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frustrated

  • 1 de mal resultado

    • frustrated
    • unsuccessful

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > de mal resultado

  • 2 frustrado

    adj.
    1 frustrated, thwarted, attempted, unsuccessful.
    2 frustrated, manqué, unfulfilled, disappointed.
    3 frustrate.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: frustrar.
    * * *
    1 (persona) frustrated
    2 (hechos) frustrated, unsuccessful
    * * *
    (f. - frustrada)
    adj.
    1) frustrated, would-be
    2) failed, unsuccessful
    * * *
    ADJ [persona] frustrated; [intento, plan, atentado] failed
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) < persona> frustrated; <actor/bailarina> frustrated (before n)
    b) <atentado/intento> failed (before n)
    * * *
    = frustrated, in frustration, abortive, bungled, out of frustration.
    Ex. First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    Ex. When a library user comes to the reference desk in frustration and desperation -- perhaps in a rage or in tears, it is often an unforgettable (and sometimes unpleasant) opportunity to test one's problem-solving abilities and diplomatic talents.
    Ex. The Consumers' Association had been founded in 1957 following a similar abortive service set up by the British Standards Institution two years previously.
    Ex. He was also blamed for the bungled imposition of a state of emergency in Nyasaland in March 1959.
    Ex. If either spouse on rare occasions out of frustration or anger slams a door or speaks angry words is it fair to label he or she as an abuser?.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) < persona> frustrated; <actor/bailarina> frustrated (before n)
    b) <atentado/intento> failed (before n)
    * * *
    = frustrated, in frustration, abortive, bungled, out of frustration.

    Ex: First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.

    Ex: When a library user comes to the reference desk in frustration and desperation -- perhaps in a rage or in tears, it is often an unforgettable (and sometimes unpleasant) opportunity to test one's problem-solving abilities and diplomatic talents.
    Ex: The Consumers' Association had been founded in 1957 following a similar abortive service set up by the British Standards Institution two years previously.
    Ex: He was also blamed for the bungled imposition of a state of emergency in Nyasaland in March 1959.
    Ex: If either spouse on rare occasions out of frustration or anger slams a door or speaks angry words is it fair to label he or she as an abuser?.

    * * *
    1 ‹persona› frustrated
    sentirse frustrado to feel frustrated
    2 ‹atentado/intento› failed ( before n); ‹actor/bailarina› frustrated ( before n)
    * * *

    Del verbo frustrar: ( conjugate frustrar)

    frustrado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    frustrado    
    frustrar
    frustrado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) ‹ persona› frustrated;

    ‹actor/bailarina› frustrated ( before n)
    b) ‹atentado/intento› failed ( before n)

    frustrar ( conjugate frustrar) verbo transitivo ‹ persona› to frustrate;
    ‹ planes› to thwart;
    ‹ esperanzas› to dash;

    frustrarse verbo pronominal [ planes] to be thwarted, fail;

    [ esperanzas] to come to nothing
    frustrado,-a adjetivo
    1 (persona) frustrated
    2 (tentativa, proyecto) unsuccessful
    frustrar verbo transitivo to frustrate
    (una esperanza) to disappoint
    ' frustrado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    frustrada
    English:
    abortive
    - foil
    - frustrated
    - sex-starved
    - unfulfilled
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    frustrado, -a adj
    1. [persona] frustrated;
    se quedó muy frustrado cuando se enteró del suspenso he was very frustrated when he found out he'd failed
    2. [plan] failed;
    un intento frustrado de mandar una nave tripulada a Marte an unsuccessful attempt to send a manned spacecraft to Mars
    * * *
    frustrado, -da adj
    1) : frustrated
    2) : failed, unsuccessful

    Spanish-English dictionary > frustrado

  • 3 frustrarse

    1 (proyectos, planes) to fail, come to nothing
    2 (persona) to get frustrated, get disappointed
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    VPR [persona] to be frustrated; [aspiración, deseo] to be thwarted; [proyecto] to be thwarted, fall through
    * * *
    (v.) = become + frustrated, run into + the sand(s)
    Ex. Management became frustrated with the lack of progress being made and prematurely cancelled the project.
    Ex. The king must have then realised, if he had not already done so, that his efforts to secure an annulment from the pope had run into the sand.
    * * *
    (v.) = become + frustrated, run into + the sand(s)

    Ex: Management became frustrated with the lack of progress being made and prematurely cancelled the project.

    Ex: The king must have then realised, if he had not already done so, that his efforts to secure an annulment from the pope had run into the sand.

    * * *

    ■frustrarse verbo reflexivo
    1 (esperanza, planes) to fail, come to nothing: debido al mal tiempo, se frustaron los planes para hacer una barbacoa, the plans for a barbeque were dashed due to bad weather
    2 (persona) to get frustrated: si no empiezas por el principio sólo vas a conseguir frustrarte, you'll only become frustrated if you don't start at the beginning
    ' frustrarse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    frustrar
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    vpr
    1. [persona] to get frustrated
    2. [ilusiones] to be thwarted;
    [proyecto] to fail
    * * *
    v/r
    1 get frustrated
    2 de plan fail
    * * *
    vr
    fracasar: to fail, to come to nothing
    se frustraron sus esperanzas: his hopes were dashed

