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ex‧cerpt [countable]
a short piece taken from a
book, poem, piece of music etc
excerpt of/from
An excerpt of the speech
appeared in the Sunday paper.
foot‧age [uncountable]
cinema film showing a
particular event:
old footage from the First
World War
sto‧rey British English ; story
American English [countable]
a floor or level of
a building:
a staircase leads to the
upper storey
two-storey/five-storey etc
(=having two etc storeys)
in-between
in the middle between two
points, sizes, periods of time etc:
She was at that in-between
age, neither a girl nor a woman.
width /wɪtθ/ noun
Word partners for width
the width of sth • [1
metre/5 feet, etc] in width • the full width of sth
1 DISTANCE [ MEASURES ] [ C , U ] the
distance from one side of something to the other side
a width of 2 metres
height, length, and width
2 SWIMMING [ SPORT ] [ C ] the distance
across the shorter side of a swimming pool when you swim across it
Strait /streɪt/ [countable]
1 also straits [plural]
a narrow passage of water between two areas of land, usually connecting two
seas:
the Bering Strait
2 be in dire straits
to be in a very difficult
situation, especially a financial one:
After the war the country's economy was in dire straits.
The firm is now in dire financial straits.
Lousy /ˈlaʊzɪ/comparative lousier, superlative lousiest
1 especially spoken of very bad
quality [= awful, terrible]:
What lousy weather!
The food was lousy.
A
lousy film
Unleash /ˈʌnˈliːʃ/ [transitive]
1 to suddenly let a strong force, feeling, etc, have its full
effect:
Lefèvre's comments
unleashed a wave of protest.
2 to let a dog run free after it has been held on a leash.
Powerhouse [countable] informal
1 an organization or place
where there is a lot of activity or where a lot of things are produced:
Europe's industrial
powerhouse
2 someone who is very strong
or has a lot of energy:
a powerhouse of a
man
Cable-stayed bridge
Dangle /ˈdæŋgl/
1 [intransitive and
transitive] to hang or swing loosely, or to make something do this
dangle from
A light bulb
dangled from a wire in the ceiling.
dangle something in/over etc something
I dangled my feet
in the clear blue water.
Soar /sɔːʳ/ look tall [not in progressive] if buildings, trees,
towers etc soar, they look very tall and impressive:
Here the cliffs soar a hundred feet above the
sea.
A soaring skyscrape
Cement /sɪˈmɛnt/ [uncountable]
Building a mixture of clay
and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, etc., to form concrete, used
as a building material.
A floor made of cement.
Consortium /kənˈsɔrʃiəm/
[countable] plural consortia or consortiums
A group of companies or
organizations who are working together to do something:
A consortium of oil
companies.
The aircraft will be built
by a European consortium.
Figure somebody/something ↔ out
phrasal verb
1 to think about a problem
or situation until you find the answer or understand what has happened
Figure out how/what/why etc
Can you figure out
how to do it?
If I have a map, I
can figure it out.
Don't worry, we'll
figure something out (=find a way to solve the problem).
Setback [countable]
a problem that delays or
prevents progress, or makes things worse than they were
setback for
The December
elections were a major setback for the party.
The team's hopes of
playing in Europe suffered a setback last night.
The shoreline
From scratch
if you start something from
scratch, you begin it without using anything that existed or was prepared
before:
We had to start
again from scratch.
He had built
the business up from scratch.
Feet: a unit of length equal to
12 inches
or 30.48
centimetres .
Inch: 2.54
centimetres .
maintenance /ˈmeɪnt ə nəns/ noun [ U ]
Word partners for maintenance
carry out maintenance • high / low maintenance
• maintenance of sth
1 WORK the work that
is done to keep something in good condition
car maintenance
I want a garden
that's very low maintenance (= easy to look after) .
2 MONEY [ FINANCE ] UK
child
maintenance
moisture /ˈmɔɪstʃə r / noun [ U ]
very small drops of water
in the air or on a surface
nut /nʌt/
noun [ C ]
1 FOOD [ BIOLOGY , FOOD
] the dry fruit of some trees which grows in a hard shell, and can often be
eaten
a brazil/cashew nut
2 METAL a piece of
metal with a hole in it through which you put a bolt (= metal pin) to hold
pieces of wood or metal together
3 KEEN informal a
person who is keen on a particular subject or hobby
She's a real sports
nut.
4 the nuts and bolts
the basic parts of a job or
an activity
Law school can
teach you theory, but it can't teach you the nuts and bolts of the profession.
washer /ˈwɒʃə r / noun [ C ]
1 RING a thin, flat
ring that is put between a nut and a bolt (= metal objects used to fasten
things together)
2 MACHINE a machine
that washes clothes
ˈ Cable ˌ car noun [ C ]
A vehicle that hangs from
thick cables and carries people up hills and mountains
Zip line
float /fləʊt/ noun [ C ]
1 VEHICLE a large,
decorated vehicle that is used in public celebrations
