Čo znamená desert v angličtine a aká je definícia desert?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť desert výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

desert Význam & definícia

0 an area, often covered with sand or rocks, where there is very little rain and not many plants:
- They were lost in the desert for nine days.
- We had to cross a large area of arid, featureless desert.
- the desert sun
- This town is a cultural desert.
1 to leave the armed forces without permission and with no intention of returning:
- Soldiers who deserted and were caught were shot.
- How many people desert from the army each year?
2 to leave someone without help or in a difficult situation and not come back:
- He deserted his wife and family for another woman.
- All my confidence/courage deserted me when I walked into the exam.
3 to leave someone or something without help or in a difficult situation:
- Local people deserted the city as hordes of tourists arrived.
- He denied that he had deserted his post.
4 a large, dry area where there is very little rain and few plants:
- [ U ] When you live in the desert, water is your most vital resource.

The flatness of the desert was broken only by a few large piles of rocks.
She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.
Living rough in the desert hardened the recruits a lot.
The terrorists assumed control of the plane and forced it to land in the desert.
At night, adult scorpions prowl the desert for insects.
Or possibly fortitude is primarily shaped by genetics, rather than early environment, but that is even less plausible as grounds for just deserts.
He takes the side that the desert base must be one for which the individual is responsible.
This is problematic to the extent that one thinks that desert necessarily involves a ground for which the agent is morally responsible.