    Spanish-English dictionary > frustrarse

  • 4 frustrar

    v.
    1 to frustrate (person).
    El accidente frustró sus planes The accident frustrated her plans.
    Su actitud frustró al gerente His attitude frustrated the manager.
    2 to thwart, to put paid to (posibilidades, ilusiones).
    * * *
    1 (cosa) to frustrate, thwart
    2 (persona) to disappoint
    1 (proyectos, planes) to fail, come to nothing
    2 (persona) to get frustrated, get disappointed
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ persona] to frustrate; [+ proyecto, aspiración, deseo, sueño] to thwart
    2) (=abortar) [+ atentado, operación] to foil
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < persona> to frustrate; < planes> to thwart; < esperanzas> to dash
    b) < atentado> to foil
    2.
    frustrarse v pron planes to be thwarted, fail; esperanzas to come to nothing
    * * *
    = thwart, scupper, cripple, frustrate, baffle, stymie, foil, defeat, forestall, spoil, hamstring, exasperate, cast + a blight on, blight.
    Ex. A public library's design can go far in either reinforcing or thwarting the intimacy of reading and in determining its success -- functionally, aesthetically and financially.
    Ex. This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex. The objection to it seems to be that by reading rubbish children cripple their own imaginative, linguistic or moral powers.
    Ex. The psychologist Abraham H Maslow has warned of 'true psychopathological effects when the cognitive needs are frustrated'.
    Ex. As the domain expands, the problem of rule formalisation may even baffle a human expert.
    Ex. So, in a lot of cases the ability to take advantage of technologically sophisticated younger faculty is stymied by these conflicting interests.
    Ex. The author considers the incidence of arson in US libraries and some ways of foiling arsonists through constant vigilance and observation of library users.
    Ex. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of software programs intended to defeat some of these sabotage actions.
    Ex. In order to forestall such an event, some libraries in Britain were stung into action by the publication of an Act of Parliament which totally ignored public libraries.
    Ex. But if set-off did occur and threatened to set back and spoil subsequent impressions of the first forme, the tympan cloth could be rubbed over with lye to clean it.
    Ex. Instead, the proposed regulations would hamstring public access.
    Ex. Radical intellectuals often seem exasperated by what appears as excessive attention paid to conceptualization.
    Ex. Rampant commercialisation of publishing is casting a blight on literature.
    Ex. The global outbreak of swine flu has spread fear through the travel sector, blighting any green shoots of recovery from the financial crisis.
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    * frustrar el esfuerzo = frustrate + effort.
    * frustrar las esperanzas = shatter + Posesivo + hopes, dampen + Posesivo + hopes, dash + Posesivo + hopes.
    * frustrarse = become + frustrated, run into + the sand(s).
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < persona> to frustrate; < planes> to thwart; < esperanzas> to dash
    b) < atentado> to foil
    2.
    frustrarse v pron planes to be thwarted, fail; esperanzas to come to nothing
    * * *
    = thwart, scupper, cripple, frustrate, baffle, stymie, foil, defeat, forestall, spoil, hamstring, exasperate, cast + a blight on, blight.

    Ex: A public library's design can go far in either reinforcing or thwarting the intimacy of reading and in determining its success -- functionally, aesthetically and financially.

    Ex: This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex: The objection to it seems to be that by reading rubbish children cripple their own imaginative, linguistic or moral powers.
    Ex: The psychologist Abraham H Maslow has warned of 'true psychopathological effects when the cognitive needs are frustrated'.
    Ex: As the domain expands, the problem of rule formalisation may even baffle a human expert.
    Ex: So, in a lot of cases the ability to take advantage of technologically sophisticated younger faculty is stymied by these conflicting interests.
    Ex: The author considers the incidence of arson in US libraries and some ways of foiling arsonists through constant vigilance and observation of library users.
    Ex: There are hundreds, if not thousands, of software programs intended to defeat some of these sabotage actions.
    Ex: In order to forestall such an event, some libraries in Britain were stung into action by the publication of an Act of Parliament which totally ignored public libraries.
    Ex: But if set-off did occur and threatened to set back and spoil subsequent impressions of the first forme, the tympan cloth could be rubbed over with lye to clean it.
    Ex: Instead, the proposed regulations would hamstring public access.
    Ex: Radical intellectuals often seem exasperated by what appears as excessive attention paid to conceptualization.
    Ex: Rampant commercialisation of publishing is casting a blight on literature.
    Ex: The global outbreak of swine flu has spread fear through the travel sector, blighting any green shoots of recovery from the financial crisis.
    * frustrar el esfuerzo = frustrate + effort.
    * frustrar las esperanzas = shatter + Posesivo + hopes, dampen + Posesivo + hopes, dash + Posesivo + hopes.
    * frustrarse = become + frustrated, run into + the sand(s).

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    frustrar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹persona› to frustrate; ‹planes› to thwart; ‹esperanzas› to dash
    me frustra que no entiendan I find it frustrating o it frustrates me that they don't understand
    2 ‹atentado› to foil
    «planes» to be thwarted, fail; «esperanzas» to be dashed, come to nothing
    * * *

    frustrar ( conjugate frustrar) verbo transitivo ‹ persona› to frustrate;
    ‹ planes› to thwart;
    ‹ esperanzas› to dash;

    frustrarse verbo pronominal [ planes] to be thwarted, fail;

    [ esperanzas] to come to nothing
    frustrar verbo transitivo to frustrate
    (una esperanza) to disappoint
    ' frustrar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    estropear
    - impedir
    - tronchar
    English:
    defeat
    - disappoint
    - foil
    - frustrate
    - thwart
    - baffle
    - confound
    - cross
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    ♦ vt
    1. [persona] to frustrate
    2. [posibilidades, ilusiones] to thwart, Br to put paid to;
    [plan, robo] to thwart;
    el mal tiempo frustró nuestras vacaciones the bad weather ruined our holiday
    * * *
    v/t persona frustrate; plan thwart
    * * *
    : to frustrate, to thwart

    Spanish-English dictionary > frustrar

  • 5 verse frustrado

    (v.) = become + frustrated
    Ex. Management became frustrated with the lack of progress being made and prematurely cancelled the project.
    * * *
    (v.) = become + frustrated

    Ex: Management became frustrated with the lack of progress being made and prematurely cancelled the project.

