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less in inglese:

1. more

I want more.

When people meet, first impressions determine more than 50 percent of whatever happens next.

Blow by blow, her punches got more intense.

Tom claims he doesn't watch much TV, but he watches more than three hours every day.

If you don't start treating people with a little more respect, people may start avoiding you like the plague.

A lot of people who have up until now been spending money having a good time now need to be more careful with their money.

Between 1820 and 1973, the United States admitted more than 46 million immigrants.

For quantities of 20 or more, we can allow you a special discount of 10% on the prices quoted.

In all my travels I've never seen a more beautiful mountain than Everest.

Because his family traveled from place to place, Cesar Chavez attended more than thirty schools as a child.

Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.

Generally speaking, college students have more free time than high school students.

The errors apparent in his results are due more to carelessness than faulty procedures.

Her technique is superb, but she needs to play with more expression.

You can't easily put photos on an iPad from more than one computer. However, you can email photos to yourself from various computers and download these photos to your iPad.

Inglese parola "less"(more) si verifica in set:

Opposite words - Examples of Antonyms
Word pairs - pary słów

2. subtracting

Once you go ahead and start, even the tiresome work of adding and subtracting figures is interesting in its way.

3. less

You should smoke less.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

Tom began reading that book three weeks ago and he still has only read less than half of it.

I would very much like the place where I live to be less polluted.

This drawing is less than great. He needs to do something with the line here at the back of the leg.

I've heard that people who eat vegetables and fruit every day are less likely to have a heart attack.

Some people look down on others because they have less money.

A building with high ceilings and huge rooms may be less practical than the colorless block of offices that takes its place, but it often fits in well with its surroundings.

You're much less likely to get a good position if you don't speak English.

The more countries a language is spoken in, the less important it is to sound like a native speaker, since speakers of that language are accustomed to hearing various dialects.

Since there are usually multiple websites on any given topic, I usually just click the back button when I arrive on any webpage that has pop-up advertising. I just go to the next page found by Google and hope for something less irritating.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so that we may listen more and talk less.

And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.

While the bureaucracy comes up with sweetly technical terms like "less advantaged," the slums brim with malcontent.

Although Jane had one suitcase less than me, she still said she had too much to carry.

4. lessening

Inglese parola "less"(lessening) si verifica in set:

Word Formation (Year 3)

5. 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.

6. use

He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.

I use Firefox.

Even though computer programmers may use semicolons every day, nowadays most people only use semicolons for emoticons.

In all likelihood, you will pass the entrance exam if you use this textbook.

Time is a precious thing, so we should make the best use of it.

Recently there are a lot of young people who don't use respectful language to their superiors.

At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.

If it's badly insulated, it won't warm up regardless of how much heating you use.

That knife was so blunt I couldn't use it to cut the meat so I had to rely on my pocket knife.

In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.

The USSR will only use air strikes in the country as a last resort.

It is illegal in the United States for law enforcement to use torture to get information.

I used to use Twitter, but then found it a bit boring, so I stopped using it.

Instead of using disposable chopsticks, it's better to use plastic chopsticks that you can wash.

Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.

7. little

I slept a little during lunch break because I was so tired.

He's a little pale.

It was a very slow train. It stopped at every little station.

That man was standing a little ways away, but he turned when he heard Tom shout.

I hope spring sticks around just a little bit longer. I hate summers.

Since they had no children of their own, they decided to adopt a little girl.

He was looking forward to spending the weekend with her in their little cottage in Somerset.

With a little planning, I think we can take our company to the top.

Hearing about people kidnapping little children just makes my blood boil.

As a matter of fact, he knows very little of the matter.

The background check on Tom turned up suspiciously little.

I think you'll have very little difficulty in getting a driver's license.

Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.

Could you move over a little? "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize I was taking up so much space."

From my point of view, it would be better to wait a little longer.

8. the least

I like history the least.

New claims and exposures are assigned to the user whose workload has the least weight

9. Flood

The flood damaged some houses in the neighbourhood but thankfully it quickly subsided.

Because of the flood, it was a bad rice-harvest.

We provided the flood victims with food and clothing.

A flood is when everything becomes covered with water.

A flood is when there is too much water in a river and it comes onto the streets or fields.

Fear flooded him

Low-lying lands will flood. This means that people will be left homeless and their crops will be destroyed by the salt water.

I don't know who my ancestors are. Our papers got lost during the Flood.

if an area floods, large amounts of water pour in, for example after there has been a lot of very heavy rain or if a water pipe bursts

Our washing machine broke down yesterday and flooded the kitchen.

A flood is an enormous amount of water. If the street is full of water, it's flooded. Too much of anything can also be called a flood.

Kelsier did as requested, pushing the door closed and stemming the flood of white mist.

Parts of the ship could be flooded to create giant fish tanks.

What does it feel like when your brain is flooded with oxytocin?

As you know, Europe has, once again, been struck by a flood disaster.

10. is used to show that something is being subtracted

11. Diminish

My enthusiasm has diminished greatly.

"Don't let anybody diminish your accomplishments," he said to the crowd.

The pain will gradually diminish

To say so should not diminish his importance.

poverty is not diminishing, but spreading

This conclusion is not in any way to diminish the need to protect gay people and people who support gay marriage

I don't want to diminish her achievements, but she did have a lot of help.; Her popularity as a singer has diminished since the glory days of the 1980s; The threat of inflation is diminishing.

Your pain should diminish gradually after taking these tablets.

Our company has to diminish expenses.

Anticipation did nothing to diminish the shock or the suffering

This product diminish my smile lines.

The threat of inflation is diminishing. Investors can diversify their holdings in order to diminish risk.

We need to realize that God loves us just the way we are right now, and His love for us will never diminish. Your pain should diminish gradually after taking these tablets.

The world's natural resources are rapidly diminishing. I don't wish to diminish the importance of their achievements.

With no supply of water from trees, rainfalls diminish in time and the area keeps drying up.