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Technology and telecommunications

Back up to make a copy of information stored on a computer

Boot up to make a computer begin working

Hack into to enter by force

Key in to put information into a computer or other electronic machine using a keyboard

Log out to stop using a computer system

Log in to start using a computer system

Pick up to collect sth from a place / if a machine picks up a sound, movement, or ​signal​, it is able to notice
it or receive it

Plug in to connect a piece of electrical equipment to the main supply of electricity

OM
Print out/off to produce a printed copy of a computer document

Shut down to close the programs and make the computer stop working

Switch/turn on to start using a computer system

Switch/turn off to make a machine stop working by pushing a button, turning a key, etc

Turn up

Turn down
.C
to increase the amount of sound, heat, or light produced by a piece of equipment

to reduce the amount of sound, heat, or light produced by a piece of equipment


DD
Zoom in to make a person/thing seem bigger and closer

Zoom out to make a person/thing seem smaller and further away

Broke down to stop working because of a fault

Break into to enter a building; to open a car, etc. by force.


LA

Bring on to make something bad or unpleasant happen.

Bring out to produce sth that will be sold to the public

Come out to be produced or published


FI

Do without to manage to live or do sth without sb/sth

Get carried away to be so excited, interested, etc. that you are no longer really in control of what you do or say, or
you forget everything else.


Fall behind with to fail to keep up with sth

Get across to succeed in communicating an idea or piece of information to sb, or to be communicated


successfully.

Go by to do things according to a set of rules or laws.

Go off if an alarm goes off, it makes a noise to warn you about something.

Put out to explode or be fired

Keep up with to continue to be in contact with sb

Look out used to warn somebody to be careful, especially when there is danger

Make out to manage to see sb/sth or read or hear sth

Run off to copy sth on a machine

Stand for to be an abbreviation or symbol of something.


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House and Home

Come round to visit casually Do up to repair an old building or car, or to improve its
appearance
Come out (of flowers) to blossom
Fall if a building is falling down, it is in very bad
Get to have a harmonious or friendly relationship with sb down/apart condition
on/along
Set to to start doing something that is difficult or needs
Hanging sth to hang clothes outside in order to dry them a lot of time or energy
out
Throw away to get rid of something that you do not want or
Hang sth up to put clothes on a hook, hanger, etc need

Keep off to stay away from sth or somewhere; to avoid sth Flake/peel to come off a surface in small flat pieces
off
Look to visit a place or building, walking around it to see
around what is there. Come don to break and fall to the ground

OM
Put/take sth to take sth outside your house and leave it there Patch up to repair a hole in something by putting a piece
out of something else over it

Put sth out extinguish Put sth up to attach a shelf, cupboard etc to a wall

Put up to let sb stay in your house and give them meals Bring/Knock/ to destroy a building or part of a bulding
Pull down
Put (sth)up to put a picture, notice, etc on a wall so that people
Put sth up to build something such as a wall, fence,

.C
can see it
building etc
Take down to move something that is fixed in a high position to a
lower position Burn/go out to stop working or to make something stop
working because it gets too hot or is used too
much
DD
See out to go to the door with someone to say goodbye to
them when they leave
Work on to try hard to improve or achieve sth
See off to go to an airport, train station, etc to say goodbye to
sb take back to take sth you have bought back to a shop
because it is not suitable or it doesn’t work
Tidy up to make a place look tidy
Cal sbl in to ask a person or organization that provides a
LA

Clean up to make a place completely clean and tidy service to come and deal with something

Turn into to make sb/sth become sth different Send out to produce something, such as light, a signal,
sound, etc.
Turn in to go to bed at night
Put in to install
FI

Turn on
See to deal with sth
to/about
Turn out to happen in a particular way, or to have a particular
result, especially one that you did not expect.
Sort out to successfully deal with a problem or difficult
situation
Put away to store


Carry to complete sth successfully


Wash up to do the dishes.
through
Move in to start to live in your new home

Move out to leave your old home

Look back to think about sth in your past.

