hair+splitting

1) General subject: brabble, hair splitting, hair-splitting, squabble

2) Makarov: twopenny-halfpenny squabble

Adj. PHILOS., pej. sophistic; pej. (haarspalterisch) hair-splitting

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sophistic; sophistical

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sophistisch adj PHIL, pej sophistic; pej (haarspalterisch) hair-splitting

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sophistic adj.

sophistical adj.

(v.) = do + little

Ex. Amazingly, this has done little to temper their penchant for legalese and hair-splitting on international law.

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(n.) = legalease

Ex. Amazingly, this has done little to temper their penchant for legalese and hair-splitting on international law.

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legal talk, legalese, legal jargon.

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(n.) = legalease

Ex. Amazingly, this has done little to temper their penchant for legalese and hair-splitting on international law.

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punctilious, excessively correct, overparticular about trivial details, nitpicking.

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► adjetivo

1 (susceptible) touchy

2 (exigente) punctilious

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ADJ (=detallista) punctilious; (=susceptible) touchy, sensitive

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- sa adjetivo particular, punctilious

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= nitpicking [nit-picking], fastidious.

Ex. Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.

Ex. Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.

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* demasiado puntilloso = hair-splitting [hairsplitting].

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- sa adjetivo particular, punctilious

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particular, punctilious

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◊ -sa adjetivo

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puntilloso, -a adj

1. [susceptible] touchy

2. [meticuloso] punctilious

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adj particular, punctilious fml

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puntilloso, -sa adj

: punctilious

(v.) = do + little

Ex. Amazingly, this has done little to temper their penchant for legalese and hair-splitting on international law.

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subtle.

Una insinuación sutil A subtle insinuation...

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► adjetivo

1 (delgado) thin, fine

2 (aroma) delicate; (color) soft

3 (brisa) gentle

4 figurado subtle

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1) subtle

2) fine

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1) [diferencia] subtle

2) (=perspicaz) [inteligencia, persona] sharp, keen; [comentario] subtle

3) (=delicado) [hilo, hebra] fine; [tela] delicate, thin, light; [atmósfera] thin; [olor] subtle, delicate; [brisa] gentle

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a) < diferencia> subtle, fine; < ironía> subtle; <mente/inteligencia> keen, sharp

b) <gasa/velo> fine; < fragancia> subtle, delicate

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= fine [finer -comp., finest -sup.], subtle [subtler -comp., subtlest -sup.], tenuous, lightweight [light-weight], lissom(e), thinly disguised.

Ex. A longer abstract can help in the finer points of selection, but will take longer to write and also longer to scan.

Ex. Not so clear, however, is the subtle reinforcement of the majority assumptions provided by such subdivisions as CIVILIZATION OF under the names of indigenous American and African peoples.

Ex. We have another possibility that is exciting, though still tenuous.

Ex. David Niven's amusing but very lightweight autobiography 'The Moon's a Balloon' is an excellent example of this phenomenon and it was impossible for the original hardback publishers to forecast the tremendous success of this book.

Ex. She is not just lissome and beautiful, but also cultured, artful, expressive, and energetic.

Ex. Much of what passes for bibliotherapy is thinly disguised preaching aimed at teaching children to behave the way adults want them to.

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* de manera sutil = subtly.

* demasiado sutil = hair-splitting [hairsplitting].

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a) < diferencia> subtle, fine; < ironía> subtle; <mente/inteligencia> keen, sharp

b) <gasa/velo> fine; < fragancia> subtle, delicate

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1 ‹diferencia› subtle, fine; ‹ironía› subtle; ‹mente/inteligencia› keen, sharp

2 ‹gasa/velo› fine; ‹fragancia› subtle, delicate

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a) ‹ diferencia› subtle, fine;

b) ‹gasa/velo› fine;

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sutil adj

1. [crítica, inteligencia] subtle

2. [delicado] [velo, tejido] delicate, thin;

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adj fig

subtle

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sutil adj

1) : delicate, thin, fine

2) : subtle

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sutil adj subtle

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ergotage nm péj hair-splitting, quibbling.

[ɛrgɔtaʒ] nom masculin

quibbling

(smá, smátt), a.

