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  • 1 desencadenar

    v.
    1 to unchain (preso, perro).
    Ricardo desencadenó al perro Richard unchained the dog.
    2 to give rise to, to spark off.
    la medida desencadenó fuertes protestas the measure provoked furious protests
    3 to trigger, to detonate, to activate, to provoke.
    Su actitud desencadenó un pleito Her attitude triggered the fight.
    * * *
    1 (quitar la cadena) to unchain
    2 (pasiones) to unleash
    3 figurado (producir) to spark off, give rise to
    1 (desatarse) to break loose
    2 (guerra) to break out
    3 (acontecimientos) to start
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=quitar las cadenas de) [+ prisionero] to unchain; [+ perro] to unleash
    2) (=desatar) [+ ira] to unleash; [+ crisis] to trigger, set off
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <crisis/protesta/reacción> to trigger
    b) < perro> to unleash, let... off the leash; < preso> to unchain, unshackle
    2.
    desencadenarse v pron explosión/reacción to be triggered off; guerra to break out; tempestad to break
    * * *
    = spark off, trigger, spark, unleash, touch off, set off.
    Ex. Like the librarians and the bookshop staff, the club members are catalysts who spark off that fission which will spread from child to child an awareness of books and the habit of reading them.
    Ex. Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex. The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex. The economic climate of the 1980s, unleashing competitive forces and threatening the survival of some institutions, has had a major impact on both hospitals and academic health centres.
    Ex. This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.
    Ex. The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <crisis/protesta/reacción> to trigger
    b) < perro> to unleash, let... off the leash; < preso> to unchain, unshackle
    2.
    desencadenarse v pron explosión/reacción to be triggered off; guerra to break out; tempestad to break
    * * *
    = spark off, trigger, spark, unleash, touch off, set off.

    Ex: Like the librarians and the bookshop staff, the club members are catalysts who spark off that fission which will spread from child to child an awareness of books and the habit of reading them.

    Ex: Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex: The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex: The economic climate of the 1980s, unleashing competitive forces and threatening the survival of some institutions, has had a major impact on both hospitals and academic health centres.
    Ex: This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.
    Ex: The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.

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    vt
    1 ‹crisis/protesta› to trigger
    la matanza desencadenó una ola de protestas the killings triggered o unleashed a wave of protest
    2 ‹explosión/reacción› to trigger
    3 ‹perro› to unleash, let … off the leash; ‹preso› to unchain, unshackle
    «explosión/reacción» to be triggered off; «guerra» to break out; «crisis» to break
    se desencadenó una ola de protestas a storm of protests erupted, it provoked a storm of protests
    * * *

    desencadenar ( conjugate desencadenar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹crisis/protesta/reacción› to trigger

    b) ‹ perro› to unleash;

    ‹ preso› to unchain
    desencadenarse verbo pronominal [explosión/reacción] to be triggered off;
    [ guerra] to break out;
    [ tempestad] to break
    desencadenar verbo transitivo
    1 to unchain
    2 (producir, dar lugar) to unleash
    ' desencadenar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desatar
    English:
    set off
    - start
    - touch off
    - trigger
    - unleash
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    ♦ vt
    1. [preso, perro] to unchain
    2. [viento, tormenta] to unleash
    3. [accidente, polémica] to give rise to;
    [pasión] to unleash; [conflicto] to trigger, to spark off;
    la medida desencadenó fuertes protestas the measure triggered furious protests
    * * *
    v/t fig
    set off, trigger
    * * *
    1) : to unchain
    2) : to trigger, to unleash

    Spanish-English dictionary > desencadenar

  • 2 innescare

    innescare v.tr.
    1 (pesca) to bait
    2 (tecn.) to prime: innescare una mina, to prime a mine; innescare una pompa, to prime a pump
    3 (fis., chim.) to trigger: innescare una reazione a catena, to trigger a chain reaction // (elettr.) innescare un arco elettrico, to strike an electric arc.
    ◘ innescarsi v.intr.pron.
    1 to start, to get* under way well
    2 (elettr.) to strike*.
    * * *
    [innes'kare] 1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) (munire di innesco) to prime [ bomba]
    2) fig. (suscitare) to trigger (off) [ polemica]; to spark (off) [ reazione]
    2.
    verbo pronominale innescarsi [ polemica] to be* triggered (off); [ reazione] to be* sparked (off)
    * * *
    innescare
    /innes'kare/ [1]
     1 (munire di innesco) to prime [ bomba]
     2 fig. (suscitare) to trigger (off) [ polemica]; to spark (off) [ reazione]
    II innescarsi verbo pronominale
     [ polemica] to be* triggered (off); [ reazione] to be* sparked (off).

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > innescare

  • 3 desencadenante

    adj.
    triggering.
    m.
    trigger.
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    1.
    ADJ
    2.
    SM cause, trigger
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    el factor desencadenante de la revuelta the factor that sparked off o triggered the uprising
    trigger, cause
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    los factores desencadenantes de… the factors which brought about…
    ♦ nm
    el desencadenante de la tragedia/guerra what brought about the tragedy/war
    * * *
    I adj
    :
    II m fig
    trigger

    Spanish-English dictionary > desencadenante

  • 4 déclencher

    déclencher [deklɑ̃∫e]
    ➭ TABLE 1
    1. transitive verb
       a. [+ ressort, mécanisme] to release ; [+ sonnerie, alarme] to set off
       b. ( = provoquer) [+ insurrection] to start ; [+ catastrophe, guerre, crise, processus, polémique] to trigger off ; [+ accouchement] to induce
    • déclencher une grève [meneur] to start a strike ; [incident] to trigger off a strike
       c. (Military) [+ attaque] to launch
    2. reflexive verb
    ► se déclencher [ressort, mécanisme] to release itself ; [sonnerie, alarme] to go off ; [attaque, grève] to start
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    deklɑ̃ʃe
    1.
    1) ( entraîner) to spark (off) [protestation]; to prompt [décision]; to cause [réaction, explosion]; to start [avalanche]; to lead to [larmes]
    2) ( commencer) to launch [offensive]; to begin [hostilités]; to start [grève, polémique]
    3) ( actionner) to set off [mécanisme]
    4) Informatique to initiate [opération]

