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SLENDER
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Traducere în limba română
slender adjectiv
1. subţire, zvelt, subţirel;
slender blade lamă subtire / tăioasă;
slender waist talie zveltă / suplă / fină / subţirică;
slender hopes slabe speranţe.
2. slab, firav, mic, zgârcit, sărac;
slender means mijloace reduse.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Beth has grown slender, pale, and more quiet than ever.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
A slender and elongated solid thread-like substance that delivers drug in such a manner to allow a reduction in dosing frequency as compared to that drug (or drugs) presented as a conventional dosage form.
(Extended Release Fiber Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It so happened that she could not have done a better thing, for Laurie came in so quietly she did not hear him, and as she stood at the distant window, with her head half turned and one hand gathering up her dress, the slender, white figure against the red curtains was as effective as a well-placed statue.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)