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ORPHAN

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Traducere în limba română

orphan I. substantiv adjectiv

orfan.

orphan II. verb tranzitiv

a lăsa orfan; a face să devină orfan.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Ah! said Mr. Peggotty, taking up her curls, and running them over his hand like water, here's another orphan, you see, sir.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Reed kept the orphan ten years: whether it was happy or not with her, I cannot say, never having been told; but at the end of that time she transferred it to a place you know—being no other than Lowood School, where you so long resided yourself.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Other orphan receptors also requiring RXR for its functions are vitamin D receptor (VDR) for vitamin D and retinoic acid receptor (RAR) for retinoid acids, although these receptors are not involved in lipid metabolism.

(Lipid Metabolism and Toxicity Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Are you an orphan?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Sit ye down, and give me your forgiveness for having ever been a worrit to you, Dan'l—what have my contraries ever been to this!—and let us speak a word about them times when she was first an orphan, and when Ham was too, and when I was a poor widder woman, and you took me in.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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