    2.
    se déclencher verbe pronominal
    1) ( se mettre en marche) [alarme] to go off; [signal, mécanisme] to be activated
    2) ( commencer) [douleur, réaction, contractions] to start; [grève, guerre] to break out; [opération] to begin
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    deklɑ̃ʃe vt
    1) [mécanisme, pièce] to release, [sonnerie, dispositif] to set off, to activate
    2) (= commencer) [attaque, grève] to launch
    3) (= provoquer) to trigger
    * * *
    déclencher verb table: aimer
    A vtr
    1 ( actionner) to set off [alarme, mécanisme]; to cause [explosion, orgasme]; to start [avalanche];
    2 Ordinat to initiate [opération];
    3 ( commencer) to launch [offensive]; to begin [hostilités]; to start [grève, polémique];
    4 ( entraîner) [nouvelle, décision, événement] to spark (off) [protestation, crise]; to produce [réaction]; to prompt [action, décision]; [médicament, manque] to cause [réaction, crise]; [dispute, discussion] to lead to [colère, larmes]; to cause [drame]; la déclaration n'a déclenché aucune réaction the statement produced no reaction; déclencher les larmes de qn to make sb burst into tears; déclencher un éclat de rire général to provoke general laughter.
    1 ( se mettre en marche) [alarme] to go off; [signal, mécanisme] to be activated; la sirène se déclenche automatiquement the alarm goes off automatically;
    2 ( commencer) [douleur, réaction, contractions] to start; [grève, guerre] to break out; [crise, opération, offensive] to begin.
    [deklɑ̃ʃe] verbe transitif
    1. [provoquer - attaque] to launch ; [ - révolte, conflit] to trigger (off), to bring about (separable) ; [ - grève, émeute, rires] to trigger ou to spark off (separable)
    2. TECHNOLOGIE [mettre en marche - mécanisme, minuterie] to trigger, to activate ; [ - sonnerie, alarme] to set off (separable)
    ————————
    se déclencher verbe pronominal intransitif
    1. [commencer - douleur, incendie] to start
    2. [se mettre en marche - sirène, sonnerie, bombe] to go off ; [ - mécanisme] to be triggered off ou released

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > déclencher

  • 5 auslösen

    v/t (trennb., hat -ge-) draw lots (Am. straws) for; den Gewinner auslosen draw lots (Am. straws) to decide the winner ( oder who wins)
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    to draw lots for
    * * *
    aus|lo|sen
    vt sep
    to draw lots for; Preis, Gewinner to draw

    es wurde ausgelost, wer beginnt — lots were drawn to see who would start

    * * *
    1) (to put into force or operation: The smoke activated the fire alarms.) activate
    2) ((often with off) to start( a series of events): The attack triggered (off) a full-scale war.) trigger
    3) ((often with off) to start (a row, disagreement etc): Their action sparked off a major row.) spark
    4) (to make (something) explode: a spark touched off the gunpowder; His remark touched off an argument.) touch off
    * * *
    aus|lo·sen
    I. vt
    ▪ jdn/etw \auslosen to draw sb/sth
    ▪ ausgelost werden to be drawn; (mit Strohhalmen u.ä.) to draw lots
    II. vi to draw lots
    ▪ \auslosen/es wurde ausgelost, wer etw tut to draw lots/lots were drawn as to [or to see] who does sth
    ▪ ausgelost werden to be drawn by lot
    * * *

    es wurde ausgelost, wer beginnt — lots were drawn to decide who would start

    * * *
    auslösen v/t (trennb, hat -ge-)
    1. (chemische Reaktion, physikalischen Vorgang etc) set off; (Streik, Krieg etc) trigger off, spark off; (Krankheit) bring on; (Gefühl, Reaktion) cause, touch off; (Begeisterung, Wut) arouse;
    das auslösende Moment the decisive moment;
    großen Beifall auslösen draw loud applause;
    es löste allgemeine Heiterkeit aus it gave everyone a (good) laugh, it caused great mirth geh
    2. (Mechanismus, auch Kameraverschluss) release; (Alarm, Schuss) trigger (off)
    3. (Knochen) take out (
    aus of)
    4. (Gefangene, Geiseln) release; (Pfand) redeem
    * * *

    es wurde ausgelost, wer beginnt — lots were drawn to decide who would start

    * * *
    -ungen n.
    triggering n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > auslösen

  • 6 auslosen

    v/t (trennb., hat -ge-) draw lots (Am. straws) for; den Gewinner auslosen draw lots (Am. straws) to decide the winner ( oder who wins)
    * * *
    to draw lots for
    * * *
    aus|lo|sen
    vt sep
    to draw lots for; Preis, Gewinner to draw

    es wurde ausgelost, wer beginnt — lots were drawn to see who would start

    * * *
    1) (to put into force or operation: The smoke activated the fire alarms.) activate
    2) ((often with off) to start( a series of events): The attack triggered (off) a full-scale war.) trigger
    3) ((often with off) to start (a row, disagreement etc): Their action sparked off a major row.) spark
    4) (to make (something) explode: a spark touched off the gunpowder; His remark touched off an argument.) touch off
    * * *
    aus|lo·sen
    I. vt
    ▪ jdn/etw \auslosen to draw sb/sth
    ▪ ausgelost werden to be drawn; (mit Strohhalmen u.ä.) to draw lots
    II. vi to draw lots
    ▪ \auslosen/es wurde ausgelost, wer etw tut to draw lots/lots were drawn as to [or to see] who does sth
    ▪ ausgelost werden to be drawn by lot
    * * *

    es wurde ausgelost, wer beginnt — lots were drawn to decide who would start

    * * *
    auslosen v/t (trennb, hat -ge-) draw lots (US straws) for;
    den Gewinner auslosen draw lots (US straws) to decide the winner ( oder who wins)
    * * *

    es wurde ausgelost, wer beginnt — lots were drawn to decide who would start

    * * *
    -ungen n.
    triggering n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > auslosen

