"pretvaranje" translation from serbian to english

The performance of a part or role in a drama; SYN. playing, playacting, performing.

ETYM Latin affectatio: cf. French affectation.
A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display; SYN. mannerism, pose.

1. The quality of being false or artificial.
2. A deliberate pretence or exaggerated display

ETYM French charade, cf. Pr. charrada long chat, It ciarlare to chat, whence Eng. charlatan.
A word acted out in an episode of the game of charades.

A linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other.

The act of faking (or the product of faking).

ETYM French feinte, from feint. Related to Feint.
(Homonym: faint).
Any distracting maneuver (as a mock attack).

The enactment of a pretense.
A pretending that what is not real is real

ETYM French mascarade, from Spanish mascarada, or Italian mascherata. Related to Mask.
1. A party of guests wearing costumes and masks; SYN. masque, mask.
2. Making a false outward show.

ETYM Latin, from Greek, to be transformed; meta beyond, over + morph form.
Period during the life cycle of many invertebrates, most amphibians, and some fish, during which the individual's body changes from one form to another through a major reconstitution of its tissues. For example, adult frogs are produced by metamorphosis from tadpoles, and butterflies are produced from caterpillars following metamorphosis within a pupa.
In classical thought and literature, metamorphosis is the transformation of a living being into another shape, either living or inanimate (for example Niobe). The Roman poet Ovid wrote about this theme.
1. A complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft.
2. A striking change in appearance or character or circumstances.
3. The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals; SYN. metabolism.

Pretense.

ETYM Cf. French prétention. Related to Pretend, Tension.
A false or unsupportable quality; SYN. pretence, pretense.

ETYM Cf. French rectification.
The act or operation of rectifying or correcting.

ETYM French simulation, Latin simulatio.
Short for computer simulation.
The act of simulating.

ETYM Latin stimulatio: cf. French stimulation.
1. The act of stimulating.
2. Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action; SYN. stimulus, stimulant, input.
3. (Physiology) The effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.).

ETYM Latin transformatio: cf. transformation.
In mathematics, a mapping or function, especially one which causes a change of shape or position in a geometric figure. Reflection, rotation, enlargement, and translation are the main geometrical transformations.
1. A function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
2. A qualitative change; SYN. transmutation, shift.
3. The act of transforming; SYN. translation.

ETYM French visage, from Latin visus a seeing, a look, from videre, visum, to see. Related to Vision.
The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal.

The process of transforming the data in a file from one format to another without altering the data—for example, converting a file from a word processor’s format to its ASCII equivalent. In some cases, information about the data, such as formatting, may be lost. Another, more detailed, type of file conversion involves changing character coding from one standard to another, as in converting EBCDIC characters (which are used primarily with mainframe computers) to ASCII characters. See also ASCII, EBCDIC.

(Alternate spelling: decimalisation).
The act of changing to a decimal system; SYN. decimalisation.

Payment in cash; conversion of something into cash

Spread of deserts by changes in climate, or by human-aided processes. Desertification can sometimes be reversed by special planting (marram grass, trees) and by the use of water-absorbent plastic grains, which, added to the soil, enable crops to be grown.
The processes leading to desertification include overgrazing, destruction of forest belts, and exhaustion of the soil by intensive cultivation without restoration of fertility—all of which may be prompted by the pressures of an expanding population or by concentration in land ownership. About 135 million people are directly affected by desertification, mainly in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and South America.