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  • 1 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 2 nombre

    nombre [nɔ̃bʀ]
    masculine noun
    • est-il du nombre des reçus ? is he among those who passed?
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    nɔ̃bʀ
    nom masculin
    1) Linguistique, Mathématique number
    2) ( quantité) number

    être en nombre inférieur — [troupes, joueurs] to be fewer in number; [groupe] to be smaller

    être en nombre supérieur — [troupes, joueurs] to be greater in number; [groupe] to be bigger

    dans le nombre (colloq) il y aura bien quelqu'un qui me prêtera de l'argent — surely one of them will lend me some money

    3) ( grande quantité) numbers (pl)

    être écrasé or succomber sous le nombre — ( de personnes) to be overcome by sheer weight of numbers; (de dossiers, lettres) to be defeated by the sheer volume

    sans nombre — [ennemis] countless; [ennuis] endless

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    Phrasal Verbs:
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    nɔ̃bʀ nm
    1) (= chiffre) number

    Treize est un nombre impair. — Thirteen is an odd number.

    2) (= quantité)
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    1 Math, Ling, Sci number; un nombre à deux chiffres a two-digit number; nombre positif/négatif positive/negative number; la théorie des nombres number theory; la loi des grands nombres the law of large numbers; s'accorder en genre et en nombre to agree in gender and number;
    2 ( quantité) number; le nombre des chômeurs the number of unemployed; le nombre croissant/décroissant the increasing/decreasing ou falling number; un certain nombre de some; être égal en nombre or en nombre égal to be equal in number; être inférieur en nombre or en nombre inférieur [troupes, joueurs] to be fewer in number; [groupe] to be smaller; être supérieur en nombre or en nombre supérieur [troupes, joueurs] to be greater in number; [groupe] to be bigger; nous sommes en nombre suffisant pour there are enough of us to; dans le nombre○ il y aura bien quelqu'un qui me prêtera de l'argent surely one of them will lend me some money; ils sont du nombre de ceux qui they are among those who; ils étaient au nombre de 30 there were 30 of them;
    3 ( grande quantité) numbers (pl); être écrasé or succomber sous le nombre ( de personnes) to be overcome by sheer weight of numbers; (de dossiers, lettres) to be defeated by the sheer volume; subir la loi du nombre to be overcome by sheer weight of numbers; sans nombre [ennemis, personnes] countless; [ennuis] endless; bon nombre de a good many; nombre de fois many times;
    4 Bible, Relig le Livre de Nombres/les Nombres the Book of Numbers/Numbers.
    nombre aléatoire Ordinat random number; nombre algébrique algebraic number; nombre atomique atomic number; nombre d'Avogadro Avogadro's number ou constant; nombre cardinal cardinal number; nombre complexe complex (number); nombre décimal decimal; nombre entier whole number; nombre entier naturel natural number; nombre entier relatif integer; nombre fractionnaire fraction; nombre au hasard = nombre aléatoire; nombre hétérogène mixed number; nombre imaginaire Ordinat imaginary number; nombre impair odd number; nombre irrationnel irrational number; nombre de Mach Mach (number); nombre de masse nucleon ou mass number; nombre d'or Art golden section; nombre ordinal ordinal number; nombre pair even number; nombre parfait perfect number; nombre premier prime number; nombre rationnel rational number; nombre réel real number.
    [nɔ̃br] nom masculin
    1. MATHÉMATIQUES [généralement] number
    [de 0 à 9] number, figure
    nombre entier whole number, integer
    2. [quantité] number
    inférieur/supérieur en nombre inferior/superior in number ou numbers
    un grand nombre de a lot of, a great number of, a great many
    3. [masse] numbers
    dans le nombre, il y en aura bien un pour te raccompagner there's bound to be one of them who will take you home
    4. ASTRONOMIE & PHYSIQUE number
    ————————
    Nombres nom masculin pluriel
    au nombre de locution prépositionnelle
    tu peux me compter au nombre des participants you can count me among the participants, you can count me in
    du nombre de locution prépositionnelle
    ————————
    sans nombre locution adjectivale

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > nombre

  • 3 Bier

    n; -(e)s, -e beer; helles Bier etwa lager, light ( oder pale) ale, Am. auch light beer; dunkles Bier etwa brown ( oder dark) ale, Am. dark beer; Bier vom Fass draught (Am. draft) beer; ein großes / kleines Bier Brit. a pint / half-pint (of beer); zwei Bier bitte! two beers, please; gehen wir noch auf ein Bier? do you fancy a beer?, Am. do you want to go for a beer ( oder brew Sl.)?; etw. wie sauer oder saures Bier anpreisen umg. extol the virtues of s.th.(in order to get rid of it) allg.; das ist nicht mein Bier! umg., fig. that’s not my affair ( oder problem); das ist mein Bier umg., fig. that’s my business
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    das Bier
    beer; ale; lager
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    [biːɐ]
    nt -(e)s, -e
    beer

    zwei Bíér, bitte! — two beers, please

    zwanzig verschiedene Bíére — twenty different kinds of beer, twenty different beers

    dunkles/helles Bíér — dark/light beer

    Bíér vom Fass — draught (Brit) or draft (US) beer

    das ist mein etc Bíér (fig inf) — that's my etc business

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    (a type of alcoholic drink made from malted barley flavoured with hops.) beer
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    <-[e]s, -e>
    [bi:ɐ̯]
    nt beer
    ein kleines/großes \Bier, bitte! a small/large beer, please!, a half [pint]/pint [of beer], please!
    \Bier vom Fass draught beer
    dunkles/helles \Bier dark/light beer, ale [or BRIT a. bitter]/lager
    ▶ das ist mein/dein \Bier (fam) that's my/your business [or affair]
    ▶ das ist nicht mein/sein \Bier (fam) that's nothing to do with me/him [or not my/his problem]
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    das; Bier[e]s, Biere beer

    ein kleines/großes Bier — a small/large [glass of] beer

    zwei Bier — two beers; two glasses of beer

    das ist [nicht] mein Bier — (ugs.) that is [not] my affair or business

    •• Cultural note:
    Germany and Austria rank among the world's top beer consumers, with a vast range of beer varieties ( Bock, Alt, Dunkel, Export, Hell, Kölsch, Lager, Malzbier, Pils, Märzen, Weizenbier or Weißbier, and Berliner Weiße) to choose from. Germans brew more than 5000 varieties, and each beer tastes different depending on the ratio of ingredients, brewing temperature and technique, alcoholic content, ageing time, and colour. Although there are now some big brewing conglomerates, the local brew from small independent breweries (there are about 1300 in Germany) is still the best and most popular. German beer is brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot (beer purity regulations) of 1516, which stipulates that no ingredients other than hops, malted barley, yeast and water can be used. Dortmund and Munich are among the top beer-producing cities in the world. Drinking beer is a vital part of everyday life for many people; they regularly meet up at their Stammtisch in a Kneipe (pub) or in a Biergarten
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    Bier n; -(e)s, -e beer;
    helles Bier etwa lager, light ( oder pale) ale, US auch light beer;
    dunkles Bier etwa brown ( oder dark) ale, US dark beer;
    Bier vom Fass draught (US draft) beer;
    ein großes/kleines Bier Br a pint/half-pint (of beer);
    zwei Bier bitte! two beers, please;
    gehen wir noch auf ein Bier? do you fancy a beer?, US do you want to go for a beer ( oder brew sl)?;
    saures Bier anpreisen umg extol the virtues of sth(in order to get rid of it) allg;
    das ist nicht mein Bier! umg, fig that’s not my affair ( oder problem);
    das ist mein Bier umg, fig that’s my business
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    das; Bier[e]s, Biere beer

    ein kleines/großes Bier — a small/large [glass of] beer

    zwei Bier — two beers; two glasses of beer

    das ist [nicht] mein Bier — (ugs.) that is [not] my affair or business

    •• Cultural note:
    Germany and Austria rank among the world's top beer consumers, with a vast range of beer varieties ( Bock, Alt, Dunkel, Export, Hell, Kölsch, Lager, Malzbier, Pils, Märzen, Weizenbier or Weißbier, and Berliner Weiße) to choose from. Germans brew more than 5000 varieties, and each beer tastes different depending on the ratio of ingredients, brewing temperature and technique, alcoholic content, ageing time, and colour. Although there are now some big brewing conglomerates, the local brew from small independent breweries (there are about 1300 in Germany) is still the best and most popular. German beer is brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot (beer purity regulations) of 1516, which stipulates that no ingredients other than hops, malted barley, yeast and water can be used. Dortmund and Munich are among the top beer-producing cities in the world. Drinking beer is a vital part of everyday life for many people; they regularly meet up at their Stammtisch in a Kneipe (pub) or in a Biergarten
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    -e n.
    ale n.
    beer n. (usw.) vom Fass n.
    beer (etc.)
    on tap n.
    draught beer n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Bier

  • 4 inquietud

    f.
    1 worry, anxiety.
    2 restlessness, unrest, anxiety, concern.
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    1 (agitación) restlessness
    2 (preocupación) worry, anxiety
    3 (interés) interest
    \
    tener inquietudes to have many interests
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    noun f.
    2) concern, uneasiness
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    SF
    1) (=preocupación) concern
    2) (=interés) interest

    mi hijo no tiene ninguna inquietud — my son isn't interested in anything, my son has no interest in anything

    es persona de inquietudes culturales — she has an interest in culture, she has cultural interests

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    a) ( preocupación) worry
    b) ( interés)
    c) ( agitación) restlessness
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    = concern, disquiet, agitation, unrest, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, fidgets, the, fidgeting, restlessness, interest, unsettling.
    Ex. There is some concern that much of the value of the data base may be negated if it does not seek to cover all materials which libraries might acquire.
    Ex. There is not any great disquiet or discomfort.
    Ex. Historically, similar forces appear to be responsible for the agitation to decentralise libraries on university campuses.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex. This trepidation is somewhat quieted when students discover the abundance of bibliographical guides that list and describe reference works.
    Ex. Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    Ex. Their worries are not altogether unfounded but they are sometimes carried too far.
    Ex. Surely the fidgets in general are just a sign of nervous energy, and almost all young people fidget.
    Ex. But fidgeting is a bad sign in adults, and the mental version of the fidgets is practically a defining mark of the age we live in now.
    Ex. A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    Ex. An abstracting bulletin is generally a weekly or monthly current-awareness service containing abstracts of all documents of interest that have passed into the library or information unit during that time.
    Ex. Perhaps the unsettling that is experienced in a predicament is because these situations create an opening for messy emotional responses that draw on feelings.
    ----
    * inquietud motora = akathisia.
    * * *
    a) ( preocupación) worry
    b) ( interés)
    c) ( agitación) restlessness
    * * *
    = concern, disquiet, agitation, unrest, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, fidgets, the, fidgeting, restlessness, interest, unsettling.

    Ex: There is some concern that much of the value of the data base may be negated if it does not seek to cover all materials which libraries might acquire.

    Ex: There is not any great disquiet or discomfort.
    Ex: Historically, similar forces appear to be responsible for the agitation to decentralise libraries on university campuses.
    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex: This trepidation is somewhat quieted when students discover the abundance of bibliographical guides that list and describe reference works.
    Ex: Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    Ex: Their worries are not altogether unfounded but they are sometimes carried too far.
    Ex: Surely the fidgets in general are just a sign of nervous energy, and almost all young people fidget.
    Ex: But fidgeting is a bad sign in adults, and the mental version of the fidgets is practically a defining mark of the age we live in now.
    Ex: A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    Ex: An abstracting bulletin is generally a weekly or monthly current-awareness service containing abstracts of all documents of interest that have passed into the library or information unit during that time.
    Ex: Perhaps the unsettling that is experienced in a predicament is because these situations create an opening for messy emotional responses that draw on feelings.
    * inquietud motora = akathisia.

