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  • 3 salir

    v.
    1 to go out (ir fuera).
    ¡sal aquí fuera! come out here!
    salir de to go/come out of
    ¿salimos al jardín? shall we go out into the garden?
    Yo salí I went out.
    2 to go out (ser novios).
    están saliendo they are going out (together)
    3 to turn out.
    ha salido muy estudioso he has turned out to be very studious
    ¿qué salió en la votación? what was the result of the vote?
    salir elegida actriz del año to be voted actress of the year
    salir premiado to be awarded a prize
    salir bien/mal to turn out well/badly
    salir ganando/perdiendo to come off well/badly
    me ha salido mal it didn't go very well; (examen, entrevista) it didn't turn out very well; (plato, dibujo) I got the wrong result (cuenta)
    ¿qué tal te ha salido? how did it go?
    4 to go out.
    salen mucho a cenar they eat out a lot
    5 to come out (surgir) (luna, estrellas, planta).
    le ha salido un sarpullido en la espalda her back has come out in a rash
    El plan me salió mal The plan came out bad.
    6 to come out (aparecer) (publicación, producto, traumas).
    ¡qué bien sales en la foto! you look great in the photo!
    ha salido en los periódicos/en la tele it's been in the papers/on TV
    salir de (Cine & Teatro) to appear as
    7 to come up.
    8 to turn up, to come along (presentarse) (ocasión, oportunidad).
    9 to work out.
    10 to lead.
    te toca salir a ti it's your lead
    11 to come out.
    la mancha de vino no sale the wine stain won't come out
    12 to get out, to escape.
    Me salió una espinilla I got a pimple.
    13 to slip out.
    Se me salió una imprudencia Something improper slipped out.
    14 to get away.
    El chico salió The boy got away.
    15 to step out, to pull out, to step outside.
    Ellos salieron con dificultad They pulled out with difficulty.
    16 to come up against, to encounter.
    Nos salió un problema We encountered a problem [came up against a problem]
    17 to be out, to come out.
    La luna sale a veces The moon comes out sometimes.
    18 to appear to.
    Nos salió un fantasma A ghost appeared to us.
    19 to work out for.
    20 to match.
    * * *
    Present Indicative
    salgo, sales, sale, salimos, salís, salen.
    Future Indicative
    Conditional
    Present Subjunctive
    Imperative
    sal (tú), salga (él/Vd.), salgamos (nos.), salid (vos.), salgan (ellos/Vds.).
    * * *
    verb
    1) to go out, get out
    2) depart, leave
    3) come out, appear
    5) become, be elected
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    Para las expresiones salir adelante, salir ganando, salir perdiendo, salir de viaje, ver la otra entrada.
    1. VERBO INTRANSITIVO
    1) (=partir) [persona] to leave; [transportes] to leave, depart frm; (Náut) to leave, sail

    • salir [de] — to leave

    ¿a qué hora sales de la oficina? — what time do you leave the office?

    • salir [para] — to set off for

    2) (=no entrar) (=ir fuera) to go out; (=venir fuera) to come out; [a divertirse] to go out

    salió a la calle a ver si venían — she went outside {o} she went out into the street to see if they were coming

    -¿está Juan? -no, ha salido — "is Juan in?" - "no, I'm afraid he's gone out"

    ¿vas a salir esta noche? — are you going out tonight?

    la pelota salió fuera — (Ftbl) the ball went out (of play)

    • salió [corriendo] (del cuarto) — he ran out (of the room)

    • salir [de], nos la encontramos al salir del cine — we bumped into her when we were coming out of the cinema

    ¿de dónde has salido? — where did you appear {o} spring from?

    • salir de [paseo] — to go out for a walk

    salir de pobre —

    3) [al mercado] [revista, libro, disco] to come out; [moda] to come in

    acaba de salir un disco suyo — an album of his has just come out {o} been released

    4) [en medios de comunicación]

    la noticia salió en el periódico de ayer — the news was {o} appeared in yesterday's paper

    salir por la televisión — to be {o} appear on TV

    5) (=surgir) to come up

    cuando salga la ocasión — when the opportunity comes up {o} arises

    ¡ya salió aquello! — we know all about that!

    salirle algo a algn: le ha salido novio/un trabajo — she's got herself a boyfriend/a job

    6) (=aparecer) [agua] to come out; [sol] to come out; [mancha] to appear
    7) (=nacer) [diente] to come through; [planta, sol] to come up; [pelo] to grow; [pollito] to hatch
    8) (=quitarse) [mancha] to come out, come off

    el anillo no le sale del dedo — the ring won't come off her finger, she can't get the ring off her finger

    9) (=costar)

    • salir [a], sale a ocho euros el kilo — it works out at eight euros a kilo

    salimos a 10 libras por persona — it works out at £10 each

    • salir [por], me salió por 1.000 pesos — it cost me 1,000 pesos

    10) (=resultar)

    ¿cómo salió la representación? — how did the performance go?

    ¿qué número ha salido premiado en la lotería? — what was the winning number in the lottery?

    tenemos que aceptarlo, salga lo que salga — we have to accept it, whatever happens

    • salir [bien], el plan salió bien — the plan worked out well

    ¿salió bien la fiesta? — did the party go well?

    ¿cómo te salió el examen? — how did your exam go?

    • salir [mal], salió muy mal del tratamiento — the treatment wasn't at all successful

    ¡qué mal me ha salido el dibujo! — oh dear! my drawing hasn't come out very well!

    11)

    salirle algo a algn —

    a) (=poder resolverse)
    b) (=resultar natural)
    c) (=poder recordarse)
    12)

    • salir [a] — [calle] to come out in, lead to

    esta calle sale a la plaza — this street comes out in {o} leads to the square

    13)

    • salir [a] algn — (=parecerse) to take after sb

    14)

    • salir [con] algn — to go out with sb

    15)

    • salir [con] algo — [al hablar] to come out with sth

    16)

    • salir [de] — [proceder] to come from

    17)

    • salir [por] algn — (=defender) to come out in defence of sb, stick up for sb; [económicamente] to back sb financially

    cuando hubo problemas, salió por mí — when there were problems, she stuck up for me {o} came out in my defence

    18) (Teat) to come on

    "sale el rey" — [acotación] "enter the king"

    19) (=empezar) (Dep) to start; (Ajedrez) to have first move; (Naipes) to lead
    20) (Inform) to exit
    21) (=sobresalir) to stick out
    22) (=pagar)

    salir a los gastos de algn — to meet {o} pay sb's expenses

    2.
    See:
    SALIR Para precisar la forma de salir Aunque salir (de ) se suele traducir por come out (of ) o por go out (of) según la dirección del movimiento, cuando se quiere especificar la forma en que se realiza ese movimiento, estos verbos se pueden reemplazar por otros como run out, rush out, jump out, tiptoe out, climb out {etc}: Se vio a tres hombres enmascarados salir del banco corriendo Three masked men were seen running out of the bank Salió del coche con un salto He jumped out of the car Salió de puntillas de la habitación He tiptoed out of the room Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
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    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( partir) to leave

    ¿a qué hora sale tu tren/tu vuelo? — what time is your train/flight?

    salió corriendo or disparada — (fam) she was off like a shot (colloq)

    ¿de qué andén sale el tren? — what platform does the train leave from?

    no puedo salir, me he quedado encerrado — I can't get out, I'm trapped in here

    salir de algo — to come out/get out of something

    ¿tú de dónde has salido? — where have you sprung from?

    ¿de dónde salió este dinero? — where did this money come from?

    salió por la puerta de atrás — he went out o left by the back door

    salir a algo: salieron al balcón/al jardín they went out onto the balcony/into the garden; salir a + inf to go out/come out to + inf; ¿sales a jugar? are you coming out to play?; salió a hacer las compras — she's gone out (to do the) shopping

    ¿a qué hora sales de clase? — what time do you get out of class o finish your class?

    ¿cuándo sale del hospital? — when is he coming out of (the) hospital?

    4)
    a) ( como entretenimiento) to go out
    b) ( tener una relación) to go out

    ¿estás saliendo con alguien? — are you going out with anyone?

    5) (a calle, carretera)

    ¿por aquí se sale a la carretera? — can I get on to the road this way?

    ¿esta calle sale al Paseo Colón? — does this street come out onto the Paseo Colón?

    6) clavo/tapón to come out; anillo to come off
    7) (aparecer, manifestarse)
    a) cana/sarpullido to appear; (+ me/te/le etc)

    me salieron granos — I broke out o (BrE) come out in spots

    ¿te sale sangre? — are you bleeding o is it bleeding?

    b) sol ( por la mañana) to rise, come up; ( de detrás de una nube) to come out
    c) ( surgir) tema/idea to come up

    yo no se lo pedí, salió de él — I didn't ask him to do it, it was his idea o he offered

    ya salió aquello — you (o he etc) had to bring that up; (+ me/te/le etc)

    le salió así, espontáneamente — he just came out with it quite spontaneously

    me salió en alemán — it came o I said it in German

    d) carta ( en naipes) to come up

    ¿ha salido ya el 15? — have they called number 15 yet?

    8)
    a) ( tocar en suerte) (+ me/te/le etc)
    9) mancha ( aparecer) to appear; ( quitarse) to come out
    10)
    a) revista/novela to come out; disco to come out, be released
    b) (en televisión, el periódico) to appear

    salió por or en (la) televisión — she was o appeared on television

    c) ( en una foto) to appear; (+ compl)

    sale de pastor — he plays o he is a shepherd

    11) (expresando irritación, sorpresa)

    salir con algo: mira con qué sale éste ahora! did you hear what he just said?; no me salgas ahora con eso — don't give me that (colloq)

    12) ( expresando logro) (+ me/te/le etc)

    ¿te salió el crucigrama? — did you finish the crossword?

    ahora mismo no me sale su nombre — (fam) I can't think of her name right now

    13) ( resultar)

    ¿a ti te da 40? a mí me sale 42 — how do you get 40? I make it 42; (+ compl)

    sale muy caro — it works out o is very expensive

    ¿qué número salió premiado? — what was the winning number?

    salir bien/mal en un examen — (Chi fam) to pass/fail an exam; (+ me/te/le etc)

    no lo hagas deprisa que te va a salir todo mal — don't try to do it too quickly, you'll do it all wrong

    ¿cómo te salió el examen? — how did you get on o do in the exam?

    14) (de situación, estado)

    salir de algo: para salir del apuro in order to get out of an awkward situation; está muy mal, no sé si saldrá de ésta she's very ill, I don't know if she'll pull through; no sé cómo vamos a salir de ésta I don't know how we're going to get out of this one; me ayudó a salir de la depresión he helped me get over my depression; (+ compl) salió bien de la operación she came through the operation well; salieron ilesos del accidente they were not hurt in the accident; salió airosa del trance she came through it with flying colors; salir adelante negocio to stay afloat, survive; propuesta to prosper; fue una época muy dura, pero lograron salir adelante — it was a difficult period but they managed to get through it

    a) salir a ( parecerse a) to take after
    b) salir con (Col) ( combinar con) to go with
    c) salir de (Col, Ven) ( deshacerse de) to get rid of
    2.
    salirse v pron
    1)
    a) (de recipiente, límite)

    cierra el grifo, que se va a salir el agua — turn off the faucet (AmE) o (BrE) tap, the water's going to overflow

    salirse de algo: el camión se salió de la carretera the truck came/went off the road; el río se salió de su cauce the river overflowed its banks; la pelota se salió del campo de juego the ball went into touch o out of play; procura no salirte del presupuesto try to keep within the budget; te estás saliendo del tema — you're getting off the point

    b) (por orificio, grieta) agua/tinta to leak (out), come out; gas to escape, come out

    salirse de algo: se está saliendo el aire del neumático the air's coming o leaking out of the tire; se me salió el hilo de la aguja — the needle's come unthreaded

    c) (Chi, Méx) pluma/recipiente to leak
    2) ( soltarse) to come off; (+ me/te/le etc)

    se le salían los ojos de las órbitas — his eyes were popping out of his head

    3) ( irse) to leave

    salirse de algo — de asociación to leave something

    salirse con la suya — to get one's (own) way

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    = come out, debouch, depart, exit, go out of, make + departure, march off, quit, take + departure, leave, issue out, start out, go out and about, go out, pop, head out, socialise [socialize, -USA], be out and about, get out and about, go forth.
    Ex. Maybe it's the frustrated library school professor in him crying to come out -- whatever it is, give him a chance to show you what he knows.
    Ex. As they debouched into the street and hurried back to the library, Jergens thanked Meek for being someone she could share her concerns with.
    Ex. He smiled again, waved goodbye, and departed.
    Ex. Enter the lesson number you wish, or press the letter 'X' to exit the tutorial.
    Ex. In all 20 per cent of visitors went out of the bookshop with a book they had intended to buy, 15 per cent went out with a book they had not intended to buy and 67 went out with both intended and unintended purchases.
    Ex. Before making his departure, however, a few hints upon the methods of examining bibliographic compilations are necessary.
    Ex. Do not march off full-tilt in front of the readers.
    Ex. If you decide not to send or save the message, replace the question mark in front of ' Quit' with another character.
    Ex. 'I'm sure we'll be in touch a lot this week!' Suttie took her departure, repeating the offer.
    Ex. 'Do you ever let anyone leave without inspecting their bags?' Carpozzi asked as she sidled up to the checker.
    Ex. He bade her good day and issued out into the street.
    Ex. He went back into the house, addressing his Maker in low agonized tones, changed, and started out again.
    Ex. Thursday 22 August is your opportunity to go out and about - seeing at first hand the great variety of library and information centres located in the Central Belt of Scotland.
    Ex. They decided one day to take it upon themselves without his knowledge to go out and solicit funds from some of the large corn processors and farm equipment manufacturers.
    Ex. The azaleas are popping, the redbuds are in their finest attire, and the dogwoods are lacy jewels at the edge of the wood.
    Ex. It's tempting to splurge on a new hi-fi system or head out on a shopping spree, but the smart option might be to pay off an existing debt.
    Ex. She is married and has a family, but does not spend much time in the director's office or socialize with her.
    Ex. But if you' re out and about like I am, here's where I'll be over the next few nights, and feel free to say hi if you're going to be in the same area.
    Ex. Use the links below for ideas to get out and about.
    Ex. Finally six men agreed to go forth in their underclothes and nooses around their necks in hopeful expectation that their sacrifice would satisfy the king's bloodlust and he would spare the rest of the citizens.
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    * acabar de salir de = be fresh out of.
    * a lo que salga = come what may.
    * a veces las cosas salen mal = shit happens.
    * a veces sales jodido = shit happens.
    * aventurarse a salir = venture forth.
    * ayudar a Alguien a salir adelante = help + Nombre + get on + Posesivo + feet.
    * cosas + salir bien = things + work out.
    * dejar que Alguien se salga con la suya = let + Nombre + do things + Posesivo + (own) way.
    * entrar y salir = come and go, drift in and out, wander in and out, go into and out of.
    * entrar y salir corriendo = run in and out.
    * estar saliendo con alguien = be in a dating relationship.
    * evitar que + salir = keep + Nombre + in.
    * hacer salir = push out, flush out.
    * imposibilitado para salir de casa = housebound [house-bound], homebound [home-bound].
    * invitar a Alguien a salir = ask + Nombre + out.
    * invitar a salir = take + Nombre + out.
    * no salir mal parado por = be none the worse for (that), be none the worse for wear.
    * obligar a salir = drive out + with a pitchfork, push out.
    * obligar a salir de = force from.
    * personas que no pueden salir de casa = homebound, the.
    * por un lado entra + Nombre + y por otro sale + Nombre = in go + Nombre + at one end, and out come + Nombre + at the other.
    * que puede salir en préstamo = loanable.
    * salir a = propagate out to, crash to, be out to.
    * salir a borbotones = gush out, spurt.
    * salir a chorros = gush out, spurt.
    * salir a comer = eat out.
    * salir a dar una vuelta = go out.
    * salir a dar una vuelta en coche = go out for + a drive.
    * salir a dar un paseo = go out for + a walk.
    * salir adelante = make + ends meet, keep + the wolves from the door, get + unstuck.
    * salir adelante a duras penas = eke out + a living, scratch (out) + a living, scrape + a living, eke out + an existence.
    * salir adelante en la vida, = get on in + life.
    * salir adelante por uno mismo = pull + Reflexivo + up(wards) by + Posesivo + (own) bootstraps.
    * salir adelante sin la ayuda de nadie = pull + Reflexivo + up(wards) by + Posesivo + (own) bootstraps.
    * salir a echarse un cigarro = go out for + a smoke.
    * salir a flote = make + ends meet.
    * salir a fumarse un cigarro = go out for + a smoke.
    * salir a hurtadillas = steal away.
    * salir airoso = pass + muster, pass with + flying colours.
    * salir airoso de = ride out.
    * salir a la calle = go out, hit + the streets.
    * salir a la calle en avalancha = spill (out) into + the streets.
    * salir a la luz = come to + light, go + live.
    * salir a la palestra = come out in + the open.
    * salir a las mil maravillas = work + a treat, come up + a treat, go down + a treat.
    * salir a la superficie = surface.
    * salir ampollas = blister.
    * salir a pasear en coche = go out for + a drive.
    * salir a pedir de boca = come up + roses, go off without + a hitch.
    * salir apresuradamente = dash off, shoot off.
    * salir a subasta = come up for + auction.
    * salir a toda prisa = make + a hasty exit.
    * salir a tomar una copa = go out for + a drink.
    * salir bien = go + well.
    * salir bien al final = turn out + right in the end.
    * salir bramando = roar out of.
    * salir con estupideces = talk + nonsense.
    * salir corriendo = leg it, run off, run away, bolt, make + a bolt for, dash off, take off, shoot off, take off + running, take to + Posesivo + heels.
    * salir corriendo a la calle = run into + the street.
    * salir de = get out of, walk out of, climb out of, break out of, break through, strike out from.
    * salir de casa = leave + home.
    * salir de copas = go out for + a drink.
    * salir de donde menos Uno se lo espera = come out of + the woodwork.
    * salir de fiesta = party.
    * salir de Guatemala para meterse en Guatapeor = out of the fire and into the frying pan.
    * salir de jarana = paint + the town red, go out on + the town.
    * salir de juerga = go out + boozing, paint + the town red, go out on + the town.
    * salir de la cárcel = release from + jail.
    * salir de la miseria = haul + Reflexivo + out of + Posesivo + bog.
    * salir del armario = come out of + the closet.
    * salir de la rutina tradicional = break out of + the traditional mould.
    * salir de la situación = extricate + Reflexivo.
    * salir del cascarón = come out of + Posesivo + shell.
    * salir del círculo = break out of + circle.
    * salir del trabajo = clock off + work.
    * salir de marcha = paint + the town red, party, go out on + the town.
    * salir de nuevo = come back out.
    * salir de parranda = go out + boozing, paint + the town red, go out on + the town.
    * salir de paseo = go out for + a walk.
    * salir de paseo en coche = go out for + a drive.
    * salir de perlas = come up + a treat, go down + a treat.
    * salir de + Posesivo + escondite = raise + Posesivo + head above the parapet.
    * salir de + Posesivo + refugio = raise + Posesivo + head above the parapet.
    * salir de quién sabe dónde = come out of + the woodwork.
    * salir desapercibido = sneak out of.
    * salir desde = set out from.
    * salir de una situación difícil = haul + Reflexivo + out of + Posesivo + bog.
    * salir de un impás = circumvent + impasse.
    * salir disparado = bolt, make + a bolt for, shoot off, dash off, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.
    * salir disparado de = shoot out of.
    * salir echando leches = bolt, take off, make + a bolt for, dash off, shoot off.
    * salir el tiro por la culata = backfire, misfire.
    * salir en desbandada = stampede.
    * salir en estampida = stampede.
    * salir en forma radial de = radiate from.
    * salir enojado dando zapatazos = stomp out of.
    * salir en pareja con = date.
    * salir en tropel = stampede.
    * salir escaldado = get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue.
    * salir fatal = go + pear-shaped.
    * salir fuera = be out and about, get out and about.
    * salir ganando = make + a profit, win, compare + favourably, be better off, win + the day, win out, be better served by, come out on + top.
    * salir grietas = develop + cracks.
    * salir horriblemente mal = go + horribly wrong.
    * salir huyendo = make off, do + a bunk.
    * salir ileso = escape + injury, leave without + a scratch.
    * salir impune = get away with it, get away with + murder, get away + scot-free.
    * salir inadvertidamente = sneak out of.
    * salir juntos = be an item.
    * salir los dientes = cut + Posesivo + teeth.
    * salir mal = go + wrong, go + awry, misfire, backfire.
    * salir malparado = get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue.
    * salir perdiendo = victimise [victimize, -USA], come off + worst, lose out, compare + unfavourably, lose + neck, be a little worse off.
    * salir perjudicado = pay + the price, pay + the penalty.
    * salir pitando = take off, bolt, make + a bolt for, dash off, shoot off, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.
    * salir por los cerros de Ubeda = go off on + a tangent, go off at + a tangent, fly off on + a tangent.
    * salir por piernas = make + a hasty exit.
    * salir por pies = take off + running, leg it, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.
    * salir resueltamente = sally forth.
    * salir rugiendo = roar out of.
    * salir sangre = draw + blood.
    * salirse con la de Uno = have + Posesivo + way (with), get away with it.
    * salirse con las de Uno = get + Posesivo + (own) way, have + Posesivo + own way, get away with + murder, get away + scot-free.
    * salirse de = depart from, opt out of, step out of, spill out of.
    * salirse de convencionalismos = think out(side) + (of) the box.
    * salirse de la carretera = go off + the road.
    * salirse del molde = think out(side) + (of) the box.
    * salir según lo planeado = go off + as planned.
    * salir según lo previsto = go off + as planned.
    * salirse por la tangente = go off + the track, get off + the track, fly off on + a tangent, go off on + a tangent, go off at + a tangent, wander off + track, wander off + topic.
    * salir sigilosamente = steal away, slither out of.
    * salir sin ganar ni perder = break + even.
    * salir sin ser visto = sneak out of, slip out, steal away.
    * salir sin un rasguño = leave without + a scratch.
    * salir sobre ruedas = go off without + a hitch.
    * salir todo bien = land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet.
    * salir todo redondo = land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet.
    * salir una gotera = spring + a leak.
    * salir un momento a = pop down to.
    * salir un poco perjudicado = be a little worse prepared, be a little worse off.
    * salir volando = bolt, make + a bolt for, dash off, shoot off.
    * salir y caer = fall out (of).
    * salir zumbando = bolt, make + a bolt for.
    * si no aguantas el calor, sal de la cocina = if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
    * sol + salir por = sun + rise on.
    * volver a salir = come back out.
    * volver a salir a la superficie = resurface.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( partir) to leave

    ¿a qué hora sale tu tren/tu vuelo? — what time is your train/flight?

    salió corriendo or disparada — (fam) she was off like a shot (colloq)

    ¿de qué andén sale el tren? — what platform does the train leave from?

    no puedo salir, me he quedado encerrado — I can't get out, I'm trapped in here

    salir de algo — to come out/get out of something

    ¿tú de dónde has salido? — where have you sprung from?

    ¿de dónde salió este dinero? — where did this money come from?

    salió por la puerta de atrás — he went out o left by the back door

    salir a algo: salieron al balcón/al jardín they went out onto the balcony/into the garden; salir a + inf to go out/come out to + inf; ¿sales a jugar? are you coming out to play?; salió a hacer las compras — she's gone out (to do the) shopping

    ¿a qué hora sales de clase? — what time do you get out of class o finish your class?

