habit
noun/ˈhæbɪt/
Слово англійською: habit
Переклад habit українською: зви́чка, на́вичка, ря́са (мона́ха), пога́на зви́чка, за зви́чкою (роби́ти і т. д.)
Детальний опис
- [countable] a thing that you do often and almost without thinking, especially something that is hard to stop doing
- You need to change your eating habits.
- good/bad habits
- Most of us have some undesirable habits.
- habit of doing something The strategy is helping children develop the habit of reading for fun.
- It's all right to borrow money occasionally, but don't let it become a habit.
- I'd prefer you not to make a habit of it.
- I'm trying to break the habit of staying up too late.
- These things have a habit of coming back to haunt you.
- in the habit of doing something I'm not in the habit of letting strangers into my apartment.
- I've got into the habit of turning on the TV as soon as I get home.
Wordfinder- action
- approach
- attitude
- behaviour
- conform
- eccentric
- etiquette
- habit
- manners
- morality
- [uncountable] usual behaviour
- out of habit I only do it out of habit.
- I'm a creature of habit (= I have a fixed and regular way of doing things).
- [countable] (informal) a strong need to keep using drugs, alcohol or cigarettes regularly
- He began to finance his habit through burglary.
- She's tried to give up smoking but just can't kick the habit.
- a 50-a-day habit
- [countable] a long piece of clothing worn by a monk or nun
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution.
Idioms
force of habit
- if you do something from or out of force of habit, you do it without thinking about it and in a particular way because you have always done it that way in the past
- It's force of habit that gets me out of bed at 6.15 each morning.