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  • 1 truncate

    [trʌŋ'keɪt] 1. прил.
    Syn:
    2. гл.
    1)
    а) усекать; урезывать, укорачивать; сокращать

    to truncate a word — сокращать, укорачивать слово

    Syn:
    б) срезать, обрезать, усекать верхушку
    2) калечить, обезображивать, увечить, уродовать
    Syn:
    3) мат. округлять; усекать, отбрасывать ( члены ряда или цифры числа)

    Англо-русский современный словарь > truncate

  • 2 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 competiciónthey 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

  • 3 comodín

    m.
    1 wildcard, wild card operator, wild card.
    2 joker card, joker, wild card.
    * * *
    1 (mono) joker; (otra carta) wild card
    2 figurado (persona) factotum, man Friday, girl Friday; (cosa) multipurpose tool
    \
    palabra comodín word applicable to anything
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) (Naipes) joker
    2) (=excusa) pretext, stock excuse
    3) (Ling) catch-all, all-purpose word
    4) (Inform) wildcard
    5) (Mec) useful gadget
    2.
    ADJ And, Caribe, Méx = comodón
    * * *
    a) (Jueg) ( mono) joker; ( otra carta) wild card

    esta palabra se usa como or de comodín — this word is used to refer to anything and everything

    b) (Inf) wildcard
    * * *
    a) (Jueg) ( mono) joker; ( otra carta) wild card

    esta palabra se usa como or de comodín — this word is used to refer to anything and everything

    b) (Inf) wildcard
    * * *
    comodín1
    1 = jack of all trades, factotum.

    Ex: Jacks of all trades are curious by nature: they try to see things through the eyes of others and are only limited by their own ability.

    Ex: Quietly spoken, introverted Henry, the main character, tries to get casual jobs (anything, like a factotum) around Los Angeles.

    comodín2

    Ex: In UDC the colon has to act as an ' all purpose' facet indicator to a very large extent.

    comodín3
    3 = joker.

    Ex: Pseudohallucination is used as the ' joker' in a poker game (i.e. made to take diagnostic values according to clinical need) which has retarded important decisions as to the nature and definition of hallucinations.

    comodín4
    4 = wildcard character, wildcard [wild card].
    Nota: En las búsquedas, símbolo usado para sustituir generalmente un carácter de una palabra.

    Ex: Use one or more question marks as wildcard characters at the end of the word stem to truncate the stem.

    Ex: Use a question mark (?), or wildcard, to specify a limited number of varying characters within or at the end of a word.

    * * *
    1 ( jueg) (mono) joker; (otra carta) wild card
    en este juego el dos es comodín twos are wild in this game
    esa excusa se está convirtiendo en un comodín that excuse seems to be getting used o ( colloq) wheeled out rather a lot recently
    en Colombia usan esta palabra como or de comodín in Colombia this word is used to refer to anything and everything
    este banquito nos hace de comodín we use this stool for all sorts of things
    en esta oficina es el comodín in this office she's the general factotum o she does all sorts of jobs
    2 ( Inf) wild card
    * * *

    comodín sustantivo masculino
    a) (Jueg) ( mono) joker;

    ( otra carta) wild card
    b) (Inf) wild card

    comodín sustantivo masculino Naipes joker
    ' comodín' also found in these entries:
    English:
    joker
    - wild
    * * *
    adj
    Am [comodón] comfort-loving
    nm
    1. [naipe] joker
    2. [persona] Jack of all trades;
    una palabra comodín an all-purpose word
    3. Informát wild card
    4. Am [comodón] comfort lover
    * * *
    m
    1 en naipes joker
    2 INFOR wild card
    3 palabra stand-in word
    * * *
    comodín nm, pl - dines
    1) : joker, wild card
    2) : all-purpose word or thing
    3) : pretext, excuse
    * * *
    comodín n joker

    Spanish-English dictionary > comodín

  • 4 borrar

    v.
    1 to rub out (British), to erase (United States) (with rubber/eraser).
    borrar a algo/alguien del mapa (en ordenador)(en casete)(figurative) to wipe something/somebody off the map
    2 to cross out.
    3 to wipe, to dust (pizarra).
    4 to erase.
    el tiempo borró el recuerdo de aquel desastre with time, he was able to erase the disaster from his memory
    5 to ignore (informal). (Mexican Spanish, River Plate)
    6 to eliminate.
    * * *
    1 (lo escrito) to erase, rub out; (superficie) to clean
    2 (cinta) to erase
    3 INFORMÁTICA to delete
    4 (tachar) to cross out, cross off
    5 (dar de baja) to cancel the membership of
    1 to disappear
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=hacer desaparecer)
    a) [+ palabra, dibujo] [con goma] to rub out, erase; [con borrador] to rub off, clean off

    borra lo que has puesto en la pizarrarub off o clean off what you've put on the blackboard

    b) [+ señal, mancha] to remove; [+ pintada] to clean off; [+ huellas] to wipe off, rub off
    c) [+ mensaje, fichero] to delete, erase; [+ canción, película] to tape over, erase

    he borrado todos los mensajes del contestadorI've erased o deleted all the messages on the answering machine

