1. a woody plant bearing sharp impeding processes (as prickles or spines); especially haw~ 2. a. a sharp rigid process on a plant; specifically a short, indurated, sharp-pointed, and leafless modified branch b. any of various sharp spinose structures on an animal 3. the runic letter ? used in Old English and Middle English to represent either of the fricatives th or ?? and in Icelandic to represent th 4. something that causes distress or irritation — often used in the phrase ~ in one's side • ~ed adjective • ~less adjective • ~like adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a stiff sharp-pointed projection on a plant. 2 a thorn-bearing shrub or tree. 3 the name of an Old English and Icelandic runic letter, = th. Phrases and idioms on thorns continuously uneasy esp. in fear of being detected. thorn-apple 1 a poisonous plant of the nightshade family, Datura stramonium. 2 the prickly fruit of this. a thorn in one's flesh (or side) a constant annoyance. Derivatives thornless adj. thornproof adj. Etymology: OE f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) шип, колючка 2) бот. голаканта (Holacantha) 3) боярышник (Crataegus) 4) энт. пяденица – August thorn – black thorn – Bosc's thorn – buffalo thorn – Bush's thorn – canary-shouldered thorn – Christ's thorn – cock-spur thorn – common thorn – desert thorn – downy thorn – dwarf thorn – Eggert's thorn – Egyptian thorn – Emerson's thorn – evergreen thorn – everlasting thorn – globose-fruited thorn – grove thorn – hedge thorn – Jerusalem thorn – large thorn – large-fruited thorn – lilac thorn – long-spined thorn – Marshall's thorn – narrow-leaved thorn – Newcastle thorn – ovate-leaved thorn – padus-leaved thorn – pin thorn – red-fruited thorn – rough-leaved thorn – round-leaved thorn – sallow thorn – scarlet thorn – shining thorn – small-fruited thorn – southern thorn – sulfur thorn – Tatnall's thorn – treebuck thorn – variable thorn – Washington thorn – waxy-fruited thorn – white thorn – woolly thorn ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. бот. колючка, шип 2. колючее растение 3. pl. оковы; тернии 4. торн (старое название рунической буквы, соответствующей th; также thorn letter) Id: a thorn in one's side (in one's flesh) —- источник постоянного раздражения или неприятностей; бельмо на глазу Id: to be (to sit, to stand, to walk) on thorns —- находиться в мучительном состоянии, терзаться (мучиться) неизвестностью; сидеть как на иголках Id: there's no rose without a thorn —- посл. нет розы без шипов; не бывает радостей без огорчений 5. раздражать, досаждать I have been thorned with these perplexities —- от всех этих сложностей (трудностей) я чувствовал себя очень неуютно ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) шип, колючка 2) торн (старое название рунической буквы р, соответствующей th) a thorn in ones side/flesh - бельмо на глазу; источник постоянного раздражения ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. юorn "sharp point on a stem or branch," earlier "thorny tree or plant," from P.Gmc. *thurnuz, from PIE *trnus. Also an O.E. and Icelandic runic letter (ю), named for the word of which it was the initial. Thorny in figurative sense was in M.E. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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