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Meanings of flotation suit in English

Russian
спасательный жилет
Portuguese
colete salva-vidas
Catalan
armilla salvavides
Spanish
chaleco salvavidas
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Equipment to help the wearer keep afloat in water.

      спасательный жилет
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      Examples for "pfd"
      Examples for "pfd"
      1
      We describe symptoms in women with PFDs including AI using this instrument.
      Pubmed
      2
      Lisa knew she'd be dead already if she hadn't been wearing her PFD.
      Down river
      3
      The PFD lifted and righted her, head up, but foam crested over her.
      Down river
      4
      Shaking in his haste, he stripped off his PFD and his own wet clothes.
      Down river
      5
      Turning back to the river, Lisa fastened the Velcro straps of her orange PFD jacket.
      Down river
      1
      I'd become his personal flotation device.
      The smoke room: a novel of suspense
      2
      However, all four had personal flotation devices, similar to life jackets.
      The Irish Times
      3
      It depicts both adults and children not wearing personal flotation devices.
      The Irish Times
      4
      I remembered something I had forgotten to search for in the ship: life vests- personalflotation devices.
      The Hyperion Cantos
      5
      The board has repeatedly emphasised the need for lifejackets or personal flotation devices to be checked regularly and secured adequately.
      The Irish Times
      1
      He was wearing minimum armor, clutching a life jacket in one hand.
      Jacinto's Remnant
      2
      The man was not wearing a life jacket, according to the report.
      Ebony
      3
      The man was also wearing a life jacket with a flashing light.
      Radio NZ
      4
      The life jacket fell 75 feet, then hung on a rock outcropping.
      Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
      5
      The message to anglers is clear: wear a life jacket, or risk drowning.
      The Irish Times
      1
      How much of a life preserver does your wired lifestyle really need?
      Wired
      2
      The body, limp and grayish, was suspended under the sodden life preserver.
      Cry for the strangers
      3
      They always hope someone'll come along and throw them a life preserver.
      Once upon a time in America
      4
      I held the sign in front of me like a life preserver.
      Brains: a zombie memoir
      5
      They obediently followed Larry's instructions and strapped on the life preserver vests.
      Welcome to Camp Nightmare
      1
      A mae west floating in the seepage.
      The road
      2
      Can I be so brash as to quote Mae West for Dr Paisley?
      The Irish Times
      3
      She also designed dresses for legendary figures like Marlene Dietrich and Mae West.
      Ebony
      4
      Only Mae West seems to have had a radically different notion of aging sexuality.
      The new yorker
      5
      Keep a diary, Mae West once advised, and one day it will keep you.
      The Irish Times
      1
      Best bring Simmons forward and get him in a life vest.
      Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
      2
      Cody wore a blue-and-yellow life vest and sat very still on the cooler.
      Dearly Devoted Dexter
      3
      Wear a life vest when rock fishing, boating or engaging in water sport activities.
      News.com.au
      4
      If anything happens, just stay afloat in this life vest.
      Radio NZ
      5
      Dennis reached to give her a hand, but she was unfastening her life vest.
      Stiltsville: a novel
      1
      In the matter of sore feet, it is a life saver.
      A Yankee in the Trenches
      2
      In terms of the how, Zoom has been a life saver.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Peter Boyd has been a surf life saver since 1984… Read more Audio
      Radio NZ
      4
      A SPICE of life may also prove to be be a life saver.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Cesar César, 20, reckons Coffee Vs Gangs has been a real life saver for him.
      The Irish Times
      1
      He sees the coxswain in his cork jacket kneeling over Captain Harry.
      Within the Tides: Tales
      2
      The plank was rent from him, but his cork jacket brought him up.
      Benita, an African romance
      3
      I forgot all about this, said Podington, as he unfastened the cork jacket.
      The Best American Humorous Short Stories
      4
      By May he is ascending at Singapore, armed here, however, with a cork jacket.
      The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation
      5
      He took off his coat and got her into it, binding her cork jacket around.
      Swirling Waters
      1
      But it's not just a buoyancy aid.
      The Guardian
      2
      The man, who did not have a lifejacket or other buoyancy aid, had to contend with strong currents.
      The Irish Times
      3
      The last man alive among a crew of 13, he had refused to wear a lifejacket or buoyancy aid.
      The Irish Times
      4
      The tiny craft was not capable of dealing with the sea conditions and only one occupant had a buoyancy aid.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Not one of the 10 on board the sea angling boat, Pisces, at the time of the accident was wearing a lifejacket or buoyancy aid.
      The Irish Times
      Translations for flotation suit