lunes, 25 de julio de 2016

Unit 8 Vocabulary Page 98

Compound nouns

Breakdown: [countable] an occasion when a vehicle or machine stops working
a breakdown on the motorway   -  a breakdown recovery service

Breakwater noun
a wall built out into the sea to protect the shore or harbour from the force of the waves
Downfall noun
the loss of a person’s money, power, social position, etc.; the thing that causes this
The sex scandal finally led to his downfall.

Hard drive: hard disk

Input:[countable, uncountable] time, knowledge, ideas, etc. that you put into work, a project, etc. in order to make it succeed; the act of putting something in
I'd appreciate your input on this.

search engine: noun
a computer program that searches the Internet for information, especially by looking for documents containing a particular word or group of words

clean-up noun
the process of removing dirt, pollution, or things that are considered bad or immoral from a place

the clean-up of the river  -  a clean-up campaign

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