  • 7 wyzwalać

    impf ⇒ wyzwolić
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    (-am, -asz); perf; wyzwolić; vt
    to release; (kraj, więźniów) to liberate
    * * *
    ipf.
    1. (= oswobadzać) liberate (od l. spod czegoś from sth); ( niewolników) enfranchise, manumit; (w sensie politycznym l. obyczajowym) emancipate (od l. spod czegoś from sth).
    2. (= przywracać swobodę ruchów) release.
    3. (= wywołać jakieś działanie) trigger off, spark off, release.
    4. chem., fiz. release; (zwł. gaz) liberate.
    ipf.
    1. (= odzyskiwać wolność) be liberated, free o.s.; wyzwolić się spod jarzma niewoli shake off the yoke of slavery.
    2. (= odzyskiwać swobodę ruchów) extricate o.s. (e.g. from bonds, embraces, etc.), be released.
    3. (= gwałtownie się ujawniać) be triggered off, be sparked off.
    4. chem., fiz. be released; (zwł. o gazie) be liberated.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > wyzwalać

  • 8 вызванный

    1) General subject: generated
    2) Medicine: associated, induced
    4) Mathematics: caused by, caused by. summoned, due (to), summoned
    5) Railway term: called
    6) Law: occasioned (by - чем: e.g.: cost increase occasioned by any Force Majeure Event)
    7) Psychology: providential
    8) Physics: sympathetic
    9) Oil: brought on
    10) Psychoanalysis: physiurgic
    11) Makarov: associated (заболеванием), attributable (to), brought about (by), due, due to, produced, through
    12) SAP.tech. accessed, caused, entailed, fetched, triggered

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > вызванный

  • 9 провоцировать

    нсв/св vt; см св спровоцировать -
    на что-л to provoke into sth/to do sth; организовывать to engineer; вызывать to trigger (off)

    несправедли́вый пригово́р спровоци́ровал вспы́шки наси́лия в ра́зных частя́х страны́ — the unjust sentence triggered off/provoked violence across the country

    Русско-английский учебный словарь > провоцировать

  • 10 trigger

    [ˈtrɪgə]
    1. noun
    1) a small lever on a gun, which is pulled to make the gun fire:

    He aimed the rifle at her but did not pull the trigger.

    زِناد المُسَدَّس
    2) anything which starts a series of actions or reactions.
    أداة القَدْح أو الأطلاق، مُطْلِق
    2. verb
    ( often with off) to start (a series of events):

    The attack triggered (off) a full-scale war.

    يَبدأ، يُطْلِق، يُشْعِل

    Arabic-English dictionary > trigger

  • 11 madeleine

    madeleine [madlεn]
    feminine noun
    * * *
    madlɛn
    nom féminin madeleine
    ••
    * * *
    madlɛn
    * * *
    madeleine nf madeleine.
    [madlɛn] nom féminin
    pour moi, ce fut (comme) la madeleine de Proust it triggered off (all) my old memories, it brought back (a flood of) old memories
    2. [cépage] madeleine (vine ripening early, around St Mary Magdalene's Day, 22nd July)

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > madeleine

  • 12 desactivarse

    • be triggered off
    • become deactivated
    • become inactivated

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > desactivarse

  • 13 kapusukan

    easily triggered off, temerity, ardency, fervor

    Tagalog-English dictionary > kapusukan

  • 14 detonante

    adj.
    1 explosive.
    2 detonating, explosive.
    m.
    1 explosive (explosive).
    2 detonator, blasting cap, exploder, fulminant.
    * * *
    1 detonating, explosive
    1 detonator
    2 figurado trigger
    * * *
    1.
    2. SM
    1) (=explosivo) explosive
    2) (=causa) trigger (de for)
    * * *
    masculino ( explosivo) explosive; ( causa)

    el detonante de la protesta — what sparked off o triggered the protest

    * * *
    Ex. They will however always have some kind of springboard or trigger which has led to their question, and we can work forwards from this.
    * * *
    masculino ( explosivo) explosive; ( causa)

    el detonante de la protesta — what sparked off o triggered the protest

    * * *

    Ex: They will however always have some kind of springboard or trigger which has led to their question, and we can work forwards from this.

    * * *
    1 ‹mezcla› explosive
    2 ‹efecto› explosive
    1 (explosivo) explosive
    2
    (causa): el detonante que provocó las protestas what sparked off o triggered the protests, the trigger which sparked off the protests
    * * *

    detonante sustantivo masculino
    1 (de una bomba) detonator
    2 (de una situación) trigger: la manifestación fue el detonante de su dimisión, the demonstration triggered his resignation
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    explosive
    ♦ nm
    1. [explosivo] explosive
    2. [catalizador] trigger;
    la subida de los precios del pan fue el detonante de la revuelta the rise in bread prices was what sparked off o triggered the riot
    * * *
    I adj explosive
    II m explosive; fig
    trigger
    * * *
    : detonating, explosive
    1) detonador: catalyst, cause

