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  • 81 en los dos últimos meses

    Ex. Over the last couple of months, drug companies had been holding their horses in the hope that the new budget would bring them some relief.
    * * *

    Ex: Over the last couple of months, drug companies had been holding their horses in the hope that the new budget would bring them some relief.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en los dos últimos meses

  • 82 encogerse de hombros

    to shrug one's shoulders
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    (v.) = shrug + Posesivo + shoulders, shrug
    Ex. 'That's about it', he shrugged his shoulders indifferently, as if to say 'So what!'.
    Ex. 'I'm not much to trust any politician,' he shrugs, but 'I just don't believe in changing horses in midstream'.
    * * *
    (v.) = shrug + Posesivo + shoulders, shrug

    Ex: 'That's about it', he shrugged his shoulders indifferently, as if to say 'So what!'.

    Ex: 'I'm not much to trust any politician,' he shrugs, but 'I just don't believe in changing horses in midstream'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > encogerse de hombros

  • 83 estratagema

    f.
    stratagem (military).
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    1 MILITAR stratagem
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    noun f.
    stratagem, device
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    femenino stratagem
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    = course of action, stratagem, ruse, ploy, artifice, power play, scheme, stalking horse, trick, gaff.
    Ex. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex. Must she fortify herself with an arsenal of stratagems in order to survive?.
    Ex. The library did not burn and the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library as a replacement was a ruse to help pay the former President's debts.
    Ex. They are using such ploys as citing budget cuts as the reason for making government information more expensive.
    Ex. Such canons need not transcend human artifice to be of enduring significance.
    Ex. The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.
    Ex. These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.
    Ex. Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.
    Ex. But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.
    Ex. There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.
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    femenino stratagem
    * * *
    = course of action, stratagem, ruse, ploy, artifice, power play, scheme, stalking horse, trick, gaff.

    Ex: Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.

    Ex: Must she fortify herself with an arsenal of stratagems in order to survive?.
    Ex: The library did not burn and the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library as a replacement was a ruse to help pay the former President's debts.
    Ex: They are using such ploys as citing budget cuts as the reason for making government information more expensive.
    Ex: Such canons need not transcend human artifice to be of enduring significance.
    Ex: The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.
    Ex: These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.
    Ex: Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.
    Ex: But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.
    Ex: There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.

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    stratagem
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    estratagema sustantivo femenino
    stratagem
    estratagema sustantivo femenino stratagem
    ' estratagema' also found in these entries:
    English:
    device
    - frame-up
    - scheme
    - stratagem
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    1. Mil stratagem
    2. [astucia] artifice, trick
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    f stratagem
    * * *
    artimaña: stratagem, ruse

    Spanish-English dictionary > estratagema

  • 84 estúpido

    adj.
    1 stupid, foolish, dumb, empty-headed.
    2 stupid, foolish, inane, dumb.
    m.
    stupid, nitwit, fathead, numbskull.
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    1 stupid, silly
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 berk, idiot
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    1. (f. - estúpida)
    adj.
    2. (f. - estúpida)
    noun f.
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    estúpido, -a
    1.
    ADJ stupid
    2.
    SM / F idiot
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, silly

    ay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!

    II
    - da masculino, femenino idiot, fool
    * * *
    = crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.
    Ex. Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.
    Ex. We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.
    Ex. It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
    Ex. In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.
    Ex. By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex. When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.
    Ex. Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.
    Ex. When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.
    Ex. Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.
    Ex. I think some people would think my approach is nuts.
    Ex. She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex. That was a big boneheaded error.
    Ex. Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.
    Ex. Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.
    Ex. The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.
    Ex. The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.
    Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex. Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
    Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex. And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex. Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex. An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex. If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex. But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex. Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.
    Ex. I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.
    Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex. ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.
    Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    ----
    * algo estúpido = no-brainer.
    * como un estúpido = stupidly.
    * hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.
    * lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.
    * rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.
    * ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, silly

    ay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!

    II
    - da masculino, femenino idiot, fool
    * * *
    = crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.

    Ex: Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.

    Ex: We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.
    Ex: It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
    Ex: In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.
    Ex: By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.
    Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex: When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.
    Ex: Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.
    Ex: When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.
    Ex: Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.
    Ex: I think some people would think my approach is nuts.
    Ex: She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex: That was a big boneheaded error.
    Ex: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.
    Ex: Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.
    Ex: The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.
    Ex: The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.
    Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex: Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
    Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex: Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.
    Ex: I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.
    Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex: ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.
    Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    * algo estúpido = no-brainer.
    * como un estúpido = stupidly.
    * hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.
    * lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.
    * rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.
    * ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.

