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61 compartir el viaje en coche
(v.) = car-pool [carpool]Ex. According to the U.S. Census data, the percentage of workers who car-pooled has dropped from 19.7% in 1980. to 11.2% in 2000.* * *(v.) = car-pool [carpool]Ex: According to the U.S. Census data, the percentage of workers who car-pooled has dropped from 19.7% in 1980. to 11.2% in 2000.
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62 cotización de las acciones
(n.) = share priceEx. After rising to giddy heights, share prices of Internet companies have dropped.* * *(n.) = share priceEx: After rising to giddy heights, share prices of Internet companies have dropped.
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63 crepitar
v.1 to crackle.2 to crepitate, to crack, to crackle, to sputter.* * *1 to crackle* * *VI [leño] to crackle; [bacon] to sizzle* * *verbo intransitivo to crackle* * *= sizzle, splutter, sputter.Ex. It should be hot enough so that a few drops of water will sizzle when they are dropped on the frying pan.Ex. The ashes of the wicks, becoming heated, caused the fatty acids to splutter; and this was a grave inconvenience.Ex. The light of these lamps did not sputter as it burned.* * *verbo intransitivo to crackle* * *= sizzle, splutter, sputter.Ex: It should be hot enough so that a few drops of water will sizzle when they are dropped on the frying pan.
Ex: The ashes of the wicks, becoming heated, caused the fatty acids to splutter; and this was a grave inconvenience.Ex: The light of these lamps did not sputter as it burned.* * *crepitar [A1 ]vito crackle* * *crepitar vito crackle* * *v/i crackle* * *crepitar vi: to crackle -
64 cántaro
m.1 clay jar.2 pitcher, jug.3 amphora, large two-handle storage jar generally used for wine or oil, pelike, stamnos.* * *1 (vasija) pitcher2 (contenido) pitcherful\llover a cántaros figurado to rain cats and dogs* * *SM1) (=vasija) pitcher, jug; (=cantidad) jugful* * *masculino pitcher, jug* * *= pitcher.Ex. It refers to the story of the milkmaid who planned what to do with the money she would get for her milk, but dropped the pitcher on the way to market.----* a cántaros = cats and dogs.* llover a cántaros = rain + cats and dogs, tip + it down with rain, pelt + (it down) with rain, chuck + it down with rain, piss + it down with rain, lash + it down with rain, teem with + rain, hammer + it down with rain, the heavens + open, rain + pour down, pour down, pour down with + rain.* lluvia a cántaros = pouring rain.* * *masculino pitcher, jug* * *= pitcher.Ex: It refers to the story of the milkmaid who planned what to do with the money she would get for her milk, but dropped the pitcher on the way to market.
* a cántaros = cats and dogs.* llover a cántaros = rain + cats and dogs, tip + it down with rain, pelt + (it down) with rain, chuck + it down with rain, piss + it down with rain, lash + it down with rain, teem with + rain, hammer + it down with rain, the heavens + open, rain + pour down, pour down, pour down with + rain.* lluvia a cántaros = pouring rain.* * *pitcher, jugllover a cántaros to pour with rain, to rain cats and dogs ( colloq)tanto va el cántaro a la fuente que al fin se rompe you/he shouldn't push your/his luck ( colloq)* * *
cántaro sustantivo masculino
pitcher, jug;
cántaro sustantivo masculino pitcher
♦ Locuciones: figurado llover a cántaros, to pour with rain
' cántaro' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
ánfora
- panza
English:
pitcher
* * *cántaro nmlarge pitcher;a cántaros in torrents;llover a cántaros to rain cats and dogs* * *m pitcher;llover a cántaros fam pour (down);alma de cántaro fam simple soul* * *cántaro nm1) : pitcher, jug2)* * *cántaro n pitcher -
65 dar a entender
(v.) = give to + understand, hint, send + a clear signal that, lull + Nombre + into thinking, insinuate, intimateEx. I am given to understand that the overall cooling costs in a library building such as mine are greater than the total heating costs.Ex. Stanley C Holliday hammers home the same message by more whimsical means hinting darkly that a sticky end at the hands of irritated colleagues awaits all librarians who fail to make adequate and accurate notes.Ex. Schools that have dropped the word 'library' from their names are sending a clear signal that they want to disassociate themselves from the library profession.Ex. One is sometimes lulled into thinking that there might be a grain of rationality in his commentaries.Ex. Novels are modes of prediction that insinuate visions of human relations not to be found in official rules or precepts or admonitions.Ex. Tiff smiled a little superciliously intimating that he had a plan all figured out already.* * *(v.) = give to + understand, hint, send + a clear signal that, lull + Nombre + into thinking, insinuate, intimateEx: I am given to understand that the overall cooling costs in a library building such as mine are greater than the total heating costs.
