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a rather weak argument

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1 weak

weak [wi:k]

1 adjective

(a) (physically → animal, person) faible; (→ health) fragile, délicat; (→ eyes, hearing) faible, mauvais;

∎ to become or to get or to grow weak or weaker s'affaiblir;

∎ we were weak with or from hunger nous étions affaiblis par la faim;

∎ he felt weak with fear il avait les jambes molles de peur;

∎ I went weak at the knees mes jambes se sont dérobées sous moi, j'avais les jambes en coton;

∎ British it's always the weakest who go to the wall ce sont toujours les plus faibles qui trinquent;

∎ pejorative the weaker sex le sexe faible

(b) (morally, mentally) mou (molle), faible;

∎ he's far too weak to be a leader il est beaucoup trop mou pour être un meneur;

∎ in a weak moment dans un moment de faiblesse;

∎ to be weak in the head être faible d'esprit

(c) (feeble → argument, excuse) faible, peu convaincant; (→ army, government, institution) faible, impuissant; (→ structure) fragile, peu solide; (→ light, signal, currency, economy) faible; (market) en baisse, baissier;

∎ she managed a weak smile elle a réussi à sourire faiblement;

∎ she answered in a weak voice elle répondit d'une voix faible;

∎ to have a weak hand (in cards) avoir des cartes faibles;

∎ he's the weak or weakest link (in the chain) c'est lui le maillon faible de la chaîne

(d) (deficient, poor → pupil, subject) faible;

∎ I'm weak in geography, geography is my weak subject je suis faible en géographie;

∎ she's rather weak on discipline elle est plutôt laxiste

(e) (chin) fuyant; (mouth) tombant

(f) (acid, solution) faible; (drink, tea) léger; Cars & Technology (mixture) pauvre

(g) Grammar & Linguistics (verb) faible, régulier; (syllable) faible, inaccentué

2 plural noun

∎ the weak les faibles mpl

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > weak
2 weak

adjective

1) (lit. or fig.) schwach; matt [Lächeln]; schwach ausgeprägt [Kinn]; jämmerlich [Kapitulation]; (easily led) labil [Charakter, Person]

go/feel weak at the knees — weiche Knie kriegen/haben

the weaker sex — das schwache Geschlecht

weak eyes or sight — schlechte Augen

a weak stomach — ein empfindlicher Magen

be weak in the head — schwachsinnig sein

his French/maths is rather weak, he's rather weak in French/maths — in Französisch/Mathematik ist er ziemlich schwach

somebody's weak side or point — jemandes schwache Seite od. schwacher Punkt od. Schwachpunkt

he has only a weak case — seine Sache steht auf schwachen Füßen

2) (watery) schwach [Kaffee, Tee]; wässrig, wässerig [Suppe]; dünn [Bier, Suppe, Kaffee, Tee]

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[wi:k]
adjective

1) (lacking in physical strength: Her illness has made her very weak.) schwach

2) (not strong in character: I'm very weak when it comes to giving up cigarettes.) schwach

3) ((of a liquid) diluted; not strong: weak tea.) dünn

4) ((of an explanation etc) not convincing.) schwach

5) ((of a joke) not particularly funny.) schwach

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- have a weakness for
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weak

[wi:k]

adj

1. (not strong) schwach; coffee, tea schwach, dünn

to be/feel as \weak as a kitten ganz matt sein/sich akk ganz schlapp fühlen fam

to be/go \weak at the knees weiche Knie haben/bekommen

to be \weak with desire/hunger/thirst schwach vor Begierde/Hunger/Durst sein

to feel \weak sich akk schwach fühlen

\weak chin schwach ausgeprägtes Kinn

\weak link ( fig) schwaches Glied fig

\weak spot ( fig) schwache Stelle fig

the \weaker sex das schwache Geschlecht fig

2. (ineffective) leader unfähig, schwach; argument, attempt schwach

▪ to be \weak [on sth] [in etw dat] schwach sein

the report is strong on criticism but rather \weak on suggestions for improvement der Bericht übt scharfe Kritik, bietet aber kaum Verbesserungsvorschläge

3. (below standard) schwach

he was always \weak at languages but strong at science er war schon immer schwach in Sprachen, dafür aber gut in Naturwissenschaften

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[wiːk]
1. adj (+er)
schwach; character labil; tea, solution etc dünn; stomach empfindlich
he was weak from hunger — ihm war schwach vor Hunger

to go/feel weak at the knees (after illness) — sich wackelig fühlen, wackelig or schwach auf den Beinen sein (inf); (with fear, excitement etc) weiche Knie haben/bekommen

the weaker sex — das schwache Geschlecht

he must be a bit weak in the head (inf) — er ist wohl nicht ganz bei Trost (inf)

her maths is weak, she is weak at or in maths — sie ist schwach in Mathe

the dollar is weak against the pound — der Dollar steht schwach zum Pfund

what are his weak points? — wo liegen seine Schwächen?

the weak link (in the chain) — das schwache Glied in der Kette

2. n

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weak [wiːk] adj (adv weakly)

1. allg schwach (Argument, Stimme, Widerstand etc):

weak from hunger hungergeschwächt;

be weak at the knees umg weiche Knie haben;

weak in ( oder at) Latin schwach in Latein;

weak at home SPORT heimschwach; → sex A 2

2. MED schwach:

a) empfindlich (Magen etc): → nerve A 1

b) kränklich

3. (charakter)schwach, haltlos, labil: → point A 24

4. schwach, dünn (Tee etc)

5. LING schwach (Akzent):

weak ending LIT proklitisches Versende;

weak inflection (bes Br inflexion) schwache Flexion

6. WIRTSCH schwach, flau (Markt etc)

7. FOTO schwach, weich (Negativ)

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adjective

1) (lit. or fig.) schwach; matt [Lächeln]; schwach ausgeprägt [Kinn]; jämmerlich [Kapitulation]; (easily led) labil [Charakter, Person]

go/feel weak at the knees — weiche Knie kriegen/haben

the weaker sex — das schwache Geschlecht

weak eyes or sight — schlechte Augen

a weak stomach — ein empfindlicher Magen

be weak in the head — schwachsinnig sein

his French/maths is rather weak, he's rather weak in French/maths — in Französisch/Mathematik ist er ziemlich schwach

somebody's weak side or point — jemandes schwache Seite od. schwacher Punkt od. Schwachpunkt

he has only a weak case — seine Sache steht auf schwachen Füßen

2) (watery) schwach [Kaffee, Tee]; wässrig, wässerig [Suppe]; dünn [Bier, Suppe, Kaffee, Tee]

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adj.

energielos adj.

schwach adj.

English-german dictionary > weak
3 weak

[wi:k] adj

1) ( not strong) schwach; coffee, tea schwach, dünn;

to be/feel as \weak as a kitten ganz matt sein/sich akk ganz schlapp fühlen ( fam)

to be/go \weak at the knees weiche Knie haben/bekommen;

to be \weak with desire/ hunger/ thirst schwach vor Begierde/Hunger/Durst sein;

to feel \weak sich akk schwach fühlen;

\weak chin schwach ausgeprägtes Kinn;

\weak link ( fig) schwaches Glied ( fig)

\weak spot ( fig) schwache Stelle ( fig)

the \weaker sex das schwache Geschlecht ( fig)

2) ( ineffective) leader unfähig, schwach; argument, attempt schwach;

to be \weak [on sth] [in etw dat] schwach sein;

the report is strong on criticism but rather \weak on suggestions for improvement der Bericht übt scharfe Kritik, bietet aber kaum Verbesserungsvorschläge

3) ( below standard) schwach;

he was always \weak at languages but strong at science er war schon immer schwach in Sprachen, dafür aber gut in Naturwissenschaften

English-German students dictionary > weak
4 the argument rests on rather a weak evidence

Общая лексика: довод довольно слабо обоснован

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > the argument rests on rather a weak evidence
5 pobre

adj.

1 poor (necesitado).

más pobre que las ratas (informal) as poor as a church mouse

2 poor (desdichado).

¡pobre hombre! poor man!

¡pobre de mí! poor me!

pobre de aquél que se atreva a comerse mi ración woe betide anyone who dares to eat my portion

3 poor (mediocre, defectuoso).

4 poor (escaso).

una dieta pobre en proteínas a diet with a low protein content

esta región es pobre en recursos naturales this region lacks natural resources

f. & m.

1 poor person (sin dinero, infeliz).

los pobres the poor, poor people

¡el pobre! poor thing!

la pobre está siempre luchando por dar de comer a sus hijos the poor woman is forever struggling to keep her children fed

2 beggar (mendigo).

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pobre

► adjetivo

1 (gen) poor

2 (infeliz) poor

■ ¡ojalá estuviera aquí tu pobre padre! if only your dear father were here now!

■ pobre de ti si te acercas a ella otra vez don't go near her again or you'll be sorry

■ ¡ay, pobre de mí, que vieja estoy ya! poor old me, I'm getting old!

► nombre masulino o femenino

1 (con poco dinero) poor person; (mendigo) beggar

■ siempre les da dinero a los pobres she always gives money to the poor

2 (infeliz) poor thing

■ la pobre se cree que le van a devolver el dinero the poor thing thinks she is going to get her money back

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FRASEOLOGÍA

no salir de pobres familiar to be condemned to eternal poverty

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adj.

1) poor

2) weak

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1. ADJ

1) [persona, familia, barrio] poor

aquí vive gente muy pobre — the people who live here are very poor

2) (=escaso) poor

sus conocimientos de inglés son muy pobres — his knowledge of English is very poor

una dieta pobre en vitaminas — a diet poor in vitamins

3) [indicando compasión] poor

¡pobre hombre! — poor man!, poor fellow!

¡pobre Francisco! — poor old Francisco!

¡pobre de mí! — poor me!

¡pobre de él! — poor man!, poor fellow!

¡pobre de ti si te pillo! — you'll be sorry if I catch you!

pobre diablo — poor wretch, poor devil

2. SMF

1) (=necesitado) poor person; (=mendigo) beggar

un pobre — a poor man

los pobres — the poor, poor people

un pobre pedía dinero — a beggar o poor man was asking for money

2) [indicando compasión] poor thing

la pobre estaba mojada — the poor thing was wet through

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adjetivo

1)

a) <persona/barrio/nación> poor; < vestimenta> poor, shabby

b) ( escaso) < vocabulario> poor, limited

pobre EN algo: aguas pobres en minerales — water with a low mineral content

c) ( mediocre) <examen/trabajo/actuación> poor; < salud> poor, bad

un argumento bastante pobre — a rather weak argument

d) < tierra> poor

2) (delante del n) ( digno de compasión) poor

pobrecito, tiene hambre — poor little thing, he's hungry

pobre de mí! — poor (old) me!

pobre de ti si lo tocas! — if you touch it, you'll be for it

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- pobre diablo
II
masculino y femenino

1) ( necesitado) poor person, pauper (arch)

los pobres — the poor

sacar de pobre — (fam) to make... rich

salir de pobre — (fam) to get somewhere in the world

2) ( expresando compasión) poor thing

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- pobre de espíritu

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= poor [poorer -comp., poorest -sup.], weak [weaker -comp., weakest -sup.], denuded, penurious, impoverished, impecunious, down-and-out, destitute, pauper.

Ex. Examples are generally poor or obscure (often in Latin or German).

Ex. Problems arise from weak or outmoded structuring of subjects in the schedules of DC.

Ex. Which is a more effective location is a question that can be explored, but we do need to avoid the situation faced by other in situations developed in past ages, like the Church of England, whose physical plant (the church buildings) is over-provided for the denuded rural areas and under-provided for the city.

Ex. The article is entitled 'Periodicals: proliferation, pricing and the penurious librarian'.

Ex. Many books contain inaccuracies and generalisations about Africa, perpetuating stereotypes e.g. that of the malnourished, impoverished African.

Ex. Despite its impecunious state and lack of a home until 1928, the UK Library Association remained confident about the future of libraries and librarianship.

Ex. The story is based on an overheard conversation between a well-meaning librarian and a down-and-out old man seeking validation for his unpublished poetry.

Ex. The clarity of his drawings contrasts sharply with the total alienation in which he lived as a destitute mental patient with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.

Ex. Gavarni's illustrations of waifs, paupers, and beggars were later published separately, with captions added by the artist.

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* aprendizaje pobre en inteligencia = knowledge-sparse learning.

* asilo de pobres = almshouse.

* barrio de los pobres = lower town.

* barrios pobres del centro de la ciudad = inner city.

* estilo pobre = impoverished style.

* excusa muy pobre = lame excuse.

* los más pobres + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.

* pariente pobre = poor relation.

* pobre en información = info-poor.

* pobre en recursos = resource-poor.

* pobre hombre = poor fellow.

* pobres = have-nots.

* pobres en información = information have-nots.

* pobres en información, los = information-poor, the.

* pobres en tecnología, los = technical poor, the.

* pobres, los = poor, the.

* pobre verbalmente = verbally impoverished.

* pretexto muy pobre = lame excuse.

* ricos y los pobres, los = haves and the have-nots, the.

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adjetivo

1)

a) <persona/barrio/nación> poor; < vestimenta> poor, shabby

b) ( escaso) < vocabulario> poor, limited

pobre EN algo: aguas pobres en minerales — water with a low mineral content

c) ( mediocre) <examen/trabajo/actuación> poor; < salud> poor, bad

un argumento bastante pobre — a rather weak argument

d) < tierra> poor

2) (delante del n) ( digno de compasión) poor

pobrecito, tiene hambre — poor little thing, he's hungry

pobre de mí! — poor (old) me!

pobre de ti si lo tocas! — if you touch it, you'll be for it

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- pobre diablo
II
masculino y femenino

1) ( necesitado) poor person, pauper (arch)

los pobres — the poor

sacar de pobre — (fam) to make... rich

salir de pobre — (fam) to get somewhere in the world

2) ( expresando compasión) poor thing

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- pobre de espíritu

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= poor [poorer -comp., poorest -sup.], weak [weaker -comp., weakest -sup.], denuded, penurious, impoverished, impecunious, down-and-out, destitute, pauper.

Ex: Examples are generally poor or obscure (often in Latin or German).

Ex: Problems arise from weak or outmoded structuring of subjects in the schedules of DC.

Ex: Which is a more effective location is a question that can be explored, but we do need to avoid the situation faced by other in situations developed in past ages, like the Church of England, whose physical plant (the church buildings) is over-provided for the denuded rural areas and under-provided for the city.

Ex: The article is entitled 'Periodicals: proliferation, pricing and the penurious librarian'.

Ex: Many books contain inaccuracies and generalisations about Africa, perpetuating stereotypes e.g. that of the malnourished, impoverished African.

Ex: Despite its impecunious state and lack of a home until 1928, the UK Library Association remained confident about the future of libraries and librarianship.

Ex: The story is based on an overheard conversation between a well-meaning librarian and a down-and-out old man seeking validation for his unpublished poetry.

Ex: The clarity of his drawings contrasts sharply with the total alienation in which he lived as a destitute mental patient with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.

Ex: Gavarni's illustrations of waifs, paupers, and beggars were later published separately, with captions added by the artist.

* aprendizaje pobre en inteligencia = knowledge-sparse learning.

* asilo de pobres = almshouse.

* barrio de los pobres = lower town.

* barrios pobres del centro de la ciudad = inner city.

* estilo pobre = impoverished style.

* excusa muy pobre = lame excuse.

* los más pobres + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.

* pariente pobre = poor relation.

* pobre en información = info-poor.

* pobre en recursos = resource-poor.

* pobre hombre = poor fellow.

* pobres = have-nots.

* pobres en información = information have-nots.

* pobres en información, los = information-poor, the.

* pobres en tecnología, los = technical poor, the.

* pobres, los = poor, the.

* pobre verbalmente = verbally impoverished.

* pretexto muy pobre = lame excuse.

* ricos y los pobres, los = haves and the have-nots, the.

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pobre¹

adjective

A

1 ‹persona/barrio/vivienda› poor; ‹vestimenta› poor, shabby; ‹nación› poor

somos muy pobres we are very poor

los sectores más pobres de la población the poorest o the most deprived sectors of the population

2 (escaso) poor, limited

tiene un vocabulario muy pobre she has a very poor o limited vocabulary

pobre EN algo:

aguas pobres en minerales water with a low mineral content

3 (mediocre) ‹examen/trabajo› poor; ‹salud› poor, bad

indica una comprensión pobre de la obra it shows a poor understanding of the work

un argumento bastante pobre a rather weak argument

su actuación en el festival fue bastante pobre his performance at the festival was fairly mediocre o rather poor

¡qué chiste más pobre! what a pathetic o terrible joke! ( colloq)

4 ‹tierra› poor

B ( delante del n) (digno de compasión) poor

tu pobre padre your poor father

pobrecito, tiene hambre poor little thing, he's hungry

se está quedando ciego, pobrecillo he's going blind, poor thing o poor man o poor devil

¡pobre de mí! poor (old) me!

¡pobre de ti si vuelves a tocarlo! if you touch it again, you'll be for it!, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes if you touch it again

un pobre desgraciado a poor devil

Compuesto:

pobre diablo

(infeliz) poor devil; (necesitado) poor soul

pobre²

masculine and feminine

A (necesitado) poor person, pauper ( arch)

los pobres the poor

se le acercó un pobre pidiendo limosna a poor beggar came up to her asking for money

sacar de pobre ( fam); to make … rich

salir de pobre ( fam); to get somewhere in the world

nunca saldrás de pobre con ese hombre you'll never get rich o get on o get anywhere with him ( colloq)

B (expresando compasión) poor thing

la pobre está siempre sola the poor thing's always on her own

el pobre se está quedando sordo the poor thing o the poor man o the poor devil is going deaf

la pobre de la abuela está muy enferma poor grandmother's very ill

Compuesto:

pobre de espíritu

( Bib):

los pobres de espíritu the poor in spirit

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pobre adjetivo
1
a) ‹persona/barrio/nación› poor;

‹ vestimenta› poor, shabby
b) ( escaso) ‹ vocabulario› poor, limited;

◊ aguas pobres en minerales water with a low mineral content

c) ( mediocre) ‹examen/trabajo/actuación› poor;

‹ salud› poor, bad;
‹ argumento› weak
d) ‹ tierra› poor

2 ( delante del n) ( digno de compasión) poor;
◊ pobre animal poor animal;

pobre, tiene hambre poor thing, he's hungry;
¡pobre de mí! poor (old) me!
■ sustantivo masculino y femenino ( necesitado) poor person, pauper (arch);
◊ los pobres the poor

pobre
I adjetivo poor: su vocabulario es muy pobre, his vocabulary is very poor
II mf poor person
los pobres, the poor

' pobre' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
barriada
- bendita
- bendito
- desgraciada
- desgraciado
- infeliz
- miserable
- necesitada
- necesitado
- neurona
- papelón
- pedazo
- quebrantar
- sórdida
- sórdido
- suburbio
- ángel
- desdichado
- malo
English:
bargain for
- bargain on
- down-and-out
- effort
- flimsy
- pauper
- poor
- shabby
- sod
- thing
- yet
- feeble
- hand
- impoverished
- lame
- low
- pathetic
- penniless
- skimpy

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pobre

♦ adj

1. [necesitado] poor;

un país pobre a poor country;

Comp
Fam
más pobre que las ratas as poor as a church mouse

2. [desdichado] poor;

el pobre bebé estaba llamando a su mamá the poor little baby was calling for its mother;

¡pobre hombre! poor man!;

¡pobre de mí! poor me!;

pobre de aquél que se atreva a comerse mi ración woe betide anyone who dares to eat my portion;

pobre de ti como te dejes engañar por sus encantos God help you if you fall for her charms

3. [mediocre, defectuoso] poor;

utilizó un razonamiento muy pobre the arguments she gave were very weak o poor

4. [escaso] poor;

utiliza un léxico muy pobre she has a very poor vocabulary;

una dieta pobre en proteínas a diet lacking in protein;

esta región es pobre en recursos naturales this region lacks natural resources

5. [poco fértil] poor

♦ nmf

1. [sin dinero] poor person;

los pobres the poor, poor people

2. [infeliz]
¡el pobre! poor thing!;

la pobre está siempre luchando por dar de comer a sus hijos the poor woman is forever struggling to keep her children fed;

el pobre no consigue aprobar el examen the poor thing just can't seem to pass the exam

3. [mendigo] beggar

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pobre

I adj económicamente, en calidad poor;

pobre hombre poor man;

¡pobre de mí! poor me!

II m/f poor person;

los pobres the poor

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pobre adj

1) : poor, impoverished

2) : unfortunate

¡pobre de mí!: poor me!

3) : weak, deficient

una dieta pobre: a poor diet

pobre nmf

: poor person

los pobres: the poor

¡pobre!: poor thing!

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pobre¹ adj poor

procede de una familia pobre he comes from a poor family

pobre² n

1. (persona sin dinero) poor man [pl. men] / poor woman [pl. women]

los pobres the poor

2. (desgraciado) poor thing

¡pobrecito! poor little thing!

Spanish-English dictionary > pobre
6 schwach

schwach <schwächer, schwächste> [ʃvax] adj

1) ( nicht stark) weak;

für etw zu \schwach sein to not be strong enough for sth;

der Schwächere/ Schwächste the weaker/weakest person;

ein \schwacher Charakter/ Gegner/ Wille a weak character/opponent/will;

\schwacher Widerstand weak resistance;

krank und \schwach weak and ill

2) ( wenig leistend) weak;

ein \schwacher Mitarbeiter/ Sportler a poor worker/sportsman;

ein \schwacher Schüler a poor [or weak] pupil;

in Rechtschreibung ist er ziemlich \schwach his spelling is rather poor

3) ( gering) weak;

ein \schwaches Anzeichen a faint [or slight] indication;

ein \schwacher Bartwuchs a sparse [growth of] beard;

eine \schwache Beteiligung [o Teilnahme] poor participation;

ein \schwaches Interesse [very] little interest;

eine \schwache Resonanz a lukewarm response

4) ( leicht) weak;

\schwache Atmung faint breathing;

eine \schwache Bewegung a slight [or faint] movement;

\schwacher Druck light pressure;

ein \schwacher Herzschlag a faint heartbeat;

ein \schwacher Luftzug/ Wind a gentle [or light] breeze/wind;

eine \schwache Strömung a light current;

schwächer werden to become fainter

5) ( eine geringe Leistung aufweisend) low-powered;

eine \schwache Ladung/ein \schwaches Magnetfeld a weak charge/magnetic field;

die Batterie muss aufgeladen werden, sie ist \schwach the battery needs recharging, it is low;

dieser Motor ist zu \schwach this engine is not powerful enough;

schwächer werden;

das Licht wird schwächer the light is fading [or failing];

6) ( dünn) thin;

ein \schwaches Kettenglied a weak chain-link

7) ( dürftig) weak, poor;

ein \schwaches Argument a weak argument;

eine \schwache Leistung a poor performance;

ein \schwacher Trost little comfort

8) med ( unzureichend) weak;

ein \schwaches Sehvermögen/ Gehör poor [or weak] eyesight/hearing;

schwächer werden to become weaker;

im Alter wird das Gehör schwächer one's hearing becomes poorer in old age

9) chem ( gering konzentriert) weak

WENDUNGEN:

jdm wird \schwach [zumute] ( fam) sb feels faint; s. a. Augenblick, Bild, Stelle, Trost

adv

1) ( leicht) faintly;

das Herz schlug nur noch \schwach the heartbeat had become faint;

er hat sich nur \schwach gewehrt he didn't put up much resistance

2) ( spärlich) sparsely;

nachts sind die Grenzübergänge \schwach besetzt the border crossings aren't very heavily [or well] manned at night;

mit Nachschlagewerken sind wir nun wirklich nicht \schwach bestückt we really have got quite a few [or lot of] reference works;

die Ausstellung war nur \schwach besucht the exhibition wasn't very well [or was poorly] attended

3) ( geringfügig)

\schwach applaudieren to applaud sparingly;

Ihre Tochter beteiligt sich in den letzten Monaten nur noch \schwach am Unterricht your daughter has hardly been participating in class in recent months;

dieses Problem hat mich immer nur \schwach interessiert this problem has never been of any great interest to me

4) kochk ( mild) slightly;

der Arzt hat mir geraten, \schwach gesalzen zu essen my doctor has advised me not to add [too] much salt to my food;

das Essen ist für meinen Geschmack zu \schwach gewürzt the food isn't spicy enough for my liking [or palate];

den Tee bitte nur ganz \schwach gesüßt! not too much sugar in my tea, please!

