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Перевод: porous

[прилагательное]
пористый; ноздреватый; губчатый

Тезаурус:

1. There are some shallow dry valleys where water seeps through the porous chalk.
2. The original porous bone has been consolidated to become much heavier than it would have been in life.
3. You can improve soil structure and drainage by incorporating organic material such as compost, and make soil more porous by digging in grit or bonfire ash.
4. In Breckland there is coarse sand which is very porous and poor for crops.
5. Some rocks are more porous than others.
6. You betray an ironic and unfair image of a decent country which is facing difficult times when you refer (December 1st) to Colombia's "worn out political system"; to its "corrupt and self-serving political elite"; to assassination as "the usual fate of Colombian reformers"; and to drug traffickers "who will get lighter terms in Colombia's porous prisons in return for squealing on their colleagues."
7. Moisture finding its way into porous stone can now cause more damage than it used to.
8. His form fluctuated in front of a porous and unconvincing Manchester United defence and his Scotland place was endangered by the form of the ex Oldham and Hibernian keeper Andy Goram.
9. Cracks should be repaired with a filler , and porous surfaces primed with a sealant or a diluted coat of masonry paint.
10. The silt stayed at the bottom, however, and the bank remained porous.
11. Porous sandstones near the top of the Sherwood Sandstone occur beneath thick impervious halite horizons in the Mercia Mudstone.
12. Layers of rock that are porous and permeable enough to store water and let it flow through them easily are called aquifers.
13. It must be dense enough to support the plant, porous enough to hold water, and open enough for air to diffuse through it to provide oxygen.