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contriving

  • 1 contriving

    Изобретение

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > contriving

  • 2 contriving

    mengusahakan

    English-Indonesian dictionary > contriving

  • 3 contriving

    • keksintö
    • laskelmoiva

    English-Finnish dictionary > contriving

  • 4 contriving

    adj.
    ingenioso.
    ger.
    gerundio del verbo CONTRIVE.

    Nuevo Diccionario Inglés-Español > contriving

  • 5 CONTRIVING

    [N]
    EXCOGITATIO (-ONIS) (F)

    English-Latin dictionary > CONTRIVING

  • 6 Contriving

    adj.
    P. and V. εὔπορος, Ar. and P. εὐμήχανος (Plat.).
    Cunning: V. μηχανορράφος; see Cunning.
    ——————
    subs.
    Artifices: P. and V. μηχαναί, αἱ, τέχναι, αἱ.

    Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Contriving

  • 7 contriving

    v
    იგონებს

    English-Georgian dictionary > contriving

  • 8 CONTRIVING MEANS

    [A]
    ARTIFEX (-FICIS)

    English-Latin dictionary > CONTRIVING MEANS

  • 9 be contriving

    v.
    ser ingenioso.

    Nuevo Diccionario Inglés-Español > be contriving

  • 10 contrivance

    noun
    1) (contriving) Plan, der
    2) (inventing) Ersinnen, das
    3) (device) Gerät, das
    * * *
    1) (the act of contriving.) die Findigkeit
    2) (something contrived (especially something mechanical): a contrivance for making the door open automatically.) die Vorrichtung
    * * *
    con·tri·vance
    [kənˈtraɪvən(t)s]
    n
    1. (device) Vorrichtung f; (machine, gadget) Apparat m, Gerät nt; (makeshift) Notbehelf m
    2. no pl (devising) Planung f; (invention) Erfindung f; (imagination) Erfindungsgabe f, Findigkeit f
    3. ( pej: plot) [schlauer [o cleverer]] Plan
    I'm sure it was a \contrivance ich bin sicher, dass es ein abgekartetes Spiel war fam
    4. no pl ( pej: plotting) Planung f
    * * *
    [kən'traIvəns]
    n
    1) (= device) Vorrichtung f; (mechanical) Gerät nt, Apparat m
    2) (= devising, scheming) Planung f; (= invention) Erfindung f; (= inventiveness) Findigkeit f, Erfindungsgabe f
    3) (= plan, scheme) List f
    * * *
    1. TECH
    a) Ein-, Vorrichtung f:
    adjusting contrivance Stellvorrichtung
    b) Gerät n, Apparat m
    2. Erfindung f
    3. Erfindungsgabe f, Findigkeit f
    4. Bewerkstelligung f
    5. Plan m
    6. Kunstgriff m, List f, Kniff m
    * * *
    noun
    1) (contriving) Plan, der
    2) (inventing) Ersinnen, das
    3) (device) Gerät, das
    * * *
    n.
    Erfindung f.
    Vorrichtung f.

    English-german dictionary > contrivance

  • 11 συνεπινοήσει

    συνεπινοέω
    join in contriving: aor subj act 3rd sg (epic)
    συνεπινοέω
    join in contriving: fut ind mid 2nd sg
    συνεπινοέω
    join in contriving: fut ind act 3rd sg

    Morphologia Graeca > συνεπινοήσει

  • 12 contrivance

    1) (the act of contriving.) fidus; påfund
    2) (something contrived (especially something mechanical): a contrivance for making the door open automatically.) kunstgreb; kunstigt påfund
    * * *
    1) (the act of contriving.) fidus; påfund
    2) (something contrived (especially something mechanical): a contrivance for making the door open automatically.) kunstgreb; kunstigt påfund

    English-Danish dictionary > contrivance

  • 13 autoritario

    adj.
    1 authoritative, powerful, commanding, dominant.
    Se me pasó el bus I missed the bus.
    2 authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, domineering.
    * * *
    1 authoritarian
    * * *
    (f. - autoritaria)
    adj.
    * * *
    autoritario, -a
    ADJ SM / F authoritarian
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo authoritarian
    * * *
    = authoritarian, imperious, assertive, dictatorial, authoritative, controlling, bossy [bossier -comp., bossiest -sup.], peremptory, overbearing.
    Ex. Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance.
    Ex. As she ascended the staircase to the library director's office, she tried to fathom the reason for the imperious summons.
    Ex. I tried to say at the very outset of my remarks that there probably has not been sufficient consumer-like and assertive leverage exerted upon our chief suppliers.
    Ex. However, her strong-mindedness, dictatorial tactics, and attempts to dominate her teachers and staff have made her many enemies.
    Ex. While the operating instructions must be regarded as authoritative, they should not be seen as sacrosanct tablets of stone.
    Ex. The implications here are that the organizational climate must be nurturing rather than coercive, empowering rather than controlling.
    Ex. Regardless of gender, problem drinking was mainly related to traits of negative masculinity ( bossy, noisy, aggressive, etc) whereas binge eating was mainly related to negative femininity (shy, needs approval from others, etc).
    Ex. The author's argumentation is vehement, sometimes peremptory, but not conclusive.
    Ex. Overbearing parents are likely to raise obsessive kids, according to a new study.
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo authoritarian
    * * *
    = authoritarian, imperious, assertive, dictatorial, authoritative, controlling, bossy [bossier -comp., bossiest -sup.], peremptory, overbearing.