    Spanish-English dictionary > verse frustrado

  • 6 aburrir

    v.
    1 to bore.
    este trabajo me aburre this job is boring
    aburre a todo el mundo con sus batallitas he bores everyone with his old stories
    2 to be boring, to bore, to dull, to pall.
    Este juego aburre This game is boring.
    3 to tire, to weary, to bore, to bore the pants off.
    María aburre a Ricardo con su charla Mary tires Richard with her chattering.
    4 to be boring to.
    Aburre estudiar sola It is boring to study alone.
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    1 to bore
    2 (cansar) to tire
    1 to get bored (con/de/por, with)
    \
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    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [gen] to bore; (=cansar) to tire, weary
    2) ** [+ dinero] to blow *; [+ tiempo] to waste
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to bore
    2.
    aburrirse v pron
    a) ( por falta de entretenimiento) to get bored
    b) ( hartarse)

    aburrirse de algo/alguien — to get tired of o fed up with something/somebody

    aburrirse de + inf — to get tired of -ing

    * * *
    = pall, bore, wear + a little thin, weary.
    Ex. The experience of 'flying through' virtual worlds to discover the identities of hundreds of criptics nodes palls very quickly.
    Ex. Frustrated by the limitations on developing work relationships with students, and bored with the demands of the library, she returned to teaching English.
    Ex. His jauntiness can wear a little thin, and the buff will be sorry there is no index, but there is much to be grateful for in this book.
    Ex. She wearies of the constant procession of visitors, and the round of invitations and commissions, which swallow up her time.
    ----
    * aburrirse como ostras = be bored stiff, be bored to death, be bored to tears, be bored out of + Posesivo + mind.
    * aburrirse (con) = be bored (with).
    * no aburrir a Alguien con todos los detalles = spare + Nombe + all the details.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to bore
    2.
    aburrirse v pron
    a) ( por falta de entretenimiento) to get bored
    b) ( hartarse)

    aburrirse de algo/alguien — to get tired of o fed up with something/somebody

    aburrirse de + inf — to get tired of -ing

    * * *
    = pall, bore, wear + a little thin, weary.

    Ex: The experience of 'flying through' virtual worlds to discover the identities of hundreds of criptics nodes palls very quickly.

    Ex: Frustrated by the limitations on developing work relationships with students, and bored with the demands of the library, she returned to teaching English.
    Ex: His jauntiness can wear a little thin, and the buff will be sorry there is no index, but there is much to be grateful for in this book.
    Ex: She wearies of the constant procession of visitors, and the round of invitations and commissions, which swallow up her time.
    * aburrirse como ostras = be bored stiff, be bored to death, be bored to tears, be bored out of + Posesivo + mind.
    * aburrirse (con) = be bored (with).
    * no aburrir a Alguien con todos los detalles = spare + Nombe + all the details.

    * * *
    aburrir [I1 ]
    vt
    to bore
    estas reuniones me aburren these meetings bore me, I find these meetings boring o tedious
    no aburras a la abuela con tus historias don't bore Granny with your stories
    nunca me había aburrido tanto I'd never been so bored
    2 (hartarse) aburrirse DE algo/algn to get tired OF o fed up WITH sth/sb
    se aburrió de hacer lo mismo todos los días he got tired of o fed up with doing the same thing every day, he tired of doing the same thing every day
    * * *

     

    aburrir ( conjugate aburrir) verbo transitivo
    to bore
    aburrirse verbo pronominal

    b) ( hartarse) aburrirse de algo/algn to get tired of o fed up with sth/sb;

    aburrirse de hacer algo to get tired of doing sth
    aburrir verbo transitivo to bore
    ♦ Locuciones: aburrir a las ovejas, to be incredibly boring
    ' aburrir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amuermar
    - cansar
    - empalagar
    - martirizar
    - asquear
    - chorear
    English:
    bore
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to bore;
    este trabajo me aburre this job is boring;
    aburre a todo el mundo con sus batallitas he bores everyone with his old stories;
    me aburre tener que madrugar todos los días it's really tiresome having to get up early every day
    * * *
    v/t bore
    * * *
    : to bore, to tire
    * * *
    1. (cansar) to bore
    2. (resultar pesado) to be boring

    Spanish-English dictionary > aburrir

  • 7 adecuadamente

    adv.
    1 fitly, properly, to the purpose.
    2 adequately, appropriately, well, appositely.
    * * *
    1 properly, suitably
    * * *
    adv.
    * * *
    * * *
    = duly, properly, suitably, fittingly, fitly, appropriately, adequately.
    Ex. Marking manuscripts should be undertaken only for security reasons having duly considered the ethical and technical implications of such a course of action.
    Ex. This group of fields should be completed before the fixed fields are entered, because the record type is needed for handling these fields properly.
    Ex. First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    Ex. 1982 has been designated, fittingly, the Year of Information Technology -- a recognition that we are now living in an information society.
    Ex. Perhaps the symbol or character that would most fitly represent this age is the interrogation point.
    Ex. Computers are reliable, and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.
    Ex. A searcher must be adequately familiar with that which he wishes to retrieve = El que hace la búsqueda debe estar suficientemente familiarizado con lo que desea recuperar.
    ----
    * progresar adecuadamente = progress + satisfactorily.
    * * *
    = duly, properly, suitably, fittingly, fitly, appropriately, adequately.

    Ex: Marking manuscripts should be undertaken only for security reasons having duly considered the ethical and technical implications of such a course of action.

    Ex: This group of fields should be completed before the fixed fields are entered, because the record type is needed for handling these fields properly.
    Ex: First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    Ex: 1982 has been designated, fittingly, the Year of Information Technology -- a recognition that we are now living in an information society.
    Ex: Perhaps the symbol or character that would most fitly represent this age is the interrogation point.
    Ex: Computers are reliable, and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.
    Ex: A searcher must be adequately familiar with that which he wishes to retrieve = El que hace la búsqueda debe estar suficientemente familiarizado con lo que desea recuperar.
    * progresar adecuadamente = progress + satisfactorily.