    Spanish-English dictionary > detonante

  • 15 desatar

    v.
    1 to untie (nudo, lazo).
    Elsa desató los zapatos del chico Elsa untied the boy's shoes.
    2 to unleash.
    Su mala actitud desató la furia His bad attitude unleashed the fury.
    * * *
    1 (soltar - gen) to untie, undo, unfasten; (- perro etc) to let loose
    2 figurado (desencadenar) to spark off, give rise to; (pasiones) to unleash
    1 (soltarse) to come untied, come undone, come unfastened
    2 figurado (desencadenarse) to break, explode
    \
    desatarse en to lash out with
    desatarse la lengua to loosen one's tongue
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    verb
    1) to untie, undo
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ nudo, cuerda, cordones] to untie, undo

    desátate los zapatos — untie o undo your shoelaces

    desata el paquete y saca el regalo — untie o undo the parcel and take out the present

    2) (=desencadenar) [+ guerra, crisis] to trigger, spark (off); [+ sentimiento, pasión] to unleash
    3) (=disolver) to dissolve
    4) †
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <nudo/lazo> to untie, undo
    b) < persona> to untie; < perro> to let... loose, let... off the leash
    a) (liter) <cólera/pasiones> to unleash
    b) <crisis/revuelta> to spark off; < polémica> to provoke, give rise to
    2.
    desatarse v pron
    1)
    a) nudo/cordones to come undone o untied; perro/caballo to get loose
    b) (refl) persona to untie oneself; <cordones/zapatos> to untie, undo
    a) (liter) pasiones/ira/furia to be unleashed
    b) polémica/crisis to erupt, flare up; revuelta to break out
    c) tormenta/temporal to break
    * * *
    = undo, spark, unleash, unwind, set off, untie.
    Ex. The National Library of Estonia, established in 1918, is undergoing a revolutionary period of undoing the effects of the cultural policies of the communist regime.
    Ex. The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex. The economic climate of the 1980s, unleashing competitive forces and threatening the survival of some institutions, has had a major impact on both hospitals and academic health centres.
    Ex. Short wedges, or quoins, were then put in between the long wedges and the inside of the chase, loosely at first so that the string with which the pages were tied up could be unwound and removed.
    Ex. The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
    Ex. Bridling a horse safely starts with untying the horse.
    ----
    * desatarse = come + undone, come + loose.
    * desatar una crisis = precipitate + crisis, precipitate + crisis.
    * desatar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * desatar un nudo = untie + knot.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <nudo/lazo> to untie, undo
    b) < persona> to untie; < perro> to let... loose, let... off the leash
    a) (liter) <cólera/pasiones> to unleash
    b) <crisis/revuelta> to spark off; < polémica> to provoke, give rise to
    2.
    desatarse v pron
    1)
    a) nudo/cordones to come undone o untied; perro/caballo to get loose
    b) (refl) persona to untie oneself; <cordones/zapatos> to untie, undo
    a) (liter) pasiones/ira/furia to be unleashed
    b) polémica/crisis to erupt, flare up; revuelta to break out
    c) tormenta/temporal to break
    * * *
    = undo, spark, unleash, unwind, set off, untie.

    Ex: The National Library of Estonia, established in 1918, is undergoing a revolutionary period of undoing the effects of the cultural policies of the communist regime.

    Ex: The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex: The economic climate of the 1980s, unleashing competitive forces and threatening the survival of some institutions, has had a major impact on both hospitals and academic health centres.
    Ex: Short wedges, or quoins, were then put in between the long wedges and the inside of the chase, loosely at first so that the string with which the pages were tied up could be unwound and removed.
    Ex: The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
    Ex: Bridling a horse safely starts with untying the horse.
    * desatarse = come + undone, come + loose.
    * desatar una crisis = precipitate + crisis, precipitate + crisis.
    * desatar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * desatar un nudo = untie + knot.

    * * *
    desatar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹nudo/lazo› to untie, undo
    2 ‹persona› to untie; ‹perro› to let … loose, let … off the leash
    1 ( liter); ‹cólera/pasiones› to unleash
    2 ‹crisis› to spark off, trigger, precipitate ( frml); ‹revuelta› to cause, spark off; ‹polémica› to provoke, give rise to
    han desatado una campaña de ataques contra ella they have launched a campaign of attacks against her
    A
    1 «nudo/lazo/cordones» to come undone o untied; «perro/caballo» to get loose
    2 ( refl) «persona» to untie oneself
    3 ( refl) «persona» ‹cordones/zapatos› to untie, undo
    1 ( liter); ‹pasiones/ira/furia› to be unleashed, be let loose
    los nervios se desataron tempers flared
    2
    «persona»: se desató en insultos contra nosotros he let fly at us with a string of insults
    3 «polémica/crisis» to erupt, flare up; «revuelta» to break out
    una ola de violencia se ha desatado en todo el país a wave of violence has broken out throughout the country
    4 «tormenta/temporal» to break
    * * *

    desatar ( conjugate desatar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹nudo/lazo› to untie, undo

    b) ‹ persona› to untie;

    ‹ perro› to let … loose
    desatarse verbo pronominal
    a) [nudo/cordones] to come undone o untied;

    [perro/caballo] to get loose

    ‹cordones/zapatos› to untie, undo
    desatar verbo transitivo
    1 to untie, undo
    2 (provocar, desencadenar) to unleash: la medida desató la indignación de los trabajadores, the measure drove the workers to a state of indignation
    ' desatar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    soltar
    English:
    draw out
    - loosen
    - spark off
    - unfasten
    - unleash
    - untie
    - loose
    - undo
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [nudo, lazo] to untie;
    [paquete] to undo
    2. [animal] to unleash;
    [persona] to untie
    3. [tormenta, ira, pasión] to unleash;
    [entusiasmo] to arouse; [motín, disturbios, protestas] to spark off, to trigger; [lengua] to loosen;
    la decisión desató una ola de manifestaciones the decision set off o triggered a wave of demonstrations;
    su dimisión desató la crisis de gobierno his resignation triggered o precipitated the governmental crisis
    * * *
    v/t untie; fig
    unleash
    * * *
    1) : to undo, to untie
    2) : to unleash
    3) : to trigger, to precipitate
    * * *
    1. (persona, cuerda, cordones) to untie
    2. (paquete, nudo, lazo) to undo [pt. undid; pp. undone]
    3. (perro) to let off the lead [pt. & pp. let]