    ¿cuándo sale del hospital? — when is he coming out of (the) hospital?

    4)
    a) ( como entretenimiento) to go out
    b) ( tener una relación) to go out

    ¿estás saliendo con alguien? — are you going out with anyone?

    5) (a calle, carretera)

    ¿por aquí se sale a la carretera? — can I get on to the road this way?

    ¿esta calle sale al Paseo Colón? — does this street come out onto the Paseo Colón?

    6) clavo/tapón to come out; anillo to come off
    7) (aparecer, manifestarse)
    a) cana/sarpullido to appear; (+ me/te/le etc)

    me salieron granos — I broke out o (BrE) come out in spots

    ¿te sale sangre? — are you bleeding o is it bleeding?

    b) sol ( por la mañana) to rise, come up; ( de detrás de una nube) to come out
    c) ( surgir) tema/idea to come up

    yo no se lo pedí, salió de él — I didn't ask him to do it, it was his idea o he offered

    ya salió aquello — you (o he etc) had to bring that up; (+ me/te/le etc)

    le salió así, espontáneamente — he just came out with it quite spontaneously

    me salió en alemán — it came o I said it in German

    d) carta ( en naipes) to come up

    ¿ha salido ya el 15? — have they called number 15 yet?

    8)
    a) ( tocar en suerte) (+ me/te/le etc)
    9) mancha ( aparecer) to appear; ( quitarse) to come out
    10)
    a) revista/novela to come out; disco to come out, be released
    b) (en televisión, el periódico) to appear

    salió por or en (la) televisión — she was o appeared on television

    c) ( en una foto) to appear; (+ compl)

    sale de pastor — he plays o he is a shepherd

    11) (expresando irritación, sorpresa)

    salir con algo: mira con qué sale éste ahora! did you hear what he just said?; no me salgas ahora con eso — don't give me that (colloq)

    12) ( expresando logro) (+ me/te/le etc)

    ¿te salió el crucigrama? — did you finish the crossword?

    ahora mismo no me sale su nombre — (fam) I can't think of her name right now

    13) ( resultar)

    ¿a ti te da 40? a mí me sale 42 — how do you get 40? I make it 42; (+ compl)

    sale muy caro — it works out o is very expensive

    ¿qué número salió premiado? — what was the winning number?

    salir bien/mal en un examen — (Chi fam) to pass/fail an exam; (+ me/te/le etc)

    no lo hagas deprisa que te va a salir todo mal — don't try to do it too quickly, you'll do it all wrong

    ¿cómo te salió el examen? — how did you get on o do in the exam?

    14) (de situación, estado)

    salir de algo: para salir del apuro in order to get out of an awkward situation; está muy mal, no sé si saldrá de ésta she's very ill, I don't know if she'll pull through; no sé cómo vamos a salir de ésta I don't know how we're going to get out of this one; me ayudó a salir de la depresión he helped me get over my depression; (+ compl) salió bien de la operación she came through the operation well; salieron ilesos del accidente they were not hurt in the accident; salió airosa del trance she came through it with flying colors; salir adelante negocio to stay afloat, survive; propuesta to prosper; fue una época muy dura, pero lograron salir adelante — it was a difficult period but they managed to get through it

    a) salir a ( parecerse a) to take after
    b) salir con (Col) ( combinar con) to go with
    c) salir de (Col, Ven) ( deshacerse de) to get rid of
    2.
    salirse v pron
    1)
    a) (de recipiente, límite)

    cierra el grifo, que se va a salir el agua — turn off the faucet (AmE) o (BrE) tap, the water's going to overflow

    salirse de algo: el camión se salió de la carretera the truck came/went off the road; el río se salió de su cauce the river overflowed its banks; la pelota se salió del campo de juego the ball went into touch o out of play; procura no salirte del presupuesto try to keep within the budget; te estás saliendo del tema — you're getting off the point

    b) (por orificio, grieta) agua/tinta to leak (out), come out; gas to escape, come out

    salirse de algo: se está saliendo el aire del neumático the air's coming o leaking out of the tire; se me salió el hilo de la aguja — the needle's come unthreaded

    c) (Chi, Méx) pluma/recipiente to leak
    2) ( soltarse) to come off; (+ me/te/le etc)

    se le salían los ojos de las órbitas — his eyes were popping out of his head

    3) ( irse) to leave

    salirse de algo — de asociación to leave something

    salirse con la suya — to get one's (own) way

    * * *
    = come out, debouch, depart, exit, go out of, make + departure, march off, quit, take + departure, leave, issue out, start out, go out and about, go out, pop, head out, socialise [socialize, -USA], be out and about, get out and about, go forth.

    Ex: Maybe it's the frustrated library school professor in him crying to come out -- whatever it is, give him a chance to show you what he knows.

    Ex: As they debouched into the street and hurried back to the library, Jergens thanked Meek for being someone she could share her concerns with.
    Ex: He smiled again, waved goodbye, and departed.
    Ex: Enter the lesson number you wish, or press the letter 'X' to exit the tutorial.
    Ex: In all 20 per cent of visitors went out of the bookshop with a book they had intended to buy, 15 per cent went out with a book they had not intended to buy and 67 went out with both intended and unintended purchases.
    Ex: Before making his departure, however, a few hints upon the methods of examining bibliographic compilations are necessary.
    Ex: Do not march off full-tilt in front of the readers.
    Ex: If you decide not to send or save the message, replace the question mark in front of ' Quit' with another character.
    Ex: 'I'm sure we'll be in touch a lot this week!' Suttie took her departure, repeating the offer.
    Ex: 'Do you ever let anyone leave without inspecting their bags?' Carpozzi asked as she sidled up to the checker.
    Ex: He bade her good day and issued out into the street.
    Ex: He went back into the house, addressing his Maker in low agonized tones, changed, and started out again.
    Ex: Thursday 22 August is your opportunity to go out and about - seeing at first hand the great variety of library and information centres located in the Central Belt of Scotland.
    Ex: They decided one day to take it upon themselves without his knowledge to go out and solicit funds from some of the large corn processors and farm equipment manufacturers.
    Ex: The azaleas are popping, the redbuds are in their finest attire, and the dogwoods are lacy jewels at the edge of the wood.
    Ex: It's tempting to splurge on a new hi-fi system or head out on a shopping spree, but the smart option might be to pay off an existing debt.
    Ex: She is married and has a family, but does not spend much time in the director's office or socialize with her.
    Ex: But if you' re out and about like I am, here's where I'll be over the next few nights, and feel free to say hi if you're going to be in the same area.
    Ex: Use the links below for ideas to get out and about.
    Ex: Finally six men agreed to go forth in their underclothes and nooses around their necks in hopeful expectation that their sacrifice would satisfy the king's bloodlust and he would spare the rest of the citizens.
    * acabar de salir de = be fresh out of.
    * a lo que salga = come what may.
    * a veces las cosas salen mal = shit happens.
    * a veces sales jodido = shit happens.
    * aventurarse a salir = venture forth.
    * ayudar a Alguien a salir adelante = help + Nombre + get on + Posesivo + feet.
    * cosas + salir bien = things + work out.
    * dejar que Alguien se salga con la suya = let + Nombre + do things + Posesivo + (own) way.
    * entrar y salir = come and go, drift in and out, wander in and out, go into and out of.
    * entrar y salir corriendo = run in and out.
    * estar saliendo con alguien = be in a dating relationship.
    * evitar que + salir = keep + Nombre + in.
    * hacer salir = push out, flush out.
    * imposibilitado para salir de casa = housebound [house-bound], homebound [home-bound].
    * invitar a Alguien a salir = ask + Nombre + out.
    * invitar a salir = take + Nombre + out.
    * no salir mal parado por = be none the worse for (that), be none the worse for wear.
    * obligar a salir = drive out + with a pitchfork, push out.
    * obligar a salir de = force from.
    * personas que no pueden salir de casa = homebound, the.
    * por un lado entra + Nombre + y por otro sale + Nombre = in go + Nombre + at one end, and out come + Nombre + at the other.
    * que puede salir en préstamo = loanable.
    * salir a = propagate out to, crash to, be out to.
    * salir a borbotones = gush out, spurt.
    * salir a chorros = gush out, spurt.
    * salir a comer = eat out.
    * salir a dar una vuelta = go out.
    * salir a dar una vuelta en coche = go out for + a drive.
    * salir a dar un paseo = go out for + a walk.
    * salir adelante = make + ends meet, keep + the wolves from the door, get + unstuck.
    * salir adelante a duras penas = eke out + a living, scratch (out) + a living, scrape + a living, eke out + an existence.
    * salir adelante en la vida, = get on in + life.
    * salir adelante por uno mismo = pull + Reflexivo + up(wards) by + Posesivo + (own) bootstraps.
    * salir adelante sin la ayuda de nadie = pull + Reflexivo + up(wards) by + Posesivo + (own) bootstraps.
    * salir a echarse un cigarro = go out for + a smoke.
    * salir a flote = make + ends meet.
    * salir a fumarse un cigarro = go out for + a smoke.
    * salir a hurtadillas = steal away.
    * salir airoso = pass + muster, pass with + flying colours.
    * salir airoso de = ride out.
    * salir a la calle = go out, hit + the streets.
    * salir a la calle en avalancha = spill (out) into + the streets.
    * salir a la luz = come to + light, go + live.
    * salir a la palestra = come out in + the open.
    * salir a las mil maravillas = work + a treat, come up + a treat, go down + a treat.
    * salir a la superficie = surface.
    * salir ampollas = blister.
    * salir a pasear en coche = go out for + a drive.
    * salir a pedir de boca = come up + roses, go off without + a hitch.
    * salir apresuradamente = dash off, shoot off.
    * salir a subasta = come up for + auction.
    * salir a toda prisa = make + a hasty exit.
    * salir a tomar una copa = go out for + a drink.
    * salir bien = go + well.
    * salir bien al final = turn out + right in the end.
    * salir bramando = roar out of.
    * salir con estupideces = talk + nonsense.
    * salir corriendo = leg it, run off, run away, bolt, make + a bolt for, dash off, take off, shoot off, take off + running, take to + Posesivo + heels.
    * salir corriendo a la calle = run into + the street.
    * salir de = get out of, walk out of, climb out of, break out of, break through, strike out from.
    * salir de casa = leave + home.
    * salir de copas = go out for + a drink.
    * salir de donde menos Uno se lo espera = come out of + the woodwork.
    * salir de fiesta = party.
    * salir de Guatemala para meterse en Guatapeor = out of the fire and into the frying pan.
    * salir de jarana = paint + the town red, go out on + the town.
    * salir de juerga = go out + boozing, paint + the town red, go out on + the town.
    * salir de la cárcel = release from + jail.
    * salir de la miseria = haul + Reflexivo + out of + Posesivo + bog.
    * salir del armario = come out of + the closet.
    * salir de la rutina tradicional = break out of + the traditional mould.
    * salir de la situación = extricate + Reflexivo.
    * salir del cascarón = come out of + Posesivo + shell.
    * salir del círculo = break out of + circle.
    * salir del trabajo = clock off + work.
    * salir de marcha = paint + the town red, party, go out on + the town.
    * salir de nuevo = come back out.
    * salir de parranda = go out + boozing, paint + the town red, go out on + the town.
    * salir de paseo = go out for + a walk.
    * salir de paseo en coche = go out for + a drive.
    * salir de perlas = come up + a treat, go down + a treat.
    * salir de + Posesivo + escondite = raise + Posesivo + head above the parapet.
    * salir de + Posesivo + refugio = raise + Posesivo + head above the parapet.
    * salir de quién sabe dónde = come out of + the woodwork.
    * salir desapercibido = sneak out of.
    * salir desde = set out from.
    * salir de una situación difícil = haul + Reflexivo + out of + Posesivo + bog.
    * salir de un impás = circumvent + impasse.
    * salir disparado = bolt, make + a bolt for, shoot off, dash off, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.
    * salir disparado de = shoot out of.
    * salir echando leches = bolt, take off, make + a bolt for, dash off, shoot off.
    * salir el tiro por la culata = backfire, misfire.
    * salir en desbandada = stampede.
    * salir en estampida = stampede.
    * salir en forma radial de = radiate from.
    * salir enojado dando zapatazos = stomp out of.
    * salir en pareja con = date.
    * salir en tropel = stampede.
    * salir escaldado = get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue.
    * salir fatal = go + pear-shaped.
    * salir fuera = be out and about, get out and about.
    * salir ganando = make + a profit, win, compare + favourably, be better off, win + the day, win out, be better served by, come out on + top.
    * salir grietas = develop + cracks.
    * salir horriblemente mal = go + horribly wrong.
    * salir huyendo = make off, do + a bunk.
    * salir ileso = escape + injury, leave without + a scratch.
    * salir impune = get away with it, get away with + murder, get away + scot-free.
    * salir inadvertidamente = sneak out of.
    * salir juntos = be an item.
    * salir los dientes = cut + Posesivo + teeth.
    * salir mal = go + wrong, go + awry, misfire, backfire.
    * salir malparado = get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue.
    * salir perdiendo = victimise [victimize, -USA], come off + worst, lose out, compare + unfavourably, lose + neck, be a little worse off.
    * salir perjudicado = pay + the price, pay + the penalty.
    * salir pitando = take off, bolt, make + a bolt for, dash off, shoot off, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.
    * salir por los cerros de Ubeda = go off on + a tangent, go off at + a tangent, fly off on + a tangent.
    * salir por piernas = make + a hasty exit.
    * salir por pies = take off + running, leg it, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.
    * salir resueltamente = sally forth.
    * salir rugiendo = roar out of.
    * salir sangre = draw + blood.
    * salirse con la de Uno = have + Posesivo + way (with), get away with it.
    * salirse con las de Uno = get + Posesivo + (own) way, have + Posesivo + own way, get away with + murder, get away + scot-free.
    * salirse de = depart from, opt out of, step out of, spill out of.
    * salirse de convencionalismos = think out(side) + (of) the box.
    * salirse de la carretera = go off + the road.
    * salirse del molde = think out(side) + (of) the box.
    * salir según lo planeado = go off + as planned.
    * salir según lo previsto = go off + as planned.
    * salirse por la tangente = go off + the track, get off + the track, fly off on + a tangent, go off on + a tangent, go off at + a tangent, wander off + track, wander off + topic.
    * salir sigilosamente = steal away, slither out of.
    * salir sin ganar ni perder = break + even.
    * salir sin ser visto = sneak out of, slip out, steal away.
    * salir sin un rasguño = leave without + a scratch.
    * salir sobre ruedas = go off without + a hitch.
    * salir todo bien = land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet.
    * salir todo redondo = land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet.
    * salir una gotera = spring + a leak.
    * salir un momento a = pop down to.
    * salir un poco perjudicado = be a little worse prepared, be a little worse off.
    * salir volando = bolt, make + a bolt for, dash off, shoot off.
    * salir y caer = fall out (of).
    * salir zumbando = bolt, make + a bolt for.
    * si no aguantas el calor, sal de la cocina = if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
    * sol + salir por = sun + rise on.
    * volver a salir = come back out.
    * volver a salir a la superficie = resurface.

    * * *
    salir [ I29 ]
    ■ salir (verbo intransitivo)
    A partir
    B salir al exterior
    C
    1 habiendo terminado algo
    2 Informática
    D
    1 como entretenimiento
    2 tener una relación
    E a una calle, carretera
    F salir: clavos, tapones etc
    A
    1 aparecer, manifestarse
    2 salir: sol
    3 surgir
    4 en naipes
    B
    1 tocar en suerte
    2 en un reparto
    C salir: manchas
    D
    1 salir: revista, novela etc
    2 en televisión, el periódico
    3 en una foto
    4 desempeñando un papel
    E expresando irritación, sorpresa
    A expresando logro
    B resultar
    C de una situación, un estado
    D parecerse a
    E salir con, combinar con
    F salir de, deshacerse de
    ■ salirse (verbo pronominal)
    A
    1 de un recipiente, un límite
    2 por un orificio, una grieta
    3 salirse: recipientes etc
    B soltarse
    C irse
    vi
    A (partir) to leave
    ¿a qué hora sale el tren/tu vuelo? what time does the train/your flight leave?, what time is your train/flight?
    salieron a toda velocidad they went off at top speed, they sped off
    ¿está Marcos? — no, ha salido de viaje can I speak to Marcos? — I'm afraid he's away at the moment
    salió corriendo or pitando or disparada ( fam); she was off like a shot ( colloq), she shot off ( colloq)
    salir DE algo to leave FROM sth
    ¿de qué andén sale el tren? what platform does the train leave from?
    salgo de casa a las siete I leave home at seven
    salir PARA algo to leave FOR sth
    los novios salieron para las Bahamas the newlyweds left for the Bahamas
    B (al exterior — acercándose al hablante) to come out; (— alejándose del hablante) to go out
    no salgas sin abrigo don't go out without a coat
    ha salido she's gone out, she's out
    ya puedes salir que te he visto you can come on out now, I can see you
    no puedo salir, me he quedado encerrado I can't get out, I'm trapped in here
    salir DE algo to come out/get out OF sth
    ¡sal de ahí! come out of there!
    ¡sal de aquí! get out of here!
    sal de debajo de la mesa come out from under the table
    no salió de su habitación en todo el día he didn't come out of o leave his room all day
    sal ya de la cama get out of bed
    de aquí que no salga ni una palabra not a word of this to anyone
    ¿tú de dónde has salido? where have you sprung from?
    ¿de dónde salió este dinero? where did this money come from?
    nunca ha salido de España/del pueblo he's never been out of Spain/the village
    está en libertad bajo fianza y no puede salir del país she's out on bail and can't leave the country
    para impedir que salgan más capitales del país to prevent more capital flowing out of o leaving the country
    salir POR algo to leave BY sth
    tuvo que salir por la ventana she had to get out through the window
    acaba de salir por la puerta de atrás he's just left by the back door, he's just gone out the back door
    salir A algo:
    salieron al balcón/al jardín they went out onto the balcony/into the garden
    salen al mar por la noche they go out to sea at night
    ¿quién quiere salir a la pizarra? who wants to come up to the blackboard?
    el equipo salió al terreno de juego the team took the field o came onto the field
    ¿quién te salió al teléfono? who answered (the phone)?
    salir A + INF to go out/come out to + INF
    ¿sales a jugar? are you coming out to play?
    ha salido a hacer la compra she's gone out (to do the) shopping
    C
    no salgo de trabajar hasta las siete I don't finish o leave work until seven
    empezó a trabajar aquí recién salido de la escuela he started working here just after he left school
    ¿a qué hora sales de clase? what time do you come out of class o get out of class o finish your class?
    ¿cuándo sale del hospital/de la cárcel? when is he coming out of (the) hospital/(the) prison?
    2 ( Informática) (del sistema) to log off, log out; (de una aplicación) to quit
    D
    estuvo castigado un mes sin salir he wasn't allowed to go out for a month
    salieron a cenar fuera they went out for dinner, they had dinner out
    hace tiempo que salen juntos they've been going out together for a while
    salir CON algn to go out WITH sb
    ¿estás saliendo con alguien? are you going out with anyone?, are you seeing anyone? ( AmE)
    E
    (a una calle, carretera): ¿por aquí se sale a la carretera? can I get on to the road this way?
    ¿esta calle sale al Paseo Colón? will this street take me to the Paseo Colón?, does this street come out onto the Paseo Colón?
    F «clavo/tapón» to come out; «anillo» to come off
    el anillo no me sale my ring won't come off, I can't get my ring off
    A (aparecer, manifestarse)
    1 «cana/sarpullido» to appear
    (+ me/te/le etc): ya me empiezan a salir canas I'm starting to go gray, I'm getting gray hairs
    ya le han salido los dientes de abajo she's already got o she's already cut her bottom teeth, her bottom teeth have already come through
    me ha salido una ampolla I've got a blister
    le salió un sarpullido he came out in a rash
    le ha salido un chichón en la frente a bump's come up on her forehead
    si como chocolate me salen granos if I eat chocolate I break out o ( BrE) come out in spots
    a ver ¿te sale sangre? let's have a look, are you bleeding o is it bleeding?
    me sale sangre de la nariz my nose is bleeding
    a la planta le están saliendo hojas nuevas the plant's putting out new leaves, the plant has some new leaves coming out
    2 «sol» (por la mañana) to rise, come up; (de detrás de una nube) to come out
    parece que quiere salir el sol it looks as though the sun's trying to come out
    3 (surgir) «tema/idea» to come up
    ¿cómo salió eso a la conversación? how did that come up in the conversation?
    yo no se lo pedí, salió de él I didn't ask him to do it, it was his idea o he offered
    (+ me/te/le etc): le salió así, espontáneamente he just came out with it quite spontaneously
    me salió en alemán it came out in German, I said it in German
    no me salió nada mejor nothing better came up o turned up
    ¿has visto el novio que le ha salido? ( fam); have you seen the boyfriend she's found herself? ( colloq)
    no voy a poder ir, me ha salido otro compromiso I'm afraid I won't be able to go, something (else) has come up o cropped up
    4 «carta» (en naipes) to come up
    el as de diamantes todavía no ha salido the ace of diamonds hasn't come up yet
    ¿ya ha salido el 15? have they called number 15 yet?, has number 15 gone yet?
    B
    1 (tocar en suerte) (+ me/te/le etc):
    me salió un tema que no había estudiado I got a subject I hadn't studied
    me salió un cinco I got a five
    2 ( Esp) (en un reparto) salir A algo; to get sth
    salimos a dos pastelitos cada uno we get two cakes each, it works out as two cakes each
    son tres hermanos, así que salen a tres mil cada uno there are three brothers, so they each end up with o get three thousand
    C «mancha» (aparecer) to appear; (quitarse) to come out
    D
    1 «revista» to come out; «novela» to come out, be published; «disco» to come out, be released
    un producto que acaba de salir al mercado a new product which has just come on to the market
    2 (en televisión, el periódico) to appear
    la noticia salió en primera página the news appeared on the front page
    salió por or en (la) televisión she was o appeared on television
    ayer salió mi primo en or por la televisión my cousin was on (the) television yesterday
    3 (en una foto) to appear
    no sale en esta foto he doesn't appear in o he isn't in this photograph
    (+ compl): ¡qué bien saliste en esta foto! you've come out really well in this photograph, this is a really good photograph of you
    4
    (desempeñando un papel): ¿tú sales en la obra de fin de curso? are you in the end-of-term play?
    sale de pastor he plays o he is a shepherd
    me salió de testigo en el juicio ( RPl); he testified on my behalf
    le salí de testigo cuando se casó ( RPl); I was a witness at her wedding
    E (expresando irritación, sorpresa) salir + GER:
    y ahora sale diciendo que no lo sabía and now he says he didn't know
    salir CON algo:
    ¡mira con qué sale éste ahora! did you hear what he just said?
    no me salgas ahora con eso don't give me that ( colloq)
    y ahora me sale con que no quiere ir and now he tells me he doesn't want to go!
    ¡a veces sale con cada cosa más graciosa! sometimes she comes out with the funniest things!
    A (expresando logro) (+ me/te/le etc):
    ¿te salió el crucigrama? did you finish the crossword?
    no me sale esta ecuación/cuenta I can't do this equation/sum
    ¿me ayudas con este dibujo que a mí no me sale? can you help me with this drawing? I can't get it right
    no te sale el acento mexicano you're not very good at the Mexican accent, you haven't got the Mexican accent right
    ahora mismo no me sale su nombre ( fam); I can't think of her name right now
    estaba tan entusiasmado que no le salían las palabras he was so excited he couldn't get his words out
    B
    (resultar): de aquí no va a salir nada bueno no good is going to come of this
    van a lo que salga, nunca hacen planes they just take things as they come, they never make plans
    ¿a ti te da 40? a mí me sale 42 how do you get 40? I make it 42
    (+ compl): las cosas salieron mejor de lo que esperábamos things turned out/worked out better than we expected
    tenemos que acabarlo salga como salga we have to finish it, no matter how it turns out
    no ha salido ninguna de las fotos none of the photographs has come out
    la foto ha salido movida the photograph has come out blurred
    mandarlo certificado sale muy caro sending it registered mail works out o is very expensive
    salió elegido tesorero he was elected treasurer
    ¿qué número salió premiado? what was the winning number?
    salió beneficiado en el reparto he did well out of the division o ( BrE) share-out
    (+ me/te/le etc): el postre no me salió bien the dessert didn't come out right
    las cosas no nos han salido bien things haven't gone right for us
    no lo hagas deprisa que te va a salir todo al revés don't try to do it too quickly, you'll do it all wrong
    si lo haces sin regla te va a salir torcido if you do it without a ruler it'll come out crooked
    así te va a salir muy caro it'll work out very expensive for you that way
    ¿cómo te salió el examen? how did you get on o do in the exam?, how did the exam go?
    el niño les salió muy inteligente their son turned out (to be) really bright
    C (de una situación, un estado) salir DE algo:
    para salir del apuro in order to get out of an awkward situation
    está muy mal, no sé si saldrá de ésta she's very ill, I don't know if she'll make it o if she'll pull through
    no sé cómo vamos a salir de ésta I don't know how we're going to get out of this one
    luchan por salir de la miseria en que viven they struggle to escape from the poverty in which they live
    me ayudó a salir de la depresión he helped me get over my depression
    a este paso no vamos a salir nunca de pobres the way we're going we're never going to stop being poor
    (+ compl): salió bien de la operación she came through the operation well
    salieron ilesos del accidente they were not hurt in the accident
    salió airosa del trance she came through it with flying colors*
    salir bien/mal en un examen ( Chi) ( Educ) to pass/fail an exam
    salir adelante: fue una época muy dura, pero lograron salir adelante it was a difficult period but they managed to get through it
    para que el negocio salga adelante if the business is to stay afloat o survive
    paso1 (↑ paso (1))
    D salir a (parecerse a) to take after
    es gordita, sale a la madre she's chubby, she takes after her mother
    ¡tiene a quien salir! you can see who she takes after!
    en lo tozudo sale a su padre he gets his stubbornness from his father
    E salir con ( Col) (combinar con) to go with
    F salir de ( Col) (deshacerse de) to get rid of
    no han podido salir de él they haven't been able to get rid of him
    A
    1
    (de un recipiente, un límite): cierra el grifo, que se va a salir el agua turn off the faucet ( AmE) o ( BrE) tap, the water's going to overflow
    vigila que no se salga la leche don't let the milk boil over
    salirse DE algo:
    el camión se salió de la carretera the truck came/went off the road, the truck left the road
    el río se salió de su cauce the river overflowed its banks
    no te salgas de las líneas keep inside the lines
    la pelota se salió del campo de juego the ball went out of play o into touch
    procura no salirte del presupuesto try to keep within the budget
    te estás saliendo del tema you're getting off the point
    2 (por un orificio, una grieta) «agua/tinta» to leak, leak out, come out; «gas» to escape, come out
    está rajado y se sale el aceite it's cracked and the oil leaks out
    salirse DE algo:
    se está saliendo el aire del neumático the air's coming o leaking out of the tire*
    se me ha salido el hilo de la aguja the needle's come unthreaded
    3 (Chi, Méx) «recipiente/pluma» to leak
    B (soltarse) to come off
    se ha salido el pomo de la puerta the knob has come off the door
    (+ me/te/le etc): estos zapatos se me salen these shoes are too big for me
    se le ha salido una rueda it's lost a wheel, one of the wheels has come off
    se le salían los ojos de las órbitas his eyes were popping out of his head o were out on stalks
    C (irse) to leave salirse DE algo ‹de una asociación› to leave sth
    se salió del cine a la mitad de la película she walked out halfway through the movie
    salirse con la suya to get one's (own) way
    * * *