    * * *
    adequately
    * * *
    appropriately, suitably
    * * *
    : adequately
    * * *
    adecuadamente adv properly

    Spanish-English dictionary > adecuadamente

  • 8 alabar

    v.
    to praise.
    ¡alabado sea (el Señor)! (informal) thank heavens!
    * * *
    1 (elogiar) to praise
    1 (jactarse) to boast
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.

    alabar a algn de o por algo — to praise sb for sth

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to praise
    * * *
    = worship, laud, hold + Nombre + up for praise, praise, sing + Posesivo + praises, toady, fawn (on/upon/over).
    Ex. The article concludes that librarians should not worship communication but they should practice it.
    Ex. Libraries are also lauded for providing other public services with economic benefits.
    Ex. Politicians give us many reasons to worry, and I don't usually hold them up for public praise.
    Ex. In spite of their protestations to the contrary, most bosses prefer subordinates whom they get along with, who cause them no anxiety, who quietly accept their decisions, who praise them.
    Ex. Frustrated devotees had been singing his praises for years, to no avail.
    Ex. The function of journalism is not to toady to those in power but to challenge them.
    Ex. Presumably they do so in the hope of being tossed some meaningless bauble of an honour when they have fawned enough.
    ----
    * alabar de boquilla = give + lip service.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to praise
    * * *
    = worship, laud, hold + Nombre + up for praise, praise, sing + Posesivo + praises, toady, fawn (on/upon/over).

    Ex: The article concludes that librarians should not worship communication but they should practice it.

    Ex: Libraries are also lauded for providing other public services with economic benefits.
    Ex: Politicians give us many reasons to worry, and I don't usually hold them up for public praise.
    Ex: In spite of their protestations to the contrary, most bosses prefer subordinates whom they get along with, who cause them no anxiety, who quietly accept their decisions, who praise them.
    Ex: Frustrated devotees had been singing his praises for years, to no avail.
    Ex: The function of journalism is not to toady to those in power but to challenge them.
    Ex: Presumably they do so in the hope of being tossed some meaningless bauble of an honour when they have fawned enough.
    * alabar de boquilla = give + lip service.

    * * *
    alabar [A1 ]
    vt
    to praise
    ¡alabado sea Dios! praise be to God!
    su gesto fue muy alabado his gesture was widely praised
    siempre la está alabando he's always singing her praises
    * * *

    alabar ( conjugate alabar) verbo transitivo
    to praise
    alabar verbo transitivo to praise
    ' alabar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cacarear
    - ensalzar
    - ponderar
    - exaltar
    English:
    praise
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to praise;
    Fam
    ¡alabado sea Dios! [expresa sorpresa] good heavens!
    * * *
    v/t praise, acclaim
    * * *
    alabar vt
    : to praise
    * * *
    alabar vb to praise

    Spanish-English dictionary > alabar

  • 9 algo así como

    Ex. First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    * * *

    Ex: First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.

    Spanish-English dictionary > algo así como

  • 10 apropiadamente

    adv.
    1 conveniently, fitly, properly.
    2 appropriately, comelily, aptly, conveniently.
    * * *
    1 suitably, appropriately
    * * *
    adv.
    appropriately, suitably
    * * *
    ADV appropriately, fittingly
    * * *
    = appropriately, suitably, fitly.
    Ex. Computers are reliable, and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.
    Ex. First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    Ex. Perhaps the symbol or character that would most fitly represent this age is the interrogation point.
    * * *
    = appropriately, suitably, fitly.

    Ex: Computers are reliable, and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.

    Ex: First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    Ex: Perhaps the symbol or character that would most fitly represent this age is the interrogation point.

    * * *
    appropriately, suitably
    * * *
    appropriately

    Spanish-English dictionary > apropiadamente

  • 11 aproximadamente

    adv.
    approximately.
    * * *
    1 approximately, roughly, around, about
    * * *
    adv.
    * * *
    * * *
    adverbio around, about, approximately
    * * *
    = approximately, loosely, more or less, or so, something like, or thereabouts, Número + odd, round about, roughly speaking, ballpark.
    Ex. The space in the scheme for a discipline should be approximately proportional to the size of the literature of that discipline.
    Ex. The term category has been at times used somewhat loosely in the literature of indexing and, for this reason, it can cause confusion.
    Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.
    Ex. For example, in a normal indexing service all the documents listed in the issue for a specific month will have been published in the last year or so.
    Ex. First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    Ex. The other plan would be to close the catalog and begin a new one in 1980 or thereabouts.
    Ex. The thirty-odd books went to the infants.
    Ex. Estimates of the books currently in print in Britain usually give a number of round about a quarter of a million titles.
    Ex. Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.
    Ex. In hindsight about 350k dollars ( ballpark) turned out to be the magic number.
    ----
    * aproximadamente + Cantidad = about + Cantidad.
    * aproximadamente + Fecha/Número = ca. + Fecha/Número.
    * cuarenta aproximadamente = fortyish.
    * ser aproximadamente + Número = be around + Número, be about + Número.
    * treinta aproximadamente = thirtyish.
    * * *
    adverbio around, about, approximately
    * * *
    = approximately, loosely, more or less, or so, something like, or thereabouts, Número + odd, round about, roughly speaking, ballpark.

    Ex: The space in the scheme for a discipline should be approximately proportional to the size of the literature of that discipline.

    Ex: The term category has been at times used somewhat loosely in the literature of indexing and, for this reason, it can cause confusion.
    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.
    Ex: For example, in a normal indexing service all the documents listed in the issue for a specific month will have been published in the last year or so.
    Ex: First, Sholom Aleichem I recently spent something like twenty minutes talking over the telephone with a suitably irate and properly frustrated borrower.
    Ex: The other plan would be to close the catalog and begin a new one in 1980 or thereabouts.
    Ex: The thirty-odd books went to the infants.
    Ex: Estimates of the books currently in print in Britain usually give a number of round about a quarter of a million titles.
    Ex: Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.
    Ex: In hindsight about 350k dollars ( ballpark) turned out to be the magic number.
    * aproximadamente + Cantidad = about + Cantidad.
    * aproximadamente + Fecha/Número = ca. + Fecha/Número.
    * cuarenta aproximadamente = fortyish.
    * ser aproximadamente + Número = be around + Número, be about + Número.
    * treinta aproximadamente = thirtyish.

