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1 to bridge

2 to put up a bridge

1 short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc

2 skewer

3 prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc

4 (dialect) to stick in

5 to bolt (a door)

6 to arrange (flowers in a vase)

7 to graft (tree)

8 to pedicure

9 to peel (an apple etc)

1 underground

2 subterranean

3 covert

1 cooking-stove

2 to cook

1 hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty

1 the Parthenon, Athens

1 (coll.) duck's egg

1 from here on

1 the day after tomorrow

1 to have guts

2 to have courage

3 to be brave

1 filthy

2 nasty

3 sordid

4 impure (motives)

1 if it is possible (idiom)

1 lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition

2 task of Sisyphus

3 determination in the face of impossible odds

1 falling intonation (linguistics)

2 to lower the key of a tune

3 to demote

1 (Tw) traces

2 material evidence (archaeology, criminal investigation etc)

1 woven fabric

1 MICE tourism (acronym for "meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions"), aka "meetings industry" or "events industry"

1 seismometer

1 measure

2 tolerance

3 breadth

4 magnanimity

5 (math.) metric