    * * *
    una serie de inquietudes relacionadas con la ecología a series of ecology-related worries o concerns
    existe gran inquietud por el futuro de los astilleros there is a great deal of anxiety o concern over the future of the shipyards
    la creciente inquietud por su estado the increasing worry o anxiety o uneasiness over its state
    2
    (interés): es una persona sin inquietudes she has no interest in anything
    la inquietud filosófica del poeta the poet's philosophical preoccupations
    3 (agitación) restlessness
    * * *

     

    inquietud sustantivo femenino

    inquietud por algo concern about sth
    b) ( interés):


    su inquietud filosófica his philosophical preoccupations
    inquietud sustantivo femenino
    1 (falta de sosiego) worry
    2 (falta de quietud) restlessness
    3 (interés, inclinación) (más en pl) no tiene inquietudes, he has no interest in anything
    ' inquietud' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    malestar
    - menear
    - preocupación
    English:
    agitation
    - alarm
    - anxiety
    - legitimate
    - queasiness
    - worry
    - concern
    - discomfort
    - disquiet
    - disturb
    - trepidation
    - unease
    * * *
    1. [preocupación] worry, anxiety;
    esperan el resultado con inquietud they are anxiously awaiting the result;
    hay inquietud por el comportamiento de la inflación people are worried o concerned about inflation
    2. [afán de saber]
    desde pequeño mostró sus inquietudes musicales she showed musical leanings from an early age;
    tener inquietudes to have an inquiring mind;
    tiene inquietudes por la botánica he's very interested in botany;
    mis alumnos no tienen inquietudes de ningún tipo my pupils aren't interested in anything
    * * *
    f
    1 worry, anxiety
    2 intelectual interest
    * * *
    1) : anxiety, uneasiness, worry
    2) agitación: restlessness
    * * *

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  • 5 contarse

    1 (incluirse) to be included
    * * *
    VPR
    1) [al saludar]

    ¿qué te cuentas? — * how's things? *

    2)

    • contarse entre (=incluirse) —

    me cuento entre sus admiradores — I count myself among his admirers, I consider myself one of his admirers

    3)

    • contarse por (=calcularse) —

    sus seguidores se cuentan por miles — he has thousands of supporters, his supporters number several thousand

    * * *

    ■contarse verbo reflexivo to be included: se cuenta entre los mejores escritores del país, he's among the best writers in the country
    ' contarse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desde
    - contar
    * * *
    vpr
    1. [incluirse]
    estoy muy orgulloso de contarme entre sus amigos I am very proud to number myself among her friends;
    las películas europeas se cuentan entre las favoritas the European films are among the favourites
    2. Fam
    ¿qué te cuentas? how are you doing?
    * * *
    vr
    contarse entre : to be numbered among
    * * *
    contarse vb to be
    ¿qué te cuentas? how are things?

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  • 6 malestar

    m.
    1 upset, discomfort.
    siento un malestar en el estómago I've got an upset stomach
    2 uneasiness, unrest.
    3 indisposition, alloverishness, discomfort, malaise.
    * * *
    1 (incomodidad) discomfort
    2 figurado (inquietud) unease, unrest
    \
    sentir un malestar general to feel generally unwell
    * * *
    noun m.
    3) indisposition, illness
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=incomodidad) discomfort
    2) (=inquietud) unease
    3) (=descontento) discontent
    * * *
    a) (Med) discomfort
    b) (desazón, inquietud) unease
    * * *
    = discomfort, unease, malaise, uneasiness, unrest.
    Ex. Discomfort is caused if windows are opened, heat, cold, dirt and noise are offered 'open-access' to the interior.
    Ex. There is an underlying unease concerning the relevance of AACR2 to a largely and growing computerised cataloguing environment.
    Ex. He interprets 'alienation' as the ' malaise that affects all of us, leaving us in some measure unable to operate in humane, supportive ways'.
    Ex. Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    ----
    * malestar entre los trabajadores = industrial unrest.
    * malestar político = political unrest.
    * malestar social = civil unrest, social malaise, social unrest.
    * * *
    a) (Med) discomfort
    b) (desazón, inquietud) unease
    * * *
    = discomfort, unease, malaise, uneasiness, unrest.

    Ex: Discomfort is caused if windows are opened, heat, cold, dirt and noise are offered 'open-access' to the interior.

    Ex: There is an underlying unease concerning the relevance of AACR2 to a largely and growing computerised cataloguing environment.
    Ex: He interprets 'alienation' as the ' malaise that affects all of us, leaving us in some measure unable to operate in humane, supportive ways'.
    Ex: Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    * malestar entre los trabajadores = industrial unrest.
    * malestar político = political unrest.
    * malestar social = civil unrest, social malaise, social unrest.

    * * *
    1 ( Med) discomfort
    sentía un malestar general I felt generally unwell
    2 (desazón, inquietud) unease
    causó un profundo malestar it created a deep sense of unease
    el malestar que reina en el ambiente universitario the prevailing malaise in the universities
    sus comentarios me produjeron un cierto malestar the things he said made me feel uneasy o uncomfortable
    * * *

    malestar sustantivo masculino
    a) (Med) discomfort

    b) (desazón, inquietud) unease

    malestar sustantivo masculino
    1 (físico) discomfort: tengo un malestar, I don't feel well
    2 fig (intranquilidad) uneasiness: la medida ha generado malestar social, the measure has caused unrest
    ' malestar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dar
    - desazón
    - destemplada
    - destemplado
    - descomponer
    - molestia
    - reinante
    - uy
    English:
    civil
    - discomfort
    - unrest
    - unease
    * * *
    1. [indisposición] upset, discomfort;
    sentir malestar (general) to feel unwell;
    siento un malestar en el estómago I've got an upset stomach
    2. [inquietud]
    su dimisión causó un profundo malestar en el seno del partido her resignation caused a lot of unease within the party;
    su decisión creó mucho malestar her decision upset a lot of people
    * * *
    m
    1 MED discomfort
    2 entre grupo de personas malaise
    3 social unrest
    * * *
    1) : discomfort
    2) irritación: annoyance
    3) inquietud: uneasiness, unrest
    * * *
    1. (inquietud) unrest

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  • 7 desaparecido

    adj.
    missing.
    f. & m.
    missing person.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desaparecer.
    * * *
    1→ link=desaparecer desaparecer
    1 missing
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 missing person
    * * *
    (f. - desaparecida)
    adj.
    * * *
    desaparecido, -a
    1.
    ADJ [persona, objeto] missing; [especie] extinct; LAm (Pol) missing

    desaparecido en combate — missing in action, MIA

    2.
    SM / F LAm (Pol) missing person

    número de muertos, heridos y desaparecidos — number of dead, wounded and missing

    LOS DESAPARECIDOS Los desaparecidos is the name given to those who disappeared during the military dictatorships in the Southern Cone in the 1970s. Thousands of people were taken from their homes, schools and places of work and never seen again. Few of "the disappeared" were ever found alive, although a certain number of bodies were recovered in mass graves. Families of the victims joined forces to form pressure groups like Argentina's Madres y Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, but although some managed to identify and recover the bodies of their relatives, the perpetrators were rarely brought to justice.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) ( que no se encuentra) missing
    b) (period) ( muerto) late (before n), deceased (frml)
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    a) ( en un accidente) missing person
    b) (Pol)

    los desaparecidos — the disappeared o those who have disappeared

    * * *
    = missing, defunct, extinct.
    Ex. As you read each frame, cover the area below each frame and attempt to supply the missing word.
    Ex. The now defunct ultra-fiche could carry up to 3000 images on the same area of film, at the reduction ratio of 150.
    Ex. He researched existing and extinct cricket grounds in order to write the biographies of 400 cricketers who had represented the county.
    ----
    * desaparecido en combate = missing in action (MIA).
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) ( que no se encuentra) missing
    b) (period) ( muerto) late (before n), deceased (frml)
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    a) ( en un accidente) missing person
    b) (Pol)

    los desaparecidos — the disappeared o those who have disappeared

    * * *
    = missing, defunct, extinct.

    Ex: As you read each frame, cover the area below each frame and attempt to supply the missing word.

    Ex: The now defunct ultra-fiche could carry up to 3000 images on the same area of film, at the reduction ratio of 150.
    Ex: He researched existing and extinct cricket grounds in order to write the biographies of 400 cricketers who had represented the county.
    * desaparecido en combate = missing in action (MIA).

    * * *
    2 ( period) (muerto) late ( before n), deceased ( frml)
    masculine, feminine
    desaparecidos (↑ desaparecido a1)
    1 (en un accidente) missing person
    entre los desaparecidos en el siniestro among those missing after the accident
    2 ( Pol):
    un grupo de madres cuyos hijos están entre los desaparecidos a group of mothers whose children are among the disappeared o among those who have disappeared o among those who have gone missing
    * * *

    Del verbo desaparecer: ( conjugate desaparecer)

    desaparecido es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    desaparecer    
    desaparecido
    desaparecer ( conjugate desaparecer) verbo intransitivo [persona/objeto] to disappear;
    [dolor/síntoma/cicatriz] to disappear, go;
    [ costumbre] to disappear, die out;
    [ mancha] to come out
    desaparecerse verbo pronominal (Andes) to disappear
    desaparecido
    ◊ -da adjetivo


    b) (period) ( muerto) late ( before n), deceased (frml)

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino

    b) (Pol):

    ◊ los desaparecidos the disappeared o those who have disappeared

    desaparecer verbo intransitivo to disappear: me ha desaparecido la cartera, I can't find my wallet
    el sol desapareció detrás de las nubes, the sun vanished behind the clouds
    ♦ Locuciones: desaparecer del mapa/de la faz de la tierra, to vanish off the face of the earth
    desaparecido,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 missing
    2 frml euf (muerto) late, deceased
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino missing person
    ' desaparecido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desaparecer
    - desaparecida
    - espantada
    English:
    clear up
    - gone
    - missing
    - defunct
    - extinct
    - give
    * * *
    desaparecido, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [extraviado] missing
    2. [fallecido]
    el desaparecido Jack Lemmon the late Jack Lemmon;
    un soldado desaparecido en combate a soldier missing in action
    3. [extinto]
    la desaparecida Sociedad de Naciones the now defunct League of Nations
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [en catástrofe] missing person;
    ha habido veinte muertos y tres desaparecidos twenty people have been killed and three are missing
    2. [en represión política] missing person [kidnapped and possibly murdered by the authorities]
    3. [en guerra]
    desaparecido en combate person missing in action
    DESAPARECIDOS
    The kidnap of alleged subversives and holding of them in undisclosed locations became a widespread repressive technique in many Latin American countries from the 1960s onwards, and is especially associated with the period of the “guerra sucia” (dirty war) in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile in the 1970s. Those kidnapped, whether by the military, secret police or paramilitary groups, were usually tortured and many were killed. The bodies were disposed of in secret, and in some cases they were dropped from planes over the open sea. Surviving friends and relatives lived for years in a permanent state of anxiety and uncertainty, as they were given no official information about the victim's fate, or the location of their body. With the restoration of democracy in these countries, there were campaigns for the truth about the kidnap victims (the desaparecidos) to be revealed. In spite of the various types of amnesty legislation that the military had enacted before relinquishing power to civilians, it was possible to gain much information about the fate of the victims through "truth commissions", and in Argentina some of the most senior of those responsible for the campaign of kidnap, torture and murder have even been brought to trial and convicted.
    * * *
    I adj missing
    II m, desaparecida f
    1
    :
    el desaparecido the deceased
    2 L.Am.
    un desaparecido one of the disappeared
    * * *
    desaparecido, -da adj
    1) : late, deceased
    2) : missing
    desaparecido, -da n
    : missing person
    * * *
    desaparecido adj missing

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  • 8 follón

    m.
    1 bedlam, fuss, carry-on, hoo-ha.
    2 muddle, tricky situation.
    3 racket, loud voices.
    * * *
    1 familiar (alboroto) rumpus, shindy
    2 familiar (enredo, confusión) mess, trouble
    \
    armar (un) follón familiar to kick up a rumpus
    meterse en un follón to get into a mess, get into trouble
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) * (=desorden) mess

    ¡qué follón de papeles! — what a mess of papers!

    2) * (=alboroto) rumpus, row; (=lío) trouble

    armar un follón — to make a row, kick up a fuss

    hubo o se armó un follón tremendo — there was a hell of a row

    3) (Bot) sucker
    4) And (=prenda) petticoat
    5) Caribe (=juerga de borrachera) drinking bout
    6) (=cohete) noiseless rocket
    7) Méx * silent fart **
    2. ADJ †
    1) (=perezoso) lazy, idle
    2) (=arrogante) arrogant, puffed-up; (=fanfarrón) blustering
    3) (=cobarde) cowardly
    4) CAm [vestido] roomy, loose
    * * *
    masculino (Esp fam)
    a) ( trifulca) commotion, ruckus; ( ruido) racket (colloq), din (AmE colloq)

    armó or montó un buen follón — ( montar una trifulca) he kicked up a hell of a fuss (colloq); ( hacer ruido) he made such a racket o din (colloq)

    b) (situación confusa, desorden) mess
    c) ( problema)
    * * *
    = muddle, cock-up, bedlam, ruckus, scandal, a pretty kettle of fish, a fine kettle of fish, palaver, rigmarole [rigamarole].
    Ex. The author attempts to sort out the muddle in which librarians have found themselves = El autor intenta aclarar la confusión en la que se encuentran los bibliotecarios.
    Ex. The repatriation of the emigres was a tragic oversight rather than a war crime, a cock-up rather than a conspiracy.
    Ex. In subsequent years, Bethlem became ' Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.
    Ex. Sometime back a heroine created a ruckus by saying that the actor acted fresh with her by biting her lips in a smooching scene.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex. A pretty kettle of fish indeed, out of whom only Tracy is really trying seriously to make a new life for herself.
    Ex. Knowing the historical roots of their misfortune may not make it easier for them to escape the fine kettle of fish they are in.
    Ex. Most fashion-conscious shoppers will beaware of the palaver caused last month by the swastika design embroidered on a Zara handbag.
    Ex. The government is creating a rigmarole of a process for residents to exercise their constitutional right.
    ----
    * ¡qué follón! = what a palaver!.
    * en un follón = in a (pretty) pickle, in a turmoil, in a twirl.
    * meterse en follones = get into + trouble.
    * montar un follón = raise + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, make + a ruckus.
    * * *
    masculino (Esp fam)
    a) ( trifulca) commotion, ruckus; ( ruido) racket (colloq), din (AmE colloq)

    armó or montó un buen follón — ( montar una trifulca) he kicked up a hell of a fuss (colloq); ( hacer ruido) he made such a racket o din (colloq)

    b) (situación confusa, desorden) mess
    c) ( problema)
    * * *
    = muddle, cock-up, bedlam, ruckus, scandal, a pretty kettle of fish, a fine kettle of fish, palaver, rigmarole [rigamarole].