    * * *
    estúpido1 -da
    ‹persona› stupid; ‹argumento› stupid, silly
    ay, qué estúpida, me equivoqué oh, how stupid of me, I've done it wrong
    un gasto estúpido a stupid waste of money
    es estúpido que vayamos las dos it's silly o stupid for us both to go
    estúpido2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    idiot, fool
    el estúpido de mi hermano my stupid brother
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    estúpido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ persona› stupid;


    ‹ argumento› stupid, silly;
    ◊ ¡ay, qué estúpida soy! oh, how stupid of me!

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    idiot, fool
    estúpido,-a
    I adjetivo stupid
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino idiot

    ' estúpido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    burra
    - burro
    - estúpida
    - animal
    - apendejarse
    - baboso
    - caballo
    - el
    - embromar
    - gafo
    - huevón
    - pendejo
    English:
    also
    - believe
    - bit
    - bonehead
    - bozo
    - damn
    - dopey
    - equally
    - foolish
    - goof
    - idiotic
    - mindless
    - obtuse
    - pretty
    - shame
    - soft
    - stupid
    - that
    - wonder
    - inane
    - jerk
    * * *
    estúpido, -a
    ♦ adj
    stupid;
    ¡qué estúpido soy! me he vuelto a olvidar what an idiot I am! I've gone and forgotten again;
    sería estúpido no reconocerlo it would be foolish not to admit it
    ♦ nm,f
    idiot;
    el estúpido de mi vecino my idiot of a neighbour
    * * *
    I adj stupid
    II m, estúpida f idiot
    * * *
    estúpido, -da adj
    : stupid
    estúpido, -da n
    idiota: idiot, fool
    * * *
    estúpido1 adj stupid [comp. stupider; superl. stupidest]
    estúpido2 n stupid person / idiot

    Spanish-English dictionary > estúpido

  • 85 evocar una imagen de

    (v.) = conjure up + an image of, conjure up + a vision of
    Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.
    Ex. The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    * * *
    (v.) = conjure up + an image of, conjure up + a vision of

    Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

    Ex: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.

    Spanish-English dictionary > evocar una imagen de

  • 86 exceso en la bebida

    (n.) = intemperance
    Ex. By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.
    * * *

    Ex: By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.

    Spanish-English dictionary > exceso en la bebida

  • 87 gastritis

    f. s.&pl.
    gastritis (medicine).
    * * *
    1 gastritis
    * * *
    SF INV gastritis
    * * *
    femenino gastritis
    * * *
    Ex. Exercise-induced gastritis and gastric ulcers are common in humans and horses, and recently have been described in racing sled dogs.
    * * *
    femenino gastritis
    * * *

    Ex: Exercise-induced gastritis and gastric ulcers are common in humans and horses, and recently have been described in racing sled dogs.

    * * *
    gastritis
    * * *

    gastritis sustantivo femenino
    gastritis
    gastritis f Med gastritis
    ' gastritis' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    exacerbar
    English:
    gastritis
    * * *
    gastritis nf inv
    Med gastritis
    * * *
    f gastritis
    * * *
    : gastritis

    Spanish-English dictionary > gastritis

  • 88 guadaña

    f.
    scythe.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: guadañar.
    * * *
    1 scythe
    * * *
    SF (Agr) scythe

    la Guadaña — (fig) the Grim Reaper

    * * *
    femenino scythe
    * * *
    = scythe.
    Ex. The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    * * *
    femenino scythe
    * * *

    Ex: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.

    * * *
    scythe
    * * *

    guadaña sustantivo femenino
    scythe
    guadaña sustantivo femenino scythe
    ' guadaña' also found in these entries:
    English:
    scythe
    * * *
    scythe
    * * *
    f scythe
    * * *
    : scythe

    Spanish-English dictionary > guadaña

  • 89 guerrero

    adj.
    warlike, fighter, warrior, martial.
    m.
    warrior, man of battle, soldier, fighting man.
    * * *
    1 warlike
    2 familiar (niño) difficult
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 warrior, soldier
    * * *
    1. (f. - guerrera)
    noun
    warrior, fighter
    2. (f. - guerrera)
    adj.
    war, fighting
    * * *
    guerrero, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=belicoso) war antes de s
    2) [de carácter] warlike
    3) (=en guerra) warring
    2.
    SM / F (=soldado) warrior, soldier
    3.
    SM Caribe * rum and vodka-based cocktail
    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo <pueblo/espíritu> warlike
    II
    - ra masculino, femenino warrior
    * * *
    = warrior, martial.
    Ex. This article provides an interpretation of a major historical and archaeological find, the 1st Emperor of China's terra-cotta figures of warriors and horses.
    Ex. The article begins by illustrating the martial dimensions of the bodybuilder's body.
    ----
    * guerrero indio = brave.
    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo <pueblo/espíritu> warlike
    II
    - ra masculino, femenino warrior
    * * *
    = warrior, martial.

