English-Azerbaijani dictionary

redress the balance

to make things equal again: In order to redress the balance, the club will have to sign a new goalkeeper to replace the one they’ve just sold.
az: yenidən balans yaratmaq, balansı bərpa etmək
ru: восстановить равновесие

redskin

reduce [rəˈdjuːs] verb

1 to make less, smaller etc: The shop reduced its prices; The train reduced speed.
az: azaltmaq
ru: снижать

2 (American) to lose weight by dieting: I must reduce to get into that dress.
az: arıqlamaq
ru: худеть

3 to drive, or put, into a particular (bad) state: The bombs reduced the city to ruins; She was so angry, she was almost reduced to tears; During the famine, many people were reduced to eating grass and leaves.
az: hansısa vəziyyətə salmaq
ru: превращать, доводить

reducible adjective

az: azalan, enən
ru: допускаемый снижение, приводимый

reduction [-ˈdak-] noun

The government promised a reduction in prices later; price reductions.
az: azalma, enmə
ru: снижение

redundancy noun (plural reˈdundancies)

There have been a lot of redundancies at the local factory recently; the problem of redundancy.
az: artıq, qalıq
ru: излишек

redundant [rəˈdandənt] adjective

 (of workers) no longer employed because there is no longer any job for them where they used to work: Fifty men have just been made redundant at the local factory.
az: artıq, əlavə
ru: лишний

reed [riːd] noun

1 a kind of tall, stiff grass growing on wet or marshy ground: reeds along a riverbank.
az: qamıç
ru: тростник
2 a thin piece of cane or metal in certain wind instruments (eg the oboe, clarinet) which vibrates and makes a sound when the instrument is played: I need to replace the reed in my saxophone.

az: qamış dilçək (musiqi alətində)
ru: язычок

reef [riːf] noun

a line of rocks etc just above or below the surface of the sea: The ship got stuck on a reef
az: rif
ru: риф

reek [riːk] noun

a strong, usually unpleasant smell.
az: pis iy, üfunət
ru: вонь
♦ verb

to smell strongly (of something): The hotel room reeked of stale tobacco.
az: pis iy gəmək, iylənmək
ru: вонять

reel [riːl] noun

1 a round wheel-shaped or cylindrical object of wood, metal etc on which thread, film, fishing-lines etc can be wound: a reel of sewing-cotton; He changed the reel in the projector.
az: makara
ru: катушка

2 (the music for) a type of lively Scottish, Irish or American dance: The fiddler played a reel; They are dancing a reel.
az: ril (iti templi rəqs)
ru: рил, хоровод
♦ verb

 to stagger; to sway; to move in an unsteady way: The drunk man reeled along the road; My brain was reeling with all the information that he gave me.
az: laxlamaq, yırğalanmaq
ru: кружиться, шататься

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reel in phrasal verb

to pull (eg a fish out of the water) by winding the line to which it is attached on to a reel.
az: sarımaq
ru: наматывать на катушку

reel off phrasal verb

to say or repeat quickly and easily, without pausing: He reeled off the list of names.
az: dayanmaqdan danışmaq
ru: выпалить

ref [ref] noun

(informal) a referee: The ref pointed to the penalty spot.
az: hakim
ru: судья

refectory [rəˈfektəri] noun (plural refectories)

a dining-hall for monks, students etc.
az: yeməkxana
ru: трапезная, столовая