1) small, little (mörg skip ok smá);

2) neut., hann seldi smátt varninginn, he sold by retail; höggva smátt, to strike small blows; hann kvaðst eigi mundu smátt á sjá, he said he would deal liberally in the matter; smátt ok smátt, bit by bit, by degrees;

3) smám, bit by bit, slowly (fara smám).

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smá, smátt: gen. smás, acc. smán, dat. smám, smá: pl. smáir, smár, smá, dat. smám, acc. smá, smár, smá: mod. bisyllabic smáan, smáum, smáa: compar. smæri; superl. smæstr. The Icel. form ‘smá’ instead of ‘smal’ of the Germ. and Saxon is peculiar to all the Scandin. languages, and also prevails in Scotland and North. E., but the words are one; ‘smá’ is only a contracted form, as is seen by the fact that ‘smal’ remains in the words smali (q. v.), smalki, smælingr; and (although as απ. λεγ.) in smalvamm, smalmenni, q. v.: [Ulf. smals = Germ. schmal, Engl. small, etc.; but Dan.-Swed. smaa; Scot. and North. E. sma’.]

A. Small, little, of size, stature; mörg skip ok smá, Vápn. 8; smæri skip, Fms. i. 93; vúru þau öll smæst, viii. 255; sumir smáir, sumir stórir, Sks. 442; keppask til smára hluta, Ó. H. 87; hann ræðr öllum hlutum, stórum ok smám, Edda 3; höfðingja ok smæri menn, Fms. x. 266; hin smæri sár, Grág. ii. 29; smá tíðendi, small tidings, Lv. 33, Fms. ix. 477; þau (mál) er smæst eru, Js. 5; skógr þykkr ok smár, a wood thick but dwarf, Fms. i. 136; smáir sandar, small sand, a beach of fine sand, Eg. 141; melja mergi smæra, Ls. 43; hann lamði hausinn í smán mola, Edda 58; ok var brotinn fótrinn svá smátt sem skelja-moli, Bs. i. 423; litlir menn ok smáir, Landn. 145; smás fylkis niðs, Sighvat; smaestir fuglar, id.; kaupa smám kaupum sem stórum, Fb. ii. 75; sás girði eðr smæri, Grág. ii. 338; opt hefir þú mér hallkvæmr verit, en eigi má nú smæstu ráða, thou hast often been good to me, and this is not the smallest instance, Lv. 42.

2. neut., hann seldi smátt varninginn, he dealt in ‘small wares,’ sold by retail, Vápn. 7; höggva smátt, to strike small blows, Ísl. ii. 265: hann kvaðsk eigi mundu smátt á sjá, he said he would not look minutely into it, i. e. that he would deal liberally, Ld. 50; miklu vex hón hinnig smærum, much less, Sks. 71; þeir skulu skipta vikum eða smærum, divide by weeks or less, Grág. ii. 350; selja smærrum saman, in lesser quantities, N. G. L. iii. 123: smám, nema hón seli svá smám landit sem áðr var tínt, Grág. ii. 214; en er hann var á leiðinni ok fór smóm (slowly, bit by bit) þá er hann mátti svá, Bs. i. 344; smám ok smám, bit by bit, Fms. x. 366; reiddi hann silfrit smám ok smám, Hkr. ii. 244, Al. 23: smám þeim, by degrees; vaxa smám þeim, Stj. 200; eptir þat hrærðu þau sveininn sm́m þeim, Bs. i. 337 (smám, 318, l. c.): in mod. usage, smám-saman, sounded smá-saman, gradually; smátt og smátt, bit by bit.

II. in mod. usage smá- is prefixed to verbs, denoting little by little, by degrees; honum smá-batnaði, he recovered little by little; það smá-liðkast, það smá-batnar, smá-líðr á daginn, það smá-styttist, smá-lengist, smá-breiðkar, smá-dýpkar, smá-hækkar, smá-víðkar, smá-kólnar, smá-hitnar, smá-fækkar, smá-fjölgar, etc.

