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Перевод: vestigial

[прилагательное]
остаточный; исчезающий; рудиментарный

Тезаурус:

1. Other cells especially sensitive to light became vestigial eyes, and those susceptible to vibrations became hearing organs, and so on.
2. With the mother and father, whose knowledge of English was vestigial, he managed rather better, but longed for a rest from mental agility, for a bed to sleep away the exhaustion of his night and a day on the long Lines of Communication from England.
3. To be known as somebody else's something, whether it's husband of the prime minister or nephew of the chairman of the board, is to be like some kind of vestigial appendage.
4. Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist, usually at the end of an exposition, where the critic in a final flourish claims, or at least hopes, that something valuable has emerged from the analysis; a revelation of the quality of the author's imagination; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition, or to come apart in the reader's hand; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed; or, at the very least, and least interestingly, that something "interesting" will have been said.
5. Admittedly, the thought-processes of anyone still undecided which way to vote on Thursday must be mysterious or vestigial: but I cannot believe that such nonsense will have the slightest effect on the result of the election.
6. The public relied to a minimal extent on what were by modern standards vestigial radio, telephone, and film-distribution systems.
7. It is often possible to see the vestigial remains of rear limbs on these large snakes.
8. Rosa gently teased Erika about the vestigial romance but was serious about the advice she gave, that Erika was not, repeat not , to get involved with a boy-friend, especially with the Indoor Championships drawing nearer, and with the Ministry of Sport keeping an eye on her.
9. There is an inexorable logic about McCabe's observation of the process by which the child Francie's engaging, restless, questioning personality is gradually mutated by a brutalising absence of love or understanding or any sort of kindness, into that of a deranged adult murderer, behind whose insane and degraded behaviour, are still to be seen the vestigial lineaments of an injured child.
10. Ricardou refused to countenance any vestigial Mimetic input, such was his preoccupation with a view of the "authentically" radical text, as defined by work in and on language.
11. In amphisbaenians, well adapted to their burrowing lives, with vestigial or non-existent limbs and much reduced eyes, the skull is very heavily ossified and box-like to enable it to be rammed through the soil, and so the orbitosphenoid is a thick plate of bone.
12. I cannot imagine what it must be like, but of course, facts have to be faced, one's own life has some kind of vestigial importance, the question of cruelty really does not arise.
13. His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons - but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance, such as Nicolas Ridley's promised poll tax rebate of 130 millions.