(sin cultivar)

Ex: This guide discusses preparedness and procedures for wildland fires, power outages, lightning, earthquakes, tidal waves, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and cold and heat waves.

Ex: Such familiarity can be cultivated with experience, and will consider the following features of data bases.

Ex: In this fully updated work, nearly 500 species and cultivars of the crowning jewels of water gardens, the water lilies and lotuses, are described.

Ex: Seeds blown by wind or carried by animals germinated and began sprouting green life in the barren area.

Ex: Some users hope that market forces will force some of the smaller hosts out of the marketplace, but with cheaper telecommunications and computing technology this seems something of a vain hope.

las zonas más ricas/remotas/deprimidas del país — the richest/remotest/most depressed areas o parts of the country

• zonas costeras — coastal areas

• zona montañosa o de montaña — mountainous area, mountainous region

• zonas rurales — rural areas

• zonas turísticas — tourist areas

• zonas urbanas — urban areas

zona de conflicto — (Mil) conflict zone

zona fronteriza — [gen] border area; (Mil) border zone

zona roja — Esp Republican territory

zona azul — Esp (Aut) ≈ pay-and-display area

• zona comercial — [para negocios en general] commercial district; [solo de tiendas] shopping area

• zona de copas, ¿dónde está la zona de copas? — where do people go out to drink?

• zona edificada — built-up area

zona marginada — CAm slum area

zona roja — LAm red-light district

zona rosa — Méx partly pedestrianized zone, so called because of its pink paving stones

zona ancha — (Dep) midfield

zona de castigo — (Dep) sin bin

zona de penumbra, zona de sombra — (lit) shaded area; (fig) area of secrecy

las zonas oscuras de la política — the shady o murky areas of politics

Ex: The area in which standards for bibliographic description have had the most impact is in catalogues and catalogue record data bases.

Ex: In addition they are able to sustain the library services in this rough terrain.

campos incultos — unbestellte Felder n/pl

Ex: Eliot somehow suggests that a mix of blood and electricity might yet redeem the petty materialism of the modern world that he had previously seen only as a wasteland.

• tierra adentro — inland

• por tierra — overland, by land

atravesar un país por tierra — to go overland o by land across a country

• tomar tierra — to reach port, get in

• tocar tierra — to touch down

• tomar tierra — to land

tierra firme — (=no aire) solid ground; (=no agua) land

• caer a tierra — to fall down

• caer por tierra — [persona] to fall to the ground; [argumento, teoría] to fall apart

• dar con algo en tierra — to knock sth over

• echar a tierra — [+ construcción, rival] to knock down

• echarse a tierra — to throw o.s. on o to the ground

con los zapatos llenos de tierra — (=polvo) with his shoes covered in dust; (=barro) with his shoes covered in mud

viviendas con suelo de tierra — houses with earth o dirt floors

• sacudir la tierra — Cono Sur, Méx to dust

le vienes a echar tierra a mi carro con tu descapotable — your convertible makes my car look ridiculous o really bad

tierra caliente — LAm land below 1000m approximately

tierra fría — LAm land above 2000m approximately

tierra quemada — (Pol) scorched earth

tierra templada — LAm land between 1000m and 2000m approximately

todo refugiado siente nostalgia de su tierra — every refugee feels homesick for or misses his native land o homeland

• de la tierra — [vino, queso] local, locally produced; [fruta, verduras] locally grown

la expropiación de tierras palestinas — the expropriation of Palestinian land o lands

conectar un aparato a tierra — to earth o (EEUU) ground an appliance

tierra labrantía or de cultivo — arable o cultivated land

poner tierra de por medio — to make oneself scarce (colloq)

ésta es muy buena tierra — this is very good land o soil

un camino de tierra — a dirt road o track

cuerpo a tierra! — hit the ground! (colloq)

echar algo por tierra — <edificio/monumento> to pull o knock down; < planes> to wreck, ruin; < argumentos> to demolish, destroy; < esperanzas> to dash

echarle tierra a algo/alguien — (Col fam) to put something/somebody to shame, make something/somebody look bad

echar tierra a or sobre algo — ( ocultarlo) to cover o hush something up; ( olvidarlo) to forget about something

tragarse la tierra a alguien: como si se lo hubiera tragado la tierra as if he'd vanished off the face of the earth; deseé que me tragara la tierra — I just wanted the earth to open and swallow me up

estar conectado a tierra or (AmL) hacer tierra — to be grounded o earthed

tierra a la vista! — land ho o ahoy!

viajar por tierra — to travel overland o by land

decidió volver a su tierra — he decided to return to his homeland o to his native land

costumbres de aquellas tierras — customs in those places o countries

tierra labrantía or de cultivo — arable o cultivated land

poner tierra de por medio — to make oneself scarce (colloq)

ésta es muy buena tierra — this is very good land o soil

un camino de tierra — a dirt road o track

cuerpo a tierra! — hit the ground! (colloq)

echar algo por tierra — <edificio/monumento> to pull o knock down; < planes> to wreck, ruin; < argumentos> to demolish, destroy; < esperanzas> to dash

echarle tierra a algo/alguien — (Col fam) to put something/somebody to shame, make something/somebody look bad

echar tierra a or sobre algo — ( ocultarlo) to cover o hush something up; ( olvidarlo) to forget about something

tragarse la tierra a alguien: como si se lo hubiera tragado la tierra as if he'd vanished off the face of the earth; deseé que me tragara la tierra — I just wanted the earth to open and swallow me up

estar conectado a tierra or (AmL) hacer tierra — to be grounded o earthed

tierra a la vista! — land ho o ahoy!

viajar por tierra — to travel overland o by land

decidió volver a su tierra — he decided to return to his homeland o to his native land

costumbres de aquellas tierras — customs in those places o countries

Ex: Until recently all libraries and some architects have maintained that an academic library should be capable of extension and that land should be reserved for future expansion.

esta vida terrena — this earthly life liter

nos hemos comprado un terreno en las afueras — we've bought a piece of land o plot of land o some land on the outskirts of the city

los accidentes del terreno — the unevenness of the ground o terrain

un terreno pedregoso — stony ground o terrain

estamos sobre un terreno arenoso — we're on sandy soil o land

el gobierno debe tomar medidas urgentes en el terreno económico — the government must take urgent measures in the economic sphere o field