    Spanish-English dictionary > desatar

  • 16 provocar

    v.
    1 to provoke.
    El golpe provocó su muerte The blow brought about her death.
    Sus comentarios provocaron al borracho His comments provoked the drunk.
    2 to cause, to bring about (causar) (accidente, muerte).
    provocar las iras de alguien to anger somebody
    provocó las risas de todos he made everyone laugh
    el polvo me provoca estornudos dust makes me sneeze
    3 to lead on (excitar sexualmente).
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ SACAR], like link=sacar sacar
    1 to provoke
    \
    provocar el parto to induce birth
    provocar un incendio (con intención) to commit arson 2 (sin intención) to cause a fire
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=causar) [+ protesta, explosión] to cause, spark off; [+ fuego] to cause, start (deliberately); [+ cambio] to bring about, lead to; [+ proceso] to promote
    2) [+ parto] to induce, bring on
    3) [+ persona] [gen] to provoke; (=incitar) to rouse, stir up (to anger); (=tentar) to tempt, invite

    ¡no me provoques! — don't start me!

    provocar a algn a cólera o indignación — to rouse sb to fury

    4) [sexualmente] to rouse
    2. VI
    1) LAm (=gustar, apetecer)

    ¿te provoca un café? — would you like a coffee?, do you fancy a coffee?

    ¿qué le provoca? — what would you like?, what do you fancy?

    no me provoca la idea — the idea doesn't appeal to me, I don't fancy the idea

    -¿por qué no vas? -no me provoca — "why aren't you going?" - "I don't feel like it"

    no me provoca estudiar hoy — I'm not in the mood for studying today, I don't feel like studying today

    2) * (=vomitar) to be sick, throw up *
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < explosión> to cause; < incendio> to start; < polémica> to spark off, prompt
    b) (Med)

    provocar el parto — to induce labor*

    2) < persona> ( al enfado) to provoke; ( sexualmente) to lead... on
    2.
    provocar vi (Andes) ( apetecer)

    ¿le provoca un traguito? — do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? (BrE colloq)

    * * *
    = provoke, spark off, trigger, induce, bring on, elicit, instigate, tease, evoke, titillate, ignite, rouse, stir up, spark, twit, taunt, tantalise [tantalize, -USA], touch off, set off, hit + a (raw) nerve, strike + a nerve, bring about, precipitate, incite, touch + a (raw) nerve, give + rise to, give + cause to, give + occasion to.
    Ex. 3 different kinds of paper were deacidified by different aqueous and nonaqueous methods, and then treated to provoke accelerated attack of air pollutants.
    Ex. Like the librarians and the bookshop staff, the club members are catalysts who spark off that fission which will spread from child to child an awareness of books and the habit of reading them.
    Ex. Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex. Then, the reference librarian has better justification to buy and perhaps to induce others to contribute to the purchase.
    Ex. In frequent cases, unionization is brought on by the inept or irresponsible action of management.
    Ex. This article looks at ways in which librarians in leadership roles can elicit the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of the organisation.
    Ex. The first mass removal of material was instigated by the trade unions and although admitted in 1932 to have been a mistake, the purges proved difficult to stop.
    Ex. I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.
    Ex. It is known that in ancient Rome the complexity of the administrative job evoked considerable development of management techniques.
    Ex. However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.
    Ex. In turn, that change ignited a body of literature that discussed those cataloguers' future roles.
    Ex. The spirit, if not the content, of Marx can be the joust to rouse the sleepy theory of academic sociology.
    Ex. The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.
    Ex. The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex. Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.
    Ex. The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.
    Ex. He may have wished to tease and tantalize his readers by insoluble problems.
    Ex. This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.
    Ex. The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
    Ex. Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.
    Ex. His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex. Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
    Ex. What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex. It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
    Ex. Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.
    Ex. The method of indexing called post-coordinate indexing gives rise to physical forms of indexes which differ from the more 'traditional' catalogues mentioned above.
    Ex. That crucial evidence was withheld from the final report could give cause to bring charges of criminal negligence.
    Ex. Many soldiers took advantage of the impoverished conditions giving occasion to assaults, rapes and murders.
    ----
    * provocar cambios = wreak + changes.
    * provocar controversia = arouse + controversy.
    * provocar el debate = prompt + discussion, spark + debate, stir + debate.
    * provocar escarnio = evoke + response.
    * provocar estragos = create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc.
    * provocar estragos en = play + havoc with.
    * provocar la controversia = court + controversy.
    * provocar la ira de Alguien = incur + Posesivo + wrath.
    * provocar menosprecio = evoke + scorn.
    * provocar sospechas = stir + suspicion.
    * provocar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * provocar una guerra = ignite + war, precipitate + war.
    * provocar una protesta = call forth + protest.
    * provocar una reacción = cause + reaction, provoke + reaction.
    * provocar un ataque = provoke + attack.
    * provocar un cambio = bring about + change.
    * provocar un debate = ignite + debate.
    * provocar un diálogo = elicit + dialogue.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < explosión> to cause; < incendio> to start; < polémica> to spark off, prompt
    b) (Med)

    provocar el parto — to induce labor*

    2) < persona> ( al enfado) to provoke; ( sexualmente) to lead... on
    2.
    provocar vi (Andes) ( apetecer)

    ¿le provoca un traguito? — do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? (BrE colloq)

    * * *
    = provoke, spark off, trigger, induce, bring on, elicit, instigate, tease, evoke, titillate, ignite, rouse, stir up, spark, twit, taunt, tantalise [tantalize, -USA], touch off, set off, hit + a (raw) nerve, strike + a nerve, bring about, precipitate, incite, touch + a (raw) nerve, give + rise to, give + cause to, give + occasion to.