B. In COMPDS, smá- is often used simply as a diminutive, as there is no dimin. inflexion in the language; it is rarely prefixed to any but plur. or collective nouns. smá-atvik, n. pl. details. smá-bátar, m. pl. little boats, Fms. vii. 224, Sks. 174, Ó. H. 137. smá-bein, n. pl. small bones, N. G. L. i. 172. smá-bjöllur, f. pl. little bells, Vm. 47. smá-borinn, part. of low birth, Hkr. i. 106, Fms. vii. 8. smá-búendr, m. pl. = smábændr, Ó. H. 101. smá-búsgögn, n. small house-implements, Dipl. v. 18. smá-byrðingar, m. pl. little ships of burden, N. G. L. ii. 251. smá-bækr, f. pl. little books, Pm. 82, Vm. 23. smá-bændr, m. pl. small farmers, Grett. 127, Bs. ii. 143, Fb. iii. 458. smá-börn, n. pl. little bairns, Fms. i. 263, x. 117, Stj. 25, N. T. smá-djöflar, m. pl. petty devils, imps, Sturl. ii. 221. smá-dúkar, m. pl. little kerchiefs, Vm. 47. smá-dýr, n. pl. ‘small deer,’ small animals, Stj. 572, Barl. 41. smá-eyjar, f. pl. little islands, Fms. x. 5. smá-fénaðr, m. small cattle, Gþl. 393. smá-ferjur, f. pl. small ferries, Fms. x. 153. smá-fiskar, m. pl. small fishes, Fas. ii. 112. smá-fuglar, m. pl. small birds, Grág. ii. 346, Al. 132, Fms. vi. 153. smá-geislar, m. pl. faint beams, Fms. i. 140. smá-gjafar, f. pl. small gifts, Stj. smá-gjarn, adj., Valla L. 201 (false reading for sín-gjarn, q. v.) smá-greinir, f. pl. small matters, Bjarn. 3. smá-grjót, n. smal-grit, pebbles, Sturl. ii. 210, Sks. 422. smá-hlutir, m. pl. trifles, Ld. 286, Fas. i. 112, Bs. ii. 167. smá-hringar, m. pl. small circles, rings, Stj. 80, Fas. iii. 45. smá-hrís, n. a shrubbery, Fms. vi. 334. smá-hundar, m. pl. small dogs, Flóv. 34. smá-hús, n. pl. small houses, Pr. 119. smá-hvalir, m. pl. little whales, Vm. 91. smá-kertistikur, f. pl. small candlesticks, Vm. 171. smá-kirkjur, f. pl. small churches, N. 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L. ii. 241. smá-kjörr, n. pl. scrub, brushwood, Fms. vi. 334. smá-klukkur, f. pl. small bells, Vm. 64. smá-kofar, m. pl. small huts, Bs. i. 240. smá-konungar, m. pl. kinglets, Fms. iv. 26, x. 283, Sks. smá-koppar, m. pl. small cups, hollows, Fb. ii. 284. smá-kornóttr, adj. small-grained, Stj. 292. smá-kvistir, m. pl. small twigs, Barl. 81, Bs. ii. 183. smá-kvæmr, adj. of low descent, Fær. 236. smá-látr, adj. content with little, Vápn. 7, Al. 6. smá-leikar, adj. smallness, Finnb. 262, Fas. iii. 393 (sing., Fms. iii. 192). smá-leitr, adj. small-featured, Al. 52, Bs. ii. 11. smá-lérept, n. fine linen, Pm. 123. smá-ligr, adj. trifling, Sks. 30 B. smá-líkneski, n. pl. small images, Pm. 80, 120. smá-lyginn, adj. petty lying, Rb. 310. smá-lærisveinar, m. pl. little disciples, Bs. i. 219. smá-læti, n. stinginess (opp. to stórlæti), Vápn. 10. smá-lönd, n. pl. small lands (islands); öll s. í hafinu, Fas. i. 347; a local name of the Danish islands, Fms. vi. 56, 31: cp. the county Småland in Sweden, Fms. xii. sma-mannligr, adj. mannikin-like, Landn. 