cold frame - pařeniště

noun - a structure covered with foil, glass or plastic etc. that is used to protect plants from the cold

 

appraise - hodnotit, ohodnotit, zhodnotit

verb - to look at someone in order to say how good they are, how good their performance is etc.

 

quack - šarlatán

noun, informal - a doctor who only pretends to be a doctor or who is very bad at his/her job

 

Samhain - svátek Samhain

noun - an old Gaelic festival celebrating the end of summer, Halloween is said to have evolved from this holiday

plasterboard - sádrokarton

noun, British English - a kind of material used to build interior walls and ceilings, it is made of plaster and paper

 

tapestry - tapiserie

noun - a thick cloth that is hung on walls and which has pictures and other designs embroidered on it

teller - pokladní (v bance), bankovní pokladník

noun - a person who works in a bank and whose job is to receive and/or pay out money

 

promotion - proměna (v šachu)

noun - the move in chess in which the pawn is replaced by either a queen, rook, knight or bishop

harness - postroj, popruhy

noun - a piece of equipment that consists of leather straps, it is used for example to control a horse

goblet - pohár, číše

noun - a large cup on a stem made of glass or metal; red wine is usually served in it

 

rating - hodnocení (pořadí), žebříček (např. sledovanosti)

noun - a measurement of how popular or good someone or something is in relation to other people or things

wheelie - jízda na zadním kole

noun, informal - a trick in which the front wheel of a bicycle or a motorbike is raised off the ground

yeast - kvasnice, droždí

noun - a kind of fungus that is added to make dough rise or used in making beer or wine

 

interim - dočasný, přechodný

adjective - not permanent, done only for a short time (e.g. until something else is done, something else happens etc.)

postcode - poštovní směrovací číslo

noun, British English - a code made up of numbers and/or letters that identifies the place where a letter is sent