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1 ingeniar
v.1 to invent, to devise.2 to engineer, to conceive, to invent, to contrive.* * *1 to devise1 to manage, find a way, contrive■ habrá que ingeniárselas para que nos dejen pasar gratis we'll have to find some way of getting in free* * *1.VT to devise, think up2.See:* * *verbo transitivo <método/sistema> to devise, think upingeniárselas — (fam)
no sé cómo se las ingenia — I don't know how she does it
* * *= engineer.Ex. So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.----* cómo nos las ingeniamos para = how in the world....* ingeniarse = contrive, devise.* ingeniarse el modo de = dream up + ways to.* ingeniárselas = manage to, finesse, get by.* ingeniárselas para = figure out how.* ingeniárselas para escapar = contrive + an escape.* * *verbo transitivo <método/sistema> to devise, think upingeniárselas — (fam)
no sé cómo se las ingenia — I don't know how she does it
* * *= engineer.Ex: So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.
* cómo nos las ingeniamos para = how in the world....* ingeniarse = contrive, devise.* ingeniarse el modo de = dream up + ways to.* ingeniárselas = manage to, finesse, get by.* ingeniárselas para = figure out how.* ingeniárselas para escapar = contrive + an escape.* * *ingeniar [A1 ]vt‹método/sistema› to devise, think uphabía ingeniado una manera de escaparse de clase he had worked out o thought up o devised a way of getting out of classingeniárselas ( fam): no sé cómo se las ingenia para vivir con ese sueldo I don't know how he manages to survive on that salaryse las ingenió para arreglarlo he worked out how to fix it, he found a way to fix it, he managed to fix it* * *
ingeniar ( conjugate ingeniar) verbo transitivo ‹método/sistema› to devise, think up;◊ ingeniárselas (fam): se las ingenió para arreglarlo he managed to fix it
ingeniar verbo transitivo to invent, devise
♦ Locuciones: ingeniárselas para hacer algo, to manage to do sthg: me las voy a ingeniar para conocerle mejor, I'm going to figure out how to get to know him better
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* * *♦ vtto invent, to devise* * *ingeniar vt: to devise, to think up* * * -
2 ingeniárselas
1 to manage, find a way, contrive■ habrá que ingeniárselas para que nos dejen pasar gratis we'll have to find some way of getting in free* * *(v.) = manage to, finesse, get byEx. Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.Ex. The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.Ex. A small book fair lasting only a day, such as might be held in a kindergarten or small elementary school, can get by with a couple of members of staff and a parent as the organizing committee.* * *(v.) = manage to, finesse, get byEx: Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.
Ex: The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.Ex: A small book fair lasting only a day, such as might be held in a kindergarten or small elementary school, can get by with a couple of members of staff and a parent as the organizing committee. -
3 wangle
1. 2. nounKniff, derby a wangle — durch Schiebung (ugs.)
* * *['wæŋɡl](to obtain or achieve (something) by trickery: He got us seats for the concert - I don't know how he wangled it.) deichseln* * *wan·gle[ˈwæŋgl̩]vt ( fam)she managed to \wangle an invitation to his house es gelang ihr, sich eine Einladung zu ihm nach Hause zu verschaffen* * *['wŋgl] (inf)1. nSchiebung f (inf), Mauschelei f (inf)I think we can arrange some sort of wangle — ich glaube, wir können es so hinbiegen (inf) or hindrehen (inf)
2. vtjob, ticket etc organisieren (inf), verschaffento wangle sb in — jdn reinschleusen (inf)
he'll wangle it for you — er wird das schon für dich drehen (inf) or deichseln (inf)
* * *wangle [ˈwæŋɡl] umgA v/twangle one’s way out of → B2. eine Abrechnung etc fälschen frisieren umg3. etwasb) herausschinden umg:she has wangled herself a salary increase sie hat eine Gehaltserhöhung für sich herausgeschlagen umg;wangle a penalty (Fußball) einen Elfmeter schinden4. etwas ergaunern:5. jemanden verleiten:wangle sb into doing sth jemanden dazu bringen, etwas zu tun6. wangle sb into a gang jemanden in eine Bande einschleusenC s1. Kniff m, Trick m2. Gaunerei f* * *1. 2. nounKniff, derby a wangle — durch Schiebung (ugs.)
* * *v.drehen v.hinkriegen v.
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