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  • 41 azteca

    adj.
    1 Aztec.
    2 Aztecan.
    f. & m.
    Aztec.
    m.
    Nahuatl, Aztec (lengua).
    * * *
    1 Aztec
    1 Aztec
    * * *
    ADJ SMF Aztec
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino y femenino Aztec
    •• Cultural note:
    A Náhuatl-speaking people of Central America who in the fourteenth century established a brilliant but tyrannical civilization in central and southern Mexico. The capital was Tenochtitlán, built on reclaimed marshland which became Mexico City. Renowned for their jewelry, the Aztecs were also skilled architects and used a writing system based on pictographs and hieroglyphs. The Aztec calendar followed a 52-year astronomical cycle. They worshipped the plumed serpent Quetzalcóatl and the war-god Huitzilopochtli, whom their priests appeased by human sacrifice. The Aztec empire collapsed in 1521 after defeat by the Spanish under Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado
    * * *
    = Aztec.
    Ex. This article looks at problems in bringing Aztec literature to children whose language is now English.
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino y femenino Aztec
    •• Cultural note:
    A Náhuatl-speaking people of Central America who in the fourteenth century established a brilliant but tyrannical civilization in central and southern Mexico. The capital was Tenochtitlán, built on reclaimed marshland which became Mexico City. Renowned for their jewelry, the Aztecs were also skilled architects and used a writing system based on pictographs and hieroglyphs. The Aztec calendar followed a 52-year astronomical cycle. They worshipped the plumed serpent Quetzalcóatl and the war-god Huitzilopochtli, whom their priests appeased by human sacrifice. The Aztec empire collapsed in 1521 after defeat by the Spanish under Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado
    * * *

    Ex: This article looks at problems in bringing Aztec literature to children whose language is now English.

    * * *
    azteca Aztecas (↑ azteca a1)
    adj/mf
    Aztec
    * * *

    azteca adjetivo, masculino y femenino
    Aztec
    azteca adjetivo & mf Aztec
    ' azteca' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    teocali
    English:
    Aztec
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [precolombino] Aztec
    2. Fam [mexicano]
    el equipo azteca the Mexican team
    ♦ nmf
    [persona] Aztec
    ♦ nm
    [lengua] Nahuatl, Aztec
    * * *
    m/f & adj Aztec
    * * *
    azteca adj & nmf
    : Aztec

    Spanish-English dictionary > azteca

  • 42 barrio

    m.
    1 area, district.
    los barrios bajos the rough parts of town
    de barrio local (cine, tienda)
    barrio comercial/periférico shopping/outlying district
    barrio latino Latin Quarter
    2 neighborhood, local community, neighbourhood.
    3 quarter, area.
    4 people in the neighborhood.
    5 district, ward, town ward.
    * * *
    1 neighbourhood (US neighborhood) (zona) district, area
    \
    de barrio local
    irse al otro barrio familiar to kick the bucket
    barrio chino red-light district
    barrio comercial business district
    barrio latino Latin Quarter
    barrio popular working-class area
    barrio residencial residential area
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=distrito) area, district, neighborhood (EEUU)

    mi barrio — my part of town, my neighborhood (EEUU)

    tiendas de barrio — local shops, corner shops, neighborhood stores (EEUU)

    - el otro barrio
    - mandar a algn al otro barrio

    barrio bruja — And shanty town

    barrio chino — [de mayoría china] Chinatown, Chinese quarter; [de prostitución] Esp red-light district

    barrio comercial — [de negocios] business quarter, commercial district; [de tiendas] shopping area, shopping district

    barrio de tolerancia — And red-light district

    barrio dormitorio — commuter suburb, dormitory suburb

    Barrio Gótico — historic district with principally Gothic architecture

    barrio miseria — † shanty town

    barrio obrero — working-class area, working-class district, working-class neighborhood (EEUU)

    2) LAm shanty town
    * * *
    masculino ( zona) neighborhood*

    la gente del barrio — people in the neighborhood, local people

    * * *
    = block, ward, quarter, burb, local community.
    Ex. And what really hurt was that one of them lives on my block and is in no way what you would call a 'delinquent' child.
    Ex. A total of 868 personal interviews were conducted with residents in tree wards (inner city and suburban).
    Ex. The library is located in the marginalized quarter of the city of Guatemala.
    Ex. Townie is in fact a derogatory reference to those who are born and raised in that type of burg or burb, and are assumed to be of inferior intellectual promise.
    Ex. Involving local communities is crucial to prevent and control destructive forest fires.
    ----
    * a nivel de barrio = neighbourhood-based.
    * asesoría de barrio (NAC) = neighbourhood advice centre (NAC).
    * asistente social de barrio = community worker.
    * barrio bajo = slum, skid row.
    * barrio chino, el = Chinatown.
    * barrio de chabolas = slum.
    * barrio de los pobres = lower town.
    * barrio de los ricos = upper town.
    * barrio dormitorio = bedroom community.
    * barrio marginado = deprived area.
    * barrio marginado de la ciudad = inner-city area.
    * barrio pobre = slum.
    * barrio residencial de las afueras = suburb.
    * Barrio Sésamo = Sesame Street.
    * barrios pobres del centro de la ciudad = inner city.
    * biblioteca de barrio = district library, community library.
    * bibliotecario de biblioteca de barrio = district librarian.
    * centro de barrio = neighbourhood centre.
    * de barrio = neighbourhood-based.
    * de los barrios pobres = back-street.
    * en + Posesivo + barrio = in + Posesivo + neck of the woods.
    * habitante de un barrio residencial = suburbanite.
    * material documental de interés para los vecinos del barrio = community literature.
    * nuevo vecino del barrio = new kid on the block.
    * patrullas de barrio = community policing.
    * ser la comidilla del barrio = be the talk of the town.
    * tienda de barrio = convenience store.
    * * *
    masculino ( zona) neighborhood*

    la gente del barrio — people in the neighborhood, local people

    * * *
    = block, ward, quarter, burb, local community.

    Ex: And what really hurt was that one of them lives on my block and is in no way what you would call a 'delinquent' child.

    Ex: A total of 868 personal interviews were conducted with residents in tree wards (inner city and suburban).
    Ex: The library is located in the marginalized quarter of the city of Guatemala.
    Ex: Townie is in fact a derogatory reference to those who are born and raised in that type of burg or burb, and are assumed to be of inferior intellectual promise.
    Ex: Involving local communities is crucial to prevent and control destructive forest fires.
    * a nivel de barrio = neighbourhood-based.
    * asesoría de barrio (NAC) = neighbourhood advice centre (NAC).
    * asistente social de barrio = community worker.
    * barrio bajo = slum, skid row.
    * barrio chino, el = Chinatown.
    * barrio de chabolas = slum.
    * barrio de los pobres = lower town.
    * barrio de los ricos = upper town.
    * barrio dormitorio = bedroom community.
    * barrio marginado = deprived area.
    * barrio marginado de la ciudad = inner-city area.
    * barrio pobre = slum.
    * barrio residencial de las afueras = suburb.
    * Barrio Sésamo = Sesame Street.
    * barrios pobres del centro de la ciudad = inner city.
    * biblioteca de barrio = district library, community library.
    * bibliotecario de biblioteca de barrio = district librarian.
    * centro de barrio = neighbourhood centre.
    * de barrio = neighbourhood-based.
    * de los barrios pobres = back-street.
    * en + Posesivo + barrio = in + Posesivo + neck of the woods.
    * habitante de un barrio residencial = suburbanite.
    * material documental de interés para los vecinos del barrio = community literature.
    * nuevo vecino del barrio = new kid on the block.
    * patrullas de barrio = community policing.
    * ser la comidilla del barrio = be the talk of the town.
    * tienda de barrio = convenience store.

    * * *
    barrio barrio (↑ barrio a1)
    (zona) neighborhood*
    la gente del barrio people in the neighborhood, local people
    el mercado del barrio the local market
    ese chico es de mi barrio that boy lives in my neighborhood o round my way
    un barrio residencial a residential district o area o neighborhood
    lo conozco del barrio I've seen him around in my area o in the area I live in
    un comité de barrio neighborhood association
    los barrios más antiguos de la ciudad the oldest parts o areas o quarters of the city
    es el hazmerreír del barrio he's the laughing stock of the neighborhood
    vive en un barrio de las afueras she lives out in the suburbs
    cine/peluquería de barrio local cinema/hairdresser's
    irse al otro barrio ( Esp fam hum); to kick the bucket ( colloq hum)
    Compuestos:
    ( Chi) smart neighborhood
    (de chinos) Chinatown; (zona de prostitución) ( Esp) red-light district
    business quarter o district
    ( Esp) shantytown
    ( Col) shantytown
    downtown quarter ( AmE), town centre area ( BrE)
    fishermen's quarters
    ( Andes) red-light district
    ( AmC) shantytown
    Latin Quarter
    working-class neighborhood o area
    suburb
    residential neighborhood o area
    mpl poor neighborhoods (pl)
    A city neighborhood, defined by its geographical location, a characteristic of its inhabitants, a particular feature, or its history. Most barrios have very strong identities. Buenos Aires is unique, with a total of forty-six distinctive barrios, some very well known, such as the oldest, San Telmo, and La Boca (↑ La Boca 21).
    * * *

     

    Del verbo barrer: ( conjugate barrer)

    barrió es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    barrer    
    barrio
    barrer ( conjugate barrer) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹suelo/cocina› to sweep
    2


    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( con escoba) to sweep
    2 ( arrasar) [equipo/candidato] to sweep to victory;
    barrio con algo ‹con premios/medallas› to walk off with sth;

    barrió con todos los premios she walked off with all the prizes
    barrerse verbo pronominal (Méx) [ vehículo] to skid;
    (en fútbol, béisbol) to slide
    barrio sustantivo masculino
    a) ( zona) neighborhood( conjugate neighborhood);


    el mercado del barrio the local market; barrio alto (Chi) smart neighborhood;
    barrio chino (Esp) red-light district;
    barrio espontáneo (AmC) shantytown;
    barrios bajos poor neighborhoods (pl);
    barrio de invasión (Col) shantytown

    barrer
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to sweep: hace una semana que no barro el salón, I haven't swept the living room for a week
    el anticiclón está barriendo el norte, the anticyclone is sweping through the North
    2 (destruir, rechazar) to sweep away
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (en una votación) to win by a landslide: el partido conservador barrió en las regiones del norte, the conservatives won by a landslide in the North
    2 (acaparar, agotar las existencias) to take away: los clientes barrieron con las ofertas, the customers snapped up the bargains
    ♦ Locuciones: barrer para casa, to look after number one
    barrio sustantivo masculino
    1 area, district: el Barrio Alto, the Upper Quarter
    barrio chino (zona de prostitución), red-light district
    barrios bajos, slums
    2 (vecindario) neighbourhood: el niño salió a jugar con los chicos del barrio, the boy went out to play with the local children
    ♦ Locuciones: de barrio, local: prefiero comprar en cualquier tienda de barrio, no me gustan las grandes superficies, I'd rather buy in a local shop, I don't like big stores
    ' barrio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    barrer
    - barriada
    - bien
    - chabola
    - comidilla
    - comunicada
    - comunicado
    - desvalorizarse
    - haber
    - periférica
    - periférico
    - suburbio
    - vecina
    - vecindario
    - vecino
    - atemorizar
    - chusco
    - cine
    - colonia
    - comunicar
    - copeo
    - decaer
    - elegancia
    - elegante
    - feo
    - habitante
    - inseguridad
    - inseguro
    - matón
    - mirado
    - obrero
    - pobre
    - por
    - remodelar
    - renovación
    - renovar
    - retirado
    - roto
    - rotoso
    - silencioso
    - superpoblado
    - vecindad
    English:
    academy
    - chinatown
    - design
    - disreputable
    - district
    - dormitory town
    - exclusive
    - local
    - locally
    - neighborhood
    - neighbourhood
    - quarter
    - red light district
    - resident
    - residential
    - rough
    - shabby
    - shantytown
    - slum
    - suburb
    - unfashionable
    - unsafe
    - area
    - corner
    - east
    - move
    - nice
    - salubrious
    * * *
    barrio nm
    1. [vecindario] area, district, neighbourhood;
    un barrio acomodado a well-to-do area o neighbourhood;
    vive en un barrio céntrico she lives centrally;
    la gente del barrio nos conocemos todos everyone knows everyone else round here;
    la contaminación afecta más al centro que a los barrios the pollution is worse in the centre of the city than further out;
    una tienda/un cine de barrio a local shop/cinema;
    los barrios bajos the rough parts of town;
    Esp Fam Hum
    irse al otro barrio to kick the bucket, to snuff it;
    Esp Fam Hum barrio chino [de chinos] Chinatown; Esp [de prostitución] red-light district;
    barrio comercial shopping district;
    Col barrio de invasión shanty town;
    barrio latino Latin Quarter;
    barrio marginal deprived area o district;
    barrio obrero working-class area o district o neighbourhood;
    barrio periférico outlying area o district;
    barrio residencial residential area o district o neighbourhood;
    Andes barrio de tolerancia red-light district
    2. Ven [de chabolas] shanty town
    * * *
    m neighborhood, Br
    neighbourhood, area;
    * * *
    barrio nm
    1) : neighborhood, district
    2)
    barrios bajos : slums pl
    * * *
    1. (zona) area / neighbourhood
    2. (zona típica) quarter

    Spanish-English dictionary > barrio

  • 43 catalán

    adj.
    Catalan, Catalonian, pertaining to Catalonia its people or their language.
    m.
    Catalan, Catalonian, native or inhabitant of Catalonia.
    * * *
    1 Catalan, Catalonian
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (persona) Catalan
    1 (idioma) Catalan
    ————————
    1 (idioma) Catalan
    * * *
    catalán, -ana
    1.
    ADJ SM / F Catalan, Catalonian
    2.
    SM (Ling) Catalan
    CATALÁN Catalan is a romance language whose earliest literature dates back to the 12th century. In the Middle Ages Catalan military expansion spread the use of the language beyond modern Catalonia, but following the unification of Castile and Aragon the language lost ground to Castilian. During the Franco régime the use of Catalan and other minority national languages was prohibited in the media and in public institutions. This, together with the influx of Castilian-speaking immigrants, posed a threat to the survival of the language. Since 1979, when Catalonia's autonomous government, the Generalitat, was re-established and Catalan gained lengua cooficial status, the language has returned to public life in Catalonia and is flourishing. Indeed, many Catalan authors publish first in Catalan and only later in Castilian. Outside Catalonia, Catalan is also spoken by large numbers of people in the Balearic Islands and Andorra. Valenciano, a language spoken in the Valencia region, is closely related.
    See:
    ver nota culturelle LENGUAS COOFICIALES in lengua
    * * *
    I
    - lana adjetivo/masculino, femenino Catalan
    II
    masculino ( idioma) Catalan
    •• Cultural note:
    The language of Catalonia. Like Castilian, Catalan is a Romance language. Variants of it include mallorquín of the Balearic Islands and valenciano spoken in the autonomous region of Valencia. Banned under Franco, Catalan has enjoyed a revival since Spain's return to democracy and now has around 11 million speakers. It is the medium of instruction in schools and universities and its use is widespread in business, the arts, and the media. Many books are published in Catalan. See also lenguas cooficiales
    * * *
    = Catalan, Catalonian.
    Ex. This article examines the training initiatives of institutions such as the Andalusian Libraries Association and the Catalan Society for Documentation and Information.
    Ex. One of the main arguments of Catalonians is that they are a different nation because they have a 'different' language and culture.
    * * *
    I
    - lana adjetivo/masculino, femenino Catalan
    II
    masculino ( idioma) Catalan
    •• Cultural note:
    The language of Catalonia. Like Castilian, Catalan is a Romance language. Variants of it include mallorquín of the Balearic Islands and valenciano spoken in the autonomous region of Valencia. Banned under Franco, Catalan has enjoyed a revival since Spain's return to democracy and now has around 11 million speakers. It is the medium of instruction in schools and universities and its use is widespread in business, the arts, and the media. Many books are published in Catalan. See also lenguas cooficiales
    * * *
    = Catalan, Catalonian.

    Ex: This article examines the training initiatives of institutions such as the Andalusian Libraries Association and the Catalan Society for Documentation and Information.

    Ex: One of the main arguments of Catalonians is that they are a different nation because they have a 'different' language and culture.

    * * *
    Catalan, Catalonian ( dated)
    catalán2 - lana catalán (↑ catalán a1)
    masculine, feminine
    1 (persona) Catalan
    2
    The language of Catalonia. Like Castilian, Catalan is a Romance language. Variants of it include mallorquín (↑ Mallorca a1) of the Balearic Islands and valenciano (↑ valenciano a1) spoken in the autonomous region of Valencia.
    Banned under Franco, Catalan has enjoyed a revival since Spain's return to democracy and now has around 11 million speakers. It is the medium of instruction in schools and universities and its use is widespread in business, the arts, and the media. Many books are published in Catalan. See also lenguas cooficiales (↑ lengua a1).
    * * *

    catalán 1
    ◊ - lana adjetivo/ sustantivo masculino, femenino

    Catalan
    catalán 2 sustantivo masculino ( idioma) Catalan
    catalán,-ana
    I adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino Catalonian
    II sustantivo masculino (idioma) Catalan

    ' catalán' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    catalana
    - Generalitat
    - parecerse
    - sardana
    English:
    Catalan
    * * *
    catalán, -ana
    ♦ adj
    Catalan, Catalonian
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] Catalan
    ♦ nm
    [lengua] Catalan
    CATALÁN
    Catalan is one of several official languages in Spain other than Castilian Spanish. Like Spanish (“castellano”) and Galician (“gallego”), it developed from late Latin. It is spoken in Catalonia in northeastern Spain, and closely related languages are also spoken in the Balearic Islands (“mallorquín”) and the Valencian region (“valenciano”). Catalonia's economic development in the latter part of the 19th century encouraged a renaissance in the use of the language as a literary medium. During Franco's dictatorship (1939-75), Catalan was effectively banned for official purposes, but it continued to be used in everyday life as well as in literature. Since the return of democracy, Catalonia's regional government has promoted Catalan as the official language for use in education.
    * * *
    I adj Catalan
    II m, catalana f Catalan
    III m idioma Catalan
    * * *
    catalán, - lana adj & n, mpl - lanes : Catalan
    : Catalan (language)
    * * *
    catalán adj n Catalan

    Spanish-English dictionary > catalán

  • 44 copia

    f.
    1 copy.
    sacar una copia to make a copy
    hacer una copia de seguridad de algo to make a backup of something
    2 copying.
    3 (spitting) image (person).
    4 carbon copy, cc.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: copiar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: copiar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) copy
    4 literal (abundancia) abundance
    \
    sacar una copia to make a copy
    copia legalizada certified true copy
    papel de copia copy paper
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) copy
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=reproducción) [de fotografía, documento] copy; (Econ) duplicate

    copia carbónica — Cono Sur carbon copy

    copia de calco — Cono Sur carbon copy

    copia de respaldo, copia de seguridad — (Inform) back-up copy

    hacer una copia de seguridad — to back up, make a back-up copy

    copia en color — colour o (EEUU) color copy

    copia fotostática — photostat, photocopy

    copia impresa — (Inform) hard copy

    2) (=imitación) [de obra de arte, edificio] copy
    3) liter (=abundancia) abundance, plenty
    * * *
    1) (de documento, fotografía) copy

    hice or saqué dos copias — I made two copies

    2) ( imitación) copy, imitation
    * * *
    = copy [copies, -pl.], copying, dump, duplicate, offloading [off-loading], reproduction, single copy [multiple copies, -pl.], transcript, duplicating, download, duplication.
    Ex. Usually a central cataloguing agency is based upon a national library or copyright office, where publishers are required by law to send at least one copy of every book published in that country.
    Ex. The copying of words and phrases from the schedules encourages the indexer to use them as they stand.
    Ex. On The Source this can be sent from disk in one ' dump', which CompuServe accepts messages only in response to line-by-line prompts.
    Ex. Because duplicates can be easily made, sheaf catalogues were popular in applications where multiple copies were desirable.
    Ex. It enables easy access to on-line data bases and CD-ROM, off-loading of records, editing, and office tasks such as spreadsheets and word processing.
    Ex. Acknowledgements: the author wishes to acknowledge her debt to the authors of the literature that has gone before, and also to the various persons and organisations that have kindly permitted the reproduction of their work.
    Ex. As stated earlier, the main purpose of electrostatic copiers is to produce single copies, but they will produce multiple copies very rapidly.
    Ex. The cataloguer must make an exact transcript of the title on the title page.
    Ex. This article discusses the lifespan of photographic film and warns about processing and duplicating methods = Este artículo trata de la vida útil de las películas fotográficas y advierte sobre los métodos de procesamiento y duplicado.
    Ex. The software enables the user to specify the entry point of the download.
    Ex. A catalogue code is a systematic arrangement of laws and statutes so as to avoid inconsistency and duplication in catalogues.
    ----
    * catalogación por copia = copy cataloguing.
    * copia caché = caching.
    * copia de archivo = archival print.
    * copia de catalogación = derivative cataloguing.
    * copia de papel de calco = carbon copy.
    * copia de seguridad = backup [back-up], duplicate copy, backup copy.
    * copia de seguridad del sistema = system backup.
    * copia digitalizada = facsimile image.
    * copia electrónica = electrocopying [electro-copying].
    * copia en papel = hard copy [hardcopy].
    * copia exacta = replica.
    * copia impresa = printout [print-out], print copy, print-off.
    * copia literal = fair copy.
    * copia mecanografiada = typescript.
    * copia por ciclostil = cyclostyling.
    * copias = multiple copies [single copy, -sing.].
    * era de la copia electrónica, la = electrocopying era, the.
    * error de copia = clerical error, clerical mistake.
    * hacer copias = make + multiple copies.
    * hacer copias mediante multicopista por disolvente = spirit duplication.
    * hacer más copias de Algo = produce + additional copies.
    * hacer una copia = download.
    * hacer varias copias de Algo = reproduce in + multiple copies, produce + multiple copies.
    * libertad de copia = copyleft.
    * ser una copia exacta de = be a dead ringer for.
    * sistema de copias de seguridad = backup system.
    * * *
    1) (de documento, fotografía) copy

    hice or saqué dos copias — I made two copies

    2) ( imitación) copy, imitation
    * * *
    = copy [copies, -pl.], copying, dump, duplicate, offloading [off-loading], reproduction, single copy [multiple copies, -pl.], transcript, duplicating, download, duplication.

    Ex: Usually a central cataloguing agency is based upon a national library or copyright office, where publishers are required by law to send at least one copy of every book published in that country.