    Ex: The author attempts to sort out the muddle in which librarians have found themselves = El autor intenta aclarar la confusión en la que se encuentran los bibliotecarios.

    Ex: The repatriation of the emigres was a tragic oversight rather than a war crime, a cock-up rather than a conspiracy.
    Ex: In subsequent years, Bethlem became ' Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.
    Ex: Sometime back a heroine created a ruckus by saying that the actor acted fresh with her by biting her lips in a smooching scene.
    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex: A pretty kettle of fish indeed, out of whom only Tracy is really trying seriously to make a new life for herself.
    Ex: Knowing the historical roots of their misfortune may not make it easier for them to escape the fine kettle of fish they are in.
    Ex: Most fashion-conscious shoppers will beaware of the palaver caused last month by the swastika design embroidered on a Zara handbag.
    Ex: The government is creating a rigmarole of a process for residents to exercise their constitutional right.
    * ¡qué follón! = what a palaver!.
    * en un follón = in a (pretty) pickle, in a turmoil, in a twirl.
    * meterse en follones = get into + trouble.
    * montar un follón = raise + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, make + a ruckus.

    * * *
    A ( Esp fam)
    1 (alboroto) commotion, ruckus ( AmE colloq)
    hubo un follón tremendo a la salida del estadio there was a lot of trouble o an incredible commotion o ruckus outside the stadium ( colloq)
    cuando lo intentaron echar, armó or montó un buen follón when they tried to throw him out, he kicked up a hell of a fuss o created a real stink ( colloq)
    2
    (situación confusa, desorden): en este follón de papeles no hay quien encuentre nada these papers are so jumbled up o in such a mess, it's impossible to find anything ( colloq)
    ¿sabes algo del follón este de MEPIRESA? do you know anything about this MEPIRESA business? ( colloq)
    me armé un buen follón con la última pregunta I got into a real mess with the last question ( colloq)
    3
    (problema): si te juntas con esa gente, te meterás en follones if you go around with that lot, you'll get into trouble
    B ( Chi fam hum) (pedo) fart (sl)
    * * *

    follón sustantivo masculino (Esp fam)

    ( ruido) racket (colloq), din (AmE colloq);


    ( hizo ruido) he made such a racket o din (colloq)
    b) (situación confusa, desorden) mess



    follón m fam
    1 (escándalo, jaleo) row, fuss, commotion: estáis armando mucho follón, you are making a lot of noise
    montó un follón por esa tontería, he kicked up a fuss over that nonsense
    2 (lío, confusión, caos) mess, trouble: me vas a meter en un buen follón, you are going to get me into a real mess
    tengo un follón de papeles sobre la mesa, the papers on my desk are in a terrible mess
    ' follón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    esperar
    - taco
    - zipizape
    English:
    cock-up
    - hullabaloo
    - kick up
    - palaver
    - rigmarole
    - row
    - muddle
    - stink
    * * *
    Esp Fam
    1. [discusión] row;
    se armó un follón there was an almighty row;
    me montó un follón tremendo porque faltaba dinero he kicked up an almighty fuss o row because there was some money missing
    2. [lío] mess;
    ¡vaya follón! what a mess!;
    tengo un follón de libros encima de la mesa I've got piles of books scattered all over my desk;
    ¡dejad de armar follón! stop making such a row!;
    me hice un follón con las listas I got into a real muddle o mess with the lists;
    está metido en un follón de dinero he's got into some money trouble;
    esta tarde tengo mucho follón, mañana sería mejor I won't have a minute this afternoon, so tomorrow would be better
    * * *
    m
    1 argument
    2 ( lío) mess
    3
    :
    armar un follón kick up a fuss
    * * *
    1. (alboroto) racket / noise
    2. (desorden, confusión) mess
    3. (problema) trouble

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  • 9 libre

    adj.
    1 free.
    un taxi libre a free o empty taxi
    el puesto de tesorero ha quedado libre the post of treasurer is now vacant
    ser libre de o para hacer algo to be free to do something
    2 external (pupil).
    estudiar por libre to be an external student
    3 floating.
    pres.subj.
    1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: librar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) free
    2 (asiento) free, vacant
    ■ ¿está libre? is this seat free?
    4 (exento) free
    5 (alumno) external
    6 (en natación) free-style
    \
    dejar libre a alguien to set somebody free
    ir por libre familiar to do one's own thing
    entrada libre free admittance
    * * *
    adj.
    1) free
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [gen] free (de from, of)

    ¿estás libre? — are you free?

    el martes estoy libre, así que podemos quedar — I'm free on Tuesday so we can meet up

    2) (=exento)
    3) (=sin ocupar) [plaza] vacant, unoccupied

    ¿está libre este asiento? — is this seat free?

    libre — [parking] spaces; [taxi] for hire

    4) [tiempo] spare, free
    5)
    6)

    • por libre (=por cuenta propia) —

    ir o funcionar por libre — to go it alone

    7) (Dep, Natación)
    saque 1., 1), tiro 3)
    8) [traducción, adaptación, verso] free
    9)

    libre a bordo — (Com) free on board

    10) † (=inmoral) loose, immoral

    de vida libre — loose-living, immoral

    2. SM
    1) (Dep) (=tiro) free kick
    2) Méx taxi
    3.
    SMF (Dep) (=jugador) sweeper
    * * *
    1) <país/pueblo> free

    libre de + inf — free to + inf

    2)
    a) <traducción/adaptación> free
    b) < estudiante> external

    ir por libre — (Esp fam) to do as one pleases

    3) ( no ocupado) <persona/tiempo/asiento> free

    ¿tienes un rato libre? — do you have a (spare) moment?

    ¿está libre el cuarto de baño? — is the bathroom free?

    4) (exento, no sujeto)

    libre de algo: la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility; artículos libres de impuestos duty-free goods; nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así — something like that could happen to any of us

    * * *
    = free [freer -comp., freest -sup.], unrestricted, unchecked, unconstrained, unhindered, uninhibited, unobstructed, untrammelled, vacant, unfettered, up for grabs, footloose, free-flowing, at large, unassigned, freewheeling [free-wheeling], fancy-free.
    Ex. Within a restriction of total record size of maximum of 30,000 characters, an intending user is free to format the records in his system.
    Ex. Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
    Ex. The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
    Ex. Libraries need to tackle issues that can ensure that their clients will have an unconstrained access to electronic information.
    Ex. The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.
    Ex. Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.
    Ex. From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
    Ex. In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.
    Ex. Again we find that only the first entry leads us to the specific subject, and the others may in fact lead us to ` vacant' headings, ie headings under which no entries are filed.
    Ex. This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.
    Ex. The article 'Internet domain name control up for grabs' relates the decision by the National Science Foundation, USA, not to renew its agreement with Network Solutions Inc to handle Internet domain registrations.
    Ex. Americans are among the most opulent and footloose people on earth.
    Ex. Creating an innovative organisation requires a sponsor followed by guidance by example and gradual change aided by free-flowing communication.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Librarian at large'.
    Ex. If you would like to volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me.
    Ex. The culture that grew around this institution was even more freewheeling than it is today.
    Ex. In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.
    ----
    * actividad al aire libre = outdoor activity.
    * al aire libre = open-air, in the open, out of doors, outdoors.
    * barra libre = open bar.
    * biblioteca de libre acceso = open access library.
    * búsqueda de texto libre = free text search, free-text searching.
    * campo de texto libre = free-text field.
    * comida al aire libre = cookout.
    * de espíritu libre = free-spirited.
    * definición libre = liberal definition.
    * dejar las manos de uno libres de = free + Posesivo + hands from.
    * dejar libre = vacate, leave + vacant.
    * dejar tiempo libre = free up + time.
    * día libre = day off.
    * disponer de un rato libre = spare + time.
    * en los ratos libres de Uno = in + Posesivo + own time, on + Posesivo + own time.
    * escalada libre = free-climbing.
    * espacio al aire libre = outdoor space.
    * espíritu libre = free spirit.
    * esquí estilo libre = freestyle skiing.
    * esquí libre = freestyle skiing.
    * estanterías de libre acceso = open shelves.
    * estar libre de = be free from.
    * estilo libre = freestyle.
    * fondo de inversión libre = hedge fund.
    * fondos de acceso libre = open stacks.
    * fondos de libre acceso = open access stacks.
    * frase de texto libre = free-text phrase.
    * horas libres = released time.
    * indización en lenguaje libre = free language indexing.
    * industria de actividades al aire libre, la = outdoor industry, the.
    * instalaciones para dedicar el tiempo libre = leisure facilities.
    * juego al aire libre = outdoor game.
    * lenguaje de indización libre = free indexing language.
    * lenguaje libre = free language.
    * libre albedrío = free will.
    * libre cambio = laissez-faire.
    * libre circulación de la información = free flow of information.
    * libre circulación de mercancías = free movement of goods.
    * libre comercio = free trade, free movement of goods.
    * libre como el viento = footloose and fancy-free.
    * libre de = unhampered by, unimpeded by, untrammelled by, unencumbered by.
    * libre de censura = uncensored.
    * libre de complicaciones = hassle-free.
    * libre de culpa = guilt-free, blameless.
    * libre de derechos de autor = royalty-free.
    * libre de drogas = drug-free.
    * libre de gravámenes = unencumbered.
    * libre de humo = smokeless.
    * libre de humos = smoke-free.
    * libre de impuestos = tariff-free, duty-free, tax-free.
    * libre de la amenaza de = unthreatened (by).
    * libre de peligro = free of danger.
    * libre de polvo = dust-free.
    * libre de preocupaciones = worry-free.
    * libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].
    * libre de restricciones = unencumbered.
    * libre de riesgo = riskless, risk-free.
    * libre de servicio = off-duty.
    * libre de toda sospecha = above suspicion.
    * libre de trabas = unencumbered.
    * libre mercado = free market.
    * libre y sin compromiso = footloose and fancy-free.
    * manos libres = hands-free.
    * mantener libre de = keep + free of.
    * mercadillo al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado libre = open market, free-for-all.
    * pasar el tiempo libre = spend + Posesivo + leisure time.
    * piscina al aire libre = outdoor pool, open-air swimming pool, open-air pool.
    * piscina climatizada al aire libre = outdoor heated pool.
    * por libre = freelance.
    * pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.
    * programas de software libre = freeware.
    * puesto de trabajo de libre designación = line position.
    * quedar libre = become + vacant.
    * recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval.
    * sistema para la recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval system.
    * software libre = freeware, free software.
    * teatro al aire libre = outdoor theatre.
    * tener un rato libre = spare + time.
    * tiempo libre = leisure, leisure time, free time, idle hours.
    * trabajo por libre = freelance [free-lance].
    * zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.
    * * *
    1) <país/pueblo> free

    libre de + inf — free to + inf

    2)
    a) <traducción/adaptación> free
    b) < estudiante> external

    ir por libre — (Esp fam) to do as one pleases

    3) ( no ocupado) <persona/tiempo/asiento> free

    ¿tienes un rato libre? — do you have a (spare) moment?

    ¿está libre el cuarto de baño? — is the bathroom free?

    4) (exento, no sujeto)

    libre de algo: la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility; artículos libres de impuestos duty-free goods; nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así — something like that could happen to any of us

    * * *
    = free [freer -comp., freest -sup.], unrestricted, unchecked, unconstrained, unhindered, uninhibited, unobstructed, untrammelled, vacant, unfettered, up for grabs, footloose, free-flowing, at large, unassigned, freewheeling [free-wheeling], fancy-free.

    Ex: Within a restriction of total record size of maximum of 30,000 characters, an intending user is free to format the records in his system.

