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  • 1 bulímico

    adj.
    1 famished, starved.
    2 bulimic, referring to bulimia.
    m.
    bulimic, person suffering bulimia.
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    Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: ' bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.
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    Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: ' bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

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    adj/m,f
    bulimic
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    bulímico, -a adj
    bulimic

    Spanish-English dictionary > bulímico

  • 2 con voracidad

    = voraciously, rapaciously
    Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.
    Ex. Rapaciously hunted by humans over centuries, whales have not recovered in the decades after whaling was outlawed.
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    = voraciously, rapaciously

    Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

    Ex: Rapaciously hunted by humans over centuries, whales have not recovered in the decades after whaling was outlawed.

    Spanish-English dictionary > con voracidad

  • 3 empollar

    v.
    1 to incubate (huevo).
    2 to bone up on(informal) (study). (peninsular Spanish)
    3 to swot (informal). (peninsular Spanish)
    4 to brood on, to brood, to hatch.
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    1 (huevos) to hatch
    2 familiar (estudiar) to swot, swot up, US bone up on
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    verb
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    1. VT
    1) (Zool) to incubate, sit on
    2) * [+ asignatura] to swot up *
    2. VI
    1) [gallina] to sit, brood
    2) [abejas] to breed
    3) * [estudiante] to swot *, grind away (EEUU), cram
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    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) gallina to brood
    2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot (BrE colloq)
    2.
    1) < huevos> to hatch, sit on
    2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot up (on) (BrE colloq)
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    = cram for, hatch, swot.
    Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.
    Ex. The article 'TEAL being hatched on Teeside' discusses Teeside Polytechnic Library's change of plan from its original intention to use a UNIVAC computer to its present system involving a PRIME computer.
    Ex. Around the country schoolchildren and university students are swotting and sweating as they prepare to sit papers that could decide their future.
    ----
    * libro para empollar = crammer.
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    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) gallina to brood
    2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot (BrE colloq)
    2.
    1) < huevos> to hatch, sit on
    2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot up (on) (BrE colloq)
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    = cram for, hatch, swot.

    Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

    Ex: The article 'TEAL being hatched on Teeside' discusses Teeside Polytechnic Library's change of plan from its original intention to use a UNIVAC computer to its present system involving a PRIME computer.
    Ex: Around the country schoolchildren and university students are swotting and sweating as they prepare to sit papers that could decide their future.
    * libro para empollar = crammer.

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    empollar [A1 ]
    vi
    A «gallina» to brood
    B ( Esp fam) «estudiante» to cram ( colloq), to swot ( BrE colloq)
    ■ empollar
    vt
    A ‹huevos› to hatch, sit on
    B ( Esp fam) «estudiante» to cram ( colloq), to swot up (on) ( BrE colloq)
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    empollar ( conjugate empollar) verbo intransitivo
    1 [ gallina] to brood
    2 (Esp fam) [ estudiante] to cram (colloq), to swot (BrE colloq)
    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹ huevos› to hatch, sit on
    2 (Esp fam) ‹ lección› to cram (colloq), to swot up (on) (BrE colloq)
    empollar verbo transitivo
    1 (la gallina: huevos) to sit on
    2 fam (estudiar mucho) to swot (up), US bone up on
    ' empollar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    bone up on
    - brood
    - cram
    - hatch
    - learn up
    - swot
    - swot up
    - incubate
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    ♦ vt
    1. [huevo] to incubate
    2. Esp Fam [estudiar] to bone up on, Br to swot up (on)
    ♦ vi
    Fam Br to swot, US to grind
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    I v/i fam
    cram fam, Br
    swot fam
    II v/t
    1 ZO sit on, incubate
    2 fam ( estudiar) cram fam, Br
    swot up on fam
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    : to brood eggs
    : to incubate
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    1. (estudiar mucho) to swot [pt. & pp. swotted]
    en junio, se pasa los días empollando in June, she spends all the time swotting
    2. (aves) to sit on [pt. & pp. sat]

    Spanish-English dictionary > empollar

  • 4 empollón

    adj.
    bookish.
    m.
    1 crammer, student who studies intensively at the very last minute, swot.
    2 grind, swot.
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    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
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    empollón, -ona
    * SM / F (=estudiante) swot *, grind (EEUU) *
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    - llona masculino, femenino (Esp fam & pey) grind (AmE colloq), swot (BrE colloq & pej)
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    = swotter, boffin, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.], swot.
    Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.
    Ex. 'Boffins' have been identified as the category of learners who 'delight in unrelated fragments of knowledge for knowledge's sake,' and 'put these fragments into a framework and analyze them'.
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    Ex. Jack is dead brainy, such a swot that he always comes top in every exam.
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    - llona masculino, femenino (Esp fam & pey) grind (AmE colloq), swot (BrE colloq & pej)
    * * *
    = swotter, boffin, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.], swot.

    Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

    Ex: 'Boffins' have been identified as the category of learners who 'delight in unrelated fragments of knowledge for knowledge's sake,' and 'put these fragments into a framework and analyze them'.
    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    Ex: Jack is dead brainy, such a swot that he always comes top in every exam.

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    masculine, feminine
    ( Esp fam pey) grind ( AmE colloq), swot ( BrE colloq pej)
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    empollón
    ◊ - llona sustantivo masculino, femenino (Esp fam &

    pey) grind (AmE colloq), swot (BrE colloq & pej)
    empollón,-ona fam pey sustantivo masculino y femenino swot
    ' empollón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    empollona
    English:
    swot
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    empollón, -ona Esp Fam
    ♦ adj
    ser empollón to be Br swotty o US a grind
    ♦ nm,f
    Br swot, US grind
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    m, empollona f fam
    grind fam, Br
    swot fam
    * * *
    empollón n swot

    Spanish-English dictionary > empollón

  • 5 incursionista

    Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.
    * * *

    Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

    Spanish-English dictionary > incursionista

  • 6 vorazmente

    adv.
    voraciously, greedily, gluttonously.
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    1 voraciously
    2 figurado fiercely
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    ADV (gen) voraciously, ravenously; pey greedily
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    = voraciously, rapaciously.
    Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.
    Ex. Rapaciously hunted by humans over centuries, whales have not recovered in the decades after whaling was outlawed.
    * * *
    = voraciously, rapaciously.

    Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

    Ex: Rapaciously hunted by humans over centuries, whales have not recovered in the decades after whaling was outlawed.

    * * *
    voraciously, ravenously
    * * *
    voraciously

    Spanish-English dictionary > vorazmente

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