was entertaining

intruso, -a

Ex: We noticed that while Johnny was entertaining his guests Mr McGregor was trying to capture an interloper.

Ex: Librarians should be careful during this critical stage not to become intrusive elements.

Ex: Archaeologists are intruders from academe whose meddling presence upsets the balance of life.

Ex: The meeting was closed prematurely when police ordered the premises to be evacuated by the conferencers as well as the trespassers.

Ex: The minimally invasive nature of endoscopic surgery allows operations to be performed on patients through small incisions, often under local anaesthesia.

Ex: Many farmers and ranchers construct barbed-wire fences on their property to keep livestock in and unwelcome guests out.

intruso

intruder;

(Inf) cracker (colloq)
intruso,-a
I adjetivo intrusive
II 1 sustantivo masculino y femenino intruder
2 Jur trespasser
' intruso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
intrusa
English:
intruder
- outsider
- trespasser
- cracker
- interloper

DIVERTIDO ¿"Funny o fun"? ► Divertido solo se puede traducir por funny si nos hace reír: Acabo de ver una obra muy divertida I've just seen a very funny play ► Cuando hablamos de una actividad o situación divertida (en el sentido de entretenida y agradable), a menudo se la puede describir en inglés como fun: Me gusta jugar al escondite. Es muy divertido I like playing hide and seek. It's great fun NOTA: Fun es un sustantivo incontable y por lo tanto, al contrario que funny, no puede ir acompañado de adverbios como very. Se suele acompañar de great, good y a lot of. Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada

Ex: Having made this prefatory warning, it has also to be said that many teachers successfully contrive to make reviewing an enjoyable and useful ingredient in their book and reading programs.

Ex: This might, perhaps, be considered a facetious example; however, consider the effect of the indiscriminate use of LATIN AMERICA and SPANISH AMERICA.

Ex: It's laughable when Archie Bunker says that, because we know he's an uneducated slob.

Ex: In studying the structure of bibliographic control it is not difficult to discover strange, and even hilarious, examples of specialist bibliographic sources.

Ex: To make the reading more fun for the children we'll include a squib about the garbage dog from 'The Eighteenth Emergency' by Betsy Byars to put alongside a passage about mongrels from the 'World Book Encyclopedia'.

Ex: In the proceedings of the pioneer 1876 Conference of Librarians we can read that 'Mr Edmands gave some amusing illustrations to show that readers often had only the most vague idea of what they really wanted'.

Ex: This article reviews on-line data bases that may be used to search for references to humour (cartoons, funny articles and books, and medical aspects of humour).

Ex: The article is a playful attempt to describe the historical determinations of the subject.

Ex: The novel is a cheery social satire about geeky middle-aged men and their freakishly attractive, younger spouses.

Ex: In the year 2000, news and entertainment programs dedicated a great deal of comedic attention to the presidential election.

Ex: Never sentimental, the movie has moments of droll, deadpan humor.

* algo diverto que hacer = fun thing to do.

* de forma divertida = funnily.

* de manera divertida = funnily.

* de modo divertido = comically, funnily.

* lo divertido = the fun part.

 

Del verbo divertir: ( conjugate divertir)

divertido es:


Multiple Entries:
divertido    
divertir
divertido


‹momento/situación› entertaining;


divertir ( conjugate divertir) verbo transitivo
to amuse
divertirse verbo pronominal ( entretenerse) to amuse oneself;
( pasarlo bien) to have fun, enjoy oneself;

nos divertimos mucho en la fiesta we had a really good time at the party
divertido,-a adjetivo funny, amusing: son una pareja muy divertida, they are a very amusing couple
un libro divertido, a funny book ➣ Ver nota en funny
divertir verbo transitivo to amuse, entertain

' divertido' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
amén
- divertida
- lance
- monda
- salada
- salado
- simpática
- simpático
- tío
- cachondo
- gracioso
- más
- piola
English:
amusing
- comic
- enjoyable
- entertaining
- fun
- funny
- humorous
- hysterical
- riotously
- amused
- company
[fiesta] enjoyable;

distraído, -a

Ex: A class may be keen, alert, contributive, except for one child who is withdrawn, distracted, unresponsive.

Ex: They may be unfocused, underprepared, and not of a frame of mind to devote time and thoughtful energy to library research.

Ex: Puberty, he describes as ' dreamy and sentimental' and though this may seem a far cry from the teenagers we would recognize that adolescence brings an awakening of emotions, idealism and commitment to a romantic ideal.