    Ex: Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
    Ex: The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
    Ex: Libraries need to tackle issues that can ensure that their clients will have an unconstrained access to electronic information.
    Ex: The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.
    Ex: Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.
    Ex: From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
    Ex: In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.
    Ex: Again we find that only the first entry leads us to the specific subject, and the others may in fact lead us to ` vacant' headings, ie headings under which no entries are filed.
    Ex: This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.
    Ex: The article 'Internet domain name control up for grabs' relates the decision by the National Science Foundation, USA, not to renew its agreement with Network Solutions Inc to handle Internet domain registrations.
    Ex: Americans are among the most opulent and footloose people on earth.
    Ex: Creating an innovative organisation requires a sponsor followed by guidance by example and gradual change aided by free-flowing communication.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Librarian at large'.
    Ex: If you would like to volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me.
    Ex: The culture that grew around this institution was even more freewheeling than it is today.
    Ex: In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.
    * actividad al aire libre = outdoor activity.
    * al aire libre = open-air, in the open, out of doors, outdoors.
    * barra libre = open bar.
    * biblioteca de libre acceso = open access library.
    * búsqueda de texto libre = free text search, free-text searching.
    * campo de texto libre = free-text field.
    * comida al aire libre = cookout.
    * de espíritu libre = free-spirited.
    * definición libre = liberal definition.
    * dejar las manos de uno libres de = free + Posesivo + hands from.
    * dejar libre = vacate, leave + vacant.
    * dejar tiempo libre = free up + time.
    * día libre = day off.
    * disponer de un rato libre = spare + time.
    * en los ratos libres de Uno = in + Posesivo + own time, on + Posesivo + own time.
    * escalada libre = free-climbing.
    * espacio al aire libre = outdoor space.
    * espíritu libre = free spirit.
    * esquí estilo libre = freestyle skiing.
    * esquí libre = freestyle skiing.
    * estanterías de libre acceso = open shelves.
    * estar libre de = be free from.
    * estilo libre = freestyle.
    * fondo de inversión libre = hedge fund.
    * fondos de acceso libre = open stacks.
    * fondos de libre acceso = open access stacks.
    * frase de texto libre = free-text phrase.
    * horas libres = released time.
    * indización en lenguaje libre = free language indexing.
    * industria de actividades al aire libre, la = outdoor industry, the.
    * instalaciones para dedicar el tiempo libre = leisure facilities.
    * juego al aire libre = outdoor game.
    * lenguaje de indización libre = free indexing language.
    * lenguaje libre = free language.
    * libre albedrío = free will.
    * libre cambio = laissez-faire.
    * libre circulación de la información = free flow of information.
    * libre circulación de mercancías = free movement of goods.
    * libre comercio = free trade, free movement of goods.
    * libre como el viento = footloose and fancy-free.
    * libre de = unhampered by, unimpeded by, untrammelled by, unencumbered by.
    * libre de censura = uncensored.
    * libre de complicaciones = hassle-free.
    * libre de culpa = guilt-free, blameless.
    * libre de derechos de autor = royalty-free.
    * libre de drogas = drug-free.
    * libre de gravámenes = unencumbered.
    * libre de humo = smokeless.
    * libre de humos = smoke-free.
    * libre de impuestos = tariff-free, duty-free, tax-free.
    * libre de la amenaza de = unthreatened (by).
    * libre de peligro = free of danger.
    * libre de polvo = dust-free.
    * libre de preocupaciones = worry-free.
    * libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].
    * libre de restricciones = unencumbered.
    * libre de riesgo = riskless, risk-free.
    * libre de servicio = off-duty.
    * libre de toda sospecha = above suspicion.
    * libre de trabas = unencumbered.
    * libre mercado = free market.
    * libre y sin compromiso = footloose and fancy-free.
    * manos libres = hands-free.
    * mantener libre de = keep + free of.
    * mercadillo al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado libre = open market, free-for-all.
    * pasar el tiempo libre = spend + Posesivo + leisure time.
    * piscina al aire libre = outdoor pool, open-air swimming pool, open-air pool.
    * piscina climatizada al aire libre = outdoor heated pool.
    * por libre = freelance.
    * pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.
    * programas de software libre = freeware.
    * puesto de trabajo de libre designación = line position.
    * quedar libre = become + vacant.
    * recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval.
    * sistema para la recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval system.
    * software libre = freeware, free software.
    * teatro al aire libre = outdoor theatre.
    * tener un rato libre = spare + time.
    * tiempo libre = leisure, leisure time, free time, idle hours.
    * trabajo por libre = freelance [free-lance].
    * zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.

    * * *
    A
    1 ‹país/pueblo› free
    lo dejaron libre they set him free
    2 libre DE + INF free to + INF
    eres libre de ir donde quieras you're free to go wherever you want
    soy muy libre de ir vestida como se me antoje I'm perfectly entitled to dress however I like
    3
    (sin compromiso): me confesó que no era libre he admitted that he wasn't a free man
    Compuestos:
    masculine free will
    ● libre cambio or comercio
    masculine free trade
    feminine free market, free market system
    masculine free market
    B
    1 ‹traducción/adaptación› free
    una redacción sobre tema libre an essay on a theme of your choice, a free composition
    los 200 metros libres the 200 meters freestyle
    2 ‹estudiante› external
    trabajar por libre to work freelance
    hacer algo por libre ( Esp); to do sth one's own way
    ir por libre ( Esp fam); to do as one pleases
    1 ‹persona› free
    ¿estás libre esta noche? are you free tonight?
    2 ‹tiempo› free
    ¿tienes un rato libre? do you have a (spare) moment?
    en sus ratos libres in her spare o free time
    hoy tengo el día libre I have the day off today
    cuando tengas un par de horas libres when you have a couple of hours free o to spare
    3 ‹asiento› free
    ¿ese asiento está libre? is that seat free?
    no pasó ni un taxi libre not a single empty taxi went by
    ¿está libre el cuarto de baño? is the bathroom free?
    [ S ] Parking: libre Parking Lot: spaces ( AmE), Car Park: spaces ( BrE)
    D (exento, no sujeto) libre DE algo:
    una propiedad libre de hipotecas an unmortgaged property
    la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility
    artículos libres de impuestos duty-free o tax-free goods
    nadie está libre de culpa nobody is blameless
    nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así something like that could happen to any of us
    libre de riesgo risk-free
    ( Méx)
    taxi
    * * *

     

    Del verbo librar: ( conjugate librar)

    libré es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    libre es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    librar    
    libre
    librar ( conjugate librar) verbo transitivo
    1 ( liberar) libre a algn de algo ‹ de peligro› to save sb from sth;
    ‹de obligación/responsabilidad› to free sb from sth;
    ◊ ¡Dios nos libre! God forbid!

    2 ‹batalla/combate› to fight
    librarse verbo pronominal:

    librese de algo ‹de tarea/obligación› to get out of sth;
    librese de un castigo to escape punishment;
    se libró de tener que ayudarlo she got out of having to help him;
    se libreon de morir asfixiados they escaped being suffocated;
    librese de algn to get rid of sb
    libre adjetivo
    1 ‹país/pueblo› free;

    eres libre de ir donde quieras you're free to go wherever you want;
    libre albedrío free will;
    libre cambio or comercio free trade;
    libre mercado free market
    2 ‹traducción/adaptación› free;

    3 ( no ocupado) ‹persona/tiempo/asiento› free;
    ◊ ¿tienes un rato libre? do you have a (spare) moment?;

    en sus ratos libres in her spare o free time;
    tengo el día libre I have the day off
    4 ( exento):

    librar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to free: me libró de un castigo, she let me off from a punishment
    2 (una orden de pago) to draw
    II vi (tener el día libre) libra los fines de semana, he has weekends off
    libre adjetivo free: está libre de sospecha, she's free from suspicion
    eres (muy) libre de hacerlo, you are quite free to do it
    libre de impuestos, tax-free
    ¡vía libre!, make way!
    ' libre' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aire
    - albedrío
    - bufé
    - carga
    - desocupada
    - desocupado
    - día
    - entrada
    - franca
    - franco
    - hueca
    - hueco
    - impuesta
    - impuesto
    - librar
    - lucha
    - perilla
    - plaza
    - radical
    - suelta
    - suelto
    - tiempo
    - tienda
    - Tiro
    - tomarse
    - traducción
    - vía
    - aduana
    - caída
    - despejado
    - dios
    - dueño
    - economía
    - estilo
    - falta
    - hora
    - lavadero
    - limpiar
    - limpio
    - lugar
    - melé
    - ocio
    - ocupar
    - paso
    - puerto
    - sacar
    - teatro
    - tiro
    - tomar
    - tranquilo
    English:
    all-in wrestling
    - available
    - buffet
    - clear
    - clearance
    - day off
    - door
    - duty-free
    - economy
    - equity
    - festival
    - free
    - free enterprise
    - free fall
    - free kick
    - free love
    - free rein
    - free trade
    - free-style
    - garden party
    - have off
    - hire
    - leisure time
    - liberal
    - liberty
    - off
    - open
    - open-air
    - outdoor
    - outdoors
    - outdoorsman
    - own
    - place
    - quit
    - sky-dive
    - sky-diver
    - sleep out
    - smokeless zone
    - spare
    - take off
    - tax free
    - unoccupied
    - vacancy
    - vacant
    - day
    - demand
    - duty
    - enterprise
    - foot
    - freelance
    * * *
    libre adj
    1. [sin limitaciones] free;
    el amor libre free love;
    ser libre de o [m5] para hacer algo to be free to do sth;
    eres libre de hacer lo que quieras you are free to do as you wish;
    es libre para casarse con quien quiera she is free to marry whoever she pleases;
    entrada libre [en letrero] entry free
    libre albedrío free will; Econ libre cambio free trade; [de divisas] floating exchange rates; Econ libre circulación de capitales free circulation of capital;
    libre circulación de mercancías free movement of goods;
    libre circulación de personas free movement of people;
    libre mercado free market
    2. [no encarcelado] free
    3. [país] free
    4. [sin novio, pareja] free, available
    5. [sin obstáculos] [camino, carretera] clear
    6.
    libre de [exento] exempt from;
    libre de culpa free from blame;
    libre de franqueo esp Br post-free, US postage-free;
    libre de impuestos [alcohol, cigarrillos] tax-free, duty-free
    7. [desocupado] [asiento] free;
    [retrete] vacant; [casa] empty;
    ¿estarás libre mañana? will you be free tomorrow?;
    el puesto de tesorero ha quedado libre the post of treasurer is now vacant;
    un taxi libre a free o empty taxi;
    libre [en taxi] for hire;
    ahora no tengo las manos libres my hands are full at the moment;
    aparcamiento: libre [en letrero] parking: spaces
    8. [tiempo] free, spare;
    cuando tenga un rato libre, te llamo I'll call you when I've got a (spare) moment;
    en mis ratos libres me gusta tocar el piano in my spare o free time I like to play the piano;
    mañana tengo el día libre I've got the day off tomorrow;
    tengo dos horas libres I have two hours spare
    9. [independiente] independent;
    [alumno] external;
    trabajar por libre to work freelance;
    estudiar por libre to be an external student;
    Esp
    ir por libre to do things one's own way;
    Esp
    cuando viajo me gusta ir por libre más que ir en grupo I prefer travelling alone to travelling in a group
    10. [estilo, traducción] free;
    Dep
    200 metros libres 200 metres freestyle
    * * *
    adj free; tiempo spare, free;
    eres libre de you’re free to;
    trabajar por libre be self-employed;
    * * *
    libre adj
    1) : free
    un país libre: a free country
    libre de: free from, exempt from
    libre albedrío: free will
    2) desocupado: vacant
    3)
    día libre : day off
    * * *
    libre adj free
    libre de impuestos tax free / duty free

    Spanish-English dictionary > libre

  • 10 descontento

    adj.
    discontent, sad, discontented, displeased.
    m.
    dissatisfaction, discontentment, unhappiness, discontent.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: descontentar.
    * * *
    1 displeased, unhappy, dissatisfied, discontented
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 malcontent
    1 discontent, dissatisfaction
    ————————
    1 discontent, dissatisfaction
    * * *
    1. (f. - descontenta)
    adj.
    2. noun m.
    * * *
    descontento, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=insatisfecho) dissatisfied, discontented (de with)
    2) (=disgustado) disgruntled (de about, at)
    2.
    SM / F Méx malcontent
    3. SM
    1) (=insatisfacción) dissatisfaction
    2) (=disgusto) disgruntlement
    3) (Pol) discontent, unrest
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo [estar] dissatisfied

    descontento con algo/alguien — unhappy o dissatisfied with something/somebody

    II
    masculino discontent
    * * *
    = dissatisfied, discontent, dissatisfaction, irritation, disgruntled, unrest, disaffected, disaffection, restlessness.
    Ex. If you are dissatisfied with your responses, go back and revise such parts of the text as you think fit.
    Ex. No one complained about Duff to her, and she decided not to probe for discontents.
    Ex. During her tenure as head of the EPA library, she dealt with the dissatisfaction with the national treatment of U.S. documents in a most constructive manner, by establishing the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).
    Ex. Datto felt a wave of irritation engulf him, but he persevered, keeping his voice steady.
    Ex. The director of our public library hired as a page the daughter of a friend, who turned out to be unreliable and untrustworthy, and as a consequence had to handle a disgruntled head of circulation.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. Further, there is evidence of publisher, author, and library user disaffection with the law of copyright.
    Ex. A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    ----
    * descontento entre los trabajadores = industrial unrest.
    * descontento político = political unrest.
    * descontento social = civil unrest, social unrest.
    * estar descontento con = express + dissatisfaction with.
    * sentirse descontento con = experience + dissatisfaction with.
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo [estar] dissatisfied

    descontento con algo/alguien — unhappy o dissatisfied with something/somebody

    II
    masculino discontent
    * * *
    = dissatisfied, discontent, dissatisfaction, irritation, disgruntled, unrest, disaffected, disaffection, restlessness.

