Monday, December 11, 2017

NA2 11/12/17

p. 36 & 37

conˈveyor belt noun [countable] 
a long continuous moving band of rubber, cloth, or metal, used in a place such as a factory or an airport to move things from one place to another
 We lifted our baggage from the conveyor belt.

Orienteering is a group of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points.[1]

Headlight

I’ve been to Madrid

Profitable

slaughter /ˈslɔːtə $ ˈslɒːtər/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
1 to kill an animal, especially for its meat
2 to kill a lot of people in a cruel or violent way SYN butcher
 Hundreds of innocent civilians had been slaughtered by government troops.

skin verb (skinned, skinning) [transitive] 
1 to remove the skin from an animal, fruit, or vegetable → peel
 Add the tomatoes, skinned and sliced.
2 to hurt yourself by rubbing off some skin SYN graze
 She fell and skinned her knee.

PLUCK

4 CHICKEN [transitive] to pull the feathers off a dead chicken or other bird before cooking it

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