    * * *
    around, about, approximately
    te costará aproximadamente 120 euros it'll cost you around o about o approximately o in the region of 120 euros
    tendrá aproximadamente tu misma edad she must be roughly o about the same age as you
    * * *

     

    aproximadamente approximately, roughly
    ' aproximadamente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alrededor
    - cerca
    - como
    - tantear
    - más
    English:
    about
    - approx.
    - approximately
    - around
    - celebration
    - hundred
    - loosely
    - notebook
    - roughly
    - round
    * * *
    approximately;
    de altura, es aproximadamente como tu hermana she's about your sister's height;
    son aproximadamente las cinco it's about five o'clock
    * * *
    adv approximately
    * * *
    aproximadamente adv about / approximately / roughly

    Spanish-English dictionary > aproximadamente

  • 12 arreglárselas a duras penas

    Ex. The average user is not only frustrated by a library, but is working under the false notion that most of what he needs can be found by muddling through the card catalog.
    * * *

    Ex: The average user is not only frustrated by a library, but is working under the false notion that most of what he needs can be found by muddling through the card catalog.

    Spanish-English dictionary > arreglárselas a duras penas

  • 13 atasco

    m.
    1 blockage.
    2 traffic hold-up, traffic jam.
    3 obstruction, clog, blockage, blocking.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: atascar.
    * * *
    1 (acción) obstruction, blockage
    2 (de tráfico) traffic jam
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) obstruction, blockage
    * * *
    SM (=obstrucción) obstruction, blockage; (Aut) traffic jam
    * * *
    a) ( de tráfico) traffic jam; ( en proceso) holdup, delay
    b) ( en tubería) blockage
    * * *
    = bottleneck, traffic jam, snarl-up, jam, traffic congestion, congestion, gridlock traffic.
    Ex. A number of research groups have investigated the use of knowledge-based systems as a means of avoiding this bottleneck.
    Ex. Compressed image formats such as BMP, DIB, TIFF, GIF and JPEG, have been designed to reduce traffic jams on the information highway.
    Ex. However, taxi is a more advisable option considering the never-ending Bangkok traffic snarl-up, especially during the rush hour.
    Ex. Plus, being at the mercy of train signals and jams on the roads is not my idea of a good start to the day.
    Ex. Traffic congestion leads to reduced quality of life as motorists arrive at their destination frustrated and fatigued.
    Ex. The transmission of data on the conventional telephone network is inconvenient because it takes up the available channels for longer times than the average conversation thus causing congestion.
    Ex. But the truth is, when we are in gridlock traffic, we have to wait whether we like it or not.
    ----
    * atasco de papel = paper jam.
    * atasco de tráfico = tailback.
    * atascos = logjam [log-jam].
    * * *
    a) ( de tráfico) traffic jam; ( en proceso) holdup, delay
    b) ( en tubería) blockage
    * * *
    = bottleneck, traffic jam, snarl-up, jam, traffic congestion, congestion, gridlock traffic.

    Ex: A number of research groups have investigated the use of knowledge-based systems as a means of avoiding this bottleneck.

    Ex: Compressed image formats such as BMP, DIB, TIFF, GIF and JPEG, have been designed to reduce traffic jams on the information highway.
    Ex: However, taxi is a more advisable option considering the never-ending Bangkok traffic snarl-up, especially during the rush hour.
    Ex: Plus, being at the mercy of train signals and jams on the roads is not my idea of a good start to the day.
    Ex: Traffic congestion leads to reduced quality of life as motorists arrive at their destination frustrated and fatigued.
    Ex: The transmission of data on the conventional telephone network is inconvenient because it takes up the available channels for longer times than the average conversation thus causing congestion.
    Ex: But the truth is, when we are in gridlock traffic, we have to wait whether we like it or not.
    * atasco de papel = paper jam.
    * atasco de tráfico = tailback.
    * atascos = logjam [log-jam].

    * * *
    1 (de tráfico) traffic jam, jam ( colloq); (en un proceso) holdup, delay
    no hemos tenido más que problemas y atascos we've had nothing but problems and holdups
    hay un atasco en el desagüe the drain's blocked, there's a blockage in the drain
    * * *

    Del verbo atascar: ( conjugate atascar)

    atasco es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    atascó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    atascar    
    atasco
    atascar ( conjugate atascar) verbo transitivo

    b) (Méx) ‹ motor› to stall

    atascarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) [cañería/fregadero] to block, get blocked


    2

    b) (Méx) [ motor] to stall

    atasco sustantivo masculino

    ( en proceso) holdup, delay

    atascar vtr (obstruir) to block, obstruct
    atasco sustantivo masculino traffic jam
    ' atasco' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    embotellar
    - estrechamiento
    - tapón
    English:
    blockage
    - bottleneck
    - gridlock
    - hold-up
    - jam
    - tail back
    - tailback
    - traffic jam
    - hold
    - traffic
    * * *
    atasco nm
    1. [obstrucción] blockage
    2. [de vehículos] traffic jam;
    Fig
    se ha producido un atasco en las negociaciones the negotiations have stalled
    * * *
    m AUTO traffic jam;
    * * *
    atasco nm
    1) : blockage
    2) embotellamiento: traffic jam
    * * *
    atasco n (de coches) traffic jam

    Spanish-English dictionary > atasco

  • 14 bien seleccionado

    = well-chosen, well-selected
    Ex. Without a well-chosen collection of library materials, patrons will be frustrated in their searches for desired books and/or information.
    Ex. He showed that adding as few as 20 well-selected terms could result in perfomance impovements of over 100%.
    * * *
    = well-chosen, well-selected

    Ex: Without a well-chosen collection of library materials, patrons will be frustrated in their searches for desired books and/or information.