    Ex: If you are dissatisfied with your responses, go back and revise such parts of the text as you think fit.

    Ex: No one complained about Duff to her, and she decided not to probe for discontents.
    Ex: During her tenure as head of the EPA library, she dealt with the dissatisfaction with the national treatment of U.S. documents in a most constructive manner, by establishing the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).
    Ex: Datto felt a wave of irritation engulf him, but he persevered, keeping his voice steady.
    Ex: The director of our public library hired as a page the daughter of a friend, who turned out to be unreliable and untrustworthy, and as a consequence had to handle a disgruntled head of circulation.
    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: Further, there is evidence of publisher, author, and library user disaffection with the law of copyright.
    Ex: A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    * descontento entre los trabajadores = industrial unrest.
    * descontento político = political unrest.
    * descontento social = civil unrest, social unrest.
    * estar descontento con = express + dissatisfaction with.
    * sentirse descontento con = experience + dissatisfaction with.

    * * *
    [ ESTAR] dissatisfied descontento CON algo/algn unhappy WITH sth/sb, dissatisfied WITH sth/sb
    estoy descontento con los resultados I'm unhappy o dissatisfied with the results, I'm not at all happy with the results
    quedó descontento con lo que le di he wasn't satisfied o happy with what I gave him
    discontent
    manifestaron su descontento they made known their discontent o dissatisfaction, they let it be known that they were dissatisfied o unhappy
    * * *

    Del verbo descontentar: ( conjugate descontentar)

    descontento es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    descontentó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    descontento 1
    ◊ -ta adjetivo [estar] dissatisfied;

    descontento con algo/algn unhappy o dissatisfied with sth/sb
    descontento 2 sustantivo masculino
    discontent
    descontento,-a
    I adjetivo unhappy, dissatisfied [con, with]
    II sustantivo masculino dissatisfaction

    ' descontento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    agitación
    - conflictividad
    - descontenta
    - disimulado
    - insatisfecho
    English:
    discontent
    - discontented
    - dissatisfaction
    - dissatisfied
    - grunt
    - undercurrent
    - undertone
    - unhappiness
    - unhappy
    - unrest
    - disgruntled
    - frustrated
    * * *
    descontento, -a
    ♦ adj
    unhappy, dissatisfied;
    estar descontento con algo/alguien to be dissatisfied o unhappy with sth/sb;
    dijo estar descontento con la decisión de los tribunales he said he was unhappy with the court's decision
    ♦ nm
    dissatisfaction;
    los sindicatos expresaron su descontento con la nueva ley the unions expressed their dissatisfaction with the new law;
    entre la población cundió el descontento discontent was spreading among the population
    * * *
    I adj dissatisfied
    II m dissatisfaction
    * * *
    descontento, -ta adj
    : discontented, dissatisfied
    : discontent, dissatisfaction
    * * *
    descontento adj unhappy [comp. unhappier; superl. unhappiest] / dissatisfied

    Spanish-English dictionary > descontento

  • 11 escándalo

    m.
    1 scandal, public disturbance, lot of noise, public and noisy disturbance.
    2 scandal, big scene, discreditable action, indecency.
    3 defamatory talk.
    4 noise.
    imperat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Imperative of Spanish verb: escandir.
    * * *
    1 scandal
    2 (alboroto) racket, fuss, din, uproar
    3 figurado (asombro) astonishment, shock
    \
    armar un escándalo to kick up a fuss
    causar escándalo to cause a scandal
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=tumulto) scandal, outrage

    ¡qué escándalo! — what a scandal!

    ¡es un escándalo! — it's outrageous o shocking!

    precios de escándalo — (=caros) outrageous prices; (=baratos) amazing prices

    un resultado de escándalo — (=malo) a scandalous result; (=bueno) a great result, an outstanding result

    2) (=ruido) row, uproar

    armar un escándalo — to make a scene, cause a row o an uproar

    3) (=asombro) astonishment

    llamar a escándalo — to cause astonishment, be a shock

    * * *
    1) (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal

    qué escándalo! qué manera de vestir! — what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!

    2) (alboroto, jaleo)

    no armen or hagan tanto escándalo — don't make such a racket o row (colloq)

    * * *
    = fuss, scandal, rumpus, outrage, disgrace, racket.
    Ex. Hernandez decided that if he wished to survive in this restrictive atmosphere his options were clearly the following: don't make waves, do a good job with no fuss of which he could be proud, and try to gain Balzac's respect.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex. The outrage expressed by users of the Internet brought about the passing an act aimed at ridding the Internet of pornography.
    Ex. Distribution of any publication that tends to expose an individual to public contempt, ridicule, or disgrace is forbidden.
    Ex. He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    ----
    * armar escándalo = make + a ruckus.
    * armar un escándalo = raise + a stink, kick up + a fuss, kick up + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, kick up + a row.
    * de escándalo = outrageous.
    * escándalo político = political scandal.
    * escándalo público = public scandal.
    * escándalos sexuales = sleaze.
    * incitar escándalo = arouse + furor.
    * obras que revelan un escándalo = exposé.
    * persona que desvela escándalos o corrupción = muckraker.
    * revelación de escándalos o corrupción = muckraking.
    * * *
    1) (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal

    qué escándalo! qué manera de vestir! — what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!

    2) (alboroto, jaleo)

    no armen or hagan tanto escándalo — don't make such a racket o row (colloq)

    * * *
    = fuss, scandal, rumpus, outrage, disgrace, racket.

    Ex: Hernandez decided that if he wished to survive in this restrictive atmosphere his options were clearly the following: don't make waves, do a good job with no fuss of which he could be proud, and try to gain Balzac's respect.

    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex: The outrage expressed by users of the Internet brought about the passing an act aimed at ridding the Internet of pornography.
    Ex: Distribution of any publication that tends to expose an individual to public contempt, ridicule, or disgrace is forbidden.
    Ex: He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    * armar escándalo = make + a ruckus.
    * armar un escándalo = raise + a stink, kick up + a fuss, kick up + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, kick up + a row.
    * de escándalo = outrageous.
    * escándalo político = political scandal.
    * escándalo público = public scandal.
    * escándalos sexuales = sleaze.
    * incitar escándalo = arouse + furor.
    * obras que revelan un escándalo = exposé.
    * persona que desvela escándalos o corrupción = muckraker.
    * revelación de escándalos o corrupción = muckraking.

    * * *
    A (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal
    está implicado en un escándalo financiero he's involved in a financial scandal
    ¡qué escándalo! ¡qué manera de vestir! what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!
    es un escándalo cómo suben los precios it's shocking o scandalous the way prices are going up
    la noticia provocó un gran escándalo the news caused (a) great scandal o outrage
    [ S ] precios de escándalo amazing prices
    Compuesto:
    public indecency
    B
    (alboroto, jaleo): no armen or hagan tanto escándalo don't make such a racket o row o ( AmE) ruckus ( colloq)
    cuando le presentaron la cuenta armó un escándalo when they gave him the bill he kicked up a fuss o stink o he created a scene ( colloq)
    nada de escándalos dentro del local we don't want any trouble in here
    un borracho que daba un escándalo en la calle a drunk who was causing a commotion o scene in the street
    * * *

    escándalo sustantivo masculino
    1 (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal;
    ◊ ¡qué escándalo! ¡qué manera de vestir! what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!

    2 (alboroto, jaleo) fuss;

    cuando lo sepa va a armar un escándalo when she finds out she'll kick up a fuss;
    no armen tanto escándalo don't make such a racket o row (colloq);
    nada de escándalos dentro del local we don't want any trouble in here
    escándalo sustantivo masculino
    1 (ruido, jaleo) row, racket, din: con este escándalo vais a despertar a los vecinos, you'll wake up the neighbours with all this row
    2 (inmoralidad) scandal
    ' escándalo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    armar
    - campanada
    - carnaza
    - espectáculo
    - follón
    - montar
    - organizar
    - polvareda
    - salpicar
    - vergüenza
    - boca
    - deber
    - descubierto
    - destapar
    - estallar
    - luz
    English:
    breath
    - capital
    - catch up
    - disgrace
    - disorderly
    - furor
    - furore
    - fuss
    - hush up
    - row
    - rumpus
    - scandal
    - scene
    - stink
    - blow
    - carry
    - kick
    - outrage
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [hecho inmoral] scandal;
    [indignación] outrage;
    un escándalo de corrupción política a political corruption scandal;
    hubo escándalo generalizado entre la opinión pública there was widespread indignation among public opinion;
    ¡esto es un escándalo!, quiero que me devuelvan el dinero this is outrageous! I want my money back;
    los sueldos de los políticos son un escándalo o [m5] de escándalo politicians' salaries are a scandal o a disgrace;
    sus declaraciones causaron escándalo her statements caused a great scandal
    Der escándalo público public indecency;
    escándalo sexual sex scandal
    2. [alboroto] uproar, racket;
    ¡dejen ya de armar tanto escándalo! stop making such a racket!;
    armar un escándalo to kick up a fuss;
    menudo escándalo armó al enterarse she made quite a scene when she found out
    ♦ de escándalo loc adj
    Fam
    1. [enorme] enormous;
    una goleada de escándalo a real hammering
    2. [asombroso] astonishing;
    precios de auténtico escándalo really amazing prices
    * * *
    m
    1 ( asunto vergonzoso) scandal
    2 ( jaleo) racket, ruckus;
    armar un escándalo make a scene
    * * *
    1) : scandal
    2) : scene, commotion
    * * *
    1. (asunto) scandal
    2. (ruido) racket

    Spanish-English dictionary > escándalo

  • 12 a propósito

    adj.
    to the point, pertinent, to the purpose.
    adv.
    on purpose, by design, intentionally, by choice.
    intj.
    by the way, BTW, come to it, by the by.
    * * *
    (por cierto) by the way 2 (adrede) on purpose
    * * *
    2) on purpose, intentionally
    * * *
    = deliberate, for the record, incidentally, intentionally, by the way, in passing, anecdotally, purposely, by design, on purpose, wilfully [willfully, -USA], on a sidenote, studiously, by the way of (a) digression, by the by(e), speaking of which, designedly
    Ex. Deliberate mnemonics are devices which help the user to remember and recall the notation for given subjects.
    Ex. For the record, schools and libraries in the late 1960s recovered in excess of $10,000,000 from publishers and wholesalers as a result of unfair practices highlighted by Mr. Scilken.
    Ex. Incidentally, this book was about the invasion of Denmark.
    Ex. In the cases where there was no match, we intentionally created a dirty authority file.
    Ex. It is not wise, by the way, to approach the author by telephone for this puts him on the spot and he may refuse simply in self-defense and especially if you happen to butt in when he is struggling with an obstinate chapter in a new book.
    Ex. She also indicated in passing that in future authors would not automatically pass over the copyright of research results in papers to publishers.
    Ex. Anecdotally, it is often assumed that users preferring print are among the most senior in academic rank and/or years.
    Ex. I have purposely refrained from discussing the theory of comparative librarianship which has up to now characterized much of the writing on the subject.
    Ex. The victims had been herded onto a wooden landing craft by the captain of a Honduras-registered ship who then proceeded, by accident or design, to ram the craft, killing the majority of people aboard.
    Ex. Most consumers felt confident that once a letter is written and posted, no one will read it either accidently or on purpose except for the intended addressee.
    Ex. But we are not then acting quite so much out of blindness or inarticulateness; we are selfishly or fearfully or wilfully trying to short-circuit what we know underneath to be more nearly the true state of things.
    Ex. On a sidenote, this book almost didn't happen when the author showed her editor her proposal.
    Ex. Previous economic historians have, by and large, studiously ignored the British slave trade.
    Ex. That, I may say by way of a digression, has never been my main objection to socialism.
    Ex. Zenobia, by-the-by, as I suppose you know, is merely her public name.
    Ex. Speaking of which, Chertoff recently lifted restrictions that have confined airline passengers to their seats for a half hour after taking off and before landing.
    Ex. In respect of those defects, the seller may be held liable where he has designedly concealed their existence from the purchaser.
    * * *
    = deliberate, for the record, incidentally, intentionally, by the way, in passing, anecdotally, purposely, by design, on purpose, wilfully [willfully, -USA], on a sidenote, studiously, by the way of (a) digression, by the by(e), speaking of which, designedly

    Ex: Deliberate mnemonics are devices which help the user to remember and recall the notation for given subjects.