    Ex: The copying of words and phrases from the schedules encourages the indexer to use them as they stand.
    Ex: On The Source this can be sent from disk in one ' dump', which CompuServe accepts messages only in response to line-by-line prompts.
    Ex: Because duplicates can be easily made, sheaf catalogues were popular in applications where multiple copies were desirable.
    Ex: It enables easy access to on-line data bases and CD-ROM, off-loading of records, editing, and office tasks such as spreadsheets and word processing.
    Ex: Acknowledgements: the author wishes to acknowledge her debt to the authors of the literature that has gone before, and also to the various persons and organisations that have kindly permitted the reproduction of their work.
    Ex: As stated earlier, the main purpose of electrostatic copiers is to produce single copies, but they will produce multiple copies very rapidly.
    Ex: The cataloguer must make an exact transcript of the title on the title page.
    Ex: This article discusses the lifespan of photographic film and warns about processing and duplicating methods = Este artículo trata de la vida útil de las películas fotográficas y advierte sobre los métodos de procesamiento y duplicado.
    Ex: The software enables the user to specify the entry point of the download.
    Ex: A catalogue code is a systematic arrangement of laws and statutes so as to avoid inconsistency and duplication in catalogues.
    * catalogación por copia = copy cataloguing.
    * copia caché = caching.
    * copia de archivo = archival print.
    * copia de catalogación = derivative cataloguing.
    * copia de papel de calco = carbon copy.
    * copia de seguridad = backup [back-up], duplicate copy, backup copy.
    * copia de seguridad del sistema = system backup.
    * copia digitalizada = facsimile image.
    * copia electrónica = electrocopying [electro-copying].
    * copia en papel = hard copy [hardcopy].
    * copia exacta = replica.
    * copia impresa = printout [print-out], print copy, print-off.
    * copia literal = fair copy.
    * copia mecanografiada = typescript.
    * copia por ciclostil = cyclostyling.
    * copias = multiple copies [single copy, -sing.].
    * era de la copia electrónica, la = electrocopying era, the.
    * error de copia = clerical error, clerical mistake.
    * hacer copias = make + multiple copies.
    * hacer copias mediante multicopista por disolvente = spirit duplication.
    * hacer más copias de Algo = produce + additional copies.
    * hacer una copia = download.
    * hacer varias copias de Algo = reproduce in + multiple copies, produce + multiple copies.
    * libertad de copia = copyleft.
    * ser una copia exacta de = be a dead ringer for.
    * sistema de copias de seguridad = backup system.

    * * *
    A (de un documento, una fotografía) copy
    hice or saqué dos copias del informe I made two copies of the report
    Compuestos:
    legally validated copy
    certified copy
    ● copia de respaldo or de seguridad
    back-up copy
    legally validated copy
    soft copy
    B (imitación) copy, imitation
    es una copia del edificio que hay en París it's a copy o replica of the building in Paris
    * * *

    Del verbo copiar: ( conjugate copiar)

    copia es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    copia    
    copiar
    copia sustantivo femenino
    copy;

    copiar ( conjugate copiar) verbo transitivo
    to copy;
    copió el artículo a máquina he typed out a copy of the article;
    le copia todo al hermano he copies his brother in everything;
    le copié la respuesta a Ana I copied the answer from Ana
    verbo intransitivo
    to copy
    copia sustantivo femenino
    1 (reproducción) copy
    2 (parecido) imitation: es una mala copia de Elvis, he's a bad Elvis impersonator
    3 Inform copia de seguridad, backup
    copiar verbo transitivo
    1 (una persona, máquina) to copy [de, from]
    2 Educ (en un examen) to cheat
    3 (imitar) to imitate

    ' copia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    duplicar
    - falsificar
    - pirata
    - sacar
    - trasunto
    - adjunto
    - calco
    - copiar
    - exacto
    - fiel
    - imitación
    - plagio
    - réplica
    English:
    backup
    - blueprint
    - carbon copy
    - certify
    - copy
    - fake
    - hard copy
    - imitation
    - master copy
    - minute
    - original
    - print
    - printout
    - replica
    - score
    - back
    - carbon
    - duplicate
    - reprint
    * * *
    copia nf
    1. [reproducción] copy;
    hacer una copia de algo to duplicate sth;
    sacar una copia to make a copy
    copia certificada certified copy; Informát copia impresa printout;
    copia en limpio fair copy
    2. [de disco, libro, software] copy;
    han vendido 20.000 copias de su último disco they've sold 20,000 copies of their latest record
    copia de evaluación [libro] Br inspection o US examination copy; [software] evaluation copy;
    copia maestra master copy;
    Informát copia de seguridad backup (copy);
    hacer una copia de seguridad de algo to back sth up, to make a backup of sth
    3. [imitación] copy;
    es una copia de un cuadro de Monet it's a copy of a painting by Monet
    4. [acción] copying
    5. [persona] (spitting) image
    6. [de fotografía] copy;
    quería dobles copias de este carrete, por favor I'd like an extra set of prints of this film, please
    Fot copia de contacto contact print
    * * *
    f copy
    * * *
    copia nf
    1) : copy
    2) : imitation, replica
    * * *
    copia n copy [pl. copies]

    Spanish-English dictionary > copia

  • 45 cultura

    f.
    1 culture.
    cultura empresarial corporate culture
    2 learning, knowledge.
    cultura general general knowledge
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: culturar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: culturar.
    * * *
    1 culture
    \
    de cultura educated
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=civilización) culture
    2) (=saber)
    3) (=artes) culture
    * * *
    1) ( civilización) culture
    2)
    a) (conocimientos, ilustración)

    cultura general/musical — general/musical knowledge

    b) (en periódico, artes) arts (pl), culture
    * * *
    = culture, literacy.
    Ex. For instance, we find that children's literature, alternative culture, radical movements, and ethnic themes don't get adequate treatment.
    Ex. David Mearns, on the other hand, in his list of the attributes of the ideal reference librarian gives first place to literacy.
    ----
    * arraigado en la cultura = culturally-embedded.
    * choque de culturas = clash of cultures.
    * concurso de cultura general = quiz [quizzes, -pl.].
    * contracultura = counter-culture [counter culture].
    * con una amplia cultura = well-read.
    * con una gran cultura = well-read.
    * cultura académica = academic culture.
    * cultura africana = African culture.
    * cultura científica = scientific culture.
    * cultura consumista = consumerist culture, consumer culture.
    * cultura de consumo = consumer culture.
    * cultura de la clase alta = high culture.
    * cultura de la clase baja = low culture.
    * cultura de la clase media = middlebrow culture.
    * cultura del gamberrismo = yob culture.
    * cultura del mundo impreso = print culture.
    * cultura de masas = mass culture.
    * cultura empresarial = business culture.
    * cultura impresa = print culture.
    * cultura institucional = company's culture, organisational culture, institutional culture.
    * cultura juvenil = youth culture.
    * cultura material = material culture.
    * cultura occidental = Western culture.
    * cultura oriental = Eastern culture.
    * cultura popular = popular culture, pop culture, public culture.
    * cultura profesional = professional culture.
    * cultura pública = public culture.
    * cultura social = social culture.
    * cultura tecnológica = technology culture.
    * cultura tradicional = traditional culture.
    * cultura viva = living culture.
    * desde el punto de vista de la cultura = culturally.
    * devorador de cultura = culture vulture.
    * entre culturas = intercultural.
    * extensión de la cultura = cultural outreach.
    * integrado en la cultura = culturally-embedded.
    * preguntas de cultura general = quiz [quizzes, -pl.].
    * que afecta a todas las culturas = culture-wide.
    * que forma parte de la cultura = culturally-embedded.
    * que le presta gran importancia a la cultura = culture-conscious.
    * * *
    1) ( civilización) culture
    2)
    a) (conocimientos, ilustración)

    cultura general/musical — general/musical knowledge

    b) (en periódico, artes) arts (pl), culture
    * * *
    = culture, literacy.

    Ex: For instance, we find that children's literature, alternative culture, radical movements, and ethnic themes don't get adequate treatment.

    Ex: David Mearns, on the other hand, in his list of the attributes of the ideal reference librarian gives first place to literacy.
    * arraigado en la cultura = culturally-embedded.
    * choque de culturas = clash of cultures.
    * concurso de cultura general = quiz [quizzes, -pl.].
    * contracultura = counter-culture [counter culture].
    * con una amplia cultura = well-read.
    * con una gran cultura = well-read.
    * cultura académica = academic culture.
    * cultura africana = African culture.
    * cultura científica = scientific culture.
    * cultura consumista = consumerist culture, consumer culture.
    * cultura de consumo = consumer culture.
    * cultura de la clase alta = high culture.
    * cultura de la clase baja = low culture.
    * cultura de la clase media = middlebrow culture.
    * cultura del gamberrismo = yob culture.
    * cultura del mundo impreso = print culture.
    * cultura de masas = mass culture.
    * cultura empresarial = business culture.
    * cultura impresa = print culture.
    * cultura institucional = company's culture, organisational culture, institutional culture.
    * cultura juvenil = youth culture.
    * cultura material = material culture.
    * cultura occidental = Western culture.
    * cultura oriental = Eastern culture.
    * cultura popular = popular culture, pop culture, public culture.
    * cultura profesional = professional culture.
    * cultura pública = public culture.
    * cultura social = social culture.
    * cultura tecnológica = technology culture.
    * cultura tradicional = traditional culture.
    * cultura viva = living culture.
    * desde el punto de vista de la cultura = culturally.
    * devorador de cultura = culture vulture.
    * entre culturas = intercultural.
    * extensión de la cultura = cultural outreach.
    * integrado en la cultura = culturally-embedded.
    * preguntas de cultura general = quiz [quizzes, -pl.].
    * que afecta a todas las culturas = culture-wide.
    * que forma parte de la cultura = culturally-embedded.
    * que le presta gran importancia a la cultura = culture-conscious.

    * * *
    A (civilización) culture
    la cultura europea European culture
    cultura del ocio leisure culture
    B
    1
    (conocimientos, ilustración): es una persona de gran cultura she's a highly cultured o very educated person
    preguntas de cultura general general knowledge questions
    cultura musical musical knowledge
    la cultura popular popular culture
    2 (artes) arts (pl), culture
    * * *

    cultura sustantivo femenino

    b) (conocimientos, ilustración):

    ◊ una persona de gran cultura a very well-educated o cultured person;

    cultura general/musical general/musical knowledge;
    la cultura popular popular culture
    cultura sustantivo femenino culture
    ' cultura' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    concejalía
    - consejería
    - contaminar
    - costumbre
    - cultivada
    - cultivado
    - empaparse
    - masa
    - ministra
    - ministro
    - núcleo
    - parte
    - primitiva
    - primitivo
    - salvaje
    - tiniebla
    - asimilar
    - barniz
    - difundir
    - difusión
    - diseminarse
    - divulgar
    - dominante
    - enriquecer
    - impulsar
    - inculto
    - occidental
    - popular
    - potenciar
    English:
    Americana
    - breeding
    - culture
    - decay
    - education
    - flowering
    - general knowledge
    - mainstream
    - revival
    - revive
    - source
    - street cred
    - street credibility
    - uncivilized
    - art
    - general
    * * *
    1. [de sociedad] culture;
    es especialista en la cultura inca she is a specialist in Inca culture
    cultura empresarial corporate culture;
    cultura de masas mass culture;
    la cultura del ocio leisure culture
    2. [sabiduría]
    tiene mucha cultura she's very educated, she's very cultured;
    tiene mucha cultura teatral she knows a lot about the theatre
    cultura general general knowledge;
    la cultura popular popular culture
    * * *
    f culture
    * * *
    : culture
    * * *
    cultura n culture

    Spanish-English dictionary > cultura

  • 46 don

    m.
    1 gift.
    don de mando leadership qualities
    tener don de gentes to have a way with people
    2 Mr., Mister.
    3 don.
    * * *
    1 Mr
    \
    Don Fulano de Tal Mr So-and-So
    un don nadie a nobody Table 1 NOTA Don is a courtesy title placed before the first names of men /Table 1
    ————————
    1 (regalo) gift, present
    2 (talento) talent, natural gift
    \
    don de gentes natural ability to get on well with people
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    I
    SM
    1) (=talento) gift

    don de gentes, tener don de gentes — to know how to handle people, be good with people

    don de mando — leadership qualities pl ; (Mil) generalship

    don de palabra — gift of the gab *, gift of gab (EEUU) *

    2) (=deseo) wish
    3) (=regalo) gift
    II
    SM
    1) [tratamiento de cortesía]

    Don — [en carta, sobre] Esquire

    Sr. Don Fernando García — [en correspondencia] Mr F. García, Fernando García Esq.

    ¿habéis visto a don Fernando? — have you seen Mr García?

    es don perfecto, él cree que nunca se equivoca — iró he thinks he's Mr Perfect and never makes a mistake

    Juan
    2) Arg, Col * [tratamiento popular] mate *, buddy (EEUU) *
    DON/DOÑA A courtesy title, don/doña placed before the first name of an older or more senior man/woman is a way of showing them your respect when talking to them or about them. E.g. "¿Podría hablar con don César Roca?", "Buenos días doña Alicia. ¿Qué tal su viaje?" Although now becoming rarer, in Spain Don and Doña, often abbreviated to D. and Dña., are commonly used before full names on official documents and contracts. In formal correspondence, they are used in combination with Sr., Sra. and Srta., e.g. Sr. D. Bernardo Esplugas Martín, Sra. Dña. Ana Rodríguez.
    * * *
    I
    a) (liter) ( dádiva) gift
    b) ( talento) talent, gift
    II
    1)
    a) (con el nombre de pila, tratamiento de cortesía) ≈Mr

    Sr Don Miguel López — (Corresp) Mr M López o (frml) Miguel López Esq

    b) (fam) ( en motes) Mr
    2) (AmL) ( uso popular)

    ¿qué le vendo, don? — what can I do for you, buddy (AmE) o (BrE) guv? (colloq)

    •• Cultural note:
    don/doña
    The words don, for men, and doña, for women, are courtesy titles used before someone's name, when they are being spoken or written to. They are used for someone who is senior professionally, in age or socially. Doña is usually used only for married or widowed women, except in official documents, when it refers to any woman. Don and doña always precede a person's first name. "¿Se va ya, don Juan?" When talking about a third person you can use don and doña before their first name, which is followed by their surname: " Don Juan Montesinos". In correspondence, don and doña can be abbreviated to D. and Dn., or Dña. and Da, respectively, and can be preceded by the appropriate title señor or señora: ‘Sr. Dn. Juan Montesinos’; ‘Sra. Dña. Ana Castellón’
    * * *
    = gift, endowment, flair.
    Nota: A veces confundido con flare.
    Ex. The writer's gift is to orchestrate words in print better than the rest of us.
    Ex. Appreciation of literature, and the ability to say things about it which are true but not new, is a much commoner endowment.
    Ex. The image of the reference librarian, as portrayed by Katherine Hepburn in the film, 'Desk Set,' suggests the superb flair and intellectual acumen with which reference librarians would like to dazzle their patrons.
    ----
    * cultivar un don = cultivate + gift.
    * don angustias = worryguts, worrywart, worrypot.
    * don especial = knack, knack.
    * dotar con un don = endow with + gift.
    * * *
    I
    a) (liter) ( dádiva) gift
    b) ( talento) talent, gift
    II
    1)
    a) (con el nombre de pila, tratamiento de cortesía) ≈Mr

    Sr Don Miguel López — (Corresp) Mr M López o (frml) Miguel López Esq

    b) (fam) ( en motes) Mr
    2) (AmL) ( uso popular)

    ¿qué le vendo, don? — what can I do for you, buddy (AmE) o (BrE) guv? (colloq)

    •• Cultural note:
    don/doña
    The words don, for men, and doña, for women, are courtesy titles used before someone's name, when they are being spoken or written to. They are used for someone who is senior professionally, in age or socially. Doña is usually used only for married or widowed women, except in official documents, when it refers to any woman. Don and doña always precede a person's first name. "¿Se va ya, don Juan?" When talking about a third person you can use don and doña before their first name, which is followed by their surname: " Don Juan Montesinos". In correspondence, don and doña can be abbreviated to D. and Dn., or Dña. and Da, respectively, and can be preceded by the appropriate title señor or señora: ‘Sr. Dn. Juan Montesinos’; ‘Sra. Dña. Ana Castellón’
    * * *
    = gift, endowment, flair.
    Nota: A veces confundido con flare.

    Ex: The writer's gift is to orchestrate words in print better than the rest of us.

    Ex: Appreciation of literature, and the ability to say things about it which are true but not new, is a much commoner endowment.
    Ex: The image of the reference librarian, as portrayed by Katherine Hepburn in the film, 'Desk Set,' suggests the superb flair and intellectual acumen with which reference librarians would like to dazzle their patrons.
    * cultivar un don = cultivate + gift.
    * don angustias = worryguts, worrywart, worrypot.
    * don especial = knack, knack.
    * dotar con un don = endow with + gift.

    * * *
    don1
    1 ( liter) (dádiva) gift
    2 (talento) talent, gift
    tiene un don para la música she has a talent o gift for music, she is a talented o gifted musician
    el don de la palabra/razón the gift of speech/reason
    tiene el don de meter siempre la pata ( iró); she has a real talent for o ( colloq) knack of putting her foot in it at every available opportunity ( iro)
    Compuestos:
    ability to get on well with people, good interpersonal skills ( frml)
    tiene don de gentes he gets on well with people, he has a way with people
    leadership qualities (pl)
    don2
    don/doña (↑ dona a1)
    A
    (usado con el nombre de pila): desde que se fue don Miguel since Mr López left
    ¿le sirvo un café, don Miguel? would you like some coffee, Mr López?
    Sr Don Miguel López ( Corresp) Mr M López o ( frml) Miguel López Esq.
    2 ( fam) (en motes) Mr
    ése es don dificultades that's Mr `No can do' o Mr Negative
    a don puntualidad no le va a caer nada bien que llegues tarde Mr Punctuality isn't going to think much of you showing up late ( colloq)
    donjuán m B. (↑ donjuán)
    Compuesto:
    ¡y no se va a casar con un don nadie como tú! and she's not going to marry a nobody o ( AmE colloq) a walking zero like you!
    B
    ( AmL) (en el uso popular): ¿qué le vendo, don? what can I do for you, buddy ( AmE) o ( BrE) guv? ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    Multiple Entries:
    Don    
    don
    don sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) (liter) ( dádiva) gift



    don de gentes ability to get on well with people;
    don de mando leadership qualities (pl)
    2 ( tratamiento de cortesía) ≈ Mr;

    ser un don nadie to be a nobody
    don 1 sustantivo masculino
    1 (capacidad) gift, talent: tiene el don de hacerme perder la paciencia, she has a knack for making me lose my patience
    2 (regalo, dádiva) gift: es un don divino, it is a heavenly gift
    don 2 sustantivo masculino Señor Don Carlos Jiménez, Mr Carlos Jiménez
    ser un don nadie, to be a nobody
    Es incorrecto traducir Don Miguel por Mr Miguel, ya que Mr sólo se puede usar con un apellido. Lo mejor es traducirlo por Mr Miguel más el apellido o Mr más el apellido. Si te refieres al destinatario de una carta, puedes escribir Miguel Romero, Esq.
    ' don' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abandonar
    - abandonarse
    - abatimiento
    - abonarse
    - absoluta
    - absoluto
    - abundar
    - abusar
    - acalorarse
    - achantarse
    - aconsejar
    - adónde
    - advertir
    - agradar
    - ajena
    - ajeno
    - algo
    - almorzar
    - amargada
    - amargado
    - amargarse
    - antipatía
    - apartarse
    - aturullarse
    - aunque
    - aviso
    - bagatela
    - bajarse
    - balde
    - barrio
    - bastarse
    - berrinche
    - bicha
    - bilis
    - blandengue
    - bledo
    - bobada
    - bonita
    - bonito
    - borde
    - botepronto
    - broma
    - buena
    - bueno
    - caballo
    - caber
    - calibre
    - carne
    - carné
    - casar
    English:
    ability
    - don
    - empathize
    - esquire
    - excerpt
    - flair
    - genius
    - gift
    - money
    - nobody
    - nonentity
    - pipsqueak
    - skill
    - way
    - Esquire
    * * *
    Don nm
    el Don the Don
    * * *
    1 m gift;
    don de gentes way with people;
    don de lenguas gift for languages
    2 m Mr.;
    don Enrique Mr. Sanchez English uses the surname while Spanish uses the first name
    * * *
    don nm
    1) : gift, present
    2) : talent
    don nm
    1) : title of courtesy preceding a man's first name
    2)
    don nadie : nobody, insignificant person
    * * *
    don n
    1. Mr
    Don Antonio Díaz Mr Antonio DíazMr siempre va seguido del apellido, nunca del nombre solo
    2. (habilidad) gift / talent

    Spanish-English dictionary > don

  • 47 fundir

    v.
    1 to melt (derretir) (mantequilla, hielo).
    El calor del auto fundió el queso The heat of the car melted the cheese.
    2 to blow ( electricity and electronics) (fusible, bombilla).
    3 to merge (commerce).
    4 to fade (Cine).
    5 to blow (informal) (gastar). (peninsular Spanish)
    6 to bankrupt, to ruin. ( Latin American Spanish)
    7 to cast, to mold.
    El orfebre fundió el oro The goldsmith cast the gold.
    * * *
    1 (derretir) to melt
    3 (dar forma) to cast
    4 (bombilla, plomos) to blow
    5 (unir) to unite, join
    6 familiar (despilfarrar) to waste, blow
    1 (derretirse) to melt
    2 (bombilla, plomos) to fuse, go, blow, burn out
    3 (unirse) to merge
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=derretir)
    a) [para hacer líquido] [+ metal, cera, nieve] to melt; [+ monedas, lingotes, joyas] to melt down
    b) (Min) [para extraer el metal] to smelt
    c) [en molde] [+ estatuas, cañones] to cast
    2) [+ bombilla, fusible] to blow
    3) (=fusionar) [+ organizaciones, empresas] to merge, amalgamate; [+ culturas, movimientos] to fuse
    4) (Cine) [+ imágenes] to fade
    5) * [+ dinero] to blow *
    6) Perú, Cono Sur * (=arruinar) ruin
    7) Chile * [+ niño] to spoil
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) <metal/hierro> to melt; < mineral> to smelt
    2) <estatua/campana> to cast
    3)
    a) (Elec) to blow
    b) (AmL) < motor> ( de gasolina) to seize... up; ( eléctrico) to burn... out
    4) (fam) <dinero/herencia> to blow (colloq)
    5)
    a) ( fusionar) to merge
    b) (Cin) <imágenes/tomas> to fade, merge
    2.
    fundirse v pron
    1) metal to melt; nieve/hielo to melt, thaw
    2)
    a) (Elec)
    b) (AmL) motor ( de gasolina) to seize up; ( eléctrico) to burn out
    3) (enf) (fam) ( gastarse) to blow (colloq)
    4)
    a) ( fusionarse) to merge
    b) (Cin, Mús) to fade
    5) (Per, RPl fam) ( arruinarse) persona to lose everything; empresa to go bust
    * * *
    = amalgamate, bring into, cast, confound, weld into/together, fuse, melt, mingle (with), melt down.
    Ex. In 1971 its functions were divided, part amalgamated with the Ministry of Defence, and part amalgamated with the Board of Trade to form the Department of Trade and Industry.
    Ex. Whether or not these specific proposals will be brought into some kind of overall approach and ideology remains to me a very questionable point.
    Ex. Printing types were cast in an alloy of lead, antimony, and tin called type-metal.
    Ex. The confounding of opposites is also common though, again, care has to be taken to see that we do not confound two subjects on which extensive literature exists.
    Ex. The Department of Trade and Industry has undergone many changes over the years; it has been split into two separate departments and welded together again.
    Ex. The experiment is financed externally and aims to fuse the functions of the 2 library types.
    Ex. The heat melts the wax on those areas which correspond with the image areas of the original, and the melted wax is absorbed into the tissue sheet.
    Ex. Not so long ago, the far off lands existed, to most people, in their imagination where they mingled with fairy tales and imaginary stories.
    Ex. In 1588 Thomas Thomas, Cambridge University printer, had one press and 1,400 kg. of type, but 40 per cent of the type was old metal waiting to be melted down.
    ----
    * caja de fundir estereotipos = casting-box [casting box].
    * fundir en = meld (in/into).
    * fundirse = become + fused, run together.
    * fundirse con = blend into, become + one with, blend in with.
    * fundir tipos = cut + punches, cast + type.
    * plomo + fundirse = blow + a fuse.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) <metal/hierro> to melt; < mineral> to smelt
    2) <estatua/campana> to cast
    3)
    a) (Elec) to blow
    b) (AmL) < motor> ( de gasolina) to seize... up; ( eléctrico) to burn... out
    4) (fam) <dinero/herencia> to blow (colloq)
    5)
    a) ( fusionar) to merge
    b) (Cin) <imágenes/tomas> to fade, merge
    2.
    fundirse v pron
    1) metal to melt; nieve/hielo to melt, thaw
    2)
    a) (Elec)
    b) (AmL) motor ( de gasolina) to seize up; ( eléctrico) to burn out
    3) (enf) (fam) ( gastarse) to blow (colloq)
    4)
    a) ( fusionarse) to merge
    b) (Cin, Mús) to fade
    5) (Per, RPl fam) ( arruinarse) persona to lose everything; empresa to go bust
    * * *
    = amalgamate, bring into, cast, confound, weld into/together, fuse, melt, mingle (with), melt down.

