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old



old
velho


Definições

inglês > português
old
     1. Adjetivo. velho
inglês > inglês
old
     1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
           an old abandoned building;  an old friend
     2. adj.          Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
                   a wrinkled old man
     3. adj.          Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
                   an old loaf of bread
     4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
           I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
     5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
           How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
           My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
     6. adj. Of an earlier time.:
     7. adj.          Former, previous.
                   My new car is not as good as my old one.  a school reunion for Old Etonians
     8. adj.          That is no longer in existence.
                   The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
     9. adj.          Obsolete; out-of-date.
                   That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
     10. adj.          Familiar.
                   When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
     11. adj. Tiresome.
           Your constant pestering is getting old.
     12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
     13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
           We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
     14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
     15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
           A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
português > inglês
velho
     1. adj. old; ancient (having existed for a long period of time)
           Esta escultura é velha. - This sculpture is old.
     2. adj. (of a living being) old; aged (having lived for most of the expected years)
           Pararei de trabalhar depois de ficar velho. - I will stop working after I become old.
     3. adj. (of an object) old (that has been used for a considerable period of time)
           Li um livro tão velho que as páginas ficavam caindo. - I read a book so old that the pages kept falling out.
     4. adj. old (obsolete or out-of-date)
           Essa teoria já está velha. - That theory is already obsolete.
     5. n-m. (sometimes offensive) an old person
     6. n-m. (slang) father
     7. n-m. (affectionate) husband, especially a middle-aged or elderly one
     8. n-m. (slang) an informal form of address for males of any age; bro
     9. interj. (Brazil) man!, dude! (emphatic interjection)

Exemplos

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
    Nós não paramos de brincar porque envelhecemos; nós envelhecemos porque paramos de brincar.
She is ashamed of her old clothes.
    Ela tem vergonha de suas roupas velhas.
The houses along the river are very old.
    As casas junto do rio são muito antigas.
If you heard him playing the piano, you would never think he is an eight-year-old boy.
    Se você o ouvisse tocando piano, você nunca imaginaria que ele era um menino de oito anos de idade.
I am as old as he is.
    Eu sou tão velho quanto ele.



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