     

    salir ( conjugate salir) verbo intransitivo
    1 ( partir) to leave;
    ◊ ¿a qué hora sale el tren? what time does the train leave?;

    el jefe había salido de viaje the boss was away;
    salió corriendo (fam) she was off like a shot (colloq);
    salir de algo to leave from sth;
    ¿de qué andén sale el tren? what platform does the train leave from?;
    salgo de casa a las siete I leave home at seven;
    salir para algo to leave for sth
    2 ( al exterior — acercándose al hablante) to come out;
    (— alejándose del hablante) to go out;

    no puedo salir, me he quedado encerrado I can't get out, I'm trapped in here;
    salir de algo to come out/get out of sth;
    ¡sal de ahí/de aquí! come out of there/get out of here!;
    ¿de dónde salió este dinero? where did this money come from?;
    nunca ha salido de España he's never been out of Spain;
    salir por la ventana/por la puerta to get out through the window/leave by the door;
    salieron al balcón/al jardín they went out onto the balcony/into the garden;
    ¿por aquí se sale a la carretera? can I get on to the road this way?;
    salió a hacer las compras she's gone out (to do the) shopping
    3 ( habiendo terminado algo) to leave;
    ◊ ¿a qué hora sales de clase? what time do you get out of class o finish your class?;

    ¿cuándo sale del hospital? when is he coming out of (the) hospital?
    4



    salir con algn to go out with sb
    5 [clavo/tapón/mancha] to come out;
    [ anillo] to come off
    1 (aparecer, manifestarse)
    a) [cana/sarpullido] to appear;

    (+ me/te/le etc)

    le están saliendo los dientes she's teething;
    me salió una ampolla I've got a blister;
    le salió un sarpullido he came out in a rash;
    me salieron granos I broke out o (BrE) came out in spots;
    me sale sangre de la nariz my nose is bleeding;
    a la planta le están saliendo hojas nuevas the plant's putting out new leaves

    ( de detrás de una nube) to come out
    c) ( surgir) [tema/idea] to come up


    2
    a) [revista/novela] to come out;

    [ disco] to come out, be released;

    b) (en televisión, en el periódico) to appear


    (+ compl)

    1 ( expresando logro) (+ me/te/le etc):

    ahora mismo no me sale su nombre (fam) I can't think of her name right now;
    no le salían las palabras he couldn't get his words out
    2

    ◊ sale más barato/caro it works out less/more expensive

    b) ( resultar):

    ◊ todo salió bien everything turned out o worked out well;

    salió tal como lo planeamos it turned out just as we planned;
    no salió ninguna de las fotos none of the photographs came out;
    ¿qué número salió premiado? what was the winning number?;
    salir bien/mal en un examen (Chi fam) to pass/fail an exam;

    (+ me/te/le etc)

    3 (de situación, estado) salir de algo ‹ de apuro› to get out of sth;
    ‹ de depresión› to get over sth;

    salir adelante [ negocio] to stay afloat, survive;

    [ propuesta] to prosper;
    ◊ lograron salir adelante they managed to get through it

    4 ( con preposición)
    a)


    b)


    salirse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) (de borde, límite) [ agua] to overflow;

    [ leche] to boil over;
    salirse de algo ‹ de carretera› to come/go off sth;
    ‹ de tema› to get off sth;

    procura no salirte del presupuesto try to keep within the budget
    b) (por orificio, grieta) [agua/tinta] to leak (out), come out;

    [ gas] to escape, come out
    2 ( soltarse) [pedazo/pieza] to come off;
    (+ me/te/le etc)

    3 ( irse) to leave;
    salirse de algo ‹ de asociación› to leave sth;
    ◊ salirse con la suya to get one's (own) way

    salir verbo intransitivo
    1 (de un lugar) to go out: nunca ha salido de su país, he's never been out of his country
    el ladrón salió por la ventana, the burglar got out through the window
    (si el hablante está fuera) to come out: ¡sal de la habitación, por favor! please, come out of the room!
    2 Inform to exit
    (de un sistema) to log off
    3 (partir) to leave: salí de casa a mediodía, I left home at noon
    nuestro avión sale a las seis, our plane departs at six
    4 (para divertirse) to go out: siempre sale los viernes, she always goes out on Friday
    5 (tener una relación) to go out: está saliendo con Ana, he's going out with Ana
    6 Dep to start
    (en juegos) to lead
    7 (manifestarse, emerger) le ha salido un grano en la cara, he has got a spot on his face
    me salió sangre de la nariz, my nose was bleeding
    (un astro) to rise: la Luna sale al atardecer, the moon comes out in the evening
    (retoñar, germinar) to sprout
    8 (surgir) la idea salió de ti, it was your idea
    9 (aparecer) mi hermana salía en (la) televisión, my sister appeared on television
    (un libro, un disco, etc) to come out
    10 salir a (parecerse) ha salido a su hermano, he takes after his brother
    (costar) el almuerzo sale a 800 pesetas cada uno, lunch works out at 800 pesetas a head
    11 (resultar) su hija le ha salido muy estudiosa, her daughter has turned out to be very studious
    salió premiado el número 5.566, the winning number was 5,566
    (una operación matemática) a él le da 20, pero a mí me sale 25, he gets 20, but I make it 25
    12 (costar) nos sale barato, it works out cheap
    13 (superar una situación, una gran dificultad) to come through, get over: estuvo muy enfermo, pero salió de esa, he was very ill, but he pulled through
    14 (ser elegido por votación) salió alcalde, he was elected mayor
    ♦ Locuciones: salir con, (manifestación inesperada) no me salgas ahora con estupideces, stop talking nonsense
    ' salir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acampada
    - ahora
    - airosa
    - airoso
    - al
    - asomarse
    - atusar
    - boca
    - cabronada
    - casa
    - con
    - concebir
    - contraluz
    - coscorrón
    - cuenta
    - dar
    - dejar
    - desalojar
    - desfilar
    - desorbitar
    - dimanar
    - echar
    - entrar
    - estar
    - gatas
    - grabar
    - gracia
    - gustar
    - hondura
    - irse
    - niqui
    - palestra
    - para
    - parada
    - parado
    - paso
    - pico
    - pierna
    - pitar
    - portazo
    - puntilla
    - quite
    - rana
    - relucir
    - revés
    - rodada
    - rodado
    - salida
    - sangrar
    - señora
    English:
    after
    - appear
    - as
    - ask out
    - average out at
    - back out
    - be
    - blow off
    - boomerang
    - bootstrap
    - break
    - break out
    - break through
    - call away
    - can
    - check out
    - chicken out
    - clean up
    - climb
    - come away
    - come off
    - come on
    - come out
    - come up
    - crowd
    - dash off
    - dash out
    - date
    - depart
    - discipline
    - do
    - doll
    - doubtfully
    - downpour
    - draw out
    - drive-through
    - emerge
    - even
    - exit
    - fancy
    - flounce
    - forward
    - genie
    - get about
    - get along
    - get away
    - get away with
    - get off
    - get out
    - go
    * * *
    ♦ vi
    1. [ir fuera] to go out;
    [venir fuera] to come out;
    ¡sal aquí fuera! come out here!;
    no pueden salir, están atrapados they can't get out, they're trapped;
    ¿salimos al jardín? shall we go out into the garden?;
    salieron al balcón they went out onto the balcony;
    salió a la puerta she came/went to the door;
    salir a escena [actor] to come/go on stage;
    salir a pasear/tomar el aire to go out for a walk/for a breath of fresh air;
    salir a hacer la compra/de compras to go shopping;
    salir de to go/come out of;
    me lo encontré al salir del cine I met him as I was coming out of the cinema;
    ¡sal de aquí! get out of here!;
    ¡sal de ahí! come out of there!;
    salimos por la escalera de incendios/la puerta trasera we left via the fire escape/through the back door;
    Fam
    porque me sale/no me sale de las narices because I damn well feel like it/damn well can't be bothered;
    muy Fam
    porque me sale/no me sale de los huevos because I bloody well feel like it/because I can't be arsed
    2. [marcharse] to leave ( para for);
    cuando salimos de Quito/del país when we left Quito/the country;
    salí de casa/del trabajo a las siete I left home/work at seven;
    ¿a qué hora o [m5] cuándo sale vuestro vuelo? when does your flight leave?;
    ¿a qué hora o [m5] cuándo sales de trabajar? what time do you leave o finish work?;
    salir corriendo to run off;
    Fam
    salir pitando to leg it;
    salir de vacaciones to go (away) on Br holiday o US vacation;
    salir de viaje to go away (on a trip)
    3. [ser novios] to go out ( con with);
    están saliendo they are going out (together);
    ¿desde cuándo llevan saliendo? how long have they been going out (together)?
    4. [ir a divertirse] to go out;
    suelo salir el fin de semana I usually go out at the weekend;
    salen mucho a cenar they eat out a lot
    5. [librarse]
    salir de la droga to get off drugs;
    Marisa ha salido de la depresión Marisa has got over o come through her depression;
    salir de la miseria to escape from poverty;
    salir de un apuro to get out of a tight spot;
    le he ayudado a salir de muchos líos I've helped him out of a lot of tricky situations;
    no sé si podremos salir de ésta I don't know how we're going to get out of this one;
    con este dinero no vamos a salir de pobres this money isn't exactly enough for us never to have to work again
    6. [desembocar] [calle, sendero, carretera]
    ¿a dónde sale esta calle? where does this street come out?
    7. [separarse]
    este anillo sale fácilmente this ring comes off easily;
    este corcho no sale this cork won't come out
    8. [resultar] to turn out;
    ha salido muy estudioso he's turned out to be very studious;
    ¿cómo salió la fiesta? how did the party go?;
    ¿qué salió en la votación? what was the result of the vote?;
    a mí me sale un total de 35.000 pesos I've got a total of 35,000 pesos, I make it 35,000 pesos in total;
    salió (como) senador por California he was elected (as) senator for California;
    salió elegida actriz del año she was voted actress of the year;
    salió herido/ileso del accidente he was/wasn't injured in the accident;
    salir premiado to be awarded a prize;
    salir bien/mal [examen, entrevista] to go well/badly;
    [plato, dibujo] to turn out well/badly;
    ¿qué tal te ha salido? how did it go?;
    me ha salido bien/mal [examen, entrevista] it went well/badly;
    [plato, dibujo] it turned out well/badly; [cuenta] I got it right/wrong;
    normalmente me sale a la primera I normally get it right first time;
    a mí la paella no me sale tan bien como a ti my paella never turns out as well as yours does;
    ¿te salen las cuentas? do all the figures tally?;
    salir ganando/perdiendo to come off well/badly
    9. [en sorteo, juego] [número, nombre] to come up;
    no me ha salido un as en toda la partida I haven't got o had a single ace in the whole game
    10. [proceder]
    salir de to come from;
    el vino sale de la uva wine comes from grapes;
    salió de él (lo de) regalarte unas flores it was his idea to get you the flowers
    11. [surgir, brotar] [luna, estrellas] to come out;
    [sol] to rise; [flores, hojas] to come out; [dientes] to come through;
    le han salido varias flores al rosal the rose bush has got several flowers now;
    le están saliendo canas he's getting grey hairs, he's going grey;
    le están saliendo los dientes her teeth are starting to come through, she's teething;
    me salen los colores con tanto cumplido all these compliments are making me blush;
    le ha salido un sarpullido en la espalda her back has come out in a rash;
    te está saliendo sangre you're bleeding;
    me ha salido un grano en la nariz I've got a spot on my nose
    12. [aparecer] [publicación, producto, modelo] to come out;
    [disco] to come out, to be released; [moda, ley] to come in; [trauma, prejuicios] to come out; [tema, asunto] to come up;
    una revista que sale los jueves a magazine that comes out on Thursdays;
    su nuevo disco saldrá al mercado en otoño her new record comes out o will be released in the autumn;
    salieron (a relucir) todos sus miedos all his fears came out;
    ¡qué bien sales en esta foto! you look great in this photo!;
    ha salido en los periódicos/en la tele it's been in the papers/on TV;
    salir de/en [en película, serie, obra de teatro] to appear as/in;
    salía de extra en “Ben-Hur” he appeared as o was an extra in “Ben-Hur”;
    salir en defensa de alguien to come to sb's defence
    13. [presentarse, ofrecerse] [ocasión, oportunidad] to turn up, to come along;
    [puesto, empleo] to come up; [problema] to arise; [contratiempo] to occur;
    le ha salido una plaza de profesor en Tegucigalpa a job has come up for him as a teacher in Tegucigalpa;
    a lo que salga, salga lo que salga whatever happens
    14. [costar]
    salimos a 20 dólares por cabeza it came to o worked out at $20 each;
    ¿por cuánto me saldría una moto de segunda mano? how much would a second-hand motorbike cost me o come to?;
    en botella te saldrá más barata la cerveza the beer works out cheaper if you buy it bottled;
    salir caro [económicamente] to be expensive;
    [por las consecuencias] to be costly
    15. [decir u obrar inesperadamente]
    nunca se sabe por dónde va a salir you never know what she's going to come out with/do next;
    el jefe sale con cada tontería… the boss comes out with some really stupid remarks;
    salió con que era un incomprendido y nadie le hacía caso he claimed he was misunderstood and that no one ever took any notice of him;
    ¿y ahora nos sales con ésas? now you tell us!
    16. [parecerse]
    salir a alguien to take after sb;
    eres un vago, en eso has salido a tu padre you're a layabout, just like your father
    17. [en juegos] to lead;
    te toca salir a ti it's your lead;
    salió con un as she led with an ace;
    salen blancas [en damas, ajedrez] white goes first
    18. [desaparecer] to come out;
    la mancha de vino no sale the wine stain won't come out
    19. Informát [instrucción] to quit, to exit;
    salir de un programa to quit o exit a program
    20.
    salir adelante [persona, empresa] to get by;
    [proyecto, propuesta, ley] to be successful;
    la familia lo está pasando muy mal para salir adelante the family is struggling to get by o to make ends meet
    * * *
    v/i
    1 leave, go out;
    salir de (ir fuera de) leave, go out of; ( venir fuera de) leave, come out of;
    salir a Avda. América come out onto Avda. América; de calle lead to Avda. América;
    salir de apuros get out of difficulties;
    salir corriendo run off;
    salir con alguien date s.o., go out with s.o.
    2 ( aparecer) appear, come out
    3
    :
    salir a bolsa float, be floated
    4 DEP en carrera start;
    salir fuera de pelota go out
    5 INFOR de programa quit, exit
    6 ( parecerse a)
    :
    salir a alguien de bebé take after s.o.
    :
    salir bien/mal turn out well/badly;
    salió caro tb fig it worked out expensive;
    salir ileso escape unharmed;
    salir perdiendo end up losing;
    salir a 1000 colones cost 1000 colons;
    a lo que salga any old how
    8
    :
    ¡ya salió aquello! fam why did you have to bring that up?;
    salir con algo fam come out with sth;
    ¿y ahora me sales con que no tienes dinero? and you’re telling me now that you don’t have any money?
    :
    el dibujo no me sale fam I can’t get this drawing right;
    no me salió el trabajo I didn’t get the job
    10
    :
    salir por alguien stand up for s.o.
    * * *
    salir {73} vi
    1) : to go out, to come out, to get out
    salimos todas las noches: we go out every night
    su libro acaba de salir: her book just came out
    2) partir: to leave, to depart
    3) aparecer: to appear
    salió en todos los diarios: it came out in all the papers
    4) : to project, to stick out
    5) : to cost, to come to
    6) resultar: to turn out, to prove
    7) : to come up, to occur
    salga lo que salga: whatever happens
    salió una oportunidad: an opportunity came up
    8)
    salir a : to take after, to look like, to resemble
    9)
    salir con : to go out with, to date
    * * *
    salir vb
    1. (en general) to go out
    2. (partir) to leave [pt. & pp. left]
    3. (aparecer) to be
    ¿por qué no sales tú en la foto? why aren't you in the photo?
    4. (publicarse) to come out [pt. came; pp. come]
    ¿cuándo sale esa revista? when does that magazine come out?
    5. (sol amanecer) to rise [pt. rose; pp. risen]
    ¿a qué hora sale el sol? what time does the sun rise?
    6. (sol verse) to come out
    7. (surgir) to get
    si me sale este trabajo... if I get this job...
    8. (resultar) to turn out / to work out
    salir perdiendo to lose out [pt. & pp. lost]

    Spanish-English dictionary > salir

  • 4 atajar

    v.
    1 to take a shortcut.
    si bajas por aquí atajas it's quicker if you go down this way
    María atajó por ahí Mary took a shortcut through there.
    2 to put a stop to.
    las medidas pretenden atajar el problema de la evasión de impuestos the measures are intended to put a stop to the problem of tax evasion
    3 to catch. ( Latin American Spanish)
    4 to intercept, to short-cut, to cut short, to head back.
    El grupo atajó a los soldados The group cut the soldiers short.
    5 to stop, to stonewall, to head off, to block.
    El bloqueo atajó el alud The blockade stopped the landslide.
    * * *
    1 to take a short cut
    1 (interrumpir) to interrupt
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=interceptar) to stop, intercept; [+ ruta de fuga] to cut off; (Arquit) to partition off; (Dep) to tackle; LAm (=coger) to catch, catch in flight

    atajar a algn — LAm to hold sb back ( to stop a fight)

    me quiso atajar al almuerzo — LAm she wanted me to stay for lunch

    2) [+ debate] to cut short; [+ discurso etc] to interrupt; [+ proceso] to end, stop, call a halt to; [+ abuso] to put a stop to
    2.
    VI (=tomar un atajo) to take a short cut ( por by way of, across)
    (Aut) to cut corners
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (AmL) ( agarrar) < pelota> to catch
    b) (Esp) ( interceptar) <pase/pelota> to intercept
    2)
    a) <golpe/puñetazo> to parry, block
    b) < persona> ( agarrar) to stop, catch; (interrumpir, detener) to stop

    atájalo! — catch o stop him!

    3) < enfermedad> to keep... in check; < incendio> to contain, check the spread of; < rumor> to quell
    2.
    atajar vi
    1) (por calle, camino)
    2) (Méx) ( en tenis) to pick up the balls
    * * *
    = tackle, come to + terms with, cut across.
    Ex. Chapter 2 tackles books, pamphlets and printed sheets, and chapter 3 is dedicated to cartographic materials.
    Ex. Much of the conventional wisdom of librarianship is going to have to undergo what is so aptly described as an 'agonizing reappraisal' before we can come to terms with the new information age.
    Ex. He looked up and saw two figures cutting across the field, a colored man and woman, each carrying a bottle.
    ----
    * atajar un problema = grapple with + problem.
    * sin atajar = unconfronted.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (AmL) ( agarrar) < pelota> to catch
    b) (Esp) ( interceptar) <pase/pelota> to intercept
    2)
    a) <golpe/puñetazo> to parry, block
    b) < persona> ( agarrar) to stop, catch; (interrumpir, detener) to stop

    atájalo! — catch o stop him!

