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Перевод: decay

[существительное]
гниение; разложение; разрушение; сгнившая часть; упадок ; расстройство; распад ; загнивание; тление;
[глагол]
гнить; загнить; разлагаться; ветшать; истлевать; портиться; разрушаться; хиреть; слабеть; угасать; приходить в упадок; распадаться; ухудшаться; загнивать; опуститься

Тезаурус:

1. Added sugar was the prime cause and levels of tooth decay, which had fallen from bad to mediocre, could not fall further until people, and especially children, cut back more on sugar, he said.
2. It has an extremely long radioactive half-life (the time it takes for half its activity to decay) of up to 24,000 years.
3. Lines can thus represent the cycle of growth, fulfilment, decay, death, rebirth
4. This involves an association of poverty with crime and violence, and with decay and backwardness.
5. The original stones of the sloping gable coping had simply been bedded on the slate-roof covering of the aisles at their verges so that rain entering the joints between the coping stones had saturated the top courses of the stone facing and caused premature decay.
6. 7.1 In radioactive decay, after each half-life (T1/2) the number of atoms remaining is halved: if there are A to begin with, after one half-life there will be A/2 atoms remaining; after two half-lives, A/4 remain; after three A/8, and so on.
7. The Sugar Bureau said yesterday that the report had dispelled myths and had concluded that sugar, apart from tooth decay "poses no threat to health" at present consumption levels.
8. He called The Sacred Dance "an excellent study of primitive religious dances", and read how these were performed round sacred trees, but also "how often with the decay of old faiths the serious rites and pageants have degenerated into the sports of children".
9. Change and Decay
10. Even if the reactor had automatically shut down, there would still remain what is described as "decay heat" from the accumulated radioactivity.
11. However, the Lappish people are more concerned about the plight of their traditional fishing waters, the loss of which is forever, much longer than it takes contamination from Russia to decay.
12. It is a public issue which represents a constellation of social worries, to do with urban poverty, squalor, ill-health, deprivation, decay, crime, social disintegration, and social polarization.
13. Pound's source, on the other hand, was almost certainly chapter 6 of The Law of Civilization and Decay (1896) by Brooks Adams, Henry Adams's brother.