vague remarks

1 vagueness.

2 vague remark (dicho).

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► nombre femenino

1 (imprecisión) vagueness

■ la vaguedad de sus pensamientos the vagueness of his thoughts

2 (expresión imprecisa) vague remark

■ no dijo más que vaguedades he only made vague remarks

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hablar sin vaguedades to get straight to the point

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1) (=ambigüedad) vagueness

2) (=una vaguedad) vague remark

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femenino (de palabras, ideas) vagueness; ( expresión imprecisa) vague remark

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= vagueness, indistinctiveness, indistinctness.

Ex. The author stresses the need to distinguish between fact and opinion and to make explicit all sorts of assumptions and vaguenesses that tend to cloud the view.

Ex. An ambiguity only exists when there is duplicity, indistinctiveness, or uncertainty in the meaning of the words used in the contract.

Ex. Ambiguity is defined as a state in which there is more than one intended meaning, resulting in obscurity, indistinctness, and uncertainty.

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femenino (de palabras, ideas) vagueness; ( expresión imprecisa) vague remark

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1 (de palabras, ideas) vagueness

2 (expresión imprecisa) vague remark

¡déjate de vaguedades y vete al grano! stop being so vague o stop beating about the bush and get to the point

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a) (de palabras, ideas) vagueness

b) ( expresión imprecisa) vague remark;

◊ ¡déjate de vaguedades y vete al grano! stop being so vague o stop beating about the bush and get to the point

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vaguedad nf

1. [cualidad] vagueness

2. [dicho] vague remark;

decir vaguedades to talk in vague terms

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f vagueness;

hablar sin vaguedades get right to the point

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vaguedad nf

: vagueness

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aria condizionata

(impianto) air-conditioning; (che si respira) conditioned air

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→  aria

• address a meeting

• address the audience

• make a speech

• make use of

• make use of speech

• make vague remarks

• speak

• take the floor

• take the shortcut

• take the stand

• take the taste away from

• declare valid again

• make vague remarks

• make velvety

• revaccinate

• revalidation

to make vague remarks.

(pl. -ir), f. thousand.

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f.; sérhverja þúsund, Stj. 298; á þúsund (dat.), Sks. 705; tvær, þrjár … þúsundir, 623. 53: in mod. usage it is mostly neut. (influenced by Latin?), but also fem. It is spelt þús-hund, Barl. 53; þús-hundum, Fms. vi. 409 (v. l.), Geisli 49; another form þús-hundrað (q. v.) is freq., esp. in Stj., Barl.; this double form -hund and -hundrað answers to the equally double form of ‘hundred,’ see p. 292, and is a proof that þúsund is a compound word, the latter part of which is ‘hund’ or ‘hundred;’ the etymology of the former part ‘þús’ is less certain; it is, we believe, akin to þysja, þyss, þaus-nir (a lost strong verb þúsa, þaus, þusu); þúsund would thus literally mean a swarm of hundreds: [in Goth. the gender varies, þûsundi, pl. þusundjos = χίλιοι, or þusundja, neut.; A. S. þûsend; Engl. thousand; O. H. G. dusunta; Germ. tausend, qs. dausend; Swed. tusende and tusen; Dan. tusinde; Dutch tuysend: this word is also common to the Slavon. languages: again, the Lapp, duhat and Finn. tuhat are no doubt borrowed from the Slavon. or Scandin.; the Gr., Lat., and Sansk. use other words]—a thousand.

B. There is little doubt that with the ancient heathen Scandinavians (and perhaps all Teutons), before their contact with the civilised southern people, the notion of numbers was limited, and that their thousand was not a definite number, but a vague term, denoting a swarm, crowd, host (cp. the Gr. μυρίοι): in ancient lays it occurs thrice (Hkv., Em., Fas. i. 502), but indefinitely; hvat þrym er þar sem þúsund bifisk eðr mengi til mikit, what a din is there as if a thousand were shaking, or an over-mickle multitude, Em. 2; sjau þúsundir, Hkv. 1. 49, literally = seven thousands, but in fact meaning seven hosts of men.

2. the dat. pl. þúsundum is, like huudruðum, used adverbially = by thousands, in countless numbers, Fms. vi. 409 (in a verse), Geisli 49.

3. in the ancient popular literature, uninfluenced by southern writers, ‘þúsund,’ as a definite number, occurs, we think, not half-a-dozen times. As the multiple of ten duodecimal hundreds, ere the decimal hundred was adopted, ‘þnsund’ would mean twelve decimal hundreds; and such is its use in the Sverris Saga, Fms. viii. 40, where one vellum says ‘tvær þúsundir,’ whilst the others, by a more idiomatic phrase, call it ‘twenty hundreds.’