    Ex: For the record, schools and libraries in the late 1960s recovered in excess of $10,000,000 from publishers and wholesalers as a result of unfair practices highlighted by Mr. Scilken.
    Ex: Incidentally, this book was about the invasion of Denmark.
    Ex: In the cases where there was no match, we intentionally created a dirty authority file.
    Ex: It is not wise, by the way, to approach the author by telephone for this puts him on the spot and he may refuse simply in self-defense and especially if you happen to butt in when he is struggling with an obstinate chapter in a new book.
    Ex: She also indicated in passing that in future authors would not automatically pass over the copyright of research results in papers to publishers.
    Ex: Anecdotally, it is often assumed that users preferring print are among the most senior in academic rank and/or years.
    Ex: I have purposely refrained from discussing the theory of comparative librarianship which has up to now characterized much of the writing on the subject.
    Ex: The victims had been herded onto a wooden landing craft by the captain of a Honduras-registered ship who then proceeded, by accident or design, to ram the craft, killing the majority of people aboard.
    Ex: Most consumers felt confident that once a letter is written and posted, no one will read it either accidently or on purpose except for the intended addressee.
    Ex: But we are not then acting quite so much out of blindness or inarticulateness; we are selfishly or fearfully or wilfully trying to short-circuit what we know underneath to be more nearly the true state of things.
    Ex: On a sidenote, this book almost didn't happen when the author showed her editor her proposal.
    Ex: Previous economic historians have, by and large, studiously ignored the British slave trade.
    Ex: That, I may say by way of a digression, has never been my main objection to socialism.
    Ex: Zenobia, by-the-by, as I suppose you know, is merely her public name.
    Ex: Speaking of which, Chertoff recently lifted restrictions that have confined airline passengers to their seats for a half hour after taking off and before landing.
    Ex: In respect of those defects, the seller may be held liable where he has designedly concealed their existence from the purchaser.

    Spanish-English dictionary > a propósito

  • 13 en peligro

    = endangered, jeopardised [jeopardized, -USA], at stake, at risk, under threat, under challenge, on the line, on thin ice, on dangerous ground, threatened, in harm's way
    Ex. It asserts that young adult libraries and the services they provide are continously endangered and describes how to come to terms with this problem.
    Ex. And yet the thought of what he was being asked to do to salvage the jeopardized budget outraged his every fiber.
    Ex. But there was a principle at stake here, and she too felt obligated to express her honest thoughts.
    Ex. Consumer advice centres were not used to any great degree by the working classes or those groups most at risk as consumers -- the elderly, divorced, widowed and separated.
    Ex. Products under threat include; greeting cards, circulars, information sheets, newspapers and magazines.
    Ex. During the previous 10 years the concept of free information services in Australian libraries has come increasingly under challenge.
    Ex. The article 'Assets on the line' discusses some of the disadvantages of manual methods of performing inventories of organization's hardware and software.
    Ex. As the title of my talk indicates, we are on thin ice, and in more ways than one.
    Ex. On dangerous ground: The threat of landslides is looming large with ad hoc building practices being the root cause.
    Ex. Kids and adults are encouraged to take a dip and raise funds to help protect sea turtles and other threatened marine wildlife.
    Ex. Santa Barbara area canyon's residents are among many Californians living in harm's way in fire-prone areas.
    * * *
    = endangered, jeopardised [jeopardized, -USA], at stake, at risk, under threat, under challenge, on the line, on thin ice, on dangerous ground, threatened, in harm's way

    Ex: It asserts that young adult libraries and the services they provide are continously endangered and describes how to come to terms with this problem.

    Ex: And yet the thought of what he was being asked to do to salvage the jeopardized budget outraged his every fiber.
    Ex: But there was a principle at stake here, and she too felt obligated to express her honest thoughts.
    Ex: Consumer advice centres were not used to any great degree by the working classes or those groups most at risk as consumers -- the elderly, divorced, widowed and separated.
    Ex: Products under threat include; greeting cards, circulars, information sheets, newspapers and magazines.
    Ex: During the previous 10 years the concept of free information services in Australian libraries has come increasingly under challenge.
    Ex: The article 'Assets on the line' discusses some of the disadvantages of manual methods of performing inventories of organization's hardware and software.
    Ex: As the title of my talk indicates, we are on thin ice, and in more ways than one.
    Ex: On dangerous ground: The threat of landslides is looming large with ad hoc building practices being the root cause.
    Ex: Kids and adults are encouraged to take a dip and raise funds to help protect sea turtles and other threatened marine wildlife.
    Ex: Santa Barbara area canyon's residents are among many Californians living in harm's way in fire-prone areas.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en peligro

  • 14 ascendencia

    f.
    1 descent (linaje).
    2 ascendancy, ancestry, birth, blood.
    3 total amount.
    * * *
    1 ancestry, ancestors plural
    ■ era alemán, pero de ascendencia polaca he was German, but of Polish descent
    2 (influencia) ascendancy
    * * *
    noun f.
    descent, ancestry, origin
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=linaje) ancestry; (=origen) origin
    2) (=dominio) ascendancy; (=influencia) hold, influence
    * * *
    a) (origen, linaje) ancestry
    b) (AmL) ascendiente 2)
    * * *
    = ascendancy, descent, ancestry, parentage, lineage, stock.
    Ex. Their ascendancy may be traced through the Main or tumbler machine of 1840, Payne's Wharfedale stop-cylinder machine of 1858, and the improved Wharfedales produced by Paine and others in the mid 1860s.
    Ex. The editions of a work need have little in common other than descent from a common origin.
    Ex. These terms are necessarily rather vague, but have a very respectable ancestry (they go back to Aristotle).
    Ex. The database may, as a result of its parentage, be handicapped by features that are not suited to computerized retrieval.
    Ex. The lineage of PRECIS indexing: PRECIS indexing has roots in faceted classification.
    Ex. It also proves the absurdity of Nazi race theories of 'racial purity,' since the various peoples of Mitteleurope, the Germans in particular, are among the most mixed stocks in Europe.
    ----
    * ascendencia + remontarse a = trace + ascendancy.
    * de ascendencia + Adjetivo = of + Adjetivo + descent.
    * tener una ascendencia = descend from + ancestry.
    * * *
    a) (origen, linaje) ancestry
    b) (AmL) ascendiente 2)
    * * *
    = ascendancy, descent, ancestry, parentage, lineage, stock.

    Ex: Their ascendancy may be traced through the Main or tumbler machine of 1840, Payne's Wharfedale stop-cylinder machine of 1858, and the improved Wharfedales produced by Paine and others in the mid 1860s.

    Ex: The editions of a work need have little in common other than descent from a common origin.
    Ex: These terms are necessarily rather vague, but have a very respectable ancestry (they go back to Aristotle).
    Ex: The database may, as a result of its parentage, be handicapped by features that are not suited to computerized retrieval.
    Ex: The lineage of PRECIS indexing: PRECIS indexing has roots in faceted classification.
    Ex: It also proves the absurdity of Nazi race theories of 'racial purity,' since the various peoples of Mitteleurope, the Germans in particular, are among the most mixed stocks in Europe.
    * ascendencia + remontarse a = trace + ascendancy.
    * de ascendencia + Adjetivo = of + Adjetivo + descent.
    * tener una ascendencia = descend from + ancestry.

    * * *
    1 (origen, linaje) ancestry
    es de ascendencia francesa he is of French descent o extraction o ancestry
    de ascendencia noble of noble ancestry
    su ascendencia humilde her humble origins
    2 ( AmL) ascendiente mf B. (↑ ascendiente)
    * * *

    ascendencia sustantivo femenino




    ascendencia sustantivo femenino ancestry, ancestors pl; de ascendencia peruana, of Peruvian descent
    ' ascendencia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    casta
    - influencia
    - origen
    English:
    ancestry
    - descent
    * * *
    1. [linaje] descent, ancestry;
    [extracción social] extraction;
    de ascendencia aristocrática of aristocratic ancestry;
    soy de ascendencia mexicana I'm of Mexican extraction
    2. [influencia] ascendancy
    * * *
    f ancestry
    * * *
    1) : ancestry, descent
    2)
    ascendencia sobre : influence over

    Spanish-English dictionary > ascendencia

  • 15 desorden

    m.
    1 disorder, chaos.
    tu dormitorio está en desorden your bedroom is in a mess
    3 disorder.
    sufre desórdenes nerviosos/estomacales he has a nervous/stomach complaint
    * * *
    1 disorder, disarray, mess, untidiness
    ■ ¡vaya desorden! what a mess!
    2 (irregularidad) irregularity
    1 (disturbios) riots, disturbances, disorder sing
    2 (excesos) excesses
    3 (malestar) disorders
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) disorder, mess
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=falta de orden) [de objetos, ideas] chaos; [de casa, habitación] mess, untidiness

    en desorden — [gente] in confusion; [objetos] in a mess, in disorder más frm

    2) (=confusión) confusion
    3) pl desórdenes (=alborotos) disturbances; (=excesos) excesses; (Med) disorders
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de persona, cuarto, cajón) untidiness

    en desorden — <salir/entrar> in a disorderly fashion

    b) ( confusión) disorder
    2) desórdenes masculino plural
    a) ( disturbios) disturbances (pl), disorder
    b) (Med) disorders (pl)
    * * *
    = disorder, chaos, muddle, turbulence, mess, messiness, turbulent waters, anomie, clutter, brouhaha, lawlessness, riot.
    Ex. Consider this title 'A handbook of heart disease, blood pressure and strokes: the cause, treatment and prevention of these disorders'.
    Ex. Shera has reminded us that 'man abhors chaos as nature is said to abhor a vacuum'.
    Ex. The author attempts to sort out the muddle in which librarians have found themselves = El autor intenta aclarar la confusión en la que se encuentran los bibliotecarios.
    Ex. The title of the article is 'Survival skills for information professionals in the decade of turbulence'.
    Ex. 'Look, Mel,' said James after the hiatus, 'I'm irritated at the convoluted mess this simple case of filling a vacancy has become'.
    Ex. Management theorists seem unable to cope with the unpredictability, the multivariate nature and the ' messiness' of human organizations in cultural contexts.
    Ex. His experience and expertise has guided IFLA members smoothly across what could easily have been turbulent waters = Sus conocimientos y experiencia en la formulación de los Estatutos ha guiado a los miembros de la IFLA sin problemas a través de lo que podrían haber sido fácilmente aguas turbulentas.
    Ex. The implication was that as modern society continued to develop, anomie would increase.
    Ex. We can learn from good shopwindow displays and from the best museums about such matters as grouping of books shown and the number included ( clutter is ugly and overcrowding confuses the eye).
    Ex. He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.
    Ex. So the Marxists will have to pull up their socks if they are to prevent the state from sliding back to the lawlessness one had seen prior to 1977.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    ----
    * causar desórdenes = riot.
    * desorden alimenticio = eating disorder.
    * desorden público = public disorder.
    * desorden social = social disorder.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de persona, cuarto, cajón) untidiness

    en desorden — <salir/entrar> in a disorderly fashion

    b) ( confusión) disorder
    2) desórdenes masculino plural
    a) ( disturbios) disturbances (pl), disorder
    b) (Med) disorders (pl)
    * * *
    = disorder, chaos, muddle, turbulence, mess, messiness, turbulent waters, anomie, clutter, brouhaha, lawlessness, riot.

    Ex: Consider this title 'A handbook of heart disease, blood pressure and strokes: the cause, treatment and prevention of these disorders'.

    Ex: Shera has reminded us that 'man abhors chaos as nature is said to abhor a vacuum'.
    Ex: The author attempts to sort out the muddle in which librarians have found themselves = El autor intenta aclarar la confusión en la que se encuentran los bibliotecarios.
    Ex: The title of the article is 'Survival skills for information professionals in the decade of turbulence'.
    Ex: 'Look, Mel,' said James after the hiatus, 'I'm irritated at the convoluted mess this simple case of filling a vacancy has become'.
    Ex: Management theorists seem unable to cope with the unpredictability, the multivariate nature and the ' messiness' of human organizations in cultural contexts.
    Ex: His experience and expertise has guided IFLA members smoothly across what could easily have been turbulent waters = Sus conocimientos y experiencia en la formulación de los Estatutos ha guiado a los miembros de la IFLA sin problemas a través de lo que podrían haber sido fácilmente aguas turbulentas.
    Ex: The implication was that as modern society continued to develop, anomie would increase.
    Ex: We can learn from good shopwindow displays and from the best museums about such matters as grouping of books shown and the number included ( clutter is ugly and overcrowding confuses the eye).
    Ex: He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.
    Ex: So the Marxists will have to pull up their socks if they are to prevent the state from sliding back to the lawlessness one had seen prior to 1977.
    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    * causar desórdenes = riot.
    * desorden alimenticio = eating disorder.
    * desorden público = public disorder.
    * desorden social = social disorder.

