aggregate - kamenivo (stavební)

noun, technical - a material or mixture of materials, such as sand, gravel, or crushed stone, used in construction as a component of concrete or asphalt

 

mixed bag - směsice

noun, informal - a group or collection of people or things that are very different from each other, especially in terms of quality, type, or opinion

tabloid - bulvární (noviny)

adjective - relating to a popular kind of newspaper that is printed on smaller sheets of paper, the news in it is not very serious

chopstick - hůlka (na jídlo), jídelní hůlka

noun - on of the two long thin sticks that are used in China, Japan etc. to eat with (instead of a knife and fork)

 

costs - soudní výlohy

noun - the money that the losing party has to pay to the winning party in a court of law (for the expenses of litigation)

 

x-rays - rentgen

noun - beams of invisible light that can go through solid things, it is used e.g. in medicine to take pictures of broken bones etc.

star - hvězda, hvězdička

noun - one of the many small lights that we can see in the sky at night, which are actually large balls of burning gas

 

fluorine - fluor

noun - (the chemical element of atomic number 9) a pale yellow poisonous gas, some of its compounds are used in toothpaste to prevent cavities

crossbow - kuš, kuše

noun - a weapon used in the past to shoot short arrows, it consists of a small bow fixed to a longer piece of wood

sunbathing - opalování, slunění, ležení na slunci

noun - lying in the sun in order that the skin becomes darker in colour

 

place - umístit se, skončit, dopadnout

verb - to finish in a particular position in a race, in a competition etc.

 

back - zpět, zpátky (obvykle se slovesy)

adverb - in return

 

locked up - zavřený (ve vězení), ve vězení, v base (ve vězení)

adjective - in prison

 

out - venku, ven

adverb - not in

 

ablaze - v plamenech, planoucí, hořící

adjective - in flames