lick
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongueThe act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
» The cat was licking its paws.
Кот лизал свои лапы.
Кошка лизала свои лапы.
Кіт лизав свої лапи.
Значення
значень: 12The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
The cat gave its fur a lick.
Lecken
лиза́ниеlizánije, обли́зываниеoblízyvanije
лиза́нняlyzánnja
touching with the tongue
The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
Give me a lick of ice cream.
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
a lick of paint
to put on colours with a lick of the brush
A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
The birds gathered at the clay lick.
a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
We used to play in the lick.
(розмовне)A stroke or blow.
Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
(boxing) a blow with the fist
(розмовне)A small amount; a whit.
You don't have a lick of sense.
I didn't do a lick of work today.
(розмовне)An attempt at something.
A short motif.
There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
(розмовне)A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
(сленг)An act of cunnilingus.
You up for a lick tonight?
An instance or opportunity to earn money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc. or its victim; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
Приклади
речень: 211The cat was licking its paws.
Кіт лизав свої лапи.
ruКот лизал свои лапы.
Tom licked the butter off the knife.
Том злизав масло з ножа.
ruТом слизал масло с ножа.
Kissing a person who smokes is like licking an ashtray.
Цілувати курильщика — все одно що лизати попільничку.
ruЦеловать курильщика - всё равно что лизать пепельницу.
deJemanden, der raucht, zu küssen ist so, wie an einem Aschenbecher zu lecken.
Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.
Цілувати курильщика — це як лизати попільничку.
ruЦеловать курильщика - это как лизать пепельницу.
I licked the spoon.
Я лизнув ложку.
ruЯ облизнул ложку.
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мов: 9За значеннями 1
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Походження
From Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, frFrom Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”). Sense evolution towards violence unclear; not paralleled in any other Germanic language.
Back-formation from hit a lick, which see. Ultimately from liquor.
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