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Traducere în limba română
puff I. substantiv
1. suflu (de aer etc.); nor mic (de fum, de aburi etc.).
2. (fam.) respiraţie;
out of puff gâfâind, cu sufletul la gură, cu respiraţia tăiată.
3. cută înfoiată (la o rochie); cută bufantă (la o mânecă etc.).
4. puf, pămătuf (de pudră).
5. (gastr.) foitaj, prăjitură în foi.
6. reclamă stridentă şi nesinceră.
7. (amer. sl.) exploziv.
8. (amer. sl.) explozie.
puff II. verb A. intranzitiv
1. a sufla.
2. a pufăi.
3. (fam.) a urca oferta (la o licitaţie).
puff II. verb B. tranzitiv
1. a emite, a lansa, a scoate (rotocoale de fum, nori de aburi etc.).
2. a pufăi din (ţigară, lulea etc.).
3. (fam.) a lăuda (marfa).
4. to puff away a sufla (praful, scamele etc.);
to puff out a) a umfla (obrajii); b) a balona, a face bufant; c) a scoate, a lansa (rotocoale de fum etc.);
to puff up a) a umfla (obrajii); b) a face să se umfle în pene (de mândrie).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
A puff of wind caught me,—and I staggered across the moving deck to a corner of the cabin, to which I clung for support.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
Upon applying one puff in the nostril, the fentanyl is rapidly absorbed through the nasal mucosa and selectively binds to and activates mu-opioid receptors in the central nervous system (CNS), mimicking the effects of endogenous opiates.
(Fentanyl Citrate-containing Nasal Spray, NCI Thesaurus)
Each arrow passed high over the oak; and, of the three, two stuck fair into the stump; while the third, caught in some wandering puff of wind, was driven a foot or two to one side.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Micrograms per puff.
(Microgram per Puff, NCI Thesaurus)
None safer in all the world from them than I am, and as I wondered at the meaning of her words, a puff of wind made the flame leap up, and I see the red scar on her forehead.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
You will puff her up with such ideas of her own beauty, and of what she has a claim to, that, in a little while, nobody within her reach will be good enough for her.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
A puff, slightly stronger than usual, struck us just then.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
(A puff had caught the schooner, and he was forced to put the wheel up rapidly to keep her out of the wind.) ’Tis no egg-shell’ll float on this sea an hour come, an’ it’s a stroke iv luck for them we’re here to pick ’em up.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
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