Ingles

gle agile | adjective | able to move quickly and easily | The ferret is an agile hunter. |
bar chart | noun [countable] | a graph that represents different amounts or values as thick lines of different lengths | The company results to date were represented on a bar chart. |
bend | verb | 1 to lean forwards and downwards or to move the top part of your body forwards and downwards; 2 to becomecurved or folded and not straight | 1 He bent and kissed her quickly. 2 tools that will not bend or break under stress |
biomedicine | noun [uncountable] | the principles of biology and biochemistry applied to the practice of medicine | a professor of biomedicine |
breakdown | noun [countable] | a mental condition in which you are so upset or unhappy that you cannot look after yourself | anervous breakdown |
breakthrough | noun [countable] | a discovery or achievement that comes after a lot of hard work | Detectives are still waiting for a breakthrough in their investigations. |
breathtaking | adjective | extremely impressive or beautiful | The scenery along the coast was just breathtaking. |
breathtakingly | adverb | in an extremely impressive or beautiful way | The view wasbreathtakingly wonderful. |
bring about | phrasal verb | to make something happen especially to cause changes in a situation | social changes that have been brought about by new technology |
broken-down | adjective | no longer working or in good condition | broken-down machinery |
catastrophic | adjective | causing a lot of damage or making a lot of people suffer | Catastrophic floods havedevastated the region. |
caveman | noun [countable] | one of the people who lived thousands of years ago mainly in caves | Early cavemen were unable to speak. |
circumvent | verb | to find a way of avoiding a rule or law that limits you especially using a clever trick that does not break the law | Advertising restrictions are easily circumvented. |
consumption | noun [uncountable] | the use ofsomething such as fuel or energy or the amount that people use | The government is determined to reduce the UK’s total energy consumption. |
conversely | adverb | used for introducing a sentence or part of a sentence which says something that is the opposite of the other part | When the press was biased towards the political right television coverage tended to lean to the left. Conversely if thepress swung heavily to the left television would have to redress the balance by leaning to the right. |
crackdown | noun [countable] | strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity | Police are launching a new crackdown on drug users. |
cryogenics | noun [uncountable] | the science that studies the effects of low temperatures especially the possible use of lowtemperatures for preserving the bodies of dead people | a cryogenics company |
cutback | noun [countable] | a reduction in something such as the amount of money available to spend | Many hospitals face cutbacks in services. |
cybernetics | noun [uncountable] | the use of technology to make copies of natural things for example artificial body parts | the cybernetics department |
decline | verb| 1 to become less or worse; 2 to say politely that you will not accept something or do something | 1 The number of people buying their own homes has declined. 2 We asked her to the reception but she declined the invitation. |
decrepit | adjective | old and no longer in good condition | a decrepit old man |
delete | verb | to remove or cross out something that has been written | Several nameshad been deleted from the list. |
disastrous | adjective | causing a lot of damage or harm | The consequences of spending cuts would be disastrous for local schools. |
disposable | adjective | something that is disposable is designed to be thrown away after you have used it once or a few times | a disposable razor/camera/lighter |
distinguished | adjective | successful and respected by...