Английский Этимологический словарь - pepper
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~1 n 1 a grey or pale yellow powder used to add a slightly hot taste to food (Pass the salt and pepper, please.) (- see also black pepper, white pepper) 2 a red powder like this, especially cayenne pepper or paprika 3 a hollow red, green or yellow vegetable that is used in hot or cold dishes (- see also bell pepper, sweet pepper) ~2 v 1 to scatter things all over or all through something (be peppered with) (a report peppered with statistics) 2 to hit something repeatedly with many bullets (pepper sth with) (He peppered the side of the barn with buckshot.) 3 to add pepper to food ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(peppers, peppering, peppered) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Pepper is a hot-tasting spice which is used to flavour food. Season with salt and pepper. ...freshly ground black pepper. N-UNCOUNT 2. A pepper, or in American English a bell pepper, is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable with seeds inside it. N-COUNT 3. If something is peppered with small objects, a lot of those objects hit it. He was wounded in both legs and severely peppered with shrapnel... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed with n 4. If something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on it. While her English was correct, it was peppered with French phrases... Yachts peppered the tranquil waters of Botafogo Bay. VERB: be V-ed with n, V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English peper, from Old English pipor, from Latin piper, from Greek peperi Date: before 12th century 1. a. either of two pungent products from the fruit of an Indian plant (Piper nigrum) that are used chiefly as condiments: (1) black ~ (2) white ~ b. any of several products similar to ~ that are obtained from plants of the same genus cubeb ~ c. any of various pungent condiments of plants unrelated to the ~ Szechuan ~ 2. any of a genus (Piper of the family Piperaceae, the ~ family) of tropical mostly jointed climbing shrubs with aromatic leaves; especially a woody vine (P. nigrum) with spicate flowers that is widely cultivated in the tropics for its red berries from which black ~ and white ~ are prepared 3. a. capsicum 1a; especially a New World capsicum (Capsicum annuum) whose fruits are hot ~s or sweet ~s b. the hollow fruit of a ~ that is usually red or yellow when ripe • ~ adjective II. transitive verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: circa 1500 1. to hit with or as if with rapid repeated blows 2. a. to sprinkle or season with ~ b. to shower with or as if with shot or other missiles 3. to sprinkle or cover as if with ~ ~ed the report with statistics a face ~ed with freckles • ~er noun III. noun Etymology: probably from 2pep + 2-er Date: 1943 a baseball practice or warm-up game in which usually several fielders toss the ball a short distance to a single batter who hits it back ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a hot aromatic condiment from the dried berries of certain plants used whole or ground. b any climbing vine of the genus Piper, esp. P. nigrum, yielding these berries. 2 anything hot or pungent. 3 a any plant of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum. b the fruit of this used esp. as a vegetable or salad ingredient. 4 = CAYENNE. --v.tr. 1 sprinkle or treat with or as if with pepper. 2 a pelt with missiles. b hurl abuse etc. at. 3 punish severely. Phrases and idioms black pepper the unripe ground or whole berries of Piper nigrum as a condiment. green pepper the unripe fruit of Capsicum annuum. pepper-mill a device for grinding pepper by hand. pepper-pot 1 a small container with a perforated lid for sprinkling pepper. 2 a W. Indian dish of meat etc. stewed with cayenne pepper. 3 colloq. a Jamaican. red (or yellow) pepper the ripe fruit of Capsicum annuum. sweet pepper a pepper with a relatively mild taste. white pepper the ripe or husked ground or whole berries of Piper nigrum as a condiment. Etymology: OE piper, pipor f. L piper f. Gk peperi f. Skr. pippali- berry, peppercorn ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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перец (Piper, Capsicum) – Ashanti pepper – betel pepper – black pepper – bush red pepper – Cayenne pepper – Javanese long pepper – Kava pepper – poor man's pepper – red pepper – sweet bell red pepper – wall pepper – water pepper – West African black pepper – wild pepper ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. бот. перец (Piper, Capsicum gen.) black pepper —- перец черный (Piper nigrum) sweet pepper —- перец сладкий (Capsicum frutescens или grossum) hot (red) pepper —- перец стручковый (Capsicum annuum) 2. перец (специя) to put too much pepper into smth. —- переперчить что-л. 3. перечница silver salts and peppers —- серебряные солонки и перечницы 4. острота, едкость there is pepper in the book —- книга острая 5. вспыльчивость I grew pepper —- я рассердился 6. живость, энергия, темперамент he showed pepper at the match —- в состязании он проявил темперамент 7. перчить, посыпать перцем 8. осыпать; усеивать a face peppered with freckles —- лицо, усыпанное веснушками page peppered with blots —- страница, заляпанная кляксами 9. забрасывать (чем-л.) to pepper smb. with stones —- забросать кого-л. камнями 10. засыпать, забрасывать the speaker was peppered with questions —- оратора забросали вопросами his speech was peppered with jokes —- он пересыпал свою речь шутками he peppered us with Latin —- он замучил нас латынью 11. стрелять мелкой дробью 12. (at) стрелять to pepper the enemy with machine-gun fire —- строчить из пулемета по врагу he peppered away at the pheasants —- он палил по фазанам 13. (with) изрешетить (пулями, дробью) the rabbit was peppered with shot all down one side —- бок кролика был весь изрешечен дробью 14. бранить, распекать, "задать перцу" he will pepper me —- он мне задаст, он мне всыплет ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) перец 2) острота; едкость 3) вспыльчивость 4) живость; энергия, темперамент 2. v. 1) перчить 2) усыпать, усеивать; Marys face was peppered with freckles. 3) осыпать, забрасывать (камнями, вопросами и т.п.); The speaker was peppered with questions by a crowd of eager students. 4) бранить, распекать; задать перцу; He will pepper his son. ...Англо-русский словарь
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