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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
paddy
pad‧dy/ˈpædi/ noun (plural paddies) [COUNTABLE] [date : 1600-1700; Language : Malay; Origin : padi] 1. (also paddy field) a field in which rice is grown in water SYN rice paddy
2. British English informal a state of being angry or upset: ▪ The news put Mum in a bit of a paddy.
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES paddy wagon rice paddy COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN field ▪ The building of irrigation systems and paddy fields is costly in terms of time and effort. ▪ The paddy fields have turned a feathery yellow. ▪ Instead, towards sunset, he led us to another village, off the highway and surrounded by paddy fields. ▪ Captain Samphan was walking fast across the road in the middle distance, ordering some of the troops into the paddy field. ▪ In the old days a suitor sometimes had to work in his prospective father-in-law's paddy fields for three years. ▪ Explosions were continuing in the paddy field, but they began a conversation as though on a quiet street. ▪ Take that paddy field, well stocked with fish, rice and ducks. ▪ Then I heard a sharp, fast cracking, and looked towards the paddy field. rice ▪ Methane is also given off by rice paddies and ruminant animals, including cattle. ▪ Chambers panicked and buried himself and the machine gun in the stupid rice paddy. ▪ There is what looks to be a white coastline, brilliant greens, the rice paddies etched on the land. ▪ The en-tire company moved across a rice paddy in echelon formation. ▪ Instead of picking up a gun that morning, Charlie went out into the rice paddies and worked. ▪ No trees or foothills this time; it was all cleared land, dry rice paddies, and sandy, weed-patched fields. ▪ In nature Marsilea is found in ponds, ditches, swamps, rice paddies, and other areas with standing water. wagon ▪ It had been an honest mistake, though, the paddy wagon men believing he was dead or dying. ▪ They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons, and charged them with disorderly conduct. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In other letters he wrote about the great beauty of the country, the paddies and mountains and jungles. ▪ It had been an honest mistake, though, the paddy wagon men believing he was dead or dying. ▪ Methane is also given off by rice paddies and ruminant animals, including cattle. ▪ The paddy fields have turned a feathery yellow. ▪ The building of irrigation systems and paddy fields is costly in terms of time and effort. ▪ There is what looks to be a white coastline, brilliant greens, the rice paddies etched on the land. ▪ Uncle Vernon had flown into a paddy on account of the seven lessons left outstanding. ▪ Water buffalo pulled plows or wallowed in the paddies.
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