Ex: Stanley C Holliday hammers home the same message by more whimsical means hinting darkly that a sticky end at the hands of irritated colleagues awaits all librarians who fail to make adequate and accurate notes.Ex: Schools that have dropped the word 'library' from their names are sending a clear signal that they want to disassociate themselves from the library profession.Ex: One is sometimes lulled into thinking that there might be a grain of rationality in his commentaries.Ex: Novels are modes of prediction that insinuate visions of human relations not to be found in official rules or precepts or admonitions.Ex: Tiff smiled a little superciliously intimating that he had a plan all figured out already. -
66 dar la vuelta en el aire
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67 dar resultado
v.1 to work OK, to come out well, to come out all right, to give results.Da resultado It works OK.2 to get good results.Me dio resultado el plan de vivienda I got good results in the housing plan.* * *(v.) = be successful, give + result, work, pay off, be a success, payEx. For a scheme to be successful in the long term it is vital that there should be an organisational structure to support the scheme.Ex. A first trial gave unsatisfactory results because of flaws in the experimental design, and a second test was therefore planned to overcome these difficulties.Ex. Files only work effectively for a limited number of documents.Ex. This is an address given at a seminar on 'Books and businesses: an investment that pays off' at the Turin book fair on 17 May 89.Ex. The idea of having several indexes has not proved to be a success and has been dropped.Ex. Simply put, it just doesn't pay to digitise information that few can use, and even fewer will pay for.* * *(v.) = be successful, give + result, work, pay off, be a success, payEx: For a scheme to be successful in the long term it is vital that there should be an organisational structure to support the scheme.
Ex: A first trial gave unsatisfactory results because of flaws in the experimental design, and a second test was therefore planned to overcome these difficulties.Ex: Files only work effectively for a limited number of documents.Ex: This is an address given at a seminar on 'Books and businesses: an investment that pays off' at the Turin book fair on 17 May 89.Ex: The idea of having several indexes has not proved to be a success and has been dropped. -
68 dar una sacudida
(v.) = give + a shake, give + a jerkEx. As the water was draining away between the wires of the sieve, he gave the mould a sideways shake locking the fibres together and 'shutting' the sheet.Ex. He then dropped the metal suddenly into the mouth of the mould, and at the same instant gave it a jerk or toss to force the metal into the recesses of the matrix (the precise form of the jerk varying with the different letters).* * *(v.) = give + a shake, give + a jerkEx: As the water was draining away between the wires of the sieve, he gave the mould a sideways shake locking the fibres together and 'shutting' the sheet.
Ex: He then dropped the metal suddenly into the mouth of the mould, and at the same instant gave it a jerk or toss to force the metal into the recesses of the matrix (the precise form of the jerk varying with the different letters). -
69 de bajo nivel
(adj.) = lower-level, low-levelEx. Absenteeism amongst lower-level students caused them to be dropped from the study.Ex. Low-level magnetic fields are used to deactivate and reactivate targets without damaging the contents of magnetic media such as audio and video tapes.* * *(adj.) = lower-level, low-levelEx: Absenteeism amongst lower-level students caused them to be dropped from the study.