    Ex: In 1971 its functions were divided, part amalgamated with the Ministry of Defence, and part amalgamated with the Board of Trade to form the Department of Trade and Industry.

    Ex: Whether or not these specific proposals will be brought into some kind of overall approach and ideology remains to me a very questionable point.
    Ex: Printing types were cast in an alloy of lead, antimony, and tin called type-metal.
    Ex: The confounding of opposites is also common though, again, care has to be taken to see that we do not confound two subjects on which extensive literature exists.
    Ex: The Department of Trade and Industry has undergone many changes over the years; it has been split into two separate departments and welded together again.
    Ex: The experiment is financed externally and aims to fuse the functions of the 2 library types.
    Ex: The heat melts the wax on those areas which correspond with the image areas of the original, and the melted wax is absorbed into the tissue sheet.
    Ex: Not so long ago, the far off lands existed, to most people, in their imagination where they mingled with fairy tales and imaginary stories.
    Ex: In 1588 Thomas Thomas, Cambridge University printer, had one press and 1,400 kg. of type, but 40 per cent of the type was old metal waiting to be melted down.
    * caja de fundir estereotipos = casting-box [casting box].
    * fundir en = meld (in/into).
    * fundirse = become + fused, run together.
    * fundirse con = blend into, become + one with, blend in with.
    * fundir tipos = cut + punches, cast + type.
    * plomo + fundirse = blow + a fuse.

    * * *
    fundir [I1 ]
    vt
    A ‹metal› to melt; ‹mineral› to smelt; ‹hielo› to melt
    B ‹estatua/campana› to cast
    C
    1 ( Elec) to blow
    2 ( AmL) ‹motor› (de gasolina) to seize … up; (eléctrico) to burn … out
    D ( fam); ‹dinero/herencia› to blow ( colloq)
    E
    1 (unir, fusionar) to merge fundir algo EN algo to merge sth INTO sth
    2 ( Cin) ‹imágenes/tomas› to fade, merge
    F (Chi, Per fam) (destruir) to ruin, destroy
    G ( Chi) ‹niño› to spoil
    H ( Per fam) (fastidiar) to annoy, to wind … up ( BrE colloq)
    ■ fundir
    vi
    ( Per fam) (fastidiar) to be a pest o nuisance ( colloq)
    A «metal» to melt; «nieve/hielo» to melt, thaw
    B
    1 ( Elec):
    se ha fundido la bombilla the bulb has gone o fused ( colloq)
    2 ( AmL) «motor» (de gasolina) to seize up; (eléctrico) to burn out
    C ( enf) ( fam) (gastarse) to blow ( colloq)
    D
    1
    (unirse, fusionarse): las dos empresas han decidido fundirse the two companies have decided to merge
    fundirse EN algo:
    se fundieron en un apretado abrazo they clasped each other in a close embrace ( liter), they hugged each other tightly
    los distintos colores se funden en un tono cobrizo the different colors merge into a coppery hue
    2 ( Cin, Mús) to fade
    una imagen se funde sobre la siguiente toma one image fades o dissolves into the next
    E
    (Per, RPl fam) (arruinarse): se fundieron con ese negocio they lost everything in that deal
    la empresa se fundió the company went bust ( colloq)
    F ( Per fam) (fastidiarse) to cop it ( colloq)
    G ( Chi fam) «niño» to get spoiled
    H fundirse con ( Chi fam) (robar) to pocket ( colloq)
    se fundió con las ganancias comunes he pocketed all the profits
    * * *

     

    fundir ( conjugate fundir) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹metal/hierro› to melt;

    ‹ mineral› to smelt
    b) ‹estatua/campana› to cast

    2 (Elec) to blow
    3 ( fusionar) to merge
    fundirse verbo pronominal
    1 [ metal] to melt;
    [nieve/hielo] to melt, thaw
    2 (Elec):

    se fundieron los fusibles the fuses blew
    3 ( fusionarse) [empresas/partidos] to merge;
    fundirse en algo to merge sth into sth
    fundir verbo transitivo
    1 (derretir) to melt
    2 (fusionar, unir) to unite, join
    3 (una bombilla, un plomo) to blow
    ' fundir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    horno
    English:
    blow
    - fade in
    - fade out
    - found
    - melt
    - melt down
    - fuse
    - smelt
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [derretir] [mantequilla, hielo] to melt;
    [roca, hierro, plomo] to smelt
    2. [estatua] to cast;
    [oro] to melt down;
    fundir oro en lingotes to melt down gold into ingots
    3. Com to merge
    4. Cine to fade;
    fundir un plano con otro to fade one scene into another
    5. [fusible, bombilla] to blow
    6. Esp Fam [gastar] to blow
    7. Am [motor]
    fundir el motor to make the engine seize up
    8. Am [arruinar] to bankrupt, to ruin
    9. Fam [derrotar]
    con ese comentario fundió a su oponente he floored his opponent with this remark
    ♦ vi
    Perú Fam [molestar] to be a pest;
    los vecinos están siempre fundiendo our neighbours are a real pest
    * * *
    v/t
    1 hielo melt
    2 metal smelt
    3 COM merge
    4 en TV, película fade
    * * *
    fundir vt
    1) : to melt down, to smelt
    2) : to fuse, to merge
    3) : to burn out (a lightbulb)
    * * *
    fundir vb (derretir) to melt

    Spanish-English dictionary > fundir

  • 48 idea

    f.
    1 idea (concepto, ocurrencia).
    buena/mala idea good/bad idea
    hacerse una idea de algo to get an idea of something
    hacerse a la idea de que to get used to the idea that
    no tengo ni idea (de) I don't have a clue (about)
    tener idea de cómo hacer algo to know how to do something
    tener una ligera idea to have a vague idea
    idea brillante brilliant idea, brainwave
    idea fija obsession
    ser una persona de ideas fijas to be a person of fixed ideas
    2 intention.
    con la idea de with the idea o intention of
    tener idea de hacer algo to intend to do something
    a mala idea maliciously
    3 impression.
    cambiar de idea to change one's mind
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: idear.
    * * *
    1 idea
    2 (noción) notion
    3 (ingenio) imagination
    \
    cambiar de idea to change one's mind
    darle ideas a alguien to put ideas in somebody's head
    hacer algo a mala idea to do something on purpose, do something deliberately
    hacerse a la idea de algo to get used to the idea of something, accept something
    llevar idea de to intend to, have the intention of
    ¡ni idea! no idea!, not a clue!
    no te puedes hacer una idea you have no idea
    no tener ni idea familiar to have no idea, not have a clue
    ser de ideas fijas to be narrow-minded, have very fixed ideas
    tener ideas de bombero to have funny ideas, have madcap ideas
    tener mala idea familiar to be a nasty piece of work
    idea fija fixed idea
    ligera idea vague idea
    mala idea evil intention
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) idea
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=concepto) idea

    tenía una idea falsa de mí — he had a false impression of me, he had the wrong idea about me

    • formarse una idea de algo — to form an impression of sth

    • hacerse una idea de algo — to get an idea of sth

    hacerse una idea equivocada de algn — to get a false impression of sb, get the wrong idea about sb

    preconcebido
    2) (=sugerencia) idea

    ¡qué idea! ¿por qué no vamos a Marruecos? — I've got an idea! why don't we go to Morocco?

    • idea brillante, idea genial — brilliant idea, brainwave

    3) (=intención) idea, intention

    mi idea era salir temprano — I had intended to leave early, my idea o intention was to leave early

    • cambiar de idea — to change one's mind

    • idea fija — fixed idea

    salió del país con una idea fija: no volver nunca — he left the country with one fixed idea: never to return

    • ir con la idea de hacer algo — to mean to do sth

    no iba nunca con la idea de perjudicar a nadie — it was never his intention to harm anybody, he never meant to harm anybody

    • tiene muy mala idea — his intentions are not good, he's a nasty piece of work *

    • metérsele una idea en la cabeza a algn, cuando se le mete una idea en la cabeza no hay quien se la saque — once he gets an idea into his head no one can talk him out of it

    • tener idea de hacer algo — [en el pasado] to mean to do sth; [en el futuro] to be thinking of doing sth

    tenía idea de traerme varias botellas de vodka — I meant o I was meaning to bring some bottles of vodka

    4) (=conocimiento) idea

    -¿a qué hora llega Sara? -no tengo ni idea — "what time is Sara arriving?" - "I've got no idea"

    ¡ni idea! — no idea!

    • tener idea de algo — to have an idea of sth

    ¿tienes idea de la hora que es? — do you have any idea of the time?

    ¡no tienes idea de las ganas que tenía de verte! — you have no idea how much I wanted to see you!

    • no tener la menor idea — not to have the faintest o the foggiest idea

    pajolero 1), remoto 3)
    5) pl ideas (=opiniones) ideas

    • una persona de ideas conservadoras/liberales/radicales — a conservative/liberal/radical-minded person

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( concepto) idea

    la idea de libertad — the idea o concept of freedom

    b) (opinión, ideología) idea
    c) ( noción) idea

    darse idea para algo — (RPl fam) to be good at something

    hacerse (a) la idea de algo — to get used to the idea of something

    2)
    a) ( ocurrencia) idea

    no sería buena/mala idea — it wouldn't be a good/bad idea

    idea de bombero — (Esp fam) crazy idea

    b) ( intención) intention, idea
    c) ( sugerencia) idea
    •
    * * *
    = idea, insight, notion, perspective, point, thought, conception, rationality, inkling, perception.
    Ex. Analytical cataloguing is valuable in respect of any type of media, but many of ideas have been tested most thoroughly in the context of monographs and serials.
    Ex. The human indexer works mechanically and rapidly; he should require no insight into the document content.
    Ex. A focus conveys the key or principal notion of a concept.
    Ex. It is easy to see that users and separate pieces of literature may hold different perspectives on one subject.
    Ex. Parts of the abstract are written in the informative style, whilst those points which are of less significance are treated indicatively.
    Ex. Amongst these are numbered: some specific legal and governmental works, such as laws, decrees, treaties; works that record the collective thought of a body, for example, reports of commissions and committees; and various cartographic materials.
    Ex. Different conceptions of what subject indexing means are described.
    Ex. A model of how librarians may actually go about book selection is presented in three ways: rationality; tacit knowledge; and symbolic content.
    Ex. Her experience with many children has shown that often they can repeat sentences and read quite well without any inkling of what they are saying.
    Ex. Nevertheless, citation indexes do seek to link documents according to their content (or at least the perception of their content held by the author of the source work).
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    * acariciar la idea de = toy with + idea of, flirt with + the idea of.
    * aceptar una idea = accept + notion, deal with + concept.
    * aclarar las ideas de Uno = clarify + Posesivo + mind.
    * acoger con ahínco la idea de = seize upon + the idea of.
    * acostumbrarse a una idea = get used to + idea, deal with + concept.
    * adquirir una idea = gain + impression.
    * aferrarse a una idea = hold fast to + idea.
    * aludir a una idea = allude to + idea.
    * aportación de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * aportar ideas = contribute + ideas, brainstorm.
    * apoyar la idea = endorse + the idea.
    * apoyar una idea = favour + idea.
    * atraer la idea de = fancy + the idea of.
    * bombardeo de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * cambio de idea = change of heart, change of mind.
    * cantera de ideas = hotbed.
    * casarse con una idea = wed to + view.
    * compartir ideas = share + ideas, share + thoughts, bounce off + ideas.
    * compartir ideas con Alguien = bounce + ideas off + Nombre.
    * compartir las ideas = pool + ideas.
    * composición por confrontación de ideas = brain-writing.
    * concebir una idea = conceive + idea.
    * confrontación de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * confrontar ideas = brainstorm.
    * con sólo una mínima idea de = with only the sketchiest idea of.
    * contar las ideas a Alguien = run + ideas + past + Pronombre.
    * contrastar ideas = brainstorm.
    * contraste de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming].
    * contribución de ideas = input of ideas.
    * con una idea muy superficial sobre = with only a sketchy idea of.
    * corroborar una idea = substantiate + point.
    * criticar las ideas de Alguien = trample on + Posesivo + ideas.
    * dar con una idea = hit on/upon + idea.
    * dar ideas = offer + clues.
    * dar la idea = give + the impression that.
    * darle vueltas a la idea = toy with, toy with + idea of.
    * darle vueltas a la idea de = flirt with + the idea of.
    * dar una idea = give + idea, give + glimpse, provide + an understanding.
    * dar una idea de = give + a feel for, give + indication, provide + a glimpse of, give + a flavour of, be indicative of, provide + insight into, give + a picture, give + an insight into, give + an inkling of.
    * dar una idea general = put in + the picture, give + a general picture, paint + a broad picture.
    * debatir una idea = discuss + idea.
    * deducir una idea = draw + idea.
    * defender + Posesivo + idea = support + Posesivo + case.
    * defender una idea = champion + idea.
    * de ideas afines = like-minded.
    * desaprobar una idea = disapprove of + the idea of.
    * desarrollar una idea = amplify + idea.
    * descartar una idea = dismiss + idea, discount + notion.
    * difundir una idea = spread + view, spread + an idea, circulate + Posesivo + idea.
    * discutir una idea = float + concept.
    * echar por tierra una idea = crush + idea.
    * empezar a gustar la idea = warm up to + the idea.
    * entusiasmarse con la idea = warm up to + the idea.
    * erradicar falsas ideas = erase + misconceptions.
    * erradicar una falsa ide = dispel + idea.
    * escaso de ideas = short of ideas.
    * estar a favor de una idea = favour + idea.
    * estar convencido de la idea de que = be committed to the idea that.
    * estar de acuerdo con una idea = subscribe to + idea.
    * expresar ideas = express + thoughts, put over + ideas.
    * extraer una idea = draw + idea.
    * falto de ideas = short of ideas.
    * germen de una idea = germ of an idea.
    * gustar la idea de = fancy + the idea of.
    * hacer hincapié en una idea = hammer + point.
    * hacer prevaler las ideas y valores de uno mismo = assert + own ideas and values.
    * hacer realidad una idea = follow through on/with + Posesivo + idea.
    * hacerse a una idea = deal with + concept.
    * hacerse una idea = form + impression, get + an inkling.
    * hacerse una idea de = catch + glimpse, glean + indication, glean + picture, have + an inkling of.
    * hacerse una idea mejor de = glean + insights.
    * hacer valer una idea = enforce + idea.
    * idea abstracta = abstract idea.
    * idea + aparecer = idea + surface.
    * idea aproximada = rough idea.
    * idea arraigada = ingrained attitude.
    * idea brillante = bright idea.
    * idea buena = cool idea.
    * idea central = focal point.
    * idea clara = clear idea.
    * idea cultural = meme.
    * idea + dar forma = idea + shape.
    * idea de reforma = reform idea.
    * idea estrafalaria = outlandish idea.
    * idea falsa = misconception, misperception, bogus idea, illusion.
    * idea favorita = pet idea.
    * idea + forjar = idea + shape.
    * idea fundamental = keynote.
    * idea general = rough idea.
    * idea genial = brain child [brainchild].
    * idea incoherente = disjointed idea.
    * idea loca = wild thought.
    * idea nueva = fresh idea.
    * idea original = brain child [brainchild].
    * idea pensada a posteriori = afterthought.
    * idea peregrina = outlandish idea.
    * idea preconcebida = preconception.
    * idea principal = drift.
    * idea reciclada = retread [re-tread].
    * ideas = food for thought, strands of thought.
    * idea secundaria = side issue.
    * ideas políticas = politics.
    * ideas principales = significant ideas.
    * idea + surgir = idea + come up.
    * ilustrar una idea = illustrate + point.
    * inspirar ideas = spark off + ideas.
    * intercambiar ideas = compare + notes, exchange + ideas, bounce off + ideas.
    * intercambiar ideas con Alguien = bounce + ideas off + Nombre.
    * intercambio de ideas = exchange of ideas, fertilisation [fertilization, -USA], cross-fertilisation [cross-fertilization, -USA], cross-fertilisation of ideas.
    * la idea que hay detrás de = the idea behind.
    * lanzar una idea = pilot + idea.
    * machacar un idea = squash + idea.
    * mencionar una idea = bring up + idea.
    * ¡ni idea! = beats me!.
    * no captar la idea = miss + the point.
    * no estar de acuerdo con la idea de = disapprove of + the idea of.
    * no pillar la idea = miss + the point.
    * no tener idea = have + no clue, have + no idea.
    * no tener idea de = be clueless about, have + no understanding of.
    * no tener la más mínima idea sobre Algo = Negativo + have + the foggiest idea.
    * no tener ni idea sobre Algo = not know the first thing about.
    * no tener ni puta idea = not get + Posesivo + shit together.
    * no tener ni puta idea sobre Algo = not know the first thing about.
    * nueva idea = reform idea.
    * obtener una idea = get + a sense of, gain + a sense of.
    * obtener una idea de = get + a taste of.
    * ocurrirse a Alguien una idea = hit on/upon + idea.
    * ocurrírsele a Alguien una idea = think up + idea.
    * ocurrírsele la idea = come up with + idea.
    * pensar en una idea = think up + idea.
    * perpetuar una idea preconcebida = perpetuate + preconception.
    * plantear una idea = raise + idea.
    * plasmar una idea en la realidad = translate + idea into + reality.
    * poner a prueba una idea = test + idea, pilot + idea.
    * poner en práctica una idea = put + Posesivo + idea + into practice.
    * presentar una idea = make + point, put forward + idea, offer + perspective, present + idea.
    * probar una idea = test + idea.
    * profundizar en una idea = carry + argument + one step further.
    * promover una idea = promote + idea, pioneer + idea.
    * proponer una idea = advance + proposition, advance + idea, put forward + idea.
    * quitar la idea = wipe away + idea.
    * recalcar una idea = hammer + point.
    * rechazar una idea = turn + idea + down.
    * reforzar una idea = reinforce + idea, reinforce + notion, strengthen + the view.
    * refutar una idea = quarrel with + notion.
    * replantearse las ideas = rethink + Posesivo + ideas.
    * representar una idea = dramatise + idea.
    * sacar a colación una idea = bring up + idea.
    * ser la idea central de = be at the core of, be at the heart of.
    * ser partidario de una idea = favour + idea.
    * sin idea = clueless.
    * sin ideas preconcebidas = open mind.
    * sin la menor idea = clueless.
    * sopesar una idea = weigh + idea.
    * sugerir ideas = contribute + ideas, brainstorm.
    * sugerir una idea = advance + proposition, suggest + idea, float + concept.
    * suscribir una idea = subscribe to + idea.
    * tener idea = have + a clue.
    * tener una idea = gain + impression, capture + glimpse, get + a sense of, have + an inkling of, gain + a sense of, have + a clue.
    * tener una idea de = gain + idea of.
    * tormenta de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * una idea general = a rough guide.
    * unas cuantas ideas = a rough guide.
    * utilizar las ideas de (Alguien) = draw on/upon + Posesivo + ideas.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( concepto) idea

    la idea de libertad — the idea o concept of freedom

    b) (opinión, ideología) idea
    c) ( noción) idea

    darse idea para algo — (RPl fam) to be good at something

    hacerse (a) la idea de algo — to get used to the idea of something

    2)
    a) ( ocurrencia) idea

    no sería buena/mala idea — it wouldn't be a good/bad idea

    idea de bombero — (Esp fam) crazy idea

    b) ( intención) intention, idea
    c) ( sugerencia) idea
    •
    * * *
    = idea, insight, notion, perspective, point, thought, conception, rationality, inkling, perception.

    Ex: Analytical cataloguing is valuable in respect of any type of media, but many of ideas have been tested most thoroughly in the context of monographs and serials.