5) ( dürftig) feebly;

die Mannschaft spielte ausgesprochen \schwach the team put up a feeble performance;

eine \schwache Erinnerung an etw haben to vaguely remember sth

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > schwach
7 rest

1. I
abs

1) I'm going to lie down and rest я прилягу отдохнуть; let your eyes rest дайте отдохнуть глазам; never let your enemy rest не давайте покоя противнику /врагу/; rest! вольно! (команда)

2) let the matter rest оставить дело так, как есть; if 1 could let the matter rest, I would do it если бы я мог, я оставил бы все так, как есть; and there the matter rests тем дело и кончилось; let land rest agric. оставлять землю под паром; the defence rests law защите нечего добавить, защита отказывается от вопросов
2. II
1) rest in some manner rest quietly (well, completely, a little, serenely, securely, etc.) отдыхать /лежать, спать/ тихо /спокойно/ и т.д.; did you rest well? хорошо ли вы отдохнули /поспали/?; rest at some place let's rest here, shall we? давайте отдохнем здесь, a?; rest at some time rest at night отдыхать /спать/ ночью; where do we rest tonight? где мы сегодня остановимся на ночь?; rest for some time rest a few minutes отдохнуть несколько минут

2) rest at some place the matter cannot rest here, we must investigate it further дело не может так оставаться, нам надо исследовать /продолжить исследования/ дальше
3. III
1) rest smb., smth. rest men and horses (one's men, one's horse. one's eyes, one's weary bones, one's legs, the mind, etc.) дать отдых людям и лошадям и т.д.; I stayed there a day to rest myself я пробыл там день, чтобы передохнуть /отдохнуть/; try to rest your eyes постарайтесь дать глазам отдых /отдохнуть/; these dark glasses rest my eyes в этих темных очках у меня глаза отдыхают /не устают/

2) rest smth. [may] God rest his soul! eccl. царствие ему небесное!

3) rest smth. we must rest the land agric. мы должны оставить эту землю под паром
4. IV
1) rest smb. for some time rest your men an hour or two дайте людям отдохнуть часок-другой

2) rest smth. somewhere rest the matter there пусть дело остается так, как есть, не занимайтесь больше этим делом
5. X
rest assured быть уверенным; you may rest assured that everything possible will be done (that I will do my best, that everything has been tried, that I will take care of it, etc.) можете быть уверены в том, что будет сделано все возможное и т.д.
6. XI
feel rested in some manner feel quite rested я чувствую себя вполне отдохнувшим
7. XV
rest in some state rest easy (content with this state of things, etc.) быть /оставаться/ спокойным и т.д.
8. XVI
1) rest for some time rest for an hour (for some minutes, etc.) отдыхать час и т.д.; he rested for a day before going on with his journey он отдохнул денек, прежде чем продолжить свое путешествие rest after (before, in, during, etc.) smth. he likes to rest after (before) dinner после (до) обеда он любит отдохнуть; teachers rest in the summer учителя отдыхают /получают отпуск/ летом; she planned to rest during her vacation во время отпуска она решила ничем не заниматься; rest in (on, under, etc.) smth. rest in a chair (on a couch, under a tree, etc.) отдыхать /лежать, спать/ в кресле и т.д.; rest in the country (in the mountains, on the seashore, etc.) отдыхать /проводить отпуск/ в деревне и т.д.; rest from smth. rest from one's labours (from one's duty, from one's lessons, from one's studies, from [one's] work, from toil, from the heat, etc.) отдыхать от /после/ трудов и т.д.;

2) rest at (upon, over, etc.) smth. rest at the bottom of the hill (upon the mountain top, over the entire city, upon the altar, etc.) лежать /покоиться/ у подножия холма и т.д.; rest on arches (upon marble pillars, on, a wall, etc.) опираться на арки /покоиться на арках/ и т.д.; the roof rests on eight columns эта крыша опирается на восемь колонн; he rested on his stick он опирался на палку; rest against the wall прислониться к стене; his elbow (her arm, the child's hand, etc.) rests on the table (on the rail, etc.) его локоть и т.д. лежит на столе и т.д.; her chin rests upon her hand она подпирает подбородок рукой; a shadow (an expression of doubt /of uncertainty/, etc.) rests (up)on his (her, etc.) face на его и т.д. лице лежит тень и т.д.; a light rests on his face лицо его озарено светом; a smile rests on the lips на губах блуждает улыбка id rest on one's oars naut. сушить весла; rest (up)on one's laurels почивать на лаврах

3) rest in smth. rest in the /one's/ grave (in the churchyard, in [eternal] peace, etc.) покоиться в могиле и т.д.; rest in peace! мир праху твоему; may his soul rest in peace eccl. да упокоится душа его; rest with smb. rest with one's forefathers покоиться с предками

4) rest (up)on smth. rest on a book (upon one's plays, upon credit, on different foundations, on a foundation of science and education, on the conscientiousness of the workmen etc.) основываться на книге и т.д.; опираться на книгу и т.д.; his fame rests upon his novels славу ему создали его романы; this party rests upon the peasant опорой этой партии является крестьянство; this argument rests on rather weak evidence этот довод довольно слабо обоснован; the error rests upon an optical illusion эта ошибка проистекает из оптического обмана /обмана зрения/; everything rests on his answer все зависит от его ответа; the case rests on the following facts в основу этого дела положены следующие факты

5) rest with smb. the choice (the next move, etc.) rests with you выбор и т.д. [надо] делать вам; it rests with you to decide (to propose terms, etc.) решать и т.д. надо вам; government (the management of affairs, power, etc.) rests with him управление и т.д. в его руках; the responsibility rests with him ответственность лежит на нем; the priority of the invention rests with him приоритет в этом изобретении принадлежит ему; the fault rests with him вина лежит на нем

6) rest (up)on smth., smb. one's gaze /one's glance/ rests on the open book (upon a strange scene, on smb.'s face, on smb., etc.) чей-л. взгляд устремлен на открытую книгу /прикован к открытой книге/ и т.д.; she let her glance rest on me она взглядом задержалась на мне
9. XXI1
1) rest smth. at smth. I shall not let it rest at that я этого так не оставлю; rest smth. for some time let the matter rest for a while оставим то пока [так, как есть]

2) rest smb. for smth. rest the players for tomorrow's game пусть игроки отдохнут перед завтрашним состязанием; rest smb. in (before, on, etc.) smth. rest yourself in a chair (before the fire, on a rock, etc.) отдохните в кресле и т.д.

3) rest smth. on (in, etc.) smth. rest one's elbows on the table (on the mantlepiece, etc.) класть локти на стол и т.д.; rest one's chin on one's hand подпереть подбородок рукой; rest one's head on a cushion (on smb.'s knee, on /in/ one's hands, etc.) положить голову на подушку и т.д.; rest your foot on the rail поставьте ногу на перекладину; rest a ladder (one's back, etc.) against the wall (against a tree, etc.) прислонить лестницу и т.д. к стене и т.д.; the knight rested his hands upon the hilt of his sword руки рыцаря лежали /покоились/ на рукоятке меча

4) rest smth. on smth. rest an opinion on proof (one's claim on justice, etc.) основывать свое мнение на доказательствах и т.д.; he rested his argument on trivialities его аргументация строилась на общих фразах; rest smth. on /in /smb. rest one's hopes on /in/ smb. возлагать надежды на кого-л.

5) rest smth. on smb., smth. rest one's eyes on smb. (on the scene, etc.) остановить свой взгляд на ком-л. и т.д.

6) rest smth. for some time rest this land (this field) for a year agric. оставить эту землю (это поле) на одни год под паром
10. XXV
rest till... /until.../ usually in the negative1)

he never rested till it was finished он ни разу не отдохнул, пока не закончил работу

2)

he could not rest till he got his wish (till he had succeeded, till he knew the truth, etc.) он не мог успокоиться, пока не добился своего и т.д.; I shall not rest till I have seen London я не успокоюсь, пока не увижу Лондон; we will not rest until the matter is settled мы не успокоимся, пока дело не будет решено

English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > rest
8 schwach

I Adj.

1. allg. weak; Stimme: weak, faint; Hoffnung, Lächeln: faint; Motor: low-powered; Batterie: low; Puls: weak, faint; Ton, Geruch: faint; Licht: dim; schwache Ähnlichkeit slight resemblance; schwaches Anzeichen faint sign; schwacher Beifall half-hearted applause; schwache Beteiligung low ( oder poor) turnout; schwache Erinnerung faint ( oder vague, dim) recollection; schwacher Esser poor eater; das schwache Geschlecht the weaker sex; schwaches Lob faint praise; schwache Stelle weak spot; eine schwache Stunde a moment of weakness; schwacher Trost small consolation; schwacher Versuch feeble attempt; schwacher Widerstand weak resistance; einen schwachen Willen haben be weak-willed; schwacher Wind slight ( oder light) breeze

2. (schlecht) Mannschaft etc., Schüler: weak; umg. (enttäuschend) hopeless; Gesundheit, Gedächtnis, Gehör: poor; schwache Leistung poor ( oder weak) performance; schwache Vorstellung THEAT. poor performance; umg., fig. (schlechte Leistung) poor show; ein schwaches Bild bieten put up ( oder on) a poor show; schwache Seite Schwäche 2; eines der schwächeren Stücke Brechts one of Brecht’s weaker plays; in Erdkunde ist sie schwach geography is her weak subject, she’s not very good at geography; ein Stützkurs für die Schwächeren a support program(me) for weaker pupils; sozial schwach socially disadvantaged; die sozial Schwachen the socially disadvantaged

3. (nachgiebig) soft; schwach werden weaken; fig. (nachgeben) auch relent; (erliegen) succumb; er wurde schwach fig. auch his resistance broke down; bei dem Anblick wurde ich schwach umg. I melted at the sight; sich schwach zeigen show one’s weakness; mach mich nicht schwach! umg. don’t say things like that!; nur nicht schwach werden! umg. don’t give in!; mir wird ganz schwach, wenn ich daran denke umg. I go weak at the knees just at the thought (of it)

4. schwächer werden weaken (further), grow weaker; Nachfrage: fall off, decrease; Sehkraft: deteriorate; Ton, Licht: fade; schulisch, künstlerisch: abflauen, nachlassen

5. schwach auf der Brust sein umg. be out of pocket

II Adv.:

1. schwach aktiv PHYS., Substanz: low-level; schwach radioaktiv PHYS.... emitting low-level radioactivity, low-level radioactive...; schwach besetzt SPORT, Team: weak; Turnier: with a poor entry; Stadion etc.: half empty; schwach besiedelt oder bevölkert Region: sparsely populated; schwach betont LING., Silbe: weakly stressed; schwach betont sein auch have a weak stress; schwach begabt not at all gifted; Schüler: low-ability; schwach besucht sein be poorly attended; schwach motorisiert low-powered; sich nur schwach wehren offer only weak resistance; sein Herz schlug nur noch schwach he only had a faint heartbeat; schwach dekliniertes Substantiv / Adjektiv weak noun / adjective

2. (schlecht) schwach spielen play badly; schwach entwickelt poorly developed, underdeveloped

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weak; frail; faint; slender; feeble; delicate; slight; feckless; flimsy; infirm; languid; lightweight; sinewed; lame; effete

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schwạch [ʃvax]
1. adj comp - er
['ʃvɛçɐ] superl -ste(r, s) ['ʃvɛçstə] weak (AUCH GRAM); Mensch, Greis, Begründung, Versuch, Aufführung, Alibi, Widerstand auch feeble; Konstitution auch frail; Gesundheit, Beteiligung, Gedächtnis poor; Ton, Anzeichen, Hoffnung, Bewegung faint, slight; Gehör poor, dull; Stimme weak, faint; Licht poor, dim; Wind light; (COMM) Nachfrage, Geschäft slack, poor
schwache Augen — weak or poor (eye)sight

or eine schwache Leistung (inf) — that's a poor show (inf)

ein schwaches Lob — faint praise

jds schwache Seite/Stelle — sb's weak point/spot

ein schwacher Trost — cold or small comfort

in einem schwachen Augenblick, in einer schwachen Stunde — in a moment of weakness, in a weak moment

schwach sein — to be weak in sth

auf schwachen Beinen or Füßen stehen (fig) — to be on shaky ground; (Theorie) to be shaky

alles, was in meinen schwachen Kräften steht — everything within my power

jdn an seiner schwachen or schwächsten Stelle treffen — to strike at or hit sb's weak spot

mir wird schwach (lit) — I feel faint; (fig inf) it makes me sick (inf)

nur nicht schwach werden! — don't weaken!

schwächer werden — to grow weaker, to weaken; (Augen) to fail, to grow worse; (Stimme) to grow fainter; (Licht) to (grow) dim; (Ton) to fade; (Nachfrage) to fall off, to slacken

die Schwachen — the weak

der Schwächere — the weaker (person); (gegenüber Gegner) the underdog

2. adv comp -er,
superl am -sten
1) (= leicht) schlagen weakly; vibrieren, radioaktiv slightly; spüren, riechen, hören barely

2) (= spärlich) besucht, bestückt poorly

schwach besiedelt or bevölkert — sparsely populated

das Stadion war nur schwach besetzt — there were only a few people in the stadium

3) (= geringfügig) klatschen weakly; sich interessieren slightly; sich beteiligen very little

sich immer schwächer beteiligen — to participate less and less

schwach aktiv (Atommüll etc) — low-level

schwach radioaktiv — with low-level radioactivity

schwach betont — weakly stressed

schwach bewegt (Meer) — gently rolling

schon bei schwach bewegtem Meer werde ich seekrank — as soon as there's the slightest swell I get seasick

4) (= mild) salzen, süßen slightly; würzen lightly; pfeffern mildly

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1) (not strong; weak or feeble: The fire was very low.) low

2) (lacking in strength, brightness, courage etc: The sound grew faint; a faint light.) faint

3) (in a faint manner: A light shone faintly.) faintly

4) (slightly; rather: She looked faintly surprised.) faintly

5) feebly

6) (weak: The old lady has been rather feeble since her illness; a feeble excuse.) feeble

7) (not very well made; likely to break: a flimsy boat.) flimsy

8) (lacking in physical strength: Her illness has made her very weak.) weak

9) (not strong in character: I'm very weak when it comes to giving up cigarettes.) weak

10) ((of an explanation etc) not convincing.) weak

11) ((of a joke) not particularly funny.) weak

12) (slenderly: slightly built.) slightly

13) ((of a person) slim and delicate-looking: It seemed too heavy a load for such a slight woman.) slight

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schwach

<schwächer, schwächste>

[ʃvax]

I. adj

1. (nicht kräftig) weak; Stimme feeble, faint

▪ für etw akk zu \schwach sein to not be strong enough for sth

krank und \schwach weak and ill

▪ der Schwächere/Schwächste the weaker/weakest person

\schwacher Widerstand weak [or feeble] resistance

2. (wenig selbstbewusst) Charakter weak

einen \schwachen Willen haben to be weak-willed

3. (wenig leistend) weak

in Rechtschreibung ist er ziemlich \schwach his spelling is rather poor

ein \schwacher Mitarbeiter/Sportler a poor worker/sportsman

ein \schwacher Schüler a poor [or weak] pupil

4. MED (unzureichend) weak, poor

ein \schwaches Gehör/Sehvermögen poor [or weak] hearing/eyesight

im Alter wird das Gehör schwächer one's hearing becomes poorer in old age

\schwache Gesundheit poor health

eine \schwache Konstitution haben to have a frail constitution

5. (dürftig) weak, poor

\schwaches Ergebnis poor result

eine \schwache Leistung a poor performance [or fam show

6. (nicht stichhaltig) Argument weak; Theorie shaky

es gibt noch einige \schwache Stellen in unserem Plan our plan has still got some weaknesses

7. (gering) weak; Licht dim

\schwache Ähnlichkeit remote resemblance

ein \schwaches Anzeichen a faint [or slight] indication

ein \schwacher Bartwuchs a sparse [growth of] beard

eine \schwache Beteiligung [o Teilnahme] poor participation

ein \schwaches Interesse [very] little interest

\schwache Nachfrage poor demand

eine \schwache Resonanz a lukewarm response

eine \schwache Vorstellung von etw dat haben to have a faint idea of sth

8. (leicht) weak

\schwache Atmung faint breathing

eine \schwache Bewegung a slight [or faint] movement

\schwacher Druck light pressure

ein \schwacher Herzschlag a faint heartbeat

ein \schwacher Luftzug/Wind a gentle [or light] breeze/wind

eine \schwache Strömung a light current

▪ schwächer werden to become fainter

9. PHYS (eine geringe Leistung aufweisend) low-powered; Batterie low; Ladung weak

\schwaches Magnetfeld low-intensity magnetic field

dieser Motor ist zu \schwach this engine is not powerful enough

das Licht wird schwächer the light is fading [or failing

10. (dünn) Brett, Eisdecke thin

ein \schwaches Kettenglied a weak chain-link

11. CHEM (gering konzentriert) weak

12.

▶ [bei jdm/etw] \schwach werden (fam) to be unable to resist [sb/sth]

bei Schokoladentorte werde ich immer \schwach I can never resist chocolate gateau

bei dem Gehalt würde wohl jeder \schwach werden anybody would be tempted by a salary like that

nur nicht \schwach werden! (standhaft bleiben!) don't weaken!; (durchhalten!) don't give in!

▶ jdm wird \schwach [zumute] (fam) sb feels faint; s.a. Augenblick, Bild, Trost, Stelle

II. adv

1. (leicht) faintly

das Herz schlug nur noch \schwach the heartbeat had become faint

er hat sich nur \schwach gewehrt he didn't put up much resistance

2. (spärlich) sparsely

nachts sind die Grenzübergänge \schwach besetzt the border crossings aren't very heavily [or well] manned at night

mit Nachschlagewerken sind wir nun wirklich nicht \schwach bestückt we really have got quite a few [or lot of] reference works

die Ausstellung war nur \schwach besucht the exhibition wasn't very well [or was poorly] attended

3. (geringfügig)

Ihre Tochter beteiligt sich in den letzten Monaten nur noch \schwach am Unterricht your daughter has hardly been participating in class in recent months

dieses Problem hat mich immer nur \schwach interessiert this problem has never been of any great interest to me

\schwach applaudieren to applaud sparingly

eine \schwache Erinnerung an etw akk haben to vaguely remember sth

4. (dürftig) feebly

die Mannschaft spielte ausgesprochen \schwach the team put up a feeble performance

5. KOCHK (mild) slightly

der Arzt hat mir geraten, \schwach gesalzen zu essen my doctor has advised me not to add [too] much salt to my food

das Essen ist zu \schwach gewürzt the food isn't spicy enough

6. NUKL

\schwach aktiv low level active

\schwach aktiver Abfall low level active waste

7. CHEM

\schwach basisch weak basic

\schwach flüchtig low volatile

\schwach löslich weakly soluble

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1.
; schwächer, schwächst... Adjektiv

1) (kraftlos) weak; weak, delicate <child, woman>; frail <invalid, old person>; low-powered <engine, car, bulb, amplifier, etc.>; weak, poor <eyesight, memory, etc.>; poor < hearing>; delicate <health, constitution>

schwach werden — grow weak; (fig.): (schwanken) weaken; waver; (nachgeben) give in

mir wird [ganz] schwach — I feel [quite] faint

in einer schwachen Stunde — in a weak moment

2) (nicht gut) poor <pupil, player, runner, performance, result, effort, etc.>; weak <candidate, argument, opponent, play, film, etc.>

er ist in Latein sehr schwach — he is very bad at Latin

das ist aber ein schwaches Bild! — (fig. ugs.) that's a poor show (coll.)

3) (gering, niedrig, klein) poor, low <attendance etc.>; sparse < population>; slight <effect, resistance, gradient, etc.>; light <wind, rain, current>; faint <groan, voice, pressure, hope, smile, smell>; weak, faint < pulse>; lukewarm <applause, praise>; faint, dim < light>; pale < colour>

das Licht wird schwächer — the light is fading

4) (wenig konzentriert) weak <solution, acid, tea, coffee, beer, poison, etc.>

5) (Sprachw.) weak <conjugation, verb, noun, etc.>
2.
adverbial

1) (kraftlos) weakly

2) (nicht gut) poorly

3) (in geringem Maße) poorly <attended, developed>; sparsely < populated>; slightly <poisonous, acid, alcoholic, sweetened, salted, inclined, etc.>; < rain> slightly; <remember, glow, smile, groan> faintly; lightly < accented>; < beat> weakly

4) (Sprachw.)

schwach gebeugt/konjugiert — weak

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schwach

A. adj

1. allg weak; Stimme: weak, faint; Hoffnung, Lächeln: faint; Motor: low-powered; Batterie: low; Puls: weak, faint; Ton, Geruch: faint; Licht: dim;

schwache Ähnlichkeit slight resemblance;

schwaches Anzeichen faint sign;

schwacher Beifall half-hearted applause;

schwache Beteiligung low ( oder poor) turnout;

schwache Erinnerung faint ( oder vague, dim) recollection;

schwacher Esser poor eater;

das schwache Geschlecht the weaker sex;

schwaches Lob faint praise;

schwache Stelle weak spot;

eine schwache Stunde a moment of weakness;

schwacher Trost small consolation;

schwacher Versuch feeble attempt;

schwacher Widerstand weak resistance;

einen schwachen Willen haben be weak-willed;

schwacher Wind slight ( oder light) breeze

2. (schlecht) Mannschaft etc, Schüler: weak; umg (enttäuschend) hopeless; Gesundheit, Gedächtnis, Gehör: poor;

schwache Leistung poor ( oder weak) performance;

schwache Vorstellung THEAT poor performance; umg, fig (schlechte Leistung) poor show;

ein schwaches Bild bieten put up ( oder on) a poor show;

schwache Seite → Schwäche 2;

eines der schwächeren Stücke Brechts one of Brecht’s weaker plays;

in Erdkunde ist sie schwach geography is her weak subject, she’s not very good at geography;

ein Stützkurs für die Schwächeren a support program(me) for weaker pupils;

sozial schwach socially disadvantaged;

die sozial Schwachen the socially disadvantaged

3. (nachgiebig) soft;

schwach werden weaken; fig (nachgeben) auch relent; (erliegen) succumb;

er wurde schwach fig auch his resistance broke down;

bei dem Anblick wurde ich schwach umg I melted at the sight;

sich schwach zeigen show one’s weakness;

nur nicht schwach werden! umg don’t give in!;

mir wird ganz schwach, wenn ich daran denke umg I go weak at the knees just at the thought (of it)

4.

schwächer werden weaken (further), grow weaker; Nachfrage: fall off, decrease; Sehkraft: deteriorate; Ton, Licht: fade; schulisch, künstlerisch: → abflauen, nachlassen

5.

schwach auf der Brust sein umg be out of pocket

B. adv:

1.

schwach aktiv PHYS, Substanz: low-level;

schwach radioaktiv PHYS … emitting low-level radioactivity, low-level radioactive …;

schwach besetzt SPORT, Team: weak; Turnier: with a poor entry; Stadion etc: half empty;

schwach besiedelt oder

bevölkert Region: sparsely populated;

schwach betont LING, Silbe: weakly stressed;

schwach betont sein auch have a weak stress;

schwach begabt not at all gifted; Schüler: low-ability;

schwach besucht sein be poorly attended;

schwach motorisiert low-powered;

sich nur schwach wehren offer only weak resistance;

sein Herz schlug nur noch schwach he only had a faint heartbeat;

schwach dekliniertes Substantiv/Adjektiv weak noun/adjective

2. (schlecht)

schwach spielen play badly;

schwach entwickelt poorly developed, underdeveloped

…schwach im adj

1. qualitätsmäßig:

ausdrucksschwach inarticulate, lacking expressive power;

inhaltsschwach with poor content

2. leistungsmäßig:

gedächtnisschwach with a poor memory;

konditionsschwach unfit, in poor shape;

konzentrationsschwach unable to concentrate properly;

lernschwach with learning difficulties

3. mit zu geringer Zahl:

mitgliederschwach with few members;

PS-schwach low-powered

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1.
; schwächer, schwächst... Adjektiv

1) (kraftlos) weak; weak, delicate <child, woman>; frail <invalid, old person>; low-powered <engine, car, bulb, amplifier, etc.>; weak, poor <eyesight, memory, etc.>; poor < hearing>; delicate <health, constitution>

schwach werden — grow weak; (fig.): (schwanken) weaken; waver; (nachgeben) give in

mir wird [ganz] schwach — I feel [quite] faint

in einer schwachen Stunde — in a weak moment

2) (nicht gut) poor <pupil, player, runner, performance, result, effort, etc.>; weak <candidate, argument, opponent, play, film, etc.>

er ist in Latein sehr schwach — he is very bad at Latin

das ist aber ein schwaches Bild! — (fig. ugs.) that's a poor show (coll.)

3) (gering, niedrig, klein) poor, low <attendance etc.>; sparse < population>; slight <effect, resistance, gradient, etc.>; light <wind, rain, current>; faint <groan, voice, pressure, hope, smile, smell>; weak, faint < pulse>; lukewarm <applause, praise>; faint, dim < light>; pale < colour>

das Licht wird schwächer — the light is fading

4) (wenig konzentriert) weak <solution, acid, tea, coffee, beer, poison, etc.>

5) (Sprachw.) weak <conjugation, verb, noun, etc.>
2.
adverbial

1) (kraftlos) weakly

2) (nicht gut) poorly

3) (in geringem Maße) poorly <attended, developed>; sparsely < populated>; slightly <poisonous, acid, alcoholic, sweetened, salted, inclined, etc.>; < rain> slightly; <remember, glow, smile, groan> faintly; lightly < accented>; < beat> weakly

4) (Sprachw.)

schwach gebeugt/konjugiert — weak

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adj.

faint adj.

feckless adj.

feeble adj.

flimsy adj.

fragile adj.

infirm adj.

languid adj.

slight adj.

weak adj. adv.

faintly adv.

fecklessly adv.

feebly adv.

flimsily adv.

infirmly adv.

languidly adv.

slightly adv.

weakly adv.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > schwach
9 punto

m.