    Ex: Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance.

    Ex: As she ascended the staircase to the library director's office, she tried to fathom the reason for the imperious summons.
    Ex: I tried to say at the very outset of my remarks that there probably has not been sufficient consumer-like and assertive leverage exerted upon our chief suppliers.
    Ex: However, her strong-mindedness, dictatorial tactics, and attempts to dominate her teachers and staff have made her many enemies.
    Ex: While the operating instructions must be regarded as authoritative, they should not be seen as sacrosanct tablets of stone.
    Ex: The implications here are that the organizational climate must be nurturing rather than coercive, empowering rather than controlling.
    Ex: Regardless of gender, problem drinking was mainly related to traits of negative masculinity ( bossy, noisy, aggressive, etc) whereas binge eating was mainly related to negative femininity (shy, needs approval from others, etc).
    Ex: The author's argumentation is vehement, sometimes peremptory, but not conclusive.
    Ex: Overbearing parents are likely to raise obsessive kids, according to a new study.

    * * *
    1 ‹gobierno/doctrina› authoritarian
    2 ‹persona/carácter› authoritarian
    * * *

    autoritario
    ◊ - ria adjetivo

    authoritarian
    autoritario,-a adjetivo authoritarian

    ' autoritario' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    autoritaria
    English:
    authoritarian
    - authoritative
    - masterful
    - overbearing
    - assertive
    - commanding
    * * *
    autoritario, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [persona] authoritarian
    2. [gobierno] authoritarian
    ♦ nm,f
    authoritarian
    * * *
    adj authoritarian
    * * *
    : authoritarian

    Spanish-English dictionary > autoritario

  • 14 como mejor + poder

    = as best + Pronombre + can
    Ex. We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    * * *
    = as best + Pronombre + can

    Ex: We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.

    Spanish-English dictionary > como mejor + poder

  • 15 conmovedor

    adj.
    moving, touching, emotional, stirring.
    * * *
    1 moving, touching
    * * *
    (f. - conmovedora)
    adj.
    moving, touching
    * * *
    ADJ moving, touching, poignant
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo moving, touching
    * * *
    = poignant, moving, stirring, heart-rending, heart-rendering, touching, breathtaking, heart-wrenching.
    Ex. There was something inexpressibly poignant about the sight of the once powerful Roger Balzac sitting quiescently like a victim in a noose across the desk from him.
    Ex. Of them all, The Cosy Owl by James Banks is perhaps the most instructive and moving novel.
    Ex. We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    Ex. Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex. The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex. In a world of daily genocide, where two-thirds of humanity are condemned, it is touching to see a spark of what solidarity can do.
    Ex. This breathtaking building is 213 meters long and has over 300 windows.
    Ex. Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    ----
    * no conmovedor = unmoving.
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo moving, touching
    * * *
    = poignant, moving, stirring, heart-rending, heart-rendering, touching, breathtaking, heart-wrenching.

    Ex: There was something inexpressibly poignant about the sight of the once powerful Roger Balzac sitting quiescently like a victim in a noose across the desk from him.

    Ex: Of them all, The Cosy Owl by James Banks is perhaps the most instructive and moving novel.
    Ex: We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    Ex: Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex: The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex: In a world of daily genocide, where two-thirds of humanity are condemned, it is touching to see a spark of what solidarity can do.
    Ex: This breathtaking building is 213 meters long and has over 300 windows.
    Ex: Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    * no conmovedor = unmoving.

    * * *
    moving, touching
    * * *

    conmovedor
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    moving, touching
    conmovedor,-ora adjetivo moving: era una escena conmovedora, it was a touching scene

    ' conmovedor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    conmovedora
    - emocionante
    English:
    emotional
    - moving
    - poignant
    - soulful
    - stirring
    - touching
    * * *
    conmovedor, -ora adj
    moving, touching
    * * *
    adj moving
    * * *
    emocionante: moving, touching
    * * *
    conmovedor adj moving

    Spanish-English dictionary > conmovedor

  • 16 dar la impresión de

    (v.) = contrive, conjure up + a picture of, come across as
    Ex. Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance.
    Ex. This article argues in favour of the term 'conservator' rather than 'restorer' of books as the former does not conjure up a picture of the Victorian artisan vandalising documents with irreversible treatments simply for effect.
    Ex. It comes across mostly as an incomprehensible if entertaining story about a few spoiled people hell-bent on complaining incessantly.
    * * *
    (v.) = contrive, conjure up + a picture of, come across as

    Ex: Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance.