Del verbo distraer: ( conjugate distraer)

distraído es:


Multiple Entries:
distraer    
distraído
distraer ( conjugate distraer) verbo transitivo

distraído a algn de algo ‹de trabajo/estudios› to distract sb from sth ‹ de preocupaciones› to take sb's mind off sth

distraerse verbo pronominal



se distrae con cualquier cosa she doesn't need much to keep amused
distraído




distraer verbo transitivo
1 (entretener) to entertain: la televisión distrae a la abuela, the television keeps Grandmother amused
2 (desviar la atención) to distract
distraído,-a adjetivo
1 (entretenido) entertaining
2 (despistado) absent-minded
' distraído' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abstraída
- abstraído
- distraída
- ida
- ido
- atontado
- ausente
- desatento
English:
absent-minded
- distracted
- dreamy
- vague
- absent
- inattentive
[programa de TV, película] watchable; [persona] amusing, entertaining;

1. 2. 1. 2.

* distraer la atención = distract + attention.

* distraer + Posesivo + atención = divert + Posesivo + attention.

* distraerse con otra cosa = sidetrack.

 

distraer ( conjugate distraer) verbo transitivo

distraer a algn de algo ‹de trabajo/estudios› to distract sb from sth ‹ de preocupaciones› to take sb's mind off sth

distraerse verbo pronominal



se distrae con cualquier cosa she doesn't need much to keep amused
distraer verbo transitivo
1 (entretener) to entertain: la televisión distrae a la abuela, the television keeps Grandmother amused
2 (desviar la atención) to distract
' distraer' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
distraerse
- entretener
English:
distract
- keep from
- divert
- put
[entretener] to be entertaining;

1. 2. 1. 2.

Ex: Literary novels do not set out simply to entertain and give enjoyment; indeed they can be tremendously depressing.

* divertirse = have + fun, amuse, derive + enjoyment, disport + Reflexivo.

* divertirse de lo lindo = have + a ball.

* para divertirse = for kicks.

* por divertirse = for kicks.

 

divertir ( conjugate divertir) verbo transitivo
to amuse
divertirse verbo pronominal ( entretenerse) to amuse oneself;
( pasarlo bien) to have fun, enjoy oneself;

nos divertimos mucho en la fiesta we had a really good time at the party
divertir verbo transitivo to amuse, entertain

' divertir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
entretener
- divierta
English:
amuse
- divert
- entertain
[entretener] to entertain, to amuse;

1. 2. 1. 2.
entretener ( conjugate entretener) verbo transitivo
1 [crucigrama/libro] to keep … amused;
[obra/payaso] to entertain;

2



entretenerse verbo pronominal
1



[ niño] she's happy playing with anything

2 ( demorarse) to hang around, dally about
entretener verbo transitivo
1 (divertir) to entertain, amuse
2 (retrasar) to hold up
' entretener' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
distraer
English:
amuse
- delay
- divert
- entertain
- hold back
- keep
- stall
- distract

Ex: 'It's up to you to see that things are done,' she defended herself, somewhat nervous and abashed by his formidable stare.

Ex: Given such an impressive array of advantages it may seem surprising that conventional subject indexes to the literature continue to be produced.

Ex: A very striking example of this is the fact that in all our rules there is the provision that anonymous publications should be entered under the author when known.

Ex: Some of the books recently published in the field of automotive engineering can perhaps best be described as awe-inspiring.

Ex: Some of the books recently published in the field of automotive engineering can perhaps best be described as awe-inspiring.

Ex: Today's imposing array of courses is seen as a worthy monument to the efforts of those who have given so much to education for librarianship.

Ex: This breathtaking building is 213 meters long and has over 300 windows.

Ex: He is a skillful raconteur, his writing is wonderfully entertaining and his message is controversial, bedazzling, savvy, disquieting... yet optimistic.

Ex: It asserts that the answer to the problems relating to the astonishing growth of great research libraries lies in large-scale interlibrary cooperation.

Ex: There were some quite spectacular success stories reported of SLIS exporting their IT talents to the rest of the institution.

Ex: In the sometimes frenetic push towards the somewhat awesome concept of Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC), the library needs of the nonscholar are easily overlooked.

Ex: We will stop along the way to visit towering forests, waterfalls and scenic lakes.

* de un modo impresionante = impressively.

* paisaje impresionante = breathtaking scenery.