II. in ecclesiastical writers, and in annals influenced by the Latin and the like, it is frequent enough; tíu þúsundir, fjórtán þúsundir, Fms. i. 107, 108 (annalistic records); fimm þúsundir, xi. 386, Al. 111; tíu þúsundum, Sks. 705; tíu þúsundum sinna hundrað þúsunda, Hom.; þúsund þúsunda, a thousand of thousands, i. e. a million, (mod.); hundrað þúsundir rasta ok átta tigir þúsunda, … hundrað þúsund mílna, Fb. i. 31 (in the legend of Eric the Far-traveller and Paradise, taken from some church-legend); fjórar þúsundir, Þiðr. 234: or of the years of the world, sex þúsundir vetra, Fs. 197; sjau þúsundir vetra, Landn. 34.

C. REMARKS.—The popular way of counting high numbers was not by thousands, but by tens (decades) and duodecimal hundreds as factors; thus ten … twenty hundreds, and then going on three, four, five, six … tens of hundreds (a ‘ten of hundreds’ being = 1200). The following references may illustrate this—tíu hundruð, ellefu hundruð, tólf hundruð, þrettán hundruð, fimtán hundruð …, Íb. 17, Ó. H. 119, 201, Fms. vii. 295, xi. 383, 385. From twenty and upwards—tuttugu hundrað manna, twenty hundreds of men, Fms. vii. 324, viii. 40; hálfr þriðitugr hundraða skipa, two tens and a half hundreds of ships, i. e. twenty-five hundreds, Fas. i. 378; þrjá tigu hundraða manna, three tens of hundreds of men, Fms. viii. 311; var skorat manntal, hafði hann meirr enn þrjá tigu hundraða manna, vii. 204; þrír tigir hundraða, D. N. v. 18; user fjorir tigir hundraða manna, nearly four tens of hundreds of men, Fms. vii. 275; á fimta tigi hundraða, on the fifth ten of hundreds, i. e. from four to five tens of hundreds, viii. 321; sex tigir hundraða, six tens of hundreds, 311, xi. 390; sex tigu hundraða manna, Fb. ii. 518, D. I. i. 350,—all odd amounts being neglected. The highest number recorded as actually reckoned in this way is ‘six tens of hundreds’ (fimtán tigir hundraða, fifteen tens of hundreds, Fms. viii. 321, v. l., is a scribe’s error): it is probable that no reckoning exceeded twelve tens of hundreds. All high multiples were unintelligible to the ancients; the number of the Einherjar in Walhalla is in the old lay Gm. thus expressed,—there are ‘five hundred doors in Walhalla, and five tens beside (the ‘five tens’ are, by the way, merely added for alliteration’s sake), and eight hundred Einherjar will walk out of each door when they go out to fight the Wolf’ (on the Day of final Doom). There seems to have been some dim exaggerated notion of a definite thousand in an ancient lay, only preserved in a half alliterative prose paraphrase, Fas. i. 502, where a mythical host is given thus,—there were thirty-three phalanxes, each of five ‘thousand,’ each thousand of thirteen hundreds, each hundred four times counted. The armies in the battle of Brawalla, the greatest of the mythical age, are given, not in numbers, but by the space the ranks occupied, Skjöld. S. ch. 8. This resembles the story in Ó. H. ch. 59, of the two young brothers, king’s sons: when asked what they would like to have most of, the one said: ‘Cows.’ ‘And how many?’ ‘As many,’ said he, ‘as could stand packed in a row round the lake (Mjösen in Norway) and drink.’ ‘But you?’ they asked the other boy: ‘House-carles’ (soldiers), said he. ‘And how many?’ ‘As many,’ said he, ‘as would in one meal eat up all my brother’s cows.’ Add also the tale of the King and the Giant, and the number of the giant’s house-carles, Maurer’s Volksagen 306. No less elementary was the rule for division and fractions, of which a remarkable instance is preserved in an ancient Icelandic deed, called Spákonu-arfr, published in D. I. i. 305. See also the words tigr, hundrað, skor, skora, and the remarks in Gramm. p. xix. The Homeric numeration, as set forth in Mr. Gladstone’s Homeric Studies, vol. iii, p. 425 sqq., is highly interesting, and bears a striking resemblance to that of the ancient Scandinavians. We may notice that in Iceland land and property are still divided into hundreds (hundreds of ells = 120), see hundrað B; in this case a thousand is never used, but units and hundreds of hundreds as factors, thus, sex tögu hundraða, in Reykh. Máld, (a deed of the 12th century), and so still in mod. usage; a wealthy man of the 15th century is said to have bequeathed to his daughters in land, ‘tólf hundruð hundraða ok ellefu-tíu og tvau hundruð betr, en í lausafé fimm hundruð hundraða,’ i. e. twelve hundreds of hundreds and ‘eleventy’ and two hundreds, and in movables five hundreds of hundreds, Feðga-æfi 16 (by the learned Bogi Benidiktsson of Staðarfell in Iceland, A. D. 1771–1849); sjau hundruð hundraða og þrjátigi hundruð betr, 21; hann eptir-lét börnum sínum fjármuni upp á níu hundruð hundraða, 22,—a proof that in very remote times, when this valuation of land first took place, ‘thousand’ was still unknown as a definite number.

