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  • 101puff paste — puff′ paste n. coo a rich dough for making puff pastry • Etymology: 1610–15 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 102puff and pant — ˌpuff and ˈpant idiom (also ˌpuff and ˈblow, informal) to breathe quickly and loudly through your mouth after physical effort • Eventually, puffing and panting, he arrived at the gate. Main entry: ↑ …

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  • 103puff and blow — ˌpuff and ˈpant idiom (also ˌpuff and ˈblow, informal) to breathe quickly and loudly through your mouth after physical effort • Eventually, puffing and panting, he arrived at the gate. Main entry: ↑ …

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  • 104puff something up — ˌpuff ˈup | ˌpuff sthˈup derived to swell or to make sth swell • Her cheeks puffed up. • The frog puffed itself up. Main entry: ↑puffderived …

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  • 105Puff Johnson — (born Ewanya Johnson, December 10 1972, Detroit, Michigan) is an American singer songwriter. She emerged on the music scene with the singles Forever More , and Over Over which appeared on the soundtrack of the film The First Wives Club , the… …

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  • 106Puff adder — may refer to:* Bitis arietans , a venomous snake species found in Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula * Bitis , any other member of this genus * Heterodon , a genus of harmless North American colubrid snakes …

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  • 107puff-specific proteins — puff specific proteins. См. специфичные для пуфов. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 108puff cromosómico — Banda de material cromático acumulado que se localiza en un lugar específico de un cromosoma gigante. Indica actividad genética, específicamente síntesis de ADN y ARN, en un locus determinado. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias de… …

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  • 109puff adder — n a large thick bodied exceedingly venomous widely distributed African viper (Bitis arietans) that inflates its body and hisses loudly when disturbed also a similar smaller snake (B. inornata) of southern Africa * * * Bitis arrietans, an… …

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  • 110puff pastry — n [U] a type of very light ↑pastry made of many thin layers …

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