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MONKEY

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monkey I. substantiv

1. (zool.) maimuţă;

female/ she monkey maimuţă (femelă);

(sl.) to put smb.'s monkey up a înfuria pe cineva; a face pe cineva să-şi iasă din fire; a scoate din fire / din sărite pe cineva;

(sl.) to get one's monkey up a se înfuria, a se supăra, a-i sări muştarul.

2. (fig.) maimuţă, ştrengar, neastâmpărat;

(fam.) you young monkey maimuţă mică! ştrengar mic!

3. (fig.) nătâng, prost, tembel.

4. (sl.) (suma de) cinci sute lire; (amer.) cinci sute dolari.

5. (tehn.) cărucior de macara.

6. (constr.) berbec (de sonetă).

7. (mine) galerie auxiliară in steril.

monkey II. verb A. tranzitiv

a maimuţări.

monkey II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a face salturi / tumbe (ca o maimuţă).

2. (fam.) to monkey (about) with smth. a mişca ceva (care trebuie lăsat liniştit).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

We found that human and monkey brains had very similar responses to sounds in any given frequency range.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

A monkey, then?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I told his majesty, that in Europe we had no monkeys, except such as were brought for curiosity from other places, and so small, that I could deal with a dozen of them together, if they presumed to attack me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains, said Bevil Conway, Ph.D., investigator in the NIH’s Intramural Research Program and a senior author of the study.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

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