Phrasal Verbs With "Throw"

Throw away

• Meaning: Discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of
• Example: He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn’t find a trash can.

Throw away

• Meaning: Waste, to squander
• Example: The team threw away its chance at the semifinals.

Throw down

• Meaning: Cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully
• Example: The soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered.

  Throw in

  • Meaning: Add something extra free of charge
  • Example: If you take the large size, we’ll throw in a set of tea towels.

  Throw off

  • Meaning: Confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer
  • Example: I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.

  Throw off

  • Meaning: Introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew
  • Example: The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.

  Throw on

  • Meaning: Hastily put on (clothes)
  • Example: He threw on a T-shirt and raced outside.

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Discard; to dispense with something; to throw away
  • Example: Just throw out that pen if it doesn’t write anymore.

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere
  • Example: The board threw the man out, because he wouldn’t cooperate and agree with their plans to remodernize the facility.

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Offer an idea for consideration
  • Example: Let me throw this out there – how about if we make the igloo out of butter? Would that work?

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Produce in a haphazard fashion
  • Example: This program keeps throwing out errors.

  Throw up

  • Meaning: Vomit
  • Example: The baby threw up all over my shirt.

  Throw up

  • Meaning: Produce something new or unexpected
  • Example: This system has thrown up a few problems.

  Throw up

  • Meaning: Cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air
  • Example: The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.

Phrasal Verbs With "Throw"

Throw away

• Meaning: Discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of
• Example: He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn’t find a trash can.

Throw away

• Meaning: Waste, to squander
• Example: The team threw away its chance at the semifinals.

Throw down

• Meaning: Cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully
• Example: The soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered.

  Throw in

  • Meaning: Add something extra free of charge
  • Example: If you take the large size, we’ll throw in a set of tea towels.

  Throw off

  • Meaning: Confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer
  • Example: I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.

  Throw off

  • Meaning: Introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew
  • Example: The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.

  Throw on

  • Meaning: Hastily put on (clothes)
  • Example: He threw on a T-shirt and raced outside.

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Discard; to dispense with something; to throw away
  • Example: Just throw out that pen if it doesn’t write anymore.

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere
  • Example: The board threw the man out, because he wouldn’t cooperate and agree with their plans to remodernize the facility.

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Offer an idea for consideration
  • Example: Let me throw this out there – how about if we make the igloo out of butter? Would that work?

  Throw out

  • Meaning: Produce in a haphazard fashion
  • Example: This program keeps throwing out errors.

  Throw up

  • Meaning: Vomit
  • Example: The baby threw up all over my shirt.

  Throw up

  • Meaning: Produce something new or unexpected
  • Example: This system has thrown up a few problems.

  Throw up

  • Meaning: Cause something such as dust or water to rise into the air
  • Example: The car wheels threw up a shower of stones.

Phrasal Verbs With "Turn"

Turn against

• Meaning: Rebel or oppose to something formerly supported
• Example: They turned against their leader.

Turn against

• Meaning: Set against or in opposition to something
• Example: She turned her umbrella against the wind.

Turn against

• Meaning: Use to the disadvantage or injury of
• Example: They turned their arms against their former allies.

“Turn around” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn around

• Meaning: Physically rotate horizontally 360 degrees
• Example: Turn around once or twice so I can see your new dress.

Turn around

• Meaning: Change to the opposite direction from a previous position
• Example: She turned her position around and now she is in favor of the merger.

Turn around

• Meaning: Reverse the expected outcome of a game, usually from a losing position to a winning one
• Example: The team really turned it around in the second half for a great win.

Turn around

• Meaning: Reverse a trend, usually towards a more favorable outcome
• Example: The new management team has really turned the company around and they expect a good profit next year.

Turn around

• Meaning: Be duplicitous
• Example: You can’t just turn around and say that it was all my fault.

Turn around

• Meaning: Consider from a different viewpoint
• Example: Let’s turn that around and look at it from another angle.

Turn around

• Meaning: Produce; to output; to generate
• Example: We can turn around 500 units by next week.

Turn around

• Meaning: Effect a positive reversal of a trend
• Example: Let’s turn this around 180 degrees and enjoy the rest of our vacation.