    Ex: He showed that adding as few as 20 well-selected terms could result in perfomance impovements of over 100%.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bien seleccionado

  • 15 caducidad

    f.
    1 expiry.
    fecha de caducidad expiry date; (de carné, pasaporte) use-by date (de alimento, medicamento)
    2 caducity, prescription, expiry, lapsation.
    3 expiration date.
    4 senescence, caducity, dotage.
    * * *
    1 expiry
    * * *
    SF expiry, expiration (EEUU)

    fecha de caducidad — [gen] expiry date; [de alimentos] sell-by date, best-before date

    * * *
    1) (Farm, Med) expiration (AmE), expiry (BrE)
    2) (de testamento, ley) expiry
    * * *
    = evanescence, expiry, lifespan [life span].
    Ex. The strongest support for this notion of exceptionalism comes from the evanescence and mutability of electronic documents.
    Ex. But Mao was left out on a limb and 'deeply frustrated' when, despite his urging to fight on, Pakistan suddenly accepted a ceasefire before the expiry of China's deadline.
    Ex. This programme is planned to have a lifespan of four years with a review after two years.
    ----
    * fecha de caducidad = date due, expiry date, expiration date, best by date, best before date, limited life, sell-by date.
    * * *
    1) (Farm, Med) expiration (AmE), expiry (BrE)
    2) (de testamento, ley) expiry
    * * *
    = evanescence, expiry, lifespan [life span].

    Ex: The strongest support for this notion of exceptionalism comes from the evanescence and mutability of electronic documents.

    Ex: But Mao was left out on a limb and 'deeply frustrated' when, despite his urging to fight on, Pakistan suddenly accepted a ceasefire before the expiry of China's deadline.
    Ex: This programme is planned to have a lifespan of four years with a review after two years.
    * fecha de caducidad = date due, expiry date, expiration date, best by date, best before date, limited life, sell-by date.

    * * *
    A ( Farm, Med) expiration ( AmE), expiry ( BrE) fecha
    B (de un testamento, una ley) expiry
    * * *

     

    caducidad sustantivo femenino
    1 expiry
    2 fecha de caducidad, (en alimentos) sell-by date
    (en medicinas) to be used before
    ' caducidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    fecha
    English:
    expiration date
    - expiry
    - sell-by date
    * * *
    1. [de carné, pasaporte] expiry;
    fecha de caducidad expiry date
    2.
    fecha de caducidad [de alimento, medicamento] use-by date
    3. [cualidad] finite nature
    * * *
    f
    :
    fecha de caducidad expiration date, Br expiry date; de alimentos, medicinas use-by date
    * * *
    : expiration

    Spanish-English dictionary > caducidad

  • 16 cantar las alabanzas

    (v.) = sing + Posesivo + praises
    Ex. Frustrated devotees had been singing his praises for years, to no avail.
    * * *
    (v.) = sing + Posesivo + praises

    Ex: Frustrated devotees had been singing his praises for years, to no avail.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cantar las alabanzas

  • 17 coartar

    v.
    1 to limit, to restrict.
    2 to coarct.
    * * *
    1 to limit, restrict
    * * *
    VT to limit, restrict
    * * *
    verbo transitivo < persona> to inhibit; <libertad/voluntad> to restrict
    * * *
    = anchor, restrict, tie down, cripple, frustrate, dam (up), shackle, box in, hamstring, fetter, hem + Nombre + in, chill, cramp.
    Ex. One can now picture a future investigator in his laboratory, his hands are free, he is not anchored.
    Ex. This is an example of a classification which is restricted to a specific physical form, as it is used to classify maps and atlases.
    Ex. There are many able people still tied down with the routine 'running' of their libraries.
    Ex. The objection to it seems to be that by reading rubbish children cripple their own imaginative, linguistic or moral powers.
    Ex. The psychologist Abraham H Maslow has warned of 'true psychopathological effects when the cognitive needs are frustrated'.
    Ex. But to prevent any meandering at all, or to dam the flow of talk too soon and too often by intruding, generally only frustrates spontaneity = Aunque evitar cualquier divagación o cortar el flujo de la conversación demasiado pronto y con demasiada frecuencia con interrupciones generalmente sólo coarta la espontaneidad.
    Ex. Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.
    Ex. What is important is that agencies face few barriers to disseminating information on the Web quickly rather than being boxed in by standardization requirements = Lo que es importante es que las agencias se encuentran pocas trabas para diseminar información en la web de una forma rápida más que verse restringidas por cuestiones de normalización.
    Ex. Instead, the proposed regulations would hamstring public access.
    Ex. Faculty tenure is designed to allow the scholar to proceed with his investigation without being fettered with concerns arising from loss of job and salary.
    Ex. The world of work is no longer constrained by the four physical dimensions of space and time that have hemmed us in for most of recorded history.
    Ex. This would chill the freedom of inquiry that is central to the academic process and that is, moreover, privileged by the First Amendment.
    Ex. They used schools as a buttress of a caste system designed to subordinate blacks socially, to cramp them economically under a rigid job ceiling.
    ----
    * coartar el avance de Algo = hinder + progress.
    * coartar el progreso de Algo = hinder + progress.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo < persona> to inhibit; <libertad/voluntad> to restrict
    * * *
    = anchor, restrict, tie down, cripple, frustrate, dam (up), shackle, box in, hamstring, fetter, hem + Nombre + in, chill, cramp.

    Ex: One can now picture a future investigator in his laboratory, his hands are free, he is not anchored.

    Ex: This is an example of a classification which is restricted to a specific physical form, as it is used to classify maps and atlases.
    Ex: There are many able people still tied down with the routine 'running' of their libraries.
    Ex: The objection to it seems to be that by reading rubbish children cripple their own imaginative, linguistic or moral powers.
    Ex: The psychologist Abraham H Maslow has warned of 'true psychopathological effects when the cognitive needs are frustrated'.
    Ex: But to prevent any meandering at all, or to dam the flow of talk too soon and too often by intruding, generally only frustrates spontaneity = Aunque evitar cualquier divagación o cortar el flujo de la conversación demasiado pronto y con demasiada frecuencia con interrupciones generalmente sólo coarta la espontaneidad.
    Ex: Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.
    Ex: What is important is that agencies face few barriers to disseminating information on the Web quickly rather than being boxed in by standardization requirements = Lo que es importante es que las agencias se encuentran pocas trabas para diseminar información en la web de una forma rápida más que verse restringidas por cuestiones de normalización.
    Ex: Instead, the proposed regulations would hamstring public access.
    Ex: Faculty tenure is designed to allow the scholar to proceed with his investigation without being fettered with concerns arising from loss of job and salary.
    Ex: The world of work is no longer constrained by the four physical dimensions of space and time that have hemmed us in for most of recorded history.
    Ex: This would chill the freedom of inquiry that is central to the academic process and that is, moreover, privileged by the First Amendment.
    Ex: They used schools as a buttress of a caste system designed to subordinate blacks socially, to cramp them economically under a rigid job ceiling.
    * coartar el avance de Algo = hinder + progress.
    * coartar el progreso de Algo = hinder + progress.

