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Перевод: balsa

[существительное]
бальза

Тезаурус:

1. The crew of the Kontiki raft were worried lest their balsa logs should sink under them on their long voyage although, in the event, the soakage was not very great.
2. Seasoned balsa has density of five to ten pounds per cubic foot (s.g. 0.1), spruce around thirty (0.45), oak about fifty (0.7) and lignum vitae between seventy and eighty (1.1).
3. The lighter woods, such as balsa, can be crushed with the finger.
4. The men on the raft unclamped their life-saving fingers from the balsa wood, uncurled their bodies braced against the fury of the Pacific, and waded through calm lagoon waters to the beach.
5. The boy sat on the floor beside her, carving a piece of balsa wood.
6. The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried, unsuccessfully, to build model aeroplanes.
7. He was riding a stick shaped by George Downing on the pattern of an old balsa board George had crafted thirty years earlier.
8. Heyerdahl, five companions and a sulky parrot had drifted 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft to prove Heyerdahl's theory that South American people could have travelled across the Pacific to become the ancestors of the Polynesian islanders.
9. Clair George, listing the things that had to be done - - finding private money, transferring it out of the country, buying arms, shipping them, procuring boats and aircraft - noted that North had been obliged to do all this "with a gum band and some balsa wood".
10. Done in the best tradition of "silent movies" it was a props fight featuring vases of water, curtain drapes and balsa wood chairs, ending with Ascaris voluntarily diving through the window to escape his tormentor.
11. A Complete Illustrated Guide to Card, Balsa and Matchstick Models .
12. Balsa wood can also be smoked after it has been broken into little pieces, but some say it is even less rewarding than banana skins.
13. By playing off the rival ambitions of the Venetians, the Turks and the Serbs, the Balii managed to retain their power until the death of Balsa III, the last of the male line, in 1422.