    Ex: The human indexer works mechanically and rapidly; he should require no insight into the document content.
    Ex: A focus conveys the key or principal notion of a concept.
    Ex: It is easy to see that users and separate pieces of literature may hold different perspectives on one subject.
    Ex: Parts of the abstract are written in the informative style, whilst those points which are of less significance are treated indicatively.
    Ex: Amongst these are numbered: some specific legal and governmental works, such as laws, decrees, treaties; works that record the collective thought of a body, for example, reports of commissions and committees; and various cartographic materials.
    Ex: Different conceptions of what subject indexing means are described.
    Ex: A model of how librarians may actually go about book selection is presented in three ways: rationality; tacit knowledge; and symbolic content.
    Ex: Her experience with many children has shown that often they can repeat sentences and read quite well without any inkling of what they are saying.
    Ex: Nevertheless, citation indexes do seek to link documents according to their content (or at least the perception of their content held by the author of the source work).
    * acariciar la idea de = toy with + idea of, flirt with + the idea of.
    * aceptar una idea = accept + notion, deal with + concept.
    * aclarar las ideas de Uno = clarify + Posesivo + mind.
    * acoger con ahínco la idea de = seize upon + the idea of.
    * acostumbrarse a una idea = get used to + idea, deal with + concept.
    * adquirir una idea = gain + impression.
    * aferrarse a una idea = hold fast to + idea.
    * aludir a una idea = allude to + idea.
    * aportación de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * aportar ideas = contribute + ideas, brainstorm.
    * apoyar la idea = endorse + the idea.
    * apoyar una idea = favour + idea.
    * atraer la idea de = fancy + the idea of.
    * bombardeo de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * cambio de idea = change of heart, change of mind.
    * cantera de ideas = hotbed.
    * casarse con una idea = wed to + view.
    * compartir ideas = share + ideas, share + thoughts, bounce off + ideas.
    * compartir ideas con Alguien = bounce + ideas off + Nombre.
    * compartir las ideas = pool + ideas.
    * composición por confrontación de ideas = brain-writing.
    * concebir una idea = conceive + idea.
    * confrontación de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * confrontar ideas = brainstorm.
    * con sólo una mínima idea de = with only the sketchiest idea of.
    * contar las ideas a Alguien = run + ideas + past + Pronombre.
    * contrastar ideas = brainstorm.
    * contraste de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming].
    * contribución de ideas = input of ideas.
    * con una idea muy superficial sobre = with only a sketchy idea of.
    * corroborar una idea = substantiate + point.
    * criticar las ideas de Alguien = trample on + Posesivo + ideas.
    * dar con una idea = hit on/upon + idea.
    * dar ideas = offer + clues.
    * dar la idea = give + the impression that.
    * darle vueltas a la idea = toy with, toy with + idea of.
    * darle vueltas a la idea de = flirt with + the idea of.
    * dar una idea = give + idea, give + glimpse, provide + an understanding.
    * dar una idea de = give + a feel for, give + indication, provide + a glimpse of, give + a flavour of, be indicative of, provide + insight into, give + a picture, give + an insight into, give + an inkling of.
    * dar una idea general = put in + the picture, give + a general picture, paint + a broad picture.
    * debatir una idea = discuss + idea.
    * deducir una idea = draw + idea.
    * defender + Posesivo + idea = support + Posesivo + case.
    * defender una idea = champion + idea.
    * de ideas afines = like-minded.
    * desaprobar una idea = disapprove of + the idea of.
    * desarrollar una idea = amplify + idea.
    * descartar una idea = dismiss + idea, discount + notion.
    * difundir una idea = spread + view, spread + an idea, circulate + Posesivo + idea.
    * discutir una idea = float + concept.
    * echar por tierra una idea = crush + idea.
    * empezar a gustar la idea = warm up to + the idea.
    * entusiasmarse con la idea = warm up to + the idea.
    * erradicar falsas ideas = erase + misconceptions.
    * erradicar una falsa ide = dispel + idea.
    * escaso de ideas = short of ideas.
    * estar a favor de una idea = favour + idea.
    * estar convencido de la idea de que = be committed to the idea that.
    * estar de acuerdo con una idea = subscribe to + idea.
    * expresar ideas = express + thoughts, put over + ideas.
    * extraer una idea = draw + idea.
    * falto de ideas = short of ideas.
    * germen de una idea = germ of an idea.
    * gustar la idea de = fancy + the idea of.
    * hacer hincapié en una idea = hammer + point.
    * hacer prevaler las ideas y valores de uno mismo = assert + own ideas and values.
    * hacer realidad una idea = follow through on/with + Posesivo + idea.
    * hacerse a una idea = deal with + concept.
    * hacerse una idea = form + impression, get + an inkling.
    * hacerse una idea de = catch + glimpse, glean + indication, glean + picture, have + an inkling of.
    * hacerse una idea mejor de = glean + insights.
    * hacer valer una idea = enforce + idea.
    * idea abstracta = abstract idea.
    * idea + aparecer = idea + surface.
    * idea aproximada = rough idea.
    * idea arraigada = ingrained attitude.
    * idea brillante = bright idea.
    * idea buena = cool idea.
    * idea central = focal point.
    * idea clara = clear idea.
    * idea cultural = meme.
    * idea + dar forma = idea + shape.
    * idea de reforma = reform idea.
    * idea estrafalaria = outlandish idea.
    * idea falsa = misconception, misperception, bogus idea, illusion.
    * idea favorita = pet idea.
    * idea + forjar = idea + shape.
    * idea fundamental = keynote.
    * idea general = rough idea.
    * idea genial = brain child [brainchild].
    * idea incoherente = disjointed idea.
    * idea loca = wild thought.
    * idea nueva = fresh idea.
    * idea original = brain child [brainchild].
    * idea pensada a posteriori = afterthought.
    * idea peregrina = outlandish idea.
    * idea preconcebida = preconception.
    * idea principal = drift.
    * idea reciclada = retread [re-tread].
    * ideas = food for thought, strands of thought.
    * idea secundaria = side issue.
    * ideas políticas = politics.
    * ideas principales = significant ideas.
    * idea + surgir = idea + come up.
    * ilustrar una idea = illustrate + point.
    * inspirar ideas = spark off + ideas.
    * intercambiar ideas = compare + notes, exchange + ideas, bounce off + ideas.
    * intercambiar ideas con Alguien = bounce + ideas off + Nombre.
    * intercambio de ideas = exchange of ideas, fertilisation [fertilization, -USA], cross-fertilisation [cross-fertilization, -USA], cross-fertilisation of ideas.
    * la idea que hay detrás de = the idea behind.
    * lanzar una idea = pilot + idea.
    * machacar un idea = squash + idea.
    * mencionar una idea = bring up + idea.
    * ¡ni idea! = beats me!.
    * no captar la idea = miss + the point.
    * no estar de acuerdo con la idea de = disapprove of + the idea of.
    * no pillar la idea = miss + the point.
    * no tener idea = have + no clue, have + no idea.
    * no tener idea de = be clueless about, have + no understanding of.
    * no tener la más mínima idea sobre Algo = Negativo + have + the foggiest idea.
    * no tener ni idea sobre Algo = not know the first thing about.
    * no tener ni puta idea = not get + Posesivo + shit together.
    * no tener ni puta idea sobre Algo = not know the first thing about.
    * nueva idea = reform idea.
    * obtener una idea = get + a sense of, gain + a sense of.
    * obtener una idea de = get + a taste of.
    * ocurrirse a Alguien una idea = hit on/upon + idea.
    * ocurrírsele a Alguien una idea = think up + idea.
    * ocurrírsele la idea = come up with + idea.
    * pensar en una idea = think up + idea.
    * perpetuar una idea preconcebida = perpetuate + preconception.
    * plantear una idea = raise + idea.
    * plasmar una idea en la realidad = translate + idea into + reality.
    * poner a prueba una idea = test + idea, pilot + idea.
    * poner en práctica una idea = put + Posesivo + idea + into practice.
    * presentar una idea = make + point, put forward + idea, offer + perspective, present + idea.
    * probar una idea = test + idea.
    * profundizar en una idea = carry + argument + one step further.
    * promover una idea = promote + idea, pioneer + idea.
    * proponer una idea = advance + proposition, advance + idea, put forward + idea.
    * quitar la idea = wipe away + idea.
    * recalcar una idea = hammer + point.
    * rechazar una idea = turn + idea + down.
    * reforzar una idea = reinforce + idea, reinforce + notion, strengthen + the view.
    * refutar una idea = quarrel with + notion.
    * replantearse las ideas = rethink + Posesivo + ideas.
    * representar una idea = dramatise + idea.
    * sacar a colación una idea = bring up + idea.
    * ser la idea central de = be at the core of, be at the heart of.
    * ser partidario de una idea = favour + idea.
    * sin idea = clueless.
    * sin ideas preconcebidas = open mind.
    * sin la menor idea = clueless.
    * sopesar una idea = weigh + idea.
    * sugerir ideas = contribute + ideas, brainstorm.
    * sugerir una idea = advance + proposition, suggest + idea, float + concept.
    * suscribir una idea = subscribe to + idea.
    * tener idea = have + a clue.
    * tener una idea = gain + impression, capture + glimpse, get + a sense of, have + an inkling of, gain + a sense of, have + a clue.
    * tener una idea de = gain + idea of.
    * tormenta de ideas = brainstorming [brain-storming], brainstorm.
    * una idea general = a rough guide.
    * unas cuantas ideas = a rough guide.
    * utilizar las ideas de (Alguien) = draw on/upon + Posesivo + ideas.

    * * *
    A
    1 (concepto) idea
    la idea de libertad the idea o concept of freedom
    la idea de un dios único the idea o notion of a single God
    2 (opinión, ideología) idea
    sus ideas políticas his political beliefs o ideas
    es de ideas bastante conservadoras she has fairly conservative ideas o views
    es un hombre de ideas fijas he has very set ideas about things
    yo no soy de la misma idea I don't agree, I don't share your opinion
    3 (noción) idea
    no tiene idea de cómo funciona he has no idea how it works
    no tenía ni idea de todo esto I had no idea about any of this
    no tengo idea no idea! o I don't have a clue
    no tenía ni la más remota idea or ( Esp fam) ni pajolera idea she didn't have the slightest idea, she didn't have the faintest o foggiest idea ( colloq)
    tenía idea de que ibas a llamar I had a feeling you'd call
    no tienes idea de lo que he sufrido you have no idea how much I've suffered
    para darse or hacerse una idea de la situación to give oneself o to get an idea of the situation
    es difícil hacerse una idea de cómo es si no lo has visto it's hard to imagine what it's like if you haven't seen it
    esto es sólo una idea del proyecto this is just a general idea of the project
    darse idea para algo ( RPl fam); to be good at sth
    se da mucha idea para cocinar she's a very good cook
    hacerse (a) la idea de algo: ya me voy haciendo (a) la idea de vivir allí I am getting used to the idea of living there now
    no se hace (a) la idea de que está muerto she can't accept the fact that he's dead
    B
    se me ocurre or tengo una idea I've got an idea
    ¡qué ideas se te ocurren! you really o sure get some funny ideas! ( colloq)
    ¡tú y tus brillantes ideas! ( iró); you and your brilliant ideas! ( iro)
    se le metió la idea en la cabeza de ir a escalar la montaña she got it into her head to go and climb the mountain
    no sería mala idea hacer las reservas hoy it wouldn't be a bad idea to make the reservations today
    ¡quítate esa idea de la cabeza! you can get that idea out of your head!
    idea de bombero ( Esp fam); crazy idea
    2 (intención) intention, idea
    no fui con esa idea I didn't go with that idea in mind o with that intention
    mi idea era terminarlo hoy my intention was to finish it today, I had intended to finish it today
    cambió de idea y tomó el tren she changed her mind and took the train
    no han abandonado la idea de ir al parque they haven't given up the idea of going to the park
    malo1 (↑ malo (1))
    ideas para el hogar ideas for the home
    escriban sus ideas en un papelito please write your suggestions o ideas on a piece of paper
    Compuesto:
    fixed idea, idée fixe
    C
    ( RPl) (manía): no lo comas con idea stop thinking about it and just eat it
    tenerle idea a algn (CS fam); to have sth against sb ( colloq), to have it in for sb ( colloq)
    tenerle idea a algo ( fam); to have a thing about sth ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo idear: ( conjugate idear)

    idea es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    idea    
    idear
    idea sustantivo femenino
    idea;
    ◊ la idea de libertad the idea o concept of freedom;

    es de ideas fijas he has very set ideas about things;
    no tiene idea de cómo funciona he has no idea how it works;
    no tengo idea I don't have a clue;
    hacerse una idea de la situación to get an idea of the situation;
    se me ocurre una idea I've got an idea;
    cambió de idea she changed her mind;
    hacerse (a) la idea de algo to get used to the idea of sth
    idea sustantivo femenino
    1 idea
    idea fija, fixed idea
    2 (representación, concepto) idea: la simple idea de volver a verle me pone nervioso, the very thought of seeing him again makes me all jittery
    (noción) idea: para que te hagas una idea..., so that you can get an idea...
    tiene muy poca idea de lo que cuesta, she has very little idea of what it costs
    3 (opinión, juicio) idea, opinion: te lo advierto, ésta no es la idea que yo tengo de la diversión, mind you, that's not my idea of fun
    tiene ideas peligrosas sobre el poder, he has dangerous ideas about power
    cambiar de idea, to change one's mind
    4 (intención) intention
    a mala idea, on purpose
    5 (proyecto, plan, ocurrencia) idea: teme que le roben la idea, she's afraid someone might steal her idea
    vino con la idea de ir a la playa, she came with the idea of going to the beach
    exclamación ¡vaya una idea!, the very idea!
    ♦ Locuciones: hacerse a la idea de, to get used to the idea of
    familiar no tener ni idea, to have no idea o not to have a clue: no tenía ni idea de que hubieras regresado, I had no idea that you were back
    (ser ignorante) no tengo ni (la más remota/puñetera) idea de fútbol, I haven't got a clue about football
    ideas de bombero, absurd ideas
    idear verbo transitivo
    1 (un invento, diseño) to devise, invent
    2 (una teoría, un plan) to think up, conceive

    ' idea' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abandono
    - acariciar
    - acierto
    - acoger
    - acogida
    - advertir
    - aferrarse
    - añadidura
    - anticipo
    - borrosa
    - borroso
    - bosquejar
    - bosquejo
    - buena
    - bueno
    - cabeza
    - cambiar
    - chifladura
    - concepto
    - confusa
    - confuso
    - convencer
    - cosa
    - decir
    - definida
    - definido
    - desechar
    - desterrar
    - dónde
    - exclusión
    - flor
    - formarse
    - fríamente
    - gestarse
    - gustar
    - hacerse
    - hoy
    - impracticable
    - inicialmente
    - intención
    - irse
    - leve
    - luminosa
    - luminoso
    - madurar
    - menor
    - mentalizarse
    - neta
    - neto
    - noción
    English:
    abandon
    - adjust
    - advance
    - afterthought
    - amusement
    - appealing
    - assumption
    - barmy
    - better
    - brainstorm
    - brainwave
    - brilliant
    - bring forward
    - bristle
    - catch
    - catch on
    - change
    - cling
    - clue
    - come up with
    - conception
    - confused
    - convey
    - crazy
    - daft
    - daring
    - dated
    - defunct
    - dismiss
    - distinct
    - downside
    - drift
    - embody
    - embrace
    - face
    - faint
    - fall in with
    - fanciful
    - fasten on to
    - flirt
    - fluid
    - foggy
    - fundamental
    - get across
    - get through
    - hit on
    - hit upon
    - idea
    - idiotic
    - illusion
    * * *
    idea nf
    1. [concepto] idea;
    la idea del bien y del mal the concept of good and evil;
    yo tenía otra idea de Estados Unidos I had a different image of the United States;
    tiene una idea peculiar de lo que es la honradez he has a funny idea of (what's meant by) honesty;
    hazte a la idea de que no va a venir you'd better start accepting that she isn't going to come;
    no conseguía hacerme a la idea de vivir sin ella I couldn't get used to the idea of living without her;
    con lo que me has dicho ya me hago una idea de cómo es la escuela from what you've told me I've got a pretty good idea of what the school is like;
    no me hago una idea de cómo debió ser I can't imagine what it must have been like
    idea fija obsession;
    ser una persona de ideas fijas to be a person of fixed ideas
    2. [ocurrencia] idea;
    una buena/mala idea a good/bad idea;
    ha sido muy buena idea escoger este restaurante it was a very good idea to choose this restaurant;
    se le ve falto de ideas en su última novela he seems short of ideas in his latest novel;
    lo que contaste me dio la idea para el guión what you said to me gave me the idea for the script;
    se me ocurre una idea, podríamos… I know what, we could…;
    ¿a quién se le habrá ocurrido la idea de apagar las luces? can you believe it, somebody's gone and turned the lights out!;
    ¡más vale que te quites esa idea de la cabeza! you can forget that idea!;
    una idea brillante o [m5] luminosa a brilliant idea, a brainwave;
    cuando se le mete una idea en la cabeza… when he gets an idea into his head…;
    Esp
    tener ideas de bombero to have wild o crazy ideas
    3. [conocimiento, nociones] idea;
    la policía no tenía ni idea de quién pudo haber cometido el crimen the police had no idea who could have committed the crime;
    no tengo ni idea I haven't got a clue;
    no tengo ni idea de física I don't know the first thing about physics;
    no tengo (ni) la menor o [m5] la más remota idea I haven't the slightest idea;
    Esp muy Fam
    no tengo ni pajolera idea I haven't the faintest Br bloody o US goddamn idea;
    Vulg
    no tengo ni puta idea I haven't got a fucking clue;
    Fam
    ¡ni idea! [como respuesta] search me!, I haven't got a clue!;
    tener idea de cómo hacer algo to know how to do sth;
    tener una ligera idea to have a vague idea;
    por la forma en que maneja las herramientas se ve que tiene idea from the way she's handling the tools, you can tell she knows what she's doing;
    ¡no tienes idea o [m5] no puedes hacerte una idea de lo duro que fue! you have no idea o you can't imagine how hard it was!
    4. [propósito] intention;
    nuestra idea es volver pronto we intend to o our intention is to return early;
    con la idea de with the idea o intention of;
    tener idea de hacer algo to intend to do sth;
    a mala idea maliciously;
    tener mala idea [ser malintencionado] to be a Br nasty o US real piece of work;
    ¡mira que tienes mala idea! that's really nasty of you!
    5. [opinión] opinion;
    mi idea de ella era totalmente errónea I had completely the wrong impression of her;
    no tengo una idea formada sobre el tema I don't have a clear opinion on the subject;
    cambiar de idea to change one's mind;
    yo soy de la idea de que mujeres y hombres deben tener los mismos derechos I'm of the opinion that men and women should have equal rights;
    somos de la misma idea we agree, we're of the same opinion
    6.
    ideas [ideología] ideas;
    mi padre es de ideas progresistas my father is a progressive o has progressive attitudes;
    fue perseguido por sus ideas he was persecuted for his beliefs o ideas
    7. CSur [manía]
    le tengo idea a su hermana I can't stand her sister;
    le tengo idea a eso that drives me nuts;
    si te vas a poner el vestido con idea, mejor ponete otra cosa if you're not sure about the dress, you'd do better to wear something else
    * * *
    f idea;
    dar (una) idea de algo give an idea of sth;
    hacerse a la idea de que … get used to the idea that …;
    no tener ni idea not have a clue
    * * *
    idea nf
    1) : idea, notion
    2) : opinion, belief
    3) propósito: intention
    * * *
    idea n idea
    ¡qué buena idea! what a good idea!
    no tengo ni idea I have no idea / I haven't got a clue

    Spanish-English dictionary > idea

  • 49 norma

    f.
    1 standard.
    este producto no cumple la norma europea this product does not meet European standards
    la norma es que llueva al final de la tarde it usually o normally rains toward the end of the afternoon
    tener por norma hacer algo to make it a rule to do something
    2 Norma.
    3 piece of legislation.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: normar.
    * * *
    1 norm, rule
    \
    norma de conducta rule of conduct
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) rule
    2) norm
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=regla) (tb Educ) rule; [oficial] regulation

    • como o por norma general — as a general rule, as a rule of thumb

    • tener por norma hacer algo — to make it a rule to do sth

    norma de comprobación — (Fís) control

    normas de conducta — [sociales] rules of behaviour; [de periódico, empresa] policy sing

    2) (=situación, costumbre) norm

    es norma ofrecer una copa de bienvenida — it is standard practice o it is the norm to offer a complimentary drink

    como es norma en estos casos — as is standard practice o as is the norm in these cases

    3)

    la norma — (Ling) the standard form

    4) (Arquit, Téc) square
    * * *
    a) ( regla) rule, regulation

    dictar normas — to lay down rules o regulations

    tengo por norma... — I make it a rule...

    es norma que or la norma es que acudan los directivos — it is standard practice for the directors to attend

    * * *
    = convention, guide, norm, pattern, prescription, rule, standard, yardstick.
    Ex. Articulated subject indexes are based on title-like phrases that have some conventions concerning citation order.
    Ex. In so doing the indexes act as an organized guide to large sections of the literature of a subject area.
    Ex. An appreciation of alternative approaches is particularly important in this field where trends towards standardisation are the norm.
    Ex. In the same way that citation orders may have more or less theoretical foundations, equally reference generation may follow a predetermined pattern.
    Ex. Granted, standard is an ambiguous term, because it can mean either quality or simply prescription.
    Ex. If administrative regulations, rules, etc., are from jurisdictions in which such regulations, etc., are promulgated by government agencies or agents, enter them under the heading for the agency or agent.
    Ex. A standard is a document available to the public and aimed at the promotion of optimum community benefits and approved by a body recognized on the national, regional or international level.
    Ex. The legitimate yardstick against which to evaluate 'Beatlemusik' is not, pace Paul Johnson, Beethoven's last quartets, but other contemporary popular music.
    ----
    * acatar las normas = toe + the line.
    * atenerse a una norma = conform to + standard.
    * ausencia de normas = anomie.
    * como norma = as a rule, as a matter of policy.
    * como norma general = as a rule of thumb, as a general rule, as a general rule of thumb, as a rough guide.
    * convertirse en la norma = become + the norm.
    * cumplir las normas = abide by + rules and regulations.
    * dar como norma = rule.
    * dar una norma = give + prescription.
    * de fijación de normas = standard(s) setting.
    * desacatar las normas establecidas = flout + convention.
    * desviación de la norma = deviation + from the norm, departure from the norm.
    * establecer norma = legislate.
    * establecer normas = make + provision, establish + standards.
    * establecer normas de funcionamiento = establish + policy.
    * establecer una norma = lay down + standard, set down + rule.
    * establecer un norma = give + prescription.
    * fuera de las normas comúnmente aceptadas = beyond the pale.
    * hacer cumplir una norma = enforce + standard.
    * hacer cumplir unas normas = enforce + policy.
    * hoja de normas = rule sheet.
    * imponer una norma = place + prescription.
    * incumplimiento de normas = rule breaking.
    * incumplir una norma = infringe + standard, violate + regulation, break + rules.
    * infracción de las normas = breach of regulations, infringement of the rules, breach of the rules.
    * infracción de normas = rule breaking.
    * infringir una norma = infringe + standard, violate + rule, violate + rule, violate + regulation, break + rules.
    * no cumplir una norma = fall (far) short of + norm.
    * norma absoluta = ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * norma absouta = hard and fast rule.
    * norma básica = ground rule.
    * Norma Británica 1749: Recomendaciones para la ordenación alfabética y el ord = BS (British Standard) 1749: Recommendations for alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numerals and symbols.
    * Norma Británica número + Número = BS + Número.
    * norma de comportamiento social = social pattern.
    * norma de entrada de datos = input standard.
    * norma de la industria = industry standard.
    * norma de trabajo = working rule.
    * norma de vestir = dress code.
    * norma fija = firm rule.
    * norma general = rule of thumb.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * norma inflexible = hard and fast rule, ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * Norma Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD) = International Standard Archival Description (ISAD).
    * Norma Internacional para los Lenguajes de Instrucción = International Standard for Command Languages.
    * norma legal = statutory provision.
    * Norma + Número = ISO + Número.
    * norma ortográfica = spelling convention.
    * norma personal = personal norm.
    * norma que se puede aplicar a rajatabla = hard and fast rule, ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * norma rígida = hard and fast rule, ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * normas = policy, code of practice, regulation.
    * normas comunes = standard practices.
    * normas de préstamos vencidos = overdue policy.
    * normas de procedimiento = rules of procedure.
    * normas de uso = user policy.
    * normas habituales = standard practices.
    * normas internas = in-house guidelines.
    * norma social = social norm, societal norm.
    * normas para la elaboración de resúmenes = abstracting policy.
    * norma técnica = technical standard.
    * no seguir una norma = fall (far) short of + norm.
    * ofrecer una norma = offer + prescription.
    * por norma = as a rule.
    * que se atiene a una norma = compliant (with).
    * que sigue una norma = compliant (with).
    * ser la norma = be the norm, be the rule, become + the norm.
    * * *
    a) ( regla) rule, regulation

    dictar normas — to lay down rules o regulations

    tengo por norma... — I make it a rule...

    es norma que or la norma es que acudan los directivos — it is standard practice for the directors to attend

    * * *
    = convention, guide, norm, pattern, prescription, rule, standard, yardstick.