    Ex: 3 different kinds of paper were deacidified by different aqueous and nonaqueous methods, and then treated to provoke accelerated attack of air pollutants.

    Ex: Like the librarians and the bookshop staff, the club members are catalysts who spark off that fission which will spread from child to child an awareness of books and the habit of reading them.
    Ex: Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex: Then, the reference librarian has better justification to buy and perhaps to induce others to contribute to the purchase.
    Ex: In frequent cases, unionization is brought on by the inept or irresponsible action of management.
    Ex: This article looks at ways in which librarians in leadership roles can elicit the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of the organisation.
    Ex: The first mass removal of material was instigated by the trade unions and although admitted in 1932 to have been a mistake, the purges proved difficult to stop.
    Ex: I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.
    Ex: It is known that in ancient Rome the complexity of the administrative job evoked considerable development of management techniques.
    Ex: However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.
    Ex: In turn, that change ignited a body of literature that discussed those cataloguers' future roles.
    Ex: The spirit, if not the content, of Marx can be the joust to rouse the sleepy theory of academic sociology.
    Ex: The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.
    Ex: The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex: Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.
    Ex: The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.
    Ex: He may have wished to tease and tantalize his readers by insoluble problems.
    Ex: This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.
    Ex: The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
    Ex: Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.
    Ex: His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex: Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
    Ex: What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex: It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
    Ex: Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.
    Ex: The method of indexing called post-coordinate indexing gives rise to physical forms of indexes which differ from the more 'traditional' catalogues mentioned above.
    Ex: That crucial evidence was withheld from the final report could give cause to bring charges of criminal negligence.
    Ex: Many soldiers took advantage of the impoverished conditions giving occasion to assaults, rapes and murders.
    * provocar cambios = wreak + changes.
    * provocar controversia = arouse + controversy.
    * provocar el debate = prompt + discussion, spark + debate, stir + debate.
    * provocar escarnio = evoke + response.
    * provocar estragos = create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc.
    * provocar estragos en = play + havoc with.
    * provocar la controversia = court + controversy.
    * provocar la ira de Alguien = incur + Posesivo + wrath.
    * provocar menosprecio = evoke + scorn.
    * provocar sospechas = stir + suspicion.
    * provocar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * provocar una guerra = ignite + war, precipitate + war.
    * provocar una protesta = call forth + protest.
    * provocar una reacción = cause + reaction, provoke + reaction.
    * provocar un ataque = provoke + attack.
    * provocar un cambio = bring about + change.
    * provocar un debate = ignite + debate.
    * provocar un diálogo = elicit + dialogue.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.

    * * *
    provocar [A2 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (causar, ocasionar) to cause
    un cigarrillo pudo provocar la explosión the explosion may have been caused by a cigarette
    una decisión que ha provocado violentas polémicas a decision which has sparked off o prompted violent controversy
    no se sabe qué provocó el incendio it is not known what started the fire
    2 ( Med):
    provocar el parto to induce labor*
    las pastillas le provocaron una reacción cutánea the pills caused o brought on a skin reaction
    el antígeno provoca la formación de anticuerpos the antigen stimulates the production of antibodies
    B ‹persona›
    1 (al enfado) to provoke
    2 (en sentido sexual) to lead … on
    ■ provocar
    vi
    ( Andes) (apetecer): ¿le provoca un traguito? do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? ( BrE colloq)
    ( refl):
    se disparó un tiro provocándose la muerte he shot (and killed) himself
    * * *

     

    provocar ( conjugate provocar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹ explosión› to cause;

    ‹ incendio› to start;
    ‹ polémica› to spark off, prompt;
    ‹ reacción› to cause
    b) (Med) ‹ parto› to induce

    2 ‹ persona› ( al enfado) to provoke;
    ( sexualmente) to lead … on
    verbo intransitivo (Andes) ( apetecer):
    ◊ ¿le provoca un traguito? do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? (BrE colloq)

    provocar verbo transitivo
    1 (causar) to cause: su decisión fue provocada por..., his decision was prompted by..., provocar un incendio, to start a fire
    2 (un parto, etc) to induce: tuvieron que provocarle el vómito, they had to make her vomit
    3 (irritar, enfadar) to provoke: no lo provoques, don't provoke him
    4 (la ira, etc) to rouse
    (un aplauso) to provoke
    5 (excitar el deseo sexual) to arouse, provoke

    ' provocar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    campanada
    - desatar
    - engendrar
    - hacer
    - motivar
    - organizar
    - pinchar
    - chulear
    - dar
    - meter
    - parto
    - reclamo
    - torear
    English:
    bait
    - bring
    - bring about
    - bring on
    - cause
    - excite
    - fight
    - incur
    - induce
    - instigate
    - invite
    - prompt
    - provoke
    - raise
    - rouse
    - roust
    - short-circuit
    - spark off
    - start
    - stir up
    - tease
    - trigger
    - disturbance
    - draw
    - elicit
    - evoke
    - short
    - spark
    - stir
    - taunt
    - whip
    - wreck
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [incitar] to provoke;
    ¡no me provoques! don't provoke me!
    2. [causar] [accidente, muerte] to cause;
    [incendio, rebelión] to start; [sonrisa, burla] to elicit;
    una placa de hielo provocó el accidente the accident was caused by a sheet of black ice;
    provocó las risas de todos he made everyone laugh;
    el polvo me provoca estornudos dust makes me sneeze;
    su actitud me provoca más lástima que otra cosa her attitude makes me pity her more than anything else
    3. [excitar sexualmente] to lead on;
    le gusta provocar a los chicos con su ropa she likes to tease the boys with her clothes
    ♦ vi
    Carib, Col, Méx Fam [apetecer]
    ¿te provoca ir al cine? would you like to go to the movies?, Br do you fancy going to the cinema?;
    ¿te provoca un vaso de vino? would you like a glass of wine?, Br do you fancy a glass of wine?;
    ¿qué te provoca? what would you like to do?, Br what do you fancy doing?
    * * *
    v/t
    1 cause
    2 el enfado provoke
    3 sexualmente lead on
    4 parto induce
    5
    :
    ¿te provoca un café? S.Am. how about a coffee?
    * * *
    provocar {72} vt
    1) causar: to provoke, to cause
    2) irritar: to provoke, to pique
    * * *
    1. (en general) to cause
    2. (incendio) to start
    3. (una persona) to provoke

