(medical) a disease that mainly affects children in which their bones become soft and deformed. It is caused by vitamin D deficiency as the result of either a poor diet or insufficient exposure to sunlight: UNICEF reports that over 550,000 children suffer from rickets in Bangladesh.
az: raxit
ru: рахит
a puzzle usually in the form of a question, which describes an object, person etc in a mysterious or misleading way: Can you guess the answer to this riddle?; The answer to the riddle ‘What flies for ever, and never rests?’ is ‘The wind’.
az: tapmaca
ru: загадка
to make (something) full of holes: They riddled the car with bullets.
az: deşik-deşik etmək
ru: изрешетить
1 to travel or be carried (in a car, train etc or on a bicycle, horse etc): He rides to work every day on an old bicycle; The horsemen rode past.
az: sürmək, getmək
ru: ездить
2 to (be able to) ride on and control (a horse, bicycle etc): Can you ride a bicycle?
az: sürmək, idarə etmək
ru: управлять
3 to take part (in a horse-race etc): He’s riding in the first race.
az: yarışda iştirak etmək
ru: участвовать в скачках
4 to go out regularly on horseback (eg as a hobby): My daughter rides every Saturday morning.
az: at çapmaq
ru: ездить верхом
♦ noun
1 a journey on horseback, on a bicycle etc: He likes to go for a long ride on a Sunday afternoon.
az: at çapma
ru: прогулка верхом, на велосипеде
2 a usually short period of riding on or in something: Can I have a ride on your bike?
az: gəzinti, minmə
ru: поездка, езда
1 a long narrow piece of ground etc raised above the level of the ground etc on either side of it.
az: şırım
ru: гребень
2 a long narrow row of hills: a ridge separating the two canyons.
az: təpə cərgəsi
ru: горный хребет
3 anything like a ridge in shape: A ridge of high pressure is a long narrow area of high pressure as shown on a weather map.
az: şırım, zolaq
ru: гребень
4 the top edge of something where two sloping surfaces meet, eg on a roof.
az: nəyinsə təpəsi (dağın)
ru: конёк
See also:
English-Azerbaijani dictionaryto laugh at; to mock: They ridiculed him because he was wearing one brown shoe and one black shoe.
az: ələ salmaq, gülünc yerinə qoymaq
ru: высмеивать
♦ noun
laughter at someone or something; mockery: Despite the ridicule of his neighbours, he continued to build a spaceship in his garden.
az: ələ salma
ru: насмешка