Turn around

• Meaning: Make a situation worse by trying to make it better
• Example: They turned it around 360 degrees and now they’re losing even more money.

“Turn off” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn off

• Meaning: Power down; to stop a device by switching it off
• Example: Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.

Turn off

• Meaning: Repulse, disgust, or discourage
• Example: Cigarette smoking really turns me off.

Turn off

• Meaning: Leave a road; to exit
• Example: Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch.

“Turn on” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn on

• Meaning: Depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject
• Example: The argument turned on the question of whether or not jobs would be lost.

Turn on

• Meaning: Power up (a device), to start, to cause to start operating
• Example: Please turn the lights on so I can see what I’m reading.

Turn on

• Meaning: Start operating; to power up, to become on
• Example: My computer won’t turn on.

Turn on

• Meaning: Violently rebel against; to suddenly attack
• Example: Suddenly all his friends turned on him.

Turn on

• Meaning: Fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to
• Example: Attractive packaging can turn buyers on to a product.

Turn out

• Meaning: Result; end up
• Example: I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.

“Turn out” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn out

• Meaning: Attend; show up
• Example: Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.

Turn out

• Meaning: Extinguish a light or other device
• Example: Turn out the lights before you leave.

Turn out

• Meaning: Become apparent or known
• Example: It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.

Turn out

• Meaning: Produce; make
• Example: The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.

Turn out

• Meaning: Leave a road
• Example: Turn out at the third driveway.

Turn out

• Meaning: Remove from a mould, bowl etc.
• Example: Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.

Turn out

• Meaning: Refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict
• Example: The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.

Turn back

• Meaning: Reverse direction and retrace one’s steps
• Example: Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back to the office.

Turn back

• Meaning: Return to a previous state of being
• Example: Once we take this decision, there’s no turning back.

Turn back

• Meaning: Prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress
• Example: The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.

Turn back

• Meaning: Adjust to a previous setting
• Example: In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.

Turn back

• Meaning: Fold something back; to fold down
• Example: When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.

“Turn down” meaning – Phrasal Verbs with TURN.

Turn down

• Meaning: Refuse, decline, or deny
• Example: He turned down all our offers of help.

Turn down

• Meaning: Reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light
• Example: When it starts to boil, turn down the heat to a simmer.

Turn down

• Meaning: Reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction
• Example: Turn down the blankets to let them air out.

Turn in

• Meaning: Submit something; to give
• Example: He turned in his paperwork to the main office.

Turn in

• Meaning: Relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities
• Example: The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.

Turn in

• Meaning: Go to sleep; retire to bed
• Example: I’m tired, so I think I’ll turn in early tonight.

Turn into

• Meaning: Transform into; become
• Example: The carriage turned into a pumpkin at midnight.

Car Parts Vocabulary

                                                     

                                  The most useful car vocabulary listed and explained

Car parts	Definition
accelerator	the device, typically a pedal, that controls the speed of a vehicle's engine.
blinker / turn signal	the vehicle's turn signal.
brake	the device for slowing or stopping motion of a vehicle.
brake light / stop light	a red light at the back of a vehicle that is automatically illuminated when the brakes are applied.
bumper	a horizontal bar fixed across the front or back of a motor vehicle to reduce damage in a collision.
clutch	the device which transmits the drive from the engine to the gearbox in a vehicle.
dashboard	the panel facing the driver containing instruments and controls.
exhaust pipe	a device through which waste gases are expelled from an engine.
fog light	a bright light on a motor vehicle, used in foggy conditions to improve road visibility or warn other drivers of one's presence.
gear	a toothed wheel that engages with another toothed wheel or with a rack in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
headlight	a powerful light at the front of a motor vehicle or railroad engine.
hood (British English: bonnet)	a metal part covering the engine of an automobile.
horn	a device on an automobile for making a warning noise.
rearview mirror	a small angled mirror fixed inside the windshield/windscreen of a motor vehicle, enabling the driver to see road behind.
trunk (British English: boot)	the luggage compartment in a car.
steering wheel	the wheel turned by drivers when they wish to change direction.
windshield (British English: windscreen)	A framed pane of usually curved glass at the front of the passenger.
wing mirror / side mirror	a mirror found on the exterior of motor vehicles for the purposes of helping the driver see areas behind and to the sides of the vehicle.