1 spot, dot (marca).

recorte por la línea de puntos cut along the dotted line

2 full stop (British), period (United States).

dos puntos (sobre i, j, en dirección de correo electrónico) colon

poner los puntos sobre las íes (figurative) to dot the i's and cross the t's

y punto (informal) and that's that

punto y aparte full stop o (British) period, new paragraph (United States)

punto y coma semicolon

punto final full stop (British), period (United States)

poner punto final a algo (figurative) to bring something to a close

punto y seguido full stop (British), period (United States)

puntos suspensivos (no new paragraph) dots, suspension points

3 point.

ganar/perder por seis puntos to win/lose by six points

4 point (asunto).

punto débil/fuerte weak/strong point

puntos a tratar matters to be discussed

punto de vista point of view, viewpoint

5 spot, place (place).

este es el punto exacto donde ocurrió todo this is the exact spot where it all happened

punto de apoyo fulcrum; (en palanca) backup, support (figurative)

punto cardinal point of the compass, cardinal point (specialist term)

punto de contacto point of contact

punto de encuentro meeting point

punto negro blackhead; (grano) accident blackspot (en carretera)

punto de venta (commerce) point of sale; retail outlet (tienda)

6 point, moment (momento).

llegar a un punto en que… to reach the stage where…

estando las cosas en este punto things being as they are

punto culminante high point

punto de ebullición/fusión boiling/melting point

punto de inflexión turning point

punto de partida starting point

7 stitch (puntada).

punto de cruz cross-stitch

8 knitting.

hacer punto to knit

un jersey de punto a knitted jumper

punto de ganchillo crochet

9 period, full stop.

10 guy.

11 pixel.

12 punctus, punctum.

pres.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: puntar.

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punto

► nombre masculino

1 (gen) point

2 (marca) dot

3 (tanto) point

■ nos llevan cinco puntos de ventaja they're five points ahead of us

4 (detrás de abreviatura) dot; (al final de la oración) full stop, US period

5 (lugar) spot

■ ¿en qué punto de la carretera se encuentran? exactly where on the road are they?

6 (tema) point

7 (tejido) knitwear

■ me he comprado una falda de punto I bought a knitted skirt

8 (en costura, sutura) stitch

■ me caí y me dieron tres puntos en la barbilla I fell and needed three stitches on my chin

9 (de libro) bookmark

10 (en la media) ladder, US run

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FRASEOLOGÍA

a punto de caramelo (en repostería) caramelized 2 (en su punto) just right, perfect

■ pídele el aumento ahora que está a punto de caramelo ask him for a rise now that he's in the mood

a punto de nieve stiff

■ tienes que batir las claras a punto de nieve you have to beat the egg whites stiff

al punto (rápidamente) immediately

coger un punto familiar to get tipsy, get merry

con puntos y comas in detail

dar en el punto to hit the nail on the head

de todo punto absolutely

en punto sharp, on the dot

■ son las tres en punto it's exactly three o'clock

estar a punto to be ready

estar a punto de to be about to, be on the point of

■ ese jarrón está a punto de caerse that vase is about to fall

■ estuvimos a punto de matarnos we nearly got killed

estar en su punto (comida) to be cooked to perfection

■ la pasta está en su punto the pasta is just right

■ este pastel te ha quedado en su punto this cake has turned out perfect

ganar puntos to win points

ganar por puntos to win on points

hacer punto to knit

hasta cierto punto up to a certain point

hasta tal punto que... to such an extent that...

llegar a punto to arrive on time

perder puntos (gen) to lose points 2 (alumno) to lose marks

■ perdió puntos porque su letra era mala he lost marks because of his bad handwriting

poner los puntos sobre las íes to dot one's i's and cross one's t's

poner punto final a algo to put an end to something

¡punto en boca! mum's the word!

punto por punto in detail

dos puntos colon

punto cadena chain stitch

punto cardinal cardinal point

punto culminante climax

punto de apoyo (en palanca) fulcrum 2 (base) cornerstone

punto de arranque beginning

punto de break break point

punto de congelación freezing point

punto de contacto point of contact

punto de cruz cross-stitch

punto de ebullición boiling point

punto de encuentro meeting point

punto de fusión melting point

punto de libro bookmark

punto de media stocking stitch

punto de mira (objetivo) target 2 (en rifle) sight, front sight 3 (punto de vista) viewpoint

punto de partida starting point

punto de partido match point

punto de referencia point of reference

punto de ruptura break point

punto de servicio service point

punto de set set point

punto de sutura stitch

punto de venta sales outlet

punto de vista point of view

punto débil weak point

punto decimal decimal point

punto del revés purl stitch

punto final (en dictado) full stop, US period

punto flaco weak point

punto fuerte strong point

punto muerto (en un coche) neutral 2 (en una negociación) standstill, stalemate, deadlock

■ deja el coche en punto muerto leave the car in neutral

■ las negociaciones ha entrado en punto muerto the negotiations have reached a stalemate

punto negro (en la piel) blackhead 2 (en la carretera) black spot

punto neurálgico nerve centre

punto y aparte (en ortografía) full stop, new paragraph, US period, new paragraph

punto y coma semicolon

punto y seguido full stop, new sentence, US period, new sentence

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noun m.

1) point

2) dot

3) period

4) stitch

•

- dos puntos
- punto final
- punto y coma
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SM

1) (=topo) [en un diseño] dot, spot; [en plumaje] spot, speckle; [en carta, dominó] spot, pip

aparecen en la piel unos puntos rojos — red spots appear on the skin

línea de puntos — dotted line

punto de luz — light

punto negro — (=espinilla) blackhead

2) (=signo) [en la i] dot; [de puntuación] full stop, period (EEUU)

• dos puntos — colon

- con puntos y comas

les contó con puntos y comas lo que había pasado — she told them what had happened down to the last detail

- poner los puntos sobre las íes

le puso los puntos sobre las íes — she corrected him, she drew attention to his inaccuracies

- sin faltar punto ni coma

y punto —

¡lo digo yo y punto! — I'm telling you so and that's that!

punto acápite — LAm [en dictado] full stop, new paragraph, period, new paragraph (EEUU)

punto final — full stop, period (EEUU); (fig) end

poner punto final a la discusión — to put an end to the argument, draw a line under the argument

puntos suspensivos — [gen] suspension points; [en dictado] dot, dot, dot

punto y aparte — [en dictado] full stop, new paragraph, period, new paragraph (EEUU)

esto marca un punto y aparte en la historia del teatro — this marks a break with tradition o the past in the theatre

este es un vino punto y aparte — this is an uncommonly good o exceptional wine

punto y coma — semicolon

punto y seguido — [en dictado] full stop (no new paragraph), period (no new paragraph) (EEUU)

3) (Dep) point

con ocho puntos a favor y tres en contra — with eight points for and three against

los dos están empatados a puntos — the two of them are level on points

ganar o vencer por puntos — to win on points

perdieron por tres puntos — they lost by three points

completó la ronda con cero puntos — she had a clear round

- perder muchos puntos

¡qué punto te has marcado con lo que has dicho! — * what you said was spot-on *

4) (=tema) [gen] point; [en programa de actividades] item

no quiero extenderme sobre ese punto — I don't wish to elaborate on that point

los puntos en el orden del día son... — the items on the agenda are...

contestar punto por punto — to answer point by point

punto capital — crucial point

puntos a tratar — matters to be discussed

puntos de consulta — terms of reference

5) (=labor) knitting; (=tejido) knitted fabric, knit

prendas de punto — knitwear sing

falda de punto — knitted skirt

chaqueta de punto — cardigan

• hacer punto — to knit

punto del derecho — plain knitting

punto del revés — purl

punto de media — plain knitting

6) (Cos, Med) (=puntada) stitch; [de media] loose stitch

me tuvieron que dar cinco puntos — I had to have five stitches

me van a quitar los puntos — I am having my stitches out

- ¡punto en boca!

punto de costado — (=dolor) stitch

tengo un punto de costado — I've got a stitch, I've got a pain in my side

punto de cruz — cross stitch

punto de sutura — stitch

7) (=lugar) [gen] spot, place; (Geog, Mat) point; [de proceso] point, stage; [en el tiempo] point, moment

al llegar a este punto — at this point o stage

punto cardinal — cardinal point

los cuatro puntos cardinales — the four points of the compass

punto ciego — (Anat) blind spot

punto clave — key point

el punto clave de su razonamiento — the key point of her argument

punto crítico — critical point

punto culminante — high point

llegar a su punto culminante — to reach its climax

punto de asistencia — (Aut) checkpoint

punto débil — weak point o spot

punto de calor — heat source

punto de congelación — freezing point

punto de contacto — point of contact

punto de control — checkpoint

punto de ebullición — boiling-point

punto de encuentro — meeting point

punto de equilibrio — (Com) break-even point

punto de fuga — vanishing point

punto de fusión — melting-point

punto de inflamación — flashpoint

punto de información — information centre

punto de mira — [de rifle] sight; (=objetivo) aim, objective; (=punto de vista) point of view

estar en el punto de mira de algn —

su comportamiento está en el punto de mira de la prensa — his behaviour has come under scrutiny in the press

el fraude fiscal está en el punto de mira de Hacienda — the Treasury has targeted tax evasion

Tokio está en el punto de mira de sus misiles — their missiles are pointing towards Tokyo

punto de inflexión — turning point

punto de no retorno — point of no return

punto de partida — starting point

punto de penalti — penalty spot

punto de referencia — point of reference

punto de taxis — taxi stand, cab rank

punto de venta — point of sale

terminales punto de venta — point of sale terminals

está presente en 3.000 puntos de venta — it's available at 3,000 outlets

punto de vista — point of view, viewpoint

él lo mira desde otro punto de vista — he sees it differently, he looks at it from another point of view

punto flaco — weak point, weak spot

punto muerto — (Mec) dead centre; (Aut) neutral (gear); (=estancamiento) deadlock, stalemate

las negociaciones están en un punto muerto — the negotiations are deadlocked, the talks have reached a stalemate

punto negro — (Aut) (accident) black spot; (fig) blemish

punto neurálgico — (Anat) nerve centre o (EEUU) center; (fig) key point

punto neutro — (Mec) dead centre; (Aut) neutral (gear)

8) [otras locuciones]

• a punto — ready

está a punto — it's ready

con sus cámaras a punto para disparar — with their cameras at the ready

llegar a punto — to come just at the right moment

poner un motor a punto — to tune an engine

• al punto — at once, immediately

estar al punto — LAm * to be high **

• bajar de punto — to decline, fall off, fall away

• a punto de, a punto de caramelo — caramelized

poner el azúcar a punto de caramelo — to caramelize the sugar

batir las claras a punto de nieve — beat the egg whites until stiff o until they form stiff peaks

estar a punto de hacer algo — to be on the point of doing sth, be about to do sth

estábamos a punto de salir cuando llamaste — we were about to go out when you phoned

estuve a punto de llamarte — I almost called you

estaba a punto de llorar — he was on the verge of tears

estuve a punto de perder el tren — I very nearly missed the train

• en punto, a las siete en punto — at seven o'clock sharp o on the dot

llegó en punto — he arrived right on time

• en su punto — [carne] done to a turn; [fruta] just ripe

el arroz está en su punto — the rice is just right

pongamos las cosas en su punto — let's be absolutely clear about this

• hasta cierto punto — up to a point, to some extent

hasta tal punto que... — to such an extent that...

la tensión había llegado hasta tal punto que... — the tension had reached such a pitch that...

• subir de punto — (=aumentar) to grow, increase; (=empeorar) to get worse

- coger o ligar o pillar un buen punto

- cogerle o pillarle el punto a algn

darle el punto a algn ** —

si me da el punto, voy — if I feel like it, I'll go

si le da el punto es capaz de cualquier cosa — if he gets it into his head he can do anything

- saber algo a punto fijo

- de todo punto

9) Esp * (=hombre) guy *; pey rogue

¡vaya un punto!, ¡está hecho un punto filipino! — he's a right rogue! *

10) (=agujero) hole

darse dos puntos en el cinturón — to let one's belt out a couple of holes

11) (Inform) pixel

punto de parada — break-point

punto de referencia — benchmark

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masculino

1)

a) (señal, trazo) dot

un punto en el horizonte — a dot o speck on the horizon

b) (Ling) (sobre la `i', la `j') dot; ( signo de puntuación) period (AmE), full stop (BrE)

a punto fijo — exactly, for certain

... y punto: lo harás y punto you'll do it and that's that; poner los puntos sobre las íes — ( aclarar algo) to make something crystal clear; ( detallar algo) to dot the i's and cross the t's; dos I

- punto decimal

- punto final

- puntos suspensivos

- punto y aparte

- punto y coma

- punto y seguido

2)

a) (momento, lugar) point

en ese punto de la conversación — at that point in the conversation

busca un local en un punto céntrico — he's looking for premises somewhere central

el punto donde ocurrió el accidente — the spot o place where the accident happened

b) ( en geometría) point

- punto álgido

- punto cardinal

- punto culminante

- punto de apoyo

- punto débil

- punto de caramelo

- punto de congelación/ebullición/fusión

- punto de mira

- punto de nieve

- punto de partida

- punto de penalty or penalti

- punto de referencia

- punto de venta

- punto de vista

- punto fijo

- punto flaco/fuerte

- punto muerto

- punto neurálgico

3) ( grado) point, extent

hasta cierto punto tiene razón — she's right, up to a point

hasta tal punto que... — so much so that...

4) (asunto, aspecto) point

los puntos a tratar en la reunión — the matters o items on the agenda for the meeting

analizar algo punto por punto — to analyze something point by point

5) (en locs)

a punto — ( a tiempo) just in time

a punto DE + INF: estábamos a punto de cenar we were about to have dinner; estuvo a punto de caerse he almost fell over; a punto de llorar on the verge of tears; en su punto just right; al punto (Esp) at once; en punto: te espero a las 12 en punto I'll expect you at 12 o'clock sharp; son las tres en punto it's exactly three o'clock; llegaron en punto they arrived exactly on time; de todo punto — absolutely, totally

6)

a) (en costura, labores) stitch

se me ha escapado un punto — I've dropped a stitch

artículos de punto — knitwear

hacer punto — (Esp) to knit

punto en boca — (fam)

tú punto en boca — keep your mouth shut

b) ( en cirugía) tb

punto de sutura — stitch

- punto cruz

- punto del derecho

- punto del revés

- punto elástico

7) (Dep, Jueg) point; (Educ) point, mark; (Fin) point

vencer por puntos — to win on points

tiene dos punto de ventaja sobre Clark — he is two points ahead of Clark, he has a two point advantage over Clark

matarle el punto a alguien — (CS fam) to go one better than somebody

- punto para partido/set

8) (Per, RPl arg) ( tonto) idiot

agarrar or tomar a alguien de punto — (Per, RPl arg)

lo agarraron de punto — ( burlándose de él) they made him the butt of their jokes; ( aprovechándose de él) they took him for a ride

la profesora me ha agarrado de punto — the teacher has it in for me (colloq)

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masculino

1)

a) (señal, trazo) dot

un punto en el horizonte — a dot o speck on the horizon

b) (Ling) (sobre la `i', la `j') dot; ( signo de puntuación) period (AmE), full stop (BrE)

a punto fijo — exactly, for certain

... y punto: lo harás y punto you'll do it and that's that; poner los puntos sobre las íes — ( aclarar algo) to make something crystal clear; ( detallar algo) to dot the i's and cross the t's; dos I

- punto decimal

- punto final

- puntos suspensivos

- punto y aparte

- punto y coma

- punto y seguido

2)

a) (momento, lugar) point

en ese punto de la conversación — at that point in the conversation

busca un local en un punto céntrico — he's looking for premises somewhere central

el punto donde ocurrió el accidente — the spot o place where the accident happened

b) ( en geometría) point

- punto álgido

- punto cardinal

- punto culminante

- punto de apoyo

- punto débil

- punto de caramelo

- punto de congelación/ebullición/fusión

- punto de mira

- punto de nieve

- punto de partida

- punto de penalty or penalti

- punto de referencia

- punto de venta

- punto de vista

- punto fijo

- punto flaco/fuerte

- punto muerto

- punto neurálgico

3) ( grado) point, extent

hasta cierto punto tiene razón — she's right, up to a point

hasta tal punto que... — so much so that...

4) (asunto, aspecto) point

los puntos a tratar en la reunión — the matters o items on the agenda for the meeting

analizar algo punto por punto — to analyze something point by point

5) (en locs)

a punto — ( a tiempo) just in time

a punto DE + INF: estábamos a punto de cenar we were about to have dinner; estuvo a punto de caerse he almost fell over; a punto de llorar on the verge of tears; en su punto just right; al punto (Esp) at once; en punto: te espero a las 12 en punto I'll expect you at 12 o'clock sharp; son las tres en punto it's exactly three o'clock; llegaron en punto they arrived exactly on time; de todo punto — absolutely, totally

6)

a) (en costura, labores) stitch

se me ha escapado un punto — I've dropped a stitch

artículos de punto — knitwear

hacer punto — (Esp) to knit

punto en boca — (fam)

tú punto en boca — keep your mouth shut

b) ( en cirugía) tb

punto de sutura — stitch

- punto cruz

- punto del derecho

- punto del revés

- punto elástico

7) (Dep, Jueg) point; (Educ) point, mark; (Fin) point

vencer por puntos — to win on points

tiene dos punto de ventaja sobre Clark — he is two points ahead of Clark, he has a two point advantage over Clark

matarle el punto a alguien — (CS fam) to go one better than somebody

- punto para partido/set

8) (Per, RPl arg) ( tonto) idiot

agarrar or tomar a alguien de punto — (Per, RPl arg)

lo agarraron de punto — ( burlándose de él) they made him the butt of their jokes; ( aprovechándose de él) they took him for a ride

la profesora me ha agarrado de punto — the teacher has it in for me (colloq)

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punto¹

¹ = point, pointer.

Ex: Parts of the abstract are written in the informative style, whilst those points which are of less significance are treated indicatively.

Ex: Seven pointers follow which are useful for discriminating between documents to be abstracted and those not worth abstracting.

* aclarar un punto = clarify + point.

* adoptar un punto de vista = embrace + view.

* analizar desde un punto de vista crítico = cast + a critical eye over.

* argumento que presenta los dos puntos de vista = two-sided argument.

* argumento que presenta sólo un punto de vista = one-sided argument.

* comprender un punto de vista = take + point.

* desde cualquier punto de vista = by any standard(s).

* desde el punto de vista de la nutrición = in terms of, from the vantage of, as far as + Nombre + be + concerned, mitotically, nutritionally speaking, nutritionally.

* desde el punto de vista del trabajador = in the trenches.

* desde el punto de vista de la archivística = archivally.

* desde el punto de vista de la calidad = on quality grounds.

* desde el punto de vista de la competitividad = competitively.

* desde el punto de vista de la conservación = preservationally.

* desde el punto de vista de la funcionalidad = functionally.

* desde el punto de vista de la informática = computationally.

* desde el punto de vista de la logística = logistically.

* desde el punto de vista de la medicina = medically.

* desde el punto de vista de la música = musically.

* desde el punto de vista de la notación = notationally.

* desde el punto de vista de la química = chemically.

* desde el punto de vista de la realidad = factually.

* desde el punto de vista de las matemáticas = mathematically.

* desde el punto de vista de la tonalidad = tonally.

* desde el punto de vista del contexto = contextually.

* desde el punto de vista del estilo = stylistically.

* desde el punto de vista del funcionamiento = operationally.

* desde el punto de vista del + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.

* desde el punto de vista de los hechos = factually.

* desde el punto de vista del uso = in terms of use.

* desde el punto de vista de + Nombre = in + Nombre + eyes.

* desde el punto de vista judicial = judicially.

* desde el punto de vista lingüístico = linguistically.

* desde el punto de vista político = politically.

* desde el punto de vista profesional = career-wise [careerwise].

* desde este punto de vista = viewed in this light.

* desde mi punto de vista = in my opinion, in my view, in my books.

* desde + punto de vista = against + backdrop.

* desde todos los puntos de vista = in every sense.

* desde un punto de vista académico = academically.

* desde un punto de vista antropológico = anthropologically.

* desde un punto de vista clínico = medically, clinically.

* desde un punto de vista crítico = judgmentally [judgementally], with a critical eye, critically.

* desde un punto de vista cultural = culturally.

* desde un punto de vista económico = economically, monetarily.

* desde un punto de vista estético = aesthetically [esthetically, -USA].

* desde un punto de vista estrictamente técnico = technically speaking.

* desde un punto de vista étnico = ethnically.

* desde un punto de vista filosófico = philosophically.

* desde un punto de vista general = in a broad sense.

* desde un punto de vista histórico = historically.

* desde un punto de vista más amplio = in a broader sense.

* desde un punto de vista más general = in a broader sense.

* desde un punto de vista médico = medically.

* desde un punto de vista medioambiental = environmentally.

* desde un punto de vista morfológico = morphologically.

* desde un punto de vista operativo = operationally.

* desde un punto de vista racista = racially + Adjetivo.

* desde un punto de vista religioso = religiously.

* desde un punto de vista socioeconómico = socioeconomically.

* desde un punto de vista técnico = technically.

* fiel desde el punto de vista de la historia = historically accurate.

* manifestar un punto de vista = air + view.

* mencionar un punto = touch on + a point.

* mi punto de vista = in my view.

* neutral desde el punto de vista de la raza = race-neutral.

* no concebirse desde ningún punto de vista = be impossible under any hypothesis.

* probar un punto = prove + point.

* promover un punto de vista = promote + view.

* punto a favor = asset.

* punto conflictivo = hot spot.

* punto de la agenda = agenda item.

* punto del orden del día = agenda item.

* punto de una agenda = item of business.

* punto de vista = angle, point of view, side, stance, standpoint, view, viewpoint, outlook, eye, world view [worldview/world-view], bent of mind.

* punto principal = main point.

* puntos a favor y puntos en contra = pros and cons.

* puntos comunes = common ground.

* puntos principales = key issues.

* puntos secundarios = secondary points.

* que consta de tres puntos = three-point.

* sostener un punto de vista = assert + view, hold + point of view.

* tener en cuenta un punto de vista = contemplate + view.

* tener en cuenta un punto de vista = take into + account + viewpoint.

* tocar un punto = touch on + a point.

* ver Algo desde el punto de vista + Adjetivo = view + Nombre + through + Adjetivo + eyes.

punto²

² = bullet point.

Ex: Readers like bullet points because they are visually appealing and make it easy to quickly find pertinent information.

* alcanzar el punto crítico = come to + a head.

* alcanzar el punto culminante = climax.

* alcanzar el punto más álgido = peak, come into + full bloom.

* alcanzar + Posesivo + punto álgido = reach + Posesivo + peak.

* a punto de = on the verge of, a heartbeat away from.

* a punto de + Infinitivo = about to + Infinitivo.

* a punto de irse a pique = on the rocks.

* a punto de morir = on + Posesivo + deathbed.

* el punto más bajo = rock-bottom.

* encontrar el punto medio = strike + the right note.

* en qué punto = at what point.

* en su punto = ripe [riper -comp., ripest -sup.].

* en su punto más álgido = at its height.

* en su punto más bajo = at its lowest ebb.

* en un punto bajo = at a low ebb.

* estar a punto de = be poised to, be about to, be on the point of, stand + poised, come + very close to.

* estar a punto de cascarlas = be on + Posesivo + last legs.

* estar a punto de decir = be on the tip of + Posesivo + tongue to say.

* estar a punto de + Infinitivo = be about + Infinitivo.

* fichero de punto de acceso = access-point file.

* hasta cierto punto = up to a point, to some degree, to some extent.

* hasta el punto de = to the point of, up to the point of.

* hasta el punto que = up to the point where, to the point where.

* hasta qué punto = how far, the extent to which, to what extent.

* hasta tal punto + Adjetivo = such a + Nombre.

* hasta tal punto que = to a point where.

* hasta un punto limitado = to a limited extent.

* las cosas + volver + a su punto de partida = the wheel + turn + full circle.

* llegado este punto = at this juncture.

* llegado un punto = beyond a certain point, beyond a point.

* llegar al punto álgido = reach + a head.

* llegar al punto crítico = come to + a head.

* llegar al punto de = be at the point of.

* llegar al punto de + Infinitivo = go + (as/so) far as + Infinitivo.

* llegar a un punto crítico = reach + turning point.