• В этом отношении он подобен... - In this respect it is similar to...

• Во всех подобных экспериментах необходимо (применять и т. п.)... - In all such experiments it is necessary to...

• Данная последовательность рассуждений подобна той, что... - The chain of reasoning is similar to that of...

• Данная ситуация напоминает (= кажется подобной)... - The situation is reminiscent of...

• Два треугольника являются подобными, если и только если их углы равны. - Two triangles are similar if and only if the triangles are equiangular.

• Для большинства подобных проблем достаточно (установить и т. п.)... - For most such problems it is sufficient to...

• Доказательство теоремы подобно доказательству теоремы 2. - The proof is similar to the proof of Theorem 2.

• Другие случаи можно обсудить в подобной манере. - In a similar manner other cases may be discussed.

• Заметьте, что данная аргументация весьма подобна (той, что)... - Note that the present argument is very similar to...

• Используя любой подобный метод, необходимо (помнить и т. п.)... - With any method such as this it is necessary to...

• Могло бы окзаться, что подобных элементов не существует, так что... - It may happen that no such elements exist, so that...

• На самом деле, подобные неопределенные идеи не говорят нам ничего. - Such vague ideas really tell us nothing.

• Нечто подобное могло бы быть проделано, даже если... - Something similar may be done even if...

• Но подобное представление не должно рассматриваться в буквальном смысле. - But such a representation must not be taken literally.

• Однако подобный подход не является удовлетворительным, поскольку... - Such an approach, however, is usually not satisfactory because...

• Остальные элементы могут быть найдены подобным образом. - The remaining elements may be found similarly.

• Оценки, подобные (3), легко получаются введением... - Estimates like (3) are easily obtained by introducing a...

• Очевидно, что подобный результат справедлив (и) для... - Obviously a similar result is true for...

• Парадоксы, подобные только что полученному, разрешаются (на основе и т. п.)... - Paradoxes such as the one just raised are resolved by...

• Подобная связь (= подобное соотношение) существует между... - A similar connection exists between...

• Подобная техника используется для... - A similar technique is used for...

• Подобное (утверждение и т. п.) невозможно принять без дальнейшего обоснования. - One cannot, without further justification, accept such a...

• Подобное возникает, если мы... - A related point arises if we...

• Подобное заключение справедливо и в двойственном случае, когда... - A similar conclusion holds in the dual case where... i

• Подобное обобщение возможно для... - A similar generalization is possible for...

• Подобное преобразование называется... - Such an arrangement is called...

• Подобное развитие событий происходит, когда... - A similar situation develops when...

• Подобное рассуждение можно использовать, когда... - A similar argument can be used when...

• Подобное рассуждение покажет нам... - A similar argument will show that...

• Подобное соглашение принимается, когда... - A similar convention is used when...

• Подобные выражения могут быть найдены для... - Similar expressions can be found for...

• Подобные вычисления выявляют (= показывают), что... - Similar computations reveal that...

• Подобные замечания имеют место, когда... - Similar remarks apply when...

• Подобные повреждения могут привести к потере... - Such injuries can result in a loss of...

• Подобные процессы просто не происходят. - Such processes simply do not occur.

• Подобные случаи могут описываться общим уравнением... - Such cases can be covered by the general equation...

• Подобные эксперименты были произведены Смитом [1]. - Similar experiments have been conducted by Smith [1].

• Подобные явления (= эффекты) не наблюдались в... - No such effects were observed in...

• Подобный алгоритм молено применить для решения уравнения (1). - A similar process can be applied to (1).

• Подобный аппарат называется... - Such a device is called a...

• Подобный в некотором роде результат выполняется для... - A somewhat similar result holds for...

• Подобный довод будет применяться, когда... - A similar argument will apply when...

• Подобный метод применяется к/в... - A similar method applies to...

• Подобным образом можно показать, что... - In like manner it can be shown that...

• Подобным образом мы легко можем выписать уравнение... — In the same way we can easily write down the equation of...

• Подобным образом мы можем... - In this manner we can...

• Подобным образом мы можем определить... - We can, in a similar way, define...