    * * *
    A (falta de orden) disorder
    el desorden más absoluto reinaba en la habitación the room was in complete disorder o an incredible mess
    todo estaba en desorden everything was in disorder o in a mess
    perdona el desorden sorry about the mess
    dejó las fichas en desorden she left the cards out of order
    se retiraron en desorden they withdrew in disorder o disarray o confusion
    1 (disturbios) disturbances (pl), disorder
    2 (excesos) excesses (pl)
    3 ( Med) disorders (pl)
    * * *

    desorden sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) (de persona, cuarto, cajón) untidiness, mess (colloq);


    en desorden ‹salir/entrar› in a disorderly fashion;
    todo estaba en desorden everything was in disorder o in a mess

    2
    ◊ desórdenes sustantivo masculino plural ( disturbios) disturbances (pl), disorder

    desorden sustantivo masculino
    1 disorder
    (de una habitación) untidiness, mess: ¡cuánto desorden!, what a mess! 2 desórdenes, (alteración del orden público) disturbances
    (excesos) excesses
    ' desorden' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cachondeo
    - confusión
    - enfermar
    - lío
    - torre
    - barullo
    - follón
    - jaleo
    - revoltijo
    - tirado
    English:
    anyhow
    - clutter
    - disarray
    - disorder
    - foul up
    - lawlessness
    - mess
    - muddle
    - ruffled
    - straggle
    - tumble out
    - untidiness
    - confusion
    * * *
    1. [confusión] disorder, chaos;
    [falta de orden] mess;
    esto es un completo desorden this is absolute chaos, this is a complete mess;
    no sé cómo puedes encontrar nada en medio de este desorden I don't know how you can find anything in this mess;
    disculpa todo este desorden please excuse all this mess;
    tu dormitorio está en desorden your bedroom is in a mess;
    en esa casa reina el desorden it's chaos in this house
    2. [vida desenfrenada] excess
    3.
    desórdenes [disturbios] disturbance;
    se han producido desórdenes por toda la ciudad there have been disturbances throughout the city;
    desórdenes callejeros street disturbances
    4. [alteración física] disorder;
    sufre desórdenes nerviosos/estomacales he has a nervous/stomach complaint
    * * *
    m
    1 disorder; de habitación untidiness
    2
    :
    desórdenes pl disturbances
    * * *
    1) desbarajuste: disorder, mess
    2) : disorder, disturbance, upset
    * * *
    desorden n mess
    ¡vaya desorden! what a mess!

    Spanish-English dictionary > desorden

  • 16 encender

    v.
    1 to light (vela, cigarro, chimenea).
    encender una cerilla to light o strike a match
    Ella enciende los troncos She lights the logs.
    2 to switch on (aparato).
    enciende la luz, que no veo switch the light on, I can't see
    3 to arouse (entusiasmo, ira).
    4 to turn on, to put on, to run, to switch on.
    Ella enciende el abanico She turns on the fan.
    5 to kindle, to stir up, to revive, to spark.
    Ella enciende la pasión She kindles the passion.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ ENTENDER], like link=entender entender
    1 (hacer arder) to light, set fire to; (cerilla) to strike, light; (vela) to light
    2 (luz, radio, tv) to turn on, switch on, put on; (gas) to turn on, light
    3 figurado (ocasionar) to kindle, provoke, spark off
    4 figurado (excitar) to inflame, stir up
    1 (incendiarse) to catch fire, ignite
    2 (luz) to go on, come on; (llama) to flare up
    3 figurado (excitarse) to flare up
    4 figurado (ruborizarse) to blush, go red
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=prender) [+ fuego, cigarrillo] to light; [+ cerilla] to strike; [+ luz, radio] to turn on, switch on, put on; [+ gas] to light, turn on; (Inform) to toggle on, switch on
    2) (=avivar) [+ pasiones] to inflame; [+ entusiasmo] to arouse; [+ celos, odio] to awake; [+ guerra] to spark off
    3) Caribe (=azotar) to beat; (=castigar) to punish
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <cigarrillo/hoguera/vela> to light; < fósforo> to strike, light
    b) <luz/calefacción> to switch on, turn on; < motor> to start
    c) <deseos/pasiones> to awaken, arouse (liter)
    2.
    encender vi fósforo to light; leña to catch light; luz/radio to come on
    3.
    encenderse v pron
    1) aparato/luz to come on; fósforo/piloto to light; leña to catch light

    se encendió la llama de su pasión — (liter) his passions were aroused o (liter) inflamed

    2) persona to blow one's top (colloq), to get mad (colloq); rostro to go red
    * * *
    = switch on, turn on, be fired with, light, spark, inflame, ignite, crank up, fire.
    Ex. Some microfilm readers are less easy to manage (for example, to switch on, locate the appropriate frame) than others.
    Ex. To use DOBIS/LIBIS, turn the terminal on and wait for it to warm up.
    Ex. Librarians and bibliographers are as deeply fired with the idealistic fervour which is alleged to have imbued the medieval knights.
    Ex. She sat back in her chair, crossed her legs, lighted a cigarette, and smoked herself into a cloud.
    Ex. The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex. His works are among the few films that can inflame the emotions as easily today as they could when they were originally made.
    Ex. Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
    Ex. As the sun begins to move toward the horizon, you want to crank up the engine again and head back home.
    Ex. Mearns, too, has warned against 'profligate expenditure of time and effort when the reference librarian's own curiosity is fired to a point where he feels himself impelled to seek personal satisfaction'.
    ----
    * encender la chispa = kindle + spark.
    * encender la luz = turn + the light on.
    * encenderse = light up.
    * encender un cigarrillo = light up.
    * hacer que se encienda una luz = activate + light.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <cigarrillo/hoguera/vela> to light; < fósforo> to strike, light
    b) <luz/calefacción> to switch on, turn on; < motor> to start
    c) <deseos/pasiones> to awaken, arouse (liter)
    2.
    encender vi fósforo to light; leña to catch light; luz/radio to come on
    3.
    encenderse v pron
    1) aparato/luz to come on; fósforo/piloto to light; leña to catch light

    se encendió la llama de su pasión — (liter) his passions were aroused o (liter) inflamed

    2) persona to blow one's top (colloq), to get mad (colloq); rostro to go red
    * * *
    = switch on, turn on, be fired with, light, spark, inflame, ignite, crank up, fire.

    Ex: Some microfilm readers are less easy to manage (for example, to switch on, locate the appropriate frame) than others.

    Ex: To use DOBIS/LIBIS, turn the terminal on and wait for it to warm up.
    Ex: Librarians and bibliographers are as deeply fired with the idealistic fervour which is alleged to have imbued the medieval knights.
    Ex: She sat back in her chair, crossed her legs, lighted a cigarette, and smoked herself into a cloud.
    Ex: The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex: His works are among the few films that can inflame the emotions as easily today as they could when they were originally made.
    Ex: Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
    Ex: As the sun begins to move toward the horizon, you want to crank up the engine again and head back home.
    Ex: Mearns, too, has warned against 'profligate expenditure of time and effort when the reference librarian's own curiosity is fired to a point where he feels himself impelled to seek personal satisfaction'.
    * encender la chispa = kindle + spark.
    * encender la luz = turn + the light on.
    * encenderse = light up.
    * encender un cigarrillo = light up.
    * hacer que se encienda una luz = activate + light.

    * * *
    encender [E8 ]
    vt
    1 ‹cigarrillo/hoguera/vela› to light; ‹cerilla› to strike, light
    nos esperaba con la chimenea encendida she had the fire lit when we arrived
    2 ‹luz/radio/calefacción› to switch on, turn on, put on; ‹motor› to start
    no dejes el televisor encendido don't leave the television on
    3 ‹deseos/pasiones› to awaken, arouse, inflame ( liter)
    el dictador había encendido el fanatismo the dictator had stirred up fanaticism
    ■ encender
    vi
    1 «cerilla» to light; «leña» to catch light, kindle
    2 «bombilla/tubo fluorescente» to come on, light up, light; «radio» to come on
    A «aparato» to come on; «llama/piloto» to light
    esperar a que se encienda la luz roja wait until the red light comes on
    se encendió la llama de su pasión ( liter); his passions were aroused o ( liter) inflamed
    B
    1 «persona» to blow one's top ( colloq), to get mad ( colloq)
    2 «rostro» to go red
    al verlo se le encendió el rostro she went red in the face o she blushed when she saw him
    * * *

     

    encender ( conjugate encender) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹cigarrillo/hoguera/vela› to light;

    ‹ fósforo› to strike, light
    b) ‹luz/calefacción› to switch on, turn on;

    ‹ motor› to start;

    verbo intransitivo [ fósforo] to light;
    [ leña] to catch light;
    [luz/radio] to come on
    encenderse verbo pronominal [aparato/luz] to come on;
    [fósforo/piloto] to light;
    [ leña] to catch light
    encender verbo transitivo
    1 (con interruptor) to switch on
    (con fuego) to light: enciende una cerilla, strike a match
    2 (avivar) to stir up
    ' encender' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    lumbre
    - encienda
    - luz
    - poner
    English:
    barbecue
    - blow
    - ignite
    - inflame
    - light
    - light up
    - power up
    - put on
    - rekindle
    - set off
    - strike
    - switch on
    - turn on
    - kindle
    - put
    - start
    - switch
    - turn
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [vela, cigarro, chimenea, mecha] to light;
    encender una cerilla to light o strike a match;
    encender una hoguera to light a bonfire
    2. [aparato] to switch on;
    [motor] to start up;
    enciende la luz, que no veo switch the light on, I can't see
    3. [entusiasmo, ira] to arouse;
    [pasión] to arouse, to inflame;
    sus acusaciones encendieron los ánimos his accusations aroused people's anger;
    me enciende con esas cosas que dice he makes me mad with those things he says
    4. [guerra, contienda] to spark off
    * * *
    v/t
    1 fuego light; luz, televisión switch on, turn on
    2 fig
    inflame, arouse, stir up
    * * *
    encender {56} vi
    : to light
    1) : to light, to set fire to
    2) prender: to switch on
    3) : to start (a motor)
    4) : to arouse, to kindle
    * * *
    1. (conectar) to switch on / to turn on
    2. (hacer que arda) to light [pt. & pp. lit]

    Spanish-English dictionary > encender

  • 17 intranquilidad

    f.
    1 unease, anxiety.
    2 unrest, inner torment, restlessness, uneasiness.
    * * *
    1 worry, uneasiness
    * * *
    SF (=preocupación) worry, anxiety; (=desasosiego) restlessness
    * * *
    a) ( preocupación) disquiet, (sense of) unease o uneasiness
    b) ( agitación) restlessness
    * * *
    = unrest, disquiet, uneasiness, restlessness, anxiety, worry.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex. There is not any great disquiet or discomfort.
    Ex. Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    Ex. A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    Ex. There is a concern that when presented too many information options, the individual begins to avoid being informed, and to relieve the anxiety, makes an uninformed decision.
    Ex. Their worries are not altogether unfounded but they are sometimes carried too far.
    ----
    * sensación de intranquilidad = sinking feeling.
    * * *
    a) ( preocupación) disquiet, (sense of) unease o uneasiness
    b) ( agitación) restlessness
    * * *
    = unrest, disquiet, uneasiness, restlessness, anxiety, worry.

    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.

    Ex: There is not any great disquiet or discomfort.
    Ex: Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    Ex: A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    Ex: There is a concern that when presented too many information options, the individual begins to avoid being informed, and to relieve the anxiety, makes an uninformed decision.
    Ex: Their worries are not altogether unfounded but they are sometimes carried too far.
    * sensación de intranquilidad = sinking feeling.

    * * *
    1 (preocupación) unease, disquiet, sense of unease o uneasiness
    2 (agitación) restlessness
    * * *

    intranquilidad sustantivo femenino worry
    ' intranquilidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ansia
    - malestar
    English:
    disquiet
    * * *
    1. [preocupación] unease, anxiety
    2. [nerviosismo] restlessness
    * * *
    f
    2 ( nerviosismo) restlessness
    * * *
    preocupación: worry, anxiety

    Spanish-English dictionary > intranquilidad

  • 18 linaje

    m.
    lineage.
    * * *
    1 (ascendencia) lineage
    2 figurado (clase) kind, sort
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=familia) lineage, descent

    de linaje de reyes — descended from royalty, of royal descent

    2) (=clase) class, kind
    3) pl linajes (=familias) (local) nobility sing, noble families
    * * *
    masculino descent, lineage (frml)
    * * *
    = lineage, parentage, ancestry, birth, stock.
    Ex. The lineage of PRECIS indexing: PRECIS indexing has roots in faceted classification.
    Ex. The database may, as a result of its parentage, be handicapped by features that are not suited to computerized retrieval.
    Ex. These terms are necessarily rather vague, but have a very respectable ancestry (they go back to Aristotle).
    Ex. Typically, the additions to the name will fall within the following categories: title of nobility, title of honour, address, date of birth, and date of death.
    Ex. It also proves the absurdity of Nazi race theories of 'racial purity,' since the various peoples of Mitteleurope, the Germans in particular, are among the most mixed stocks in Europe.
    * * *
    masculino descent, lineage (frml)
    * * *
    = lineage, parentage, ancestry, birth, stock.

