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1 dualidad
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2 dicotomía
f.dichotomy, bisection.* * *1 dichotomy* * *SF dichotomy* * *femenino dichotomy* * *= dichotomy.Ex. The issue is the research and non-research library dichotomy.* * *femenino dichotomy* * *= dichotomy.Ex: The issue is the research and non-research library dichotomy.
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dicotomía sustantivo femenino dichotomy: existe una dicotomía entre los conservadores y los liberales del Gobierno en cuanto al sistema nacional de salud, a dichotomy has formed between the Conservatives and the Liberals in the Government regarding national health care
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3 antiesencialista
Ex. The author views the essentialist/ anti-essentialist dichotomy as a discursive debate deployed in constructing and sustaining boundaries between different interpretative communities.* * *Ex: The author views the essentialist/ anti-essentialist dichotomy as a discursive debate deployed in constructing and sustaining boundaries between different interpretative communities.
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4 beatitud
f.beatitude.* * *1 beatitude* * *SF (=santidad) beatitude; (=bendición) blessedness* * *femenino beatitude* * *= piousness.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *femenino beatitude* * *= piousness.Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.
* * *beatitude* * *beatitud nfbeatitude* * *f REL beatitude* * *beatitud nf: beatitude -
5 ceder a una demanda
(v.) = bow to + demandEx. This project investigated the dichotomy confronting the public librarians whether to provide quality literature or to bow to the demand of the public library user for light/popular/bestselling fiction.* * *(v.) = bow to + demandEx: This project investigated the dichotomy confronting the public librarians whether to provide quality literature or to bow to the demand of the public library user for light/popular/bestselling fiction.
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6 critográfico
Ex. The article ' Cryptographic patents: at war and in peace' explores the dichotomy between the concepts of cryptography and patents.* * *Ex: The article ' Cryptographic patents: at war and in peace' explores the dichotomy between the concepts of cryptography and patents.
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7 decadence
= decadence.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *= decadence.Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.
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8 desunión
f.1 division, disunity, estrangement, fissure.2 ablatio.* * *1 (separación) separation, division2 figurado (discordia) discord, feud, dissension* * *SF1) (=separación) separation2) (=discordia) disunity* * *femenino lack of unity, disunity* * *= fissure, disunity.Ex. Fissures within British society and inadequate public funding meant that libraries were not linked to communities to the degree that they were in America.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *femenino lack of unity, disunity* * *= fissure, disunity.Ex: Fissures within British society and inadequate public funding meant that libraries were not linked to communities to the degree that they were in America.
Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *lack of unity, disunityhay mucha desunión en el partido there is serious disunity o a serious lack of unity within the party* * *
desunión sustantivo femenino rift, discord, dissension: existe una desunión en el seno de la familia, there is discord at the heart of the family
* * *desunión nf1. [separación] separation2. [división, discordia] disunity;había mucha desunión entre los trabajadores there was a lot of division o disunity among the workers;en el sindicato reina la desunión the union is very disunited* * *f lack of unity* * * -
9 en guerra
at war* * *= war-torn, at warEx. The article is entitled 'Reinventing publishing in the war-torn Balkans' = El artículo se titula "La reinvención de la edición en los Balcanes en guerra".Ex. The article 'Cryptographic patents: at war and in peace' explores the dichotomy between the concepts of cryptography and patents.* * *= war-torn, at warEx: The article is entitled 'Reinventing publishing in the war-torn Balkans' = El artículo se titula "La reinvención de la edición en los Balcanes en guerra".
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10 en la paz
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11 en tiempos de paz
= in peacetime, during peacetime, in peace, in time(s) of peaceEx. The report literature medium is now also an established form of communication in peacetime = Los informes son también ahora una forma consolidada de comunicación en tiempos de paz.Ex. The concept of 'operational readiness' refers to the training required by Navy personnel during peacetime to perform wartime missions.Ex. The article 'Cryptographic patents: at war and in peace' explores the dichotomy between the concepts of cryptography and patents.Ex. Military drafts are instated in countries throughout the world, both in times of war and in times of peace.* * *= in peacetime, during peacetime, in peace, in time(s) of peaceEx: The report literature medium is now also an established form of communication in peacetime = Los informes son también ahora una forma consolidada de comunicación en tiempos de paz.
