Polish English Dictionary

para in English:

1. couple

Did you see that couple in matching outfits just now? How tasteless!

A very elderly couple is having an elegant dinner to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary.

A couple more!

Exploring and populating the newly discovered continent happened over the course of a couple of centuries.

You wake up lying on the rocky floor of a dark cave. A little light filters down from above. You can just make out a couple of openings leading away from the cave. What do you do now?

Tomorrow, the car needs to go to the garage for a big service. It'll probably set me back a couple of hundred euros.

This couple approaches humor so dryly that enormous chains of jokes will blossom without an iota of laughter.

It seems as it was a shot-gun wedding so they're having a quiet wedding with only family and a couple of friends from university invited.

The fat woman, the young couple, the sleeping Indian and the tall man in black, but now skin and flesh and hair had disappeared, and empty eye sockets stared from gleaming white skulls.

The couple who came on a shrine visit, Kouji Oonishi (40) and his wife Yukie (34) said, "We prayed that our child would grow up healthily."

Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the sort of couple who don't go out much in the evenings.

A British research group predicted that more couples will divorce and re-marry in future.

On May 18, a young Japanese couple was arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter.

But otter hunting is no "mug's game." Let it be known that it requires more than a few couple of hounds and a brace or so of terriers to kill an otter.

At the last office I went to I ran out of work after a couple of hours, which made the rest of the day rather boring.

English word "para"(couple) occurs in sets:

Click on 2, Unit 1, słownictwo, cz. 1
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2. pair

Since the bridge looks like a pair of glasses, they call it Meganebashi.

Tom buys new shoes whenever he can find a pair that fit.

a pair of trousers.

The adjacency pair has five basic characteristics.

Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive.

As Season 2 started, Dima decided that he needed a new look, and - reaching into the pocket of his Armani - pulled out a pair of supercool shades.

The game of pinball involves directing a little steel ball onto ramps and into holes with a pair of flippers.

I haven't bought a pair of shoes for six months; I deserve a new pair so I think I'll go buy them!

What do we mean by "global optimization"? It's kind of like if I gave you a pair of binoculars and told you to find me the highest mountain in the world, using only your eyes.

Which pair would you rather buy?

Grow a pair

The Tanabata Festival is often called the Star Festival. August 7th, the day of the festival, is said to be the only time when a pair of lovers, stars separated by the Milky Way, can see each other.

Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of socks, and as essential to thousands of British school children as a pencil and eraser.

But there's only one pair of chopsticks. What shall we do?

A love story that unfolds between an unlikely pair, a public prosecutor from a good family and a modern high school girl.

English word "para"(pair) occurs in sets:

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3. steam

Recently, there have been signs that the economy is picking up steam.

You can also ride on an old, restored, steam train.

Steam trains were replaced by electric trains.

Horses used to pull road-rollers, but the steamroller arrived with the invention of the steam engine.

steam train

Pretty soon along came a steam shovel and dug a road through the hill covered with daisies.

He succeeded in applying steam to navigation.

The steam shovels dug down three stories on one side and four stories on the other side.

A steam engine transforms heat into power.

When converting 1 mole of ice into water, and 1 mole of water into steam, which requires more energy?

And the French have long reserved the option to have their steamed milk served in a pitcher on the side when ordering a café au lait.

To steam something means to cook it using the hot vapor from boiling water.

Listen, you must control yourself. It's just no good to steam your boss. Unless, of course, you have another job in sight.

Do you want to steam the courgettes, or shall we bake them?

Probably you would have swarms of earthquakes and some surface uplift and possibly some changes in the pattern of behaviour of the geysers and steam vents.

English word "para"(steam) occurs in sets:

longman podstawa nauka i technika i zdrowie
słówka z angielskiego maclaz nauka i technika 1
BBC upper-intermediate course unit 3
13.6 Zagrożenia i ochrona środowiska
LONGMAN roździał 12, nauka i technika

4. a pair of

This is a pair of shoes.

a pair of shoes

English word "para"(a pair of) occurs in sets:

Unit 7: Useful prases & Phrasal verbs
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5. vapour

Inhalation vapour, liquid

I thought they were OK because they produce vapour – that's water in the form of gas – rather than the smoke full of harmful chemicals that you get in ordinary cigarettes.