Слова на English для 'Characterized by understatement; understated.'
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- (figuratively) To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
- (figuratively) To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
- To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
- play down or obscure
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- (transitive) To make something seem less important than it really is.
- (transitive, card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
- (transitive) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
- play a card lower than (a held high card)
- act (a role) with great restraint
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- understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
- (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
- (usually uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
- (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
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- (transitive) To make something seem less important than it really is.
- (transitive, card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
- (transitive) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
- play a card lower than (a held high card)
- act (a role) with great restraint
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- understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
- (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
- (usually uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
- (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
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- (figuratively) To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
- (figuratively) To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
- To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
- play down or obscure