    Spanish-English dictionary > provocar

  • 17 eliminar

    v.
    to eliminate.
    El líquido eliminó las manchas The liquid eliminated the stains.
    El mafioso eliminó al testigo The mobster eliminated the witness.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to eliminate, exclude
    2 (esperanzas, miedos, etc) to get rid of, cast aside
    3 familiar (matar) to kill, eliminate
    * * *
    verb
    3) kill
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=hacer desaparecer) [+ mancha, obstáculo] to remove, get rid of; [+ residuos] to dispose of; [+ pobreza] to eliminate, eradicate; [+ posibilidad] to rule out

    eliminar un directorio — (Inform) to remove o delete a directory

    2) [+ concursante, deportista] to knock out, eliminate

    fueron eliminados de la competición — they were knocked out of o eliminated from the competition

    3) euf (=matar) to eliminate, do away with *
    4) [+ incógnita] to eliminate
    5) (Fisiol) to eliminate
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove
    b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)
    d) < residuos> to dispose of
    2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate
    3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate
    * * *
    = abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.
    Ex. It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.
    Ex. The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.
    Ex. Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
    Ex. The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex. With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex. The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex. List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.
    Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.
    Ex. Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.
    Ex. In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.
    Ex. Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex. He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".
    Ex. The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.
    Ex. The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.
    Ex. Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.
    Ex. This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.
    Ex. It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.
    Ex. A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex. Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex. Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex. This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex. Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.
    Ex. Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.
    Ex. But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.
    Ex. Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.
    Ex. 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.
    Ex. Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.
    Ex. Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.
    Ex. Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.
    Ex. Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.
    Ex. Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex. There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex. Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
    Ex. This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.
    Ex. In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.
    Ex. Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.
    Ex. This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.
    Ex. The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.
    Ex. There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.
    Ex. Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
    Ex. Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.
    Ex. The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex. His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.
    Ex. Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.
    Ex. It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.
    Ex. It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.
    Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex. This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.
    Ex. My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.
    ----
    * ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.
    * eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.
    * eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.
    * eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.
    * eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.
    * eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.
    * eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].
    * eliminar el sarro = descale.
    * eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.
    * eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.
    * eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.
    * eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.
    * eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.
    * eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.
    * eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * eliminar puliendo = buff out.
    * eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.
    * eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.
    * eliminar un error = remove + error.
    * eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove
    b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)
    d) < residuos> to dispose of
    2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate
    3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate
    * * *
    = abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.

    Ex: It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.

    Ex: The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.
    Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
    Ex: The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex: With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex: The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex: List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.
    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.
    Ex: Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.
    Ex: In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.
    Ex: Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex: He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".
    Ex: The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.
    Ex: The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.
    Ex: Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.
    Ex: This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.
    Ex: It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.
    Ex: A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex: Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex: Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex: This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex: Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.
    Ex: Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.
    Ex: But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.
    Ex: Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.
    Ex: 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.
    Ex: Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.
    Ex: Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.
    Ex: Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.
    Ex: Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.
    Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
    Ex: This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.
    Ex: In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.
    Ex: Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.
    Ex: This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.
    Ex: The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.
    Ex: There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.
    Ex: Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
    Ex: Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.
    Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex: His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.
    Ex: Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.
    Ex: It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.
    Ex: It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.
    Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex: This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.
    Ex: My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.
    * ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.
    * eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.
    * eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.
    * eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.
    * eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.
    * eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.
    * eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].
    * eliminar el sarro = descale.
    * eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.
    * eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.
    * eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.
    * eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.
    * eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.
    * eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.
    * eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * eliminar puliendo = buff out.
    * eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.
    * eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.
    * eliminar un error = remove + error.
    * eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.

    * * *
    eliminar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹obstáculo› to remove; ‹párrafo› to delete, remove
    para eliminar las cucarachas to get rid of o exterminate o kill cockroaches
    2 ‹equipo/candidato› to eliminate
    fueron eliminados del torneo they were knocked out of o eliminated from the tournament
    3 ( euf) (matar) to eliminate ( euph), to get rid of ( euph)
    B ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate
    C ( Mat) ‹incógnita› to eliminate
    * * *

     

    eliminar ( conjugate eliminar) verbo transitivo

    ‹ párrafo› to delete, remove

    (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)


    e) ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate

    eliminar verbo transitivo to eliminate
    ' eliminar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acabar
    - cortar
    - descalificar
    - michelín
    - quitar
    - sonda
    - terminar
    - tranquilizar
    English:
    cut out
    - debug
    - eliminate
    - face
    - hit list
    - knock out
    - liquidate
    - obliterate
    - remove
    - weed
    - cut
    - delete
    - do
    - knock
    - take
    - zap
    * * *
    1. [en juego, deporte, concurso] to eliminate (de from);
    el que menos puntos consiga queda eliminado the person who scores the lowest number of points is eliminated;
    lo eliminaron en la segunda ronda he was eliminated o knocked out in the second round
    2. [acabar con] [contaminación] to eliminate;
    [grasas, toxinas] to eliminate, to get rid of; [residuos] to dispose of; [manchas] to remove, to get rid of; [fronteras, obstáculos] to remove, to eliminate;
    eliminó algunos trozos de su discurso he cut out some parts of his speech
    3. Mat [incógnita] to eliminate
    4. Euf [matar] to eliminate, to get rid of
    * * *
    v/t
    1 eliminate
    2 desperdicios dispose of
    3 INFOR delete
    * * *
    1) : to eliminate, to remove
    2) : to do in, to kill
    * * *
    1. (en general) to eliminate
    2. (manchas) to remove

