предло́г — meaning in English
predlog
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English meaning
- excuse verb To forgive someone, or overlook a minor fault.
- plea noun An urgent, heartfelt request.
- preposition noun A word such as in, on, at, to, from, with or by that links a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence, usually showing place, time, direction or relationship.
- pretext noun A false reason given to hide the real motive behind an action.
Senses
предло́г is used for these senses in English:
- adposition (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
- excuse (countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
- plea An excuse; an apology.
- preposition (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
- pretext A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
excuse — full definition
- verb To forgive someone, or overlook a minor fault.
- verb To release someone from a duty or allow them to leave.
- noun A reason given to justify a mistake or avoid blame.
plea — full definition
- noun An urgent, heartfelt request.
- noun Law: a formal statement by a defendant responding to a charge.