Ex: The concept of 'operational readiness' refers to the training required by Navy personnel during peacetime to perform wartime missions.Ex: The article 'Cryptographic patents: at war and in peace' explores the dichotomy between the concepts of cryptography and patents.Ex: Military drafts are instated in countries throughout the world, both in times of war and in times of peace. -
12 encontrarse fuera de lugar
(v.) = be out of + Posesivo + element, be out of placeEx. His urbane manner, formidable erudition, and background experience might have led one to conclude that perhaps he was somewhat out of his element there on the prairie.Ex. The 'Afrocentric-Eurocentric approaches' dichotomy is strangely out of place in an African context and is curiously out of touch wit the issues that are significant in library and information work.* * *(v.) = be out of + Posesivo + element, be out of placeEx: His urbane manner, formidable erudition, and background experience might have led one to conclude that perhaps he was somewhat out of his element there on the prairie.
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13 esencialista
= essentialist.Ex. The author views the essentialist/anti-essentialist dichotomy as a discursive debate deployed in constructing and sustaining boundaries between different interpretative communities.* * *= essentialist.Ex: The author views the essentialist/anti-essentialist dichotomy as a discursive debate deployed in constructing and sustaining boundaries between different interpretative communities.
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14 estar fuera de lugar
(v.) = be out of place, be out of orderEx. The 'Afrocentric-Eurocentric approaches' dichotomy is strangely out of place in an African context and is curiously out of touch wit the issues that are significant in library and information work.Ex. Any more than two away games in a row is out of order.* * *(v.) = be out of place, be out of orderEx: The 'Afrocentric-Eurocentric approaches' dichotomy is strangely out of place in an African context and is curiously out of touch wit the issues that are significant in library and information work.
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15 falta de unión
(n.) = disunityEx. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *(n.) = disunityEx: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.
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16 fluctuar
v.1 to fluctuate.Los precios fluctúan siempre Prices fluctuate always.2 to waver.3 to hesitate, to waver.Los estudiantes fluctuaron al decidir The students hesitated when deciding.* * *1 (variar) to fluctuate2 (vacilar) to hesitate* * *verb* * *VI1) (=cambiar) to fluctuate2) (=vacilar) to waver, hesitate* * *verbo intransitivo to fluctuate* * *= ebb and flow, fluctuate, vacillate, oscillate.Ex. The importance of the practicum in the curriculum has ebbed and flowed tremendously throughout the history of library education.Ex. The exchange rate is likely to fluctuate in unpredictable ways.Ex. Australia's treatment of information technology has vacillated between laissez faire and an interventionist strategy.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *verbo intransitivo to fluctuate* * *= ebb and flow, fluctuate, vacillate, oscillate.Ex: The importance of the practicum in the curriculum has ebbed and flowed tremendously throughout the history of library education.
Ex: The exchange rate is likely to fluctuate in unpredictable ways.Ex: Australia's treatment of information technology has vacillated between laissez faire and an interventionist strategy.Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *vito fluctuatesu ánimo fluctuaba entre la alegría y la tristeza her mood fluctuated o swung between joy and sadness* * *
fluctuar ( conjugate fluctuar) verbo intransitivo
to fluctuate
fluctuar verbo intransitivo to fluctuate
' fluctuar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
oscilar
English:
fluctuate
* * *fluctuar vi1. [variar] to fluctuate2. [vacilar] to waver* * *v/i fluctuate* * *fluctuar {3} vi1) : to fluctuate2) vacilar: to vacillate♦ fluctuación nf♦ fluctuante adj -
17 oscilar
v.1 to swing (moverse) (péndulo).2 to fluctuate.el precio oscila entre los mil y los dos mil euros the price can be anything between one and two thousand euros3 to oscillate, to bob, to quiver, to swing.* * *1 (variar) to vary, fluctuate2 FÍSICA to oscillate* * *VI1) [péndulo] to swing, oscillate2) [luz] to wink, blink; [llama] to flicker3) [precio, peso, temperatura] to fluctuate ( entre between)[calidad, diseño] to vary ( entre between) [distancia, intensidad] to range ( entre between)la distancia oscila entre los 100 y 500m — the distance ranges between 100 and 500m o from 100 to 500m
4) (=dudar) to hesitate ( entre between)waver ( entre between)* * *verbo intransitivo2) ( fluctuar)sus edades oscilaban entre... — their ages ranged between...