    3) < enfermedad> to keep... in check; < incendio> to contain, check the spread of; < rumor> to quell
    2.
    atajar vi
    1) (por calle, camino)
    2) (Méx) ( en tenis) to pick up the balls
    * * *
    = tackle, come to + terms with, cut across.

    Ex: Chapter 2 tackles books, pamphlets and printed sheets, and chapter 3 is dedicated to cartographic materials.

    Ex: Much of the conventional wisdom of librarianship is going to have to undergo what is so aptly described as an 'agonizing reappraisal' before we can come to terms with the new information age.
    Ex: He looked up and saw two figures cutting across the field, a colored man and woman, each carrying a bottle.
    * atajar un problema = grapple with + problem.
    * sin atajar = unconfronted.

    * * *
    atajar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ( AmL) (agarrar) ‹pelota› to catch
    atajó las llaves que le tiré he caught the keys that I threw him
    2 ( Esp) (interceptar) ‹pase/pelota› to intercept, cut out
    B
    1 ‹golpe/puñetazo› to parry, block
    2 ‹persona› (agarrar) to stop, catch; (interrumpir, detener) to stop
    ¡atájalo! catch o stop him!
    si no los hubiéramos atajado se habrían agarrado a puñetazos they would have started fighting o ( BrE) come to blows if we hadn't stopped them
    el presentador tuvo que atajarlo the presenter had to cut him short o stop him
    C ‹enfermedad› to keep … in check, check the spread of; ‹incendio› to contain, check the spread of; ‹rumor› to quell
    buscan la manera de atajar este problema they are looking for a way to keep this problem under control o in check, they are looking for a way to stop this problem (from) getting worse o (from) spreading
    atajar el déficit público to keep the public-sector deficit in check
    ■ atajar
    vi
    A
    (por una calle, un parque): atajaron por una calle poco transitada they took a short cut down a quiet back street
    podemos atajar por el parque we can cut across the park, we can take a short cut across the park
    B ( Méx) (en tenis) to pick up the balls
    * * *

    atajar ( conjugate atajar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) (AmL) ( agarrar) ‹ pelota› to catch

    b) (Esp) ( interceptar) ‹pase/pelota› to intercept

    2
    a) ‹golpe/puñetazo› to parry, block

    b) ‹ persona› ( agarrar) to stop, catch;

    (interrumpir, detener) to stop
    3 ‹enfermedad/problema› to keep … in check;
    ‹ incendio› to contain;
    ‹ rumor› to quell
    atajar verbo intransitivo
    1 to take a shortcut [por, through]
    2 (parar) to put a stop to
    ' atajar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cortar
    - agarrar
    English:
    corner
    - short-circuit
    - arrest
    - halt
    - head
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [contener] to put a stop to;
    [hemorragia, inundación] to stem;
    atajar un problema to nip a problem in the bud;
    las medidas pretenden atajar el problema de la evasión de impuestos the measures are intended to put a stop to the problem of tax evasion
    2. [salir al encuentro de] to cut off, to head off;
    la policía atajó a los terroristas en la frontera the police cut off o headed off the terrorists at the border
    3. [interrumpir] to cut short, to interrupt;
    no me atajes cuando estoy hablando don't interrupt me o butt in when I'm speaking
    4. [interceptar] [pase] to cut off, to intercept
    5. Am [agarrar] to catch;
    tírame las llaves que las atajo throw me the keys, I'll catch them;
    el portero atajó la pelota the goalkeeper stopped the ball
    ♦ vi
    [acortar] to take a short cut ( por through);
    atajaremos por el puente we can take a short cut via the bridge;
    si bajas por aquí atajas it's quicker if you go down this way
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 check the spread of, contain
    2 L.Am.
    pelota catch
    II v/i take a short cut
    * * *
    atajar vt
    1) impedir: to block, to stop
    2) interrumpir: to interrupt, to cut off
    3) contener: to hold back, to restrain
    atajar vi
    atajar por : to take a shortcut through

    Spanish-English dictionary > atajar

  • 5 tenia

    f.
    tapeworm.
    * * *
    1 tapeworm
    * * *
    * * *
    femenino (Med) tapeworm, taenia (tech)
    * * *
    Ex. If asked for statistics on the incidence of tapeworms he would first want to know whether national figures or world figures are wanted.
    * * *
    femenino (Med) tapeworm, taenia (tech)
    * * *

    Ex: If asked for statistics on the incidence of tapeworms he would first want to know whether national figures or world figures are wanted.

    * * *
    1 ( Med) tapeworm, taenia ( tech)
    2 ( Arquit) taenia
    * * *

     

    Del verbo tener: ( conjugate tener)

    tenía es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) imperfecto indicativo

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

    Del verbo teñir: ( conjugate teñir)

    teñía es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) imperfecto indicativo

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

    Multiple Entries:
    tener    
    tenia    
    teñir
    tener ( conjugate tener) verbo transitivo El uso de `got' en frases como `I've got a new dress' está mucho más extendido en el inglés británico que en el americano. Este prefiere la forma `I have a new dress'
    1
    a) (poseer, disponer de) ‹dinero/trabajo/tiempo› to have;


    no tenemos pan we don't have any bread, we haven't got any bread;
    tiene el pelo largo she has o she's got long hair
    b) ( llevar encima) ‹lápiz/cambio› to have;

    ◊ ¿tiene hora? have you got the time?

    c) (hablando de actividades, obligaciones) to have;

    ◊ tengo invitados a cenar I have o I've got some people coming to dinner;

    tengo cosas que hacer I have o I've got things to do
    d) ( dar a luz) ‹bebé/gemelos› to have

    2
    a) (señalando características, tamaño) to be;


    tiene un metro de largo it is one meter long;
    le lleva 15 años — ¿y eso qué tiene? (AmL fam) she's 15 years older than he is — so what does that matter?

    ◊ ¿cuántos años tienes? how old are you?;

    tengo veinte años I'm twenty (years old)
    3
    a) (sujetar, sostener) to hold;


    b) ( tomar):

    ◊ ten la llave take o here's the key

    4
    a) ( sentir):

    ◊ tengo hambre/frío I'm hungry/cold;

    le tengo mucho cariño I'm very fond of him;
    tengo el placer de … it gives me great pleasure to …
    b) ( refiriéndose a enfermedades) ‹gripe/cáncer› to have;

    ◊ tengo dolor de cabeza I have o I've got a headache

    c) ( refiriéndose a experiencias) ‹discusión/accidente› to have;


    5 ( refiriéndose a actitudes):

    ten paciencia/cuidado be patient/careful;
    tiene mucho tacto he's very tactful
    6 (indicando estado, situación):

    tengo las manos sucias my hands are dirty;
    tienes el cinturón desabrochado your belt's undone;
    me tiene muy preocupada I'm very worried about it
    tenia v aux
    1 tenia que hacer algo
    a) (expresando obligación, necesidad) to have (got) to do sth;

    ◊ tengo que estudiar hoy I have to o I must study today;

    tienes que comer más you ought to eat more
    b) (expresando propósito, recomendación):


    tendrías que llamarlo you should ring him


    ¡tú tenías que ser! it had to be you!
    2 ( con participio pasado):
    ◊ tengo entendido que sí viene I understand he is coming;

    te tengo dicho que … I've told you before (that) …;
    teníamos pensado irnos hoy we intended leaving today
    3 (AmL) ( en expresiones de tiempo):

    tenía un año sin verlo she hadn't seen him for a year
    tenerse verbo pronominal ( sostenerse):

    no teniase de sueño to be dead on one's feet
    tenia sustantivo femenino (Med) tapeworm, taenia (tech)
    teñir ( conjugate teñir) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹ropa/zapatos/pelo› to dye



    teñirse verbo pronominal ( refl) ‹pelo/zapatos› to dye
    tener
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (poseer, disfrutar) to have, have got: tengo muy buena memoria, I have a very good memory
    no tiene coche, he hasn't got a car
    tiene dos hermanas, he has two sisters
    tiene mucho talento, he's very talented
    no tenemos suficiente dinero, we don't have enough money
    (ser dueño de) to own: tiene una cadena de hoteles, he owns a chain of hotels ➣ Ver nota en have 2 (contener) to contain: esta bebida no tiene alcohol, this drink doesn't contain alcohol
    3 (asir, sujetar) to hold: la tenía en brazos, she was carrying her in her arms
    4 (hospedar) tiene a su suegra en casa, his mother-in-law is staying with them
    5 (juzgar, considerar) la tengo por imposible, I regard her as a hopeless case
    nos tienen por tontos, they think we are stupid
    tenlo por seguro, you can be sure
    6 (pasar el tiempo de cierta manera) to have: he tenido un día espantoso, I've had a dreadful day
    7 (padecer, sentir) tiene celos, he's jealous
    tengo hambre/sed, I'm hungry/thirsty
    ten paciencia conmigo, be patient with me
    tengo un dolor de cabeza terrible, I have a terrible headache
    8 (profesar) to have: me tiene cariño, he is very fond of me
    no le tengo ningún respeto, I have no respect for him
    9 (años, tiempo) to be: el bebé tiene ocho días, the baby is eight days old
    (medidas) la cama tiene metro y medio de ancho, the bed is one and a half metres wide
    10 (mantener) to keep: no sabe tener la boca cerrada, she can't keep her mouth shut
    nos tuvo dos horas esperando, he kept us waiting for two hours
    tiene su habitación muy ordenada, he keeps his room very tidy
    me tiene preocupada, I'm worried about him
    11 ( tener que + infinitivo) tengo que hacerlo, I must do it
    tienes que tomarte las pastillas, you have to take your pills
    tendrías que habérselo dicho, you ought to have told her ➣ Ver nota en must
    II verbo aux to have: mira que te lo tengo dicho veces, I've told you time and time again
    Tener tiene dos traducciones básicas: to have o to have got. Esta segunda se usa casi únicamente para expresar posesión y solo en el presente: Tengo un coche nuevo. I have got a new car.
    La primera se usa en sentido más general: Va a tener un problema. He's going to have a problem. Recuerda que la forma interrogativa de I have got es have I got?, mientras que la forma interrogativa de I have es do I have?
    Cuando tener significa sentir, se traduce por el verbo to be: Tengo hambre. I am hungry.
    tenia sustantivo femenino
    1 Zool tapeworm
    2 Arquit taenia
    teñir verbo transitivo
    1 (una prenda) to dye: teñiré la falda de azul, I'll dye my skirt blue
    (el pelo) to tint, dye
    2 fig (impregnar) to tinge with
    ' tenia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abotargada
    - abotargado
    - absolutamente
    - antediluviana
    - antediluviano
    - calcada
    - calcado
    - carne
    - carné
    - carraspera
    - cita
    - corpórea
    - corpóreo
    - cruzada
    - cruzado
    - desperdicio
    - despojar
    - empacho
    - enchufe
    - encima
    - exigua
    - exiguo
    - floripondio
    - frunce
    - golfa
    - golfo
    - grasienta
    - grasiento
    - greca
    - hogar
    - idea
    - inexpresiva
    - inexpresivo
    - jirón
    - logia
    - nudo
    - pedal
    - probabilidad
    - raja
    - relevancia
    - rematar
    - sabor
    - segundón
    - segundona
    - solitaria
    - sueño
    - tal
    - tela
    - tener
    - volar
    English:
    accent
    - accommodate
    - allergy
    - array
    - calculate
    - complexion
    - concede
    - conceited
    - consistency
    - courtyard
    - craggy
    - craving
    - curious
    - doleful
    - eat
    - fleck
    - flowerpot
    - following
    - foreboding
    - goodness
    - grave
    - hold
    - inkling
    - justifiably
    - like
    - lost
    - maybe
    - minor
    - misjudge
    - neck
    - overlay
    - overwhelming
    - part with
    - penny
    - pretence
    - pretense
    - remember
    - scary
    - spoilt
    - stare
    - swear by
    - tapeworm
    - tip
    - ulterior
    - vacantly
    - aged
    - blast
    - bound
    - brim
    - bristle
    * * *
    tenia nf
    tapeworm
    * * *
    f ZO tapeworm
    * * *
    tenia nf
    solitaria: tapeworm

    Spanish-English dictionary > tenia

  • 6 reducir

    v.
    1 to reduce.
    nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut
    reducir algo a algo to reduce something to something
    reducir algo al absurdo to make a nonsense of something
    Ella redujo la velocidad She reduced the speed.
    2 to suppress, to subdue (someter) (país, ciudad).
    3 to convert (Mat) (convertir).
    4 to set (medicine).
    5 to shorten, to shrink.
    Ellos redujeron las tablas They shortened the boards.
    6 to cut down, to depress, to de-escalate, to deescalate.
    Ellos redujeron los gastos They cut down expenses.
    7 to conquer, to subdue, to subjugate.
    Ellos redujeron a los nativos They conquered the natives.
    8 to hydrogenate.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ CONDUCIR], like link=conducir conducir
    1 (gen) to reduce
    2 (disminuir) to reduce, cut, cut down on
    3 (vencer) to subdue
    4 MEDICINA to set
    5 (una salsa, etc) to reduce, boil down
    1 AUTOMÓVIL to change down, change to a lower gear
    1 (gen) to be reduced; (decrecer) to decrease
    2 (resultar) to come down (a, to)
    * * *
    verb
    1) to reduce, cut
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=disminuir)
    a) [en cantidad] [+ gastos, inflación, precio] to reduce, bring down, cut; [+ tensión, ansiedad] to reduce; [+ riesgo] to reduce, lessen

    el autobús redujo su velocidad — the bus reduced speed, the bus slowed down

    el banco redujo su beneficio un 12% — the bank saw its profits fall by 12%

    • reducir algo en algo — to reduce sth by sth, cut sth by sth

    tenemos que reducir la producción en un 20% — we have to reduce o cut production by 20%

    • reducir a la mínima expresión — to reduce to the bare minimum

    • reducir algo al mínimo — to reduce o cut sth to the minimum

    • reducir algo a la mitad — to cut sth by half

    b) [en tiempo] [+ jornada laboral] to reduce, shorten; [+ sentencia] to reduce

    han reducido la mili a nueve meses — they have reduced o cut military service to nine months

    c) [en tamaño] [+ copia] to reduce; [+ discurso, artículo] to cut down, shorten
    2)

    • reducir algo a algo —

    a) (=limitar) to limit sth to sth; (=simplificar) to reduce sth to sth
    b) (=convertir) [+ cantidad, medida] to convert sth into sth; [+ fracción, ecuación] to reduce sth into sth
    3) (=someter) [+ ladrón, fugitivo, loco] to overpower; [+ alborotadores] to subdue; [+ fortaleza] to subdue, reduce frm

    • reducir a algn a la obediencia — to bring sb to heel

    • reducir a algn al silencio — [por la fuerza, por miedo] to silence sb; [por vergüenza, humillación] to reduce sb to silence

    4) (Med) [+ hueso, hernia] to set, reduce frm
    5) (Quím) to reduce
    6) LAm [en el mercado negro] to get rid of *
    2.
    VI (Aut) to change down
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

    reducir al mínimo los riesgos — to minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

    le redujeron la pena — they shortened o reduced his sentence

    reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

    b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce
    2)

    reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

    b) (Quím) to reduce
    c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)
    3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower
    4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
    2.
    1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down
    2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
    3.
    reducirse v pron

    reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

    * * *
    = abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.
    Ex. Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.
    Ex. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.
    Ex. In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.
    Ex. The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
    Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex. Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.
    Ex. Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.
    Ex. More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.
    Ex. The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex. If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.
    Ex. Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.
    Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex. But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.
    Ex. 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.
    Ex. Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.
    Ex. This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
    Ex. Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex. He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.
    Ex. Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.
    Ex. In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
    Ex. By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.
    Ex. However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex. The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.
    Ex. However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex. Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex. The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex. Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex. May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.
    Ex. You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex. The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex. They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
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    * que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.
    * reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.
    * reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].
    * reducir costes = reduce + costs.
    * reducir de plantilla = downsize.
    * reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.
    * reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.
    * reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.
    * reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.
    * reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.
    * reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.
    * reducir el valor = reduce + value.
    * reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.
    * reducir gradualmente = scale down.
    * reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.
    * reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.
    * reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.
    * reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.
    * reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.
    * reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.
    * reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.
    * reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.
    * reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.
    * reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.
    * reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.
    * reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).
    * reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.
    * reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

    reducir al mínimo los riesgos — to minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

    le redujeron la pena — they shortened o reduced his sentence

    reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

    b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce
    2)

    reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

    b) (Quím) to reduce
    c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)
    3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower
    4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
    2.
    1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down
    2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
    3.
    reducirse v pron

    reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

    * * *
    = abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.

    Ex: Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.

    Ex: A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.
    Ex: In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.
    Ex: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
    Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex: Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.
    Ex: Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.
    Ex: More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.
    Ex: The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.
    Ex: Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.
    Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex: But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.
    Ex: 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.
    Ex: Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.
    Ex: This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
    Ex: Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex: He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.
    Ex: Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.
    Ex: In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
    Ex: By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.
    Ex: However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex: The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.
    Ex: However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex: Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex: The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex: Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.
    Ex: You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex: The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex: They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
    * que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.
    * reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.
    * reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].
    * reducir costes = reduce + costs.
    * reducir de plantilla = downsize.
    * reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.
    * reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.
    * reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.
    * reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.
    * reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.
    * reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.
    * reducir el valor = reduce + value.
    * reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.
    * reducir gradualmente = scale down.
    * reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.
    * reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.
    * reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.
    * reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.
    * reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.
    * reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.
    * reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.
    * reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.
    * reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.
    * reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.
    * reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.
    * reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).
    * reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.
    * reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.

    * * *
    reducir [I6 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹gastos/costos› to cut, cut down on, reduce; ‹velocidad› to reduce; ‹producción/consumo› to reduce
    hemos reducido el número de casos we have brought down o reduced the number of cases
    redujeron el número de plazas they cut the number of places o the number of places was reduced
    han prometido reducir los impuestos they have promised to cut o reduce taxes
    con esto se intenta reducir al mínimo el riesgo de infección this is intended to minimize o to reduce to a minimum the risk of infection
    ejercicios para reducir (la) cintura exercises to reduce your waistline
    reducir algo A algo to reduce sth TO sth
    han reducido el texto a 50 páginas they have shortened o reduced the text to fifty pages
    le han reducido la pena a dos años they have commuted o shortened o reduced his sentence to two years
    la población quedó reducida a la mitad the population was reduced to half of its former size
    reducir algo a su mínima expresión ( Mat) to reduce sth to its simplest expression o form
    el suéter quedó reducido a su mínima expresión ( hum); the sweater shrank to nothing
    reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth BY sth
    pretenden reducir el gasto en cinco millones they aim to reduce costs by five million
    2 ‹fotocopia/fotografía› to reduce
    B
    1 (transformar) reducir algo A algo:
    reducir los gramos a miligramos to convert the grams to milligrams
    reducir quebrados a un mínimo común denominador to reduce fractions to their lowest common denominator
    quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes
    2 ( Quím) to reduce
    3 ( AmS) ‹objeto robado› to receive, fence ( colloq)
    C (dominar, someter) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue; ‹ladrón› to overpower
    reducir a un pueblo a la esclavitud to reduce a people to slavery
    D ‹fractura/hernia› to set, reduce ( tech)
    E (CS) ‹cadáver/restos mortales› to exhume ( for reburial in a niche or smaller coffin)
    ■ reducir
    vi
    A ( Coc) to reduce, boil down
    dejar reducir la salsa leave the sauce to boil down o reduce
    B ( Auto) to shift into a lower gear, change down ( BrE)
    reducirse A algo:
    todo se reduce a saber interpretar las cifras it all comes down to knowing how to interpret the figures
    todo se redujo a una visita a la catedral y un paseo por el río in the end it was just a visit to the cathedral and a walk along the river
    * * *

     

    reducir ( conjugate reducir) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹gastos/costos› to cut, reduce;

    ‹velocidad/producción/consumo› to reduce;

    reducir algo A algo to reduce sth to sth;
    reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth by sth
    b) ‹fotocopia/fotografía› to reduce

    2


    quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes
    b) (AmS) ‹ objeto robado› to receive, fence (colloq)

    3 ( dominar) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue;
    ‹ ladrón› to overpower
    reducirse verbo pronominal:

    reducir
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (disminuir) to reduce
    reducir algo en algo, to reduce sthg by sthg
    (gastos, consumo, etc) to cut (down), minimize
    2 (convertir, transformar) to reduce: el incendio redujo el bosque a cenizas, the fire reduced the wood to ashes
    3 (subyugar) to subdue
    II vi Auto to change down, US to downshift

    ' reducir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bajar
    - ceniza
    - encaminada
    - encaminado
    - moler
    - disminuir
    - minimizar
    - mínimo
    - mira
    English:
    administrative
    - austerity
    - ax
    - axe
    - change down
    - corner
    - curtail
    - cut
    - cut back
    - cut down
    - decrease
    - deficit
    - deplenish
    - deplete
    - depress
    - downsize
    - effective
    - halve
    - lighten
    - lower
    - narrow down
    - prune
    - pulp
    - rate
    - receive
    - reduce
    - retrench
    - scale down
    - shorten
    - slow
    - wind down
    - bring
    - cost
    - deaden
    - decelerate
    - diminish
    - discount
    - get
    - lessen
    - loss
    - minimize
    - over
    - pare
    - scale
    - slacken
    - traffic
    - whittle
    - wind
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [disminuir] to reduce;
    [gastos, costes, impuestos, plantilla] to cut; [producción] to cut (back on);
    nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut;
    reduzca la velocidad [en letrero] reduce speed now;
    reducir algo a algo to reduce sth to sth;
    el edificio quedó reducido a escombros the building was reduced to a pile of rubble;
    reducir algo al mínimo to reduce sth to a minimum;
    reducir algo a o [m5] en la mitad to reduce sth by half;
    tú todo lo reduces a tener dinero the only thing you care about is money;
    reducir a la mínima expresión to cut down to the bare minimum
    2. [fotocopia] to reduce
    3. [someter] [país, ciudad] to suppress, to subdue;
    [atracador, ladrón, sublevados] to overpower
    4. Mat [unidades de medida] to convert (a to); [fracciones, ecuaciones] to cancel out
    5. Med [hueso] to set
    6. Quím to reduce
    7. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce
    8. Andes, RP [objetos robados] to receive, to fence
    9. RP [cadáver] to exhume [for reburial in smaller container]
    ♦ vi
    1. [en el automóvil]
    reducir (de marcha o [m5] velocidad) to change down;
    reduce a tercera change down into third (gear)
    2. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce
    * * *
    v/t
    1 reduce (a to); gastos cut;
    reducir personal cut jobs, reduce staff numbers;
    reducir la marcha AUTO downshift, shift into a lower gear
    2 MIL overcome
    * * *
    reducir {61} vt
    1) disminuir: to reduce, to decrease, to cut
    2) : to subdue
    3) : to boil down
    * * *
    reducir vb to reduce

    Spanish-English dictionary > reducir

  • 7 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language

  • 8 ungefähr

    I Adv. (etwa) about, approximately, around; (mehr oder weniger) more or less; ungefähr wann oder wann ungefähr? approximately when, when approximately?; ungefähr um elf around eleven; wo ungefähr? whereabouts?, roughly where?; ungefähr dort, wo die Post ist about where the post office is; wieviel wird es ungefähr kosten? roughly how much will it cost?; so ungefähr something like that umg.; wenn ich ungefähr wüsste, was er will if I had some idea of what he wants; was er ungefähr zu tun gedenkt roughly what he has in mind to do; so hat es sich ungefähr zugetragen that’s roughly how it happened; das heißt ungefähr it means roughly; was ungefähr kommt in der Prüfung dran? what sort of thing is likely to come up in the exam?; ungefähr wie... more or less like..., much like...; nicht von ungefähr not without reason, not for nothing; ( wie) von ungefähr (as if) by chance
    II Adj. (annähernd) approximate; (grob) rough; ungefähre Zahlen / Schätzungen rough figures / estimates
    * * *
    about (Adv.); approximate (Adj.); roughly (Adv.); around (Adv.); roundabout (Adv.); almost (Adv.); approximately (Adv.)
    * * *
    ụn|ge|fähr ['UngəfEːɐ, ʊngə'fɛːɐ]
    1. adj attr
    approximate, rough
    2. adv
    roughly; (bei Zahlen-, Maßangaben auch) approximately

    können Sie mir (so) ungefähr sagen, wie viel das kosten soll/wie Sie sich das vorgestellt haben? — can you give me a rough idea of or tell me roughly how much it will cost/how you imagined it?

    können Sie den Mann ungefähr beschreiben? — can you give me/us etc a rough description of the man?

    etw (so) ungefähr wissen — to know sth roughly, to have a rough idea of sth

    so ungefähr, als wären wir kleine Kinder — a bit as if we were little children

    * * *
    1) ((sometimes round about) near (in place, time, size etc): about five miles away; (round) about six o'clock; just about big enough.) about
    2) (nearly; more or less: There will be approximately five hundred people present.) approximately
    3) (very nearly correct or accurate; not intended to be absolutely correct: Give me an approximate answer!; Can you give me an approximate price for the job?) approximate
    4) ((used with numbers) about; at a rough estimate: There were some thirty people at the reception.) some
    * * *
    un·ge·fähr
    [ˈʊngəfɛ:ɐ̯]
    I. adv
    1. (zirka) approximately, roughly, about fam
    um \ungefähr..., \ungefähr um... by about...; (Zeit) at about [or around]...
    \ungefähr da [o dort] around there, [or esp Brit] thereabouts
    \ungefähr hier around here
    \ungefähr so something like this/that
    3. (in etwa) more or less
    das dürfte \ungefähr hinkommen that's more or less it, that's near enough right
    4.
    ▶ von \ungefähr by chance, by the by fam
    ▶ nicht von \ungefähr not without good reason [or cause], not for nothing
    II. adj attr approximate, rough
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv; nicht präd. approximate; rough <idea, outline>
    2.
    1) approximately; roughly

    ungefähr 100 — about or roughly 100

    so ungefähr — (ugs.) more or less

    wo ungefähr...? — whereabouts...?

