Английский словарь американских идиом - fate
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U.S. gov. abbr. Freedom Of Action Thought And Expression ocean sc. abbr. Fisheries and the Environment media abbr. Final Act Of True Entertainment educ. abbr. Family Affirmed Through Education firm name abbr. Frank Amoroso Trucking Enterprises ...English abbreviation dictionary
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~ n 1 the things that will happen to someone, especially unpleasant events (I wouldn't wish such a fate on my worst enemy. | sb's fate/the fate of sb) (No one knows what the fate of the hostages will be. | seal/decide sb's fate (=make it certain that something unpleasant will happen to someone)) (By then our fate had been sealed and we were doomed never to return home. | leave sb to their fate (=leave someone when something terrible could happen to them)) (He sailed away from the island, leaving the other men to their fate. | suffer a fate) (The rest of Europe was to suffer the same fate.) 2 a power that is believed to control what happens in people's lives (Fate plays cruel tricks sometimes. | by a twist of fate (=in an unexpected way)) (By a strange twist of fate, he died the day before Julia arrived.) 3 a fate worse than death often humorous something terrible that might happen to you (Toby saw marriage as a fate worse than death.) 4 the Fates the three goddesses who, according to the ancient Greeks, controlled what happened to people (- see also tempt fate tempt (3)) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(fates) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Fate is a power that some people believe controls and decides everything that happens, in a way that cannot be prevented or changed. You can also refer to the fates. I see no use quarrelling with fate. ...the fickleness of fate... It was just one of those times when you wonder whether the fates conspire against you. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl 2. A person’s or thing’s fate is what happens to them. The Russian Parliament will hold a special session later this month to decide his fate... He seems for a moment to be again holding the fate of the country in his hands... The Casino, where she had often danced, had suffered a similar fate. = destiny N-COUNT: oft with poss 3. If something seals a person’s or thing’s fate, it makes it certain that they will fail or that something unpleasant will happen to them. The call for a boycott could be enough to seal the fate of next week’s general election... to tempt fate: see tempt PHRASE: V inflects ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin fatum, literally, what has been spoken, from neuter of fatus, past participle of fari to speak — more at ban Date: 14th century 1. the will or principle or determining cause by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do ; destiny 2. a. an inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end b. disaster; especially death 3. a. final outcome b. the expected result of normal development prospective ~ of embryonic cells c. the circumstances that befall someone or something did not know the ~ of her former classmates 4. plural, capitalized the three goddesses who determine the course of human life in classical mythology Synonyms: ~, destiny, lot, portion, doom mean a predetermined state or end. ~ implies an inevitable and usually an adverse outcome the ~ of the submarine is unknown. destiny implies something foreordained and often suggests a great or noble course or end the country's destiny to be a model of liberty to the world. lot and portion imply a distribution by ~ or destiny, lot suggesting blind chance it was her lot to die childless, portion implying the apportioning of good and evil remorse was his daily portion. doom distinctly implies a grim or calamitous ~ if the rebellion fails, his doom is certain. II. transitive verb (~d; fating) Date: 1601 destine; also doom ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a power regarded as predetermining events unalterably. 2 a the future regarded as determined by such a power. b an individual's appointed lot. c the ultimate condition or end of a person or thing (that sealed our fate). 3 death, destruction. 4 (usu. Fate) a goddess of destiny, esp. one of three Greek or Scandinavian goddesses. --v.tr. 1 (usu. in passive) preordain (was fated to win). 2 (as fated adj.) doomed to destruction. Phrases and idioms fate worse than death see DEATH. Etymology: ME f. It. fato & L fatum that which is spoken, f. fari speak ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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сущ. 1) а) общ. рок, судьба б) общ. участь, жребий, удел в) банк., фин. судьба (отказ от оплаты чека, векселя и т. п. или принятие его к оплате) See: "advise fate, "advice of fate 2) общ. гибель, смерть, кончина FATE сущ. 1) а) общ. рок, судьба б) общ. участь, жребий, удел в) банк., фин. судьба (отказ от оплаты чека, векселя и т. п. или принятие его к оплате) See: advise fate, advice of fate 2) общ. гибель, смерть, кончина ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. судьба, рок the irony of fate —- ирония судьбы to leave smb. to his fate —- оставить кого-л. на произвол судьбы to tempt fate —- искушать судьбу 2. участь, жребий, удел to meet one's fate —- найти свою судьбу to accept one's fate —- смириться с судьбой to decide (to fix, to seal) smb.'s fate —- решить чью-л. судьбу to share the same fate —- разделить ту же участь 3. гибель, смерть to go to one's fate —- идти навстречу своей гибели to meet one's fate —- погибнуть Id: no flying from fate —- от судьбы не уйдешь Id: as sure as fate —- наверняка, неизбежно Id: whenever I'm late, as sure as fate I meet the director on the stairs —- стоит мне опоздать, как я неизменно встречаю на лестнице директора Id: to suffer a fate worse than death —- эвф. подвергнуться изнасилованию 4. обыкн. pass предопределять the plan was fated to failure —- план был обречен на провал the two seemed fated for each other —- эти двое, казалось, были предназначены друг для друга самой судьбой ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) рок, судьба; жребий, удел as sure as fate - несомненно 2) гибель, смерть to go to ones fate - идти на гибель 3) (the Fates) pl. myth. парки Syn: see destiny 2. v. usu. pass. предопределять he was fated to do it - ему суждено было сделать это ...Англо-русский словарь
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- c.1385, from L. fata, neut. pl. of fatum "thing spoken (by the gods), one's destiny," from neut. pp. of fari "to speak," from PIE *bha- "speak." The L. sense evolution is from "sentence of the Gods" (Gk. theosphaton), subsequently "lot, portion" (Gk. moira, personified as a goddess in Homer), later "one of the three goddesses (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) who determined the course of a human life." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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