* no tener ni punto de comparación = be in a different league.

* pasado un punto = beyond a certain point, beyond a point.

* poner a punto = overhaul, hone, fine tune [fine-tune], tune-up.

* primer punto de contacto = port of first call.

* primer punto de contacto, el = first port of call, the.

* puesta a punto = fine tuning [fine-tuning], tuning, tune-up.

* punto álgido = peak.

* punto a punto = point-to-point.

* punto central = focal point.

* punto ciego = blind spot.

* punto clave = key point, watershed, tipping point.

* punto crítico = turning point, Posesivo + road to Damascus.

* punto culminante = zenith, climax, peak, capstone.

* punto de acceso = access point, entry point, entry term, index entry, retrieval access, search key, access point, service point, point of access, entrance point.

* punto de apoyo = foothold.

* punto débil = downside, weak point, weak link.

* punto débil, el = chink in the armour, the.

* punto débl = blind spot.

* punto de contacto = point of contact, interface, contact point.

* punto de convergencia = junction point, similarity.

* punto de discusión = bone of contention.

* punto de distribución = outlet.

* punto de divergencia = stepping-off point.

* punto de división = break.

* punto de encuentro = meeting point.

* punto de entrada = entry point, entrance point, point of entry.

* punto de equilibrio = break-even, break-even point.

* punto de información = information kiosk.

* punto de interés = point of interest.

* punto de llegada = point of arrival.

* punto de luz = power point, electrical outlet, socket outlet, outlet.

* punto de partida = point of departure, starting point, take-off point, baseline [base line], beginning point.

* punto de penalti, el = penalty mark, the.

* punto de recepción y envío = shipping point.

* punto de recogida = pick-up point, drop-off point.

* punto de referencia = benchmark, frame of reference, signpost, signposting, point of reference, anchor, anchor point, referral point, switching point, reference point, reference point.

* punto de referencia común = common framework.

* punto de ruptura = breaking point.

* punto de separación = cut-off point, stepping-off point, cut off [cutoff].

* punto de servicio = service point.

* punto de una lista = bullet point.

* punto de venta = outlet, point of sale.

* punto esencial = essential point.

* punto final = end point [endpoint].

* punto flaco = foible, weak point, blind spot, weak link.

* punto flaco, el = chink in the armour, the.

* punto fuerte = strength, upside, forte, strong point.

* punto g, el = G-spot, the.

* punto intermedio = middle ground.

* punto medio = happy medium, mid-point.

* punto muerto = dead end, impasse, stalemate, dead end street, deadlock, standoff.

* punto negro = blackhead.

* punto positivo = asset.

* puntos de acceso = entry vocabulary.

* punto silla = saddle point.

* ser el punto de partida de = form + the basis of.

* ser el punto más débil de Alguien = be at + Posesivo + weakest.

* ser el punto más flaco de Alguien = be at + Posesivo + weakest.

* servir de punto de partida = point + the way to.

* tomar como punto de partida = build on/upon.

* volver al punto de partida = come + full circle, bring + Pronombre + full-circle, go back to + square one, be back to square one.

punto³

³ = dot, full stop (.), period, stop.

Ex: Braille is the term used to refer to material intended for the visually impaired and using embossed characters formed by raised dots in six-dot cells.

Ex: You have observed the correct use of the facet indicators. (full stop) for S and ' (single inverted comma) for T.

Ex: For instance, to delete the period where the cursor is located, press the < Del> key.

Ex: Such as categorisation may depend rather arbitrarily upon whether stops have been used between letters or not.

* arco de medio punto = round arch.

* arco de punto rebajado = segmental arch.

* dos puntos (:) = colon (:).

* dpi (puntos por pulgada) = dpi (dots per inch).

* en el punto de mira = in the spotlight, in the crosshairs.

* en + Posesivo + punto de mira = in + Posesivo + sights.

* línea de puntos = dotted line.

* matriz de puntos de impacto = impact dot matrix.

* nube de puntos = scatterplot, cloud of points.

* poner punto final a = put + an end to, bring + an end to, bring to + an end, close + the book on.

* poner punto y final a = put + a stop to, sound + the death knell for.

* punto (.) = point (.).

* puntos por pulgada = dots per inch.

* punto y coma (;) = semi-colon (;).

* subrayar con puntos = underdot.

punto⁴

⁴ = point.

Ex: Taking 197 as the base year, the price index of journals for an academic veterinary library has risen 143.00 points, an annual average of 15.89 points through 1986.

* alcanzar el punto de ebullición = reach + boiling point.

* punto de ebullición = boiling point.

* punto de fundición = melting point.

* punto de fusión = melting point, fusion point.

* punto de saturación = saturation point.

* punto porcentual = percentage point.

* sistema de deducción de puntos = points system.

punto⁵

⁵ = stitch.

Ex: It may be seen that one or more pairs of leaves, joined to each other at the back, are held in place by a double stitch of thread running up the fold.

* aguja de hacer punto = knitting needle.

* géneros de punto = knitwear.

* hacer punto = knitting.

* patrón de hacer punto = knitting pattern.

* ¡punto en boca! = mum's the word!.

* ¡punto en boca! = not a word to anyone!, shut your mouth!, shut your face!.

* * *

punto

masculine

A

1 (señal, trazo) dot

desde el avión la ciudad se veía como un conjunto de puntos luminosos from the plane the city looked like a cluster of pinpoints of light o of bright dots

el barco no era más que un punto en el horizonte the boat was no more than a dot o speck on the horizon

2 ( Ling) (sobre la `i', la `j') dot; (signo de puntuación) period ( AmE), full stop ( BrE)

a punto fijo exactly, for certain

no le sabría decir a punto fijo cuándo llegan I couldn't tell you exactly o for certain when they will be arriving

… y punto: si te parece mal se lo dices y punto if you don't like it you just tell him, that's all there is to it

lo harás como yo digo y punto you'll do it the way I tell you and that's that, you'll do it the way I tell you, period ( AmE) o ( BrE) full stop

poner los puntos sobre las íes (dejar algo en claro) to make sth crystal clear; (terminar algo con mucho cuidado) to dot the i's and cross the t's

sin faltar un punto ni una coma down to the last detail

dos¹ (↑ dos (1))

Compuestos:

● punto decimal

[ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] decimal point

● punto final

period ( AmE), full stop ( BrE)

poner punto final a algo to end sth

decidió poner punto final a sus relaciones he decided to end their relationship

● puntos suspensivos

mpl ellipsis ( tech), suspension points (pl) ( AmE), dot, dot, dot

● punto y aparte

period, new paragraph ( AmE), full stop, new paragraph ( BrE)

● punto y coma

semicolon

● punto y seguido

period ( AmE), full stop ( BrE) ( no new paragraph)

B

1 (momento) point

en ese punto de la conversación at that point in the conversation

su popularidad alcanzó su punto más bajo his popularity reached its lowest ebb o point

2 (lugar) point; (en geometría) point

fijó la mirada en un punto lejano del horizonte she fixed her gaze on a distant point on the horizon

están buscando un local en un punto céntrico they are looking for premises somewhere central

en el punto en que la carretera se divide at the point where the road divides

el punto donde ocurrió el accidente the spot o place where the accident happened

Compuestos:

● punto aéreo

( Esp) ( Aviac) air mile

● punto álgido

crucial moment o point

● punto cardinal

cardinal point

● punto ciego

blind spot

● punto crítico

critical point

● punto culminante

high point

● punto de apoyo

(para una palanca) fulcrum

no hay ningún punto de apoyo para la escalera there is nowhere to lean the ladder

constituía el punto de apoyo de su defensa it formed the cornerstone of his defense

● punto de arranque

punto de partida

● punto débil

weak point

● punto de caramelo

a punto de caramelo ‹almíbar› caramelized

(en su mejor momento) ( fam): este queso está a punto de caramelo this cheese is just right (for eating)

yo no lo encuentro viejo, para mí está a punto de caramelo I don't think he's old, if you ask me he's in his prime o he's just right

la situación está a punto de caramelo para otro golpe militar the situation is ripe for another military coup

● punto de congelación

freezing point

● punto de contacto

point of contact

el movimiento tiene muchos puntos de contacto con el surrealismo the movement has a lot in common with surrealism

● punto de control

checkpoint

● punto de ebullición

boiling point

● punto de fuga

vanishing point

● punto de fusión

melting point

● punto de inflexión

point of inflexion ( on a curve)

● punto de interrupción

( Inf) breakpoint

● punto de libro

( Esp) bookmark

● punto de mira

(de un rifle) front sight; (blanco) target; (objetivo) aim, objective; (punto de vista) point of view

● punto de nieve

batir las claras a punto de nieve beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks

● punto de no retorno

point of no return

● punto de partida

(sitio) starting point; (de un proceso, razonamiento) starting point

esta dramática escalada tiene un claro punto de partida en los sucesos del mes pasado this dramatic escalation clearly has its origins in the events of last month

● punto de penalty or penalti

penalty spot

● punto de referencia

reference point

● punto de reunión

meeting place, assembly point

● punto de turrón

( Méx) punto de nieve

● punto de venta

point of sale, outlet, sales outlet

● punto único de venta

unique selling point

● punto de vista

(perspectiva) viewpoint, point of view; (opinión) views (pl)

desde un punto de vista técnico from a technical viewpoint, from a technical point of view

todos conocen mi punto de vista sobre este asunto you all know my views on this matter

● punto fijo

( Chi) (lugar) permanent or semi-permanent guard post; (vigilante) guard

está en punto fijo toda la noche he is on guard duty all night

● punto flaco

weak point

● punto medio

habrá que esperar a que las cosas lleguen a su punto medio we'll have to wait until things sort themselves out

hay que buscar el punto medio entre las dos cosas you have to strike a balance between the two things

● punto muerto

( Auto) neutral; ( Fin) break even point; (en negociaciones) deadlock

las conversaciones han llegado a un punto muerto the talks have reached deadlock o stalemate

el proceso está en punto muerto the process is deadlocked

● punto negro

(en la carretera) black spot; (en la piel) blackhead

● punto neurálgico

( Anat) nerve center*; (de una organización, un sistema) nerve center*

un accidente en uno de los puntos neurálgicos de la ciudad an accident at one of the busiest spots o points in the city

uno de los puntos neurálgicos de la economía one of the key elements of the economy

C (grado) point, extent

hasta cierto punto tiene razón she's right, up to a point

hasta cierto punto me alegro de que se vaya to a certain extent o in a way I'm glad she's going

claro que fue atento y amable, hasta tal punto que llegó a resultarnos pesado of course he was attentive and kind, so much so that it got a bit much for us

D (asunto, aspecto) point

en ese punto no estoy de acuerdo contigo I don't agree with you on that point

los puntos a tratar en la reunión de hoy the matters o items on the agenda for today's meeting

hay algunos puntos de coincidencia entre los dos enfoques the two approaches have some points in common

analizamos la propuesta punto por punto we analyzed the proposal point by point

E ( en locs):

a punto (a tiempo) just in time

( Coc) en su punto

has llegado a punto para ayudarme you've arrived just in time to help me

a punto DE + INF:

estábamos a punto de cenar cuando llamaste we were about to have dinner when you phoned

estuvo a punto de matarse en el accidente he was nearly killed in the accident, he came within an inch of being killed in the accident

estaba a punto de decírmelo cuando tú entraste she was on the point of telling me o she was about to tell me when you came in

se notaba que estaba a punto de llorar you could see she was on the verge of tears

en su punto just right

el arroz está en su punto the rice is just right

la carne estaba en su punto the meat was done to a turn

al punto ( Esp); right away, at once, straightaway ( BrE)

en punto: te espero a las 12 en punto I'll expect you at 12 o'clock sharp

son las tres en punto it's exactly three o'clock

llegaron en punto they arrived exactly on time, they arrived on the dot o dead on time ( colloq)

de todo punto absolutely, totally

eso es de todo punto inaceptable that is totally o completely unacceptable

se negaba de todo punto a hacerlo she absolutely o flatly refused to do it

F

1 (en costura) stitch

punto en boca ( fam): y ya saben, diga lo que diga él, nosotros punto en boca and remember, whatever he says, we keep our mouths shut

2 (en cirugía) tb

punto de sutura stitch

le tuvieron que poner puntos she had to have stitches

3 (en labores) stitch

se me ha escapado un punto I've dropped a stitch

artículos de punto knitwear

hacer punto ( Esp); to knit

Compuestos:

● punto atrás

backstitch

● punto cadena

chain stitch

● punto cruzado

herringbone stitch

● punto (de) cruz

cross-stitch

● punto de escapulario

herringbone stitch

● punto del derecho

plain stitch

● punto del revés

purl stitch

● punto de media

stocking stitch

● punto elástico

rib, ribbing

● punto jersey

stocking stitch

● punto Santa Clara

garter stitch

● punto sombra

shadow stitch

G

1 (unidad) ( Dep, Jueg) point; ( Educ) point, mark

venció por puntos he won on points

tiene dos punto de ventaja sobre Clark he is two points ahead of Clark, he has a two point advantage over Clark

pierdes dos puntos por cada falta de ortografía you lose two marks o points for every spelling mistake

anotarse/marcarse un punto ( fam): la paella está exquisita, te has anotado un punto ten out of ten o ( BrE) full marks for the paella, it's delicious

matarle el punto a algn (CS fam); to go one better than sb

subir de punto «ira/admiración» to grow;

«discusión» to heat up, grow heated

2 ( Fin) point

Compuestos:

● punto de or para partido

match point

● punto de ruptura

break point

● punto de or para set

set point

● punto porcentual

percentage point

H

(poco, pizca): es orgulloso, con un punto de bravuconería he's proud, with just a touch o hint of boastfulness about him

I

1 (Per, RPl arg) (tonto) idiot

agarrar or tomar a algn de punto (Per, RPl arg): lo han agarrado de punto (burlándose de él) they've made him the butt of their jokes; (aprovechándose de él) they've taken him for a ride ( colloq)

la profesora me ha agarrado de punto the teacher has it in for me ( colloq)

2 ( RPl arg) (tipo) guy ( colloq)

* * *

punto sustantivo masculino
1
a) (señal, marca) dot

b) (Ling) (sobre la `i', la `j') dot;

( signo de puntuación) period (AmE), full stop (BrE);
◊ punto decimal decimal point ;

punto final period (AmE), full stop (BrE);
puntos suspensivos ellipsis (tech), suspension points (pl) (AmE), dot, dot, dot;
punto y aparte period (AmE) o (BrE) full stop, new paragraph;
punto y coma semicolon;
punto com (Com, Inf) dot.com;
a punto fijo exactly, for certain;
… y punto … and that's that, … period (AmE);
See Also→ dos
2
a) (momento, lugar) point;

◊ en ese punto de la conversación at that point in the conversation;

el punto donde ocurrió el accidente the spot o place where the accident happened;
punto cardinal cardinal point ;
punto ciego blind spot;
punto de apoyo ( de palanca) fulcrum;
no hay ningún punto de apoyo para la escalera there is nowhere to lean the ladder;
punto de vista ( perspectiva) viewpoint, point of view;

( opinión) views;
◊ punto flaco/fuerte weak/strong point;

punto muerto (Auto) neutral;

( en negociaciones) deadlock
b) ( en geometría) point

3 ( grado) point, extent;
◊ hasta cierto punto tiene razón she's right, up to a point;

hasta tal punto que … so much so that …
4 (asunto, aspecto) point;
◊ analizar algo punto por punto to analyze sth point by point;

los puntos a tratar en la reunión the matters o items on the agenda for the meeting
5 ( en locs)
◊ a punto ( a tiempo) just in time;

estábamos a punto de cenar we were about to have dinner;
estuvo a punto de caerse he almost fell over;
batir las claras a punto de nieve beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks;
en su punto just right;
en punto: a las 12 en punto at 12 o'clock sharp;
son las tres en punto it's exactly three o'clock;
llegaron en punto they arrived exactly on time
6
a) (en costura, labores) stitch;

◊ artículos de punto knitwear;

hacer punto (Esp) to knit;
punto (de) cruz cross-stitch
b) ( en cirugía) tb

◊ punto de sutura stitch

7 ( unidad)
a) Dep, Jueg) point;

◊ punto para partido/set (Méx) match/set point

b) (Educ) point, mark;

(Fin) point
punto sustantivo masculino
1 point
punto de vista, point of view
punto flaco, weak point
punto muerto, (situación sin salida) deadlock, Auto neutral
2 (lugar) place, point: está perdido en algún punto de Marruecos, it's way out somewhere in Morocco
3 (pintado, dibujado) dot
línea de puntos, dotted line
4 (en una competición) point: le dieron tres puntos a Irlanda, Ireland scored three points
5 (en un examen) mark: la pregunta vale dos puntos, the question is worth two marks
6 Cost Med stitch: se le infectó un punto, one of the stitches became infected
7 (grado, medida) point: hasta cierto punto, to a certain extent
8 Ling full stop
dos puntos, colon
punto y aparte, full stop, new paragraph
punto y coma, semicolon
puntos suspensivos, dots
♦ Locuciones: hacer punto, to knit
a punto, ready
a punto de, on the point of
en punto, sharp, on the dot: a las seis en punto, at six o'clock sharp
Culin en su punto, just right
' punto' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
álgida
- álgido
- aparte
- borde
- cadeneta
- caer
- caramelo
- cardinal
- cerca
- cierta
- cierto
- coincidir
- coma
- concretar
- culminante
- cúspide
- débil
- desde
- distanciarse
- ebullición
- Ecuador
- este
- extrema
- extremo
- flaca
- flaco
- fuerte
- luminosa
- luminoso
- mareada
- mareado
- media
- medio
- muerta
- muerto
- nivel
- novedosa
- novedoso
- para
- puesta
- referencia
- regresar
- relativamente
- respetable
- sazón
- sesgar
- talón
- tanta
- tanto
- tomate
English:
about
- angle
- aspect
- bankrupt
- benchmark
- blackhead
- boiling point
- cardigan
- certain
- chink
- circle
- climax
- close
- cluster
- coast
- conclude
- contention
- cottage industry
- crop up
- cross-stitch
- crossroads
- crunch
- culmination
- cut-off
- deadlock
- degree
- dot
- essential
- extent
- eye
- failing
- feature
- focal point
- follow through
- foothold
- forthcoming
- freezing point
- full stop
- head
- height
- high
- impasse
- interface
- item
- just
- knit
- knitting
- knitting needle
- knitwear
- labour

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punto

♦ nm

1. [marca] dot, spot;
[en geometría] point;
recorte por la línea de puntos cut along the dotted line

Comp
punto de fuga vanishing point
2. [signo ortográfico] [al final de frase] Br full stop, US period;
[sobre i, j, en dirección de correo electrónico] dot;
dos puntos colon;
Fam
no vas a ir, y punto you're not going, and that's that;

Comp

poner los puntos sobre las íes to dot the i's and cross the t's

Comp
Bol, Perú punto acápite semicolon;
punto y aparte Br full stop o US period, new paragraph;

punto y coma semicolon;

punto final Br full stop, US period;

Comp

poner punto final a algo to bring sth to an end;

punto y seguido Br full stop, US period [no new paragraph];

puntos suspensivos suspension points

3. [unidad] [en juegos, competiciones, exámenes, bolsa] point;

ganar/perder por seis puntos to win/lose by six points;

ganar por puntos [en boxeo] to win on points;

el índice Dow Jones ha subido seis puntos the Dow Jones index is up six points;

los tipos de interés bajarán un punto interest rates will go down by one (percentage) point

Comp
punto de break break point;
punto de juego game point;

punto de partido match point;

punto porcentual percentage point;

punto de set set point

4. [asunto, parte] point;

pasemos al siguiente punto let's move on to the next point;

te lo explicaré punto por punto I'll explain it to you point by point;

tenemos los siguientes puntos a tratar we have the following items on the agenda

Comp
punto débil weak point;
punto fuerte strong point

5. [lugar] spot, place;

éste es el punto exacto donde ocurrió todo this is the exact spot where it all happened;

hay retenciones en varios puntos de la provincia there are delays at several different points across the province

Comp
punto de apoyo [en palanca] fulcrum; Ling punto de articulación point of articulation;
los puntos cardinales the points of the compass, Espec the cardinal points;

punto ciego [en el ojo] blind spot;

punto de encuentro meeting point;
Dep punto fatídico penalty spot;
punto G g-spot;

punto de inflexión tipping point;

punto de mira [en armas] sight;

Comp

está en mi punto de mira [es mi objetivo] I have it in my sights;

punto negro [en la piel] blackhead;
[en carretera] accident Br blackspot o US hot spot;
punto neurálgico [de ser vivo, organismo] nerve centre;

la plaza mayor es el punto neurálgico de la ciudad the main square is the town's busiest crossroads;

éste es el punto neurálgico de la negociación this is the central issue at stake in the negotiations;

punto de partida starting point;

punto de penalti o penalty penalty spot;

punto de referencia point of reference;

punto de reunión meeting point;
Com punto de venta:
en el punto de venta at the point of sale;

tenemos puntos de venta en todo el país we have (sales) outlets across the country;

punto de venta autorizado authorized dealer;

punto de venta electrónico electronic point of sale;

punto de vista point of view, viewpoint;

bajo mi punto de vista… in my view…;

desde el punto de vista del dinero… in terms of money…

6. [momento] point, moment;

lo dejamos en este punto del debate y seguimos tras la publicidad we'll have to leave the discussion here for the moment, we'll be back after the break;

al punto at once, there and then;

en punto exactly, on the dot;

a las seis en punto at six o'clock on the dot, at six o'clock sharp;

son las seis en punto it's (exactly) six o'clock;

estar a punto to be ready;

estuve a punto de cancelar el viaje I was on the point of cancelling the trip;

estamos a punto de firmar un importante contrato we are on the verge o point of signing an important contract;

estaba a punto de salir cuando… I was about to leave when…;

estuvo a punto de morir ahogada she almost drowned;

llegar a punto (para hacer algo) to arrive just in time (to do sth)

Comp
punto crítico critical moment o point; [de reactor] critical point;
alcanzar el punto crítico [reactor] to go critical

7. [estado, fase] state, condition;

estando las cosas en este punto things being as they are;

llegar a un punto en que… to reach the stage where…;

estar en su punto to be just right;

¿cómo quiere el filete? – a punto o [m5] al punto how would you like your steak? – medium, please;

poner a punto [motor] to tune;
Fig [sistema, método] to fine-tune
Comp
punto de congelación freezing point;
punto culminante high point;

punto de ebullición boiling point;

punto de fusión melting point;

punto muerto [en automóviles] neutral;
Fig [en negociaciones] deadlock;
estar en un punto muerto [negociaciones] to be deadlocked;

ir en punto muerto [automóvil] to freewheel;

punto de nieve: [m5] batir a punto de nieve to beat until stiff

8. [grado] degree;

de todo punto [completamente] absolutely;

hasta cierto punto to some extent, up to a point;

el ruido era infernal, hasta el punto de no oír nada o [m5] de que no se oía nada the noise was so bad that you couldn't hear a thing;

hasta tal punto que to such an extent that

9. [cláusula] clause

10. [puntada] [en costura, en cirugía] stitch;
[en unas medias] hole;
tienes o [m5] se te ha escapado un punto en el jersey you've pulled a stitch out of your jumper, you've got a loose stitch on your jumper;

le dieron diez puntos en la frente he had to have ten stitches to his forehead;

coger puntos to pick up stitches

Comp
punto atrás backstitch;
punto de cadeneta chain stitch;

punto de cruz cross-stitch;

punto del revés purl;
Med punto de sutura suture
11. [estilo de tejer] knitting;

un jersey de punto a knitted sweater;

prendas de punto knitwear;

hacer punto to knit

Comp
punto de ganchillo crochet
12. [pizca, toque] touch;

son comentarios un punto racistas they are somewhat racist remarks

13. Arquit
de medio punto [arco, bóveda] semicircular

14. Esp Fam [borrachera ligera]
cogerse/tener un punto to get/be merry

15. Esp Fam [reacción, estado de ánimo]
le dan unos puntos muy raros he can be really weird sometimes;

le dio el punto generoso he had a fit of generosity

16. Esp Fam [cosa estupenda]
¡qué punto! that's great o fantastic!

17. Comp
RP Fam
agarrar a alguien de punto to tease sb, Br to take the mickey out of sb

♦ punto com nf
[empresa] dotcom
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punto

m

1 point;

punto por punto point by point;

ganar por puntos win on points

2 señal dot;

en punto on the dot;

a las tres en punto at three sharp, at three on the dot

3 signo de punctuación period, Br

full stop;

dos puntos colon;

punto y coma semicolon;

con puntos y comas fig in full detail;

poner punto final a algo fig end sth, put an end to sth;

y punto period;

poner los puntos sobre las íes fam make things crystal clear;

empresa punto.com dot.com (company)

4 en costura, sutura stitch;

hacer punto knit;

de punto knitted

5

:

a punto ( listo) ready; (a tiempo) in time llegar a punto para … arrive just in time to …;

estar a punto be ready;

estar a punto de be about to;

el arroz está en su punto the rice is ready;

poner a punto TÉC tune;

puesta a punto tune-up

6 alcance

:

hasta cierto punto up to a point;

hasta qué punto to what extent;

me pregunto hasta qué punto lo que dice es verdad o una exageración I wonder how much of what he says is true and how much is exaggeration;

hasta tal punto que to such an extent that

7

:

batir las claras a punto de nieve beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks

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punto nm

1) : dot, point

2) : period (in punctuation)

3) : item, question

4) : spot, place

5) : moment, stage, degree

6) : point (in a score)

7) : stitch

8)

en punto : on the dot, sharp

a las dos en punto: at two o'clock sharp

9)

al punto : at once

10)

a punto fijo : exactly, certainly

11)

dos puntos : colon

12)

hasta cierto punto : up to a point

13)

punto decimal : decimal point

14)

punto de vista : point of view

15)

punto y coma : semicolon

16)

y punto : period

es el mejor que hay y punto: it's the best there is, period

17)

puntos cardinales : points of the compass

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punto n

1. (en general) point

una victoria vale tres puntos a win is worth three points

el punto de partida the starting point

2. (señal) dot

la línea de puntos the dotted line

3. (lugar) spot / place

¿en qué punto de la ciudad? where exactly in the city?