    * * *
    coartar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹persona› to inhibit
    su presencia lo coartaba he found her presence inhibiting, her presence inhibited him
    2 ‹libertad/voluntad› to restrict
    * * *

    coartar ( conjugate coartar) verbo transitivo ‹ persona› to inhibit;
    ‹libertad/voluntad› to restrict
    coartar verbo transitivo to restrict
    ' coartar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    constrict
    * * *
    to limit, to restrict
    * * *
    v/t restrict
    * * *
    : to restrict, to limit

    Spanish-English dictionary > coartar

  • 18 congestión de tráfico

    (n.) = traffic congestion, gridlock traffic
    Ex. Traffic congestion leads to reduced quality of life as motorists arrive at their destination frustrated and fatigued.
    Ex. But the truth is, when we are in gridlock traffic, we have to wait whether we like it or not.
    * * *
    (n.) = traffic congestion, gridlock traffic

    Ex: Traffic congestion leads to reduced quality of life as motorists arrive at their destination frustrated and fatigued.

    Ex: But the truth is, when we are in gridlock traffic, we have to wait whether we like it or not.

    Spanish-English dictionary > congestión de tráfico

  • 19 conservador

    adj.
    1 conservative, discreet, moderate, restrained.
    2 conservative, orthodox, rightist, right-wing.
    3 Conservative.
    m.
    1 conservative, praetorian, rightist, right-winger.
    2 preservative, preserver.
    3 Conservative.
    4 curator.
    * * *
    1 PLÍTICA conservative
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 PLÍTICA conservative
    2 (de museos) curator
    * * *
    1. (f. - conservadora)
    noun
    2. (f. - conservadora)
    adj.
    * * *
    conservador, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (Pol) conservative, Tory
    2) (Culin) preservative
    2. SM / F
    1) (Pol) conservative, Tory
    2) [de museo] curator, keeper
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo conservative
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Pol) conservative
    b) ( de museo) curator
    * * *
    = conservative, conservator, curator, custodian, standpatter, preserver, ingrown, old-fashioned, backward-looking, keeper, custodial, Luddite, laggard, conservationist, conservative, illiberal, risk-averse, tweedy [tweedier -comp., tweediest -sup.], safekeeper [sake-keeper], dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.], straitlaced [strait-laced].
    Ex. There is a tendency to advance propositions premised upon the assumption that SLIS are staffed by inherently conservative, where they are not simply obtuse, individuals.
    Ex. The benefits of an on-site conservation laboratory and conservator are underlined.
    Ex. In her previous vocation she served as curator of History at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and later as Assistant to the Director of Johns Hopkins University, Institute of History and Medicine.
    Ex. This article maintains that archivists as custodians of the records have an ethical obligation to support the freest possible access to public records.
    Ex. The 'standpatters' have seen power shift away from themselves to the newcomers and other lifelong 'progressive' Junctionvillers, who were muted under previous administrations.
    Ex. He also lumps himself and librarians together as 'devoted and in some instances veteran pursuers, preservers, and disseminators of truth'.
    Ex. Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y mucho menos conservadores.
    Ex. One is tempted to say that the enthusiasts for postcoordinate systems, being forced to admit reluctantly that control was necessary, couldn't bear to use the old-fashioned term 'list of subject headings'.
    Ex. The book is essentially backward-looking rather than forward-looking in content.
    Ex. Vervliet's involvement with books began with his appointment in 1949 as keeper at the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp, where he acquired a wide knowledge of the history of printing in the Low Countries.
    Ex. Broadly, one can distinguish, then, between what one might call the ' custodial' or 'warehouse' aspects of the librarian's task, and the 'communications' aspect.
    Ex. Librarians who have reservations about the spread of electronically based services are not Luddites.
    Ex. Individuals are distributed along a normal bell-shaped curve, with the majority in the large center and innovators and laggards a the the two extremes.
    Ex. The present conservationist approach to librarianship reflects Victorian priorities.
    Ex. He ends his book with a discussion of the politicizing effects of the actions of conservatives and loyalists at the end of the century.
    Ex. It is argued that Israel, in spite of its free elections, is an illiberal democracy.
    Ex. This is typical of the old corporate forms of hierarchy-based processes and of the ' risk-averse systems that crush new ideas'.
    Ex. No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.
    Ex. Libraries find themselves frustrated in their role as safekeepers of science: how can they ensure optimal access and availability if they do not control the access systems?.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex. Three years later, when he was fifteen, he slipped into Rachel's bedroom and her straitlaced mother caught them petting and giggling on the side of the bed.
    ----
    * conservador de documentos = records custodian.
    * conservador del archivo = archives custodian.
    * de un modo conservador = conservatively.
    * neoconservador = neoconservative [neo-conservative], neoconservative [neo-conservative].
    * partido conservador = conservative party.
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo conservative
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Pol) conservative
    b) ( de museo) curator
    * * *
    = conservative, conservator, curator, custodian, standpatter, preserver, ingrown, old-fashioned, backward-looking, keeper, custodial, Luddite, laggard, conservationist, conservative, illiberal, risk-averse, tweedy [tweedier -comp., tweediest -sup.], safekeeper [sake-keeper], dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.], straitlaced [strait-laced].