la cotización osciló entre $90 y $92 — the share price fluctuated between $90 and $92
oscila entre la depresión y la euforia — he oscillates o fluctuates between depression and euphoria
* * *= swing, dangle, pendulum + swing back and forth, oscillate, sway.Ex. The article has the title 'The pendulum swings to the right: censorship in the eighties'.Ex. The LA dangles between short-term exigencies and long-term potentials, and a call for cuts in library school output is trying to cure symptoms rather than diseases.Ex. The pendulum has swung back and forth between emphasis on rehabilitation and punishment.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.Ex. The floor lamp swayed and the window curtains waved back and forth.----* oscilar entre... y = ricochet between... and.* * *verbo intransitivo2) ( fluctuar)sus edades oscilaban entre... — their ages ranged between...
la cotización osciló entre $90 y $92 — the share price fluctuated between $90 and $92
oscila entre la depresión y la euforia — he oscillates o fluctuates between depression and euphoria
* * *= swing, dangle, pendulum + swing back and forth, oscillate, sway.Ex: The article has the title 'The pendulum swings to the right: censorship in the eighties'.
Ex: The LA dangles between short-term exigencies and long-term potentials, and a call for cuts in library school output is trying to cure symptoms rather than diseases.Ex: The pendulum has swung back and forth between emphasis on rehabilitation and punishment.Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.Ex: The floor lamp swayed and the window curtains waved back and forth.* oscilar entre... y = ricochet between... and.* * *oscilar [A1 ]viA1 «péndulo» to swing, oscillate ( tech); «aguja» to oscillate2 «torre/columna» to swayB«precios/temperatura»: sus edades oscilaban entre los 10 y los 15 años their ages ranged between 10 and 15 years old o from 10 to 15la cotización osciló entre $90 y $92 the share price fluctuated between $90 and $92C«persona/humor»: oscila entre la depresión y la euforia he oscillates o fluctuates between depression and euphoria* * *
oscilar ( conjugate oscilar) verbo intransitivo
1 [ péndulo] to swing, oscillate (tech);
[ aguja] to oscillate;
[torre/columna] to sway
2 ( fluctuar) [cotización/valores] to fluctuate;◊ sus edades oscilaban entre … their ages ranged between …
oscilar verbo intransitivo
1 Fís to oscillate, swing
(la luz de una vela) to flicker
2 (variar) to vary, fluctuate: en verano la temperatura oscila entre los 25 y los 35 grados centígrados, summer temperatures range from 25 to 35 degrees centigrade
' oscilar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
vacilar
English:
oscillate
- range
- reciprocate
- seesaw
- swing
- vary
- dangle
- pulsate
- vacillate
* * *oscilar vi1. [moverse] [péndulo] to swing;[torre] to sway; [llama] to flicker2. Fís to oscillate3. [variar] to vary, to fluctuate;el precio oscila entre los mil y los dos mil pesos the price ranges between one and two thousand pesos;la temperatura osciló entre los 20° y los 30° the temperature fluctuated between 20° and 30°;la longitud de estas serpientes oscila entre cinco y siete metros these snakes vary o range in length between five and seven metres4. [vacilar] to vacillate, to waver;oscila entre el pesimismo y la esperanza she fluctuates between pessimism and hope* * *v/i oscillate; de precios fluctuate* * *oscilar vi1) balancearse: to swing, to sway, to oscillate2) fluctuar: to fluctuate3) : to vacillate, to waver* * *oscilar vb -
18 religiosidad
f.religiousness (also figurative).* * *1 religiousness, religiosity* * *SF1) (=devoción) piety, religiousness, religiosity2) (=puntualidad) religiousness* * *femenino religiousness, religiosity* * *= religiousness, piousness, religiosity.Ex. The enormous growth of information about religion that has occurred over the last century has influenced both the academic study of religion and human religiousness itself.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.Ex. This aura of religiosity has been chiefly created by the work's incalculable monetary worth.* * *femenino religiousness, religiosity* * *= religiousness, piousness, religiosity.Ex: The enormous growth of information about religion that has occurred over the last century has influenced both the academic study of religion and human religiousness itself.
Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.Ex: This aura of religiosity has been chiefly created by the work's incalculable monetary worth.* * *(cualidad) religiousness1 (en exceso) ( pey); religiosity2 (puntualidad, rigor):me llama con religiosidad todas las semanas she calls me religiously every week* * *
religiosidad sustantivo femenino
religiousness, religiosity
' religiosidad' also found in these entries:
English:
religiousness
* * *religiosidad nfreligiousness;con religiosidad religiously;cumple con religiosidad su horario she sticks religiously to her working hours* * *f religiousness -
19 sibaritismo
m.sybaritism, epicureanism.* * *1 sybaritism* * *SM sybaritism, love of luxury* * *= decadence.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.* * *= decadence.Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.
* * *1 (amor por el lujo) love of luxury, sybaritism ( frml)2 (en cuestiones de comida) gourmandism, epicurism ( frml)* * *
sibaritismo sustantivo masculino love of luxury
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20 vacilar
v.1 to hesitate.El chico vaciló brevemente The boy hesitated briefly.2 to falter.3 to flicker (fluctuar) (light).La llama vaciló en el viento The flame flickered in the wind.4 to wobble, to sway.5 to swank, to show off (informal) (chulear).6 to tease, to pull the leg of, to ride, to spoof.María vaciló a Ricardo todo el día Mary teased Richard the whole day.* * *1 (oscilar) to sway, vacillate2 (estar poco firme) to wobble3 (al andar) to sway, stagger, wobble; (al hablar) to falter4 (luz) to flicker6 familiar (tomar el pelo) to joke, tease■ ¡no me vaciles! don't tease me!7 familiar (presumir) to show off\hacer vacilar figurado to shakesin vacilar without hesitationmemoria que vacila shaky memory* * *verb* * *1. VI1) (=dudar) to hesitate, waver; (=ser indeciso) to vacillate; (=esperar) to hold back from doing sthes un hombre que vacila mucho — he is a very indecisive man, he is a man who dithers a lot
2) (por falta de estabilidad) [mueble] to be unsteady, wobble[persona] (al andar) to totter, reel; (al hablar) to falter; [memoria] to fail; [moralidad] to be collapsing3) [luz] to flicker4) (=variar)un sabor que vacila entre agradable y desagradable — a taste which varies o ranges between nice and nasty
5) *(=guasearse)vacilar con algn — to tease sb, take the mickey out of sb **
6) (Méx)* (=divertirse) to have fun, lark about *; (=ir de juerga) to go on a spree7) * (=presumir) to talk big *, show off, swank *2. VT1) (=burlarse de) to take the mickey out of **, make fun of¡no me vaciles! — stop messing me about! *
2) (CAm)* (=engañar) to trick* * *1.verbo intransitivo1)a) ( dudar) to hesitateno vaciles más, hazlo — stop dithering and do it
vacilar en + inf — to hesitate to + inf
b) fe/determinación to waverc) luz to flicker3) (Esp, Méx fam) ( bromear) to joke, to kid (colloq)4) (AmL exc CS fam) ( divertirse) to have fun2.vacilar vt (Esp, Méx fam) to tease* * *= shake, waver, falter, vacillate, hang back, oscillate, baulk [balk, -USA], wobble.Ex. This attitude had to go and by the 1830s it was shaking.Ex. The first decision in establishing headings for the works of corporate bodies is the one over which code makers have wavered.Ex. The project faltered because the data became increasingly difficult to input and manipulate.Ex. Australia's treatment of information technology has vacillated between laissez faire and an interventionist strategy.Ex. This article explores the implications of these threats, maintaining that publishers cannot afford to hang back, but must innovate or atrophy.Ex. This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.Ex. While many scholars concede that military interventions are sometimes permissible, they balk when it comes to deciding whether they are ever a moral duty.Ex. This adaptation of David Leavitt's novel wobbles between comedy and melodrama, ultimately fudging the novel's spiky empathy.----* sin vacilar = unswervingly.* vacilar entre... y/o... = hover between... and/or....* * *1.verbo intransitivo1)a) ( dudar) to hesitateno vaciles más, hazlo — stop dithering and do it
vacilar en + inf — to hesitate to + inf
b) fe/determinación to waverc) luz to flicker3) (Esp, Méx fam) ( bromear) to joke, to kid (colloq)4) (AmL exc CS fam) ( divertirse) to have fun2.vacilar vt (Esp, Méx fam) to tease* * *= shake, waver, falter, vacillate, hang back, oscillate, baulk [balk, -USA], wobble.Ex: This attitude had to go and by the 1830s it was shaking.