4. (puntada) stitch

le dieron cuatro puntos he had four stitches

5. (signo ortográfico) full stop

se debe poner un punto cuando finaliza una frase you must put a full stop at the end of a sentence

a punto ready

tengo todo a punto I've got everything ready

a punto de (en general) about to (por poco) nearly

estoy a punto de salir I'm about to go out

estuvo a punto de caerse he nearly fell

de punto knitted

en punto exactly

estar en su punto to be just right

hacer punto to knit

punto y coma semicolon

punto débil weak point

punto de congelación freezing point

punto de ebullición boiling point

punto de vista point of view

Spanish-English dictionary > punto
10 thin

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1. adjective
1) (having a short distance between opposite sides: thin paper; The walls of these houses are too thin.) fino

2) ((of people or animals) not fat: She looks thin since her illness.) delgado

3) ((of liquids, mixtures etc) not containing any solid matter; rather lacking in taste; (tasting as if) containing a lot of water or too much water: thin soup.) aguado, poco espeso, claro

4) (not set closely together; not dense or crowded: His hair is getting rather thin.) ralo, fino, escaso

5) (not convincing or believable: a thin excuse.) poco convincente

2. verb
(to make or become thin or thinner: The crowd thinned after the parade was over.) disminuir; disiparse; dispersarse

- thinly
- thinness
- thin air
- thin-skinned
- thin out

thin adj

1. delgado / fino

a thin line un línea fina

after her diet, she's a lot thinner después del régimen, está mucho más delgada

2. líquido / aguado

this soup is too thin esta sopa está demasiado aguada

thin

tr[ɵɪn]

noun

1 (person) delgado,-a, flaco,-a

adjective

1 (thing) delgado,-a, fino,-a

■ thin material tela fina

■ a thin slice una loncha fina

2 (liquid - soup, sauce) poco espeso,-a, claro,-a; (- rain) fino,-a

noun

1 (hair) escaso,-a, fino,-a y poco abundante; (vegetation) poco tupido,-a

■ you're getting a bit thin on top te estás quedando calvo

adjective (comp thinner, superl thinnest)

1 (audience, crowd) poco numeroso,-a; (response, attendance) escaso,-a

2 (voice) débil

3 (excuse, argument) pobre, poco convincente

adverb

1 finamente

■ cut the bread thin corta el pan en rebanadas finas

transitive verb

1 (paint) diluir; (sauce) hacer menos espeso,-a

intransitive verb

1 (fog, mist) disiparse

2 (audience, crowd, traffic) hacerse menos denso,-a, disminuir

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

as thin as a rake más flaco,-a que un palo

to be thin on the ground haber muy poco,-a

to have a thin time of it pasarlas canutas

to wear thin (joke etc) perder interés 2 (patience) acabarse 3 (clothes) gastarse

thin ['ɵɪn] v, thinned ; thinning vt

: hacer menos denso, diluir, aguar (un líquido), enrarecer (un gas)

thin vi

: diluirse, aguarse (dícese de un líquido), enrarecerse (dícese de un gas)

thin adj, thinner ; - est

1) lean, slim: delgado, esbelto, flaco

2) sparse: ralo, escaso

a thin beard: una barba rala

3) watery: claro, aguado, diluido

4) fine: delgado, fino

thin slices: rebanadas finas

thin

adj.

• aguado, -a adj.

• consumido, -a adj.

• delgado, -a adj.

• descarnado, -a adj.

• escuálido, -a adj.

• fino (Delgado) adj.

• flaco, -a adj.

• flojo, -a adj.

• grácil adj.

• inconsistente adj.

• ligero, -a adj.

• magro, -a adj.

• pilongo, -a adj.

• ralo, -a adj.

• tenue adj.

v.

• adelgazar v.

• aguar v.

• clarear (Alimentación) v.

• enrarecer v.

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adjective - nn-

1)

a) <layer/slice/wall/ice> delgado, fino

my patience was wearing thin — se me estaba acabando la paciencia

b) ( not fat) <person/body/arm> delgado, flaco; < waist> delgado, fino

2)

a) ( in consistency) <soup/sauce> claro, poco espeso, chirle (RPl)

b) ( not dense) < hair> ralo, fino y poco abundante

3) (weak, poor) < voice> débil; <excuse/argument/disguise> pobre, poco convincente

II

adverb

to cut something thin — cortar algo en rebanadas (or capas etc) delgadas

spread the jam thin — ponga poca mermelada

III
1.

- nn- transitive verb \<\<paint\>\> diluir*, rebajar; \<\<sauce\>\> aclarar, hacer* menos espeso

2.

vi

his hair is thinning — está perdiendo pelo

Phrasal Verbs:

- thin down

- thin out

[θɪn]
1. ADJ
(compar thinner) (superl thinnest)
1) (=not fat) [person, legs, arms] delgado, flaco pej; [waist] delgado, estrecho; [face] delgado; [nose] delgado, afilado; [lips] fino; [animal] flaco

• to get or grow thin — adelgazar

I want to get nice and thin for the holidays — quiero adelgazar bien para estas vacaciones

you're getting thin, aren't you eating enough? — te estás quedando muy delgado, ¿comes lo suficiente?

• she was painfully thin — estaba tan flaca que daba pena verla

- be as thin as a rake

2) (=not thick) [layer, sheet] fino, delgado; [wall] delgado; [slice, line, fabric] fino

• a thin layer of paint — una capa fina de pintura

• a thin volume of poetry — un delgado tomo de poesía

• to wear thin — [fabric, clothing] desgastarse

his trousers had worn thin at the knee — el pantalón se le había desgastado por las rodillas

the joke had begun to wear very thin — (fig) la broma ya empezaba a resultar muy pesada

my patience is wearing thin — (fig) se me está agotando or acabando la paciencia

- it's the thin end of the wedge

- be or skate or walk on thin ice

- have a thin skin
line I, 1., 1)
3) (=watery) [custard, sauce, paint] poco espeso

4) (=not dense) [smoke, fog, rain] fino

5) (=sparse) [beard, hair] ralo, escaso; [eyebrows] fino, delgado; [crowd] escaso, poco numeroso

- be thin on the ground

- be thin on top

6) (=unconvincing) [excuse] pobre, poco convincente; [evidence] poco concluyente; [argument, essay, script] pobre, flojo

• a thin majority — una mayoría escasa

• a thin smile — una débil sonrisa

7) (=weak) [voice] aflautado

8) (Econ) [profit] escaso

trading was thin on the stock market — hubo poca actividad en la bolsa

9) (=lacking oxygen) [air, atmosphere] enrarecido, rarificado

out of/into thin air —

to appear out of thin air — aparecer como por arte de magia

to produce sth out of thin air — sacar algo de la nada

I can't conjure up the money out of thin air — no puedo sacar el dinero de la nada

he disappeared or vanished into thin air — despareció como por arte de magia, se lo tragó la tierra

2.

ADV (=thinly)

• slice the potatoes very thin — corta las patatas en rodajas muy finas

don't slice the bread too thin — no cortes el pan demasiado fino

• spread the butter very thin — untar una capa muy fina de mantequilla
spread 2., 5)
3. VT

1) (also: thin out) (=reduce in number) [+ population, group] mermar; [+ seedlings] entresacar

2) (also: thin down) (=dilute) [+ sauce, soup] aclarar; [+ paint] diluir

aspirin thins the blood — la aspirina hace que la sangre sea menos espesa

greenhouse gases are thinning the ozone layer — los gases que causan el efecto invernadero están haciendo que la capa de ozono sea cada vez menos espesa

4.

VI (also: thin out) (=lessen) [fog] aclararse; [ozone layer] hacerse menos espeso; [crowd] disminuir; [population] mermar, reducirse

his hair is thinning slightly — está empezando a perder pelo

- thin down

- thin out

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[θɪn]
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adjective - nn-

1)

a) <layer/slice/wall/ice> delgado, fino

my patience was wearing thin — se me estaba acabando la paciencia

b) ( not fat) <person/body/arm> delgado, flaco; < waist> delgado, fino

2)

a) ( in consistency) <soup/sauce> claro, poco espeso, chirle (RPl)

b) ( not dense) < hair> ralo, fino y poco abundante

3) (weak, poor) < voice> débil; <excuse/argument/disguise> pobre, poco convincente

II

adverb

to cut something thin — cortar algo en rebanadas (or capas etc) delgadas

spread the jam thin — ponga poca mermelada

III
1.

- nn- transitive verb \<\<paint\>\> diluir*, rebajar; \<\<sauce\>\> aclarar, hacer* menos espeso

2.

vi

his hair is thinning — está perdiendo pelo

Phrasal Verbs:

- thin down

- thin out

English-spanish dictionary > thin
11 pie

m.

1 foot.

a pie on foot

prefiero ir a pie I'd rather walk o go on foot

estar de o en pie to be on one's feet o standing

ponerse de o en pie to stand up

llevamos dos horas de pie we've been on our feet for two hours

de pies a cabeza (figurative) from head to toe

perder/no hacer pie to go/to be out of one's depth

pie de atleta athlete's foot

pies de cerdo (pig's) trotters

pies planos flat feet

2 stand.

pie de foto caption

pie de página (computing) footer

3 cue (Teatro).

4 leg, central support.

5 Computer Science Academic Program.

6 pes.

pret.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) Preterite Indicative of Spanish verb: piar.

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pie

► nombre masculino

1 ANATOMÍA foot

■ llevo de pie todo el día I've been on my feet all day

■ me duelen los pies my feet ache

2 (base - de una lámpara) base; (- de una escultura) plinth

3 (de un verso) foot

4 (medida de longitud) foot

5 (de un documento) foot; (de una fotografía, dibujo) caption

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FRASEOLOGÍA

a los pies de la cama at the foot of the bed

a pie on foot

al pie de (cerca) close by

al pie de la letra word for word

al pie del cañón familiar hard at it, working

buscarle los tres pies al gato familiar to split hairs

creer algo a pies juntillas familiar to believe something implicitly

dar pie a to give occasion for

de los pies a la cabeza from head to toe

empezar con buen/mal pie to start off on the right/wrong foot

estar en pie de guerra to be on a war footing 2 figurado to be on the war path

hacer pie to touch the bottom

ir con pies de plomo to tread very carefully

nacer de pie to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

no dar pie con bola to mess everything up, not get anything right

no tener ni pies ni cabeza to be ludicrous, be absurd

pararle los pies a alguien to put somebody in their place

poner los pies en to set foot in

ponerse de/en pie to get to one's feet, stand up

saber de qué pie cojea alguien to know what somebody's weakness is

tenerse de pie to keep on one's feet

pie de atleta athlete's foot

pie de imprenta imprint

pies planos flat feet

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noun m.

1) foot

2) cue

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SM

1) (Anat) foot

levanta el pie izquierdo — lift your left foot

las plantas de los pies — the soles of the feet

no arrastres los pies al andar — don't drag your feet while you walk

con los pies descalzos — barefoot

se le fueron los pies — he slipped

poner el pie en el acelerador — (lit) to step on the gas *; (fig) to speed things up, step up the pace

volverse pies atrás — to retrace one's steps

pie de atleta — athlete's foot

pie de cabra — crowbar

pie de rey — slide gauge

pies de barro — feet of clay

pies de cerdo — (Culin) (pig's) trotters

pies de gato — climbing boots

pies planos — flat feet

2) [locuciones]

• a pie — on foot

ir a pie — to go on foot, walk

• estar de pie — to be standing (up)

estaba de pie junto a mi cama — he was standing next to my bed

permanecieron mucho tiempo de pie — they were standing for a long time, they were on their feet a long time

• en pie, llevo en pie desde las cuatro — I've been up since four

mantenerse en pie — [persona] to stay standing o on one's feet; [objeto] to remain upright

la oferta sigue en pie — the offer still stands

ganado en pie — LAm cattle on the hoof

• a pie enjuto — † (lit) dry-shod; (fig) without danger, without any risk

• a pie firme † —

permanecer a pie firme — to remain steadfast

• ponerse de o en pie — to stand up

- de a pie

gente de a pie — common o ordinary folk

el hombre de a pie — the man in the street

el español de a pie — the average Spaniard

soldado de a pie — ( Hist) foot-soldier

- andar con pies de plomo

- de pies a cabeza

se mojó de pies a cabeza — she got soaked from head to foot

es un caballero de pies a cabeza — he's a gentleman through and through

- caer de pie

- cojear del mismo pie

hacer algo con los pies * —

han redactado este contrato con los pies — they've made a mess of drawing up this contract

estás pensando con los pies — you're not using your head

- con los pies por delante

se lo llevaron con los pies por delante — he left feet first, he left in a (wooden) box

- no dar pie con bola

hoy no doy pie con bola — I can't seem to get anything right today

- dale el pie y se tomará la mano

- entrar con buen pie o con el pie derecho

- estar con un pie en el hoyo

- hacer pie

no hacer pie — to be out of one's depth

a pies juntillas — blindly

se lo creyeron a pies juntillas — they blindly believed it

- levantarse con el pie izquierdo

- nacer de pie

- parar los pies a algn

- perder el pie

- poner el pie o los pies en

desde el pasado sábado, mi padre no ha puesto los pies en casa — my father hasn't set foot in the house since last Saturday

- poner los pies en el suelo

- poner los pies en polvorosa

- sacar los pies del plato o tiesto

- salir por pies

sin pies ni cabeza —

un argumento sin pies ni cabeza — an absurd argument

el mensaje no tenía ni pies ni cabeza — the message didn't make any sense at all, I couldn't make head or tail of the message

el plan no tiene ni pies ni cabeza — the plan is totally unworkable
buscar 1., 1), a)
3) (=base) [de columna, estatua, lámpara] base; [de cama] foot; [de colina, escalera] foot, bottom; [de copa] stem; [de calcetín] foot

a los pies de la cama — at the foot of the bed

al pie del monte — at the foot o bottom of the mountain

al pie de ese edificio — next to that building, right beside that building

al pie de fábrica — ex-works

al pie de la obra — (Com) including delivery charges

al pie del cañón —

este fin de semana estará al pie del cañón — he'll be hard at work this weekend

ha cumplido 30 años al pie del cañon — he spent 30 years on the job

morir al pie del cañón — to die in harness

4) [de página] foot, bottom; [de foto] caption

notas a pie de página — footnotes

- al pie de la letra

pie de imprenta — imprint

5) (Bot) [de árbol] trunk; [de planta] stem; [de rosa] stock

6) (=unidad de medida) foot

tiene cuatro pies de largo — it is four feet long

pie cuadrado — square foot

7) (Teat) cue

8) [de vino] sediment

9) (=causa)

• dar pie a — to give cause for

dar pie para que algn haga algo — to give sb cause to do sth

10) (=posición)

• estar en pie de igualdad — to be on an equal footing ( con with)

estar en pie de guerra — (lit) to be on a war footing, be ready to go to war; (fig) to be on the warpath

poner a algn en pie de guerra — to get sb up in arms

11) (Literat) foot

12) Cono Sur * (=pago) deposit, down payment

13)

pie de vía — CAm (Aut) indicator, turn signal (EEUU)

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masculino

1)

a) (Anat) foot

un dedo del pie — a toe

tiene (los) pies planos — she has flat feet

a sus pies, señora — (frml) at your service, madam (frml)

b) (en locs)

a pie — on foot

¿vamos a pie o en coche? — shall we walk or take the car?

hoy ando a pie — (AmL) I'm without wheels today

al pie — (Col) very close, just round the corner

de pie — standing

tuve que viajar de pie todo el camino — I had to stand all the way

ponte de pie — stand up

en pie: estoy en pie desde las siete I've been up since seven o'clock; no puedo tenerme en pie I can hardly walk/stand; sólo la iglesia quedó en pie only the church remained standing; queda en pie la cita our date is still on; mi oferta/promesa sigue en pie my offer/promise still stands; ganado en pie (AmL) livestock, cattle on the hoof; andarse con pie(s) de plomo (fam) to tread very carefully o warily; a pie pelado (Chi) barefoot, in one's bare feet; a pie(s) juntillas: seguí a pies juntillas sus indicaciones I followed his instructions to the letter; creerse algo a pies juntillas to blindly believe something; buscarle tres or cinco pies al gato (fam) ( buscar complicaciones) to complicate matters; cojear del mismo pie (fam) to be two of a kind (colloq); con los pies (fam) badly; lleva la empresa con los pies he's making a hash o mess of running the company (colloq); con los pies por or para delante (fam & euf) feet first; con los pies sobre la tierra with one's feet on the ground; con mal pie or con el pie izquierdo: empezó con mal pie she got off to a bad start; hoy me levanté or empecé el día con el pie izquierdo I got up on the wrong side of the bed today (AmE), I got out of bed on the wrong side today (BrE); no le des pie para que te critique don't give him cause o reason to criticize you; dar pie a algo murmuraciones/especulaciones to give rise to something; esto dio pie a una discusión this caused o was the cause of an argument; darle pie a alguien: de a pie common, ordinary; el ciudadano de a pie the man in the street, the average man/person; de la cabeza a los pies or de pies a cabeza from head to foot o toe, from top to toe (colloq); echar pie atrás (Chi) to back down; en pie de guerra on a war footing; en (un) pie de igualdad on an equal footing; estar a pie (Chi fam) to be lost (colloq); estar atado de pies y manos to be bound hand and foot; estar con un pie en el estribo (fam) to be about to leave; estar con un pie en la tumba or la sepultura or el hoyo to have one foot in the grave; hacer pie to be able to touch the bottom; írsele los pies a alguien: cuando empezó la música se me iban los pies once the music began I couldn't keep my feet still; leche al pie de la vaca (AmL) milk fresh from the cow; levantarse/empezar con buen pie or con el pie derecho to get off to a good start; nacer de pie to be born under a lucky star; no doy/da pie con bola (fam) I/he can't get a thing right; no tener ni pies ni cabeza to make no sense whatsoever; un plan sin pies ni cabeza a crazy o an absurd plan; pararle a alguien los pies (Esp) to put somebody in his/her place (colloq); perder pie ( en el agua) to get out of one's depth; ( resbalarse) to lose one's footing; pies de barro feet of clay; poner (los) pies en polvorosa (fam) to take to one's heels (colloq); poner los pies en un lugar to set foot in a place; por mi/tu/su (propio) pie unaided, without any help; saber de qué pie cojea alguien (Esp fam) to know somebody's faults o weak points; ser más viejo que andar a pie — (CS fam) to be as old as the hills (colloq)

- pie de atleta

2)

a) (de calcetín, media) foot

b) (de lámpara, columna) base; ( de copa - base) base; (- parte vertical) stem

c) (de página, escrito) foot, bottom

una nota a or al pie de página — a footnote

al pie or a los pies de la montaña — at the foot of the mountain

al pie de la letra — exactly

sigue mis instrucciones al pie de la letra — follow my instructions to the letter o exactly

al pie del cañón: Ana se quedó al pie del cañón mientras el jefe estaba fuera Ana stayed here to hold the fort while the boss was away; ella es la que está siempre al pie del cañón — she's the one who's always there to keep things going

d) ( de cama) tb

pies — foot

- pie de firma

- pie de fotografía

- pie de fuerza

- pie de imprenta

3) (Bot) cutting, slip

4) ( medida) foot; (Lit) foot

•

- pie quebrado
II [pai]
masculino (AmL) pie

* * *
I
masculino

1)

a) (Anat) foot

un dedo del pie — a toe

tiene (los) pies planos — she has flat feet

a sus pies, señora — (frml) at your service, madam (frml)

b) (en locs)

a pie — on foot

¿vamos a pie o en coche? — shall we walk or take the car?

hoy ando a pie — (AmL) I'm without wheels today

al pie — (Col) very close, just round the corner

de pie — standing

tuve que viajar de pie todo el camino — I had to stand all the way

ponte de pie — stand up

en pie: estoy en pie desde las siete I've been up since seven o'clock; no puedo tenerme en pie I can hardly walk/stand; sólo la iglesia quedó en pie only the church remained standing; queda en pie la cita our date is still on; mi oferta/promesa sigue en pie my offer/promise still stands; ganado en pie (AmL) livestock, cattle on the hoof; andarse con pie(s) de plomo (fam) to tread very carefully o warily; a pie pelado (Chi) barefoot, in one's bare feet; a pie(s) juntillas: seguí a pies juntillas sus indicaciones I followed his instructions to the letter; creerse algo a pies juntillas to blindly believe something; buscarle tres or cinco pies al gato (fam) ( buscar complicaciones) to complicate matters; cojear del mismo pie (fam) to be two of a kind (colloq); con los pies (fam) badly; lleva la empresa con los pies he's making a hash o mess of running the company (colloq); con los pies por or para delante (fam & euf) feet first; con los pies sobre la tierra with one's feet on the ground; con mal pie or con el pie izquierdo: empezó con mal pie she got off to a bad start; hoy me levanté or empecé el día con el pie izquierdo I got up on the wrong side of the bed today (AmE), I got out of bed on the wrong side today (BrE); no le des pie para que te critique don't give him cause o reason to criticize you; dar pie a algo murmuraciones/especulaciones to give rise to something; esto dio pie a una discusión this caused o was the cause of an argument; darle pie a alguien: de a pie common, ordinary; el ciudadano de a pie the man in the street, the average man/person; de la cabeza a los pies or de pies a cabeza from head to foot o toe, from top to toe (colloq); echar pie atrás (Chi) to back down; en pie de guerra on a war footing; en (un) pie de igualdad on an equal footing; estar a pie (Chi fam) to be lost (colloq); estar atado de pies y manos to be bound hand and foot; estar con un pie en el estribo (fam) to be about to leave; estar con un pie en la tumba or la sepultura or el hoyo to have one foot in the grave; hacer pie to be able to touch the bottom; írsele los pies a alguien: cuando empezó la música se me iban los pies once the music began I couldn't keep my feet still; leche al pie de la vaca (AmL) milk fresh from the cow; levantarse/empezar con buen pie or con el pie derecho to get off to a good start; nacer de pie to be born under a lucky star; no doy/da pie con bola (fam) I/he can't get a thing right; no tener ni pies ni cabeza to make no sense whatsoever; un plan sin pies ni cabeza a crazy o an absurd plan; pararle a alguien los pies (Esp) to put somebody in his/her place (colloq); perder pie ( en el agua) to get out of one's depth; ( resbalarse) to lose one's footing; pies de barro feet of clay; poner (los) pies en polvorosa (fam) to take to one's heels (colloq); poner los pies en un lugar to set foot in a place; por mi/tu/su (propio) pie unaided, without any help; saber de qué pie cojea alguien (Esp fam) to know somebody's faults o weak points; ser más viejo que andar a pie — (CS fam) to be as old as the hills (colloq)

- pie de atleta

2)

a) (de calcetín, media) foot

b) (de lámpara, columna) base; ( de copa - base) base; (- parte vertical) stem

c) (de página, escrito) foot, bottom

una nota a or al pie de página — a footnote

al pie or a los pies de la montaña — at the foot of the mountain

al pie de la letra — exactly

sigue mis instrucciones al pie de la letra — follow my instructions to the letter o exactly

al pie del cañón: Ana se quedó al pie del cañón mientras el jefe estaba fuera Ana stayed here to hold the fort while the boss was away; ella es la que está siempre al pie del cañón — she's the one who's always there to keep things going

d) ( de cama) tb

pies — foot

- pie de firma

- pie de fotografía

- pie de fuerza

- pie de imprenta

3) (Bot) cutting, slip

4) ( medida) foot; (Lit) foot

•

- pie quebrado
II [pai]
masculino (AmL) pie

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pie¹

¹ = foot [feet, -pl.], tail, toe.

Ex: She was tapping with her foot on the carpet.

