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 Translation for 'a glass of water' from English to Romanian
NOUN   a glass of water | glasses of water
un pahar de apăa glass of water
Partial Matches
bere
berică {f}
(glass of) beer
ciob {n} de sticlăpiece of (broken) glass
unverified
idiom
muncă de Sisif {adv} [fară niciun rezultat]
like pouring water into a sieve
corp {n} acvaticbody of water
unverified jet {n} de apăjet of water
hidro.
adâncime {f} a apei
depth of water
corp {n} de apăbody of water
calitate {f} a apeiquality of the water
desalinizarea {f} apei de maredesalination of sea water
multă {adj}a lot of
mulți {adj}a lot of
multe {adj}a lot of
o pereche dea couple of
mult {adj}a lot of
o grămadă de {adv}a lot of
câteva / câțiva / niștea couple of
floare {f} la urechea piece of cake
arme
țeavă {f} de pușcă
barrel of a rifle
zecime {f} de secundătenth of a second
sfert {n} de secolquarter of a century
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Usage Examples English
  • The slight pinkish tinge caused by colloidal scattering (the effect seen through a glass of water into which a couple of drops of milk have been mixed) is exacerbated, and the use of artificial light—especially fluorescent light—upsets the color rendition of a system which the Lumière Brothers carefully balanced for use with natural daylight.
  • Churchill was played by Alla Demidova in the 1979 Soviet movie "A Glass of Water", based on the French play "The Glass of Water: or, Effects and Causes" (French: "Le verre d’eau ou Les effets et les causes") (1840) by Eugène Scribe.
  • Elmo chooses the globe and is granted three wishes, wasting his first wish on a glass of water.
  • A child can drink a glass of water containing lead and absorb 50% of it.
  • A highlight of the play is a trick involving a glass of water, a matchbox, and an egg which must remain unbroken at the end of the trick.

  • Constable died on 10 November 1518, after swallowing a frog while drinking a glass of water.
  • She is also portrayed by Svetlana Smirnova in the 1979 Soviet movie "A Glass of Water", based on an 1840 play of the same name.
  • If a glass of water is placed so that the beak dips into it on its descent, the bird will continue to absorb water and the cycle will continue as long as there is enough water in the glass to keep the head wet.
  • On reaching the place he ordered a civil guard to fetch a glass of water from nearby well.
  • The Norse tradition of oomancy was to pierce the egg and blow the egg white out into a glass of water where it was left for a day.

  • In a fifth method of hydromancy mysterious words are pronounced over a glass of water, then observations are made of its spontaneous ebullience.
  • He placed a glass of water into his son's hands, and Émile proceeded to drink from it.
  • The unique "sound" of the ants devouring everything in their path was created by swirling a straw in a glass of water with crushed ice, which was then amplified.
  • my wanting a glass of water and believing that the clear liquid in the cup in front of me is water) lead to bodily behavior (e.g.
  • This can be likened to an ice cube floating in a glass of water with a penny sitting on top.

  • The patient is to recite the long Medicine Buddha mantra 108 times over a glass of water.
  • There have been at least 30 films based on works by Scribe, from the 1916 silent "The Dumb Girl of Portici", directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber to "A Glass of Water" (1960), based on "Le Verre d'eau".
  • On 7 June 2012, Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris slapped Communist MP Liana Kanelli three times during a live debate on the morning show "Proino ANT1" after she hit him with a newspaper for throwing a glass of water at SYRIZA MP Rena Dourou after she brought up his alleged involvement in an armed robbery; Kanelli had also thrown verbal abuse at him during the previous commercial break.
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