Ex: Low-level magnetic fields are used to deactivate and reactivate targets without damaging the contents of magnetic media such as audio and video tapes. -
70 de cojones
* * *(adj.) = badassEx. You can think of Homer as a badass literary ninja who wailed out a lyre solo so face-melting that it was remembered for the rest of history, and then dropped a smoke bomb and back-flipped out of sight forever.* * *(adj.) = badassEx: You can think of Homer as a badass literary ninja who wailed out a lyre solo so face-melting that it was remembered for the rest of history, and then dropped a smoke bomb and back-flipped out of sight forever.
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71 de jarana
= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx. She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.Ex. For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab.* * *= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx: She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.
Ex: For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab. -
72 de juerga
= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx. She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.Ex. For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab.* * *= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx: She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.
Ex: For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab. -
73 de marcha
= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx. She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.Ex. For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab.* * *= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx: She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.
Ex: For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab. -
74 de mucho cuidado
(adj.) = badassEx. You can think of Homer as a badass literary ninja who wailed out a lyre solo so face-melting that it was remembered for the rest of history, and then dropped a smoke bomb and back-flipped out of sight forever.* * *(adj.) = badassEx: You can think of Homer as a badass literary ninja who wailed out a lyre solo so face-melting that it was remembered for the rest of history, and then dropped a smoke bomb and back-flipped out of sight forever.
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75 de parranda
= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx. She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.Ex. For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab.* * *= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx: She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.
Ex: For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab. -
76 de picos pardos
= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx. She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.Ex. For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab.* * *= out on the town, a (late) night out on the townEx: She said that she took up smoking just to have something else to do while out on the town.
Ex: For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab. -
77 de puta madre
tabú brilliant, fucking brilliant————————tabú great, brilliant, bloody fantastic* * *(=bueno) terrific*, smashing*; (=malo) bloody awful**; [uso adverbial]marvellously* * *(adj.) = fantastic, wicked, swell, the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's whiskers, badassEx. GODORT has done a fantastic job of dealing with and solving documents problems.Ex. London in the 90s was wicked.Ex. I was reading this book in anticipatian of the movie and it was swell, it was so good I read it two days straight.Ex. For reasons that aren't clear ' the dog's bollocks,' which have all the credentials to be thought of badly, are considered the top of the tree.Ex. By the 1930s, 'cool as a cucumber' was ' the bee's knees,' slang of the era for 'excellent'.Ex. Both are considered to be the cat's meow but in different fields of machining.Ex. He's supposed to be the cat's pyjamas in modern classical music today.Ex. And if its wines are no longer considered the cat's whiskers, you should not let that prevent you from visiting Sydney.Ex. You can think of Homer as a badass literary ninja who wailed out a lyre solo so face-melting that it was remembered for the rest of history, and then dropped a smoke bomb and back-flipped out of sight forever.* * *(adj.) = fantastic, wicked, swell, the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's whiskers, badassEx: GODORT has done a fantastic job of dealing with and solving documents problems.
Ex: London in the 90s was wicked.Ex: I was reading this book in anticipatian of the movie and it was swell, it was so good I read it two days straight.Ex: For reasons that aren't clear ' the dog's bollocks,' which have all the credentials to be thought of badly, are considered the top of the tree.Ex: By the 1930s, 'cool as a cucumber' was ' the bee's knees,' slang of the era for 'excellent'.Ex: Both are considered to be the cat's meow but in different fields of machining.Ex: He's supposed to be the cat's pyjamas in modern classical music today.Ex: And if its wines are no longer considered the cat's whiskers, you should not let that prevent you from visiting Sydney.Ex: You can think of Homer as a badass literary ninja who wailed out a lyre solo so face-melting that it was remembered for the rest of history, and then dropped a smoke bomb and back-flipped out of sight forever. -
78 de un extremo de la ciudad a otro
(adj.) = cross-townEx. The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).* * *(adj.) = cross-townEx: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).
Spanish-English dictionary > de un extremo de la ciudad a otro
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79 de un lado de la ciudad a otro
(adj.) = cross-townEx. The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).* * *(adj.) = cross-townEx: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).
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80 de vértigo
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