    2)

    [wie] von ungefähr — [as if] by chance

    es kommt nicht von ungefähr[, dass...] — it's no accident [that...]

    * * *
    A. adv (etwa) about, approximately, around; (mehr oder weniger) more or less;
    wann ungefähr? approximately when, when approximately?;
    ungefähr um elf around eleven;
    wo ungefähr? whereabouts?, roughly where?;
    ungefähr dort, wo die Post ist about where the post office is;
    wie viel wird es ungefähr kosten? roughly how much will it cost?;
    so ungefähr something like that umg;
    wenn ich ungefähr wüsste, was er will if I had some idea of what he wants;
    was er ungefähr zu tun gedenkt roughly what he has in mind to do;
    so hat es sich ungefähr zugetragen that’s roughly how it happened;
    das heißt ungefähr it means roughly;
    was ungefähr kommt in der Prüfung dran? what sort of thing is likely to come up in the exam?;
    ungefähr wie … more or less like …, much like …;
    nicht von ungefähr not without reason, not for nothing;
    (wie) von ungefähr (as if) by chance
    B. adj (annähernd) approximate; (grob) rough;
    ungefähre Zahlen/Schätzungen rough figures/estimates
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv; nicht präd. approximate; rough <idea, outline>
    2.
    1) approximately; roughly

    ungefähr 100 — about or roughly 100

    so ungefähr — (ugs.) more or less

    wo ungefähr...? — whereabouts...?

    2)

    [wie] von ungefähr — [as if] by chance

    es kommt nicht von ungefähr[, dass...] — it's no accident [that...]

    * * *
    adj.
    about adj. adv.
    approximately adv.
    around adv.
    rather adv.
    roughly adv.
    similarly adv.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > ungefähr

  • 9 анализ

    analysis, examination, test
    • Безо всякого анализа легко можно видеть, что... - It is easily seen without analysis that...
    • Безусловно, что без дальнейшего анализа мы не можем... - Without further analysis we cannot, of course,...
    • Более тонкий анализ показывает, что... - A more sophisticated analysis shows that...
    • Более тонкий анализ также возможен. - A more subtle analysis is also possible.
    • Было бы интересно посмотреть исчерпывающий анализ... - It would be interesting to see a thorough analysis of...
    • Анализ проводится для ответа на следующие вопросы. - The analysis seeks to answer the following questions.
    • Анализ этих уравнений показывает, что... - Inspection of these equations shows that...
    • В оставшейся части нашего анализа мы будем предполагать, что... - We shall assume for the remainder of this analysis that...
    • Дальнейший анализ затруднен тем обстоятельством, что... - The analysis is further complicated by the fact that...
    • Данный анализ можно расширить, чтобы включить... - The analysis may be extended to include...
    • Из анализа соотношения (1) очевидным образом следует, что... - It is evident from inspection of (1) that...
    • Из предыдущего анализа можно сделать два общих заключения. - Two broad conclusions can be drawn from the above analysis.
    • По данным своего анализа он заключил (= вывел), что... - Не concludes from his analysis that...
    • Имеются три серьезных трудности, возникающих при анализе... - There are three important complications which arise in the analysis of...
    • Количественный анализ этих результатов показывает, что... - A quantitative analysis of these results shows that...
    • Наш анализ остается справедливым до тех пор, пока не... - Our analysis remains valid until...
    • Несколько методов анализа были введены с помощью... - Several methods of analysis are introduced by means of...
    • Метод анализа, намеченный в предыдущем абзаце, показывает... - The method of analysis outlined in the last paragraph shows...
    • Метод предназначается для того, чтобы обеспечить реалистичный анализ... - The method is intended to provide a realistic analysis of...
    • Мы будем избегать подробного анализа (чего-л)... - We will avoid a detailed analysis of...
    • Мы заключаем этот параграф кратким анализом... - We conclude this section with a brief analysis of...
    • Однако во многих случаях анализ не удается, поскольку... - In many cases, however, the analysis breaks down because...
    • Однако следует попробовать провести такой анализ с целью... - But such an analysis has to be attempted in order to...
    • Основываясь на этом анализе, мы должны ожидать... - On the basis of this analysis we. should expect...
    • Первый анализ, который был проведен Смитом [1], основывался на... - The first analysis, by Smith [1], was based on...
    • Предшествующий анализ был выполнен без... - The previous analysis has been carried out without reference to...
    (
    чем-л)... - The foregoing analysis is not restricted to...
    • Прежде чем продолжить этот анализ, полезно... - Before proceeding with this analysis, it is useful to...
    • При окончательном анализе... - In the final analysis,...
    • Проведенный анализ оказывается вполне справедлив для... - The analysis we have given is found to be reasonably valid for...
    • Проделывая совершенно аналогичный анализ,... - By a precisely similar analysis,...
    • Подобный анализ можно выполнить для... - A similar analysis may be performed for...
    • С целью анализа мы предположим... - For purposes of analysis we shall assume...
    • Соответствующий анализ можно применить в/к... - A corresponding analysis can be applied to...
    • Соответствующим анализом можно (показать и т. п.)... - By a proper analysis it is possible to...
    • Строгий анализ становится значительно более трудным, когда... - A rigorous analysis becomes much more difficult when...
    • Тот же анализ был применен к... - The same analysis has also been applied to...
    • Читатель может заметить близкое сходство между этим анализом и... - The reader may notice a close similarity between this analysis and...
    • Это станет очевидно после анализа рисунков. - This will be obvious from a study of the figures.
    • Этот анализ зависит от того (факта), что... - This analysis depends on the fact that...
    • Этот анализ не оставляет сомнения относительно... - These analyses leave no doubt about...
    • Этот анализ придает новое освещение ( чему-л). - This analysis sheds new light on...
    • Этот анализ существенно упрощается... - The analysis is greatly simplified by...
    • Этот вид анализа существенен, когда... - This sort of consideration is significant when...
    • Этот метод анализа особенно важен, потому что... - This method of analysis is particularly important because...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > анализ

  • 10 Ornament

    n; -(e)s, -e ornament; (Ornamentik) auch ornamentation, decoration; mit Ornamenten ornamented
    * * *
    das Ornament
    garnish; ornament
    * * *
    Or|na|mẹnt [ɔrna'mɛnt]
    nt -(e)s, -e
    decoration, ornament

    der Fries ist reines Ornament — the frieze is purely ornamental or decorative

    eine Vase mit figürlichen Ornamenten — a vase decorated with figures

    etw mit Ornamenten versehen — to put ornaments on/in sth

    * * *
    (something decorative, intended to make a room etc more beautiful: china ornaments.) ornament
    * * *
    Or·na·ment
    <-[e]s, -e>
    [ɔrnaˈmɛnt]
    nt ornament, decoration
    * * *
    das; Ornament[e]s, Ornamente (Kunstw.) ornament
    * * *
    Ornament n; -(e)s, -e ornament; (Ornamentik) auch ornamentation, decoration;
    mit Ornamenten ornamented
    * * *
    das; Ornament[e]s, Ornamente (Kunstw.) ornament
    * * *
    -e n.
    ornament n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Ornament

  • 11 Schwindel

    m; -s, kein Pl.
    1. dizziness; MED. vertigo; (Schwindelanfall) dizzy spell; ihn überkam ein leichter / starker Schwindel he became slightly / very dizzy; Schwindel erregend dizzy, giddy (auch fig.); Zahlen, Preise: astronomical; sie balanciert in Schwindel erregender Höhe she does her balancing act at a vertiginous ( oder dizzy) height; die Mieten befinden sich auf Schwindel erregendem Niveau the rents are astronomical ( oder sky high); die Arbeitslosenzahlen stiegen Schwindel erregend the unemployment figures rose astronomically
    2. umg. (Betrug) swindle; Koll. swindling; (Lüge) lie, fib; der Schwindel mit den Abschreibungsobjekten the scam Sl. concerning the deductible items; dieses Schlankheitsmittel ist purer Schwindel this slimming agent (Am. diet formula) is a complete fraud ( oder con); den Schwindel kenne ich I know that trick; auf einen / jeden Schwindel hereinfallen fall for a / every trick; der ganze Schwindel ist aufgeflogen the whole scam Sl. was exposed; alles Schwindel! nothing but lies!
    3. umg.: der ganze Schwindel (alles zusammen) the whole caboodle
    * * *
    der Schwindel
    (Betrug) confidence trick; con; fake; confidence game; plant; fraud; goldbrick; swindle;
    (Unwohlsein) dizziness; vertigo; giddiness
    * * *
    Schwịn|del ['ʃvɪndl]
    m -s,
    no pl
    1) (= Gleichgewichtsstörung) dizziness; (esp nach Drehen) giddiness
    See:
    2) (= Lüge) lie; (= Betrug) swindle, fraud; (= Vertrauensmissbrauch) con (inf)

    die Berichte über das perfekte Haarwuchsmittel sind reiner Schwindel — the reports about this perfect hair-restorer are a complete swindle or fraud or con (inf)

    das ist alles Schwindel, was er da sagt — what he says is all a pack of lies or a big con (inf)

    3) (inf = Kram)
    * * *
    der
    1) (a dishonest trick.) con
    4) (a ridiculous imitation, intended to be humorous.) spoof
    5) (an act or example of swindling; a fraud: an insurance swindle; Our new car's a swindle - it's falling to pieces.) swindle
    6) (dizziness, especially as brought on by fear of heights: Keep her back from the edge of the cliff - she suffers from vertigo.) vertigo
    * * *
    Schwin·del
    <-s>
    [ˈʃvɪndl̩]
    1. (Betrug) swindle, fraud
    es war alles \Schwindel it was all a [big] swindle [or fraud]
    alles \Schwindel! it's all lies!
    2. MED dizziness, giddiness, vertigo
    in \Schwindel erregender Höhe high enough to cause dizziness [or giddiness] [or vertigo] [or to make one [feel] dizzy [or giddy]], at a vertiginous height form
    mit \Schwindel erregender Geschwindigkeit at breathtaking speed
    \Schwindel erregend (fig) astronomical
    3.
    ▶ der ganze \Schwindel (pej fam) the whole lot [or sl caboodle] [or BRIT sl shoot]
    * * *
    1) (Gleichgewichtsstörung) dizziness; giddiness; vertigo
    2) (Anfall) dizzy or giddy spell; attack of dizziness or giddiness or vertigo
    3) (abwertend) (Betrug) swindle; fraud; (Lüge) lie

    den Schwindel kenne ich — (ugs.) that's an old trick; I know that trick

    * * *
    Schwindel m; -s, kein pl
    1. dizziness; MED vertigo; (Schwindelanfall) dizzy spell;
    ihn überkam ein leichter/starker Schwindel he became slightly/very dizzy;
    2. umg (Betrug) swindle; koll swindling; (Lüge) lie, fib;
    der Schwindel mit den Abschreibungsobjekten the scam sl concerning the deductible items;
    dieses Schlankheitsmittel ist purer Schwindel this slimming agent (US diet formula) is a complete fraud ( oder con);
    den Schwindel kenne ich I know that trick;
    auf einen/jeden Schwindel hereinfallen fall for a/every trick;
    der ganze Schwindel ist aufgeflogen the whole scam sl was exposed;
    alles Schwindel! nothing but lies!
    3. umg:
    * * *
    1) (Gleichgewichtsstörung) dizziness; giddiness; vertigo
    2) (Anfall) dizzy or giddy spell; attack of dizziness or giddiness or vertigo
    3) (abwertend) (Betrug) swindle; fraud; (Lüge) lie

    den Schwindel kenne ich — (ugs.) that's an old trick; I know that trick

    * * *
    m.
    bogus n.
    confidence trick n.
    dizziness n.
    fake n.
    giddiness n.
    imposture n.
    quackery n.
    shenanigan n.
    swindle n.
    vertigo n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Schwindel

  • 12 ver

    v.
    1 to perceive.
    Veo a tu hermana muy cansado I see your sister very tired.
    2 to have eyesight.
    Mis ojos ven bien My eyes see fine.
    3 to understand.
    4 to be witness of, to witness.
    5 to see, to look at, sight, to view.
    ¿ves algo? can you see anything?
    he estado viendo tu trabajo I've been looking at your work
    ya veo que estás de mal humor I can see you're in a bad mood
    ¿ves lo que quiero decir? do you see what I mean?
    ir a ver lo que pasa to go and see what's going on
    es una manera de ver las cosas that's one way of looking at it
    yo no lo veo tan mal I don't think it's that bad
    Ellos ven los cuadros They see the pictures.
    Ellas ven los cuadros They see the pictures.
    María ve la gravedad del asunto Mary sees the seriousness of the situation.
    Mis ojos ven bien My eyes see fine.
    Veo a tu hermano muy cansado I see your brother very tired.
    * * *
    Present Indicative
    veo, ves, ve, vemos, veis, ven.
    Past Indicative
    Imperfect Subjunctive
    Future Subjunctive
    Imperative
    ve (tú), vea (él/Vd.), veamos (nos.), ved (vos.), vean (ellos/Vds.).
    Past Participle
    visto,-a.
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    Para las expresiones ver visiones, no ver tres en un burro, ver el sustantivo.
    1. VERBO TRANSITIVO
    1) (=percibir)
    a) [+ persona, objeto] to see

    me acuerdo como si lo estuviera viendo — I remember it as if I were seeing it now, I remember it as if it were yesterday

    —

    ¡hubieran visto qué casa! — (Méx) you should have seen the house!

    • dejarse ver, este año Pedro no se ha dejado ver por aquí — we haven't seen much of Pedro this year

    si te he visto no me acuerdo —

    le pedí que me ayudara, pero si te he visto no me acuerdo — I asked him to help me but he (just) didn't want to know

    ver algn/algo venir —

    -¿que ha dimitido? -eso ya lo veía venir — "he's resigned?" - "well, you could see it coming"

    ya te veo venir, ¿a que quieres que te preste el coche? — I know what you're after, you want to borrow the car, don't you?

    b) [+ gerund]
    c) [+ infin]
    d) [+ adj]
    2) (=mirar) [+ televisión, programa, partido] to watch

    anoche vi una película en la tele — I saw o watched a film on TV last night

    • es (digno) de ver — it's worth seeing

    no poder (ni) ver a algn —

    ¡cuánto tiempo sin verte! — I haven't seen you for ages!

    ¡hasta más ver! — see you again!

    4) (=visitar) to see
    5) (=imaginar) to see, imagine

    lo estoy viendo de almirante — I can just see o imagine him as an admiral

    6) (=vivir) to live through

    y usted que lo vea, y tú que lo veas —

    -¡a celebrarlo con salud el año próximo! - ¡y usted que lo vea! — "many happy returns!" - "thank you!"

    7) (=examinar) to look at
    8) (=comprobar) to see

    •¡verás como al final te caerás! — you'll fall, you just wait and see!

    ya verás como al final tengo que hacerlo yo — I'll end up doing it myself, you'll see

    • habrá que ver, habrá que ver lo que les habrá contado — we'll have to see what he's told them

    • voy a ver si está en su despacho — I'll see if he's in his office

    9) (=notar) to see

    -¿ves que no son iguales? -pues, no lo veo — "can't you see they're not the same?" - "no, I can't"

    -gana más de cien mil al mes -¡ya ves! — "she earns more than 100,000 a month" - "well, there you go!"

    • dejarse ver, los efectos de la crisis se dejaron ver meses después — the effects of the crisis were felt months later

    • echar de ver algo — to notice sth

    • por lo que veo — from what I can see

    10) (=entender) to see

    ¿no ves que...? — don't o can't you see that...?

    • hacer ver algo a algn — to point sth out to sb

    11) (=encontrar) to see
    12) (Jur) [+ pleito] to hear, try

    -es demasiado pequeño -¿y eso qué tiene que ver? — "it's too small" - "what's that got to do with it?"

    14) a ver

    a ver niños, ¿cuál es la capital de Francia? — now, children, what is the capital of France?

    -mira, tú sales en la foto -¿a ver? — "look, you're in the photo" - "let's have a look" o"let's see"

    a ver ese niño, que no se quede solo — don't leave that child on his own

    -estás estudiando mucho -¡a ver, no queda más remedio! — "you're doing a lot of studying" - "well, I haven't got much choice!"

    ¡a ver, cállate ya! — shut up, will you!

    ¿a ver? — (And) (Telec) hello?

    • a ver si..., a ver si acabas pronto — see if you can finish this off quickly

    ¡a ver si te crees que no lo sé! — surely you don't think I don't know about it!

    2. VERBO INTRANSITIVO
    1) (=percibir) to see

    • eso está por ver — that remains to be seen

    que no veo * —

    ver y callar —

    no digas nada, tú solo ver y callar — you'd better keep your mouth shut about this

    2) (=comprobar) to see

    según voy viendo... — as I am beginning to see...

    -¿quién ha venido? -no sé, voy a ver — "who is it?" -"I don't know, I'll go and see"

    - al final siempre me toca hacerlo a mi -ya veo — "in the end it's always me that has to do it" - "so I see"

    3) (=entender) to see

    ¿ves?, así es mucho más fácil — you see? it's much easier like this

    a mi modo de ver — as I see it, the way I see it

    ¿viste? — ( Cono Sur) right?, are you with me?

    4)

    • ver de hacer algo — to see about doing sth, try to do sth

    tenemos que ver de solucionar este problema — we must try to o and find a solution to this problem

    veremos de salir temprano — we'll see if we can leave early, we'll try to o and leave early

    •¡hay que ver!, ¡hay que ver lo que te pareces a tu madre! — gosh! how like your mother you are o look!

    ¡hay que ver lo que ha cambiado la ciudad! — it's incredible o you wouldn't believe how much the town has changed!

    •¡ para que veas!, ha aprobado todas las asignaturas, ¡para que veas! — she passed all her exams, how about that!

    no solo no perdí, sino que arrasé, ¡para que veas! — not only did I not lose, but I won by a mile, so there!

    —

    • lo dijo de por ver — ( Cono Sur) he was just trying it on *

    —

    eso está o queda en veremos — it's not certain yet

    • vamos a ver — let's see..., let me see...

    -¿esto tiene arreglo? -no sé, vamos a ver — "can this be repaired?" - "I don't know, let's see o let me see"

    ¿por qué no me llamaste, vamos a ver? — why didn't you call me, I'd like to know?

    •ya veremos — we'll see

    -¿podré ir a la fiesta? -ya veremos — "can I go to the party?" - "we'll see"

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    I
    1) ( aspecto)

    de buen ver — good-looking, attractive

    2) ( opinión)

    a mi/su ver — in my/his view

    II 1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)

    ¿ves algo? — can you see anything?

    es como si lo estuviera viendo — it's as if I were seeing him/it now

    ver algo/a alguien + inf — to see something/somebody + inf

    si te he visto no me acuerdo — (fam) he/she doesn't/didn't want to know

    ver venir algo — to see something coming

    b) ( mirar) <programa/partido> to watch

    no poder (ni) ver a alguien: no puede ni verla or no la puede ver — he can't stand her

    c) ( imaginar) to see, picture
    2) (entender, notar) to see

    ¿no ves lo que está pasando? — don't o can't you see what's happening?

    se la ve feliz/preocupada — she looks happy/worried

    hacerse ver — (RPl) to show off

    echar de ver — (Esp) to realize

    3)
    a) (constatar, comprobar) to see

    no me olvidé para que veas! — I didn't forget, see?

    le gané para que veas! — I beat him, so there!

    b) ( ser testigo de) to see

    es tan bonita, si vieras... — she's so pretty, you should see her

    vieras or hubieras visto cómo se asustaron...! — (AmL) you should have seen the fright they got!

    ya ves, aquí me tienes — well, here I am

    hay que ver lo que ha crecido! — wow o gosh! hasn't he grown!

    que no veas — (Esp fam)

    que no veo — (AmL fam)

    tengo un hambre que no veo — (fam) I'm absolutely starving (colloq)

    tengo un sueño que no veo — I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open

    4)

    a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right, now, what's the problem?; aquí está en el periódico - ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper - let's see; ¿a ver qué tienes ahí? let me see what you've got there; apriétalo a ver qué pasa press it and let's see what happens; a ver si me entienden ( justificando) don't get me wrong; ( explicando) let me make myself clear; a ver si estudias más I'd think about studying harder; a ver si escribes pronto make sure you write soon; cállate, a ver si alguien te oye! shut up, somebody might hear you; a ver cuándo vienes a visitarnos — come and see us soon

    5)
    a) ( estudiar)
    b) médico ( examinar) to see

    ¿la ha visto un médico? — has she been seen by a doctor yet?

    se hizo ver por un especialista — (AmS) she saw a specialist

    c) (Der) < causa> to try, hear
    6)
    a) (juzgar, considerar)

    a mi modo or manera de ver — the way I see it

    b) ( encontrar) to see
    7) (visitar, entrevistarse con) <amigo/pariente> to see, visit; <médico/jefe> to see

    cuánto tiempo sin verte! — I haven't seen you for ages!, long time, no see (colloq)

    8)

    tener... que ver: ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? and what does that have to do with it?; no tengo nada que ver con él I have nothing to do with him; ¿tuviste algo que ver en esto? did you have anything to do with this?; ¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?; ¿tendrán algo que ver con los Zamora? — are they related in any way to the Zamoras?

