AC_MALTSEV_2

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skew
adjective or noun or verb
adjective: neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; askew; crooked noun: an oblique angle; a slant verb: suddenly change direction or position
Example: the distribution skews toward smaller values, meaning it is easier to undercoordinate an anion than to overcoordinate it ACS Energy Lett. 2017, 2, 1, 250–255 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00620
en: косой, смещенный, асимметричный
to hand something down
phrasal verb
to give something to someone younger than you in the family because you want them to have it or because you no longer need it or to pass traditions from older people to younger ones or to announce an official decision, especially in a court of law or to give something to a younger member of your family when you no longer need it, or to arrange for someone younger to get it after you have died
Example: Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height and his tendency to waver at critical moment F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
en: передать
to hover
verb
to stay in one place in the air, usually by moving the wings quickly or to stand somewhere, especially near another person, eagerly or nervously waiting for their attention or to stay at or near a particular level
Example: For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
en: Зависнуть, болтаться, оставаться
to preserve
verb
maintain (something) in its original or existing state
Example: Although the crystallographic coordination is preserved during these second-order transitions (e.g. the cations and B12H12 2- icosahedral centres do not move from their original Wykoff positions), a second B12H12 2- motif is introduced into the structural model to describe the average reorientational disordered structure of the B12H12 2- anion
en: сохранять
to seal
verb
fasten or close securely or apply a nonporous coating to (a surface) to make it impervious or fry (food) briefly in hot fat to prevent it from losing too much of its moisture during subsequent cooking
Example: The sample was sealed within a sapphire capillary
en: запечатать, изолировать