 

impresionante adjetivo ‹éxito/cantidad/paisaje› amazing, incredible;
‹ accidente› horrific
impresionante adjetivo
1 (admirable) impressive, striking: contemplamos un paisaje impresionante, we contemplated the astonishing landscape
(sobrecogedor) shocking: sufrió un impresionante accidente, she had a horrific accident
2 (intensificador) fue una metedura de pata impresionante, it was a terrible blunder
tengo unas ganas impresionantes de verte, I can hardly wait to see you
' impresionante' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
ciega
- ciego
- conquistar
- espectáculo
- formidable
- imponente
- cantidad
English:
awe-inspiring
- awesome
- breathtaking
- effective
- imposing
- impressive
- impressively
- mighty
- spectacular
- stunning
- towering
- awe
- breath
- cool

Ex: In coventional libraries, such searches usually involve an enormous amount of time and energy.

Ex: Information technology continues to develop at an exponential rate.

Ex: The minutely detailed classification is of the type appropriate to an extensive collection.

Ex: A user searching for Smith's 'History as Argument' who was not sure under which subject it would be entered, would have to prowl through a huge number of cards in a card catalog to find the entry under SMITH.

Ex: It is still the same inexorably literal logic which must ultimately glance into the chaos, and small differences create infinite displacements between records.

Ex: The only problem is the mammoth task of interfiling new cards, especially in catalogues where there are large numbers of new or amended entries.

Ex: When the use of all synonymous terms would result in a massive duplication of A/Z subject index entries 'see references' are employed.

Ex: She was chairperson of the Task Force that in 1972 wrote a monumental report about discrimination against women in the library profession.

Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

Ex: Mexico is undergoing an intense epidemiological transition characterised by a decline in the incidence of infectious diseases and a rapid increase in the importance of chronic illnesses and accidents.

Ex: The major problem encountered in encouraging young adults to use public libraries is the abysmal lack of specialist young adult librarians = El principal problema que se encuentra para es incentivar a los jóvenes a usar las bibliotecas públicas es la enorme falta de bibliotecarios especialistas en temas relacionados con los adolescentes.

Ex: A task of Herculean proportions is how some members of Senate describe it.

Ex: University libraries have a problem in theft of books which is running at a colossal rate.

Ex: Even though they are not as long as I think they should be, many of the stories are of epic proportions and many of them are very entertaining.

Ex: Bogardus privately resolved that nothing would induce her to assent to this monstrous possibility.

Ex: Hurricane Rita became a monster of a storm as it gathered strength over the Gulf of Mexico.

Ex: The Ibbs family where founder members of this Herculanian pottery in Liverpool, England.

 

enorme adjetivo ‹edificio/animal/suma› huge, enormous;
‹ zona› vast, huge;

enorme adjetivo enormous, huge: vimos un elefante enorme, we saw an enormous elephant
(de consideración) un enorme error, a clanger

' enorme' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
atroz
- botija
- congratularse
- desnivel
- estrepitosa
- estrepitoso
- satisfacción
- soberana
- soberano
- sofoco
- supina
- supino
English:
effective
- enormous
- face
- gaping
- ginormous
- huge
- immense
- massive
- monstrous
- monumental
- vast
- whopper
- world
- derive
- extreme
- gigantic
- it
- prodigious
- scar
- yawning
[defecto, error] huge;

Ex: He dismissed the image of overloaded libraries collapsing under the weight of a surfeit of paper as 'mythology'.

Ex: The true cause of the decline is likely to have been too much competition, not too little, with a superfluity of printers everywhere competing by offering ever cheaper products.

Ex: Sometimes even an added entry is considered an extravagance.

Ex: Given that within the superabundance of information there are subject gaps, this paper looks at the responsibility of the information worker in transmitting 'facts'.

Ex: Therefore, there must be some slack in the system to absorb the additional I & R services or the service must be reduced in other areas.

Ex: Although it is entertaining to note the extravagant purchases of the very rich, many stories do little beyond documenting sprees of consumption.

Ex: Despite the vast monetary resources involved, America's imprisonment binge has had only minimal effects on crime.

Ex: A feminist theory of eating problems (anorexia, bulimia, extensive dieting, & binging) is developed.

Ex: The worldwide oversupply of offshore drilling rigs has decreased rapidly in the past six years.

Ex: The book falls apart in the second half when its excess of cultural references eventually makes it suffer from bloat.

Ex: Almost no one is publishing literary criticism and yet a glut of self-help titles are published every year.

* abundante en exceso = lavish.

* en exceso = overflow, overflowing, excessively, excess, to excess.

* exceso de carga = overload.

* exceso de estoc = overage.

