Polish English Dictionary

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opierać in English:

1. base


Soldiers found enemy`s base.
Base jumping is an extreme sport.
Roger Miller entered the United States Army at the age of seventeen. He was sent to an army base near Atlanta, Georgia.
How many of you are there at the base?
I must needs do him that justice to declare, that I never observed in him but an abhorrence to all base things.
His remuneration consists of a base salary plus commissions.
From the castle we could see the whole curve of the river around its base.
You stand the axis on the base and then proceed to stack up each part, staggering their position.
Touch the base of the lamp once to turn it on and twice to turn it off.
I have tried to compile the ideas that you proposed prior to the meeting, so that we can use them as the base for the discussion.
On base and off, buckle your seat-belts.
Comedians base their jokes on tragic situations like violent death or serious accidents.
based on
She buys pizza bases at the supermarket because it is quicker than making them.
A base service performed for a person of very high degree may become a very honorific office; as for instance the office of a Maid of Honor or of a Lady in Waiting to the Queen, or the King's Master of the Horse or his Keeper of the Hounds.

English word "opierać"(base) occurs in sets:

Unit 1 Study plans

2. rest


Rest in peace.
If you work too long without a rest, it begins to tell on you.
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
The squid ink in arroz negro blackens the rest of the ingredients enough to make the Spanish dish a Goth staple.
You may rest assured; I have no ulterior motive in making this donation.
Roger Ascham one day paying a visit to the amiable but unfortunate Lady Jane Grey found her employed in reading Plato while the rest of the family were engaged in a hunting party in the park.
In the fourth place, even if we succeeded in carrying off the bear cubs, we could not run up a mountain without stopping to rest.
If you want to set your mind at rest and relax at home, first you have to not think about work matters.
A good Tatoeba contributor adopts orphaned sentences so the rest of us can focus on Christopher Columbus and his zany antics.
He who seeks a flawless horse or flawless wife, may rest assured that even if his work he did forsake, nor bed nor stable would he ever fill.
Big brother, you've got a bad fever?! Never mind the bags, rest in the shade of those trees!
We had a fairly good idea what the world thought of the United States. Now we also know what the United States thinks of the rest of the world.
He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs and suddenly looked up and saw an elderly woman before him.
I feel smart today, to a degree that is in proportion to the amount of good rest I had yesterday.

English word "opierać"(rest) occurs in sets:

Vocabulary 17
Lekcja 3a wypadek

3. resist


I don't watch a lot of movies, but I can't resist a good documentary.
resist change
Give me the strength to resist the temptation. / 2. There are always those who resist progress. / 3. You resist what can bring you peace. / 4. I'm pretty sure I can resist you.
However long it takes; we will resist the enemy and we will never give up.
Couldn't resist telling the dentist "yeh it makes me feel numb" when he asked me did I have any problems with local anaesthetic.
Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.
Even though we resist this by all means — it is a fact.
I resist being tempted to spend a lot of money on clothes.
Children usually resist their parents' tyranny, rebel against them and eventually confront them. I couldn't resist buying such a beautiful dress.
They are determined to resist pressure to change the law. / The bank strongly resisted cutting interest rates. / I can never resist the urge to laugh.
Learn the rules of rugby and you will be unable to resist it
The ​soldiers resisted (the ​enemy ​attacks) for two ​days. I can never resist ​temptation/​chocolate/the ​urge to ​laugh. The ​party ​leader resisted ​demands for his ​resignation.
This material resists water very well. This material is highly water resistant. This is an extremely water-resistant material. This material has very good resistance to water. his material has excellent water resistance.

English word "opierać"(resist) occurs in sets:

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4. support


Why do you insist on paying for your school expenses yourself, when your parents are willing to give you financial support?
support group
And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices.
And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.
Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support. We did not go by choice, we went because of necessity.
The Bank of Japan is considered to have conducted a support buying of an estimated $1 billion on the Tokyo foreign exchange market.
In order to prevent a further drop of the Japanese currency, the Bank of Japan intervened in the market to support it at around 150 yen to the dollar.
In conclusion, Ahn, it very much falls to you and me to set the tone for the work environment. I will do my bit to defuse the present climate and crack on with the job at hand. I hope I can rely on your support for this.
It seems as if dishonorable, labyrinthine, deliberately confusing economic policies have earned more support from the president than every physical and mental disability combined.
There are merits and demerits to both your opinions so I'm not going to decide right away which to support.
Lojban is designed to be unambiguous in orthography, phonology, morphology, and grammar. Lojban semantics, however, must support the same breadth of human thought as natural languages.
I totally understand why you say that. It’s frightening how many people our world has to support.
On the other hand, there seem to be those among young folk who, while touching on Buddhism, have started to think of it as a vital spiritual support.
You need to earn about $1000 a month to support a family in this country. The government in this country has a lot of support from the population.

English word "opierać"(support) occurs in sets:

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