Ex: The top and bottom of the book are known as the head and tail respectively, and the front is the fore-edge (rhymes with porridge); similarly the margins round the type on each page are called the head, tail, outer (at the fore-edge), and inner margins.

Ex: The platen was lashed up tight to the toe of the spindle by cords which connected hooks at its four corners to another set of hooks at the four lower corners of the hose.

* alfombra de pie de cama = bedside rug.

* al pie (de) = at the bottom (of), at the foot (of).

* al pie de la letra = to the letter.

* andar con pies de plomo = tread + warily.

* andarse con pies de plomo = walk on + eggshells.

* apagar un fuego con los pies = stomp out + fire.

* a pie = on foot, afoot, dismounted.

* a poca distancia a pie = within an easy walk, within walking distance.

* a pocos minutos a pie = within walking distance, within easy walking distance, within an easy walk.

* apoyo para los pies = footrest.

* arrastrando los pies = shuffling.

* arrastrar los pies = drag + Posesivo + feet, drag + Posesivo + heels.

* arreglarse los pies = pedicure.

* atar de pies y manos = hogtie.

* bajo los pies = underfoot.

* baño de pies = footbath.

* bomba de pie = foot pump.

* buscarle cinco pies al gato = split + hairs.

* buscarle los tres pies al gato = nitpick.

* buscarle tres pies al gato = split + hairs.

* caer de pie = land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet.

* carrera a pie = foot race.

* comenzar Algo con buen pie = start + Nombre + off on the right foot.

* comenzar con buen pie = start + Nombre + on the right footing.

* con el pie deformado = clubfooted.

* con la punta de los pies mirando hacia dentro = pigeon-toed.

* con los pies sobre la tierra = down-to-earth.

* con notas a pie de página = footnoted.

* con pie firme = sure-footed.

* con un pie en la tumba = over the hill.

* cuidado de los pies = footcare.

* dar pie a = spark off, give + rise to, bring about, lead to, cause, open + the door to, give + cause to, give + occasion to.

* dedo del pie = toe.

* dedo gordo del pie, el = big toe, the.

* dedo meñique del pie = pinkie toe.

* de dos pies = two-legged.

* dejar de pie = leave + standing.

* de la cabeza a los pies = from head to foot, from head to toe.

* de nuevo en pie = up and about.

* de pies a cabeza = from head to toe, from head to foot.

* de pies ligeros = swift-footed.

* de pies planos = flat-footed.

* desde la cabeza hasta los pies = head to toe, from head to toe, from head to foot.

* distancia a pie = walking distance.

* el ciudadano de a pie = the average Joe.

* el mundo está a sus pies = the world is + Posesivo + oyster.

* empezar Algo con buen pie = start + Nombre + off on the right foot.

* empezar con buen pie = start + Nombre + on the right footing, hit + the ground running.

* en pie = up and about.

* en pie de guerra = on the warpath.

* entrar con buen pie = start + Nombre + off on the right foot.

* estar de pie = stand.

* estar de pie por encima de = stand over.

* freno de pie = foot brake [footbrake].

* gente de a pie = ordinary people.

* hombre de a pie, el = man-on-the-street, man in the street, the.

* ir a pie = leg it.

* la ciudadana de a pie = the average Jane.

* la gente se puso de pie para aplaudir = standing ovation.

* lámpara de pie = standing lamp, floor lamp.

* levantarse con el pie izquierdo = wake up on + the wrong side of the bed, get up on + the wrong side of the bed.

* mantenerse en pie = hold + Posesivo + own.

* no creerse Algo al pie de la letra = take + Nombre + with a pinch of salt.

* no encontrar ni el pie ni la cabeza = can't make head(s) or tail(s) of.

* nota a pie de página = footnote.

* no tener ni pies ni cabeza = can't make head(s) or tail(s) of, be pointless.

* no tenerse en pie = Negativo + hold + water.

* parte anterior del pie = ball of + Posesivo + foot.

* perchero de pie = coat-stand.

* perder el pie = lose + Posesivo + footing.

* pie de atleta = athlete's foot.

* pie de imprenta = edition imprint, imprint statement, imprint.

* pie de obra = building site.

* pie de página = footer.

* pie de página repetido = running foot, footline.

* pie de pie = standing.

* Pie Grande = Bigfoot, Sasquatch.

* pies planos = flat feet, pes planus, fallen arches.

* pies sobre la tierra = feet on the ground.

* planta del pie = sole.

* poner de pie = stand + upright.

* poner los pies en alto = put + Posesivo + feet up.

* poner los pies en + Posesivo + casa = darken + Posesivo + door.

* poner los pies sobre la tierra = come down + to earth.

* poner pie en = set + foot (inside/in/on).

* ponerse de pie = rise, stand up, get to + Posesivo + feet, rise to + Posesivo + feet.

* ponerse en pie de guerra = dig up + the tomahawk, dig up + the hatchet, dig up + the war axe.

* retrete de pie = squat toilet, squatty potty, squat loo.

* sacar los pies del plato = break out of + the box.

* sacar los pies del tiesto = break out of + the box.

* salir por pies = take off + running, leg it, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.

* seguir Algo al pie de la letra = follow + Nombre + to the letter.

* seguir al pie de la letra = keep + strictly to the letter.

* seguir al pie del cañón = soldier on.

* seguir en pie = hold + Posesivo + own, hold up.

* sin pies ni cabeza = without rhyme or reason.

* tener los pies firmemente en el suelo = feet + be + firmly planted on the ground.

* tiña del pie = tinea pedis.

* uña del pie = toenail.

* visita a pie = walking tour.

pie²

² = foot [feet, -pl.].

Nota: Medida equivalente a 30 centímetros.

Ex: Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.

* de un pie de grosor = foot-thick.

* pie cuadrado = square foot (sq. ft.).

* pie lineal = linear foot.

pie³

³ = winter.

Nota: En la prensa antigua de madera, travesaño que unía los postes de madera verticales que servían de soporte a toda la prensa por la parte de abajo y que servía de soporte al ensamblaje de transporte carriage assembly.

Ex: The chief members of the impression carriage were two upright cheeks about 2 m. high and placed 60-65 cm. apart, carrying between them the winter and, above it, the head, two massive cross timbers mortised into the cheeks which contained the vertical thrust of the impression.

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pie¹

masculine

A

1 [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] ( Anat) foot

no arrastres los pies don't drag your feet

se rompió un dedo del pie he broke a toe

tiene (los) pies planos she has flat feet

se echó a sus pies ( liter); he threw himself at her feet ( frml)

a sus pies, señora ( frml); at your service, madam ( frml)

2 ( en locs):

a pie on foot

queda muy cerca, podemos ir a pie it's very near, we can walk o go on foot

¿vamos a pie o en coche? shall we walk or take the car?

esta semana ando a pie ( AmL); I'm walking everywhere this week

a pie de:

una nota a pie de página a note at the foot of the page

viviendas a pie de playa ( Esp); houses with access to the beach

oficina a pie de calle ( Esp); office with direct access to the street

una entrevista a piecalle ( Esp); an interview in the street

experimentos a pie de aula ( Esp); experiments in the classroom

al pie ( Col); very close, just round the corner

de pie standing

estuvimos de pie casi dos horas we were standing (up) o we were on our feet for almost two hours

tuvimos que viajar de pie todo el camino we had to stand all the way

ponte de pie stand up

en pie: estoy en pie desde las siete de la mañana I've been up since seven o'clock this morning

ya no podía tenerme en pie I could hardly walk/stand, I was ready to drop

sólo la pequeña iglesia quedó en pie only the little church remained standing

queda en pie la cita para mañana our date for tomorrow is still on

mi oferta/la promesa sigue en pie my offer/the promise still stands

ganado en pie ( AmL); livestock, cattle on the hoof

a pie pelado ( Chi); barefoot, in one's bare feet

a pie(s) juntillas: está siguiendo a pies juntillas las indicaciones de sus superiores he's following his bosses' instructions to the letter

se cree a pies juntillas todo lo que le dicen he blindly believes every word he's told

buscarle tres or cinco pies al gato ( fam) (buscar complicaciones) to complicate matters, make life difficult; (exponerse al peligro) to ask for trouble ( colloq)

cojear del mismo pie ( fam); to be two of a kind ( colloq), to be tarred with the same brush ( colloq)

con buen pieor con el pie derecho: a ver si mañana nos levantamos con el pie derecho I hope things will get off to a better start tomorrow

con los pies ( fam); badly

esta camisa la debes haber planchado con los pies this shirt looks as if you ironed it with your eyes closed

una solicitud escrita con los pies a very poorly written letter of application

el gerente lleva la empresa con los pies the manager is making a hash o mess of running the company ( colloq)

con los pies por or para delante ( fam euf); feet first

de esta casa me sacarán con los pies por delante they'll have to carry me out of this house feet first o in a box ( colloq euph)

con los pies sobre la tierra with one's feet on the ground

tiene los pies bien puestos sobre la tierra she has her feet firmly on the ground

con mal pieor con el pie izquierdo badly

empezó con mal pie she got off to a bad start, she started badly

hoy me levanté or empecé el día con el pie izquierdo I got up on the wrong side of the bed today ( AmE), I got out of bed on the wrong side today ( BrE)

con pie(s) de plomo ( fam); very carefully o warily

ándate con pies de plomo tread very warily o carefully

dar pie a algo to give rise to sth

su conducta dio pie a murmuraciones her behavior gave rise to o sparked off rumors

no quiero que esto dé pie a una discusión I don't want this to cause o to be the cause of an argument

darle pie a algn: no le des pie para que te siga criticando don't give him cause o reason o grounds to criticize you again

de a pie common, ordinary

el ciudadano de a pie the man in the street, the average man/person

a mí me gusta hablar con la gente de a pie I like talking to ordinary people

de la cabeza a los pies or de pies a cabeza from head to foot o toe, from top to toe ( colloq)

echar pie atrás ( Chi); to back down

en pie de guerra on a war footing, ready for war, on full alert

en (un) pie de igualdad on an equal footing, on equal terms

estar a pie ( Chi fam); to be lost ( colloq)

estar atado de pies y manos to be bound hand and foot, have one's hands tied

estar con un pie en el estribo ( fam); to be about to leave

me pillas con un pie en el estribo I was just on my way out o about to leave

ya están con un pie en el estribo they're all set to go

estar con un pie en la tumba or sepultura to have one foot in the grave

hacer pie to be able to touch the bottom

yo aquí no hago pie I can't touch the bottom here, I'm out of my depth here

írsele los pies a algn: cuando empezó la música se me iban los pies once the music began I couldn't keep my feet still

leche al pie de la vaca ( AmL); milk fresh from the cow

nacer de pie to be born under a lucky star

no doy/da pie con bola ( fam); I/he can't get a thing right

no estirar los pies más de lo que da la frazada ( RPl fam); to cut one's coat according to one's cloth

no tener ni pies ni cabeza to make no sense whatsoever

el ensayo no tenía ni pies ni cabeza the essay made no sense whatsoever o was totally unintelligible

un plan sin pies ni cabeza a crazy o an absurd plan

pararle a algn los pies ( Esp); to take sb down a peg or two, put sb in his/her place ( colloq)

perder pie (en el agua) to get out of one's depth; (resbalarse) to lose one's footing; (confundirse) to slip up

pies de barro feet of clay

un héroe con pies de barro a hero with feet of clay

poner (los) pies en polvorosa ( fam); to take to one's heels, make oneself scarce, hotfoot it ( colloq)

poner los pies en un lugar to set foot in a place

hoy no he puesto pie en la calle I haven't set foot outside the house today

por mi/tu/su (propio) pie unaided, without any help

saber de qué pie cojea algn ( Esp fam); to know sb's faults o weak points

salir por pies ( Esp fam); to take to one's heels, make oneself scarce, hotfoot it ( colloq)

ser más viejo que andar a pie (CS fam); to be as old as the hills ( colloq)

Compuestos:

● pie cavo

high instep

● pie de atleta

athlete's foot

● pie de pollo

( Chi) dogtooth

● pie equino

clubfoot

B

1 (de un calcetín, una media) foot

2 (de una lámpara, columna) base; (de una copa — base) base; (— parte vertical) stem

3 (de una máquina de coser) foot, treadle

4 (de una página, un escrito) foot, bottom

una nota a or al pie de página a footnote

remita el cupón que se acompaña al pie send off the coupon below

un pueblo al pieor a los pies de la montaña a village at the foot of the mountain

al pie de la letra exactly

sigue mis instrucciones al pie de la letra follow my instructions to the letter o exactly

repetí al pie de la letra lo que me dijiste I repeated word for word o exactly what you told me

al pie del cañón working

todos se habían ido, pero nosotros seguíamos al pie del cañón everyone had left, but we were still hard at it o still working away

5 (de una cama) tb

pies mpl foot

Compuestos:

● pie de biela

little end

● pie de firma

name and title of signatory

● pie de fotografía

caption

● pie de fuerza

( Col) (personal) manpower; ( Mil) standing army

● pie de imprenta

imprint

● pie de página

footer

● pie de rey

slide gauge

C ( Bot) cutting, slip

Compuesto:

pie de injerto

rootstock

D [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] (medida) foot

ocho pies cuadrados eight square feet

E ( Lit) foot

Compuesto:

pie quebrado

line of four or five syllables

F ( Chi) (depósito) down payment

pie²

/pai/

masculine

( AmL)

pie

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Del verbo piar: ( conjugate piar)

pié es:

1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

píe es:

1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

Multiple Entries:
piar
pie
piar ( conjugate piar) verbo intransitivo
to chirp, tweet
pie 1 sustantivo masculino
1
a) (Anat) foot;

◊ un dedo del pie a toe;

tiene (los) pies planos she has flat feet;
pie de atleta athlete's foot
b) ( en locs)

◊ a pie on foot;

ir a pie to go on foot, walk;
hoy ando a pie (AmL) I'm without wheels today;
de pie standing;
ponte de pie stand up;
en pie: estoy en pie desde las siete I've been up since seven o'clock;
no puedo tenerme en pie I can hardly walk/stand;
solo la iglesia quedó en pie only the church remained standing;
mi oferta sigue en pie my offer still stands;
a pie pelado (Chi) barefoot, in one's bare feet;
de a pie common, ordinary;
de la cabeza a los pies or de pies a cabeza from head to foot o toe, from top to toe (colloq);
en pie de guerra on a war footing;
en (un) pie de igualdad on an equal footing;
hacer pie to be able to touch the bottom;
levantarse con el pie derecho to get off to a good start;
no tener ni pies ni cabeza to make no sense whatsoever;
por mi/tu/su (propio) pie unaided, without any help
2
a) (de calcetín, media) foot

b) (de lámpara, columna) base;

( de copa — base) base;
(— parte vertical) stem;
( de montaña) foot
c) (de página, escrito) foot, bottom;

una nota a or al pie de página a footnote;
◊ pie de fotografía caption;

al pie de la letra ‹copiar/repetir› word by word, exactly
d) ( de cama) tb

◊ pies foot

3
a) ( medida) foot

b) (Lit) foot

pie 2 /pai/ sustantivo masculino (AmL) pie
piar vi (pájaro) to chirp, cheep, tweet
pie sustantivo masculino
1 (de una persona) foot
ponerse de pie, to stand up
pies planos, flat feet
2 (de una columna, lámpara, etc) base
3 (de una copa) stem
4 (de una fotografía) caption
5 (de un texto) foot
una nota a pie de página, a footnote
6 (medida) foot
♦ Locuciones: dar pie a, to give cause for
a pies juntillas, blindly
al pie de la letra, to the letter
con buen/mal pie, on the right/wrong footing
con pies de plomo, cautiously
de pie, standing up
de pies a cabeza, from head to foot
' pie' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- bola
- caminar
- cañón
- ciudadana
- ciudadano
- cojear
- compartir
- dedo
- dormirse
- empanada
- enredarse
- excursionista
- flojera
- gráfica
- gráfico
- guerra
- hormiguear
- hormigueo
- lámpara
- letra
- levantarse
- migaja
- nacer
- parada
- parado
- pararse
- pastel
- patear
- patín
- perchero
- planta
- pulgar
- punta
- reloj
- resistir
- sostenerse
- talón
- tenerse
- uña
- vadear
- ver
- zancadilla
- a
- agachar
- amoldar
- bien
- budín
- buscar
- calambre
English:
accused
- athlete's foot
- bare
- base
- bed
- book
- bottom
- caption
- circumscribe
- clubfoot
- custard pie
- dead
- easy
- floor lamp
- foot
- foothold
- footing
- footnote
- ft
- grandfather
- hike
- hill
- impression
- imprint
- instep
- itch
- letter
- man
- meat pie
- mince pie
- on
- pace
- pie
- pie chart
- press
- print
- promenade concert
- rambler
- remain
- rise
- roll out
- salt
- sole
- stamp
- stamp down
- stand
- stand up
- standing
- standing ovation
- standing room

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pie nm

1. [de persona] foot;

estos zapatos me hacen daño en los pies these shoes hurt my feet;

a pie on foot;

prefiero ir a pie I'd rather walk o go on foot;

estar de o [m5] en pie to be standing;

ponerse de o [m5] en pie to stand up;

llevamos dos horas de pie we've been on our feet for two hours;

llevo en pie desde las seis de la mañana I've been up and about since six in the morning;

la oferta sigue en pie the offer still stands;

echar pie a tierra [jinete] to dismount;
[pasajero] to alight;
se me fueron los pies [resbalé] I slipped, I lost my footing;

se me iban los pies con la música my feet were tapping along to the music;

perder/no hacer pie [en el agua] to go/to be out of one's depth;
Formal
a sus pies at your service;

el ciudadano de a pie the man in the street;

en pie de igualdad on an equal footing;

en pie de guerra on a war footing;

Comp

pies de barro: un héroe/líder con (los) pies de barro a hero/leader with feet of clay;

Comp
Fam
buscar (los) tres o [m5] cinco pies al gato to overcomplicate matters;

Comp

de pies a cabeza from head to toe;

Comp

con buen pie: empezar con buen pie to get off to a good start;

terminar con buen pie to end on a good note;

Comp

caer de pie [tener suerte] to land on one's feet;

Comp

no dar pie con bola to get everything wrong;

Comp

con el pie derecho: empezar con el pie derecho to get off to a good start;

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estar con un pie en el estribo to be about to leave;

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a pies juntillas unquestioningly;

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levantarse con el pie izquierdo to get out of bed on the wrong side;

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con mal pie: empezar con mal pie to get off to a bad start;

terminar con mal pie to end on a sour note;

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nacer de pie to be born lucky;

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andar o [m5] ir con pies de plomo to tread carefully;

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pararle los pies a alguien to put sb in their place;

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Fam
poner pies en polvorosa: al llegar la policía, puso pies en polvorosa when the police arrived, you couldn't see him for dust o he legged it;

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poner los pies en o [m5] sobre la tierra to get a grip on reality;

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Esp
saber de qué pie cojea alguien to know sb's weaknesses;

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Fam
salir con los pies por delante to leave feet first o in a box;

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Esp Fam
salir por pies to leg it;

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no tener ni pies ni cabeza to make no sense at all;

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tener un pie en la tumba to have one foot in the grave

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no tenerse en pie: no me tengo en pie I can't stand up a minute longer;

esa teoría no se tiene en pie that theory doesn't stand up

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pie de atleta athlete's foot;
pie de cabra crowbar, Br jemmy, US jimmy;

pies de cerdo (pig's) trotters;

pies planos flat feet

2. [base] [de lámpara, micrófono] stand;
[de copa] stem; [de montaña, árbol, escalera] foot;
al pie de la página at the foot o bottom of the page;

al pie de o [m5]a los pies de la cama/de la montaña at the foot of the bed/mountain;

al pie de la letra to the letter, word for word;

sigue las instrucciones al pie de la letra follow the instructions to the letter;

copiar algo al pie de la letra to copy sth word for word;

no hace falta que lo interpretes al pie de la letra there's no need to interpret it literally;

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al pie del cañón: ahí está, siempre al pie del cañón there he is, always hard at work

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pie de foto caption;
pie de imprenta imprint;
Informát pie de página footer
3. [unidad de medida] foot;

mide tres pies de ancho it's three foot o feet wide

4. Teatro cue;
Fig
dar pie a [críticas, comentarios] to give rise to;
[sospechas] to give cause for; Fig
dar pie a alguien para que haga algo to give sb cause to do sth

5. Lit [de verso] foot

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pie quebrado = short line of four or five syllables alternating with longer lines
6. pie de lobo [planta] clubmoss

7. pies de gato [botas] rock boots

8. Chile [anticipo] down payment

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pie

m

1 de estatua, lámpara base

2 de persona foot;

a pie on foot;

al pie de at the foot of;

de pie standing;

estar de pie be standing (up);

ponerse de o

en pie stand up;

no tenerse en o

de pie fig: por cansancio be ready to drop;

de pies a cabeza from head to foot;

no tiene ni pies ni cabeza it doesn’t make any sense at all, I can’t make head nor tail of it;

a pies juntillas creer blindly;

levantarse con el pie izquierdo get out of bed on the wrong side;

con buen/mal pie empezar get off to a good/bad start;

con los pies fig badly;

andarse con pies de plomo tread warily;

estar en pie be up, be out of bed;

estar en pie de guerra be on a war footing;

buscar tres o

cinco pies al gato fig make things difficult, complicate things;

dar pie para o

a give rise to, generate;

echar pie a tierra go ashore;

estar al pie del cañón fig be hard at work;

hacer pie touch bottom;

no hacer pie en piscina be out of one’s depth;

no dar pie con bola fam get o

do everything wrong;

parar los pies a alguien take s.o. down a peg or two fam ;

saber de qué pie cojea alguien fig know where s.o. is coming from;

poner pies en polvorosa fam take to one’s heels fam ;

salir por pies hotfoot it fam, make o.s. scarce;

pie de la cama foot of the bed;

pies planos flat feet

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pie nm

1) : foot

a pie: on foot

de pie: on one's feet, standing

2) : base, bottom, stem, foot

pie de la cama: foot of the bed

pie de una lámpera: base of a lamp

pie de la escalera: bottom of the stairs

pie de una copa: stem of a glass

3) : foot (in measurement)

pie cuadrado: square foot

4) : cue (in theater)

5)

dar pie a : to give cause for, to give rise to

6)

en pie de igualidad : on equal footing

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pie n

1. (de persona) foot [pl. feet]

Eduardo tiene los pies pequeños Eduardo has small feet

me duelen los pies my feet hurt

2. (de estatua, lámpara, etc) base

a pie on foot

estar de pie to be standing

ir a pie to walk

ponerse de pie to stand up [pt. & pp. stood]

Spanish-English dictionary > pie
12 feeble

adjective

1) (weak) schwach

2) (deficient) schwächlich; (in resolve, argument) halbherzig

3) (lacking energy) schwach [Leistung, Kampf, Applaus]; wenig überzeugend [Argument, Entschuldigung, Erklärung]; zaghaft, kläglich [Versuch, Bemühung]; lahm (ugs.) [Witz]

4) (indistinct) schwach [[Licht]schein, Herzschlag]

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['fi:bl]
adjective

(weak: The old lady has been rather feeble since her illness; a feeble excuse.) schwach

- academic.ru/86954/feebly">feebly

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fee·ble

<-r, -st>

[ˈfi:bl̩]

adj

1. (weak) schwach

\feeble light schwaches Licht

old and \feeble alt und gebrechlich

2. (bad) joke, excuse lahm

\feeble attempt müder Versuch

\feeble performance schwache Vorstellung

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['fiːbl]
adj (+er)

1) (= weak) person schwach, schwächlich; light, voice schwach

2) (pej: pathetic) person, effort, applause, support, smile schwach; attempt, performance kläglich; explanation, argument, idea wenig überzeugend; excuse faul (inf); joke lahm (inf); response halbherzig

don't be so feeble! — sei nicht so ein Waschlappen (inf)

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feeble [ˈfiːbl] adj (adv feebly) allg schwach:

feeble attempts schwache oder pej (lenden)lahme Versuche;

feeble excuse lahme Ausrede pej;

feeble joke schwacher Witz;

feeble smile schwaches oder mattes Lächeln;

feeble moan schwaches oder leises Ächzen

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adjective

1) (weak) schwach

2) (deficient) schwächlich; (in resolve, argument) halbherzig

3) (lacking energy) schwach [Leistung, Kampf, Applaus]; wenig überzeugend [Argument, Entschuldigung, Erklärung]; zaghaft, kläglich [Versuch, Bemühung]; lahm (ugs.) [Witz]

4) (indistinct) schwach [[Licht]schein, Herzschlag]

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adj.

kraftlos adj.

schwach adj.

English-german dictionary > feeble
13 dünn

I Adj.

1. allg. thin; Faden, Haar etc.: fine; Briefpapier: lightweight

2. Person etc.: thin, skinny umg.; dünner werden lose weight; er ist sehr dünn geworden he’s gone ( oder got, Am. gotten) really thin; sich dünn machen fig. make room, squeeze up, breathe in umg.