    Ex: This article argues in favour of the term 'conservator' rather than 'restorer' of books as the former does not conjure up a picture of the Victorian artisan vandalising documents with irreversible treatments simply for effect.
    Ex: It comes across mostly as an incomprehensible if entertaining story about a few spoiled people hell-bent on complaining incessantly.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dar la impresión de

  • 17 dar una imagen de

    (v.) = give + an impression of
    Ex. Examples would include giving a spurious impression of busyness as the reference desk or deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere.
    * * *
    (v.) = give + an impression of

    Ex: Examples would include giving a spurious impression of busyness as the reference desk or deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dar una imagen de

  • 18 dar una impresión de

    (v.) = give + an impression of
    Ex. Examples would include giving a spurious impression of busyness as the reference desk or deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere.
    * * *
    (v.) = give + an impression of

    Ex: Examples would include giving a spurious impression of busyness as the reference desk or deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dar una impresión de

  • 19 estatus académico

    (n.) = academic status, academic status, academic status
    Ex. Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance.
    Ex. Specific topics considered were faculty versus academic status, criteria used for evaluation, tenure, support for research, sabbaticals and released time.
    Ex. Teaching staff do not recognise the academic status of the librarians, because they see theirs as an essentially non-teaching role.
    * * *
    (n.) = academic status, academic status, academic status

    Ex: Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance.

    Ex: Specific topics considered were faculty versus academic status, criteria used for evaluation, tenure, support for research, sabbaticals and released time.
    Ex: Teaching staff do not recognise the academic status of the librarians, because they see theirs as an essentially non-teaching role.

    Spanish-English dictionary > estatus académico

  • 20 improvisar

    v.
    to improvise (discurso, plan).
    improvisar una cama to make (up) a makeshift bed
    * * *
    1 to improvise
    1 to improvise
    * * *
    VT [+ discurso] to improvise; [+ comida] to rustle up *; [+ música] to extemporize; [+ representación] to ad-lib
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to improvise
    2.
    improvisar vi actor to improvise, ad-lib, extemporize (frml); músico to improvise, extemporize (frml)
    * * *
    = improvise, throw together, play + Nombre + by ear, wing it, rustle up, cobble together, fly by + the seat of + Posesivo + pants.
    Ex. We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    Ex. A quality design cannot be thrown together on short notice.
    Ex. The main problem lay in deciding which subjects were to be treated in which way, and staff played things by ear.
    Ex. ' Winging it' becomes necessary when something unexpected comes up and the teacher has to improvise at the last minute.
    Ex. Why grub has to be ' rustled up' is anyone's guess; that is just the way it was on the Wild West.
    Ex. By cobbling together these essays without any attempt to integrate them, Mills reveals a disregard for his audience.
    Ex. One of the persistent arguments about Mr. Gorbachev is whether he ever had a clear strategic vision, or was flying by the seat of his pants.
    ----
    * improvisar Algo sobre la marcha = play + Nombre + by ear.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to improvise
    2.
    improvisar vi actor to improvise, ad-lib, extemporize (frml); músico to improvise, extemporize (frml)
    * * *
    = improvise, throw together, play + Nombre + by ear, wing it, rustle up, cobble together, fly by + the seat of + Posesivo + pants.

    Ex: We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.

    Ex: A quality design cannot be thrown together on short notice.
    Ex: The main problem lay in deciding which subjects were to be treated in which way, and staff played things by ear.
    Ex: ' Winging it' becomes necessary when something unexpected comes up and the teacher has to improvise at the last minute.
    Ex: Why grub has to be ' rustled up' is anyone's guess; that is just the way it was on the Wild West.
    Ex: By cobbling together these essays without any attempt to integrate them, Mills reveals a disregard for his audience.
    Ex: One of the persistent arguments about Mr. Gorbachev is whether he ever had a clear strategic vision, or was flying by the seat of his pants.
    * improvisar Algo sobre la marcha = play + Nombre + by ear.

    * * *
    improvisar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹lección/discurso/versos› to improvise
    2 (preparar con pocos recursos) ‹cama/cortina› to improvise
    improvisaron una fiesta con lo que tenían en casa they had an impromptu party o ( colloq) they got up a party with what they had in the house
    con cuatro latas improvisamos una cena estupenda we rustled up a great meal from a few cans
    no podemos improvisar un director gerente de un día para otro we can't conjure up a managing director overnight
    ■ improvisar
    vi
    «actor» to improvise, ad-lib, extemporize ( frml); «músico» to improvise, extemporize
    * * *

    improvisar ( conjugate improvisar) verbo transitivo
    to improvise;

    verbo intransitivo [actor/músico] to improvise
    improvisar verbo transitivo to improvise
    Mús to extemporize

    ' improvisar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    ad-lib
    - cobble together
    - ear
    - improvise
    - rig up
    - jam
    - knock
    - put
    - throw
    - whip
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    [discurso, plan, actuación artística] to improvise; [comida] to rustle up, to improvise;
    improvisar una cama to make (up) a makeshift bed;
    improvisaron un campamento para albergar a los refugiados a makeshift camp was set up to provide shelter for the refugees
    ♦ vi
    [músico, orador, actor] to improvise; [al olvidar el diálogo] to ad-lib
    * * *
    v/t improvise
    * * *
    : to improvise, to ad-lib
    * * *
    improvisar vb to improvise

    Spanish-English dictionary > improvisar

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