    Ex: Articulated subject indexes are based on title-like phrases that have some conventions concerning citation order.

    Ex: In so doing the indexes act as an organized guide to large sections of the literature of a subject area.
    Ex: An appreciation of alternative approaches is particularly important in this field where trends towards standardisation are the norm.
    Ex: In the same way that citation orders may have more or less theoretical foundations, equally reference generation may follow a predetermined pattern.
    Ex: Granted, standard is an ambiguous term, because it can mean either quality or simply prescription.
    Ex: If administrative regulations, rules, etc., are from jurisdictions in which such regulations, etc., are promulgated by government agencies or agents, enter them under the heading for the agency or agent.
    Ex: A standard is a document available to the public and aimed at the promotion of optimum community benefits and approved by a body recognized on the national, regional or international level.
    Ex: The legitimate yardstick against which to evaluate 'Beatlemusik' is not, pace Paul Johnson, Beethoven's last quartets, but other contemporary popular music.
    * acatar las normas = toe + the line.
    * atenerse a una norma = conform to + standard.
    * ausencia de normas = anomie.
    * como norma = as a rule, as a matter of policy.
    * como norma general = as a rule of thumb, as a general rule, as a general rule of thumb, as a rough guide.
    * convertirse en la norma = become + the norm.
    * cumplir las normas = abide by + rules and regulations.
    * dar como norma = rule.
    * dar una norma = give + prescription.
    * de fijación de normas = standard(s) setting.
    * desacatar las normas establecidas = flout + convention.
    * desviación de la norma = deviation + from the norm, departure from the norm.
    * establecer norma = legislate.
    * establecer normas = make + provision, establish + standards.
    * establecer normas de funcionamiento = establish + policy.
    * establecer una norma = lay down + standard, set down + rule.
    * establecer un norma = give + prescription.
    * fuera de las normas comúnmente aceptadas = beyond the pale.
    * hacer cumplir una norma = enforce + standard.
    * hacer cumplir unas normas = enforce + policy.
    * hoja de normas = rule sheet.
    * imponer una norma = place + prescription.
    * incumplimiento de normas = rule breaking.
    * incumplir una norma = infringe + standard, violate + regulation, break + rules.
    * infracción de las normas = breach of regulations, infringement of the rules, breach of the rules.
    * infracción de normas = rule breaking.
    * infringir una norma = infringe + standard, violate + rule, violate + rule, violate + regulation, break + rules.
    * no cumplir una norma = fall (far) short of + norm.
    * norma absoluta = ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * norma absouta = hard and fast rule.
    * norma básica = ground rule.
    * Norma Británica 1749: Recomendaciones para la ordenación alfabética y el ord = BS (British Standard) 1749: Recommendations for alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numerals and symbols.
    * Norma Británica número + Número = BS + Número.
    * norma de comportamiento social = social pattern.
    * norma de entrada de datos = input standard.
    * norma de la industria = industry standard.
    * norma de trabajo = working rule.
    * norma de vestir = dress code.
    * norma fija = firm rule.
    * norma general = rule of thumb.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * norma inflexible = hard and fast rule, ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * Norma Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD) = International Standard Archival Description (ISAD).
    * Norma Internacional para los Lenguajes de Instrucción = International Standard for Command Languages.
    * norma legal = statutory provision.
    * Norma + Número = ISO + Número.
    * norma ortográfica = spelling convention.
    * norma personal = personal norm.
    * norma que se puede aplicar a rajatabla = hard and fast rule, ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * norma rígida = hard and fast rule, ironclad rule, steadfast rule.
    * normas = policy, code of practice, regulation.
    * normas comunes = standard practices.
    * normas de préstamos vencidos = overdue policy.
    * normas de procedimiento = rules of procedure.
    * normas de uso = user policy.
    * normas habituales = standard practices.
    * normas internas = in-house guidelines.
    * norma social = social norm, societal norm.
    * normas para la elaboración de resúmenes = abstracting policy.
    * norma técnica = technical standard.
    * no seguir una norma = fall (far) short of + norm.
    * ofrecer una norma = offer + prescription.
    * por norma = as a rule.
    * que se atiene a una norma = compliant (with).
    * que sigue una norma = compliant (with).
    * ser la norma = be the norm, be the rule, become + the norm.

    * * *
    1 (regla) rule, regulation
    normas de conducta rules of conduct
    normas sociales social norms
    observar las normas de seguridad to observe the safety regulations
    las normas vigentes the regulations currently in force
    dictar normas to lay down rules o regulations
    tengo por norma no beber al mediodía I make it a rule not to drink at lunchtime
    2
    (manera común de hacer algo): es norma que or la norma es que acudan a este tipo de reunión los directivos de la empresa it is standard practice for the directors of the company to attend this kind of meeting
    Compuesto:
    linguistic norm
    * * *

     

    norma sustantivo femenino


    normas de seguridad safety regulations;
    tengo por norma … I make it a rule …


    norma sustantivo femenino norm, rule: tiene que ajustarse a la norma europea, it has to meet the European standard
    ' norma' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aplicarse
    - caprichosa
    - caprichoso
    - criterio
    - desordenada
    - desordenado
    - imposición
    - normalizar
    - normalización
    - principio
    - regla
    - reglamentaria
    - reglamentario
    - relajar
    - romper
    - saltarse
    - validez
    - canon
    - cumplimiento
    - disposición
    - elemental
    - excepción
    - implantar
    - inadecuado
    - obedecer
    - regular
    - respetar
    English:
    law
    - norm
    - operative
    - policy
    - regulation
    - rule
    - set aside
    - set down
    - standard
    - vary
    - yardstick
    - departure
    - deviant
    * * *
    norma nf
    1. [patrón, modelo] standard;
    [regla] rule;
    las normas de circulación o [m5] de tráfico the traffic regulations, Br the Highway Code;
    este producto no cumple la norma europea this product does not meet European standards;
    normas de conducta [principios] standards (of behaviour);
    [pautas] patterns of behaviour;
    la norma es que llueva al final de la tarde it usually o normally rains towards the end of the afternoon;
    es la norma hacerlo así it's usual to do it this way;
    tener por norma hacer algo to make it a rule to do sth
    2. Ling norm
    * * *
    f
    1 standard
    2 ( regla) rule, regulation
    * * *
    norma nf
    1) : rule, regulation
    2) : norm, standard
    * * *
    norma n rule
    tener por norma hacer algo to always do something / to never do something

    Spanish-English dictionary > norma

  • 50 parcela

    f.
    1 plot (of land).
    2 plot of land, parcel of land, parcel, lot.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: parcelar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: parcelar.
    * * *
    1 (de tierra) plot (of land)
    2 figurado share, portion
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=solar) plot, piece of ground; (Agr) smallholding
    2) [de conocimientos, autonomía] (=parte) part, portion; (=área) area

    parcela de poder — [político] power base; [de influencia] sphere of influence

    * * *
    femenino plot (of land), lot (AmE)
    * * *
    = allotment, vegetable plot, croft, plot of land, piece of land.
    Ex. The factory worker compensates for his noisy and dirty work environment by digging his allotment.
    Ex. Vegetable plots found around British cities form a landscape type with its own particular human involvement.
    Ex. Ponies have been used for riding, transport, work on crofts and in coal mines, domestic service, and in show business.
    Ex. The core of readers and borrowers of agricultural literature are pensioners wanting to improving cultivation of their small private plots of land.
    Ex. So it is important that every piece of land is divided by a boundary to show the demarcation.
    ----
    * parcela de terreno = plot of land, piece of land.
    * parcela sin construir = vacant lot, vacant land.
    * proteger + Posesivo + parcela = guard + Posesivo + patch.
    * * *
    femenino plot (of land), lot (AmE)
    * * *
    = allotment, vegetable plot, croft, plot of land, piece of land.

    Ex: The factory worker compensates for his noisy and dirty work environment by digging his allotment.

    Ex: Vegetable plots found around British cities form a landscape type with its own particular human involvement.
    Ex: Ponies have been used for riding, transport, work on crofts and in coal mines, domestic service, and in show business.
    Ex: The core of readers and borrowers of agricultural literature are pensioners wanting to improving cultivation of their small private plots of land.
    Ex: So it is important that every piece of land is divided by a boundary to show the demarcation.
    * parcela de terreno = plot of land, piece of land.
    * parcela sin construir = vacant lot, vacant land.
    * proteger + Posesivo + parcela = guard + Posesivo + patch.

    * * *
    1 (solar) plot of land, plot, lot ( AmE)
    2 ( Chi) ( Agric) small farm, smallholding ( BrE)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo parcelar: ( conjugate parcelar)

    parcela es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    parcela    
    parcelar
    parcela sustantivo femenino
    plot (of land), lot (AmE)
    parcela sustantivo femenino
    1 (de tierra) plot
    2 (de conocimiento) field
    (de influencia, poder) area
    ' parcela' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    campo
    - estacar
    - huerta
    - intimidad
    - asignar
    - terreno
    English:
    allotment
    - land
    - lot
    - parcel
    - patch
    - piece
    - plot
    - property
    * * *
    1. [de tierra] plot (of land)
    2. [de saber, poder] area;
    el ministro no quiere que nadie invada su parcela de poder the minister doesn't want anyone encroaching on his area of authority;
    se agarra a su parcela de poder he's holding on to his power
    * * *
    f lot, Br
    plot
    * * *
    : parcel, tract of land
    * * *
    parcela n plot

    Spanish-English dictionary > parcela

  • 51 renuncia

    f.
    1 giving up (abandono).
    2 resignation.
    presentó su renuncia he handed in his (letter of) resignation
    3 renunciation, renouncement.
    4 letter of resignation, written resignation, resignation, resignation letter.
    5 disclaimer.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: renunciar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: renunciar.
    * * *
    1 renunciation
    2 (dimisión) resignation
    \
    presentar la renuncia to hand in one's resignation
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [a derecho, trono] renunciation

    han hecho pública la renuncia a sus exigencias/planes — they announced that they have abandoned o dropped their claims/plans

    2) [de empleado] resignation

    presentó su renuncia — he tendered his resignation, he resigned

    3) (=abnegación) renunciation
    * * *
    1) ( dimisión) resignation

    presentar la renuncia — to resign, tender one's resignation (frml)

    2)
    a) ( abandono)
    b) (Der) relinquishment
    3) ( abnegación) self-sacrifice
    * * *
    = abandonment, abdication, unwillingness, denial, surrender, renunciation, drop-off.
    Ex. Practical considerations led to the abandonment of this idea.
    Ex. I think this attitude somewhat bespeaks a professional abdication by a lot of us.
    Ex. His autocracy is manifested by his unwillingness and inability to delegate responsibility and authority.
    Ex. The obvious alternative would be denial of access to scholarly literature.
    Ex. This would require central funding, an appropriate communications infrastructure and the surrender by universities of their autonomy over their local libraries.
    Ex. This approach is characterised by the renunciation of attempts to generate the wording of index entries algorithmically.
    Ex. There is a subsidy mechanism that lowers rates in order to avoid drop-offs from the network.
    ----
    * documento de renuncia = waiver form.
    * renuncia a algo por otra cosa = trade-off [tradeoff/trade off].
    * * *
    1) ( dimisión) resignation

    presentar la renuncia — to resign, tender one's resignation (frml)

    2)
    a) ( abandono)
    b) (Der) relinquishment
    3) ( abnegación) self-sacrifice
    * * *
    = abandonment, abdication, unwillingness, denial, surrender, renunciation, drop-off.

    Ex: Practical considerations led to the abandonment of this idea.

    Ex: I think this attitude somewhat bespeaks a professional abdication by a lot of us.
    Ex: His autocracy is manifested by his unwillingness and inability to delegate responsibility and authority.
    Ex: The obvious alternative would be denial of access to scholarly literature.
    Ex: This would require central funding, an appropriate communications infrastructure and the surrender by universities of their autonomy over their local libraries.
    Ex: This approach is characterised by the renunciation of attempts to generate the wording of index entries algorithmically.
    Ex: There is a subsidy mechanism that lowers rates in order to avoid drop-offs from the network.
    * documento de renuncia = waiver form.
    * renuncia a algo por otra cosa = trade-off [tradeoff/trade off].

    * * *
    A (dimisión) resignation
    presentó su renuncia she resigned, she tendered her resignation ( frml)
    B
    1 (abandono) renuncia A algo renunciation OF sth
    proclamaron su renuncia al uso de la fuerza they rejected the use of force, they renounced the use of force
    2 ( Der) relinquishment
    C (sacrificio, abnegación) self-sacrifice
    * * *

     

    Del verbo renunciar: ( conjugate renunciar)

    renuncia es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    renuncia    
    renunciar
    renuncia sustantivo femenino
    1 ( dimisión) resignation;

    2 ( abandono) renuncia A algo renunciation of sth
    3 ( abnegación) self-sacrifice
    renunciar ( conjugate renunciar) verbo intransitivo ( dimitir) to resign;
    renuncia A algo ‹ a puesto› to resign sth;
    ‹ a derecho› to relinquish sth, renounce sth (frml);
    ‹ a título› to give up sth, relinquish sth;
    ‹ a trono› to renounce sth
    renuncia sustantivo femenino
    1 renunciation
    2 (a un cargo) resignation
    (documento) letter of resignation
    renunciar verbo intransitivo
    1 (a un derecho, bien) to renounce, give up: renunció a la felicidad, he renounced happiness
    renunciamos a la herencia, we relinquished the inheritance
    2 (a un vicio, placer, proyecto) to give up: tendré que renunciar a los dulces, I've got to stop eating sweets
    renunciamos a ir de viaje, we gave up travelling
    3 (no aceptar) to decline
    4 (a un cargo) to resign
    ' renuncia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cese
    - consecuencia
    - presentar
    - sacrificio
    English:
    by-election
    - disclaimer
    - quitclaim
    - renunciation
    - resignation
    - waiver
    - withdrawal
    - denial
    - notice
    * * *
    1. [abandono] giving up;
    demandan que el grupo anuncie su renuncia a la violencia they are demanding that the group renounce the use of violence
    2. [dimisión] resignation;
    presentó su renuncia he handed in his (letter of) resignation
    * * *
    f resignation
    * * *
    1) : resignation
    2) : renunciation
    3) : waiver

    Spanish-English dictionary > renuncia

  • 52 semilla

    f.
    2 nut, hard-shelled dry fruit, kernel.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: semillar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: semillar.
    * * *
    1 seed
    2 figurado seed, seeds plural
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Bot) seed
    2) (=origen) seed, source
    3) Cono Sur (=niño) baby, small child
    * * *
    a) (Agr, Bot) seed
    b) (causa, origen) seed

    la semilla de la libertad/discordia — the seeds of liberty/discord

    * * *
    = seed.
    Ex. Her article tests the validity of Bardford's Law of Scattering to the literature of seed pathology.
    ----
    * cabeza de semillas = seed head.
    * desprender semillas = go to + seed.
    * mala semilla = bad seed.
    * plantar la semilla = lay + the seeds.
    * plantar la semilla de = sow + the seeds of.
    * plantar la semilla de la discordia = plant + the seed(s) of discord.
    * sembrar la semilla de la discordia = sow + the seed(s) of discord.
    * semilla de cacao = cacao bean, cacao seed, cocoa bean.
    * semilla de colza = rapeseed.
    * semilla de flor silvestre = wildflower seed.
    * semilla de sésamo = sesame seed.
    * semilla oleaginosa = oil seed.
    * semilla seca = dried seed.
    * sin semillas = seedless.
    * soltar semillas = go to + seed.
    * * *
    a) (Agr, Bot) seed
    b) (causa, origen) seed

    la semilla de la libertad/discordia — the seeds of liberty/discord

    * * *
    = seed.

    Ex: Her article tests the validity of Bardford's Law of Scattering to the literature of seed pathology.

    * cabeza de semillas = seed head.
    * desprender semillas = go to + seed.
    * mala semilla = bad seed.
    * plantar la semilla = lay + the seeds.
    * plantar la semilla de = sow + the seeds of.
    * plantar la semilla de la discordia = plant + the seed(s) of discord.
    * sembrar la semilla de la discordia = sow + the seed(s) of discord.
    * semilla de cacao = cacao bean, cacao seed, cocoa bean.
    * semilla de colza = rapeseed.
    * semilla de flor silvestre = wildflower seed.
    * semilla de sésamo = sesame seed.
    * semilla oleaginosa = oil seed.
    * semilla seca = dried seed.
    * sin semillas = seedless.
    * soltar semillas = go to + seed.

    * * *
    1 ( Agr, Bot) seed
    uvas sin semillas seedless grapes
    2 (causa, origen) seed
    sembró la semilla de la discordia entre las dos facciones it sowed the seeds of discord between the two factions
    la semilla de la libertad the seeds of liberty
    * * *

    semilla sustantivo femenino
    seed
    semilla sustantivo femenino seed
    fig (causa, origen) la semilla de la discordia, the seeds of discord
    ' semilla' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    anís
    - cáscara
    - germen
    - legumbre
    - soja
    - habichuela
    - pepa
    English:
    kernel
    - pip
    - seed
    - sun
    * * *
    1. [de planta] seed;
    sembrar la semilla de la discordia to sow the seeds of discord
    2. [origen] seed;
    el control de la tierra es la semilla del conflicto en la región control of land is at the root of the conflict in the region
    * * *
    f seed
    * * *
    : seed
    * * *
    semilla n seed

    Spanish-English dictionary > semilla

  • 53 viaje

    m.
    1 journey, trip.
    ¡buen viaje! have a good journey o trip!
    fue un viaje agotador it was an exhausting journey
    estar/ir de viaje to be/go away (on a trip)
    hay once días de viaje it's an eleven-day journey
    en sus viajes al extranjero on his journeys o travels abroad
    los viajes de Colón the voyages of Columbus
    viajes espaciales space travel
    viaje de Estado state visit
    viaje de estudios class trip (en colegio, universidad)
    viaje de ida outward journey
    viaje marítimo sea voyage
    viaje de negocios business trip
    viaje de novios honeymoon
    viaje oficial official visit
    viaje organizado organized trip
    viaje de placer pleasure trip
    viaje relámpago lightning trip o visit
    viaje de vuelta return journey
    2 trip (recorrido).
    di varios viajes para trasladar los muebles it took me a good few trips to move all the furniture
    4 bang, bump (informal) (blow).
    5 acid trip, trip, drug-induced trip, freak-out on drug.
    pres.subj.
    1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: viajar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) journey, trip
    2 (en coche) drive, journey
    5 (carga) load
    \
    ¡buen viaje! bon voyage!, have a good trip!
    estar de viaje to be away, be away on a trip
    irse de viaje / marcharse de viaje to go on a journey, go on a trip
    para este viaje no se necesitan alforjas familiar it was hardly worth bothering about
    el último viaje figurado one's journey's end
    libro de viajes travel book
    viaje de ida outward journey
    viaje de ida y vuelta return trip, US round trip
    viaje de negocios business trip
    viaje de novios honeymoon
    viaje en barco boat trip
    viaje en tren train journey
    ————————
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) journey, trip
    * * *
    I
    SM
    1) (=desplazamiento) (gen) trip; (por mar, el espacio) voyage

    ¡buen viaje! — have a good trip!

    los viajes — (=actividad) travelling, traveling (EEUU), travel

    agencia de viajes — travel agent's, travel agency

    • estar de viaje — to be away

    • salir de viaje — to go away

    viaje de buena voluntad — goodwill trip, goodwill mission

    viaje de ida y vuelta, viaje redondo — (LAm) return trip, round trip

    viaje relámpago — lightning visit, flying visit

    2) (=trayecto) journey
    3) (=carga) load
    4) * [de droga] trip *
    5) ( esp Caribe) (=vez) time

    de un viaje — all in one go, at one blow

    6)
    VIAJE ¿"Journey", "voyage", "trip" o "travel"? ► Viaje se traduce por journey cuando se refiere a un viaje en particular, tanto por aire como por tierra: El viaje de Londres a Madrid dura unas dos horas The journey from London to Madrid takes about two hours ► Un largo viaje por mar se traduce por voyage: Muchos marineros murieron en el primer viaje de Colón a América Many sailors died on Columbus's first voyage to America ► Cuando viaje hace referencia no solo al trayecto de ida y vuelta, sino también a la estancia en un lugar, se suele traducir por t rip. Normalmente se trata de un viaje con un fin concreto o de un viaje corto: Fui a Alemania en viaje de negocios I went to Germany on a business trip ► Como sustantivo incontable, tra vel se utiliza solo en lugar de travelling para traducir la actividad de viajar; también, en muy contadas ocasiones, puede usarse en plural referido a viajes concretos: No le gusta nada viajar en barco He hates travelling by sea o He hates sea travel Colecciona recuerdos en sus viajes al extranjero He collects souvenirs on his travels abroad Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada II
    *
    SM (=tajada) slash (with a razor) ; (=golpe) bash *; (=puñalada) stab
    * * *
    1) ( a un lugar) trip, journey

    hizo el viaje en coche/bicicleta — he drove/cycled

    buen viaje! — have a good trip!, bon voyage!