    ¿no habrás borrado el partido de fútbol? — you haven't taped over o erased the football match, have you?

    d) [+ impresión] to wipe away, erase

    he borrado de mi mente aquellas imágenesI have wiped away o erased those images from my mind

    2) (=limpiar) [+ disquete, cinta] to erase; [+ pantalla] to clear
    3) (=dar de baja a)

    borrar a algn de[+ clase, actividad] to take sb out of, remove sb from; [+ lista, curso] to take sb off, remove sb from

    borró a los niños de la clase de natación — she took the children out of the swimming class, she removed the children from the swimming class

    bórranos de la excursión del sábado — take us off the list for Saturday's outing, count us out of Saturday's outing *

    4) (Fot) (=poner borroso) to blur
    5) (Pol)

    borrar a algneuf to deal with sb, dispose of sb

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <palabra/dibujo> ( con goma) to rub out, erase; ( con líquido corrector) to white out, tippex out (BrE); ( con esponja) to rub... off; < pizarra> to clean; < huellas digitales> to wipe off
    b) <cassette/disquete> to erase, wipe; < canción> to erase; <información/ficha> to delete, erase
    c) <recuerdos/imagen> to blot out
    d) < persona> (de lista, club)
    2.
    borrarse v pron
    1)
    a) inscripción/letrero to fade
    b) temores/dudas to disappear; imagen/recuerdo to fade
    c) persona ( de club) to cancel one's membership, resign; ( de clase) to drop out; ( de lista) to cross one's name off a list
    2) (Méx, RPl arg) ( irse) to split (colloq)

    yo me borroI'm taking off (AmE), I'm off (BrE colloq)

    * * *
    = delete, erase, obliterate, strike out, efface, blot out.
    Ex. Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
    Ex. Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex. Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex. Dots placed under words or letters wrongly struck out by the corrector.
    Ex. The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex. Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    ----
    * borrar con la tecla de retroceso = backspace.
    * borrar + Posesivo + huellas = cover up + Posesivo + tracks.
    * borrar puliendo = buff out.
    * borrar una imagen = eradicate + image.
    * borrar un recuerdo = expunge + memory.
    * goma de borrar = eraser, rubber.
    * tecla de borrar = delete key.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <palabra/dibujo> ( con goma) to rub out, erase; ( con líquido corrector) to white out, tippex out (BrE); ( con esponja) to rub... off; < pizarra> to clean; < huellas digitales> to wipe off
    b) <cassette/disquete> to erase, wipe; < canción> to erase; <información/ficha> to delete, erase
    c) <recuerdos/imagen> to blot out
    d) < persona> (de lista, club)
    2.
    borrarse v pron
    1)
    a) inscripción/letrero to fade
    b) temores/dudas to disappear; imagen/recuerdo to fade
    c) persona ( de club) to cancel one's membership, resign; ( de clase) to drop out; ( de lista) to cross one's name off a list
    2) (Méx, RPl arg) ( irse) to split (colloq)

    yo me borroI'm taking off (AmE), I'm off (BrE colloq)

    * * *
    = delete, erase, obliterate, strike out, efface, blot out.

    Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.

    Ex: Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex: Dots placed under words or letters wrongly struck out by the corrector.
    Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex: Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    * borrar con la tecla de retroceso = backspace.
    * borrar + Posesivo + huellas = cover up + Posesivo + tracks.
    * borrar puliendo = buff out.
    * borrar una imagen = eradicate + image.
    * borrar un recuerdo = expunge + memory.
    * goma de borrar = eraser, rubber.
    * tecla de borrar = delete key.