121. smá-menn, m. pl. = smámenni, Fms. vi. 14, Dropl. 18. smá-menni, n. small people, Nj. 94, Eg. 770, Fms. vii. 124, Barl. 169. smá-meyjar, f. pl. little girls, Nj. 2. Smámeyja-land, n. the land of the dwarf maidens, mythical, Sams. S. smá-munir, n. pl. trifles, Ld. 286. sma-mæli, n. pl. small cases, Anecd. 46. smá-mæltr, part. ‘small-spoken,’ lisping, Sturl. iii. 278 (where a nickname), freq. in mod. usage. smá-neyti, n. ‘small neats,’ calves, and the like: mart s., Lv. 91. smá-piltar, m. pl. small boys, Stj. 123, Fas. iii. 124. smá-rakkar, m. pl. small dog’s, Mar., Fms. viii. 207, Stj. 99. smá-ráðr, adj. aiming at small things, Ld. 172, Fms. ii. 32. smá-regn, n. small rain, drizzle, Stj. 14 (sing.) smá-rekar, m. pl. small jetsums or waifs, Vm. 60, Pm. 69. smá-ríki, n. pl. petty kingdoms, Fms. ii. 190. smá-róar, m. pl. small relief, Bs. i. 351. smá-sakar, f. pl. petty suits, Hrafn. 4. smá-sandar, m. pl. fine sand, plains of fine sand, Eg. 141. smá-sauðr, m. (sing.), a little sheep, Stj. 516. smá-skip, n. pl. small ships, Fms. ii. 302, vii. 266, N. G. L. ii. 252. smá-skitligr, adj. tiny; s. í andliti, tiny-faced, Fb. i. 540; lítill ok s., Fas. ii. 247. smá-skógar, m. pl. copsewood, Landn. 68. smá-skútur, f. pl. small craft, Fms. iii. 1, vi. 402, vii. 234, Eg. 341. smá-smíði, n. hardware, opp. to stór-smíði, N. G. L. iii. 15 (cp. Low Germ. klein-smied). smá-smugall, -smogall, adj. penetrating through every pore, Rb. 334: metaph. minute, subtle; vitr ok s., Mar., Barl., Str.; smásmugul ok hvöss ok skygn augu, Skálda 160: compar. smásmuglari, 159: mod., in a bad sense, hair-splitting, fault-finding, sma-smugliga, adv. subtlely, minutely, Stj. 155, Bs. ii. 52. sma-smugligr, adj. minute, Sks. 637: hair-splitting. smá-smygli, f. minuteness, Str. 2, Bs. ii. 42. smá-spengr, f. pl. small spangles, Nj. 142. smá-straumr, m. and smá-streymt, n. adj. a neap-tide. smá-sveinar, m. pl. small boys, Eg. 188, Fms. vii. 158, Stj. 121: sing., smásveini einum, Bs. i. 45. smá-sveinligr, adj. boyish; s. nám, Bs. i. 219. smá-svik, n. pl. petty tricks, Fms. vi. 383. smá-syndir, f. pl. petty sins, 677. 9. smá-tennr, f. pl. small tusks (of a walrus), Sks. 179. smá-tíundir, f. pl. small tithes, Vm. 89, H. E. ii. 167. smá-tölur, f. pl. (smá-talna), small numbers, Rb. 114. smá-varningr, m. small wares (sing.), Nj. 75. smá-váfur, f. pl. tiny ghosts, imps, Grett. 79 new Ed. smá-vegis, adv. trifling. smá-vendir, m. pl. small wands, Sks. 443. smá-verplar, m. pl. small casks, N. G. L. iii. 15. smá-viði, n. a shrubbery, Eg. 580. smá-vofrur, f. pl. = smáváfur, Grett. 112. smá-þarmar, m. pl. [A. S. smæl-þearmas], the small gut, also the lower abdomen, Nj. 262, Fas. ii. 255, Sturl. i. 196, Fb. i. 301, Mar., passim; smáþarma-mein, Bs. i. 825. smá-þing, n. a small object, Thom. 301. smá-öxar, f. pl. small axes, A.A. 270.