    Spanish-English dictionary > eliminar

  • 18 Auslöser

    m; -s, -
    1. TECH. release; FOT. shutter release
    2. (Ursache) cause; der Auslöser war... what triggered it off was...; für Gefühle: auch what set it off was...; für Krankheit: auch what brought it on was...
    * * *
    der Auslöser
    trigger; actuator
    * * *
    Aus|lö|ser ['ausløːzɐ]
    m -s, -
    1) trigger; (für Bombe) release button; (PHOT) shutter release
    2) (= Anlass) cause

    der Áúslöser für etw sein — to trigger sth off

    * * *
    (anything which starts a series of actions or reactions.) trigger
    * * *
    Aus·lö·ser
    <-s, ->
    m
    1. FOTO [shutter] release
    2. PSYCH trigger mechanism
    3. (fam: Anlass) trigger
    ▪ der \Auslöser für etw akk sein to be the cause of [or sep trigger off] sth
    * * *
    der; Auslösers, Auslöser
    1) (Fot.) shutter release
    2) (fig.) trigger
    * * *
    Auslöser m; -s, -
    1. TECH release; FOTO shutter release
    2. (Ursache) cause;
    der Auslöser war … what triggered it off was …; für Gefühle: auch what set it off was …; für Krankheit: auch what brought it on was …
    * * *
    der; Auslösers, Auslöser
    1) (Fot.) shutter release
    2) (fig.) trigger
    * * *
    - (Fotoapparat) m.
    shutter release (camera) n. - m.
    actuator n.
    trigger n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Auslöser

  • 19 accionar

    v.
    1 to activate (mecanismo, palanca).
    2 to bring a suit against. ( Latin American Spanish)
    3 to gesture, to gesticulate.
    4 to trigger, to set off, to activate.
    María accionó el detonador Mary triggered=set off the detonator.
    5 to operate, to activate, to actuate, to power.
    Ricardo acciona la maquinaria Richard operates the machinery.
    6 to pull, to actuate.
    Silvia acciona la palanca Silvia pulls the lever.
    7 to execute, to actuate, to trigger, to activate.
    Pedro acciona el plan Peter puts the plan to work.
    * * *
    1 (máquina) to drive, work, activate
    1 to gesticulate
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (Mec) [+ mecanismo, motor, alarma] to activate, operate; [+ bomba, misil] to activate, trigger; [+ interruptor] to switch; [+ palanca] to pull
    2) (Inform) to drive
    2.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo < palanca> to pull; <mecanismo/dispositivo> activate, trigger
    * * *
    = power.
    Ex. The other method was to increase the effective size of the press by using a cylindrical platen, powered either by hand or by steam.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo < palanca> to pull; <mecanismo/dispositivo> activate, trigger
    * * *

    Ex: The other method was to increase the effective size of the press by using a cylindrical platen, powered either by hand or by steam.

    * * *
    accionar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹palanca› to pull
    2 ‹mecanismo/dispositivo› (a propósito) to operate, activate, trigger; (sin querer) to trigger, activate
    esto accionó el dispositivo que produjo la explosión this triggered o activated the device that caused the explosion
    un simple roce puede accionar la alarma merely touching it can set the alarm off o can activate the alarm
    * * *

    accionar ( conjugate accionar) verbo transitivo ‹ palanca› to pull;
    ‹mecanismo/dispositivo› activate, trigger
    accionar verbo transitivo to drive, work
    ' accionar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dar
    - mover
    English:
    set off
    - wind
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [mecanismo, palanca] to activate
    2. Am Der to bring a suit against
    ♦ vi
    [gesticular] to gesture, to gesticulate
    * * *
    v/t activate
    * * *
    : to put into motion, to activate
    : to gesticulate

    Spanish-English dictionary > accionar

  • 20 detonar

    v.
    1 to detonate, to explode.
    La bomba detonó The bomb detonated.
    El golpe detonó la granada The blow triggered the grenade.
    2 to trigger, to detonate, to provoke.
    Su burla detonó su furia His mockery triggered her fury.
    * * *
    1 to detonate, explode
    1 to detonate, set off
    * * *
    verb
    to detonate, explode
    * * *
    VI to detonate, explode
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo to detonate, explode
    * * *
    Ex. There has been an explosion in terminology detonated by developments related to XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
    ----
    * artillería sin detonar = unexploded ordnance.
    * explosivo sin detonar = dud.
    * hacer detonar = detonate.
    * sin detonar = unexploded.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo to detonate, explode
    * * *

    Ex: There has been an explosion in terminology detonated by developments related to XML (eXtensible Markup Language).

    * artillería sin detonar = unexploded ordnance.
    * explosivo sin detonar = dud.
    * hacer detonar = detonate.
    * sin detonar = unexploded.

    * * *
    detonar [A1 ]
    vi
    to detonate, explode
    hicieron detonar la bomba they detonated the bomb
    * * *

    detonar ( conjugate detonar) verbo intransitivo
    to detonate, explode
    detonar verbo intransitivo & verbo transitivo to detonate
    ' detonar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    detonate
    - unexploded
    * * *
    to detonate, to explode;
    hicieron detonar el explosivo they detonated the explosive
    * * *
    I v/i detonate, go off
    II v/t detonate, set off
    * * *
    : to detonate, to explode

    Spanish-English dictionary > detonar

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