Перевод слова

Перевод: prod

[существительное]
тычок ; инструмент для прокалывания; шило; толчок ; стимул ;
[глагол]
тыкать; колоть; пронзать; побуждать; подгонять

Тезаурус:

1. The administration therefore got involved with Iran again not out of conviction, but with a strong prod from Israel, whose emissaries kept turning up in London and Washington with their slightly unnerving proposals for rapprochement.
2. What we want is something wherewith to prod the teachers so that they impart more facts more efficiently.
3. A stiffened metal panel, subjected to a prod, can clank suddenly from convex to concave.
4. Look for the tell-tale holes and prod hard with your small, sharp screwdriver to test the wood.
5. A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway, as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up.
6. He reminded himself that he was talking to the inventor of the firm and decided to prod a bit further.
7. Syphilis has long been labelled "the great imitator" and there are only a few clues to prod the examining doctor into thinking of the correct diagnosis rather than some other condition.
8. You may think that in a democracy you too can flick idly through ice-screws and ropes, but the moment you prod anything with an inquisitive finger, an assistant will leap on you with a quiz as to your standard of rock-climbing.
9. One, who had an electric prod inserted in her vagina, has disappeared since their release and it is feared that she has committed suicide.
10. She wanted to prod them and gaze into their eyes to check they weren't real.
11. The only decent fork in history was Mortens Fork, used to toast the rich and prod the poor on behalf of that robbin' hood, Henry Llewellyn Tudor VII.
12. Peter Yeo, who knew him in this over-candid, over-emphatic mood, decided to prod gently.
13. The prod is not to be confused with the caress which gently brushes a surface.