3. Flüssigkeit, Luft: thin; Nebel, Regen: fine; Luft: auch rarefied; Teig: runny

4. (wenig gehaltvoll) Suppe: thin; Kaffee, Tee: weak, watery; Bier: watery

5. Stimme: thin, weak

6. Besiedlung, Bewuchs, Haarwuchs: thin, sparse

7. umg., fig. (dürftig) weak, poor; Argument: auch flimsy

II Adv. thinly; Farbe dünn auftragen apply paint thinly; dünn besiedelt oder dünn bevölkert sparsely populated; dünn gesät fig. scarce, few and far between

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(knapp) sparse; rare;

(mager) skinny;

(nicht dick) thin;

(schlank) wispy; slim;

(schwach) weak; flimsy; sleazy;

(zart) tenuous; fine

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dụ̈nn [dʏn]
1. adj
thin; Suppe, Bier auch watery; Kaffee, Tee watery, weak; (= fein) Schleier, Regen, Strümpfe fine; Haarwuchs, Besiedlung thin, sparse; (fig = dürftig) thin
sich dünn machen (hum) — to breathe in

See:

→ dick, dünnmachen

2. adv
besiedelt, bevölkert sparsely
dünn behaart (Mensch) — with thin hair; Haupt thinly covered in hair

dünn gesät (fig) — thin on the ground, few and far between

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1) (worn thin: The carpet is a bit bare.) bare

2) ((of a liquid) diluted; not strong: weak tea.) weak

3) (having a short distance between opposite sides: thin paper; The walls of these houses are too thin.) thin

4) ((of people or animals) not fat: She looks thin since her illness.) thin

5) ((of liquids, mixtures etc) not containing any solid matter; rather lacking in taste; (tasting as if) containing a lot of water or too much water: thin soup.) thin

6) thinly

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dünn

[ˈdʏn]

I. adj

1. (eine geringe Stärke aufweisend) thin

\dünnes Buch slim volume

eine \dünne Schneedecke light covering of snow

2. (nicht konzentriert) weak

\dünnes Bier weak [or watery] beer

\dünner Brei/ \dünne Suppe thin [or watery] pulp/soup

3. MODE (fein) light

\dünner Schleier/ \dünne Strümpfe fine veil/tights

4. (spärlich) thin

sein Haarwuchs ist schon \dünn geworden he's [already] gone a bit thin on top

5.

▶ sich akk \dünn machen (sl) to breathe in

he, mach dich mal \dünn, wir wollen mit dem Schrank da vorbei! hey, breathe in, we want to get past [you] with this cupboard!

wenn du dich ein bisschen \dünn machst, passen wir auch noch auf die Bank if you squeeze up a bit, we'll [be able to] fit on the bench too

II. adv sparsely

\dünn besiedelt [o bevölkert] sparsely populated

\dünn gesät thinly scattered; (fig) thin on the ground, few and far between; s.a. dick, dünnmachen

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1.
Adjektiv

1) thin <slice, layer, etc.>; slim < book>

2) (mager) thin < person>

sich dünn machen — (scherzh.) squash or (Amer.) scrunch up [a bit]

3) (leicht) thin, light <clothing, fabric>; fine < stocking>; (fig.) thin, rarefied < air>; fine < rain>

4) (spärlich) thin < hair>; sparse <tree, cover, vegetation>

5) (wenig gehaltvoll) thin < soup>; weak, watery <coffee, tea>; watery < beer>

6) (dünnflüssig) thin <paint, lubricating oil>; runny < batter>

7) (schwach) thin < voice>; weak, faint < smile>; faint < scent>
2.
adverbial

1) thinly

2) (leicht) lightly < dressed>

3)

dünn besiedelt — thinly or sparsely populated or inhabited

4) (schwach) < smile> weakly, faintly

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dünn

A. adj

1. allg thin; Faden, Haar etc: fine; Briefpapier: lightweight

2. Person etc: thin, skinny umg;

dünner werden lose weight;

er ist sehr dünn geworden he’s gone ( oder got, US gotten) really thin;

sich dünn machen fig make room, squeeze up, breathe in umg

3. Flüssigkeit, Luft: thin; Nebel, Regen: fine; Luft: auch rarefied; Teig: runny

4. (wenig gehaltvoll) Suppe: thin; Kaffee, Tee: weak, watery; Bier: watery

5. Stimme: thin, weak

6. Besiedlung, Bewuchs, Haarwuchs: thin, sparse

7. umg, fig (dürftig) weak, poor; Argument: auch flimsy

B. adv thinly;

Farbe dünn auftragen apply paint thinly;

dünn besiedelt oder

dünn bevölkert sparsely populated;

dünn gesät fig scarce, few and far between

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1.
Adjektiv

1) thin <slice, layer, etc.>; slim < book>

2) (mager) thin < person>

sich dünn machen — (scherzh.) squash or (Amer.) scrunch up [a bit]

3) (leicht) thin, light <clothing, fabric>; fine < stocking>; (fig.) thin, rarefied < air>; fine < rain>

4) (spärlich) thin < hair>; sparse <tree, cover, vegetation>

5) (wenig gehaltvoll) thin < soup>; weak, watery <coffee, tea>; watery < beer>

6) (dünnflüssig) thin <paint, lubricating oil>; runny < batter>

7) (schwach) thin < voice>; weak, faint < smile>; faint < scent>
2.
adverbial

1) thinly

2) (leicht) lightly < dressed>

3)

dünn besiedelt — thinly or sparsely populated or inhabited

4) (schwach) < smile> weakly, faintly

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adj.

fine adj.

lank adj.

skinny adj.

slight adj.

tenuous adj.

thin adj. adv.

tenuously adv.

thinly adv.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > dünn
14 rest

̈ɪrest I
1. сущ.
1) а) покой, отдых, тж. сон complete rest ≈ полный отдых take a rest without rest set smb.'s mind at rest set a question at rest day of rest at rest bed rest earned rest go to rest retire to rest Syn: repose, relief б) вечный покой, смерть lay to rest в) австрал. сл. срок на один год тюрьмы
2) а) перерыв, пауза;
передышка б) муз. пауза
3) неподвижность bring to rest
4) а) место для отдыха (гостиница, пансионат и т. п.) б) прям. перен. опора;
подставка, подпорка;
упор;
стойка armrest rest chin rest в) тех. суппорт;
воен. сошка г) кий с подставкой (в биллиарде) ∙ Syn: residence, abode ∙ rest-room ≈ туалет
2. гл.
1) а) отдыхать, давать отдых, покой to rest from one's labours ≈ отдыхать от трудов rest your men for an hour ≈ дайте людям передохнуть часок rest up Syn: comfort б) оставаться спокойным, не волноваться He could not rest till he got his wish. ≈ Он не мог успокоиться, пока не получил, что хотел. в) театр. быть незанятым ни в каких ролях, быть безработным в данный период( об актере)
2) а) покоиться, лежать (в частности, в могиле) ;
амер. находиться в каком-л. специальном месте( церкви, доме;
о теле в промежутке между смертью и погребением) It was so comfortable resting in his arms. ≈ Было так хорошо лежать в его объятиях. My father is dead;
may he rest in peace. ≈ Мой отец умер, упокой Господь его душу. Let us rest his body in his family grave. ≈ Давайте похороним его в семейном склепе. Syn: lie б) класть, прислонять Rest your head against the back of the chair. ≈ Откинь голову на спинку кресла. Syn: support в) прям. перен. держать(ся), основывать(ся), лежать на;
опираться (on, upon, against) г) покоиться (о взгляде) ;
останавливаться, быть прикованным ( о взгляде, внимании, мыслях) (on, upon) His eyes rested on the peaceful valley below. ≈ Его взгляд лежал на мирной долине внизу. д) быть возложенным, лежать (об ответственности, вине и т. п.) ;
возлагать (ответственность и т. п. на кого-л.) Enough of blood rests on my head. ≈ На моих руках достаточно крови. It rests with the court to decide the prisoners guilt. ≈ Решить, виновны подсудимые или нет - дело суда. The nation rests too much power in the President. ≈ Народ доверил президенту слишком много власти.
3) а) оставаться неподвижным б) оставаться без изменений let the matter rest
4) с.-х. находиться под паром( об участке земли)
5) юр. прекращать дело по своему желанию, отзывать иск из суда (о тяжущихся сторонах) ∙ to rest on one's laurels ≈ почивать на лаврах II
1. сущ.
1) а) остаток, остальное, другие, прочие, остальные( с определенным артиклем) the rest of us all the rest of it for the rest Syn: remainder, remnant, other б) мн. редк. останки Syn: remains в) мн. редк. реликвии, древности Syn: remnants, relics
2) фин. резервный фонд (особенно о Банке Англии)
2. гл.
1) оставаться, сохраняться
2) а) оставаться, оказываться в каком-л. состоянии To let his son's fate rest a dark and cruel mystery. ≈ Чтобы судьба его сына осталась темной и ужасной тайной. His mind was much too active and powerful to rest satisfied. ≈ Его душа была слишком живой и великой, чтобы остаться удовлетворенной. It rests with you to announce it. ≈ Однако, именно вам надлежит объявить об этом. б) редк. прощальная формула в письме I rest your affectionate sister, E. ≈ Остаюсь твоя любящая сестра, Э
3) быть должным, задолжать He rests me nothing. ≈ Он мне ничего не должен. покой, отдых;
сон - day of * день отдыха, выходной день, воскресенье - without * без отдыха, без передышки - at * в покое - to be at * успокоиться - to set smb.'s mind at * успокоить кого-л. - to set a question at * улаживать вопрос - to go /to retire/ to * ложиться отдыхать /спать/ - to take a * отдыхать;
спать - to have a good night's * хорошо выспаться - I could get no * у меня не было ни минуты покоя /отдыха/;
я не сомкнул глаз - my mind is at * about the matter этот вопрос меня больше не тревожит - his fears were laid to * его опасения исчезли вечный покой, смерть - to lay to * хоронить - to be at * with one's fathers отойти к праотцам, уснуть вечным сном - to be at * from toil обрести вечный покой - he has gone to his * он умер перерыв, пауза, передышка - * area (военное) район расположения войск на отдых - * halt (военное) остановка на отдых, привал - to make a * from work сделать передышку - he had several *s on his way up the mountain при подъеме на гору он несколько раз отдыхал (военное) положение "вольно" неподвижность - at * неподвижный - to bring to * останавливать - the horses were brought to * лошадей остановили - to come to * остановиться место отдыха, клуб( обыкн. для моряков) (специальное) упор, опора ( техническое) суппорт;
люнет( спортивное) упор (точка опоры ниже уровня плеч) - arm * упор на руках - bent arm /cross, front/ * упор на согнутых руках (музыкальное) пауза (стихосложение) цезура отдыхать;
лежать;
спать - he likes to * after dinner после обеда он любит отдохнуть покоиться - he *s in the churchyard он покоится на кладбище - let her * in peace мир праху ее лежать, покоиться - clouds *ing on mountain tops облака, лежащие на вершинах гор - my eye *ed on those remote blue peaks мой взор был прикован к этим далеким голубым вершинам отдыхать (от дел и т. п.), не работать - to * from one's labours отдыхать от /после/ трудов - not to let the enemy * не давать покоя противнику - to * on one's oars бездействовать;
почивать на лаврах - *! вольно! (команда) - she planned to * during her vacation во время отпуска она решила ничем не заниматься давать отдых, покой - to * men and horses дать отдых людям и лошадям - to * oneself дать себе отдых;
передохнуть - they stopped at the wayside cafe to * themselves они остановились у придорожного кафе, чтобы немного передохнуть - * the players for tomorrow's game пусть игроки отдохнут перед завтрашним состязанием - these dark glasses * my eyes в этих темных очках у меня отдыхают глаза - a colour that *s the eyes спокойный цвет быть спокойным, не волноваться - he could not * till he got his wish он не мог успокоиться, пока не добился своего (on, against) класть (на что-л.) ;
прислонять (к чему-л.) - to * one's elbows on the table класть локти на стол - to * one's head on a cushion положить голову на подушку - * the picture against the wall прислони картину к стене (on, against) обосновывать - he *ed his argument on trivialities его аргументация строилась на общих местах - the verdict *ed on several precedents в основе вердикта лежали несколько прецедентов (on) опираться (на что-л.) ;
покоиться (на чем-л.) - the roof *s on eight columns крыша покоится на восьми колоннах - she let her glance * on me ее взгляд остановился на мне;
она пристально взглянула на меня (upon, on, in) опираться (на кого-л., что-л.) - his fame *s upon his novels славу ему создали его романы - the charge *ed upon one man's unsupported statement обвинение строилось на ничем не подтвержденном заявлении одного лица - he *ed all his hopes in his son все свои надежды он возлагал на сына - all our hopes *ed upon this venture все наши надежды были связаны с этим рискованным предприятием (on, upon, in) возлагать (ответственность и т. п. на кого-л., что-л.) - to * responsibility on /upon/ smb. возлагать ответственность на кого-л. - we * in your promise мы уповаем на ваше обещание( with) быть возложенным (на кого-л.) ;
лежать (на ком-л.;
об ответственности и т. п.) - the fault *s with him вина лежит на нем - the answer *s with you ответ за вами - it *s with you to decide as best you can ваше дело решать по своему усмотрению оставаться без изменений - let the matter * оставим (дело) так, как есть;
не будем больше об этом говорить - the matter cannot * here этим дело еще не кончается;
этим нельзя ограничиться - this *s a mystery это остается тайной продолжать быть в каком-л. состоянии - you may * assured можете быть совершенно уверены, можете не волноваться (сельскохозяйственное) быть под паром, паровать (сельскохозяйственное) оставлять под паром (юридическое) заканчивать выступление обвинения или защиты, предоставление доказательств и т. п. - the defence *s защите нечего добавить (the *) остаток, остальное - and (all) the * of it и все остальное /другое, прочее/ - (as) for the * что касается остального, что до остального - as to the * в других отношениях - take what you want and throw the * away возьмите, что надо, а остальное выбросьте - her hat was red as the * of her clothes шляпа на ней была красная, как и вся остальная одежда остальные;
другие - the * of us все (мы), остальные - to cut adrift from the * оторваться от всех( финансовое) (the *) остаток, остающаяся сумма - for the * на остающуюся сумму( финансовое) резервный фонд the ~ of it, all the ~ of it и все другое, остальное, и прочее;
for the rest что до остального, что же касается остального ~ держать(ся), основывать(ся), лежать на;
опираться (on, upon, against) ;
the argument rests on rather a weak evidence довод довольно слабо обоснован at ~ в состоянии покоя at ~ мертвый;
to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать;
to take a rest отдыхать;
спать;
without rest без отдыха, без передышки at ~ неподвижный rest быть возложенным, лежать (об ответственности, вине и т. п.) ;
the blam'e rests with them вина лежит на них ~ неподвижность;
to bring to rest останавливать (экипаж и т. п.) to set (smb.'s) mind at ~ успокаивать( кого-л.) ;
to set a question at rest улаживать вопрос;
day of rest день отдыха, выходной день, воскресенье the ~ of it, all the ~ of it и все другое, остальное, и прочее;
for the rest что до остального, что же касается остального at ~ мертвый;
to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать;
to take a rest отдыхать;
спать;
without rest без отдыха, без передышки ~ вечный покой, смерть;
he has gone to his rest он умер;
to lay to rest хоронить it rests with you to decide за вами право решения;
the next move rests with you следующий шаг за вами ~ вечный покой, смерть;
he has gone to his rest он умер;
to lay to rest хоронить ~ оставаться без изменений;
let the matter rest не будем это трогать, оставим так, как есть;
the matter cannot rest here дело должно быть продолжено ~ оставаться без изменений;
let the matter rest не будем это трогать, оставим так, как есть;
the matter cannot rest here дело должно быть продолжено ~ покоиться, лежать;
отдыхать;
to rest from one's labours отдыхать от трудов;
never let your enemy rest не давайте покоя врагу it rests with you to decide за вами право решения;
the next move rests with you следующий шаг за вами rest быть возложенным, лежать (об ответственности, вине и т. п.) ;
the blam'e rests with them вина лежит на них ~ вечный покой, смерть;
he has gone to his rest он умер;
to lay to rest хоронить ~ возлагать (ответственность и т. п. на кого-л.) ~ давать отдых, покой;
rest your men for an hour дайте людям передохнуть часок ~ держать(ся), основывать(ся), лежать на;
опираться (on, upon, against) ;
the argument rests on rather a weak evidence довод довольно слабо обоснован ~ заканчивать (выступление обвинения, защиты, представление доказательств и т.д.) ~ запрещать распространение( печатного издания) ~ класть, прислонять;
to rest one's elbow on the table опираться локтем о стол ~ лежать (на ком-л.) (об ответственности, обязанности и т.д.) ~ место для отдыха (гостиница, отель, мотель и т. п.) ~ неподвижность;
to bring to rest останавливать (экипаж и т. п.) ~ опора;
подставка, подпорка;
упор;
стойка ~ оставаться;
this rests a mystery это остается тайной;
you may rest assured можете быть уверены ~ с.-х. оставаться, находиться под паром ~ оставаться без изменений;
let the matter rest не будем это трогать, оставим так, как есть;
the matter cannot rest here дело должно быть продолжено ~ оставаться спокойным, не волноваться ~ муз. пауза ~ перерыв, пауза;
передышка ~ покоиться (о взгляде) ;
останавливаться, быть прикованным (о внимании, мыслях;
on, upon) ~ покоиться, лежать;
отдыхать;
to rest from one's labours отдыхать от трудов;
never let your enemy rest не давайте покоя врагу ~ покой, отдых;
сон ~ фин. резервный фонд ~ тех. суппорт ~ прос. цезура ~ покоиться, лежать;
отдыхать;
to rest from one's labours отдыхать от трудов;
never let your enemy rest не давайте покоя врагу the ~ of it, all the ~ of it и все другое, остальное, и прочее;
for the rest что до остального, что же касается остального ~the ~ остаток;
остальное;
остальные, другие;
the rest of us остальные ~ класть, прислонять;
to rest one's elbow on the table опираться локтем о стол ~the ~ остаток;
остальное;
остальные, другие;
the rest of us остальные ~ давать отдых, покой;
rest your men for an hour дайте людям передохнуть часок to set (smb.'s) mind at ~ успокаивать (кого-л.) ;
to set a question at rest улаживать вопрос;
day of rest день отдыха, выходной день, воскресенье to set (smb.'s) mind at ~ успокаивать (кого-л.) ;
to set a question at rest улаживать вопрос;
day of rest день отдыха, выходной день, воскресенье at ~ мертвый;
to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать;
to take a rest отдыхать;
спать;
without rest без отдыха, без передышки ~ оставаться;
this rests a mystery это остается тайной;
you may rest assured можете быть уверены at ~ мертвый;
to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать;
to take a rest отдыхать;
спать;
without rest без отдыха, без передышки ~ оставаться;
this rests a mystery это остается тайной;
you may rest assured можете быть уверены

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > rest
15 continuar

v.

1 to continue, to go on, to carry on with.

los peregrinos continuaron su camino the pilgrims went or continued on their way

continuar haciendo algo to continue doing o to do something

continúa lloviendo it's still raining

todavía continúa en la empresa she's still with o working for the company

continuará to be continued (historia, programa)

El suplicio continuó The torture continued.

María continuó el trabajo de Ricardo Mary continued John's work.

Me continúa el dolor My pain persists=continues.

2 to keep on, to continue to.

Yo continúo estudiando I keep on studying.

3 to continue to be.

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continuar

Conjugation model [ ACTUAR], like link=actuar actuar

► verbo transitivo

1 (proseguir) to continue, carry on

■ continuó su camino she continued on her way

■ continuaron su viaje they continued their journey

► verbo intransitivo

1 (permanecer, durar) to continue, go on

■ el espectáculo continúa the show continues

■ continúa lloviendo it's still raining

■ Pablo continúa en Praga Pablo is still in Prague

► verbo pronominal continuarse

1 (extenderse) to extend, run

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FRASEOLOGÍA

'Continuará' (capítulos, episodios, etc) "To be continued"

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verb

to continue, go on

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1.

VT to continue

el tren continuó su marcha — the train continued its journey

continuó sus estudios en Barcelona — she continued her studies in Barcelona

continuaremos la clase mañana — we will go on with o continue the lesson tomorrow

continuó su vida como antes — he went on with o continued with his life as before

2. VI

1) [historia, espectáculo, guerra] to continue, go on

la búsqueda continuó durante toda la noche — the search continued o went on all night

continúe, por favor — please continue, please go on

la serie continúa la semana que viene — the series continues next week

"continuará" — "to be continued"

pase lo que pase, la vida continúa — come what may, life goes on

2) [en una situación]

la puerta continúa cerrada — the door is still shut, the door remains shut frm

continúa muy grave — she is still in a critical condition, she remains in a critical condition frm

continúa en el mismo puesto de trabajo — she is still in the same post, she remains in the same post frm

continuaba en Noruega — he was still in Norway

• continuar con algo — to continue with sth, go on with sth

continuó con su trabajo — he continued with o went on with his work

Pablo continúa con Irene — Pablo is still (together) with Irene

continuar con salud — to be still in good health, remain in good health frm

• continuar haciendo algo, continuó leyendo — she continued to read o reading, she went on reading

la policía continuará investigando el caso — the police are to continue o go on investigating the case

a pesar de todo, continúa diciendo lo que piensa — in spite of everything, she continues to speak her mind o she still speaks her mind

continúa lloviendo — it's still raining

continuaba trabajando para ellos — he still worked for them

en cualquier caso continúo siendo optimista — in any case, I remain optimistic o I am still optimistic

3) [camino, carretera] to continue, go on, carry on

el camino continúa hasta la costa — the road continues o goes on o carries on (all the way) to the coast

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1.
verbo transitivo to continue

continuemos la marcha — let's go on o carry on
2.
continuar vi

a) guerra/espectáculo/vida to continue

si las cosas continúan así — if things go on o continue like this

continuará — to be continued

la película continúa en cartelera — the movie is still showing

continuar con algo — to continue with something

continuar + ger: su estado continúa siendo delicado he is still in a weak condition; continúa negándose a declarar she is still refusing to make a statement; continuó diciendo que... — she went on to say that...

b) carretera to continue
3.
continuarse v pron (frml) to continue

el camino se continúa en un sendero — the road continues as a path

su obra se continuó en sus discípulos — his work was continued by his disciples

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= continue, go on, linger on, move on, persevere, persist, wrap, keep + going, proceed, push on, press on, recommence, run over, move forward, hang on, carry forward, carry on, go ahead, carry through, soldier on, keep up, roll on, take it from here.

Ex. Thus our catalogs will continue to fail our readers until reconstructed on the basis of the AACR, which has remedied the situation by providing for the consistent use of uniform titles wherever required.

Ex. Several members of the group raised polite brows and implored him to go on.

Ex. The song may be forgotten but among library users the sentiment lingers on.

Ex. Rather readers grow by fits and starts now rushing ahead, now lying fallow, and now moving steadily on.

Ex. It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.

Ex. Nevertheless, it cannot yet be said that all cataloguing is conducted with the use of a computer, and even some major library systems persist with manual cataloguing practices.

Ex. If the width of the report exceeds the line width of your printer, the information will wrap to the next line.

Ex. This article presents ideas which will help the librarian to keep going in the face of budget cuts.

Ex. Before we proceed to look at the operators in detail, a couple of examples may help to make the layout clearer.

Ex. I think we'd better push on to the next topic.

Ex. Hoping the gentler tone and the more relaxed manner meant that her anger was abating, the young man pressed on less apprehensively.

Ex. 'Well,' recommenced the young librarian, buoyed up by the director's interest, 'I believe that everybody is a good employee until they prove differently to me'.

Ex. An initiative for environmental education which will run over the next few years focuses on Victoria region by region.

Ex. This article argues the need to move forward with the infotech culture without abandoning the service culture.

Ex. In libraries, this life cycle may be interrupted because of staff reluctance to part with traditional services, and products may hang on long past the point of real effectiveness.

Ex. In order to carry forward the Chinese cultural heritage it is necessary to research the ancient books.

Ex. If a child detects that no very strong value is placed on reading then he feels no compulsion to develop his own reading skill beyond the minimal, functional level we all need simply to carry on our daily lives in our print-dominated society.

Ex. A plan for the construction and implementation phases will be drawn up, if it is decided to go ahead = Si se decide continuar, se elaborará un plan para las fases de construcción y puesta en práctica.

Ex. Any changes will produce a readjustment of text which will carry through to the end of the text.

Ex. Russell soldiered on in 'Principles of Mathematics', he pleaded a distinction between analysis by way of philosophical definitions and analysis by way of mathematical definitions.

Ex. He was told to ' keep up whatever it is he was doing' because he was doing great!.

Ex. But to make matters worse, and as the drought rolls on, it is very likely that it won't rain again until October or November.

Ex. I had intended to walk him to his classroom, but before I could follow him through the double doors, he said, 'I can take it from here, Papa'.

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* batalla + continuar = battle + rage.