* exceso de existencias = overstocking, overage.

* exceso de fondos = overstock.

* exceso de gastos = overrun [over-run], cost overrun.

* exceso de habitantes = overcrowding [over-crowding].

* exceso de información = information overload.

* exceso de medios = overkill.

* exceso de mortalidad = excess mortality.

* exceso de personal administrativo = administrative bloat.

* exceso de peso = overweight.

* exceso de plantilla administrativa = administrative bloat.

* exceso de población = overpopulation.

* exceso de publicaciones = overpublishing.

* exceso de tirada = overrun [over-run].

* exceso de vello = hirsutism.

* exceso de velocidad = speeding.

* exceso en el presupuesto = budget overrun, overrun [over-run], cost overrun.

* exceso en la bebida = intemperance.

* excesos = overindulgence.

* gastar en exceso = overspend.

* hacer Algo en exceso = push + Nombre + too far.

* liberar del exceso de trabajo = relieve + overload.

* multa por exceso de velocidad = speeding ticket, speed ticket.

* por exceso = excessively, to excess.

* representar en exceso = overrepresent.

* simplificado en exceso = oversimplified [over-simplified].

* simplificar en exceso = oversimplify.

* usado en exceso = overused [over-used].

 

exceso sustantivo masculino




me multaron por exceso de velocidad I was fined for speeding;
en exceso ‹beber/fumar/trabajar› too much


exceso sustantivo masculino excess
exceso de peso, excess weight
♦ Locuciones: en exceso, in excess, excessively
' exceso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abusar
- borrachera
- hincharse
- licencia
- recalentar
- redondear
- sobrar
- sobrepeso
- sopor
- trincar
- calentar
- desmán
- gordura
English:
blitz
- burn out
- caution
- excess
- excess baggage
- excessively
- fuss over
- fussy
- glut
- licence
- nerve
- overbook
- overdo
- overflow
- overweight
- overwork
- pack
- pull over
- speed
- speeding
- surfeit
- top-heavy
- heavily
- over
exceso de confianza overconfidence;

encachado


‹ persona› attractive


' encachado' also found in these entries:
English:
neat
Chile Fam nice

Ex: It is a well-known fact that they're grossly deficient in identifiying talented minority children, and, for that matter, girls.

Ex: If you pause to think of all the form concepts you will soon realize that this policy would result in a massive and uneconomical number of rather unhelpful index entries.

Ex: Even an informative title is by nature of a title, succinct, and therefore severely limited in the quantity of information that can be conveyed.

Ex: Because index terms must be used as access points, the summarization of document content achieved in indexing documents must be more tightly structured.

Ex: Meanwhile the ALA and others are making wildly improbable statements about the supposedly numerous opportunities for library school graduates due to the alleged shortage of librarians.

Ex: School classrooms are sometimes extraordinarily badly designed with poor acoustics, ineffective blackout facilities, and notoriously eccentric electrical outlets.

Ex: We also know that large catalogs are not only incredibly expensive to maintain, but are increasingly impossible to use.

Ex: Perhaps it was a ludicrously inadequate expression of her profound surprise.

Ex: The author's manuscript was seriously inadequate in this respect.

Ex: For example, searching the databse for 'kidney circulation' without using the thesaurus yields disappointingly small results.

Ex: Not least significant as a means of increasing the visibility of recorded knowledge is the progress made in the computerization of indexes, bibliographies etc and of library catalogues.

Ex: Library services in the past have been far from neutral, indeed are heavily biased towards the literate middle class who form the bulk of library users.

Ex: The control function is, in these cases, not one exercised by the bibliographer but by a political power much superior.

Ex: A public library is a mighty good thing.

Ex: Libraries can obtain updated cataloguing through special customised services, but at prohibitively high cost.

Ex: The article is entitled 'The ISBN: a good tool sorely misused'.

Ex: Wood is not only a supremely abundant raw material, but it can also be made into a product which is second only to pure rag paper for appearance, strength, and durability.

Ex: But it is quite possible for someone to read the story as a vastly entertaining collection of picaresque adventure written with consummate skill and full of 'colorful' characters.

Ex: One cannot study any aspect of the reference process without being made aware just how vitally dependent it is for its success on the librarian's personal qualities.

Ex: The young librarian was immensely depressed as she pattered down the hall towards the mail room.

Ex: This kind of distribution is represented by a curve which shows a hugely lopsided frequency for the majority, then a dramatic drop, dribbling off into a long tail of mostly zeros.

Ex: People use a library significantly less than they say they do.

