Parola del giorno in inglese

Definizioni

inglese > italiano
old
1. agg. vecchio
inglese > inglese
old
1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building;  an old friend
2. adj.          Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
a wrinkled old man
3. adj.          Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
an old loaf of bread
4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
6. adj. Of an earlier time.:
7. adj.          Former, previous.
My new car is not as good as my old one.  a school reunion for Old Etonians
8. adj.          That is no longer in existence.
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
9. adj.          Obsolete; out-of-date.
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
10. adj.          Familiar.
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
11. adj. Tiresome.
Your constant pestering is getting old.
12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
15. subst. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
italiano > inglese
vecchio
1. adj. old, outworn
2. adj. old-fashioned, out-of-date
3. adj. mature, ripe
vino vecchio - mature wine
4. n-m. An old man.
5. subst. only used in, vecchio marino

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Esempi d'uso

That is old news.      Quella è una vecchia notizia. The old castle stands on the hill.      Il vecchio castello si erge sulla collina. How old do you think she is?      Quanti anni pensi che abbia? How old this book is!      Quanto è vecchio questo libro! The man is old.      L'uomo è vecchio.

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