* continuando con la línea de = in the vein of.

* continuar al lado de = stand by.

* continuar así = keep + it up, keep up + the good work, keep up + the great work.

* continuar a trancas y barrancas = bash on.

* continuar avanzando = press on.

* continuar como antes = go on + as before.

* continuar con = go ahead with, proceed to, pursue, pursue + Nombre + further, stick to, build on/upon, go on with, maintain + continuity, maintain + momentum, stick with, stick at.

* continuar con Algo = take + Nombre + further.

* continuar con el buen hacer = keep up + the good work, keep up + the great work.

* continuar con la lectura de = carry on through.

* continuar con + Nombre + en = carry + Nombre + forward into.

* continuar diciendo = go on.

* continuar en = overflow on.

* continuar en esta dirección = proceed + along this way.

* continuar enviando + Nombre = keep + Nombre + coming.

* continuar + Gerundio = go on + Gerundio, keep + Gerundio, keep on + Gerundio.

* continuar haciendo Algo = get on with + Nombre.

* continuar implacablemente = march on.

* continuar inexorablemente = march on.

* continuar irreconciliable con = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar la labor de otros = stand on + the shoulders of giants, stand on + the shoulders of giants, stand on + the shoulders of giants.

* continuar leyendo = read on.

* continuar opuesto a = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar + Posesivo camino = continue on + Posesivo + way.

* continuar realizando una actividad = keep + going.

* continuar siendo = remain.

* continuar siendo importante = remain + big.

* continuar sin agraciarse con = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar sin detenerse = go straight ahead.

* continuar sin reconciliarse son = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar tratando = pursue + Nombre + further.

* continuar viviendo = live on.

* continuar vivo = live on.

* disputa + continuar = dispute + rage.

* estar decidido a continuar = be set to continue.

* la vida continúa = the show must go on.

* la vida + continuar = life + go on.

* polémica + continuar = controversy + rage, argument + rage.

* todo continúa como antes = life goes on as before.

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1.
verbo transitivo to continue

continuemos la marcha — let's go on o carry on
2.
continuar vi

a) guerra/espectáculo/vida to continue

si las cosas continúan así — if things go on o continue like this

continuará — to be continued

la película continúa en cartelera — the movie is still showing

continuar con algo — to continue with something

continuar + ger: su estado continúa siendo delicado he is still in a weak condition; continúa negándose a declarar she is still refusing to make a statement; continuó diciendo que... — she went on to say that...

b) carretera to continue
3.
continuarse v pron (frml) to continue

el camino se continúa en un sendero — the road continues as a path

su obra se continuó en sus discípulos — his work was continued by his disciples

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= continue, go on, linger on, move on, persevere, persist, wrap, keep + going, proceed, push on, press on, recommence, run over, move forward, hang on, carry forward, carry on, go ahead, carry through, soldier on, keep up, roll on, take it from here.

Ex: Thus our catalogs will continue to fail our readers until reconstructed on the basis of the AACR, which has remedied the situation by providing for the consistent use of uniform titles wherever required.

Ex: Several members of the group raised polite brows and implored him to go on.

Ex: The song may be forgotten but among library users the sentiment lingers on.

Ex: Rather readers grow by fits and starts now rushing ahead, now lying fallow, and now moving steadily on.

Ex: It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.

Ex: Nevertheless, it cannot yet be said that all cataloguing is conducted with the use of a computer, and even some major library systems persist with manual cataloguing practices.

Ex: If the width of the report exceeds the line width of your printer, the information will wrap to the next line.

Ex: This article presents ideas which will help the librarian to keep going in the face of budget cuts.

Ex: Before we proceed to look at the operators in detail, a couple of examples may help to make the layout clearer.

Ex: I think we'd better push on to the next topic.

Ex: Hoping the gentler tone and the more relaxed manner meant that her anger was abating, the young man pressed on less apprehensively.

Ex: 'Well,' recommenced the young librarian, buoyed up by the director's interest, 'I believe that everybody is a good employee until they prove differently to me'.

Ex: An initiative for environmental education which will run over the next few years focuses on Victoria region by region.

Ex: This article argues the need to move forward with the infotech culture without abandoning the service culture.

Ex: In libraries, this life cycle may be interrupted because of staff reluctance to part with traditional services, and products may hang on long past the point of real effectiveness.

Ex: In order to carry forward the Chinese cultural heritage it is necessary to research the ancient books.

Ex: If a child detects that no very strong value is placed on reading then he feels no compulsion to develop his own reading skill beyond the minimal, functional level we all need simply to carry on our daily lives in our print-dominated society.

Ex: A plan for the construction and implementation phases will be drawn up, if it is decided to go ahead = Si se decide continuar, se elaborará un plan para las fases de construcción y puesta en práctica.

Ex: Any changes will produce a readjustment of text which will carry through to the end of the text.

Ex: Russell soldiered on in 'Principles of Mathematics', he pleaded a distinction between analysis by way of philosophical definitions and analysis by way of mathematical definitions.

Ex: He was told to ' keep up whatever it is he was doing' because he was doing great!.

Ex: But to make matters worse, and as the drought rolls on, it is very likely that it won't rain again until October or November.

Ex: I had intended to walk him to his classroom, but before I could follow him through the double doors, he said, 'I can take it from here, Papa'.

* batalla + continuar = battle + rage.

* continuando con la línea de = in the vein of.

* continuar al lado de = stand by.

* continuar así = keep + it up, keep up + the good work, keep up + the great work.

* continuar a trancas y barrancas = bash on.

* continuar avanzando = press on.

* continuar como antes = go on + as before.

* continuar con = go ahead with, proceed to, pursue, pursue + Nombre + further, stick to, build on/upon, go on with, maintain + continuity, maintain + momentum, stick with, stick at.

* continuar con Algo = take + Nombre + further.

* continuar con el buen hacer = keep up + the good work, keep up + the great work.

* continuar con la lectura de = carry on through.

* continuar con + Nombre + en = carry + Nombre + forward into.

* continuar diciendo = go on.

* continuar en = overflow on.

* continuar en esta dirección = proceed + along this way.

* continuar enviando + Nombre = keep + Nombre + coming.

* continuar + Gerundio = go on + Gerundio, keep + Gerundio, keep on + Gerundio.

* continuar haciendo Algo = get on with + Nombre.

* continuar implacablemente = march on.

* continuar inexorablemente = march on.

* continuar irreconciliable con = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar la labor de otros = stand on + the shoulders of giants, stand on + the shoulders of giants, stand on + the shoulders of giants.

* continuar leyendo = read on.

* continuar opuesto a = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar + Posesivo camino = continue on + Posesivo + way.

* continuar realizando una actividad = keep + going.

* continuar siendo = remain.

* continuar siendo importante = remain + big.

* continuar sin agraciarse con = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar sin detenerse = go straight ahead.

* continuar sin reconciliarse son = remain + unreconciled to.

* continuar tratando = pursue + Nombre + further.

* continuar viviendo = live on.

* continuar vivo = live on.

* disputa + continuar = dispute + rage.

* estar decidido a continuar = be set to continue.

* la vida continúa = the show must go on.

* la vida + continuar = life + go on.

* polémica + continuar = controversy + rage, argument + rage.

* todo continúa como antes = life goes on as before.

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continuar [ A18 ]

vt

to continue

va a continuar sus estudios en el extranjero she's going to continue her studies abroad

continuó su vida como si nada hubiera pasado he went on with o continued with his life as if nothing had happened

sus discípulos continuaron su obra her disciples carried on o continued her work

continuemos la marcha let's go on o carry on

—y eso sería un desastre —continuó and that would be catastrophic, he went on o continued

■ continuar

vi

1 «guerra/espectáculo/vida» to continue

si las cosas continúan así if things go on o continue like this

[ S ] continuará to be continued

la película continúa en cartelera the movie is still showing

continúe la defensa (counsel for) the defense may continue

continuar CON algo to continue WITH sth

no pudieron continuar con el trabajo they couldn't continue (with) o go on with the work

continuar + GER:

su estado continúa siendo delicado he is still in a weak condition

continúa negándose a declarar she is still refusing to make a statement

si continúas comportándote así if you continue to behave o go on behaving like this

continuó diciendo que … she went on to say that …, she continued by saying that …

2 «carretera» to continue

la carretera continúa hasta la parte alta de la montaña the road continues (on) to the top of the mountain, the road goes on up to the top of the mountain

■ continuarse

v pron

( frml); to continue

el camino se continúa en un angosto sendero the road continues as a narrow path

su obra se continuó en la labor de sus discípulos his work was continued in the labor of his disciples

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continuar ( conjugate continuar) verbo transitivo
to continue
verbo intransitivo [guerra/espectáculo/vida] to continue;
◊ si las cosas continúan así if things go on o continue like this;

( on signs) continuará to be continued;
◊ la película continúa en cartelera the movie is still showing;

continuar con algo to continue with sth;
continuó diciendo que … she went on to say that …
continuar verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo
1 to continue, carry on (with)
2 (seguir en un lugar) continúa viviendo en Brasil, he's still living in Brazil
3 (seguir sucediendo) continúa lloviendo, it is still raining
(una película) continuará, to be continued ➣ Ver nota en continue

' continuar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
incapaz
- perdurar
- seguir
English:
carry on
- continue
- go ahead
- go on
- keep
- keep on
- keep up
- remain
- resume
- carry
- go
- hold
- move
- proceed
- pursue
- take
- wear

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continuar

♦ vt

to continue, to carry on with;

los peregrinos continuaron su camino the pilgrims went o continued on their way;

continuarán el partido suspendido mañana the abandoned match will be continued tomorrow

♦ vi

to continue, to go on;

continuar haciendo algo to continue doing o to do sth;

continúa lloviendo it's still raining;

¿continúas viviendo en Brasil? are you still living in Brazil?, do you still live in Brazil?;

continuamos trabajando en el mismo proyecto we are still working on the same project;

continúan con el proyecto they are carrying on with o continuing with the project;

todavía continúa en la empresa she's still with o working for the company;

continúen en sus puestos hasta nueva orden stay at your posts until you receive fresh orders;

continuará [historia, programa] to be continued;

la finca continúa hasta el río the farm extends as far as the river;

el camino continúa por la costa the road continues o carries on along the coast

♦ See also the pronominal verb continuarse

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continuar

I v/t continue

II v/i continue;

continuará to be continued;

continuar haciendo algo continue o carry on doing sth;

continuó nevando it kept on snowing

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continuar {3} v

: to continue

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continuar vb

1. to continue / to carry on [pt. & pp. carried]

continuaremos el debate después de comer we'll continue the discussion after lunch / we'll carry on with the discussion after lunch

continuó escribiendo hasta su muerte she carried on writing until she died

2. (estar todavía) to be still

el buen tiempo continúa the weather is still fine

mira a ver si continúa allí look and see is he's still there

Spanish-English dictionary > continuar
16 shaky

['ʃeɪkɪ]
aggettivo

1) (liable to shake) [chair, ladder] traballante, barcollante

my hands are rather shaky — mi tremano le mani

I feel a bit shaky — mi tremano le gambe

2) fig. (liable to founder) [relationship, argument] poco solido; [ position] insicuro, privo di certezza; [knowledge, memory, prospects] incerto; [ regime] debole, vacillante

3) fig. (uncertain)

we got off to a rather shaky start — (in relationship, business) l'inizio è stato un po' incerto; (in performance) all'inizio eravamo un po' insicuri

my French is a bit shaky — il mio francese è un po' incerto o traballante

to be on shaky ground — essere su terreno infido

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adjective

1) (weak or trembling with age, illness etc: a shaky voice; shaky handwriting.) tremolante

2) (unsteady or likely to collapse: a shaky chair.) vacillante, traballante

3) ((sometimes with at) not very good, accurate etc: He's a bit shaky at arithmetic; My arithmetic has always been very shaky; I'd be grateful if you would correct my rather shaky spelling.) debole

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shaky /ˈʃeɪkɪ/
a.

1 malfermo; barcollante; traballante; tremante; tremolante; debole; vacillante: a shaky table, una tavola traballante; a shaky old man, un vecchio tremolante; a shaky hand, una mano malferma (o tremante); (mil. e sport) a shaky defence, una difesa debole; a shaky house, una casa vacillante

2 infido; dubbio; inattendibile; incerto; indeciso; insicuro: a shaky character, un carattere infido; a shaky argument, un argomento dubbio; shaky evidence, prove dubbie (o poco attendibili); His French is rather shaky, il suo francese è piuttosto incerto (o approssimativo)

● shaky health, salute malferma (o precaria) □ to feel shaky, non stare in piedi ( dopo una malattia) □ to be shaky on one's legs, avere le gambe che tremano; avere la tremarella alle gambe.

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['ʃeɪkɪ]
aggettivo

1) (liable to shake) [chair, ladder] traballante, barcollante

my hands are rather shaky — mi tremano le mani

I feel a bit shaky — mi tremano le gambe

2) fig. (liable to founder) [relationship, argument] poco solido; [ position] insicuro, privo di certezza; [knowledge, memory, prospects] incerto; [ regime] debole, vacillante

3) fig. (uncertain)

we got off to a rather shaky start — (in relationship, business) l'inizio è stato un po' incerto; (in performance) all'inizio eravamo un po' insicuri

my French is a bit shaky — il mio francese è un po' incerto o traballante

to be on shaky ground — essere su terreno infido

English-Italian dictionary > shaky
17 feeble

'fi:bl
adjective

(weak: The old lady has been rather feeble since her illness; a feeble excuse.) débil

- feebly

feeble adj débil

feeble

tr['fiːbəl]

adjective

1 (person) débil

2 (light, sound) tenue, débil

3 (argument, excuse) de poco peso

feeble ['fi:bəl] adj, - bler ; - blest

1) weak: débil, endeble

2) ineffective: flojo, pobre, poco convincente

feeble

adj.

• débil adj.

• enclenque adj.

• endeble adj.

• flaco, -a adj.

• flojo, -a adj.

'fiːbəl
adjective - bler -blər, -blə(r), - blest -bləst, -blɪst

a) ( weak) débil

b) ( poor) < joke> flojo, malo; < excuse> pobre, poco convincente

['fiːbl]
ADJ (compar feebler) (superl feeblest)
1) (=weak) [person, cry, protest] débil; [smile, laugh] lánguido, débil; [light] tenue

2) (=ineffective) [effort, attempt, resistance] débil; [excuse, argument] poco convincente, flojo; [joke] soso

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['fiːbəl]
adjective - bler [-blər, -blə(r)], - blest [-bləst, -blɪst]

a) ( weak) débil

b) ( poor) < joke> flojo, malo; < excuse> pobre, poco convincente

English-spanish dictionary > feeble
18 rest

[̈ɪrest]

the rest of it, all the rest of it и все другое, остальное, и прочее; for the rest что до остального, что же касается остального rest держать(ся), основывать(ся), лежать на; опираться (on, upon, against); the argument rests on rather a weak evidence довод довольно слабо обоснован at rest в состоянии покоя at rest мертвый; to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать; to take a rest отдыхать; спать; without rest без отдыха, без передышки at rest неподвижный rest быть возложенным, лежать (об ответственности, вине и т. п.); the blam'e rests with them вина лежит на них rest неподвижность; to bring to rest останавливать (экипаж и т. п.) to set (smb.'s) mind at rest успокаивать (кого-л.); to set a question at rest улаживать вопрос; day of rest день отдыха, выходной день, воскресенье the rest of it, all the rest of it и все другое, остальное, и прочее; for the rest что до остального, что же касается остального at rest мертвый; to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать; to take a rest отдыхать; спать; without rest без отдыха, без передышки rest вечный покой, смерть; he has gone to his rest он умер; to lay to rest хоронить it rests with you to decide за вами право решения; the next move rests with you следующий шаг за вами rest вечный покой, смерть; he has gone to his rest он умер; to lay to rest хоронить rest оставаться без изменений; let the matter rest не будем это трогать, оставим так, как есть; the matter cannot rest here дело должно быть продолжено rest оставаться без изменений; let the matter rest не будем это трогать, оставим так, как есть; the matter cannot rest here дело должно быть продолжено rest покоиться, лежать; отдыхать; to rest from one's labours отдыхать от трудов; never let your enemy rest не давайте покоя врагу it rests with you to decide за вами право решения; the next move rests with you следующий шаг за вами rest быть возложенным, лежать (об ответственности, вине и т. п.); the blam'e rests with them вина лежит на них rest вечный покой, смерть; he has gone to his rest он умер; to lay to rest хоронить rest возлагать (ответственность и т. п. на кого-л.) rest давать отдых, покой; rest your men for an hour дайте людям передохнуть часок rest держать(ся), основывать(ся), лежать на; опираться (on, upon, against); the argument rests on rather a weak evidence довод довольно слабо обоснован rest заканчивать (выступление обвинения, защиты, представление доказательств и т.д.) rest запрещать распространение (печатного издания) rest класть, прислонять; to rest one's elbow on the table опираться локтем о стол rest лежать (на ком-л.) (об ответственности, обязанности и т.д.) rest место для отдыха (гостиница, отель, мотель и т. п.) rest неподвижность; to bring to rest останавливать (экипаж и т. п.) rest опора; подставка, подпорка; упор; стойка rest оставаться; this rests a mystery это остается тайной; you may rest assured можете быть уверены rest с.-х. оставаться, находиться под паром rest оставаться без изменений; let the matter rest не будем это трогать, оставим так, как есть; the matter cannot rest here дело должно быть продолжено rest оставаться спокойным, не волноваться rest муз. пауза rest перерыв, пауза; передышка rest покоиться (о взгляде); останавливаться, быть прикованным (о внимании, мыслях; on, upon) rest покоиться, лежать; отдыхать; to rest from one's labours отдыхать от трудов; never let your enemy rest не давайте покоя врагу rest покой, отдых; сон rest фин. резервный фонд rest тех. суппорт rest прос. цезура rest покоиться, лежать; отдыхать; to rest from one's labours отдыхать от трудов; never let your enemy rest не давайте покоя врагу the rest of it, all the rest of it и все другое, остальное, и прочее; for the rest что до остального, что же касается остального restthe rest остаток; остальное; остальные, другие; the rest of us остальные rest класть, прислонять; to rest one's elbow on the table опираться локтем о стол restthe rest остаток; остальное; остальные, другие; the rest of us остальные rest давать отдых, покой; rest your men for an hour дайте людям передохнуть часок to set (smb.'s) mind at rest успокаивать (кого-л.); to set a question at rest улаживать вопрос; day of rest день отдыха, выходной день, воскресенье to set (smb.'s) mind at rest успокаивать (кого-л.); to set a question at rest улаживать вопрос; day of rest день отдыха, выходной день, воскресенье at rest мертвый; to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать; to take a rest отдыхать; спать; without rest без отдыха, без передышки rest оставаться; this rests a mystery это остается тайной; you may rest assured можете быть уверены at rest мертвый; to go (или to retire) to rest ложиться отдыхать, спать; to take a rest отдыхать; спать; without rest без отдыха, без передышки rest оставаться; this rests a mystery это остается тайной; you may rest assured можете быть уверены

English-Russian short dictionary > rest
19 dürftig

Adj.

1. pej. (unzulänglich) poor; Einkommen, Mahlzeit: meag|re (Am. -er), paltry; Beleuchtung, Ausstattung etc.: scanty, sparse; Kleidung: scanty, skimpy; Argument: weak, flimsy, feeble; Ausrede, Erklärung: feeble, lame; Chance, Mehrheit: measly; Aussehen: puny, scrawny, feeble

2. (ärmlich) Verhältnisse: humble; stärker: wretched

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slender; scanty; poor; needy; meagre; in short supply; exiguous; meager; paltry; penurious; bald; slim; tenuous; scant; unsubstantial; crummy

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dụ̈rf|tig ['dʏrftɪç]
1. adj

1) (= ärmlich) wretched, miserable; Essen auch meagre (Brit), meager (US)

2) (pej = unzureichend) miserable, pathetic (inf); Kenntnisse sketchy, scanty; Ausrede feeble, lame, pathetic (inf); Ersatz poor attr; (= spärlich) Haarwuchs, Pflanzenwuchs sparse; Bekleidung scanty, skimpy

ein paar dürftige Tannen — a few scrawny fir trees

2. adv
(= kümmerlich) beleuchtet poorly; gekleidet scantily
die Ernte ist dürftig ausgefallen — the harvest turned out to be quite meagre (Brit) or meager (US)

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1) ( informal) adjective (made up of small, unrelated pieces: We had a very bitty conversation; His essay was rather bitty.) bitty

2) (thin and light: You'll be cold in those flimsy clothes.) flimsy

3) (not well; badly: a poorly written essay.) poorly

4) meagrely

5) (poor or not enough: meagre earnings.) meagre

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dürf·tig

[ˈdʏrftɪç]

I. adj

1. (kärglich) paltry a. pej, meagre [or AM -er]

\dürftige Unterkunft poor accommodation

2. (pej: schwach) poor

eine \dürftige Ausrede a feeble excuse

\dürftige Kenntnisse scanty knowledge

3. (spärlich) sparse

II. adv scantily

\dürftig ausfallen to be a poor outcome

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1.
Adjektiv

1) (ärmlich) poor; scanty, meagre < meal>; scanty, poor < clothing>

2) (abwertend): (unzulänglich) poor <substitute, performance, light>; feeble, poor < explanation>; lame, feeble < excuse>; scanty <knowledge, evidence, results>; sparse < growth of hair>; paltry, meagre < income>
2.
adverbial

1) < live> poorly; scantily < dressed>

2) (abwertend): (unzulänglich) skimpily, scantily < furnished>; poorly < attended>; < report, formulate> sketchily; thinly < concealed>

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dürftig adj

1. pej (unzulänglich) poor; Einkommen, Mahlzeit: meagre (US -er), paltry; Beleuchtung, Ausstattung etc: scanty, sparse; Kleidung: scanty, skimpy; Argument: weak, flimsy, feeble; Ausrede, Erklärung: feeble, lame; Chance, Mehrheit: measly; Aussehen: puny, scrawny, feeble

2. (ärmlich) Verhältnisse: humble; stärker: wretched

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1.
Adjektiv

1) (ärmlich) poor; scanty, meagre < meal>; scanty, poor < clothing>

2) (abwertend): (unzulänglich) poor <substitute, performance, light>; feeble, poor < explanation>; lame, feeble < excuse>; scanty <knowledge, evidence, results>; sparse < growth of hair>; paltry, meagre < income>
2.
adverbial

1) < live> poorly; scantily < dressed>

2) (abwertend): (unzulänglich) skimpily, scantily < furnished>; poorly < attended>; <report, formulate> sketchily; thinly < concealed>

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adj.

bald adj.

paltry adj.

poor adj.

scanty adj. adv.

poorly adv.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > dürftig
20 Artificial Intelligence

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inﬂated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins ﬂy? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can ﬂy, so robins probably can ﬂy."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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weak — [wēk] adj. [ME waik < ON veikr, akin to OE wac, feeble (which the ON word replaced) < IE * weig , * weik (< base * wei , to bend) > WEEK, WICKER, L vicis, change] 1. a) lacking in strength of body or muscle; not physically strong b)… … English World dictionary
weak — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound ▪ become, get, go, grow … Collocations dictionary
weak*/*/ — [wiːk] adj 1) lacking physical strength or good health Ant: strong The illness had left him too weak to speak.[/ex] He has always had a weak heart.[/ex] 2) not strongly built and easily damaged or destroyed The floorboards are weak in some places … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
weak — [[t]wi͟ːk[/t]] ♦♦ weaker, weakest 1) ADJ GRADED If someone is weak, they are not healthy or do not have good muscles, so that they cannot move quickly or carry heavy things. I was too weak to move or think or speak... His arms and legs were weak … English dictionary
Argument from poor design — The dysteleological argument or argument from poor design is an argument against the existence of God, specifically against the existence of a creator God (in the sense of a God that directly created all species of life). It is based on the… … Wikipedia
Doomsday argument — World population from 10,000 BC to AD 2000 The Doomsday argument (DA) is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the number of future members of the human species given only an estimate of the total number of humans born so far. Simply… … Wikipedia
Ontological argument — The ontological argument for the existence of God (or simply ontological argument) is an a priori proof for the existence of God. The ontological argument was first proposed by the eleventh century monk Anselm of Canterbury, who defined God as… … Wikipedia
Self-Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal — The Self Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal is an objection to the Doomsday argument (that there is only a 5% chance of more than twenty times the historic number of humans ever being born) by arguing that the chance of being born… … Wikipedia
Sticky bead argument — In general relativity, the sticky bead argument is a simple thought experiment designed to show that gravitational radiation is indeed predicted by general relativity, and can have physical effects. These claims were not widely accepted prior to… … Wikipedia
biblical literature — Introduction four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old… … Universalium
probability theory — Math., Statistics. the theory of analyzing and making statements concerning the probability of the occurrence of uncertain events. Cf. probability (def. 4). [1830 40] * * * Branch of mathematics that deals with analysis of random events.… … Universalium

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