    * * *
    borrar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹palabra/dibujo› (con una goma) to rub out, erase; (con líquido corrector) to white out, tippex out ( BrE); (con una esponja) to rub … off
    borrar la pizarra to clean the blackboard
    había borrado sus huellas digitales she had wiped off all trace of her fingerprints
    deberían borrar esas pintadas de la pared they should remove o get rid of that graffiti on the wall
    2 ‹cassette/disquete› to erase, wipe; ‹canción› to erase; ‹información/ficha› to delete, erase; ( Inf) to wipe
    3 ‹recuerdos/imagen› to blot out
    recuerdos que quería borrar de su mente memories that he wanted to blot out o erase from his mind
    el tiempo todo lo borra time is a great healer ( set phrase)
    4 ‹persona›
    (de una clase, un club): la borraron de la lista they deleted her name from the list, they took her o her name off the list
    la borré de la clase de ballet I took her out of ballet classes, I stopped her ballet lessons
    lo borramos del club porque nunca quería ir we canceled his club membership because he never went
    bórrame para lo del domingo ( fam); count me out for Sunday ( colloq)
    A
    1 «inscripción/letrero» to fade
    se borró con la lluvia the rain washed it away o off
    2 «temores/dudas» to disappear
    «imagen/recuerdo»: con los años se le borró el recuerdo de ese día over the years his memory of that day faded
    al oír su voz se le borró la sonrisa when she heard his voice her smile vanished
    no me acuerdo, se me ha borrado totalmente I can't remember, it's gone right out of my head
    3 «persona» (de un club) to cancel one's membership, resign; (de una clase) to drop out
    B (Méx, RPl arg) (irse) to split ( colloq)
    yo me borro I'm taking off ( AmE colloq), I'm off ( BrE colloq)
    * * *

     

    borrar ( conjugate borrar) verbo transitivo
    a)palabra/dibujo› ( con goma) to rub out, erase;

    ( con líquido corrector) to white out, tippex out (BrE);
    pizarra to clean;
    huellas digitales to wipe off
    b)cassette/disquete to erase, wipe

    c) (Inf) ‹ archivo delete;

    pantalla to clear
    d)recuerdos/imagen to blot out

    borrarse verbo pronominal [inscripción/letrero] to fade;
    se borró con la lluvia the rain washed it away o off

    borrar verbo transitivo
    1 (con una goma) to erase, rub out
    (una pizarra) to clean
    2 Inform to delete

    ' borrar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    goma
    - mapa
    - obliterar
    English:
    blank out
    - blot out
    - delete
    - efface
    - erase
    - eraser
    - face
    - obliterate
    - rub off
    - rub out
    - rubber
    - scrub
    - wear away
    - wipe
    - wipe away
    - wipe off
    - wipe out
    - blot
    - clean
    - rub
    - wear
    - zap
    * * *
    vt
    1. [hacer desaparecer] [con goma] Br to rub out, US to erase;
    [en casete] to erase;
    borrar a algo/alguien del mapa to wipe sth/sb off the map
    2. [la pizarra] to wipe, to dust
    3. [tachar] to cross out
    4. [de lista] to take off;
    sus padres la borraron de clase de piano her parents stopped sending her to piano classes
    5. Informát [archivo] to delete
    6. [olvidar] to erase;
    el tiempo borró el recuerdo de aquel desastre with time, she was able to erase the disaster from her memory;
    intenta borrarla de tu cabeza try and put her out of your mind
    7. Méx, RP Fam [no hacer caso a] to ignore;
    me peleé con ella porque siempre me borraba I fell out with her because she always ignored me
    * * *
    v/t
    1 erase
    2 INFOR delete
    3 pizarra clean
    4 recuerdo blot out
    5 huellas wipe off
    * * *
    borrar vt
    : to erase, to blot out
    * * *
    borrar vb
    1. (con goma) to erase / to rub out [pt. & pp. rubbed]
    2. (de una lista) to cross off
    3. (de pizarra, casete) to wipe off
    4. (del ordenador) to delete

    Spanish-English dictionary > borrar

  • 5 comodín4

    4 = wildcard character, wildcard [wild card].
    Nota: En las búsquedas, símbolo usado para sustituir generalmente un carácter de una palabra.
    Ex. Use one or more question marks as wildcard characters at the end of the word stem to truncate the stem.
    Ex. Use a question mark (?), or wildcard, to specify a limited number of varying characters within or at the end of a word.

    Spanish-English dictionary > comodín4

  • 6 \*

    * (símbolo de truncamiento)
    = * (truncation symbol)

    Ex: You can truncate class numbers using the truncation symbol (*).

    *1 (asterisco)
    = asterisk (*).

    Ex: Use an asterisk (*) to specify an unlimited number of varying characters at the end of a word.

    * * (símbolo de truncamiento) = * (truncation symbol).

    Spanish-English dictionary > \*

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