    2.
    ver vi

    enciende la luz que no veo — turn on the light, I can't see

    no veo bien de lejos/de cerca — I'm shortsighted/longsighted

    2) ( constatar)

    ¿hay cerveza? - no sé, voy a ver — is there any beer? - I don't know, I'll have a look

    ¿está Juan? - voy a ver — is Juan in? - I'll go and see

    verás, no quería decírtelo, pero... — look, I didn't want to tell you, but...

    pues verás, todo empezó cuando... — well you see, the whole thing began when...

    3) ( pensar) to see

    ¿vas a decir que sí? - ya veré — are you going to accept? - I'll see

    estar/seguir en veremos — (AmL fam)

    seguimos en veremos — we still don't know anything

    3.
    verse v pron
    1) (refl)
    a) ( percibirse) to see oneself
    b) ( imaginarse) to see oneself
    2)
    a) ( hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself

    vérselas venir — (fam)

    me las veía venir — I could see it coming

    b) (frml) ( ser)

    este problema se ha visto agravado por... — this problem has been made worse by...

    3) ( dejar ver) (+ me/te/le etc)
    4) (esp AmL) ( parecer)
    5) (recípr) ( encontrarse) to meet; ( visitarse) to see each other

    nos vemos a las siete — I'll meet o see you at seven

    nos vemos! — (esp AmL) see you!

    vérselas con alguien: tendrá que vérselas conmigo — he'll have me to deal with

    * * *
    = descry, discern, see, spot, view, view, witness, check out, make out, look down over, look down on/upon, catch + sight of.
    Ex. He looked up and descried a gym class, all wet and draggled, scurrying back across the sodden football field.
    Ex. Such variations also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded in the construction of such a heading.
    Ex. Where the conference cannot be seen to have a name, then the work will normally be treated as a collection.
    Ex. When all necessary amendments have been spotted, edit the draft abstract and make any improvements to the style that are possible.
    Ex. Thus it is possible in an author sequence to view easily the works of one author.
    Ex. Many librarians viewed AACR1 as such a significant improvement upon its predecessors, that they were content.
    Ex. We sometimes only have to speak a word to witness a reaction in other people that should logically follow only if the object itself were present.
    Ex. Where problems do arise it is sensible to check out the training programme before blaming the assistant for poor performance of duties.
    Ex. She could just make out that he was standing against the wall near the door, ready to jump anyone who came out the door.
    Ex. There was one ram that was content to stay up in the cliffs and look down over his domain.
    Ex. The characters stand inside a mysterious domed structure looking down on the Earth watching the 19th century take shape.
    Ex. 'Good grief!', he cried, catching sight of the clock.
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    * acercarse sin ser visto = sidle up to.
    * alcanzar a ver = glimpse.
    * algo digno de ver = a sight to behold.
    * al ver = at the sight of.
    * a mi modo de ver = in my books.
    * de buen ver = good looking.
    * dejar de ver = become + blind to.
    * dejarse ver = have + visibility.
    * dichosos los ojos que te ven = a sight for sore eyes.
    * donde fueres haz lo que vieres = when in Rome (do as the Romans do).
    * el ver televisión = television viewing.
    * estar mal visto = frown on/upon.
    * estar por ver = be an open question.
    * forma de ver las cosas = way of putting things together, bent of mind.
    * hacerse ver = gain + exposure.
    * hacer ver = alert to, bring to + Posesivo + attention, bring to + the attention, call + attention to, awaken, bring + home, open + Posesivo + eyes to, bring + attention to, bring to + Posesivo + notice, get across.
    * hacer ver claramente = hammer + home + message, show + clearly.
    * ir a ver = drop in on, check out.
    * ir a ver a Alguien = say + hi.
    * la forma de ver las cosas = the way + to see things.
    * los árboles no dejan ver el bosque = cannot see the forest for the trees.
    * manera de ver las cosas = line of thought.
    * no aguantar ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.
    * no poder ver a Alguien = have + it in for + Nombre.
    * no poder ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.
    * no querer tener nada que ver Algo = would not touch + Nombre + with a barge pole.
    * no querer tener nada que ver con = want + nothing to do with.
    * no tener nada que ver con = be irrelevant to.
    * no ver = be blind to.
    * no ver con buenos ojos = not take + kindly to.
    * no verse afectado = be none the worse for wear, be none the worse for (that).
    * no verse comprometido por = be uncompromised by.
    * no verse en peligro = be uncompromised by.
    * ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = ignorance is bliss.
    * ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = out of sight out of mind.
    * quedar por ver = be an open question, remain + to be seen.
    * referencia "véase" = see reference.
    * referencia "véase además" = see also reference.
    * salir sin ser visto = slip out, steal away.
    * según lo ve + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.
    * ser algo por ver = be an open question.
    * sin ser visto = undetected, unobserved.
    * tener algo que ver con = have + something to do with.
    * tener mucho que ver con = have + a great deal to do with.
    * tener poco que ver = have + little to do.
    * tener que ver con = be concerned with, concern, relate to, hold + a stake in, have + a stake in, be a question of.
    * una cosa no + tener + nada que ver con la otra = one thing + have + nothing to do with the other.
    * una vista digna de ver = a sight to behold.
    * un espectáculo digno de ver = a sight to behold.
    * véase = see under, SU, refer-to, qv (quod vide -latín).
    * véase además = see also.
    * véase como ejemplo = witness.
    * véase desde = see from, refer-from.
    * véase + Nombre + para más información = refer to + Nombre + for details.
    * Veo, Veo = I Spy.
    * ver Algo a través de los ojos de Alguien = look at + Nombre + through + Posesivo + eyes.
    * ver Algo con humor = a funny eye for.
    * ver Algo desde el punto de vista + Adjetivo = view + Nombre + through + Adjetivo + eyes.
    * ver Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = view + Nombre + in a new light, see + Nombre + in a new light.
    * ver Algo desde una perspectiva + Adjetivo = see + Nombre + in a + Adjetivo + light.
    * ver Algo venir = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.
    * ver a través de = see through, see through.
    * ver bien = welcome.
    * ver con los mismos ojos = see + eye to eye (with/on).
    * ver con los prismáticos = glass.
    * ver con recelo = have + reservations (about).
    * ver con un ojo crítico = view with + a critical eye.
    * ver de antemano = preview.
    * ver desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on.
    * ver desventajas = see + drawbacks.
    * ver de un vistazo = see + at a glance.
    * ver doble = see + double.
    * ver el motivo de Algo = glean + the reason for.
    * ver el mundo desde una perspectiva diferente = see + the world in a different light.
    * ver el porqué = see + the point.
    * ver el propósito = see + the point.
    * ver el sentido = see + the point.
    * ver en pantalla = scroll.
    * ver faltas en = see + faults in.
    * ver grabación en vídeo = video playback.
    * ver inconvenientes = see + drawbacks.
    * ver la finalidad = see + the point.
    * ver la luz = see + the light.
    * ver la luz al final del túnel = see + the light at the end of the tunnel.
    * ver la luz del día = see + the light of day.
    * ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.
    * ver la oportunidad = see + a chance.
    * ver la posibilidad = see + the possibility.
    * ver las cosas de diferente manera = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas de diferente modo = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas desde una perspectiva = see + things from + perspective.
    * ver las cosas de una manera diferente = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas de un modo diferente = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas en su conjunto = see + things as a whole.
    * ver las cosas en su totalidad = see + things as a whole.
    * ver las cosas positivas = look on + the bright side.
    * ver las cosas positivas de la vida = look on + the bright side of life.
    * ver las estrellas = see + stars.
    * ver la tele = watch + the telly.
    * ver la utilidad = see + the point.
    * verle las orejas al lobo = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.
    * ver lo que Alguien realmente piensa = see into + Posesivo + heart.
    * ver lo que + avecinarse = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.
    * ver lo que pasa = take it from there/here.
    * ver mundo = see + life, see + the world.
    * ver + Nombre + con nuevos ojos = view + Nombre + through fresh eyes.
    * ver + Nombre + desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = see + Nombre + through + Nombre + eyes.
    * verse en la necesidad = be constrained to.
    * verse en la necesidad de = be left with the need to.
    * verse en la necesidad urgente de = be hard pressed.
    * verse en la situación = find + Reflexivo + in the position.
    * verse en medio de = caught in the middle.
    * verse envuelto en = become + involved in, get + involved with/in.
    * verse frustrado = become + frustrated.
    * vérselas canutas = have + a devil of a time.
    * vérselas con = contend with.
    * vérselas negras = jump through + hoops, have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre, have + a devil of a time.
    * vérsele a Alguien el plumero = give + Reflexivo + away.
    * verse muy afectado por = have + a high stake in.
    * verse negro = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.
    * verse obligado a no + Infinitivo = be enjoined from + Gerundio.
    * verse superado sólo por = be second only to.
    * verse venir = be on the cards.
    * ver televisión = watch + television.
    * ver un fantasma = see + a ghost.
    * ver ventajas = see + advantages.
    * vistas desde fuera = outwardly.
    * visto desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.
    * * *
    I
    1) ( aspecto)

    de buen ver — good-looking, attractive

    2) ( opinión)

    a mi/su ver — in my/his view

    II 1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)

    ¿ves algo? — can you see anything?

    es como si lo estuviera viendo — it's as if I were seeing him/it now

    ver algo/a alguien + inf — to see something/somebody + inf

    si te he visto no me acuerdo — (fam) he/she doesn't/didn't want to know

    ver venir algo — to see something coming

    b) ( mirar) <programa/partido> to watch

    no poder (ni) ver a alguien: no puede ni verla or no la puede ver — he can't stand her

    c) ( imaginar) to see, picture
    2) (entender, notar) to see

    ¿no ves lo que está pasando? — don't o can't you see what's happening?

    se la ve feliz/preocupada — she looks happy/worried

    hacerse ver — (RPl) to show off

    echar de ver — (Esp) to realize

    3)
    a) (constatar, comprobar) to see

    no me olvidé para que veas! — I didn't forget, see?

    le gané para que veas! — I beat him, so there!

    b) ( ser testigo de) to see

    es tan bonita, si vieras... — she's so pretty, you should see her

    vieras or hubieras visto cómo se asustaron...! — (AmL) you should have seen the fright they got!

    ya ves, aquí me tienes — well, here I am

    hay que ver lo que ha crecido! — wow o gosh! hasn't he grown!

    que no veas — (Esp fam)

    que no veo — (AmL fam)

    tengo un hambre que no veo — (fam) I'm absolutely starving (colloq)

    tengo un sueño que no veo — I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open

    4)

    a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right, now, what's the problem?; aquí está en el periódico - ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper - let's see; ¿a ver qué tienes ahí? let me see what you've got there; apriétalo a ver qué pasa press it and let's see what happens; a ver si me entienden ( justificando) don't get me wrong; ( explicando) let me make myself clear; a ver si estudias más I'd think about studying harder; a ver si escribes pronto make sure you write soon; cállate, a ver si alguien te oye! shut up, somebody might hear you; a ver cuándo vienes a visitarnos — come and see us soon

    5)
    a) ( estudiar)
    b) médico ( examinar) to see

    ¿la ha visto un médico? — has she been seen by a doctor yet?

    se hizo ver por un especialista — (AmS) she saw a specialist

    c) (Der) < causa> to try, hear
    6)
    a) (juzgar, considerar)

    a mi modo or manera de ver — the way I see it

    b) ( encontrar) to see
    7) (visitar, entrevistarse con) <amigo/pariente> to see, visit; <médico/jefe> to see

    cuánto tiempo sin verte! — I haven't seen you for ages!, long time, no see (colloq)

    8)

    tener... que ver: ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? and what does that have to do with it?; no tengo nada que ver con él I have nothing to do with him; ¿tuviste algo que ver en esto? did you have anything to do with this?; ¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?; ¿tendrán algo que ver con los Zamora? — are they related in any way to the Zamoras?

    2.
    ver vi

    enciende la luz que no veo — turn on the light, I can't see

    no veo bien de lejos/de cerca — I'm shortsighted/longsighted

    2) ( constatar)

    ¿hay cerveza? - no sé, voy a ver — is there any beer? - I don't know, I'll have a look

    ¿está Juan? - voy a ver — is Juan in? - I'll go and see

    verás, no quería decírtelo, pero... — look, I didn't want to tell you, but...

    pues verás, todo empezó cuando... — well you see, the whole thing began when...

    3) ( pensar) to see

    ¿vas a decir que sí? - ya veré — are you going to accept? - I'll see

    estar/seguir en veremos — (AmL fam)

    seguimos en veremos — we still don't know anything

    3.
    verse v pron
    1) (refl)
    a) ( percibirse) to see oneself
    b) ( imaginarse) to see oneself
    2)
    a) ( hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself

    vérselas venir — (fam)

    me las veía venir — I could see it coming

    b) (frml) ( ser)

    este problema se ha visto agravado por... — this problem has been made worse by...

    3) ( dejar ver) (+ me/te/le etc)
    4) (esp AmL) ( parecer)
    5) (recípr) ( encontrarse) to meet; ( visitarse) to see each other

    nos vemos a las siete — I'll meet o see you at seven

    nos vemos! — (esp AmL) see you!

    vérselas con alguien: tendrá que vérselas conmigo — he'll have me to deal with

    * * *
    = descry, discern, see, spot, view, view, witness, check out, make out, look down over, look down on/upon, catch + sight of.

    Ex: He looked up and descried a gym class, all wet and draggled, scurrying back across the sodden football field.

    Ex: Such variations also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded in the construction of such a heading.
    Ex: Where the conference cannot be seen to have a name, then the work will normally be treated as a collection.
    Ex: When all necessary amendments have been spotted, edit the draft abstract and make any improvements to the style that are possible.
    Ex: Thus it is possible in an author sequence to view easily the works of one author.
    Ex: Many librarians viewed AACR1 as such a significant improvement upon its predecessors, that they were content.
    Ex: We sometimes only have to speak a word to witness a reaction in other people that should logically follow only if the object itself were present.
    Ex: Where problems do arise it is sensible to check out the training programme before blaming the assistant for poor performance of duties.
    Ex: She could just make out that he was standing against the wall near the door, ready to jump anyone who came out the door.
    Ex: There was one ram that was content to stay up in the cliffs and look down over his domain.
    Ex: The characters stand inside a mysterious domed structure looking down on the Earth watching the 19th century take shape.
    Ex: 'Good grief!', he cried, catching sight of the clock.
    * acercarse sin ser visto = sidle up to.
    * alcanzar a ver = glimpse.
    * algo digno de ver = a sight to behold.
    * al ver = at the sight of.
    * a mi modo de ver = in my books.
    * de buen ver = good looking.
    * dejar de ver = become + blind to.
    * dejarse ver = have + visibility.
    * dichosos los ojos que te ven = a sight for sore eyes.
    * donde fueres haz lo que vieres = when in Rome (do as the Romans do).
    * el ver televisión = television viewing.
    * estar mal visto = frown on/upon.
    * estar por ver = be an open question.
    * forma de ver las cosas = way of putting things together, bent of mind.
    * hacerse ver = gain + exposure.
    * hacer ver = alert to, bring to + Posesivo + attention, bring to + the attention, call + attention to, awaken, bring + home, open + Posesivo + eyes to, bring + attention to, bring to + Posesivo + notice, get across.
    * hacer ver claramente = hammer + home + message, show + clearly.
    * ir a ver = drop in on, check out.
    * ir a ver a Alguien = say + hi.
    * la forma de ver las cosas = the way + to see things.
    * los árboles no dejan ver el bosque = cannot see the forest for the trees.
    * manera de ver las cosas = line of thought.
    * no aguantar ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.
    * no poder ver a Alguien = have + it in for + Nombre.
    * no poder ver Algo o Alguien = can't stand + sight.
    * no querer tener nada que ver Algo = would not touch + Nombre + with a barge pole.
    * no querer tener nada que ver con = want + nothing to do with.
    * no tener nada que ver con = be irrelevant to.
    * no ver = be blind to.
    * no ver con buenos ojos = not take + kindly to.
    * no verse afectado = be none the worse for wear, be none the worse for (that).
    * no verse comprometido por = be uncompromised by.
    * no verse en peligro = be uncompromised by.
    * ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = ignorance is bliss.
    * ojos que no ven corazón que no siente = out of sight out of mind.
    * quedar por ver = be an open question, remain + to be seen.
    * referencia "véase" = see reference.
    * referencia "véase además" = see also reference.
    * salir sin ser visto = slip out, steal away.
    * según lo ve + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.
    * ser algo por ver = be an open question.
    * sin ser visto = undetected, unobserved.
    * tener algo que ver con = have + something to do with.
    * tener mucho que ver con = have + a great deal to do with.
    * tener poco que ver = have + little to do.
    * tener que ver con = be concerned with, concern, relate to, hold + a stake in, have + a stake in, be a question of.
    * una cosa no + tener + nada que ver con la otra = one thing + have + nothing to do with the other.
    * una vista digna de ver = a sight to behold.
    * un espectáculo digno de ver = a sight to behold.
    * véase = see under, SU, refer-to, qv (quod vide -latín).
    * véase además = see also.
    * véase como ejemplo = witness.
    * véase desde = see from, refer-from.
    * véase + Nombre + para más información = refer to + Nombre + for details.
    * Veo, Veo = I Spy.
    * ver Algo a través de los ojos de Alguien = look at + Nombre + through + Posesivo + eyes.
    * ver Algo con humor = a funny eye for.
    * ver Algo desde el punto de vista + Adjetivo = view + Nombre + through + Adjetivo + eyes.
    * ver Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = view + Nombre + in a new light, see + Nombre + in a new light.
    * ver Algo desde una perspectiva + Adjetivo = see + Nombre + in a + Adjetivo + light.
    * ver Algo venir = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.
    * ver a través de = see through, see through.
    * ver bien = welcome.
    * ver con los mismos ojos = see + eye to eye (with/on).
    * ver con los prismáticos = glass.
    * ver con recelo = have + reservations (about).
    * ver con un ojo crítico = view with + a critical eye.
    * ver de antemano = preview.
    * ver desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on.
    * ver desventajas = see + drawbacks.
    * ver de un vistazo = see + at a glance.
    * ver doble = see + double.
    * ver el motivo de Algo = glean + the reason for.
    * ver el mundo desde una perspectiva diferente = see + the world in a different light.
    * ver el porqué = see + the point.
    * ver el propósito = see + the point.
    * ver el sentido = see + the point.
    * ver en pantalla = scroll.
    * ver faltas en = see + faults in.
    * ver grabación en vídeo = video playback.
    * ver inconvenientes = see + drawbacks.
    * ver la finalidad = see + the point.
    * ver la luz = see + the light.
    * ver la luz al final del túnel = see + the light at the end of the tunnel.
    * ver la luz del día = see + the light of day.
    * ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.
    * ver la oportunidad = see + a chance.
    * ver la posibilidad = see + the possibility.
    * ver las cosas de diferente manera = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas de diferente modo = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas desde una perspectiva = see + things from + perspective.
    * ver las cosas de una manera diferente = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas de un modo diferente = see + things differently.
    * ver las cosas en su conjunto = see + things as a whole.
    * ver las cosas en su totalidad = see + things as a whole.
    * ver las cosas positivas = look on + the bright side.
    * ver las cosas positivas de la vida = look on + the bright side of life.
    * ver las estrellas = see + stars.
    * ver la tele = watch + the telly.
    * ver la utilidad = see + the point.
    * verle las orejas al lobo = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.
    * ver lo que Alguien realmente piensa = see into + Posesivo + heart.
    * ver lo que + avecinarse = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.
    * ver lo que pasa = take it from there/here.
    * ver mundo = see + life, see + the world.
    * ver + Nombre + con nuevos ojos = view + Nombre + through fresh eyes.
    * ver + Nombre + desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = see + Nombre + through + Nombre + eyes.
    * verse en la necesidad = be constrained to.
    * verse en la necesidad de = be left with the need to.
    * verse en la necesidad urgente de = be hard pressed.
    * verse en la situación = find + Reflexivo + in the position.
    * verse en medio de = caught in the middle.
    * verse envuelto en = become + involved in, get + involved with/in.
    * verse frustrado = become + frustrated.
    * vérselas canutas = have + a devil of a time.
    * vérselas con = contend with.
    * vérselas negras = jump through + hoops, have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre, have + a devil of a time.
    * vérsele a Alguien el plumero = give + Reflexivo + away.
    * verse muy afectado por = have + a high stake in.
    * verse negro = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.
    * verse obligado a no + Infinitivo = be enjoined from + Gerundio.
    * verse superado sólo por = be second only to.
    * verse venir = be on the cards.
    * ver televisión = watch + television.
    * ver un fantasma = see + a ghost.
    * ver ventajas = see + advantages.
    * vistas desde fuera = outwardly.
    * visto desde la perspectiva de + Nombre = as seen through the eyes of + Nombre.