Ex: Most worrying for all retailers is the continuing upward spiral in overheads and specifically in rents and rates.

Ex: Therese Lawrence provides an impressively detailed list of categories of material fit for collection by libraries.

pl festejos (=fiestas) festivities

Ex: Sometimes this was done simply by staying away (Saint Monday was always a popular feast in the trade), but perhaps more often by contracting with the master to work less.

Del verbo festejar: ( conjugate festejar)

festejo es:


festejó es:


Multiple Entries:
festejar    
festejo
festejar ( conjugate festejar) verbo transitivo (AmL) ( celebrar) to celebrate
festejo sustantivo masculino
celebration, festivity
festejar verbo transitivo to celebrate
festejo
I sustantivo masculino celebration
II mpl festivities
festejos taurinos bullfights

Ex: The only problem is the mammoth task of interfiling new cards, especially in catalogues where there are large numbers of new or amended entries.

Ex: University libraries have a problem in theft of books which is running at a colossal rate.

Ex: Even though they are not as long as I think they should be, many of the stories are of epic proportions and many of them are very entertaining.

Ex: Unmindful of the epic moves that made it what it is today, Elwood Bibeau fastened his seat belt as his plane approached the Wexler airport.

Ex: Significant political events often summon forth larger-than-life figures and the inevitable clash of titans.

colosal adjetivo ‹estatua/obra/fortuna› colossal;
‹ambiente/idea› (fam) great (colloq)
colosal adjetivo
1 (grande) colossal
2 (magnífico, extraordinario) great, fantastic: este parque de atracciones es colosal, this amusement park is fantastic
' colosal' also found in these entries:
English:
colossal
- mammoth
- epic
[descaro] incredible;

Ex: It was initially intended for use in the classified arrangement of a grandiose index to all recorded human knowledge, a 'universal index'.

Ex: Even though they are not as long as I think they should be, many of the stories are of epic proportions and many of them are very entertaining.

Ex: Unmindful of the epic moves that made it what it is today, Elwood Bibeau fastened his seat belt as his plane approached the Wexler airport.

grandioso



grandioso,-a adjetivo grandiose
' grandioso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
grandiosa
- majestad
English:
grand

Ex: This cookbook is designed to help teachers and librarians engage in beneficial collaborations to bring reading to the lips of students in new and ' delicious' ways.

Ex: The majority of the essays concentrate on the fascination that the dance and music traditions have provoked through their savory mix of passion and melancholia.

Ex: The stories are told in the breathless voice of a gossip, full of juicy tidbits, and a shrewd understanding of what makes one life connect to another.

Ex: Some tasty ready-made sarnies you can buy in shops are so full of salt they should have a health warning, says a group of experts.

Ex: They then went to a rather dainty little Italian restaurant where they ate a scrumptious meal and drank a bottle of wine.

Ex: Our testing found that gently pounding individual stalks released the delicate, perfumed and flavorful oils of the lemongrass.

Ex: Full-flavoured, deliciously sweet and tender, British asparagus is regularly described as the 'best in the world'.

Ex: This yummy and mellow fruit is full of phytonutrients, helps fight chronic disease and improves memory and learning.

* hacer más sabroso = pep up.

sabroso

1 ‹ comida› tasty, delicious;
‹chisme/historia› spicy (colloq), juicy (colloq)
2 (AmL fam) ( agradable) ‹música/ritmo› pleasant, nice;
‹clima/agua› beautiful
sabroso,-a adjetivo
1 (un alimento, una bebida) tasty
2 (cuantioso, importante) a la muerte de su padre, ha heredado una sabrosa suma, she inherited a large sum of money on the death of her father
3 fam (una anécdota, etc) juicy: me han contado una anécdota muy sabrosa, I've heard a juicy bit of gossip
4 (ligeramente salado) el guiso te ha salido algo sabroso, the stew has turned out to be a bit salty
' sabroso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
añales
- buena
- bueno
- exquisita
- exquisito
- rica
- rico
- sabrosa
- par
- relamerse
English:
gossip
- savory
- savoury
- tasty
- juicy
- spicy
Carib, Col, Méx

1. (f. - media)

adj.

1) middle

2) half

3) average

4) medium

2. adv.

1) half

2) rather

3. noun m. asta, luz 1), mundo 2), naranja 1., 3), palabra 1), voz 1), vuelta 1) plazo término 2) I II III I II III

Ex: The output of paperbacks accounted for one-third of the total US book production by 1962; nearly one-half of the fiction produced and a quarter of the available titles.

