Англо-русский словарь - shrimp
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Перевод с английского языка shrimp на русский
shrimp
1. noun
1) zool. креветка
2) joc. маленький, тщедушный человечек
3) ничтожный человечек, козявка
2. v. ловить креветок (обыкн. to go shrimping)
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1.
1. мелкая креветка 2. маленький сморщенный человек, карлик 3. ничтожный человек, козявка, ничтожество 4. ловить креветок (обыкн. to go shrimping) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
2.
1) креветка (мелкая) 2) мелкое ракообразное – brine shrimp – burrowing shrimps – cleaner shrimp – devil shrimps – fairy shrimps – freshwater shrimp – ghost shrimp – mantis shrimps – opossum shrimps – pistol shrimps – scarlet shrimp – seed shrimps – skeleton shrimp – snapping shrimps – spiny-tailed fairy shrimp – tadpole shrimps ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
3.
n. & v. --n. 1 (pl. same or shrimps) any of various small (esp. marine) edible crustaceans, with ten legs, grey-green when alive and pink when boiled. 2 colloq. a very small slight person. --v.intr. go catching shrimps. Phrases and idioms shrimp plant an evergreen shrub, Justicia brandegeana, bearing small white flowers in clusters of pinkish-brown bracts. Derivatives shrimper n. Etymology: ME, prob. rel. to MLG schrempen wrinkle, MHG schrimpfen contract, and SCRIMP ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
4.
I. noun (plural ~s or ~) Etymology: Middle English ~e; akin to Middle Low German schrempen to contract, wrinkle, Old Norse skorpna to shrivel up Date: 14th century 1. any of numerous mostly small and marine decapod crustaceans (suborders Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata) having a slender elongated body, a compressed abdomen, and a long spiny rostrum and including some (especially family Penaeidae) that are commercially important as food; also a small crustacean (as an amphipod or a branchiopod) resembling the true ~s 2. a very small or puny person or thing • ~like adjective • ~y adjective II. intransitive verb Date: 1808 to fish for or catch ~s ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
5.
(shrimps, or shrimp) Shrimps are small shellfish with long tails and many legs. Add the shrimp and cook for 30 seconds... N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
6.
~ n 1 a) BrE a small pink sea creature that you can eat, with ten legs and with a soft shell b) AmE a creature like this, but bigger; prawn AmE 2 humorous someone who is very small ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
7.
- 1327, "kind of slender shellfish," probably from O.N. skreppa "thin person," from P.Gmc. *skrempanan (see scrimp). Related to O.E. scrimman "to shrink." The connecting notion is probably "thinness" (cf. Dan. dialectal skrimpe "thin cattle"). The meaning "puny person" in Eng. is attested from 1386. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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