    2) ( ida y venida) trip, journey (esp BrE)

    de un (solo) viaje — (Andes fam) in one go

    3) ( con drogas) trip (colloq)
    * * *
    = travel, trip, trek, voyage, journey, journeying, transit, ride.
    Ex. SIA in the United Kingdom covers information on travel and transport, economics in EEC countries, construction of nuclear power stations, and financial information.
    Ex. The approach may differ according to whether the person is preparing for a trip, settling a bet, beginning work on a 15-minute talk to a service club, or is undertaking to write a book on the subject.
    Ex. Standing in the early morning on the balcony of her apartment, she was smote as she always was by the grandeur of the sky turning to scarlet as the rim of darkness in the east released the sun for its sluggish trek through the heavens.
    Ex. Compound headings are quite widely used, eg Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Pilots and pilotage, voyages and travels.
    Ex. When at one stage of his journey Christian lost his roll, he was very distressed until he found it again.
    Ex. Sometimes of an evening, after my miserable journeyings through the day, I would stand for hours in the Strand, leaning against the shutters of a closed shop, and watching the compositors at work by gaslight on the opposite side of the way, upon a morning paper.
    Ex. This article calls attention to dangers of deterioration of photographs, caused by exhibition and transit.
    Ex. For the second part, the conference will move to island Mljet, less than a two-hour ride from Dubrovnik on a fast catamaran.
    ----
    * agencia de viajes = travel agency, travel agent.
    * agente de viajes = travel agent.
    * bolsa de viaje = travel grant, travel bursary, travelbag.
    * cheque de viaje = travellers' cheque.
    * compañero de viaje = fellow traveller.
    * compañía de viajes = travel company.
    * compartir el viaje en coche = car-pool [carpool].
    * diario de viajes = travel journal.
    * dieta de viaje = travel allowance.
    * documental sobre viajes = travelogue [travelog, -USA].
    * duración del viaje = journey time.
    * empresa de viajes = travel company.
    * gastos de viaje = travelling expenses, travel expenses.
    * guía de viaje = travel brochure.
    * guía de viajes = travel guide.
    * información sobre viajes = travel information.
    * informe del viaje realizado = travel report.
    * ir de viaje de novios = honeymoon.
    * libro de viajes = travel book, travelogue [travelog, -USA].
    * literatura de viajes = travel literature.
    * narración sobre viajes = travelogue [travelog, -USA].
    * programación del viaje = travel plan.
    * programa de viaje = travel plan.
    * relacionado con los viajes = travel-related.
    * sector de las agencias de viajes, el = travel sector, the.
    * sector de las agencias de viajes, el = travel industry, the.
    * seguro de viaje = travel insurance.
    * viaje al extranjero = foreign travel.
    * viaje a través del tiempo = time travel.
    * viaje cultural = cultural visit.
    * viaje de compras = shopping trip.
    * viaje de descubrimiento = voyage of discovery.
    * viaje de estudio = study trip.
    * viaje de ida = one-way ticket.
    * viaje del colegio = school trip.
    * viaje de novios = honeymoon.
    * viaje de vacaciones = holiday excursion, holiday trip.
    * viaje en autobús = bus ride, bus trip.
    * viaje en avión = air travel, air transportation.
    * viaje en bicicleta = bicycle ride.
    * viaje en coche compartido = car-pool [carpool].
    * viaje en el tiempo = time travel.
    * viaje en tren = train ride.
    * viaje espiritual = spiritual journey.
    * viaje organizado = package holiday, vacation package.
    * viaje por motivos académicos = study trip.
    * viajes = wanderings.
    * * *
    1) ( a un lugar) trip, journey

    hizo el viaje en coche/bicicleta — he drove/cycled

    buen viaje! — have a good trip!, bon voyage!

    2) ( ida y venida) trip, journey (esp BrE)

    de un (solo) viaje — (Andes fam) in one go

    3) ( con drogas) trip (colloq)
    * * *
    = travel, trip, trek, voyage, journey, journeying, transit, ride.

    Ex: SIA in the United Kingdom covers information on travel and transport, economics in EEC countries, construction of nuclear power stations, and financial information.

    Ex: The approach may differ according to whether the person is preparing for a trip, settling a bet, beginning work on a 15-minute talk to a service club, or is undertaking to write a book on the subject.
    Ex: Standing in the early morning on the balcony of her apartment, she was smote as she always was by the grandeur of the sky turning to scarlet as the rim of darkness in the east released the sun for its sluggish trek through the heavens.
    Ex: Compound headings are quite widely used, eg Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Pilots and pilotage, voyages and travels.
    Ex: When at one stage of his journey Christian lost his roll, he was very distressed until he found it again.
    Ex: Sometimes of an evening, after my miserable journeyings through the day, I would stand for hours in the Strand, leaning against the shutters of a closed shop, and watching the compositors at work by gaslight on the opposite side of the way, upon a morning paper.
    Ex: This article calls attention to dangers of deterioration of photographs, caused by exhibition and transit.
    Ex: For the second part, the conference will move to island Mljet, less than a two-hour ride from Dubrovnik on a fast catamaran.
    * agencia de viajes = travel agency, travel agent.
    * agente de viajes = travel agent.
    * bolsa de viaje = travel grant, travel bursary, travelbag.
    * cheque de viaje = travellers' cheque.
    * compañero de viaje = fellow traveller.
    * compañía de viajes = travel company.
    * compartir el viaje en coche = car-pool [carpool].
    * diario de viajes = travel journal.
    * dieta de viaje = travel allowance.
    * documental sobre viajes = travelogue [travelog, -USA].
    * duración del viaje = journey time.
    * empresa de viajes = travel company.
    * gastos de viaje = travelling expenses, travel expenses.
    * guía de viaje = travel brochure.
    * guía de viajes = travel guide.
    * información sobre viajes = travel information.
    * informe del viaje realizado = travel report.
    * ir de viaje de novios = honeymoon.
    * libro de viajes = travel book, travelogue [travelog, -USA].
    * literatura de viajes = travel literature.
    * narración sobre viajes = travelogue [travelog, -USA].
    * programación del viaje = travel plan.
    * programa de viaje = travel plan.
    * relacionado con los viajes = travel-related.
    * sector de las agencias de viajes, el = travel sector, the.
    * sector de las agencias de viajes, el = travel industry, the.
    * seguro de viaje = travel insurance.
    * viaje al extranjero = foreign travel.
    * viaje a través del tiempo = time travel.
    * viaje cultural = cultural visit.
    * viaje de compras = shopping trip.
    * viaje de descubrimiento = voyage of discovery.
    * viaje de estudio = study trip.
    * viaje de ida = one-way ticket.
    * viaje del colegio = school trip.
    * viaje de novios = honeymoon.
    * viaje de vacaciones = holiday excursion, holiday trip.
    * viaje en autobús = bus ride, bus trip.
    * viaje en avión = air travel, air transportation.
    * viaje en bicicleta = bicycle ride.
    * viaje en coche compartido = car-pool [carpool].
    * viaje en el tiempo = time travel.
    * viaje en tren = train ride.
    * viaje espiritual = spiritual journey.
    * viaje organizado = package holiday, vacation package.
    * viaje por motivos académicos = study trip.
    * viajes = wanderings.

    * * *
    A (a un lugar) trip, journey ( esp BrE)
    fuimos a la India, fue un viaje maravilloso we went to India, it was a wonderful trip
    hicimos un viaje por los pueblos del interior we did a tour of o we traveled around the villages inland
    el segundo viaje de Colón Columbus's second voyage
    el viaje en tren es agotador the train journey is exhausting
    en sus viajes por Sudamérica on her travels o journeys through South America
    hace frecuentes viajes al extranjero he makes frequent trips abroad
    los conocí en el viaje de vuelta I met them on the way back
    ¡buen viaje! have a good trip!, bon voyage!
    los viajes educan travel broadens the mind
    han salido or están de viaje they're away
    agarrar viaje ( RPl fam): si se lo planteás así capaz que agarra viaje if you put it like that she might go for it ( colloq)
    le pregunté si quería venir a cenar y enseguida agarró viaje I asked her if she wanted to come to dinner and she leapt at the chance o jumped at the offer
    Compuestos:
    shopping trip
    state visit
    study trip
    business trip
    honeymoon
    es un viaje de placer y no de negocios it's a vacation o ( BrE) holiday, not a business trip
    space flight
    official visit
    package tour
    ( Méx) round trip
    quick trip; (de trabajo) flying o lightning visit
    B (ida y venida) trip, journey ( esp BrE)
    tuve que hacer varios viajes para llevarlas todas I had to make several trips to take them all
    de un solo viaje ( Andes fam); in one go
    * * *

     

    Del verbo viajar: ( conjugate viajar)

    viajé es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    viaje es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    viajar    
    viaje
    viajar ( conjugate viajar) verbo intransitivo
    to travel;

    viaje en primera clase to travel o go first class
    viaje sustantivo masculino
    trip, journey;
    hacer un viaje to go on a trip o journey;
    un viaje en tren a train journey;
    hizo el viaje en coche he drove;
    estar de viaje to be away;
    salir de viaje to go on a trip;
    en el viaje de vuelta on the way back;
    ¡buen viaje! have a good trip!;
    hicimos un viaje por todo Chile we traveled all around Chile;
    viaje de negocios business trip;
    viaje de novios honeymoon;
    viaje organizado package tour;
    hice varios viajes para llevarlas todas I made several trips to take them all
    viajar verbo intransitivo to travel: odia viajar, she hates travelling
    viaje sustantivo masculino journey, trip
    está de viaje, he's away
    hicieron un viaje por toda España, they travelled all around Spain
    se van de viaje, they are going on a trip
    viaje de novios, honeymoon
    viaje organizado, package tour
    Trip se refiere a todo el recorrido del viaje (movimiento y estancia), mientras que journey se refiere únicamente al movimiento de un sitio a otro. -Did you have a good trip?, -Yes, the journey there and the hotel were good but the journey back was awful.
    To travel es un verbo; también puede ser un sustantivo, pero, en este caso, es incontable y no se puede usar con un artículo. Suele referirse a hechos históricos o épicos (los viajes de Marco Polo, the travels of Marco Polo). También existe la palabra tour, que se aplica a viajes organizados.

    ' viaje' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abuelo
    - acusar
    - buen
    - cancelar
    - cheque
    - comprensible
    - costearse
    - crónica
    - crucero
    - desplazamiento
    - diaria
    - diario
    - efectuar
    - emprender
    - en
    - endosar
    - escapada
    - espacial
    - expositor
    - expositora
    - facilitar
    - feliz
    - funesta
    - funesto
    - gira
    - ida
    - itacate
    - jornada
    - pesada
    - pesado
    - pintar
    - posponer
    - preguntar
    - prolongar
    - recorrido
    - relámpago
    - renunciar
    - safari
    - salida
    - suspender
    - trayecto
    - vista
    - ya
    - accidentado
    - adelantar
    - ahorrar
    - anticipar
    - anulación
    - anular
    - aplazar
    English:
    adequately
    - allowance
    - booking
    - break
    - bring round
    - broken
    - business
    - cash
    - cheap
    - circuit
    - cover
    - cruise
    - disastrous
    - disenchanted
    - disrupt
    - exciting
    - expense
    - fellow
    - freshen up
    - grip
    - guide
    - hairy
    - high-speed
    - hinder
    - hinge on
    - holdall
    - inconvenient
    - intended
    - journey
    - load up
    - maiden
    - make
    - mishap
    - monotony
    - mull
    - on
    - outward
    - overnight
    - owing
    - package holiday
    - package tour
    - pass
    - predicament
    - pretence
    - pretense
    - rail
    - rest
    - resume
    - resumption
    - ride
    * * *
    viaje nm
    1. [en general] journey, trip;
    [en barco] voyage;
    ¡buen viaje! have a good journey o trip!;
    fue un viaje agotador it was an exhausting journey;
    hay once días de viaje it's an eleven-day journey;
    en sus viajes al extranjero on his journeys o travels abroad;
    los viajes de Colón the voyages of Columbus;
    estar/ir de viaje to be away/to go away (on a trip)
    viaje astral astral projection;
    viaje de aventura adventure Br holiday o US vacation;
    viajes espaciales space travel;
    viaje de Estado state visit;
    viaje de estudios [en colegio, universidad] class trip;
    viaje de ida outward journey;
    viaje de ida y vuelta esp Br return journey o trip, US round trip;
    viaje marítimo sea voyage;
    viaje de negocios business trip;
    viaje de novios honeymoon;
    viaje oficial official visit;
    viaje organizado organized trip;
    viaje de placer pleasure trip;
    Méx viaje redondo esp Br return journey o trip, US round trip;
    viaje relámpago lightning trip o visit;
    viaje de vuelta return journey
    2. [recorrido] trip;
    hice varios viajes para trasladar los muebles it took me several trips to move the furniture;
    RP
    de un viaje [de una vez] in one go
    3. Fam [alucinación] trip
    4. Fam [golpe] bang, bump
    * * *
    m trip, journey;
    sus viajes por … his travels in …;
    irse o
    salir de viaje go away;
    estar de viaje be traveling o Br travelling;
    ¡buen viaje! have a good trip!;
    viaje con todo incluido all inclusive trip
    * * *
    viaje nm
    : trip, journey
    viaje de negocios: business trip
    * * *
    viaje n journey / trip
    ¡buen viaje! have a good trip!

    Spanish-English dictionary > viaje

  • 54 gris

    adj.
    1 gray (color).
    2 bleak, gray, grey, not very promising.
    3 somber, grayish, greyish.
    4 cloudy, covered with clouds, overcast, stormy.
    m.
    gray.
    gris marengo/perla dark/pearl gray
    m. s.&pl.
    1 gray, gray color, grey color, grey.
    2 Gris, Juan Gris.
    3 Siberian squirrel.
    * * *
    1 grey (US gray)
    2 figurado (mediocre) mediocre, third-rate
    3 figurado (triste) grey (US gray), gloomy
    1 (color) grey (US gray)
    1 argot the cops, the police sing
    \
    gris marengo charcoal grey
    gris perla pearl grey
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ [color] grey, gray (EEUU); [día, tiempo, persona] grey, dull
    oso
    2. SM
    1) (=color) grey
    2) Esp † * cop *, member of the armed police
    3) * (=viento)
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo <color/ojos/traje> gray*; < día> gray*, overcast
    II
    masculino ( color) gray*
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo <color/ojos/traje> gray*; < día> gray*, overcast
    II
    masculino ( color) gray*
    * * *
    gris1
    1 = grey [gray, -USA], gray [grey, -UK].

    Ex: If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour (green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.

    Ex: He glanced casually at the ill-balanced frontages of the buildings ahead that stretched on and on until they melded in an indistinguishable mass of gray at Laurence Street.
    * de diferentes tonalidades de gris = grey scale [gray scale].
    * escala de grises = grey scale [gray scale].
    * literatura gris = grey literature (GL).
    * materia gris = grey matter [gray matter].
    * SIGLE (Sistema de Información sobre Literatura Gris en Europa) = SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe).
    * sustancia gris = grey matter [gray matter].

    gris2
    2 = murky [murkier -comp., murkiest -sup.].

    Ex: There are extraordinary uncertainties in the murky future of higher education and to change the character of our library at this stage would be too extreme a measure.

    * * *
    1 ‹color/ojos/traje› gray*; ‹día› gray*, overcast
    2 (modificado por otro adj: inv) gray*
    zapatos gris oscuro dark gray shoes
    un gris más fuerte a darker gray
    Compuestos:
    A masculine charcoal gray*
    B adj inv charcoal-gray*
    A masculine metallic gray*
    B adj inv metallic gray*
    A masculine pearl-gray*
    B adj inv pearl-gray*
    A masculine slate gray*
    B adj inv slate-gray*
    A masculine gunmetal gray*
    B adj inv gunmetal-gray*
    * * *

     

    gris adjetivo / noun masculine
    gray( conjugate gray)
    gris adjetivo & sustantivo masculino grey, US gray
    materia gris, grey matter
    gris marengo, charcoal grey
    gris perla, pearl grey
    ' gris' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cana
    - cano
    - canosa
    - canoso
    - saco
    - tornarse
    - vestir
    - intermedio
    - materia
    English:
    background
    - charcoal
    - drab
    - dull
    - gloomy
    - grey
    - grey area
    - grey matter
    - bleak
    - colorless
    - dreary
    - gray
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [de color] grey
    2. [triste] gloomy, miserable
    3. [insignificante] dull, characterless
    ♦ nm
    1. [color] grey
    gris marengo dark grey;
    gris perla pearl-grey
    2. Esp Fam Antes
    los grises [la policía] the cops [who formerly wore grey uniforms]
    * * *
    I adj gray, Br
    grey
    II m
    :
    gris perla pearl gray o Br grey
    * * *
    gris adj
    1) : gray
    2) : overcast, cloudy
    * * *
    gris adj n grey

    Spanish-English dictionary > gris

  • 55 historia

    f.
    1 history (ciencia).
    pasar a la historia to go down in history
    historia antigua/universal ancient/world history
    historia del arte art history
    historia natural natural history
    2 story.
    una historia de amor/fantasmas a love/ghost story
    es siempre la misma historia it's the same old story
    3 story (informal) (excusa, enredo).
    ¡déjate de historias! that's enough of that!
    no me vengas ahora con historias don't give me that!, you don't expect me to believe that, do you?
    4 recorded history, written history.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: historiar.
    * * *
    1 (estudio) history
    2 (narración) story, tale
    3 figurado (cuento) story, take, excuse
    \
    ¡déjate de historias! get to the point!, stop beating about the bush!
    es la historia de siempre it's the same old story
    ir con historias to tell stories
    pasar a la historia to go down in history
    tener una historia con alguien (lío) to have some trouble with somebody 2 (aventura) to have a fling with somebody
    historia antigua ancient history
    historia natural natural history
    historia universal world history
    * * *
    noun f.
    3) tale
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de país, institución] history

    es licenciado en historia — he has a degree in history, he has a history degree

    pasar a la historia —

    tiene historia cómo conseguimos este libro — how we got hold of this book is an interesting story, there's an interesting story behind how we got hold of this book

    historia del arte — history of art, art history

    Historia Sagrada — Biblical history; [en la escuela] † Scripture

    2) (=relato) story

    la historia de siempre o la misma historia o la historia de todos los días — the same old story

    3) (=enredo) story

    ¡ahora no me cuentes la historia de tu vida! — don't tell me your whole life story now!

    4) (=excusa) [sobre algo pasado] excuse, story; [sobre algo presente o futuro] excuse

    ¿así que has estado trabajando hasta ahora? ¡no me vengas con historias o déjate de historias! — so you've been working right up to now, have you? don't give me any of your stories!

    5) * (=lío) business *
    6) * (=romance) fling *
    * * *
    1) (Hist) history

    hacer historia — to make history

    2) ( relato) story

    la historia de su familia/vida — his family history/the story of his life

    3) (fam)
    a) (cuento, excusa)

    me vino con la historia de que... — he came up with this story o tale about...

    b) ( asunto)
    c) ( lío amoroso) scene (colloq)
    * * *
    1) (Hist) history

    hacer historia — to make history

    2) ( relato) story

    la historia de su familia/vida — his family history/the story of his life

    3) (fam)
    a) (cuento, excusa)

    me vino con la historia de que... — he came up with this story o tale about...

    b) ( asunto)
    c) ( lío amoroso) scene (colloq)
    * * *
    historia1
    1 = history, chronology.

    Ex: It is important to recognise, then, that a variety of different indexing approaches are inevitable, not only for reasons of history and indexer preference, but because different situations demand different approaches.

    Ex: This article provides a chronology of key developments in the evolution of standards for archival description = Este artículo presenta una cronología de los avances más importantes en la evolución de las normas para la descripción de documentos de archivo.
    * aficionado a la historia = history buff.
    * a lo largo de la historia = over time.
    * amante de la historia = history buff.
    * a través de la historia = over time.
    * clase de historia = history lesson.
    * colección de historia local = local history collection.
    * en el curso de la historia = in the course of history.
    * en el transcurso de la historia = in the course of history.
    * fiel desde el punto de vista de la historia = historically accurate.
    * hacer historia = make + history, history in the making, go down in + history.
    * historia accidentada = chequered history.
    * historia clínica = case history.
    * historia de la humanidad = human history.
    * historia de la humanidad, la = history of humanity, the, history of mankind, the.
    * historia de la imprenta = history of printing.
    * historia de la literatura = literary history.
    * historia del arte = art history.
    * historia de las bibliotecas = library history.
    * historia del libro = book history.
    * historia de los archivos = archival history.
    * historia de un condado = county history.
    * historia de vida = life history.
    * historia + enseñar = history + teach, lesson from history.
    * historia escrita = written history.
    * historia escrita, la = recorded history.
    * historia familiar = family history.
    * historia hablada = oral history.
    * historia literaria = literary history.
    * historia local = local history.
    * historia marítima = maritime history.
    * historia natural = natural history.
    * historia oral = oral history.
    * historia personal = personal history.
    * historia + remontarse a = trace + ascendancy.
    * historia social = social history.
    * historia trágica = tragic history.
    * la historia + repetirse = history + come full circle.
    * la historia + volverse a repetir = history + come full circle.
    * lección de historia = lesson from history, history lesson.
    * libro de historia = history book.
    * llegar a un momento importante en + Posesivo + historia = reach + milestone.
    * museo de historia natural = natural history museum.
    * pasar a la historia = history in the making, go down in + history.
    * pasar a la historia como = go down as, go down in + the history books as.
    * pasar a la historia como = go down in + history as, go down in + the annals of history as.
    * pasar a los anales de la historia como = go down in + history, go down in + history as, go down in + the history books as, go down in + the annals of history as.
    * que hace historia = history-making.
    * relatar la historia de = trace + the history of.
    * Sala de Manuscritos e Historia Local = Manuscript and Local History Room.
    * sentido de la historia = sense of history.
    * tener una larga historia = extend + far back, stretch + far back in time.

    historia2
    2 = story, story book [storybook], tale, yarn, account.

    Ex: There were lessons in this story which appear to have been ignored but remain valid for the future.