* Alta Edad Media, la = Early Middle Ages, the, High Middle Ages, the, Dark Ages, the.

* a media asta = at half-mast, at half staff.

* a media mañana = mid-morning.

* a medias entre... y... = betwixt and between.

* a medio abrir = half-opened.

* a medio camino = halfway [half-way/half way].

* a medio comprender = half-understood.

* a medio formar = half-formed.

* a medio fuego = medium heat.

* a medio hacer = halfway done, half done.

* a medio plazo = near-term, in the medium term, medium-term, in the mid-term, mid-term [midterm].

* a medio rimar = half-rhymed.

* a medio vestir = partly dressed, half dressed.

* arco de medio punto = round arch.

* baja Edad Media, la = late Middle Ages, the.

* barba de media tarde = five o'clock shadow.

* clase media = middle class.

* cocer a medias = parboil.

* comprendido a medias = half-understood.

* dar media vuelta = do + an about-face.

* darse media vuelta = turn on + Posesivo + heel.

* de la edad media = dark-age.

* del medio = middle.

* del Medio Oriente = Middle Eastern.

* de media jornada = half-day [half day].

* de media mañana = mid-morning.

* de medio día de duración = half-day [half day].

* de medio pelo = small-time.

* de talla media = middle-sized.

* dividir por medio = rend in + two.

* Edad Media = mediaeval ages [medieval ages, -USA], Middle Ages.

* edición media = medium edition.

* en el nivel medio de = in the middle range of.

* en medio de = amidst, in the midst of, in the throes of, right in, amid.

* entender a medias = pick up + the fag-ends.

* enterarse a medias = pick up + the fag-ends.

* entre medias = in between.

* estar a medio camino entre... y... = lie + midway between... and....

* estar en medio de = caught in the middle.

* estar justo en medio de = stand + squarely in.

* foto de medio cuerpo = mugshot [mug shot].

* haber dinero de por medio = money + change hands.

* haber una transacción económica de por medio = money + change hands.

* habitante del Medio Oriente = Middle Easterner.

* histeria a medias = semi-hysteria.

* Hora + y media = half past + Hora.

* IME (Integración a Media Escala) = MSI (Medium Scale Integration).

* justo en el medio (de) = plumb in the middle (of).

* letra rota o a medio imprimir = broken letter.

* línea de medio campo = halfway line.

* media docena = half a dozen, half-dozen.

* media hora = half-hour.

* Media Luna Roja, la = Red Crescent, the.

* media luz = half-light.

* media pensión = half board.

* media tinta = Mezzotint.

* media verdad = half truth, half-fact.

* media vuelta = about-face.

* medio abierto = half-opened, half-way open.

* medio administrativo = quasi-clerical.

* medio adormilado = bleary-eyed.

* medio despierto = drowsily, groggily, bleary-eyed.

* medio día = one-half day.

* medio dormido = drowsily, groggily, groggy [groggier -comp., groggiest -sup.].

* medio en broma = tongue-in-cheek.

* medio + Expresión Temporal = half + a + Expresión Temporal.

* medio hecho = halfway done, half done.

* Medio Oeste, el = Midwest, the.

* Medio Oriente = Middle East.

* medio pliego = half-sheet.

* medio sumergido = half-submerged.

* medio vacío = half-empty.

* medio vestido = partly dressed, half dressed.

* nacido en medio = middleborn.

* nivel medio de gestión = middle management.

* pantalones de media caña = knee breeches, jodhpurs.

* partir por medio = rend in + two.

* Pasado = half + Pasado/Participio.

* ponerse en medio = get in + the way (of).

* Posesivo + media naranja = Posesivo + significant other, Posesivo + better half, Posesivo + other half.

* punto medio = mid-point.

* quedarse a medias = fall (between/through) + the cracks.

* quitarse de en medio = take + Nombre + out.

* quitarse del medio = run for + cover.

* sin obstáculos de por medio = uncluttered.

* tener un problema medio resuelto = have + problem half licked.

* tentempié de media mañana = elevenses.

* un día y medio = one and a half days.

* verdad a medias = half truth, half-fact.

Ex: This is 'scientific journalism' at its worst, but its standards are not wholly different from those of the mainline press.

Ex: Some children may be constrained by a mainstream curriculum that does not match their ability level.

* ciudadano medio, el = average man, the.

* como término medio = on average.

* de nivel cultural medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].

* de nivel medio = medium level [medium-level], middle-range.

* de precio medio = medium-priced.

