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1 captar
v.1 to win (atraer) (simpatía).2 to grasp.3 to pick up, to receive.4 to perceive, to apprehend, to grab, to capture.Yo capté las vibraciones I perceived the vibrations.5 to gain.La empresa capta ganancias The company gains profits.6 to get, to detect.La cámara capta el movimiento The camera detects movement.7 to understand.* * *2 (entender) to understand, grasp3 (atraer a personas) to attract, recruit4 (atención, interés) to hold; (confianza) to win, gain1 to draw, attract, win over* * *verb1) to catch, grasp2) win, attract* * *VT1) (=atraer) [+ dinero, capital] to raise; [+ votos] to win; [+ clientes, audiencia] to attractcon la campaña captaron miles de nuevos votantes — through the publicity campaign they won thousands of new voters
2) [+ emisora, señal] to pick upno capto BBC1 — I don't o can't pick up BBC1
un aparato que capta las señales acústicas — a device that picks up o captures sound signals
esta antena no capta bien las imágenes — you don't get a good picture with this aerial, this aerial doesn't give a good picture
3) (=comprender) [+ sentido, esencia] to get, graspsupo captar la importancia política del asunto — she managed to grasp the political significance of the matter
no ha sabido captar el mensaje del electorado — she has failed to pick up on o get o understand the message from the electorate
no captó la indirecta — he didn't get o take the hint
4) [+ aguas] to collect* * *verbo transitivo1) <atención/interés> to capture; < clientes> to win, gain; <partidarios/empleados> to attract, recruit2) <sentido/matiz> to grasp; <significado/indirecta> to get3) <emisora/señal> to pick up, receive4) < aguas> to collect, take in* * *= capture, take in.Ex. In those early days, so the story goes, the library movement was in danger of being captured by an aristocratic intellectual class designing to make the public library an elitist center for scholarly research.Ex. People like to browse the books and magazines, take in the ambiance, and be seen and perceived as a patron of the arts and literature.----* captar el interés = capture + the imagination, capture + the interest.* captar el interés de = catch + the imagination of.* captar la atención = hold + attention, catch + Posesivo + eye, rivet + the attention, catch + Posesivo + attention.* no captar la idea = miss + the point.* * *verbo transitivo1) <atención/interés> to capture; < clientes> to win, gain; <partidarios/empleados> to attract, recruit2) <sentido/matiz> to grasp; <significado/indirecta> to get3) <emisora/señal> to pick up, receive4) < aguas> to collect, take in* * *= capture, take in.Ex: In those early days, so the story goes, the library movement was in danger of being captured by an aristocratic intellectual class designing to make the public library an elitist center for scholarly research.
Ex: People like to browse the books and magazines, take in the ambiance, and be seen and perceived as a patron of the arts and literature.* captar el interés = capture + the imagination, capture + the interest.* captar el interés de = catch + the imagination of.* captar la atención = hold + attention, catch + Posesivo + eye, rivet + the attention, catch + Posesivo + attention.* no captar la idea = miss + the point.* * *captar [A1 ]vtA1 ‹atención/interés› to capture2 ‹clientes› to win, gain; ‹partidarios/empleados› to attract, recruitB ‹sentido/matiz› to grasp; ‹significado/indirecta› to getno captó la indirecta she didn't get the hint ( colloq)parecía no captar las dimensiones del problema he appeared not to grasp the scale of the problemC ‹emisora/señal› to pick up, receivelas imágenes que captó nuestro fotógrafo the shots o pictures which our photographer tookD ‹aguas› to collect, take in* * *
captar ( conjugate captar) verbo transitivo
‹ clientes› to win, gain;
‹partidarios/empleados› to attract, recruit
‹significado/indirecta› to get
captar verbo transitivo
1 (una señal) to receive, pick up
2 (clientes) to gain, to win
3 (una broma, ironía) to understand, grasp
4 (el interés, adeptos, etc) to attract: fue captada por una secta peligrosa, she was lured into a dangerous sect
' captar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
caer
- coger
English:
capture
- catch
- enthral
- enthrall
- miss
- pick up
- receive
- engage
- gist
- grasp
- hint
- pick
- target
* * *♦ vt1. [atraer] [simpatía] to win;[interés] to gain, to capture; [adeptos] to recruit, to attract; [clientes] to win, to attract;esa secta ha captado a muchos jóvenes de la zona that sect has recruited o attracted many young people from the area2. [percibir] to detect;no captó la ironía que había en su voz she didn't detect the irony in his voice;captar una indirecta to take a hint3. [entender] to grasp;captar las intenciones de alguien to understand sb's intentions4. [sintonizar] to pick up, to receive5. [aguas] to collect* * *v/t1 understand2 RAD pick up3 aguas channel4 clientes acquire, win5 negocio take* * *captar vt1) : to catch, to grasp2) : to gain, to attract3) : to harness, to collect (waters) -
2 Menzies, Michael
[br]b. end of the seventeenth century Lanarkshire, Scotland (?)d. 13 December 1766 Edinburgh, Scotland[br]Scottish inventor and lawyer.[br]Menzies was admitted as a member of the Faculty of Advocates on 31 January 1719. It is evident from his applications for patents that he was more concerned with inventions than the law, however. He took out his first patent in 1734 for a threshing machine in which a number of flails were attached to a horizontal axis, which was moved rapidly forwards and backwards through half a revolution, essentially imitating the action of an ordinary flail. The grain to be threshed was placed on either side.Though not a practical success, Menzies's invention seems to have been the first for the mechanical threshing of grain. His idea of imitating non-mechanized action also influenced his invention of a coal cutter, for which he took out a patent in 1761 and which copied miners' tools for obtaining coal. He proposed to carry heavy chains down the pit so that they could be used to give motion to iron picks, saws or other chains with cutting implements. The chains could be set into motion by a steam-engine, by water-or windmills, or by horses gins. Although it is quite obvious that this apparatus could not work, Menzies was the first to have thought of mechanizing coal production in the style that was in use in the late twentieth century. Subsequent to Menzies's proposal, many inventors at varying intervals followed this direction until the problem was finally solved one century later by, among others, W.E. Garforth.Menzies had successfully used the power of a steam-engine on the Wear eight years beforehand, when he obtained a patent for raising coal. According to his device a descending bucket filled with water raised a basket of coals, while a steam-engine pumped the water back to the surface; the balance-tub system, in various forms, quickly spread to other coalfields. Menzies's patent from 1750 for improved methods of carrying the coals from the coalface to the pit-shaft had also been of considerable influence: this device employed self-acting inclined planes, whereon the descending loaded wagons hauled up the empty ones.[br]Further ReadingThe article entitled "Michael Menzies" in the Dictionary of National Biography neglects Menzies's inventions for mining. A comprehensive evaluation of his influence on coal cutting is given in the introductory chapter of S.F.Walker, 1902, Coal-Cutting byMachinery, London.WK
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