    Ex: These he bound up in three volumes, and on the fly leaf of the first volume wrote 'I have always retained a kind of affection for little story books, as they recall muy early days'.
    Ex: 'I only wanted to write an interesting tale,' he will say, ignoring that the interest of a story almost always comes from seeing the human will in action -- against chaos or against order.
    Ex: Every teacher, I suppose, has his own collection of favorite yarns based on personal experiences.
    Ex: In the interests of clarity an integrated account of the appropriate added entry headings is to be found in 21.29 and 21.30.
    * contar historias = tell + tales.
    * contar una historia = spin + a yarn, weave + a tale, narrate + story, weave + story.
    * historia amorosa = fling.
    * historia de amor = love story.
    * historia de detectives = detective story.
    * historia + desvelar = story + unfold.
    * historia heróica = heroic story.
    * historia nunca contada = untold story.
    * historia pintoresca = colourful story.
    * historia + revelar = story + unfold.
    * historia verídica = true story.
    * narrar una historia = narrate + story.
    * recrear una historia = recreate + story.
    * tejer una historia = weave + story.
    * urdir una historia = weave + story.

    * * *
    A ( Hist) history
    historia de la literatura/música history of literature/music
    clase/libro de historia history class/book
    este tapiz tiene una larga historia this tapestry has a long history
    el robo más espectacular de la historia de este país the most spectacular robbery in this country's history
    la historia se repite history repeats itself
    dejar algo/a algn para la historia ( Chi fam): dejó el auto para la historia he wrecked the car, he totalled the car ( AmE colloq), he wrote the car off ( BrE colloq)
    lo dejaron para la historia con tanto golpe they knocked the living daylights out of him ( colloq)
    hacer historia to make history
    un concierto que hará historia a concert which will go down in o make history
    pasará a la historia como un gran político he will go down in history as a great statesman
    una fecha que pasará a la historia a date that will go down in history
    Compuestos:
    ancient history
    ( AmL) medical history
    modern history
    natural history
    ● Historia Sagrada or Sacra
    Biblical history
    world history
    B (relato) story
    el libro cuenta la historia de su vida the book tells the story of his life
    mira, no me cuentes la historia de tu vida ( fam); look, I don't want to hear your whole life story ( colloq)
    me contó toda la historia de su familia he told me his whole family history
    me contó toda la historia she told me the whole story
    una historia de amor a love story
    C ( fam)
    1
    (cuento, excusa): ahora me viene con la historia de que le robaron la cartera now he's come up with this story o tale about his wallet being stolen
    no me vengas con historias don't give me any of your stories
    déjate de historias y dime por qué no viniste ayer stop making excuses and tell me why you didn't come yesterday
    ya estoy harta de escuchar siempre la misma historia I'm fed up with hearing the same old excuse o story time and again ( colloq)
    2
    (asunto): alguien se quejó de no sé qué historias somebody complained about something or other ( colloq)
    estuvo metido en una historia de drogas he was mixed up in some business o something to do with drugs ( colloq)
    tuvo una historia con una inglesa he had a scene with an English girl
    * * *

     

    Del verbo historiar: ( conjugate historiar)

    historia es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    historia    
    historiar
    historia sustantivo femenino
    1 (Hist) history;

    historia clínica medical history;
    pasar a la historia ( por ser importante) to go down in history;

    ( perder actualidad) (fam):
    ◊ aquello ya pasó a la historia that's ancient history now (colloq)

    2 ( relato) story;

    3 (fam) (cuento, asunto):
    ◊ me vino con la historia de que … he came up with this story o tale about …;

    déjate de historias stop making excuses;
    se quejó de no sé qué historias he complained about something or other (colloq)
    historia sustantivo femenino
    1 history
    2 (cuento) story, tale
    familiar ¡no me cuentes historias!, don't give me that!
    ♦ Locuciones: hacer historia, to make history
    pasar a la historia, (por ser importante) to go down in history
    (no tener actualidad) to be a thing of the past
    ' historia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cala
    - contar
    - deprimente
    - exagerada
    - exagerado
    - hermosa
    - hermoso
    - hinchar
    - histórica
    - histórico
    - inflar
    - jamás
    - lacrimógena
    - lacrimógeno
    - meramente
    - momento
    - motor
    - narrar
    - real
    - reivindicar
    - tejer
    - accidentado
    - amañar
    - colar
    - culminante
    - encachado
    - ir
    - jugoso
    - moderno
    - mundial
    - novelesco
    - protagonista
    - relatar
    - relato
    - rico
    - sabroso
    - seguir
    - serie
    - tonto
    - trabar
    - triste
    - verdadero
    - verde
    - verosímil
    English:
    account
    - ball
    - ball game
    - borderline
    - concoct
    - cook up
    - creepy
    - cuff
    - DPhil
    - earthy
    - embellish
    - embroider
    - end
    - exclusive
    - extensive
    - fascination
    - first
    - fudge
    - ghost
    - hand down
    - history
    - hoax
    - improbable
    - invest
    - made-up
    - make up
    - moral
    - pity
    - plot
    - spin
    - story
    - student
    - touch
    - trace
    - true
    - twist
    - unlikely
    - untold
    - woe
    - yarn
    - base
    - case
    - course
    - go
    - life
    - making
    - natural
    - past
    - saga
    - study
    * * *
    1. [ciencia] history;
    un profesor/libro de historia a history teacher/book;
    historia de la ciencia/literatura history of science/literature;
    he comprado una historia de Grecia I've bought a history of Greece;
    ha sido la mayor catástrofe de la historia it was the worst disaster in history;
    hacer historia to make history;
    pasar a la historia: una victoria que pasará a la historia a victory that will go down in history;
    el cine mudo ya pasó a la historia silent movies are now a thing of the past
    historia antigua ancient history;
    historia del arte art history;
    historia contemporánea = modern history since the French Revolution;
    historia económica economic history;
    historia medieval medieval history;
    historia moderna = history of the period between 1492 and the French Revolution;
    historia natural natural history;
    historia oral oral history;
    historia política political history;
    historia sagrada biblical history;
    historia universal world history
    2. [narración] story;
    una historia de amor/fantasmas a love/ghost story;
    una historia real a true story;
    nos contó varias historias de su viaje a Rusia she told us several stories about her trip to Russia;
    es siempre la misma historia it's the same old story;
    3. Fam [excusa, enredo] story;
    ¡déjate de historias! that's enough of that!;
    no me vengas ahora con historias don't give me that!, you don't expect me to believe that, do you?
    4. Fam [asunto]
    a mí no me enredes en tus historias don't drag me into your problems;
    está metido en una historia muy turbia he's involved in a very shady business;
    está metido en una historia de drogas he's mixed up in something to do with drugs
    5. Fam [amorosa] fling;
    tener una historia con alguien to have a fling with sb
    6. historia clínica medical o case history
    * * *
    f
    1 history;
    pasar a la historia go down in history
    2 ( cuento) story;
    una historia de drogas fam some drugs business;
    déjate de historias fam stop making excuses
    * * *
    1) : history
    2) narración, relato: story
    * * *
    1. (asignatura) history
    2. (relato) story [pl. stories]
    3. (excusa) excuse

    Spanish-English dictionary > historia

  • 56 obra

    f.
    1 work.
    la obra pictórica de Miguel Ángel Michelangelo's paintings
    obra de arte work of art
    obras completas complete works
    obra de consulta reference work
    obra maestra masterpiece
    2 work.
    obras públicas public works
    3 building site.
    4 play.
    5 opus, piece of work, composition, piece.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: obrar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: obrar.
    * * *
    1 (trabajo) work
    3 (acto) deed
    4 (institución) institution, foundation
    5 (construcción) building site
    1 (en casa) alterations, repairs; (en carretera) road works
    ■ 'Carretera cortada por obras' "Road closed for repairs"
    \
    'En obras' "Building works"
    ¡manos a la obra! let's get cracking!
    obras son amores, que no buenas razones actions speak louder than words
    por obra y gracia del Espíritu Santo by the power of the Holy Spirit 2 familiar as if by magic
    obra de arte work of art
    obra de caridad good deed
    obra maestra masterpiece
    obra musical musical
    obras completas collected works
    obras públicas public works
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) work
    2) play
    •
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=acción) deed

    • buenas obras — good works, good deeds

    • ser obra de algn — to be sb's doing

    • poner por obra un plan — to set a plan in motion

    • por obra (y gracia) de — thanks to

    una gimnasta convertida en ídolo mundial por obra y gracia de su entrenador — a gymnast who became a world famous idol thanks to her coach

    por obra y gracia del Espíritu Santo — (Rel) through the working of the Holy Spirit, by the power of the Holy Spirit

    cree que el trabajo va a estar terminado mañana por obra y gracia del Espíritu Santo — iró he thinks that the work will miraculously get done tomorrow

    obra benéfica — (=acción) charitable deed; (=organización) charitable organization, charity

    obra de caridad — charitable deed, act of charity

    obra de misericordia — (Rel) work of mercy

    obra social — (=organización) benevolent fund for arts, sports etc ; (=labor) charitable work

    2) [de creación artística]
    a) (=producción total) (Arte, Literat, Teat, Mús) work
    b) (=pieza) (Arte, Mús) work; (Teat) play; (Literat) book, work

    una obra de Goya — a work o painting by Goya

    obras completas — complete works, collected works

    obra de divulgación — non-fiction book aimed at a popular audience

    obra de teatro, obra dramática — play

    3) (Constr)
    a) (=edificio en construcción) building site, construction site

    ¿cuándo acaban la obra? — when do they finish the building work?

    b)

    de obra — [chimenea] brick antes de s ; [estantería, armario] built-in

    c) pl obras [en edificio] building work sing, construction work sing ; [en carretera] roadworks

    las obras de construcción del hospital — building o construction work on the hospital

    los vecinos están de obras — they're having building work done next door, they have the builders in next door *

    obras — [en edificio] building under construction; [en carretera] roadworks

    página en obras — (Internet) site under construction

    obras viales, obras viarias — roadworks

    4) (=ejecución) workmanship
    5) Chile brickwork
    6)
    7)

    la Obra — Esp (Rel) Opus Dei

    See:
    * * *
    1)

    sus obras de teatro or su obra dramática — her plays

    b) (Mús) work, opus
    2) ( acción)

    por sus obras los conoceréis — (Bib) by their works will you know them

    3) (Arquit, Const)
    a) ( construcción) building work

    estamos de or en obras — we're having some building work done

    peligro: obras — danger: building work in progress

    b) ( sitio) building o construction site
    4) la Obra (Relig) the Opus Dei
    * * *
    1)

    sus obras de teatro or su obra dramática — her plays

    b) (Mús) work, opus
    2) ( acción)

    por sus obras los conoceréis — (Bib) by their works will you know them

    3) (Arquit, Const)
    a) ( construcción) building work

    estamos de or en obras — we're having some building work done

    peligro: obras — danger: building work in progress

    b) ( sitio) building o construction site
    4) la Obra (Relig) the Opus Dei
    * * *
    obra1
    1 = alterations, building site, construction site.

    Ex: Better flexibility is achieved if the heating, ventilation and lighting can accommodate this move without the need for any alterations.

    Ex: This system maintains knowledge relevant to the building process and makes it easily accessible to the participants of this process, especially those at the building site.
    Ex: The most striking manifestation of this exploitation is the boom town, defined as the 'rapid and extreme growth of population in communities adjacent to mines and construction sites,' or as a 'community which is undergoing rapid growth and rapid change'.
    * ahorrar mano de obra = save + manpower.
    * costes de mano de obra = labour costs.
    * dedicación de mano de obra = expenditure of manpower.
    * deducción por donación a obras benéficas = charitable deduction, charitable tax deduction.
    * despedir mano de oba = shed + jobs.
    * despedir mano de obra = axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * donación anual a obras de caridad = charitable gift annuity.
    * escasez de mano de obra = labour shortage.
    * falta de mano de obra = labour shortage.
    * mano de obra = labour [labor, -USA], manpower, manpower force, work-force [workforce], work-force, labour force, manual labour.
    * mano de obra del campo = farm labour force.
    * mano de obra extranjera = foreign labour.
    * mano de obra infantil = child labour.
    * mano de obra inmigrante = foreign labour.
    * obra benéfica = charity, charity.
    * obra benéfica religiosa = parochial charity.
    * obra de beneficiencia = benefaction.
    * obra de romanos = Herculean task, Herculanian task.
    * obras públicas = public works.
    * obras son amores y no buenas razones = actions speak louder than words.
    * permiso de obra = building permit.
    * pie de obra = building site.
    * ponerse manos a la obra = get down to + business, swing into + action.
    * que necesita bastante mano de obra = labour-intensive [labour intensive].
    * ser la obra de = be the work of.
    * todos manos a la obra = all hands on deck, all hands to the pump(s).

    obra2
    2 = item, title, work, stock item, oeuvre.

    Ex: A catalogue is a list of the materials or items in a library, with the entries representing the items arranged in some systematic order.

    Ex: If the title is selected by a book club this helps boost the print-run and overall sales.
    Ex: An authority entry is an entry for which the initial element is the uniform heading for a person, corporate body, or work, as established by the cataloguing agency responsible.
    Ex: A new building will open in 1990, catering for 5 million stock items and 1,000 readers' seats.
    Ex: For about a 3rd of the departments, publications not covered in citation indexes accounted for at least 30 per cent of the citations to their total oeuvre.
    * ARBA (Anuario de Obras de Referencia Americanas) = ARBA (American Reference Books Annual).
    * arte y técnica de escribir obras de teatro = playwriting.
    * autor de obras de teatro = playwright.
    * catálogo de obras completas = back catalogue.
    * catálogo de obras editadas = back catalogue.
    * catálogo de obras musicales = music catalogue.
    * edición de obras científicas = scholarly publishing.
    * edición de obras de consumo = consumer publishing.
    * fotografía de obra de arte = art photograph.
    * lector de obra literaria = literary reader.
    * lectura de obra de teatro en voz alta = play-reading [play reading].
    * lectura de obras literarias = literary reading.
    * música de obra de teatro = stage music.
    * obra amparada por el derecho de autor = copyright work.
    * obra anónima = anonymous work.
    * obra anónima clásica = anonymous classic.
    * obra antigua = ancient work.
    * obra apócrifa = apocryphal work.
    * obra audiovisual = audiovisual work.
    * obra autobiográfica = autobiographical work.
    * obra citada = cited work.
    * obra colectiva = collective work.
    * obra compuesta = composite work.
    * obra de arte = work of art, masterpiece, artistic work, art work, art work.
    * obra de arte musical = musical masterpiece.
    * obra de contenido general = general work.
    * obra de creación literaria = fiction book.
    * obra de creación original = creative work.
    * obra de lectura obligatoria = a must-read.
    * obra de literatura = literary work.
    * obra de referencia = reference book, reference work, finding aid, desk reference, reference resource, work of reference.
    * obra de referencia básica = standard work.
    * obra de referencia estándar = standard reference work.
    * obra de teatro = play, theatrical work.
    * obra de teatro adaptada al cine = theatrical motion picture.
    * obra de teatro dramática = drama-play.
    * obra de teatro infantil = children's play.
    * obra de teatro para niños = children's play.
    * obra dramática = dramatic work.
    * obra en varios volúmenes = multi-volume work.
    * obra fuente de la cita = citing work.
    * obra gráfica = graphic work.
    * obra impresa = printed work.
    * obra literaria = literary work, work of literature, work of imagination.
    * obra literaria simplificada = easy reader book.
    * obra maestra = showpiece, masterpiece.
    * obra maestra de la pintura clásica = old master, old master painting.
    * obra magna = magnum opus.
    * obra multimedia = multimedia work.
    * obra musical = musical work.
    * obra para grupo instrumental = ensemble work.
    * obra piadosa = work of piety.
    * obra pictórica = pictorial work.
    * obra relacionada = related work.
    * obras = life's work.
    * obras completas = collected works, oeuvre.
    * obras de consulta rápida = quick reference material.
    * obras de creación literaria = fiction.
    * obras de ficción = fiction.
    * obras de literatura = literary materials.
    * obras literarias = literature, literary materials.
    * obras no ficción = non-fiction [nonfiction].
    * obras que revelan un escándalo = exposé.
    * obra teatral = theatrical work.
    * original de una obra de arte = art original.
    * parte de una obra = component part.
    * representar una obra = put on + performance, put on + play.

    * * *
    A
    esta escultura es una de sus primeras obras this sculpture is one of her earliest works o pieces
    una obra literaria importante an important literary work
    ésta es una obra menor this is a minor work
    una excelente obra de artesanía an excellent piece of craftsmanship
    la obra cinematográfica de Buñuel Buñuel's films, Buñuel's oeuvre ( frml)
    las obras completas de García Lorca the complete o collected works of García Lorca
    sus obras de teatro or su obra dramática her plays
    2 ( Mús) work, opus
    Compuestos:
    work of art
    reference book, work of reference
    masterpiece, chef d'oeuvre ( frml)
    B
    (acción): ya he hecho mi buena obra del día I reckon I've done my good deed for the day
    por sus obras los conoceréis ( Bib) by their works will you know them
    hizo muchas obras de misericordia she performed many charitable deeds
    ha trabajado incansablemente, todo esto es obra suya she has worked tirelessly, all this is her doing
    esto es obra de Víctor this is Víctor's doing
    piensa que la casa se va a pintar por obra y gracia del Espíritu Santo ( hum); he seems to think the house will paint itself
    ser obra de romanos or de benedictinos to be a huge o mammoth task
    obras son amores que no buenas razones actions speak louder than words
    Compuestos:
    ● obra benéfica or de beneficencia or de caridad
    (acto) charitable act o deed, act of charity; (organización) charity, charitable organization
    (labor filantrópica) benevolent o charitable work; (mutualidad) ( Arg) ≈ benefit society ( in US), ≈ friendly society ( in UK)
    C ( Arquit, Const) (construcción) building work
    la casa aún está en obra the house is still being built, the house is still under construction ( frml)
    perdona el desorden, estamos de or en obras sorry about the mess, we're having some building work done o ( colloq) we've got the builders in
    [ S ] instalación de calefacción sin obra heating systems installed — no building work involved
    [ S ] peligro: obras danger: building o construction work in progress
    [ S ] cerrado por obras closed for repairs/refurbishment
    mano1 (↑ mano (1))
    Compuestos:
    freeboard, dead work ( ant)
    (Col, Méx): el edificio está en obra negra the building is just a shell
    fpl public works (pl)
    fpl ( AmL) roadworks (pl)
    fpl ( Esp) roadworks (pl)
    D (sitio) building o construction site
    E
    la Obra ( Relig) the Opus Dei
    * * *

     

    Del verbo obrar: ( conjugate obrar)

    obra es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    obra    
    obrar
    obra sustantivo femenino
    1 ( creación artística) work;

    una obra de artesanía a piece of craftsmanship;
    sus obras de teatro her plays;
    obra de arte work of art;
    obra maestra masterpiece
    2 ( acción):

    obra benéfica ( acto) act of charity;

    ( organización) charity, charitable organization
    3 (Arquit, Const)


    b) ( sitio) building o construction site

    obrar ( conjugate obrar) verbo intransitivo ( actuar) to act;

    verbo transitivo ‹ milagros› to work
    obra sustantivo femenino
    1 (producto, trabajo) (piece of) work
    obra de arte, work of art
    las obras completas de Baroja, the complete works of Baroja
    este desaguisado es obra de tu hermano, this despicable act was the work of your brother
    2 (acción) deed
    buenas/malas obras, good/bad deeds
    por sus obras los conoceréis, you'll know them by their deeds
    3 Constr building site
    (de la carretera, etc) repairs: la calle mayor está en obras, the main street is being repaired
    Ministerio de Obras Públicas, the Ministry of Works
    4 Teat play
    5 (efecto, resultado) result: todo el proyecto es obra de un esfuerzo colectivo, the project is the result of a joint effort
    ♦ Locuciones: obras son amores y no buenas razones, actions speak louder than words
    obrar
    I verbo intransitivo
    1 (proceder) to act, behave: siento que no he obrado bien, I don't feel I've done the right thing
    2 (hallarse) el testamento obra en mi poder/mis manos..., the will is in my possession
    II vtr (causar) to work

    ' obra' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adaptar
    - albañilería
    - alguna
    - alguno
    - censurar
    - clásica
    - clásico
    - concurso
    - dramatizar
    - encuadrar
    - ensayar
    - espanto
    - esperpéntica
    - esperpéntico
    - estigmatizar
    - éxito
    - faraónica
    - faraónico
    - hecha
    - hecho
    - infame
    - interpretar
    - lema
    - maestra
    - maestro
    - mamarrachada
    - mano
    - notabilidad
    - obrar
    - paralizarse
    - ponderar
    - producir
    - regusto
    - reponer
    - reposición
    - representar
    - restauración
    - señera
    - señero
    - sensiblera
    - sensiblería
    - sensiblero
    - teatral
    - teatro
    - título
    - trabajada
    - trabajado
    - versión
    - ambientación
    - ambientar
    English:
    audition
    - bring off
    - building site
    - charitable
    - chronic
    - classic
    - collection
    - crack
    - creative
    - dinner theater
    - doing
    - downstairs
    - drama
    - effort
    - elaborate
    - enthusiasm
    - flop
    - funnel
    - handiwork
    - hoarding
    - humorous
    - irony
    - labour
    - labour-intensive
    - long
    - manpower
    - masterpiece
    - moderately
    - opening
    - piece
    - play
    - stick in
    - title
    - undermanning
    - whodunit
    - whodunnit
    - work
    - workforce
    - write up
    - writing
    - about
    - appalling
    - building
    - burlesque
    - by
    - credit
    - gang
    - grip
    - hardly
    - invite
    * * *
    obra nf
    1. [trabajo, acción]
    hacer o [m5] realizar una buena obra to do a good deed;
    ya he hecho la buena obra del día I've done my good deed for the day;
    poner algo en obra to put sth into effect;
    por sus obras los conoceréis by their works will you know them;
    es obra suya it's his doing;
    la ruina de las cosechas es obra de la sequía the crops have been ruined as a result of the drought;
    obras son amores y no buenas razones actions speak louder than words
    obra benéfica [institución] charity; [acción, trabajo] charitable deed;
    obra de beneficencia [institución] charity;
    [acción, trabajo] charitable deed;
    obra de caridad [institución] charity;
    [acción, trabajo] charitable deed; Anticuado obra pía charitable institution; Arg obra social benevolent fund;
    obras sociales community work
    2. [creación artística] work;
    [de teatro] play; [de música] work, opus;
    la obra pictórica de Miguel Ángel Michelangelo's paintings;
    una obra de artesanía a piece of craftsmanship
    obra de arte work of art;
    obras completas complete works;
    obra de consulta reference work;
    obra dramática [pieza] play, drama;
    [conjunto] plays, dramatic works;
    obra maestra masterpiece;
    obra menor minor work
    3. [trabajo de construcción] work;
    [reforma doméstica, en local] alteration;
    el ayuntamiento va a empezar una obra en el descampado the council is going to start building on the wasteground;
    vamos a hacer obra o [m5] obras en la cocina we're going to make some alterations to our kitchen;
    toda la calle está en obras there are roadworks all along the road;
    el edificio lleva en obras más de dos meses the work on the building has been going on for over two months;
    cortada por obras [letrero en calle] road closed for repairs;
    cerrado por obras [letrero en restaurante, edificio] closed for refurbishment;
    obras [en carretera] roadworks
    Náut obra muerta freeboard;
    obras públicas public works
    4. [solar en construcción] building site;
    encontró trabajo en una obra he found work on a building site
    5. [trabajo de albañilería]
    un horno de obra a brick oven
    6.
    la Obra the Opus Dei, = traditionalist Roman Catholic organization, whose members include many professional people and public figures
    * * *
    f
    1 work;
    obras completas complete works
    2 ( acción)
    :
    hacer buenas obras do good deeds;
    por obra de thanks to, as a result of;
    poner por o L.Am.
    en obra set in motion;
    ¡manos a la obra! let’s get to work!
    3
    :
    de obra muro, chimenea brick atr
    4
    :
    obras pl de construcción building work sg ; en la vía pública road works
    * * *
    obra nf
    1) : work
    obra de arte: work of art
    obra de teatro: play
    obra de consulta: reference work
    2) : deed
    una buena obra: a good deed
    3) : construction work
    4)
    obra maestra : masterpiece
    5)
    obras públicas : public works
    6)
    por obra de : thanks to, because of
    * * *
    obra n
    1. (artística, literaria) work

    Spanish-English dictionary > obra

  • 57 Filipe I, king

    (1527-1598)
       Known to history usually as Phillip II of Spain, this Spanish monarch was the first king of the Phillipine dynasty in Portugal, or Filipe I. He ruled Portugal and its empire from 1580 to 1598. The son of Carlos V (Charles V) of Spain and the Hapsburg empire and of Queen Isabel of Portugal, Filipe had a strong claim on the throne of Portugal. On the death of Portugal's King Sebastião in battle in Morocco in 1578, Filipe presented his claim and candidacy for the Portuguese throne. In the Cortes of Almeirim (1579), Filipe was officially recognized as king of Portugal by that assembly, which was dominated by the clerical and noble estates. This act, however, did not take into account the feeling of the Portuguese people. A portion of the people supported a Portuguese claimant, the Prior of Crato, and they began to organize armed resistance to the Spanish intrusion. In 1580, Filipe sent a Spanish army across the Portuguese frontier under the Duke of Alba. Both on land and at sea, Spanish forces defeated the Portuguese. At the Cortes of Tomar (1581), Filipe was proclaimed king of Portugal. Before returning to Spain in 1583, Filipe resided in Portugal.
       There were grave consequences for Portugal and its scattered imperial holdings following the Spanish overthrow of Portugal's hard-won independence. Just how bitter these consequences were is reflected in how Portuguese history and literature traditionally term the Spanish takeover as "The Babylonian Captivity." Portugal suffered from the growing decline, decadence, and weaknesses of its Spanish master. Beginning with the destruction of the Spanish Armada (1588), which used Lisbon as its supply and staging point, Spanish rule over Portugal was disastrous. Not only did Spain's inveterate enemies—especially England, France, and Holland—attack continental Portugal as if it were Spain, they also attacked and conquered portions of Portugal's vulnerable, far-flung empire.