    * * *
    ver1
    A
    (aspecto): aún está de buen ver he's still good-looking o attractive, he still looks good
    no es de mal ver she's not bad-looking
    B
    (opinión): a mi/su ver in my/his view, as I see/he sees it
    ver2 [ E29 ]
    ■ ver (verbo transitivo)
    A
    1 percibir con la vista
    2 mirar
    3 imaginar
    B
    1 entender, notar
    2 echar de ver
    C
    1 constatar, comprobar
    2 ser testigo de
    D a ver
    E
    1 estudiar
    2 examinar: médico
    3 Derecho
    F
    1 juzgar, considerar
    2 encontrar
    G visitar, entrevistarse con
    H en el póquer
    I tener... que ver
    ■ ver (verbo intransitivo)
    A percibir con la vista
    B constatar
    C estudiar, pensar
    D a ver
    E ver de
    ■ verse (verbo pronominal)
    A
    1 percibirse
    2 imaginarse
    B
    1 hallarse
    2 ser
    C parecer
    D encontrarse
    vt
    A
    ¿ves el letrero allí enfrente? can o do you see that sign opposite?
    lo vi con mis propios ojos I saw it with my own eyes
    ¿ves algo? can you see anything?
    enciende la luz que no se ve nada switch on the light, I can't see a thing
    tú ves visiones, allí no hay nada you're seeing things, there's nothing there
    se te ve la combinación your slip is showing
    me acuerdo perfectamente, es como si lo estuviera viendo I remember it perfectly, as if I were seeing it now
    ver algo/a algn + INF/GER:
    la vi bailar en Londres hace años I saw her dance in London years ago
    la vi metérselo en el bolsillo I saw her put it into her pocket
    los vieron salir por la puerta trasera they were seen leaving by the back door
    lo vi hablando con ella I saw him talking to her
    ahí donde lo/la ves: ahí donde la ves tiene un genio … incredible though it may seem, she has a real temper …
    aquí donde me ves, tengo 90 años cumplidos believe it or not, I'm ninety years old
    no ver ni tres en un burro or ni un burro a tres pasos or ni jota ( fam): sin gafas no veo ni jota I can't see a thing without my glasses, without my glasses I'm as blind as a bat
    si te he visto no me acuerdo ( fam): en cuanto le pedí un favor, si te he visto no me acuerdo as soon as I asked a favor of him, he just didn't want to know
    ver venir algo/a algn: el fracaso se veía venir it was obvious o you could see it was going to fail
    te veía venir, ya sabía lo que me ibas a pedir I thought as much, I knew what you were going to ask me for
    ya lo veo venir, seguro que quiere una semana libre I know what he's after, I bet he wants a week off ( colloq)
    ¡y tú que lo veas!: ¡que cumplas muchos más! — ¡y tú que lo veas! many happy returns! — thank you very much
    van a bajar los impuestos — ¡y tú que lo veas! ( iró); they're going to cut taxes — do you think you'll live long enough to see it? ( iro)
    2 (mirar) to watch
    estaba viendo la televisión I was watching television
    esa película ya la he visto I've seen that movie before
    ¿te has hecho daño?, déjame ver have you hurt yourself? let me see
    un espectáculo que hay que ver a show which you must see o which is not to be missed o ( colloq) which is a must
    no poder (ni) ver a algn: no puede ni verla or no la puede ver he can't stand her, he can't stand the sight of her
    no lo puedo ver ni pintado or ni en pintura ( fam); I can't stand the sight of him
    3 (imaginar) to see, imagine, picture
    yo no la veo viviendo en el campo I can't see o imagine o picture her living in the country
    ya la veo tumbada en la arena sin hacer nada … I can see o picture her now lying on the sand doing nothing …
    B
    1 (entender, notar) to see
    ¿no ves que la situación es grave? don't o can't you see how serious the situation is?
    ¿ves qué amargo es? you see how bitter it is?
    no quiere ver la realidad he won't face up to reality
    sólo ve sus problemas he's only interested in his own problems
    se te ve en la cara I can tell by your face
    se le ve que disfruta con su trabajo you can see o tell she enjoys her work
    te veo preocupado ¿qué te pasa? you look worried, what's the matter?
    la veo muy contenta she looks o seems very happy
    es un poco complicado, ¿sabes? — ya se ve it's a bit complicated, you know — so I (can) see
    ya veo/ya se ve que no tienes mucha práctica en esto I can see o it's obvious you haven't had much practice at this, you obviously haven't had much practice at this
    hacerse ver ( RPl); to show off
    2
    echar de ver to realize, notice
    pronto echó de ver que le faltaba dinero he soon realized o noticed that some of his money was missing
    se echa de ver que está muy contento it's obvious he's very happy
    C
    1 (constatar, comprobar) to see
    ve a ver quién es go and see who it is
    ¡ya verás lo que es bueno si no me haces caso! you'll see what you get if you don't do as I say
    habrá que ver si cumple su promesa it remains to be seen o we'll have to see whether he keeps his promise
    verás como no viene he won't come, wait and see o you'll see
    ya no funciona ¿lo ves? or ¿viste? te dije que no lo tocaras now, it's not working any more. You see? I told you not to touch it
    ¡eso ya se verá! we'll see
    ¡eso está por ver! we'll see about that!
    ¡para que veas! ¡tú que decías que no iba a ser capaz! see? I did it! and you said I wouldn't be able to!
    gané por tres sets a cero ¡para que veas! I won by three sets to love, so there!
    vieron confirmadas sus sospechas they saw their suspicions confirmed, their suspicions were confirmed
    ¡nunca he visto cosa igual! I've never seen anything like it!
    ¡habráse visto semejante desfachatez! what a nerve! ( colloq)
    ¡si vieras lo mal que lo pasé! you can't imagine how awful it was!
    es tan bonita, si vieras … she's so pretty, you should see her
    ¡vieras or hubieras visto cómo se asustaron …! ( AmL); you should have seen the fright they got!
    tenías que haber visto lo furioso que se puso you should have seen how angry he got
    ¡hombre! ¿tú por aquí? — ya ves, no tenía otra cosa que hacer hello, what are you doing here? — well, I didn't have anything else to do
    pensaba tomarme el día libre pero ya ves, aquí me tienes I intended taking the day off but … well, here I am
    ¡hay que ver! ¡lo que son las cosas! well, well, well! o I don't know! would you believe it?
    ¡hay que ver! hasta se llevaron el dinero de los niños would you believe it! they even took the children's money
    ¡hay que ver lo que ha crecido! wow o gosh! hasn't he grown!
    hay que ver qué bien se portaron they behaved really well, it's amazing how well they behaved
    hay que ver lo grosera que es she's incredibly rude
    que no veas ( Esp fam): me echó una bronca que no veas she gave me such an earful! ( colloq), you wouldn't believe the earful she gave me! ( colloq)
    tenía una borrachera que no veas he was absolutely blind drunk
    tienen una cocina que no veas they have an incredible kitchen
    que no veo ( AmL fam): tengo un hambre que no veo ( fam); I'm absolutely starving ( colloq), I'm so hungry I could eat a horse ( colloq)
    tengo un sueño que no veo I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open
    D
    a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right o well, now, what's the problem?
    a ver, el fórceps, rápido give me the forceps, quickly
    aquí está en el periódico — ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper — let's see
    ¿a ver qué tienes ahí? let me see o show me what you've got there, what have you got there?
    aprieta el botón a ver qué pasa press the button and let's see what happens
    a ver si me entienden (justificando) don't get me wrong; (explicando) let me make myself clear
    a ver si arreglas esa lámpara when are you going to fix that light?
    a ver si escribes pronto write soon, make sure you write soon
    ¡cállate, a ver si alguien te oye! shut up, somebody might hear you
    ¡a ver si ahora se cree que se lo robé yo! I hope he doesn't think that I stole it!
    a ver cuándo vienes a visitarnos come and see us soon/one of these days
    ¡a ver! (AmC, Col) (al contestar el teléfono) hello?
    E
    1
    (estudiar): esto mejor que lo veas tú you'd better look at this o see this o have a look at this
    tengo que ver cómo lo arreglo I have to work out o see how I can fix it
    aún no lo sé, ya veré qué hago I still don't know, I'll decide what to do later
    véase el capítulo anterior see (the) previous chapter
    no vimos ese tema en clase we didn't look at o study o do that topic in class
    2
    «médico» (examinar): ¿la ha visto ya un médico? has she been seen by a doctor yet?, has she seen a doctor yet?
    ¿por qué no te haces ver por un especialista? ( AmS); why don't you see a specialist?
    3 ( Derecho) ‹causa› to try, hear
    F
    1
    (juzgar, considerar): yo eso no lo veo bien I don't think that's right
    cada uno ve las cosas a su manera everybody has their own point of view, everybody sees things differently
    a mi modo or manera de ver to my way of thinking, the way I see it
    2 (encontrar) to see
    no le veo salida a esta situación I can't see any way out of this situation
    ¿tú le ves algún inconveniente? can you see any drawbacks to it?
    no le veo la gracia I don't think it's funny, I don't find it funny
    no le veo nada de malo I can't see anything wrong in it
    no veo por qué no I don't see why not
    G
    (visitar, entrevistarse con): es mejor que vea a su propio médico it's better if you go to o see your own doctor
    hace tiempo que no lo veo I haven't seen him for some time
    ¡cuánto tiempo sin verte! I haven't seen you for ages!, long time, no see ( colloq)
    aún no he ido a ver a la abuela I still haven't been to see o visit grandmother
    ahora que vive lejos lo vemos menos we don't see so much of him now that he lives so far away
    H
    (en el póquer): las veo I'll see you
    I
    tener … que ver: eso no tiene nada que ver con lo que estamos discutiendo that has nothing to do with what we are discussing
    es muy joven — ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? he's very young — and what does that have to do with it?
    no tengo nada que ver con esa compañía I have nothing to do with that company, I have no connection with that company
    ¿tuviste algo que ver en ese asunto? did you have anything to do with o any connection with that business?, were you involved in that business?
    ¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?
    ¿tendrán algo que ver con los Icasuriaga de Zamora? are they related in any way to the Icasuriagas from Zamora?
    ■ ver
    vi
    no veo bien de lejos/de cerca I'm shortsighted/longsighted
    enciende la luz que no veo turn on the light, I can't see
    B
    (constatar): ¿hay cerveza? — no sé, voy a ver is there any beer? — I don't know, I'll have a look
    ¿está Juan? — voy a ver is Juan in? — I'll go and see
    verás, no quería engañarte pero … look, I wasn't trying to deceive you, it's just that …
    pues verás, la cosa empezó cuando … well you see, the whole thing began when …
    ver para creer seeing is believing
    C (estudiar, pensar) to see
    vamos a veror veamos, ¿dónde le duele? let's see now, where does it hurt?
    ¿vas a decir que sí? — ya veré, déjame pensarlo un poco are you going to accept? I'll see, let me think about it
    estar/seguir en veremos ( AmL fam): todavía está en veremos it isn't certain yet
    seguimos en veremos we still don't know anything, we're still in the dark
    D
    a ver see ver2 vt D.
    vean de que no se dé cuenta try to make sure he doesn't notice
    vamos a ver de hacerlo lo más rápido posible let's try to get it done o let's see if we can get it done as quickly as possible
    ■ verse
    A ( refl)
    1 (percibirse) to see oneself
    ¿te quieres ver en el espejo? do you want to see yourself o look at yourself in the mirror?
    se vio reflejado en el agua he saw his reflection in the water
    2 (imaginarse) to see oneself
    ¿tú te ves viviendo allí? can you see yourself living there?
    B
    1 (hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself
    me vi obligado a despedirlo I was obliged to dismiss him, I had no choice but to dismiss him
    se vio en la necesidad de pedir dinero prestado he found himself having to borrow money
    me vi en un aprieto I found myself in a tight spot
    vérselas venir ( fam): me las veía venir por eso tomé precauciones I saw it coming so I took precautions
    vérselas y deseárselas: me las vi y me las deseé estudiando y trabajando durante cinco años it was really tough o hard o it was a real struggle studying and working for five years
    verse venir algo to see sth coming
    2 ( frml)
    (ser): este problema se ha visto agravado por … this problem has been made worse by …
    las cifras se ven aumentadas al final del verano the figures rise at the end of the summer
    el país se verá beneficiado con este acuerdo the country will benefit from this agreement
    C ( esp AmL) (parecer) to look
    me veo gordísima con esta falda I look really fat in this skirt
    D ( recípr) (encontrarse) to meet
    se veían un par de veces al mes they used to see each other o meet a couple of times a month
    nos vemos a las siete I'll meet o see you at seven
    es mejor que no nos veamos durante un tiempo we'd better not see each other for a while
    ¡nos vemos! ( esp AmL); see you!, I'll be seeing you!
    verse CON algn to see sb
    ya no me veo con ellos I don't see them any more
    vérselas con algn: tendrá que vérselas conmigo como se atreva a molestarte he'll have me to deal with if he dares to bother you
    * * *

     

    ver 1 sustantivo masculino
    1 ( aspecto):
    ◊ ser de buen ver to be good-looking o attractive

    2 ( opinión):
    ◊ a mi/su ver in my/his view

    ver 2 ( conjugate ver) verbo transitivo
    1

    ◊ ¿ves algo? can you see anything?;

    no se ve nada aquí you can't see a thing in here;
    lo vi hablando con ella I saw him talking to her
    b) ( mirar) ‹programa/partido› to watch;


    esa película ya la he visto I've seen that movie before;
    no poder (ni) ver a algn: no la puede ver he can't stand her
    2 (entender, notar) to see;
    ◊ ¿no ves lo que está pasando? don't o can't you see what's happening?;

    se la ve preocupada she looks worried;
    hacerse ver (RPl) to show off
    3
    a) (constatar, comprobar) to see;


    ¡ya verás lo que pasa! you'll see what happens;
    ¡ya se verá! we'll see

    ◊ ¡nunca he visto cosa igual! I've never seen anything like it!;

    ¡si vieras lo mal que lo pasé! you can't imagine how awful it was!;
    ¡hubieras visto cómo se asustaron! (AmL) you should have seen the fright they got!
    4
    ◊ a ver: (vamos) a ver ¿de qué se trata? OK o all right, now, what's the problem?;

    está aquí, en el periódico — ¿a ver? it's here in the newspaper — let's see;
    apriétalo a ver qué pasa press it and see what happens;
    a ver si escribes pronto make sure you write soon
    5
    a) ( estudiar):


    tengo que ver cómo lo arreglo I have to work out how I can fix it;
    ya veré qué hago I'll decide what to do later

    ◊ ¿la ha visto un médico? has she been seen by a doctor yet?

    6
    a) (juzgar, considerar):


    a mi modo or manera de ver the way I see it


    no le veo la gracia I don't think it's funny
    7 (visitar, entrevistarse con) ‹amigo/pariente› to see, visit;
    ‹médico/jefe› to see;
    ◊ ¡cuánto tiempo sin verte! I haven't seen you for ages!

    8
    ◊ tener … que ver: ¿y eso qué tiene que ver? and what does that have to do with it?;

    no tengo nada que ver con él I have nothing to do with him;
    ¿qué tiene que ver que sea sábado? what difference does it make that it's Saturday?
    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( percibir con la vista) to see;

    no veo bien de lejos/de cerca I'm shortsighted/longsighted
    2 ( constatar):
    ◊ ¿hay cerveza? — no sé, voy a ver is there any beer? — I don't know, I'll have a look;

    pues verás, todo empezó cuando … well you see, the whole thing began when …
    3 ( pensar) to see;

    estar/seguir en veremos (AmL fam): todavía está en veremos it isn't certain yet;
    seguimos en veremos we still don't know anything
    verse verbo pronominal
    1 ( refl) (percibirse, imaginarse) to see oneself
    2 ( hallarse) (+ compl) to find oneself;

    me vi obligado a despedirlo I had no choice but to dismiss him
    3 (esp AmL) ( parecer):

    no se ve bien con ese peinado that hairdo doesn't suit her
    4 ( recípr)

    ◊ nos vemos a las siete I'll meet o see you at seven;

    ¡nos vemos! (esp AmL) see you!
    b) (visitarse, encontrarse) to see each other;


    verse con algn to see sb
    ver 1 m (aspecto exterior) aún estás de buen ver, you're still good-looking
    ver 2 I verbo transitivo
    1 to see: vi tu cartera sobre la mesa, I saw your wallet on the table
    no veo nada, I can't see anything
    puede ver tu casa desde aquí, he can see your house from here ➣ Ver nota en see; (mirar la televisión) to watch: estamos viendo las noticias de las tres, we are watching the three o'clock news
    (cine) me gustaría ver esa película, I'd like to see that film
    2 (entender) no veo por qué no te gusta, I can't see why you don't like it
    (considerar) a mi modo de ver, as far as I can see o as I see it
    tus padres no ven bien esa relación, your parents don't agree with that relationship
    (parecer) se te ve nervioso, you look nervous
    3 (averiguar) ya veremos qué sucede, we'll soon see what happens
    fam (uso enfático) ¡no veas qué sitio tan bonito!, you wouldn't believe what a beautiful place!
    4 a ver, let's see: a ver si acabamos este trabajo, let's see if we can finish this job
    me compré un compacto, - ¿a ver?, I bought a compact disc, - let's have a look!
    5 (ir a ver, visitar) to see, visit: le fui a ver al hospital, I visited him in hospital
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to see: no ve bien de lejos, he's shortsighted, US nearsighted
    2 (dudar, pensar) ¿me prestas este libro?, - ya veré, will you lend me this book?, - I'll see
    3 (tener relación) no tengo nada que ver con ese asunto, I have nothing to do with that business
    solo tiene cincuenta años, - ¿y eso qué tiene qué ver?, he's only fifty, - so what?
    ♦ Locuciones: no poder ver a alguien: no puede (ni) verle, she can't stand him
    ¿To see, to watch o to look?
    Los tres verbos reflejan tres conceptos muy distintos. To see hace referencia a la capacidad visual y no es fruto de una acción deliberada. A menudo se usa con can o could: I can see the mountains from my bedroom. Puedo ver las montañas desde mi dormitorio.
    To look at implica una acción deliberada: I saw an old atlas, so I opened it and looked at the maps. Vi un atlas antiguo, así que lo abrí y miré los mapas.
    To watch también se refiere a una acción deliberada, a menudo cuando se tiene un interés especial por lo que ocurre: I watched the planes in the sky with great interest. Miraba los aviones en el cielo con gran interés. Igualmente puede indicar el paso del tiempo (we watched the animals playing for half an hour, durante media hora observamos cómo jugaban los animales), movimiento (they stood there watching the cars drive off into the distance, se quedaron allí de pie viendo cómo se marchaban los coches) o vigilancia (the policemen have been watching this house because they thought we were thieves, los policías estaban vigilando la casa porque pensaban que éramos ladrones).
    Para hablar de películas u obras de teatro usamos to see: Have you seen Hamlet?, ¿Has visto Hamlet? To watch se refiere a la televisión y los deportes en general: I always watch the television in the evening. Siempre veo la televisión por las noches. I like to watch football. Me gusta ver el fútbol. Al hablar de programas o partidos específicos podemos usar tanto to watch como to see: I like to see/watch the news at 9:00. Me gusta ver las noticias a las 9.00. Did you see/watch the match last night?, ¿Viste el partido anoche?
    ' ver' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - abundante
    - acabar
    - aclararse
    - aconsejar
    - acordar
    - acordarse
    - acostumbrada
    - acostumbrado
    - actual
    - actualmente
    - acuerdo
    - adentro
    - adición
    - advertir
    - agradecer
    - aguantar
    - aguardar
    - ahora
    - alegre
    - almuerzo
    - alquiler
    - alta
    - alto
    - amarilla
    - amarillo
    - americanada
    - amplia
    - amplio
    - añadir
    - anexa
    - anexo
    - añorar
    - apartamento
    - apellido
    - apetecer
    - apreciar
    - arrepentirse
    - arriesgarse
    - atreverse
    - aún
    - ausente
    - ayudar
    - bajar
    - bastante
    - burra
    - burro
    - cachorra
    - cachorro
    - caliente
    English:
    able
    - add
    - add up
    - addition
    - advertising
    - afloat
    - afraid
    - afternoon
    - aghast
    - ajar
    - akin
    - alight
    - alike
    - alive
    - all
    - allow
    - alone
    - already
    - although
    - among
    - amongst
    - and
    - another
    - apartment
    - appear
    - appendix
    - arouse
    - as
    - ashamed
    - asleep
    - assassin
    - assassinate
    - assassination
    - associate
    - attorney
    - averse
    - awake
    - awaken
    - aware
    - bar
    - barrister
    - bath
    - be
    - beat
    - beer
    - beg
    - benefit
    - between
    - billion
    - bite
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [aspecto]
    estar de buen ver to be good-looking
    2. [opinión]
    a mi ver the way I see it
    ♦ vt
    1. [percibir con los ojos] to see;
    [mirar] to look at; [televisión, programa, espectáculo deportivo] to watch; [película, obra, concierto] to see;
    ¿ves algo? can you see anything?;
    yo no veo nada I can't see a thing;
    he estado viendo tu trabajo I've been looking at your work;
    ¿vemos la tele un rato? shall we watch some TV?;
    esta serie nunca la veo I never watch this series;
    ¿has visto el museo? have you been to the museum?;
    yo te veo más delgada you look thinner to me;
    Méx Fam
    ¿qué me ves? what are you looking at?;
    este edificio ha visto muchos sucesos históricos this building has seen a lot of historic events;
    los jubilados han visto aumentadas sus pensiones pensioners have had their pensions increased;
    ver a alguien hacer algo to see sb doing sth;
    los vi actuar en el festival I saw them acting at the festival;
    te vi bajar del autobús I saw you getting off the bus;
    los vieron discutir o [m5] discutiendo they were seen arguing;
    ¡nunca o [m5] jamás he visto cosa igual! I've never seen the like of it!;
    ¡si vieras qué bien lo pasamos! if only you knew what a good time we had!;
    ¡si vieras qué cara se le puso! you should have seen her face!;
    ver venir algo/a alguien: este problema ya lo veía venir I could see this problem coming;
    lo veo venir I can see what he's up to;
    verlas venir: él prefiere quedarse a verlas venir he prefers to wait and see;
    ¡quién lo ha visto y quién lo ve! it's amazing how much he's changed!;
    si no lo veo, no lo creo I'd never have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes;
    si te he visto no me acuerdo: pero ahora, si te he visto, no me acuerdo but now he/she/ etc doesn't want to know
    2. [entender, apreciar, considerar] to see;
    ya veo que estás de mal humor I can see you're in a bad mood;
    ¿no ves que trata de disculparse? can't you see o tell she's trying to apologize?;
    ¿ves lo que quiero decir? do you see what I mean?;
    ahora lo veo todo claro now I understand everything;
    a todo le ve pegas he sees problems in everything;
    yo no le veo solución a este problema I can't see a solution to this problem;
    ¿tú cómo lo ves? how do you see it?;
    yo lo veo así I see it this way o like this;
    es una manera de ver las cosas that's one way of looking at it;
    yo no lo veo tan mal I don't think it's that bad;
    ahí donde la ves, era muy guapa de joven she was very pretty when she was young, you know;
    dejarse ver (por un sitio) to show one's face (somewhere);
    ¿te gusta? – ¡a ver! do you like it? – of course I do!;
    ¡habráse visto!: ¡habráse visto qué cara dura/mal genio tiene! you'd never believe what a cheek/temper he has!;
    ¡hay que ver! [indica sorpresa] would you believe it!;
    [indica indignación] it makes me mad!;
    ¡hay que ver qué lista es! you wouldn't believe how clever she is!;
    ¡hay que ver cuánto se gasta estando de vacaciones! it's amazing how much you spend when you're on Br holiday o US vacation!;
    para que veas: no le tengo ningún rencor, ¡para que veas! I don't bear him any hard feelings, in case you were wondering;
    Fam
    no poder ver a alguien (ni en pintura): no lo puedo ver I can't stand (the sight of) him
    3. [imaginar] to see;
    ya veo tu foto en los periódicos I can (just) see your photo in the newspapers;
    francamente, yo no la veo casada to be honest, I find it hard to see her getting married
    4. [comprobar] to see;
    ir a ver lo que pasa to go and see what's going on;
    ve a ver si quedan cervezas go and see if o have a look if there are any beers left;
    veré qué puedo hacer I'll see what I can do;
    queda por ver si ésta es la mejor solución it remains to be seen whether this is the best solution;
    eso está por ver, eso habrá que verlo that remains to be seen;
    veamos let's see
    5. [tratar, estudiar] [tema, problema] to look at;
    el lunes veremos la lección 6 we'll do lesson 6 on Monday;
    como ya hemos visto en anteriores capítulos… as we have seen in previous chapters…
    6. [reconocer] [sujeto: médico, especialista] to have o take a look at;
    necesitas que te vea un médico, Andes, RP [m5] hazte ver por un médico you ought to see a doctor;
    Andes, RP
    el televisor no funciona, tengo que hacerlo ver the television's not working, I must get someone to have a look at it o get it seen to
    7. [visitar, citarse con] to see;
    tienes que ir a ver al médico you ought to see the doctor;
    ven a vernos cuando quieras come and see us any time you like;
    mañana vamos a ver a mis padres we're seeing my parents tomorrow;
    hace siglos que no la veo I haven't seen her for ages;
    últimamente no los veo mucho I haven't seen much of them recently
    8. Der [juzgar]
    ver un caso to hear a case
    9. [en juegos de naipes] to see;
    las veo I'll see you
    ♦ vi
    1. [percibir con los ojos] to see;
    ver bien/mal to have good/poor eyesight;
    no veo bien de cerca/de lejos I'm long-sighted/short-sighted;
    ¿ves bien ahí? can you see all right from there?;
    Fam
    que no veo: tengo un hambre/sueño que no veo I'm incredibly hungry/tired;
    Fam
    que no veas: hace un frío/calor que no veas it's incredibly cold/hot;
    los vecinos arman un ruido que no veas the neighbours are unbelievably noisy;
    hasta más ver [adiós] see you soon
    2. [hacer la comprobación] to see;
    la casa está en muy buenas condiciones – ya veo the house is in very good condition – so I see;
    es muy sencillo, ya verás it's quite simple, you'll see;
    creo que me queda uno en el almacén, iré a ver I think I have one left in the storeroom, I'll just go and see o look;
    vendrá en el periódico – voy a ver it'll be in the newspaper – I'll go and see o look;
    tú sigue sin estudiar y verás you'll soon see what happens if you carry on not studying;
    ¿ves?, te lo dije (you) see? I told you so;
    ver para creer seeing is believing
    3. [decidir]
    ¿lo harás? – ya veré will you do it? – I'll see;
    ya veremos we'll see
    4. [en juegos de naipes]
    ¡veo! I'll see you!
    5. [como muletilla]
    verás, tengo algo muy importante que decirte listen o look, I've got something very important to say to you;
    ¿qué ha pasado? – pues, verás, yo estaba… what happened? – well, you see, I was…
    6.
    a ver: a ver cuánto aguantas en esa postura let's see how long you can hold that position;
    a ver cuándo vienes a vernos you must come and see us some time;
    no subas al tejado, a ver si te vas a caer don't go up on the roof, you might fall;
    ¡a ver si tienes más cuidado con lo que dices! you should be a bit more careful what you say!;
    ¿a ver? [mirando con interés] let me see, let's have a look;
    Col
    ¡a ver! [al teléfono] hello?;
    a ver, ¿qué te pasa? let's see, what's wrong?;
    a ver, antes de empezar… let's see, right, before starting…;
    vamos a ver let's see
    * * *
    <part visto>
    I v/t
    1 L.Am. ( mirar) look at; televisión watch
    2 see;
    sin ser visto unseen, without being seen;
    la vi ayer en la reunión I saw her yesterday at the meeting;
    no puede verla fig he can’t stand the sight of her;
    tengo un hambre que no veo fam I’m starving o
    ravenous;
    me lo veía venir I could see it coming;
    te veo venir fig I know what you’re after
    3 ( visitar)
    :
    fui a ver al médico I went to see the doctor
    4 ( opinar)
    :
    ¿cómo lo ves? what do you think?
    :
    me hizo ver que estaba equivocado she made me see that I was wrong;
    ¿(lo) ves? (do) you see?
    6 JUR pleito hear
    7
    :
    no tiene nada que ver con it doesn’t have anything to do with
    II v/i
    1 L.Am. ( mirar) look;
    ve aquí dentro look in here
    2 see;
    no veo bien sin gafas I don’t see too well without my glasses
    :
    está por ver that remains to be seen;
    ya veremos we’ll see;
    vamos a ver let’s see;
    a ver let’s see, now then
    :
    ¡hay que ver! would you believe it!;
    ¡para que veas! so there!
    * * *
    ver {88} vt
    1) : to see
    vimos la película: we saw the movie
    2) entender: to understand
    ya lo veo: now I get it
    3) examinar: to examine, to look into
    lo veré: I'll take a look at it
    4) juzgar: to see, to judge
    a mi manera de ver: to my way of thinking
    5) visitar: to meet with, to visit
    6) averiguar: to find out
    7)
    a ver or
    vamos a ver : let's see
    ver vi
    1) : to see
    2) enterarse: to learn, to find out
    3) entender: to understand
    * * *
    ver vb
    1. (en general) to see [pt. saw; pp. seen]
    2. (mirar) to watch
    3. (parecer) to look
    4. (considerar) to think [pt. & pp. thought]