Ex: The first decision in establishing headings for the works of corporate bodies is the one over which code makers have wavered.Ex: The project faltered because the data became increasingly difficult to input and manipulate.Ex: Australia's treatment of information technology has vacillated between laissez faire and an interventionist strategy.Ex: This article explores the implications of these threats, maintaining that publishers cannot afford to hang back, but must innovate or atrophy.Ex: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.Ex: While many scholars concede that military interventions are sometimes permissible, they balk when it comes to deciding whether they are ever a moral duty.Ex: This adaptation of David Leavitt's novel wobbles between comedy and melodrama, ultimately fudging the novel's spiky empathy.* sin vacilar = unswervingly.* vacilar entre... y/o... = hover between... and/or....* * *vacilar [A1 ]viA1 (dudar) to hesitaterespondió sin vacilar he replied without hesitating o without hesitationvacila entre aceptar la propuesta y seguir aquí she's hesitating over whether to accept the offer or stay here, she can't make up her mind whether to accept the offer or stay hereno vaciles más, hazlo stop dithering and do itvacilar EN algo:no vaciló en la elección he made his choice without hesitationno vacilaron en aceptar they did not hesitate to accept, they accepted without hesitation2 «fe/determinación» to waver3 «luz» to flicker1 «mueble» to wobble, rock2«persona»: vaciló pero enseguida recuperó el equilibrio she staggered/tottered but she regained her balance immediatelyvacilaba al andar, como si estuviese borracho he swayed from side to side as he walked, as if he were drunkD( AmL exc CS fam) (divertirse): vacilamos un montón en la fiesta we had a great time o a lot of fun at the party■ vacilarvt(Esp, Méx fam) to teaselo estuvieron vacilando toda la noche they were teasing him o pulling his leg all evening¡no me vaciles! be serious!* * *
vacilar ( conjugate vacilar) verbo intransitivo
1
no vaciló en aceptar he did not hesitate to accept, he accepted without hesitation
2 ( oscilar) [ persona] to stagger, totter
3 (AmL exc CS fam) ( divertirse) to have fun
vacilar verbo intransitivo
1 (titubear, dudar) to hesitate: vaciló en responder, he hesitated before answering
2 (una voz) to falter
(una luz) to flicker
3 argot (hacer burla soterradamente) to tease: ¿me estás vacilando?, are you winding me up?
4 argot (presumir, fanfarronear) to boast, show off
' vacilar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
titubear
English:
dilly-dally
- falter
- hang back
- hesitate
- hold back
- little
- shilly-shally
- shrink
- straight
- vacillate
- waver
- dither
* * *♦ vi1. [dudar] to hesitate;contestó sin vacilar she replied without hesitation;vacilaba entre ambas opciones he hesitated o wavered between the two options;no vaciles más y subscríbete why wait? get your subscription today2. [voz, principios, régimen] to falter3. [fluctuar] [luz] to flicker;[pulso] to be irregular4. [oscilar] [mueble, persona] to wobbleuna moto de esas vacila mucho a bike like that is really cool♦ vtFam1. Esp, Carib, Méxme estás vacilando you're pulling my legvacílate ese carro get a load of that car, check out that car* * *I v/i3 Méx fam ( divertirse) have funII v/t fammake fun of* * *vacilar vi1) : to hesitate, to vacillate, to waver2) : to be unsteady, to wobble3) : to flicker* * *¡no me vaciles! come off it!
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