* de talle medio = medium-length.

* de tamaño medio = medium-sized, mid-sized [midsized], middle-sized, mid-size [midsize].

* de tipo medio = middle-range.

* el ciudadano medio = the average Joe.

* hombre medio, el = average person, the.

* la ciudadana media = the average Jane.

* nivel de dominio medio = working knowledge.

* persona con nivel cultural medio = middlebrow [middle-brow].

* por término medio = on average.

* precio medio = average price.

* tener por término medio = average.

* término medio = compromise, balance.

Ex: The easiest means of illustrating some of the foregoing points is to introduce in outline some special classification schemes.

Ex: This journal serves as a vehicle for the continuing education of librarians, as a showcase for current practice and as a spotlight for significant activities.

* alfabetización en los medios de comunicación = media literacy.

* anuncios en los medios de comunicación = media releases.

* aprendizaje a través de medios electrónicos = online learning.

* aprendizaje por medio del ordenador = computer-based learning (CBL).

* bibliotecario de medios audiovisuales = library media specialist.

* bien dotado de medios = well-resourced.

* bien equipado de medios = well-resourced.

* búsqueda por medio de menús = menu-assisted searching.

* búsqueda por medio de órdenes = command search.

* codificación por medio de códigos de barras = barcoding [bar-coding].

* codificar por medio de códigos de barras = barcode [bar-code].

* conducir por medio de tubos = duct.

* confundir los medios con el fin = confuse + the means with the ends.

* con medios insuficientes = on a shoestring (budget).

* con medios muy escasos = on a shoestring (budget).

* con medios muy exiguos = on a shoestring (budget).

* con muy pocos medios = on a shoestring (budget).

* con todos los medios a + Posesivo + alcance = with all the means at + Posesivo + disposal.

* desplazamiento por medio del ordenador = computer commuting.

* documentalista de los medios de comunicación = news librarian.

* dotar de medios = resource.

* el fin justifica los medios = the end justifies the means.

* empresa de medios de comunicación = media company.

* enseñanza a través de medios electrónicos = online education.

* enseñanza por medio del ordenador (CBI) = computer-based instruction (CBI).

* entrevista en los medios de comunicación = media interview.

* equipar de medios = resource.

* exceso de medios = overkill.

* expansión de una búsqueda por medio del tesauro = thesaurus expansion.

* industria de los medios de comunicación de masas = mass communications industry.

* interfaz por medio de gráficos = graphics interfacing.

* máquina de registro de préstamos por medio de la fotografía = photocharger, photocharging machine.

* medio de ahorro = economy measure.

* medio de almacenamiento = storage medium.

* medio de almacenamiento físico = physical storage media.

* medio de comunicación = medium [media, -pl.].

* medio de interpretación = medium of performance.

* medio de transmisión = conduit.

* medio físico = physical medium.

* medios = ways and means.

* medios de almacenamiento digital = digital media.

* medios de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage media.

* medios de comunicación = news media.

* medios de comunicación de masas = mass media, mass communications media, communications media, communications media.

* medios de comunicación social = mass media.

* medios de microalmacenamiento de la información = microstorage media.

* medios de producción = means of production.

* medios digitalizados de almacenamiento de información = digitised media.

* medios económicos = economic resources.

* medios, los = wherewithal, the, means, the.

* medios oficiales = official channels.

* medios técnicos = IT capabilities.

* medios visuales = visual media.

* mostrar por medio de cambio de intensidad en el brillo = flash up.

* multimedia = multimedia [multi-media].

* mundo de los medios de comunicación, el = mediascape, the.

* por medio = out of.

* por medio de = by means of, by way of, in the form of, through, via, via the medium of, by dint of.

* por medio de isótopos = isotopically.

* por medio de otro(s) = by proxy.

* por medio de una agencia = on a bureau basis.

* por todos los medios = by all means.

* proporcionar los medios para = provide + the material for.

* ser un medio para llegar a un fin = be the means to an end.

* streaming media = streaming media.

* técnica de recuperación por medio de la lógica difusa = fuzzy IR technique.

* terapia por medio de aromas = aroma therapy.

* tratar por todos los medios de = take + (great) pains to.

* tratar por todos los medios de + Verbo = be at pains to + Infinitivo.

* un medio para alcanzar un fin = a means to an end.

* un medio para conseguir un fin = a means to an end.

* un medio para llegar a fin = a means to an end.