    Ex: There is a tendency to advance propositions premised upon the assumption that SLIS are staffed by inherently conservative, where they are not simply obtuse, individuals.

    Ex: The benefits of an on-site conservation laboratory and conservator are underlined.
    Ex: In her previous vocation she served as curator of History at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and later as Assistant to the Director of Johns Hopkins University, Institute of History and Medicine.
    Ex: This article maintains that archivists as custodians of the records have an ethical obligation to support the freest possible access to public records.
    Ex: The 'standpatters' have seen power shift away from themselves to the newcomers and other lifelong 'progressive' Junctionvillers, who were muted under previous administrations.
    Ex: He also lumps himself and librarians together as 'devoted and in some instances veteran pursuers, preservers, and disseminators of truth'.
    Ex: Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y mucho menos conservadores.
    Ex: One is tempted to say that the enthusiasts for postcoordinate systems, being forced to admit reluctantly that control was necessary, couldn't bear to use the old-fashioned term 'list of subject headings'.
    Ex: The book is essentially backward-looking rather than forward-looking in content.
    Ex: Vervliet's involvement with books began with his appointment in 1949 as keeper at the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp, where he acquired a wide knowledge of the history of printing in the Low Countries.
    Ex: Broadly, one can distinguish, then, between what one might call the ' custodial' or 'warehouse' aspects of the librarian's task, and the 'communications' aspect.
    Ex: Librarians who have reservations about the spread of electronically based services are not Luddites.
    Ex: Individuals are distributed along a normal bell-shaped curve, with the majority in the large center and innovators and laggards a the the two extremes.
    Ex: The present conservationist approach to librarianship reflects Victorian priorities.
    Ex: He ends his book with a discussion of the politicizing effects of the actions of conservatives and loyalists at the end of the century.
    Ex: It is argued that Israel, in spite of its free elections, is an illiberal democracy.
    Ex: This is typical of the old corporate forms of hierarchy-based processes and of the ' risk-averse systems that crush new ideas'.
    Ex: No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.
    Ex: Libraries find themselves frustrated in their role as safekeepers of science: how can they ensure optimal access and availability if they do not control the access systems?.
    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex: Three years later, when he was fifteen, he slipped into Rachel's bedroom and her straitlaced mother caught them petting and giggling on the side of the bed.
    * conservador de documentos = records custodian.
    * conservador del archivo = archives custodian.
    * de un modo conservador = conservatively.
    * neoconservador = neoconservative [neo-conservative], neoconservative [neo-conservative].
    * partido conservador = conservative party.

    * * *
    1 ( Pol) ‹partido/gobierno› conservative
    2 (tradicional) ‹persona/ideas› conservative
    es muy conservador en sus gustos he's very conservative in his tastes
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Pol) conservative
    2 (de un museo) curator
    3
    conservador masculine ( Coc) preservative
    * * *

    conservador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    conservative
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    a) (Pol) conservative


    conservador,-ora
    I adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino conservative
    Pol Conservative
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 Pol Conservative
    2 (de un museo, una biblioteca) curator
    ' conservador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    barrer
    - bloque
    - conservadora
    - europeísta
    English:
    conservative
    - keeper
    - seat
    - Tory
    - wet
    - Conservative
    - curator
    - custodian
    - round
    * * *
    conservador, -ora
    ♦ adj
    1. [tradicionalista] conservative;
    es un entrenador muy conservador he's a very conservative manager
    2. [del partido conservador] Conservative
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [tradicionalista] conservative
    2. [miembro del partido conservador] Conservative
    3. [de museo] curator;
    [de biblioteca] librarian; [de parque natural] keeper
    * * *
    I adj conservative
    II m, conservadora f
    1 de museo curator
    2 POL conservative
    * * *
    conservador, - dora adj & n
    : conservative
    : preservative
    * * *
    conservador adj n conservative

    Spanish-English dictionary > conservador

  • 20 dejar en la estacada

    (v.) = leave + Nombre + high and dry, be left out on a limb
    Ex. The argument can be made that if a librarian decides not to convert all the library's holdings to machine-readable format, the library user is not left high and dry.
    Ex. But Mao was left out on a limb and 'deeply frustrated' when, despite his urging to fight on, Pakistan suddenly accepted a ceasefire before the expiry of China's deadline.
    * * *
    (v.) = leave + Nombre + high and dry, be left out on a limb

    Ex: The argument can be made that if a librarian decides not to convert all the library's holdings to machine-readable format, the library user is not left high and dry.

    Ex: But Mao was left out on a limb and 'deeply frustrated' when, despite his urging to fight on, Pakistan suddenly accepted a ceasefire before the expiry of China's deadline.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dejar en la estacada

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  • frustrated */ — UK [frʌˈstreɪtɪd] / US [ˈfrʌˌstreɪtəd] adjective 1) a) feeling annoyed and impatient because you are prevented from achieving something Frustrated passengers have started to use other forms of transport. frustrated with: Parents are increasingly… …   English dictionary

  • frustrated — frus|trat|ed [frʌˈstreıtıd US ˈfrʌstreıtıd] adj 1.) feeling annoyed, upset, and impatient, because you cannot control or change a situation, or achieve something ▪ He gets frustrated when people don t understand what he s trying to say.… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • frustrated — adjective 1 feeling annoyed, upset, and impatient, because you cannot control or change a situation, or achieve something : get frustrated: He gets frustrated when he can t win. (+ with/at): I can t understand this. I just get frustrated with it …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • frustrated — adj. frustrated to + int. (he was frustrated to find no support among his friends) * * * [frʌ streɪtɪd] frustrated to + inf. (he was frustrated to find no support among his friends) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • frustrated — /frus tray tid/, adj. 1. disappointed; thwarted: an announcer who was a frustrated actor. 2. having a feeling of or filled with frustration; dissatisfied: His unresolved difficulty left him absolutely frustrated. [1635 45; FRUSTRATE + ED2] * * * …   Universalium

  • Frustrated — Frustrate Frus trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frustrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frustrating}.] 1. To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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