    Spanish-English dictionary > ver

  • 13 total

    adj.
    1 total (completo) (cifra, coste).
    adv.
    basically, in a word.
    total que me marché so anyway, I left
    total, ¿qué más da? what difference does it make anyway?
    intj.
    in short.
    Total,nadie acudió a su trabajo! In short, nobody came to work!
    m.
    1 total (suma).
    2 whole (totalidad, conjunto).
    el total del grupo the whole group
    nos costó 200 dólares en total it cost us 200 dollars in total o all
    en total fuimos más de treinta personas in total there were more than thirty of us
    * * *
    1 total, complete, overall
    1 (totalidad) whole
    2 (suma) total, sum
    1 (en conclusión) in short, so
    ■ total, fue un fracaso in short, it was a failure
    ■ total, que se fueron porque quisieron they left because they wanted to
    2 (al fin y al cabo) after all
    ■ total, para lo que me sirve... after all, for all the good it is to me...
    \
    en total in all
    * * *
    noun m. adj.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=absoluto) [éxito, fracaso] total
    2) (=global) [importe, suma] total
    3) * (=excelente) smashing, brilliant
    2. ADV
    1) (=resumiendo) in short, all in all; (=así que) so

    total que — to cut a long story short, the upshot of it all was that...

    total, que no fuimos — so we didn't go after all

    total, que vas a hacer lo que quieras — basically then you're going to do as you please

    2) (=al fin y al cabo) at the end of the day

    total, ¿qué más te da? — at the end of the day, what do you care?

    total, usted manda — well, you're the boss after all

    3.
    SM (=suma total) total; (=totalidad) whole
    * * *
    I
    a) ( absoluto) <desastre/destrucción> total; < éxito> resounding, total
    b) ( global) <costo/importe> total
    II
    masculino total

    ¿cuánto es el total? — how much is it altogether?

    III
    adverbio (indep) (fam)
    a) ( al resumir una narración) so, in the end

    total, que me di por vencida — so in the end I gave up

    b) (expresando indiferencia, poca importancia)

    total, a mí qué — (fam) what do I care anyway

    total, mañana no tienes que trabajar — after all, you don't have to go to work tomorrow

    * * *
    I
    a) ( absoluto) <desastre/destrucción> total; < éxito> resounding, total
    b) ( global) <costo/importe> total
    II
    masculino total

    ¿cuánto es el total? — how much is it altogether?

    III
    adverbio (indep) (fam)
    a) ( al resumir una narración) so, in the end

    total, que me di por vencida — so in the end I gave up

    b) (expresando indiferencia, poca importancia)

    total, a mí qué — (fam) what do I care anyway

    total, mañana no tienes que trabajar — after all, you don't have to go to work tomorrow

    * * *
    total1
    1 = tally [tallies, pl.], total, count, grand total.

    Ex: As the various parts of the record are entered, the document summary indicates the additions by the tallies opposite the record parts.

    Ex: Someone must read a total on the card, so that the machine can add its computed item to it.
    Ex: Not much data beyond loan counts was available and re-keying and remanipulations were frequently needed to make the information useful.
    Ex: The grand total of 4,300 exhibitors was 4 per cent up on 1996.
    * de un total de + Cantidad = out of a total of + Cantidad.
    * el total de = the total sum of, the sum total of.
    * total comprometida = encumbrance.
    * total comprometido = accrual.
    * total de calorías = calorie count.
    * total de préstamos = circulation figures.
    * total devengado = encumbrance, accrual.
    * un total de = a universe of, a total of.

    total2
    2 = complete, full [fuller -comp., fullest -sup.], thorough, total, end to end, supine, unrelieved, utter, gavel to gavel, systemic, overarching, ultimate, avowed, out-and-out, certified, unmitigaged, fully blown, unreserved.

    Ex: The main entry is the complete catalogue record of the document.

    Ex: Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.
    Ex: Timely and thorough planning is essential.
    Ex: This situation requires a very skilled information worker if total disaster is to be avoided.
    Ex: Next morning the heap, now damp right through, was set up on one end of the horse (later called the bank), a bench long enough to take two piles of paper end to end, and about as high as the coffin of the press.
    Ex: 'I was saying that we shouldn't have a supine acceptance for temporary limitations'.
    Ex: Although the slave narratives were usually intended to serve in the cause of abolition, not all of them were bitter, unrelieved tirades against the institution of slavery, but rather there were frequently moments of relieving laughter.
    Ex: There is little to be said for this grudging acceptance or utter rejection of pseudonyms.
    Ex: A survey of state legislators finds that lawmakers support expanding television coverage of legislative proceedings to include gavel to gavel programming.
    Ex: There is a need for an examination of the whole process of information dissemination from a 'systemic' framework.
    Ex: There appears to be an unhealthy tendency among information technology professionals to elevate any single, highly successful practical experience instantly into an overarching paradigm for managerial success.
    Ex: The whole project is undeniably full of sentimental, cinephiliac rapture, but it provided the ultimate opportunity for filmmakers to talk feverishly about the basic nature of their medium.
    Ex: Anne Bogart's novel combines avowed misogyny with postfeminist frolic.
    Ex: Such an appraoch is unlikely to improve the social sciences unless valid informaton can first be distinguished from out-and-out incorrect information.
    Ex: She is a certified TV-addict -- you simply cannot talk to her when she's glued to the box.
    Ex: Only Bush could take a horrible situation and create an unmitigated disaster.
    Ex: This time it's a hairline fracture rather than a fully blown break of a metatarsal, however the result is the same.
    Ex: It is also important that we all give them our unreserved support.
    * de movimiento total = full-motion.
    * en total = all told, altogether, in all, overall, in total, in toto.
    * fracaso total = complete failure.
    * integración total = seamlessness.
    * la suma total de = the total sum of, the sum total of.
    * limpieza total = clean sweep.
    * Número + en total = Número + in number.
    * oscuridad total = pitch blackness, pitch darkness.
    * rechazo total = bold statement against.
    * síndrome de alergia total = total allergy syndrome.
    * siniestro total = write-off [writeoff].
    * suma total = sum total, count.
    * total atención = undivided attention.

    * * *
    1 (absoluto) ‹desastre/destrucción› total; ‹éxito› resounding ( before n), total
    la película fue un fracaso total the film was a total o an utter failure
    un cambio total a complete change
    2 (global) ‹coste/importe› total
    total
    ¿cuánto es el total? what's the total?, what does it all come to?, how much is it altogether?
    el total de las pérdidas/ganancias the total losses/profits
    el total asciende a $40.000 the total amounts to o comes to o is $40,000
    afecta a un total de 600 personas it affects a total of 600 people
    en total altogether
    son 5 euros en total that's 5 euros altogether
    ( indep) ( fam)
    total, que me di por vencida so in the end I gave up
    2
    (expresando indiferencia, poca importancia): ¿por qué no te quedas? total, mañana no tienes que trabajar why not stay? I mean o after all, you don't have to go to work tomorrow
    * * *

     

    total adjetivo
    a) ( absoluto) ‹desastre/destrucción› total;

    ‹ éxito› resounding ( before n), total;
    ‹ cambio› complete
    b) ( global) ‹costo/importe› total

    ■ sustantivo masculino
    total;

    ■ adverbio ( indep) (fam) ( al resumir una narración) so, in the end;
    total, que me di por vencida so in the end I gave up
    total
    I adjetivo total
    un desastre total, a complete o total disaster
    eclipse total, total eclipse
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 total
    el total de la población, the whole population
    el total de los trabajadores, all the workers
    en total costó unas dos mil pesetas, altogether it cost over two thousand pesetas
    2 Mat total
    III adv (en resumen) so: total, que al final María vino con nosotros, so, in the end Maria came with us
    fam (con indiferencia) anyway: total, a mí no me gustaba, I didn't like it anyway

    ' total' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    absoluta
    - absoluto
    - aforo
    - completa
    - completo
    - desconocimiento
    - esclarecimiento
    - importe
    - montante
    - monto
    - parque
    - radical
    - suma
    - sumar
    - toda
    - todo
    - totalizar
    - global
    - integral
    - liquidación
    - miramiento
    - monta
    - perdido
    - pleno
    - ser
    - silencio
    English:
    absolute
    - all
    - altogether
    - bedlam
    - capacity
    - come to
    - complete
    - dead
    - dedication
    - dismal
    - disregard
    - full
    - grand total
    - ignorance
    - in
    - overall
    - perfect
    - rank
    - raving
    - reversal
    - sell-out
    - serve out
    - sheer
    - subtotal
    - sum
    - tell
    - total
    - unqualified
    - utter
    - write off
    - write-off
    - account
    - add
    - come
    - count
    - disarray
    - downright
    - flat
    - grand
    - grid
    - gross
    - implicit
    - matter
    - number
    - out
    - recall
    - run
    - swell
    - virtual
    - write
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [cifra, coste, gasto] total;
    el importe total de las inversiones the total amount of the investments
    2. [confianza, rechazo, ruptura] total, complete;
    actúa con total libertad she acts completely freely, she has complete freedom of action;
    su influencia en ellos es total he has overwhelming influence over them
    3. Fam [fantástico] fab, Br brill
    ♦ nm
    1. [suma] total;
    el total de visitantes del museo alcanzó los tres millones the total number of visitors to the museum reached three million;
    me da un total de 580 I make it 580
    Cont total actualizado running total;
    total de ventas total sales
    2. [totalidad, conjunto] whole;
    el total del grupo the whole group;
    en total in total, in all;
    nos costó 200 dólares en total it cost us 200 dollars in total o all;
    en total fuimos más de treinta personas in total there were more than thirty of us
    ♦ adv
    1. [en resumen] basically, in a word;
    total, que me marché so anyway, I left;
    total, que te has quedado sin trabajo, ¿no? basically, you're out of a job, then?
    2. [en realidad] anyway;
    total, ¿qué más da? what difference does it make anyway?;
    llévatelo, total ¿para qué lo quiero yo? take it, what good is it to me, after all?
    * * *
    I adj total, complete;
    en total altogether, in total
    II m total;
    un total de 50 personas a total of 50 people
    III adv
    :
    total, que no conseguí estudiar the upshot was that I didn’t manage to get any studying done
    * * *
    total adv
    : in the end, so
    total, que no fui: in short, I didn't go
    total adj & nm
    : total
    ♦ totalmente adv
    * * *
    total1 adj total / complete
    total2 adv so
    total, que no piensas venir so, you're not coming then
    total3 n total
    eso hace un total de 2.000 pesetas that makes a total of 2,000 pesetas

    Spanish-English dictionary > total

  • 14 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

  • 15 καταλαμβάνω

    καταλαμβάνω (s. λαμβάνω; Hom.+) 2 aor. κατέλαβον; pf. κατείληφα. Mid.: fut. καταλήψομαι LXX; 2 aor. κατελαβόμην. Pass.: fut. 3 pl. καταλη(μ)θήσονται (PsSol 15:9); 1 aor. κατελήμφθην Phil 3:12 (B-D-F §101 p. 53 s.v. λαμβ.; Mlt-H. 246f s.v. λαμβ.; on the form κατειλήφθη J 8:4 in the older NT editions s. W-S. §12, 1); pf. 3 sg. κατείληπται, ptc. κατειλημμένος. Gener. ‘to seize, lay hold of’ (of forceful seizure Plut., Cleom. 806 [4, 2]; POxy 1101, 26; PsSol 8:19)
    ① to make someth. one’s own, win, attain, act. and pass. (Diog. L. 5, 12 καταλαμβάνω means ‘come into possession of an inheritance’); abs. (though τὸ βραβεῖον is to be supplied fr. the context) of the winning of a prize 1 Cor 9:24. As a result of διώκειν (cp. Diod S 17, 73, 3 ἐπιδιώκων … τὸν Δαρεῖον … καταλαβών; Sir 11:10 ἐὰν διώκῃς, οὐ μὴ καταλάβῃς; 27:8) Phil 3:12a, 13: Χριστόν, corresp. to κατελήμφθην ὑπὸ Χριστοῦ Ἰ. vs. 12b. δικαιοσύνην Ro 9:30. ἐπίγνωσιν πατρός Dg 10:1 cj (vGebhardt for καὶ λάβῃς). The pass. is found in the mng. make one’s own in the ending of Mark in the Freer ms. 3 (KHaacker, ZNW 63, ’72, 125–29).—This may also be the mng. of κ. in J 1:5 ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ (=τὸ φῶς) οὐ κατέλαβεν (-λαμβάνει Tat. 13, 1; cp. Arrian., An. Alex. 1, 5, 10 εἰ νὺξ αὐτοὺς καταλήψεται ‘if the night would overtake them’; here preceded in 1, 5, 9 by k. in the sense ‘occupy’ of positions above a plain; s. Wetstein on J 1:5 and 2b below) the darkness did not grasp it (Hdb. ad loc.; so also Bultmann, and similarly JDyer, JBL 79, ’60, 70f: appreciate), in which case grasp easily passes over to the sense comprehend (the act. [for the mid. in the same sense s. 4a below] has the latter sense in Pla., Phdr. 250d; Polyb. 8, 4, 6; Dionys. Hal. 5, 46, 3; PTebt 15, 5; 38, 18; EpArist 1; Aristobul. [Eus., PE 8, 10, 10 and 17=Denis 219, 18 and 221, 5/Holladay p. 140, 2f and 148, 3]; Philo, Mut. Nom. 4; Jos., Vi. 56). Most Greek commentators since Origen take κ. here as overcome, suppress (Hdt. 1, 46 κ. τινῶν αὐξανομένην τὴν δύναμιν; 1, 87 τὸ πῦρ; WNagel, ZNW 50, ’59, 132–37). So Goodsp. put out (Probs. 93f). But perh. J intended to include both mngs. here (so FGingrich, ClW 37, ’43, 77), and some such transl. as master would suggest this (so MSmith, JBL 64, ’45, 510f).
    ② to gain control of someone through pursuit, catch up with, seize
    ⓐ of authority figures catch up with, overtake (Hdt. 1:63 τοὺς φεύγοντας; Polyb. 1:47; Gen. 31:23; Judg 18:22; PsSol 15:8) διωκόμενοι κατελήμφθησαν they were pursued and overtaken AcPl Ha 11, 18.
    ⓑ mostly of varieties of evil seize w. hostile intent, overtake, come upon (Hom.+; oft. LXX; TestSol 2:4 D; Wetstein and Zahn [comm.] on J 1:5 for other exx.; s. also SIG 434/5, 14) μὴ ἡμᾶς καταλάβῃ κακά lest evil overtake us (cp. Gen 19:19; Num 32:23) 2 Cl 10:1; cp. B 4:1. Of a hostile divinity ὅπου ἐὰν αὐτὸν καταλάβῃ wherever it seizes him (the sick man) Mk 9:18.
    ⓒ esp. used of night, evening, darkness coming upon a pers. (Dionys. Hal. 2, 51, 3 ἑσπέρα γὰρ αὐτοὺς κατέλαβεν; Lucian, Tox. 31; 52; Philo, De Jos. 145; Jos., Ant. 5, 61 καταλαβοῦσα νύξ, Vi. 329 [GrBar 9:1]. But the thought in these instances is not necessarily always that of night as something hostile to humans in general. κ. can also mean simply ‘arrive’, ‘come on’, as in numerous exx. cited by Wetstein [above]; s. also Dionys. Hal. 10, 56, 1 ἐπεὶ κατέλαβεν ὁ τ. ἀρχαιρεσιῶν καιρός; Strabo 3, 1, 5; Jos., Ant. 4, 78) GJs 14:1 κατέλαβεν (-ἐβαλεν pap) αὐτὸν νύξ; J 6:17 v.l. σκοτία. In imagery, w. sugg. of sense in 2b: 12:35.
    ③ to come upon someone, with implication of surprise, catch
    ⓐ of moral authorities catch, detect (PLille 3, 58 [III B.C.]; Just., D. 47, 5 [noncanonical dominical saying]; PRyl 138, 15. Esp. of the detection of adultery Epict. 2, 4, 1; BGU 1024 III, 11; Sus 58) τινὰ ἐπί τινι someone in someth. ἐπὶ μοιχείᾳ in adultery (Diod S 10, 20, 2 ἐπὶ μοιχείᾳ κατειλημμένη) J 8:3 a woman caught in the act of adultery. Pass. (Just., A I, 47, 6) w. ptc. indicating the punishable act ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ μοιχουομένη in the act of committing adultery vs. 4.
    ⓑ of a thief: in imagery of the coming of ‘the day’, unexpected by the ‘children of darkness’ and fraught w. danger for them 1 Th 5:4.
    ④ to process information, understand, grasp
    ⓐ learn about someth. through process of inquiry, mid. grasp, find, understand (Dionys. Hal. 2, 66, 6; Sext. Emp., Math. 7, 288; Vett. Val. 225, 8; TestJob 37:6 τὰ βάθη τοῦ κυρίου al.; Philo, Mos. 1, 278; Jos., Ant. 8, 167; Tat. 4:2 [on Ro 1:20]; Ath. 5, 2; 24, 2) w. acc. and inf. Ac 25:25. W. ὅτι foll. 4:13; 10:34. W. indirect discourse foll. Eph 3:18.
    ⓑ on J 1:5 s. 1 and 2 above.—B. 701; 1207. M-M. TW.

    Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία > καταλαμβάνω

  • 16 Ideas

       I never wrote or concluded that the mind required innate ideas which were in some sort different from its faculty of thinking; but when I observed the existence in me of certain thoughts which proceeded, not from extraneous objects nor from the determination of my will, but solely from the faculty of thinking which is within me, then... I termed [these] "innate." (Descartes, 1955, p. 442)
       [S]imple ideas are not fictions of our fancies, but the natural and regular productions of things without us really operating upon us.... Thus, the idea of whiteness or bitterness, as it is in the mind, exactly answering that power which is in any body to produce it there, has all the real conformity it can or ought to have with things without us.... [However], all our complex ideas except those of substances being archetypes of the mind's own making, not intended to be the copies of anything, as to their originals, cannot want any conformity necessary to real knowledge. For that which is not designed to represent anything but itself, can never be capable of a wrong representation, nor mislead us from the true apprehension of anything by its dislikeness to it; and such, excepting those of substances, are all our complex ideas: which... are combinations of ideas which the mind by its free choice puts together without considering any connection they have in nature. (Locke, 1956, B. IV, Chap. 4, Sec. 5)
       [O]ur moral ideas as well as mathematical, being archetypes themselves, and so adequate and complete ideas, all the agreement or disagreement which we shall find in them will produce real knowledge, as well as in mathematical figures. (Locke, 1956, B. IV, Chap. 4, Sec. 7)
       Ideas... are real things, or do really exist; this we do not deny, but we deny they can subsist without the minds which perceive them, or that they are resemblances of any archetypes existing without the mind; since the very being of a sensation or idea consists in being perceived, and an idea can be like nothing but an idea. (Berkeley, 1996, Pt. I, No. 90, pp. 63-64)
       The empiricists were right to believe that facts and ideas are significantly connected, but they inverted the relationship. Ideas create information, not the other way around. Every fact grows from an idea; it is the answer to a question we could not ask in the first place if an idea had not been invented which isolated some portion of the world, made it important, focused our attention, and stimulated inquiry. (Roszak, 1994, p. 105)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Ideas

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