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  • 58 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 59 desaparecer

    v.
    1 to disappear.
    me ha desaparecido la pluma my pen has disappeared
    será mejor que desaparezcas de escena durante una temporada you'd better make yourself scarce for a while
    desaparecer de la faz de la tierra to vanish from the face of the earth
    ¡desaparece de mi vista ahora mismo! get out of my sight this minute!
    La tristeza desaparece al amanecer Sadness disappears at dawn.
    Sus dudas desaparecieron His doubts disappeared.
    2 to go missing.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ AGRADECER], like link=agradecer agradecer
    1 (dejar de estar) to disappear
    \
    desaparecer del mapa figurado to vanish off the face of the earth
    hacer desaparecer to cause to disappear, hide 2 (quitar) to get rid of
    * * *
    verb
    to disappear, vanish
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) [persona, objeto] to disappear, go missing

    ¡desaparece de mi vista! — get out of my sight!

    mapa
    2) [mancha, olor, síntoma] to disappear, go (away)
    3) euf (=morir) to pass away
    2.
    VT LAm (Pol) to disappear

    desaparecieron a los disidentes — they disappeared the dissidents, the dissidents were disappeared

    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    a) ( de lugar) to disappear
    b) dolor/síntoma/cicatriz to disappear, go; costumbre to disappear, die out; mancha to come out
    c) ( de la vista) to disappear

    desapareció entre la muchedumbre — he disappeared o vanished into the crowd

    desaparece de mi vista — (fam) get out of my sight

    2.
    desaparecerse v pron (Andes) to disappear
    * * *
    = disappear, disband, fade (away/out), fall into + obscurity, vanish, die out, evaporate, go away, dissolve, pass on, go + missing, sweep away, slip through + the cracks, swallow up, slip from + the scene, go out of + existence, go + the way of the dodo, follow + the dodo, go + the way of the horseless carriage, go + the way of the dinosaur(s), blow away, wither away, drop from + sight, pass away, fizzle out, efface, fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion, go + forever, peter out, skulk off, sneak off, sneak away, go into + hiding, wear off, be all gone.
    Ex. This feature, portability, can be a mixed blessing-things which can be moved have a habit of disappearing.
    Ex. With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex. Trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory.
    Ex. The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
    Ex. She seized her sweater and purse and vanished.
    Ex. These changes accelerated through much of the nineteenth century, with the older material such as the chivalric romance dying out about the 1960s.
    Ex. It is pointless to create interest if it is then allowed to evaporate because the books cannot be obtained.
    Ex. Not surprisingly, the girls went away embarrassed, and the mother, if she was any better informed, was certainly none the wiser.
    Ex. He adjusted himself comfortably in the chair, overlapped his legs, and blew a smoke ring that dissolved two feet above her head.
    Ex. Further, it is true in nature that organisms are born, grow and mature, decline and pass on.
    Ex. This article describes the consequences of a burglary of a during which the desktop system, computer, image setter, and a FAX machine went missing.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. The author discusses the factors which have led to early adolescent services slipping through the cracks.
    Ex. The growing complexity of computing environments requires creative solutions to prevent the gain in productivity promised by computing advances from being swallowed up by the necessity of moving information from one environment to another.
    Ex. With their numbers and their prices, serials in the paper format are as a spring fog slipping from the scene.
    Ex. The volunteer fire companies went out of existence, as did their library associations.
    Ex. Today, all of the early independents have gone the way of the dodo = En la actualidad, todas las empresas independientes originales han desaparecido.
    Ex. It has the choice: to follow the dodo or to rise again like the phoenix.
    Ex. When databases of information (particularly in full text) first became available on the Internet, many users felt that thesauri and subject classifications were no longer needed and would go the way of horseless carriages.
    Ex. The library will have to learn to cope with new technology and even larger amounts of material if it wishes to avoid going the way of the dinosaur.
    Ex. Its prediction that, with the passing of years, the taint of scandal will blow away, looks over-optimistic.
    Ex. He concludes that public libraries will wither away, together with the rights of the individual member of the public to information.
    Ex. The older material, such as the chivalric romances, dropped from sight.
    Ex. These tools are useable for analytical studies of how technologies emerge, mature and pass away.
    Ex. Over the weekend, she started three articles and each one fizzled out for lack of inspiration.
    Ex. The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex. But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
    Ex. The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.
    Ex. Those were the good old days and now they have gone forever.
    Ex. Press demands for information soon petered out but enquiries from the general public continued for many months.
    Ex. Good attendance with 21 people there though a few skulked off without paying!.
    Ex. One of the great joys in life is sneaking off.
    Ex. So I decided to take my chances and sneak away quietly on a day when Fabiola had a group meeting at her lab.
    Ex. The three have been jailed for more than two weeks while a fourth journalist went into hiding after receiving a judicial summons.
    Ex. We're all familiar with the idea of novelty value and how it wears off with time.
    Ex. The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
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    * aparecer y desaparecer = come and go.
    * barreras + desaparecer = boundaries + dissolve.
    * desaparecer de la faz de la tierra = vanish from + the face of the earth, disappear from + the face of the earth.
    * desaparecer en el horizonte cabalgando al atardecer = ride off + into the sunset.
    * desaparecer en la distancia = disappear in + the distance.
    * desaparecer gradualmente = fade into + the sunset.
    * desaparecer las diferencias = blur + distinctions, blur + the lines between, blur + the boundaries between.
    * desaparecer poco a poco = fade into + the sunset.
    * desaparecer sin dejar huella = evaporate into + thin air, vanish into + thin air, disappear into + thin air, disappear without + a trace, disappear into + the blue, vanish into + the blue.
    * desaparecer sin dejar rastro = evaporate into + thin air, vanish into + thin air, disappear into + thin air, disappear without + a trace, disappear into + the blue, vanish into + the blue.
    * desear fuertemente que Algo desaparezca = will + Nombre + away.
    * estar desapareciendo = be on the way out.
    * hacer desaparecer = eradicate, dispel, banish.
    * hacer desaparecer un mito = dispel + myth.
    * hacer mucho tiempo que Algo ha desaparecido = be long gone.
    * límites + desaparecer = boundaries + crumble.
    * problema + desaparecer = problem + go away.
    * que no desaparece = lingering.
    * viejas costumbres nunca desaparecen, las = old ways never die, the.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    a) ( de lugar) to disappear
    b) dolor/síntoma/cicatriz to disappear, go; costumbre to disappear, die out; mancha to come out
    c) ( de la vista) to disappear

    desapareció entre la muchedumbre — he disappeared o vanished into the crowd

    desaparece de mi vista — (fam) get out of my sight

    2.
    desaparecerse v pron (Andes) to disappear
    * * *
    = disappear, disband, fade (away/out), fall into + obscurity, vanish, die out, evaporate, go away, dissolve, pass on, go + missing, sweep away, slip through + the cracks, swallow up, slip from + the scene, go out of + existence, go + the way of the dodo, follow + the dodo, go + the way of the horseless carriage, go + the way of the dinosaur(s), blow away, wither away, drop from + sight, pass away, fizzle out, efface, fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion, go + forever, peter out, skulk off, sneak off, sneak away, go into + hiding, wear off, be all gone.

    Ex: This feature, portability, can be a mixed blessing-things which can be moved have a habit of disappearing.

    Ex: With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex: Trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory.
    Ex: The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
    Ex: She seized her sweater and purse and vanished.
    Ex: These changes accelerated through much of the nineteenth century, with the older material such as the chivalric romance dying out about the 1960s.
    Ex: It is pointless to create interest if it is then allowed to evaporate because the books cannot be obtained.
    Ex: Not surprisingly, the girls went away embarrassed, and the mother, if she was any better informed, was certainly none the wiser.
    Ex: He adjusted himself comfortably in the chair, overlapped his legs, and blew a smoke ring that dissolved two feet above her head.
    Ex: Further, it is true in nature that organisms are born, grow and mature, decline and pass on.
    Ex: This article describes the consequences of a burglary of a during which the desktop system, computer, image setter, and a FAX machine went missing.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: The author discusses the factors which have led to early adolescent services slipping through the cracks.
    Ex: The growing complexity of computing environments requires creative solutions to prevent the gain in productivity promised by computing advances from being swallowed up by the necessity of moving information from one environment to another.
    Ex: With their numbers and their prices, serials in the paper format are as a spring fog slipping from the scene.
    Ex: The volunteer fire companies went out of existence, as did their library associations.
    Ex: Today, all of the early independents have gone the way of the dodo = En la actualidad, todas las empresas independientes originales han desaparecido.
    Ex: It has the choice: to follow the dodo or to rise again like the phoenix.
    Ex: When databases of information (particularly in full text) first became available on the Internet, many users felt that thesauri and subject classifications were no longer needed and would go the way of horseless carriages.
    Ex: The library will have to learn to cope with new technology and even larger amounts of material if it wishes to avoid going the way of the dinosaur.
    Ex: Its prediction that, with the passing of years, the taint of scandal will blow away, looks over-optimistic.
    Ex: He concludes that public libraries will wither away, together with the rights of the individual member of the public to information.
    Ex: The older material, such as the chivalric romances, dropped from sight.
    Ex: These tools are useable for analytical studies of how technologies emerge, mature and pass away.
    Ex: Over the weekend, she started three articles and each one fizzled out for lack of inspiration.
    Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex: But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
    Ex: The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.
    Ex: Those were the good old days and now they have gone forever.
    Ex: Press demands for information soon petered out but enquiries from the general public continued for many months.
    Ex: Good attendance with 21 people there though a few skulked off without paying!.
    Ex: One of the great joys in life is sneaking off.
    Ex: So I decided to take my chances and sneak away quietly on a day when Fabiola had a group meeting at her lab.
    Ex: The three have been jailed for more than two weeks while a fourth journalist went into hiding after receiving a judicial summons.
    Ex: We're all familiar with the idea of novelty value and how it wears off with time.
    Ex: The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
    * aparecer y desaparecer = come and go.
    * barreras + desaparecer = boundaries + dissolve.
    * desaparecer de la faz de la tierra = vanish from + the face of the earth, disappear from + the face of the earth.
    * desaparecer en el horizonte cabalgando al atardecer = ride off + into the sunset.
    * desaparecer en la distancia = disappear in + the distance.
    * desaparecer gradualmente = fade into + the sunset.
    * desaparecer las diferencias = blur + distinctions, blur + the lines between, blur + the boundaries between.
    * desaparecer poco a poco = fade into + the sunset.
    * desaparecer sin dejar huella = evaporate into + thin air, vanish into + thin air, disappear into + thin air, disappear without + a trace, disappear into + the blue, vanish into + the blue.
    * desaparecer sin dejar rastro = evaporate into + thin air, vanish into + thin air, disappear into + thin air, disappear without + a trace, disappear into + the blue, vanish into + the blue.
    * desear fuertemente que Algo desaparezca = will + Nombre + away.
    * estar desapareciendo = be on the way out.
    * hacer desaparecer = eradicate, dispel, banish.
    * hacer desaparecer un mito = dispel + myth.
    * hacer mucho tiempo que Algo ha desaparecido = be long gone.
    * límites + desaparecer = boundaries + crumble.
    * problema + desaparecer = problem + go away.
    * que no desaparece = lingering.
    * viejas costumbres nunca desaparecen, las = old ways never die, the.

    * * *
    vi
    1 (de un lugar) to disappear
    desapareció sin dejar huella he disappeared o vanished without trace, he did a vanishing trick o a disappearing act ( hum)
    hizo desaparecer el sombrero ante sus ojos he made the hat disappear o vanish before their very eyes
    en esta oficina las cosas tienden a desaparecer things tend to disappear o go missing in this office
    2 «dolor/síntoma» to disappear; «cicatriz» to disappear, go; «costumbre» to disappear, die out
    lo dejé en remojo y la mancha desapareció I left it to soak and the stain came out
    tenía que hacer desaparecer las pruebas he had to get rid of the evidence
    3 (de la vista) to disappear
    el sol desapareció detrás de una nube the sun disappeared o went behind a cloud
    el ladrón desapareció entre la muchedumbre the thief disappeared o vanished into the crowd
    desaparece de mi vista antes de que te pegue ( fam); get out of my sight before I wallop you ( colloq)
    1 (de un lugar) to disappear
    se desaparecieron mis gafas my glasses have disappeared
    2 (de la vista) to disappear
    * * *

     

    desaparecer ( conjugate desaparecer) verbo intransitivo [persona/objeto] to disappear;
    [dolor/síntoma/cicatriz] to disappear, go;
    [ costumbre] to disappear, die out;
    [ mancha] to come out
    desaparecerse verbo pronominal (Andes) to disappear
    desaparecer verbo intransitivo to disappear: me ha desaparecido la cartera, I can't find my wallet
    el sol desapareció detrás de las nubes, the sun vanished behind the clouds
    ♦ Locuciones: desaparecer del mapa/de la faz de la tierra, to vanish off the face of the earth
    ' desaparecer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    confundirse
    - disipar
    - escabullirse
    - lance
    - magia
    - mapa
    - obliterar
    - perderse
    - volar
    - volatilizarse
    - camino
    - comer
    - ir
    - pasar
    - quitar
    - sacar
    English:
    disappear
    - dissipate
    - linger
    - lost
    - magic away
    - melt away
    - sink away
    - trace
    - vanish
    - face
    - melt
    - missing
    * * *
    ♦ vi
    1. [de la vista] to disappear (de from);
    desapareció tras las colinas it dropped out of sight behind the hills;
    me ha desaparecido la pluma my pen has disappeared;
    hizo desaparecer una paloma y un conejo he made a dove and a rabbit vanish;
    será mejor que desaparezcas de escena durante una temporada you'd better make yourself scarce for a while;
    desaparecer de la faz de la tierra to vanish from the face of the earth;
    ¡desaparece de mi vista ahora mismo! get out of my sight this minute!
    2. [dolor, síntomas, mancha] to disappear, to go;
    [cicatriz] to disappear; [sarpullido] to clear up
    3. [en guerra, accidente] to go missing, to disappear;
    muchos desaparecieron durante la represión many people disappeared during the crackdown
    ♦ vt
    Am [persona] = to detain extrajudicially during political repression and possibly kill
    * * *
    I v/i disappear, vanish
    II v/t L.Am.
    disappear fam, make disappear
    * * *
    desaparecer {53} vt
    : to cause to disappear
    : to disappear, to vanish
    * * *
    desaparecer vb to disappear

    Spanish-English dictionary > desaparecer

  • 60 desvanecerse

    1 (disiparse) to disperse, clear
    2 figurado (desaparecer) to vanish, disappear; (recuerdos) to fade
    3 figurado (demayarse) to faint
    * * *
    2) fade
    * * *
    VPR
    1) (=desaparecer) [humo, niebla] to clear, disperse; [recuerdo, sonido] to fade, fade away; [duda] to be dispelled
    2) (Med) to faint
    3) (Quím) to evaporate
    * * *
    = fade (away/out), fall into + obscurity, fall out, perish, vanish, evaporate, dissolve, wither, banish, blow away, fizzle out, etherealise [etherealize, -USA], fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion, disappear into + the blue, vanish into + the blue, wear off.
    Ex. Trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory.
    Ex. The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
    Ex. So when the 1908 ALA rules superseded Cutter's rules, the whole provision for bringing together editions fell out, and we didn't have them until the AACR.
    Ex. A data base must respond to a dynamic reality in which terms, 'strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still'.
    Ex. She seized her sweater and purse and vanished.
    Ex. It is pointless to create interest if it is then allowed to evaporate because the books cannot be obtained.
    Ex. He adjusted himself comfortably in the chair, overlapped his legs, and blew a smoke ring that dissolved two feet above her head.
    Ex. The article 'Whither libraries? or, wither libraries' urges the profession to seriously consider its role in an electronic society.
    Ex. Microcomputers sets the stage for an interactive environment that can banish the 'master-slave' architecture of television and its progeny, the culture of passivity.
    Ex. Its prediction that, with the passing of years, the taint of scandal will blow away, looks over-optimistic.
    Ex. Over the weekend, she started three articles and each one fizzled out for lack of inspiration.
    Ex. The entire hardware of Western industrialism has been obsolesced and ' etherealized' by the new surround of electronic information services.
    Ex. But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
    Ex. The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.
    Ex. We're all puzzled by the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle where hundreds of boats and planes have disappeared into the blue leaving no trace at all.
    Ex. All about the plane round puffs of white smoke suddenly appeared, broke, and vanished into the blue.
    Ex. We're all familiar with the idea of novelty value and how it wears off with time.
    ----
    * desvanecerse la luz = light + fail.
    * * *
    = fade (away/out), fall into + obscurity, fall out, perish, vanish, evaporate, dissolve, wither, banish, blow away, fizzle out, etherealise [etherealize, -USA], fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion, disappear into + the blue, vanish into + the blue, wear off.

    Ex: Trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory.

    Ex: The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
    Ex: So when the 1908 ALA rules superseded Cutter's rules, the whole provision for bringing together editions fell out, and we didn't have them until the AACR.
    Ex: A data base must respond to a dynamic reality in which terms, 'strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still'.
    Ex: She seized her sweater and purse and vanished.
    Ex: It is pointless to create interest if it is then allowed to evaporate because the books cannot be obtained.
    Ex: He adjusted himself comfortably in the chair, overlapped his legs, and blew a smoke ring that dissolved two feet above her head.
    Ex: The article 'Whither libraries? or, wither libraries' urges the profession to seriously consider its role in an electronic society.
    Ex: Microcomputers sets the stage for an interactive environment that can banish the 'master-slave' architecture of television and its progeny, the culture of passivity.
    Ex: Its prediction that, with the passing of years, the taint of scandal will blow away, looks over-optimistic.
    Ex: Over the weekend, she started three articles and each one fizzled out for lack of inspiration.
    Ex: The entire hardware of Western industrialism has been obsolesced and ' etherealized' by the new surround of electronic information services.
    Ex: But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
    Ex: The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.
    Ex: We're all puzzled by the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle where hundreds of boats and planes have disappeared into the blue leaving no trace at all.
    Ex: All about the plane round puffs of white smoke suddenly appeared, broke, and vanished into the blue.
    Ex: We're all familiar with the idea of novelty value and how it wears off with time.
    * desvanecerse la luz = light + fail.

    * * *

    desvanecerse ( conjugate desvanecerse) verbo pronominal
    a) [humo/nubes/niebla] to clear, disperse;

    [dudas/temores/sospechas] to vanish, be dispelled;
    [fantasma/visión] to disappear, vanish

    desvanecerse verbo reflexivo
    1 (un recuerdo, una imagen, duda) to vanish, fade
    (la niebla) to clear
    2 (perder el conocimiento) to faint
    ' desvanecerse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    disiparse
    English:
    evaporate
    - recede
    - disappear
    - dissipate
    - fade
    - melt
    - swoon
    - window
    * * *
    vpr
    1. [desmayarse] to faint;
    caer desvanecido to fall in a faint, to faint;
    yacía desvanecido en el pavimento he lay unconscious in the road
    2. [humo, nubes] to clear, to disappear;
    [perfil, figura] to become blurred; [colores] to fade; [sonido, olor] to fade away;
    su imagen se desvanece y en la pantalla vemos un paisaje her image fades out and we see a country scene
    3. [sospechas, temores] to be dispelled;
    [esperanzas] to be dashed; [recuerdos] to fade;
    * * *
    v/r
    1 de niebla disperse;
    desvanecerse en el aire vanish into thin air
    2 MED faint
    * * *
    vr
    1) : to vanish, to disappear
    2) : to fade
    3) desmayarse: to faint, to swoon

    Spanish-English dictionary > desvanecerse

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