- beat one's swords into plowshares
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Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
beat one's swords into plowshares
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Swords to ploughshares — is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications. The plowshare is often used to symbolize creative tools that benefit mankind, as opposed to destructive tools of war, symbolized by the sword … Wikipedia
beat — I n. a regularly traversed round 1) to patrol, walk one s beat 2) to cover one s beat 3) a policeman s beat rhythm 4) an irregular; regular, steady beat 5) to a beat (to dance to the beat of jungle music) unit of rhythm 6) a beat to (four beats… … Combinatory dictionary
beat — beatable, adj. /beet/, v., beat, beaten or beat, beating, n., adj. v.t. 1. to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly. 2. to dash against: rain beating the trees. 3. to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings … Universalium
beat — I. verb (beat; beaten or beat; beating) Etymology: Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan; akin to Old High German bōzan to beat Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to strike repeatedly: a. to hit repeatedly so as to inflict pain… … New Collegiate Dictionary
beat — [[t]bit[/t]] v. beat, beat•en beat, beat•ing 1) to strike forcefully and repeatedly: to beat a toy drum[/ex] 2) cvb to hit (a person or animal) repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash (often fol. by up) 3) to dash against: rain beating… … From formal English to slang
disarm — verb 1) the UN must disarm the country Syn: demilitarize, demobilize 2) the militia refused to disarm Syn: lay down one s arms, demilitarize; literary beat one s swords into plowshares 3) police disarmed the bomb Syn … Thesaurus of popular words
List of Chinese inventions — A bronze Chinese crossbow mechanism with a buttplate (the wooden components have … Wikipedia
Operation Plowshare — Not to be confused with the anti nuclear Plowshares Movement. The 1962 Sedan plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet (100 m) deep and 1,280 feet (390 m) wide. Project Plowshare was the overall United… … Wikipedia
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United Nations Art Collection — The United Nations Art Collection is a collective group of artworks and historic objects donated as gifts to the United Nations by its member states, associations or individuals. These artistic treasures and possessions, mostly in the form of… … Wikipedia
United Nations Headquarters — Location map Earth label = label size = position = background = lat = 40.75 long = 73.968 marksize = 10 border = caption = Location of the UN Headquarters float = right width = 320The United Nations Headquarters is a distinctive complex in New… … Wikipedia