Look to be excited and pleased about sth that is going to


forward to happen.

Calm down to become or make somebody become calm.

Melt away to disappear or make sth disappear gradually.

Hang out to spend a lot of time in a particular place or with


particular people.

Have over to visit casually

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Money and Shopping Set up To build sth

Rein in To start to control sb or sth more strictly


Pay back to repay
Hunts down to search for sth until you found it
Pay down to pay sb part of the money you owe them
Break down to stop working
Pay in to put money in your bank account
bring out To produce sth that will be sold to the public
Pay off to give sb all the money you owe them
Come out to become available on the market
Pay out to pay a lot of money for sth
Get back to get sth again after you have lost it
Get by Make ends meet
Get carried to get very excited or lose control of your feelings
Live on To have enough money to survive away

Sort out Deal with Give off to produce a smell, a sound, light, heat, etc

Come into To inherit money Go over to search or examine sth very carefully

OM
Go out To go to a social event Hold up to rob a person or place by using violence

Give up To stop trying or doing sth Let down To make longer

Splash out To waste, splurge money Take up To make shorter

See/Put aside To save or keep money for a rainy day Let out To make bigger

Cut down/back
on

Give away .C
To reduce the size, amount or number os sth

To give sth as a gift


Take in

Look down to
To make smaller

To think you are better than sb else


DD
Look around to look at what is in a place
Go up If the price of sth goes up it becomes higher
Make out to manage to see, read or hear sth
Bring in To make or earn a particular amount of money
Put up with To tolerate
Cut off To stop the supply of sth to sb
Run out to use all of sth and not have any more left
LA

Come to To add up to a total amount


Rip off Estafar
Give back To return sth to its owner
See out to start a journey
Make over To legally give sth to sb
See to to deal with
Set up To provide someone with money that they need,
FI

especially in order to start a business

Take sb on To employed sb

Turn down To provide someone with money that they need,


especially in order to start a business


Save up To save money for a rainy day

Clear up To solve or explain sth

Turn off To make sb feel bored or not interested

open up if a ​shop​, ​office​ etc opens up or is opened up,


someone starts it

Run up a debt/bill etc to use so much of something, or


borrow​ so much money, that you ​owe​ a lot of
money

Give away To give sth to sb without asking for money

Come across To meet or find sth/sb by chance

Throw out To get rid of sth you no longer want

Draw on To use a supply of sth that is available for you

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Food and Health
Bring about To make sth happen

Give off To produce sth such as smell, heat, light ...

Come across To meet, find or discover sb or sth by chance

Cut out To stop doing or eating sth, especially because it might be unhealthy

Cut up To divide sth into small pieces with a knife

Fall into To be able to divide into sth

Fall on To attack or take hold of sb / sth with a lot of energy and enthusiasm

Get down To swallow sth, usually with difficulty

Go off If the food or drink goes off it is ​vencida

OM
Go through To look at or examine sth carefully, especially in order to find sth

Let in To allow sb or sth to enter

Put away To put sth where it is usually kept

.C
Put on To start cooking sth

Put on To become heavier → put on weight

Take up/to To begin to do sth as a habit


DD
Bring round To make sb who is unconscious become conscious again

Bring on To make sth develop, usually sth unpleasant

Carry out To do a particular piece of work, research, etc


LA

Come down To get an illness that is not very serious


with

Cut down on To reduce the size, amount, number of sth


FI

Cut out Too stop doing sth, especially sth that you do regularly

Get over To return to your usual state of health, happiness… after an illness or trauma

Give up To stop doing sth, to quit




Go away If a problem, unpleasant feeling goes away, it disappears

Hold back To hesitate or to make sb hesitate to act or speak

Look after To take care of sb or sth

Look over To examine sth, usually quickly

Put through To connect sb by telephone

Run over To knock sb / sth down and drive over the body

Take up To learn or start to do sth, especially for pleasure

Turn in To go to bed

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