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RETAIN

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retain verb tranzitiv

1. a reţine, a ţine (pe loc), a opri, a stăvili;

dyke to retain the water dig pentru a opri apele.

2. a susţine, a sprijini.

3. a angaja, a lua în serviciul său (un servitor etc.);

to retain smb.’s services a angaja serviciile cuiva;

to retain a barrister a angaja un avocat.

4. a menţine, a păstra (un ban, un obicei etc.);

to retain all one’s faculties a-şi păstra toate facultăţile;

to retain the power to a-şi rezerva dreptul de a;

to retain hold of smth. a nu da drumul la ceva; a nu abandona ceva.

5. a păstra în memorie;

to retain the memory / the remembrance of smth. a păstra amirtirea unui lucru.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The big eat the little that they may continue to move, the strong eat the weak that they may retain their strength.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

In a particular range of distances from two sun-like host stars, a planet covered in water would remain habitable and retain its water for a long time, according to a new study.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

Thus, TS retains activity and converts BVdUMP into cytotoxic metabolites.

(Brivudine Phosphoramidate, NCI Thesaurus)

“It retains excess and releases nutrients really slowly.”

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

No. I will retain my post of mistress till you get a substitute.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Then there were the dogs, puppies growing up like himself, and grown dogs that did not look so large and formidable as the memory pictures he retained of them.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

My aunt, retaining her stiff position, and apparent composure, assented with a nod.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Jealousy and bitterness had been suspended: selfishness was lost in the common cause; but at the moment of her appearance, Frederick was listening with looks of devotion to Agatha's narrative, and pressing her hand to his heart; and as soon as she could notice this, and see that, in spite of the shock of her words, he still kept his station and retained her sister's hand, her wounded heart swelled again with injury, and looking as red as she had been white before, she turned out of the room, saying, I need not be afraid of appearing before him.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Cells retain normal architecture.

(Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

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