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Что (кто) такое mothballs - определение
SMALL BALLS OF CHEMICALS USED TO PREVENT PREVENT DAMAGE TO CLOTH BY MOTH LARVAE
Moth balls; Moth ball; MothBall; Moth Ball; Moth-ball; Moth-Ball; Mothballs
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mothballs
n.
protective storage
1) to put into mothballs (to put ships into mothballs)
2) to take out of mothballs
mothball
(mothballs, mothballing, mothballed)
1.
A mothball is a small ball made of a special chemical, which you can put among clothes or blankets in order to keep moths away.
N-COUNT
2.
If someone in authority mothballs a plan, factory, or piece of equipment, they decide to stop developing or using it, perhaps temporarily. (JOURNALISM)
...the decision to mothball the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, for safety and political reasons...
VERB: V n
mothball
¦ noun a small pellet of a pungent substance, typically naphthalene, placed among stored garments to deter clothes moths.
¦ verb
1. store (garments) in mothballs.
2. put into storage or on hold for an indefinite period.
Phrases
in mothballs in storage or on hold.
Википедия
Mothball
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Mothballs are small balls of chemical pesticide and deodorant, sometimes used when storing clothing and other materials susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae (especially clothes moths like Tineola bisselliella).
Примеры употребления для mothballs
1. Nobody believes this stuff any more, reeking as it does of old Marxist mothballs.
2. Next, I put out mothballs, which were as unsuccessful as the soap but much stronger–smelling.
3. Navy, which decommissioned them in the late 1''0s and put them in mothballs.
4. Feuillet told Reuters that a cleaning lady discovered the mothballs in the drawer of the patient‘s night table.
5. The Salem came out of its 35–year stint in "mothballs" in October 1''4 in very good shape, still bearing much of its original paint.