pedanteria s.f. pedantry: questa è un'insopportabile pedanteria, this is an intolerable piece of pedantry.

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sostantivo femminile pedantry, hair splitting

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pedanteria

/pedante'ria/

sostantivo f.

pedantry, hair splitting.

I. n ( pej) Zankerei f pej, Streiterei f pej

quit your \quibbling! hört auf zu streiten!

II. adj ( pej: petty) kleinlich pej, spitzfindig pej, haarspalterisch fig pej; (quarrelsome) streitsüchtig

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1. adj

2. n

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quibbling adj (adv quibblingly)

1. spitzfindig, haarspalterisch

2. kritt(e)lig

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ausweichend adj. n.

Wortklauberei f.

adj. hair splitting, make very fine distinctions

n. hair splitting, make very fine distinctions

Spitz·fin·dig·keit <-, -en> f

1) ( spitzfindige Art) hair-splitting nature

2) ( spitzfindige Äußerung) hair-splitting no pl

hair-splitting (noun)

nitpicking (noun)

pedantry (noun)

quibble (noun)

subtlety (noun)

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acrimonious

mordant

f; -, -en; pej. hairsplitting

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word-splitting; verbalism

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f -, -en

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f (pej) hair-splitting no pl, nit-picking no pl

das ist doch reine \Wortklauberei you're just splitting hairs

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Wortklauberei f; -, -en; pej hairsplitting

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quibbling n.

1) (to cut or (cause to) break lengthwise: to split firewood; The skirt split all the way down the back seam.) cepiti (se)

2) (to divide or (cause to) disagree: The dispute split the workers into two opposing groups.) razcepiti

- split-level

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razcep, razcepitev; razpoklina; odkrušek, iver, odcepljeni kos; razcepljeno šibje (za pletenje košar); posamezni sloji razklane kože; figuratively delitev, ločitev, prelom, razkol, razcepitev (stranke), odcepljena skupina, frakcija (kake stranke); politics deljeno glasovanje; slang policijski ovaduh, denunciant; slang politics steklenice (mineralne vode), kozarček (alkoholne pijače); colloquially mešanica, mešana pijača; plural colloquially razkorak, razkrečenje nog, špaga (akrobacija)

to do splits — razkoračiti noge, napraviti špago

razcepljen, razklan, razbit; razpokan

split infinitive — nedoločnik, ki je s prislovom ločen od predloga to

split peas — posušen in razklan grah

split pin — klin, ki se odpre, ko se porine skozi luknjo

split ring — preklan obroč, na katerega se nanizajo ključi

split second — hipec, trenutek

split ticket politics American volilni listek s kandidati več strank

split cloth medicine povoj z več konci

(raz)cepiti, razklati, odcepiti, razslojiti; razdeliti ( among med, with s); figuratively razdvojiti, razcepiti; raztrgati (na kose), figuratively uničiti; American colloquially razredčiti (whisky itd.) z vodo;

(o ladji) raztreščiti se (ob skalah), figuratively

doživeti brodolom, nasesti (on na); razklati se, razcepiti se, póčiti, razpočiti se; odcepiti se, odlomiti se; ločiti se, raziti se, ne se spraviti (pobotati) (on gledé, o), razdeliti se ( into v, na); colloquially drveti; politics colloquially voliti različne kandidate; slang deliti si (on kaj); slang izdati, ovaditi, denuncirati (upon, on koga)

hair-splitting — dlakocepstvo

the audience split their sides (with laughing) — poslušalci so pokali od smeha

to split a bottle — popiti skupaj steklenico

to split the difference — sporazumeti se za kompromis, za sredino med zahtevano in ponujeno ceno; vzeti sredino med dvema predlogoma, dvema količinama

to split hairs — dlakocepiti

we split the money into equal shares — denar smo si razdelili na enake deleže

to split open — razklati, razparati

the party split on this point — ta točka je bila vzrok razkola v stranki

to split the profits — razdeliti si med seboj dobiček

the ship split on the rock — ladja se je razbila ob skali

to split straws figuratively dlako cepiti, (preveč) pedantski biti

to split one's vote(s) (ticket) — glasovati za kandidate različnih strank;

preterite & past participle

od to split

1. pedantry

(n.) فضل فروشی

2. hair splitting

{hair splitt ـ [!! hair splitter: آدم مو شکاف]}

{!! hair splitter: آدم مو شکاف}