Occupations

                                                     

                                               What do you do? I'm...

a baker	a butcher	a carpenter	a cook
a farmer	a fireman	a fisherman	a gardener
a hairdresser	a journalist	a judge	a lawyer
a mason	a mechanic	a painter	a plumber
a policeman	a postman	a secretary	a singer
a soldier	a taxi driver	a teacher	a waiter
a pilot	an engineer	a doctor	a nurse
a goldsmith	an actor	a shoe-shine boy	a tailor

Travel Vocabulary

                                                         

This is a list of vocabulary items related to travel

                        I go by, I go on means of transport

I go by	plane	or	I fly
	car		I drive
	ship		I sail
	bicycle/bike		I ride
	motorcycle/motorbike
	bus
I go on	horse		I ride
	foot		I walk

                        Useful travel expressions

General travel vocabulary

Public transportation (British public transport) is a system of vehicles such as buses and trains which operate at regular times on fixed routes and are used by the public.
Means of transport
The road / the highway / the port / the airport
Arrival / departure time
Where's the information desk, please?
To commute is to make the same journey regularly between work and home.

It's exhausting commuting from Brighton to London every day.

A journey is traveling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle.

I love going on long journeys.

To journey (verb - usually used with adverb or preposition) = to travel somewhere.

We journeyed south.

At the airport

Show me your passport, please!
l'm here on business / vacation
l'm traveling alone / with my family
Customs is the place at a port, airport or border where travellers' bags are looked at to find out if any goods are being carried illegally
Customs officer is a person whose job is to look inside travellers' bags to make certain they are not taking goods into a country without paying taxes
Anything to declare?
No, there's nothing to declare / Nothing to declare
You've got a lot of baggage! Why don't you use the baggage cart
How much is a one-way ticket (British usually single) to New York?
If you make a round trip, you go on a journey and return to where you started from.
A journey in an aircraft is a flight. Flight also means an aircraft that is making a particular journey

I'll never forget my first flight.
Flight 474 to Buenos Aires is now boarding at gate 9

First class / Business class / Economy class
What time does the plane for.... take off / land?
Check-in is the place at an airport where you show your ticket so that you can be told where you will be sitting.

A representative from the tour company will meet you at the check-in.

At the train station

How much is a ticket to...?
Direct / transfer train
Is there a reduced fare for children / large families?
Where is the station?
Where can we buy tickets?
What time will the train to...leave?
Where is platform number ...?

By ship / boat

A ferry (boat) is a boat or ship for taking passengers and often vehicles across an area of water, especially as a regular service.

We're going across to France by/on the ferry.

A cruise is a journey on a large ship for pleasure, during which you visit several places

By bus / coach

Where is the the bus station, please?
When does the bus leave for...?
How many stops before...?
A bus with/without air-conditioner

By car

Where is the parking lot, please?
Where can I park my car?
Can I park my car here?
Where can I rent a car?
I would like to rent a car for.... days / weeks.

The car costs £30 a day to rent, but you get unlimited mileage (= no charge for the miles traveled)

A car breakdown

I had a breakdown (= my car stopped working) in the middle of the road

A garage is a place where cars are repaired.

The car's still at the garage getting fixed.
Where can I find a garage to repair my car?

Insurance

I'll need to take out extra car insurance for another driver.

Adjectives - Synonyms

                                               

Synonyms are words or phrases which have the same or nearly the same meaning as other words or phrases in the same language:

Adjectives	Synonyms
big	large
blank	empty
broad	wide
center	middle
cunning	clever
dangerous	risky
eatable	edible
false	untrue
fertile	fruitful
gay	cheerful
glad	happy
hard	difficult
high	tall
huge	enormous
intelligent	clever
lazy	indolent
little	small
loving	fond
loyal	faithful
mad	crazy
new	modern
nice	kind
noisy	rowdy
old	ancient
oral	verbal
polite	courteous
poor	destitute
quick	rapid/fast
rare	scarce
ready	alert
real	genuine
rich	wealthy
rude	impolite
sad	unhappy
safe	secure
sleepy	drowsy
slim	slender
thin	lean
usual	normal
vacant	empty
weak	feeble
well-known	famous