• Преобразуя подобным образом остальные

(= оставшиеся) члены, мы получаем... - Transforming the remaining terms in a similar manner, we obtain...

• Процесс, изображенный на рис. 1, подобен... - The process, shown in Fig. 1, is similar to...

• Рассматривая этот и подобные эксперименты, обнаруживают, что... - From this and similar experiments it is found that...

• Совершенно подобным образом можно показать, что... - It can be shown by an exactly similar process that...

• Это выражение в некотором роде подобно... - This expression is somewhat similar to...

• Это оказывается подобным... - This appears to be similar to...

f

1. suggestion, hint ( auf + Akk of) (beide auch fig.); versteckte: insinuation; (Hinweis) indication; eine Andeutung machen drop a hint; in Andeutungen reden beat about ( oder around) the bush; nicht die Andeutung eines Lächelns without a shimmer ( oder trace) of a smile

2. (SPUR) sign, trace, hint (+ Gen. of); Kunst: suggestion

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innuendo; insinuation; hint; intimation; suggestion; implication; adumbration; adumbrativeness; indication; inkling

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1) implication

2) (a statement that passes on information without giving it openly or directly: He didn't actually say he wanted more money, but he dropped a hint.) hint

3) intimation

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1. (flüchtiger Hinweis) hint

aus ihren \Andeutungen konnte ich schließen, dass... I gathered from her remarks that...

eine \Andeutung fallen lassen to drop a hint

eine \Andeutung auf etw akk sein to be a reference to sth

bei der geringsten \Andeutung von sth at the first sign of sth

eine versteckte \Andeutung an insinuation

eine \Andeutung [über jdn/etw] machen to make a remark [about sb/sth], to imply sth [about sb]

2. (Spur) hint, trace

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1) (Anspielung) hint

2) (schwaches Anzeichen) suggestion; hint

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Andeutung f

1. suggestion, hint (

auf +akk of) (beide auch fig); versteckte: insinuation; (Hinweis) indication;

eine Andeutung machen drop a hint;

in Andeutungen reden beat about ( oder around) the bush;

nicht die Andeutung eines Lächelns without a shimmer ( oder trace) of a smile

2. (Spur) sign, trace, hint (+gen of); KUNST suggestion

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1) (Anspielung) hint

2) (schwaches Anzeichen) suggestion; hint

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adumbration n.

hint n.

inkling n.

insinuation n.

intimation n.

suggestion n.

émouvoir [emuvwaʀ]

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1. transitive verb

[+ personne] to move ; ( = perturber, effrayer) to disturb

• leurs menaces ne l'émurent pas le moins du monde their threats didn't worry him in the slightest

• émouvoir qn jusqu'aux larmes to move sb to tears

2. reflexive verb

► s'émouvoir to be moved ; ( = être perturbé) to be disturbed ; ( = s'inquiéter) to be worried

• il ne s'émeut de rien nothing upsets him

• dit-il sans s'émouvoir he said calmly

• s'émouvoir à la vue de qch to be moved at the sight of sth

• le gouvernement s'en est ému the government was roused to action

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verbe transitif ( attendrir) to move; ( toucher) to touch

s'émouvoir verbe pronominal

1) ( être touché) to be touched

2) ( s'inquiéter)

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1) (= toucher) to touch, (= attendrir) to move

2) [communauté internationale, syndicats] to upset

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émouvoir verb table: mouvoir

A vtr ( attendrir) to move; ( toucher) to touch; émouvoir qn (jusqu')aux larmes to move sb to tears; votre sollicitude m'émeut I am touched by your concern; se laisser émouvoir par les larmes/prières de qn to be swayed by sb's tears/pleas; émouvoir l'opinion to cause a stir.

B s'émouvoir vpr

1 ( être touché) [personne] to be touched; s'émouvoir à la vue/au souvenir de to be touched by the sight/memory of;

2 ( s'inquiéter) le gouvernement s'émeut des troubles paysans the government is becoming concerned about the farmers' unrest; il ne s'émeut nullement de leur retard he's not at all worried by the fact that they are late; il ne s'est pas ému de mes remarques my remarks didn't bother him; il n'y a pas de quoi s'émouvoir there's nothing to get excited about; l'opinion publique fut lente à s'émouvoir there was no public outcry for quite some time; répondre sans s'émouvoir to reply calmly.

[emuvwar] verbe transitif

1. [attendrir] to touch, to move

2. [perturber] to disturb, to unsettle

se laisser émouvoir to let oneself be affected

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s'émouvoir verbe pronominal intransitif

1. [s'attendrir] to be touched ou moved

2. [être perturbé] to be disturbed ou perturbed

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s'émouvoir de verbe pronominal plus préposition

le gouvernement s'en est ému it came to the notice ou attention of the government