 

Del verbo mediar: ( conjugate mediar)

medio es:


medió es:


Multiple Entries:
mediar    
medio
mediar ( conjugate mediar) verbo intransitivo

medio EN algo ‹en conflicto/negociaciones› to mediate in sth, to act as mediator in sth

medio ANTE algn to intercede o intervene with sb
medio 1

1 ( delante del n) ( la mitad de):

media manzana half an apple;
pagar medio pasaje to pay half fare o half price;
media hora half an hour, a half hour (AmE);
dos horas y media two and a half hours;
a las cinco y media at half past five;
a media mañana/tarde in the middle of the morning/afternoon;
a medio camino halfway;
media pensión ( en hoteles) half board;
(se) dio medio vuelta y se fue she turned on her heel and left;
un jugador de medio campo a midfield player;
medio tiempo (AmL) half-time;
mi media naranja (fam &
hum) my better half (colloq & hum)
2 (mediano, promedio) average;

a medio y largo plazo in the medium and long term
medio 2 adverbio
half;

todo lo deja a medio terminar he leaves everything half finished
■ sustantivo masculino
1 (Mat) ( mitad) half
2 ( centro) middle;

quitarse de en or del medio to get out of the way
3


los medios de comunicación the media;
medio de transporte means of transport


4 ( en locs)

en medio de la confusión in o amid all the confusion;
por medio (CS, Per): día/semana por medio every other day/week;
dos casas por medio every two houses;
por medio de (de proceso/técnica) by means of;
por medio de tu primo from o through your cousin
5


no está en su medio he's out of his element


medio ambiente environment;
que no da daña el medio ambiente eco-friendly, environmentally friendly
mediar verbo intransitivo
1 (arbitrar, intervenir) to mediate: España mediará en el conflicto, Spain will mediate in the conflict
2 (interceder) to intercede: mediará por ti, she'll intercede on your behalf
3 (interponerse) media la circunstancia de que..., you must take into account that...
4 (periodo de tiempo) to pass: mediaron un par de días, two days passed
medio,-a
I adjetivo
1 (mitad) half: sólo queda medio melón, there is only half a melon left
una hora y media, an hour and a half
2 (no extremo) middle
a media tarde, in the middle of the afternoon
clase media, middle class
punto medio, middle ground
3 (prototípico) average: la calidad media es baja, the average quality is poor
la mujer media, the average woman
II adverbio half: el trabajo está medio hecho, the work is half done
III sustantivo masculino
1 (mitad) half
2 (centro) middle
en medio de la batalla, in the midst of the battle
en medio de los árboles, among the trees
(entre dos) in between the trees
un barco en medio del desierto, a ship in the middle of the desert
sal de ahí en medio, get out of the way
3 (instrumento, vía) means: el fin no justifica los medios, the aim doesn't justify the means
4 (entorno) enviroment
un medio hostil, a hostile enviroment
' medio' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
achuchar
- adivinarse
- ambiente
- calle
- camino
- coger
- conducto
- coralina
- coralino
- cuerpo
- Ecuador
- elemento
- en
- entorno
- habitar
- lado
- locomoción
- media
- ocupante
- odisea
- oriente
- perder
- por
- radical
- recurso
- sacar
- tener
- término
- tierra
- través
- a
- alzado
- arma
- atontado
- caja
- canal
- derruido
- destruir
- día
- efectivo
- gusto
- hombre
- hostil
- instrumento
- ir
- loco
- Medio Oriente
- mejor
- menos
- meter
English:
about
- air
- and
- average
- backdrop
- between
- bread
- call away
- canter
- centre
- cobble together
- discern
- East
- end
- environment
- environmentalist
- envoy
- freight
- half
- half-dead
- half-dressed
- half-empty
- half-full
- half-open
- half-serious
- half-way
- mean
- means
- medium
- medium-term
- mid
- middle
- Middle East
- middleweight
- midst
- moderate
- on
- over
- part
- resource
- Roman arch
- rough up
- sandwich course
- scrum-half
- semiliterate
- shelf
- slush
- slushy
- stimulate
- television
[en trabajo] halfway through; Andes, Méx, Ven medio fondo waist petticoat o slip; Fam Fig media naranja: CSur medio pupilo [que va a dormir a casa] day pupil; [que va a casa el fin de semana] boarder; [posición, punto] middle; medio campo midfield; Am medio tiempo half-time Mat mean; Fig [entrometerse] to interfere; Fam los medios de comunicación the media; medio ambiente environment; Biol medio de cultivo culture medium; [en rugby] halfback medio (de) apertura [en rugby] fly half, stand-off; CSur Fam