Polish English Dictionary

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przecznica in English:

1. block


Such a person will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the opposite sex.
Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time.
I need sun block.
Nothing can change the look of a city so dramatically as the sudden appearance of a block of offices which towers above all the surrounding buildings.
From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.
I'll kill you! Knock your block off and grind you underfoot! You shithead! Die!
A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block.
And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.
One hutong connects with another, siheyuans connect with other siheyuans to form a block, and blocks join with other blocks to form the whole city.
Just how well can masks block the, even smaller than pollen, yellow sand dust? I think it much more of a nuisance than pollen.
The manager blocked his suggestion because he didn’t like it.
This block of apartments is a building that takes both the environment and health into consideration. From now on we want to further expand this system and knowhow.
Almost all implementations of virtual memory divide the virtual address space of an application program into pages; a page is a block of contiguous virtual memory addresses.

English word "przecznica"(block) occurs in sets:

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2. turning


She's turning red.
The mayor of this city was blamed for turning a deaf ear to the people's requests.
The company is turning to export markets to make up for a decline in domestic sales.
I think he's making a big mistake by turning down the job.
He glanced over the newspaper before turning in.
Life is the grave in which I'm turning.
Turning left you will find the bus stop.
With the world turning circles running round my brain.
Using the rudder and the jib with the wind behind it we backed up, turning the bow to the direction we wanted to go.
I'm afraid of discord arising with my husband so I'm turning a blind eye to his mistress.
In a sense, I am turning around the argument made by David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd.
Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you want?"
River Suzhou is Shanghai's "mother river"; twisting and turning, it stretches across and flows through the city center.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
I would like to make a few remarks before turning to a close examination of the theory.

English word "przecznica"(turning) occurs in sets:

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