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CHEEK

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cheek I. substantiv

1. obraz; faţă (la om); falcă (la animale);

cheek by jowl în strânsă intimitate, cot la cot; nas în nas;

to turn the other cheek a întoarce şi obrazul celălalt;

with one’s tongue in one’s cheek nesincer, prefăcut; ipocrit;

to one’s own cheek numai pentru sufleţelul său, numai pentru sine.

2. (fam.) obrăznicie, neobrăzare, îndrăzneală, neruşinare, necuviinţă, tupeu;

to have the cheek to say smth. a avea obrazul / neobrăzarea de a spune ceva;

(prov.) cheek brings success obraznicul mănâncă praznicul.

3. (tehn.) falcă (a menghinei); bac, batiu, vang, gingie; montant, pop.

4. (geol.) latură, flanc.

5. (mar.) falcă de gabil.

6. plural (mar.) lături, laturi, porţi.

cheek II. verb tranzitiv

(sl.) a se purta neobrăzat, fără ruşine cu; a insulta; a înfrunta; a se obrăznici cu.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Her eyes were flashing, and in her cheeks were two spots of color.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I thought something was wrong. My right cheek has been numb all day.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The lips were red, nay redder than before; and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Their faces are like the faces of people who have died of hunger, and their cheeks are black with the dead flesh of many freezings.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Your cheek will be browner and your hand harder ere you see your mother again.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle was very quiet, but when I glanced up at him I saw that his lips were set and his eyes shining, with just a little flush upon each pale cheek.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Describes a location in the mouth that is toward the back and to the cheek side.

(Distobuccal, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration of a substance through the mucosal membrane on the inside of the cheek or the back of the mouth.

(Buccal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Occurring in, or located in the zygomatic bone or the cheek.

(Malar, NCI Thesaurus)

There are two large maxillary sinuses, one in each of the maxillary bones, which are in the cheek area next to the nose.

(Maxillary sinus, NCI Dictionary)

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