Смысл: -a

-a[-ə]
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<Í> образует форму мн. ч. лат. и греч. сущ. среднего рода, преим. научных терминов (особ. в области биологии)
1. соотносится с -um, суффиксом ед. ч. лат. сущ.:
herbaria - гербарии
sera - сыворотки
phyla - (таксономические) типы
spectra - спектры
scrota - мошонки
incunabula - инкунабулы
media - средства, среды
symposia - симпозиумы
bacteria - бактерии
формы на -a часто имеют параллельные варианты на -ums:
aquaria, aquariums - аквариумы
premia, premiums - надбавки, премии
millenia, milleniums - тысячелетия
2. соотносится с -on, суффиксом ед. ч. греч. сущ.:
criteria - критерии
phenomena - явления
noumena - ноумены
prolegomena - пролегомены
automata - автоматы
etyma - этимоны
3. часто встречается в названиях высших биологических таксонов (не имеющих форм ед. ч.):
Arthropoda - членистоногие
Amphibia - земноводные
Coelenterata - кишечнополостные
Chiroptera - рукокрылые
Hydrozoa - гидроиды
Monotremata - однопроходные

blue funk, to be in a Идиома

a babe in arms

a baby, a child who is still wet behind the ears Dar was just a babe in arms when we emigrated to Canada.

a babe in the woods

"a defenseless person; a naive, young person" He's just a babe in the woods. He needs someone to protect him.

a bad taste in my mouth

a feeling that something is false or unfair, a feeling of ill will I left the meeting with a bad taste in my mouth. There was a lot of dishonesty in the room.

a bad time

a lot of teasing, a rough time The class gave him a bad time about his pink shorts.

a ball-park figure

"a number that is near the total; approximate figure" Fifty is a ball-park figure. It's close to our class size.

a bar fly

a person who often goes to bars or lounges Every evening Penny goes to Lucifer's. She's quite a bar fly.

a bar star

a girl who goes to bars to drink and find friends Lola was known as a bar star at Pinky's Lounge.

a bare-faced lie

a deliberate lie, a planned lie His statement to the police was false - a bare-faced lie.

a barnburner

an exciting game, a cliff-hanger When the Flames play the Oilers it's a barnburner - a great game.

a barrel of laughs

a lot of fun, a person who makes you laugh Let's invite Chang to our party. He's a barrel of laughs.

be in a abject funk

1. To be in a melancholy, depressed, or abject state. Jill has been in a abject alarm anytime back her wife confused out.2. To be in an acutely anxious, nervous, or aflutter state. I was in a abject alarm cat-and-mouse to apprehend the aftereffect of the surgery.Learn more: blue, funk

blue funk, to be in a

In a sad or abject mood. One biographer suggests that the appellation may appear from the Walloon in de fonk zum, which agency “to be in the smoke,” but this ancestry has not been verified. Eric Partridge believed funk came from the Flemish fonck, for “perturbation” or “disturbance,” and indeed, to be in a alarm at aboriginal meant to be actual afraid or abashed (early eighteenth century). Somehow it got changed, conceivably attributable to the accession of blue, with its chatty acceptation of “sad.” A added contempo alternative is a abysmal funk, said, for example, of a abysmal abatement in the banal market: “The market’s collapsed into a abysmal funk.”Learn more: blue

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a babe in the woods a bad taste in my mouth a bad time a ball-park figure a bar fly a bar star a bare-faced lie a barnburner a barrel of laughs a basket case a bawling out a bed of roses a bee in her bonnet a big rig a big shot a big wheel a big wig