    Ex: The lineage of PRECIS indexing: PRECIS indexing has roots in faceted classification.

    Ex: The database may, as a result of its parentage, be handicapped by features that are not suited to computerized retrieval.
    Ex: These terms are necessarily rather vague, but have a very respectable ancestry (they go back to Aristotle).
    Ex: Typically, the additions to the name will fall within the following categories: title of nobility, title of honour, address, date of birth, and date of death.
    Ex: It also proves the absurdity of Nazi race theories of 'racial purity,' since the various peoples of Mitteleurope, the Germans in particular, are among the most mixed stocks in Europe.

    * * *
    descent, lineage ( frml)
    de noble linaje of noble lineage o descent o origin
    una familia de linaje an old family
    * * *

    linaje sustantivo masculino
    descent, lineage (frml)
    linaje sustantivo masculino lineage
    ' linaje' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    casta
    - cuna
    - rancia
    - rancio
    - ascendencia
    - noble
    - sangre
    - solar
    English:
    blood
    - lineage
    - pedigree
    - stock
    * * *
    linaje nm
    lineage;
    de noble linaje of noble lineage
    * * *
    m lineage
    * * *
    linaje nm
    abolengo: lineage, ancestry

    Spanish-English dictionary > linaje

  • 19 orientación profesional

    f.
    vocational guidance, occupational guidance.
    * * *
    career guidance, vocational guidance
    * * *
    (n.) = careers guidance, vocational guidance, career guidance, career education, career planning, careers education, career information
    Ex. The libraries are located in the fringe areas between low-income neighbourhoods and business districts and provide careers and educational guidance, job placement and referral to community facilities for diagnosis and remedial services.
    Ex. Non-repayable grants are available for vocational training and guidance, recruitment and wage subsidies, resettlement and technical advice concerned with job creation.
    Ex. This article discusses the work of libraries in the area of work education which includes the provision of career guidance.
    Ex. The author describes 3 data bases used for career education in Oregon where she is Education Information Specialist = La autora describe tres bases de datos utilizadas para la orientación profesional en Oregon donde es Especialista en Información sobre Educación.
    Ex. This article was published in a special issue devoted to various aspects of library services for career planning, job searching, and employment opportunities.
    Ex. This article examines the growth in the publishing of books on careers education in the USA, ranging from guides on writing resumes and cover letters to books on the metaphysics of work.
    Ex. Table 3 shows that providing homework help, promoting books and reading, announcing library events, and providing college and/or career information are among the top goals librarians set for their Web pages = La Tabla 3 nos muestra que ofrecer ayuda con los deberes, promocionar libros y fomentar la lectura, anunciar actividades de la biblioteca y ofrecer información universitaria y de orientación profesional están entre los objetivos principales que los bibliotecarios persiguen con sus páginas web.
    * * *
    (n.) = careers guidance, vocational guidance, career guidance, career education, career planning, careers education, career information

    Ex: The libraries are located in the fringe areas between low-income neighbourhoods and business districts and provide careers and educational guidance, job placement and referral to community facilities for diagnosis and remedial services.

    Ex: Non-repayable grants are available for vocational training and guidance, recruitment and wage subsidies, resettlement and technical advice concerned with job creation.
    Ex: This article discusses the work of libraries in the area of work education which includes the provision of career guidance.
    Ex: The author describes 3 data bases used for career education in Oregon where she is Education Information Specialist = La autora describe tres bases de datos utilizadas para la orientación profesional en Oregon donde es Especialista en Información sobre Educación.
    Ex: This article was published in a special issue devoted to various aspects of library services for career planning, job searching, and employment opportunities.
    Ex: This article examines the growth in the publishing of books on careers education in the USA, ranging from guides on writing resumes and cover letters to books on the metaphysics of work.
    Ex: Table 3 shows that providing homework help, promoting books and reading, announcing library events, and providing college and/or career information are among the top goals librarians set for their Web pages = La Tabla 3 nos muestra que ofrecer ayuda con los deberes, promocionar libros y fomentar la lectura, anunciar actividades de la biblioteca y ofrecer información universitaria y de orientación profesional están entre los objetivos principales que los bibliotecarios persiguen con sus páginas web.

    * * *
    vocational guidance, Br tb
    careers advice

    Spanish-English dictionary > orientación profesional

  • 20 prender

    v.
    1 to arrest, to apprehend.
    La policía prende al criminal The police arrests the criminal.
    2 to fasten.
    3 to light (encender) (luz, interruptor). (especially Latin American Spanish)
    prender fuego a algo to set fire to something, to set something on fire
    4 to grip.
    5 to catch (fire).
    6 to take root (plant).
    7 to spread.
    una idea que ha prendido entre el público an idea that has caught on among the public
    8 to ignite, to light.
    Ella prende el fuego She ignites the fire.
    9 to pin on, to stick on, to buckle on.
    Ella prende el broche She pins on the brooch.
    10 to seize, to catch, to grasp, to capture.
    El guarda prende al ladrón The guard seizes the thief.
    11 to turn on, to activate, to switch on.
    Ella prendió la luz She turned on the light.
    * * *
    1 (agarrar) to catch; (arrestar) to arrest
    2 (sujetar) to attach; (con agujas) to pin
    3 (encender - fuego) to light; (- luz) to turn on
    1 (arraigar - planta, costumbre) to take root
    2 (fuego, madera, etc) to catch light, catch fire
    1 to catch fire
    \
    prender fuego a to set fire to, set light to
    * * *
    verb
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ persona] (=capturar) to catch, capture; (=detener) to arrest
    2) (Cos) (=sujetar) to fasten; [con alfiler] to pin, attach (en to)
    3) (=atar) to tie, do up
    4) esp LAm [+ fuego, horno, vela, cigarrillo] to light; [+ cerilla] to strike; [+ luz, TV] to switch on; [+ cuarto] to light up
    2. VI
    1) [fuego] to catch
    2) (=engancharse) to catch, stick
    3) [planta] to take, take root
    4) [vacuna] to take
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) < persona> to catch, seize
    2) ( sujetar)
    3)
    a) <cigarrillo/cerilla> to light
    b) (AmL) < gas> to turn on, light; <estufa/horno> to turn on; <radio/luz> to turn on, switch on
    2.
    1) rama/planta to take
    2) ( arder)
    3) idea/moda to catch on
    3.
    prenderse v pron ( con fuego) to catch fire
    * * *
    = fire, ignite, inflame.
    Ex. Mearns, too, has warned against 'profligate expenditure of time and effort when the reference librarian's own curiosity is fired to a point where he feels himself impelled to seek personal satisfaction'.
    Ex. Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
    Ex. His works are among the few films that can inflame the emotions as easily today as they could when they were originally made.
    ----
    * fuego + prenderse = fire + break out.
    * prender con alfileres = pin.
    * prenderse fuego = set + Nombre + on fire, torch, ignite, set + ablaze, burn, catch + fire.
    * prenderle fuego a = set + fire to.
    * prenderse fuego = catch on + fire.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) < persona> to catch, seize
    2) ( sujetar)
    3)
    a) <cigarrillo/cerilla> to light
    b) (AmL) < gas> to turn on, light; <estufa/horno> to turn on; <radio/luz> to turn on, switch on
    2.
    1) rama/planta to take
    2) ( arder)
    3) idea/moda to catch on
    3.
    prenderse v pron ( con fuego) to catch fire
    * * *
    = fire, ignite, inflame.

    Ex: Mearns, too, has warned against 'profligate expenditure of time and effort when the reference librarian's own curiosity is fired to a point where he feels himself impelled to seek personal satisfaction'.

    Ex: Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
    Ex: His works are among the few films that can inflame the emotions as easily today as they could when they were originally made.
    * fuego + prenderse = fire + break out.
    * prender con alfileres = pin.
    * prenderse fuego = set + Nombre + on fire, torch, ignite, set + ablaze, burn, catch + fire.
    * prenderle fuego a = set + fire to.
    * prenderse fuego = catch on + fire.

    * * *
    prender [E1 ]
    vt
    A ‹persona› to catch, seize
    B
    (sujetar): le prendió el pelo con una horquilla she pinned back her hair with a hairpin
    llevaba una flor prendida en el ojal he was wearing a flower (pinned) in his buttonhole
    el bajo está prendido con alfileres the hem's been pinned up
    C ( Col) ‹botón/parche› to sew on
    D
    1
    prender fuego a to set fire to
    prendió fuego al bosque he set fire to the woods, he set the woods on fire
    prendió un cigarrillo/una cerilla she lit a cigarette/a match
    2 ( AmL) ‹gas› to turn on, light; ‹estufa/horno› to turn on; ‹radio/luz› to turn on, switch on
    E ( Chi fam) (llenar de gases) to give... wind
    ■ prender
    vi
    A «vacuna» to take; «rama/planta» to take
    B
    (arder): la leña está mojada y no prende the wood's damp and won't catch light o won't catch o won't take
    C «idea/moda» to catch on
    A (con fuego) to catch fire
    se le prendió el trapo the cloth caught fire
    B
    ( Col) (contagiarse): se le prendió el sarampión de su hermano she caught her brother's measles, she caught the measles from her brother
    C ( Col) (animarse) to liven up, get going
    D ( Chi fam) (llenarse de gases) to get wind
    estoy prendido I've got wind
    * * *

     

    prender ( conjugate prender) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹ persona› to catch, seize
    2 ( sujetar) to pin;
    ‹bajo/dobladillo› to pin up
    3
    a) ‹cigarrillo/cerilla› to light;


    b) (AmL) ‹ gas› to light;

    ‹estufa/horno› to turn on;
    ‹radio/luz/televisión› to turn on, switch on
    verbo intransitivo
    1 [rama/planta] to take
    2
    a) [fósforo/piloto] to light;

    [ leña] to catch (light)
    b) (AmL) [luz/radio/televisión] to come on;


    3 [idea/moda] to catch on
    prenderse verbo pronominal

    b) (AmL) [luz/radio/televisión] to come on

    prender
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (a una persona) to catch, capture
    2 (arrestar, detener) to arrest
    3 (sujetar) to fasten, attach
    (con alfileres) to pin
    4 (una cerilla, un cigarro) to light
    prender fuego a algo, to set fire to sthg
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (fuego) to catch: la leña mojada no prende, wet wood doesn't catch fire
    2 (planta) to take root
    3 (una idea, una opinión) to catch on
    ' prender' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    enganchar
    - incendiar
    - luz
    English:
    fasten on to
    - fire
    - light
    - pin
    - pin on
    - set
    - alight
    - catch
    - foot
    - put
    - start
    - switch
    - take
    - turn
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [arrestar] to arrest, to apprehend
    2. [sujetar] to fasten;
    prendió el clavel en la solapa con un alfiler she attached the carnation to her lapel with a pin
    3. [fuego] to light;
    prendieron fuego a los matorrales they set fire to the bushes, they set the bushes on fire
    4. [agarrar] to grip;
    prendió con fuerza el brazo de su madre he gripped his mother's arm tightly
    5. esp Am [luz, interruptor] to switch on;
    [motor] to start (up);
    prende la luz, que no veo turn o switch the light on, I can't see;
    prendió un cigarrillo she lit a cigarette
    ♦ vi
    1. [arder] to catch fire;
    esta leña no prende this wood won't catch fire
    2. [planta] to take root
    3. [opinión] to spread;
    es una idea que ha prendido entre el público it's an idea that has caught on among the public
    * * *
    <part preso>
    I v/t
    1 a fugitivo capture
    2 sujetar pin up
    3 L.Am.
    fuego light; luz switch on, turn on;
    prender fuego a set fire to
    II v/i
    1 de planta take
    2 ( empezar a arder) catch
    3 de moda catch on
    * * *
    1) sujetar: to pin, to fasten
    2) apresar: to catch, to apprehend
    3) : to light (a cigarette, a match)
    4) : to turn on
    prende la luz: turn on the light
    5)
    prender fuego a : to set fire to
    1) : to take root
    2) : to catch fire
    3) : to catch on
    * * *
    1. (sujetar) to pin [pt. & pp. pinned]
    2. (encender) to light [pt. & pp. lit]
    prender fuego to set fire [pt. & pp. set]

    Spanish-English dictionary > prender

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