    Ex: This article provides an interpretation of a major historical and archaeological find, the 1st Emperor of China's terra-cotta figures of warriors and horses.

    Ex: The article begins by illustrating the martial dimensions of the bodybuilder's body.
    * guerrero indio = brave.

    * * *
    guerrero1 -ra
    ‹pueblo/espíritu/tradición› warlike
    guerrero2 -ra
    masculine, feminine
    warrior
    * * *

    guerrero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo ‹pueblo/espíritu› warlike;

    canto guerrero war cry
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    warrior
    guerrero,-a
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino warrior
    II adjetivo warlike
    un pueblo guerrero, a warlike nation

    ' guerrero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    belicosa
    - belicoso
    - caracterización
    - escudo
    - guerrera
    English:
    brave
    - fighting
    - mighty
    - warlike
    - warrior
    * * *
    guerrero, -a
    ♦ adj
    [belicoso] warlike; [peleón] argumentative, quarrelsome
    ♦ nm,f
    warrior
    * * *
    I adj warlike
    II m warrior
    * * *
    guerrero, -ra adj
    1) : war, fighting
    2) : warlike
    guerrero, -ra n
    : warrior
    * * *
    guerrero n warrior

    Spanish-English dictionary > guerrero

  • 90 gusano

    m.
    1 worm (animal).
    gusano de luz glow worm
    3 worm (computing).
    * * *
    1 worm (oruga) caterpillar
    \
    gusano de seda silkworm
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) worm
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) [gen] worm; [de tierra] earthworm; [de mosca] maggot; [de mariposa, polilla] caterpillar
    2) (=persona) worm; (=ser despreciable) contemptible person; (=persona dócil) meek creature
    3) (Inform) worm
    4) Cuba ** pey nickname for Cuban refugees post-1959
    2.
    ADJ Cuba ** pey Cuban-refugee antes de s
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( como nombre genérico) worm; ( lombriz de tierra) earthworm, worm
    b) ( larva - de mariposa) caterpillar; (- de mosca) maggot
    2) (pey) ( persona despreciable) worm (pej)
    * * *
    = worm, worm, caterpillar, maggot.
    Ex. The article ' Worms in the field' describes a family of products based around a worm optical disc drive, comprising a worm drive, Image Scanner, Text Retrieval, OCR and Image-handling software.
    Ex. The article 'Computer viruses, Logic bombs, Trojan horses and worms: 'badware' in computers' reviews the different sorts of badware and what problems they cause.
    Ex. For MARC the journey from the caterpillar of the automation of card production to the beautiful butterfly of today has been long and largely successful.
    Ex. One last thought as a parting shot: it does seem that having once taken a bite out of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, we are to be banished from paradise forever, but we really have to eat the maggots in the fruit as well?.
    ----
    * gusano de seda = silkworm.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( como nombre genérico) worm; ( lombriz de tierra) earthworm, worm
    b) ( larva - de mariposa) caterpillar; (- de mosca) maggot
    2) (pey) ( persona despreciable) worm (pej)
    * * *
    = worm, worm, caterpillar, maggot.

    Ex: The article ' Worms in the field' describes a family of products based around a worm optical disc drive, comprising a worm drive, Image Scanner, Text Retrieval, OCR and Image-handling software.

    Ex: The article 'Computer viruses, Logic bombs, Trojan horses and worms: 'badware' in computers' reviews the different sorts of badware and what problems they cause.
    Ex: For MARC the journey from the caterpillar of the automation of card production to the beautiful butterfly of today has been long and largely successful.
    Ex: One last thought as a parting shot: it does seem that having once taken a bite out of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, we are to be banished from paradise forever, but we really have to eat the maggots in the fruit as well?.
    * gusano de seda = silkworm.

    * * *
    A
    2 (larva — de mariposa) caterpillar; (— de mosca) maggot; (— de otros insectos) grub, worm
    Compuestos:
    (Esp, Méx) glowworm
    silkworm
    C ( Inf) tb
    gusano2 -na
    masculine, feminine
    * * *

     

    gusano sustantivo masculino
    1

    ( lombriz de tierra) earthworm, worm

    (— de mosca) maggot;

    gusano de seda silkworm
    2 (pey) ( persona despreciable) worm (pej)
    gusano sustantivo masculino
    1 Zool worm
    (oruga) caterpillar
    (de mosca) maggot
    gusano de seda, silkworm
    2 (persona despreciable) worm: el jefe es un gusano the boss is a swine
    ' gusano' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hebra
    English:
    maggot
    - worm
    * * *
    gusano nm
    1. [animal] worm
    2. [larva] grub;
    [de mariposa] caterpillar; [de mosca] maggot gusano de luz glow-worm;
    3. Informát worm
    4. Fam [persona despreciable] worm
    5. Fam Pey [exiliado cubano] = anti-Castro Cuban living in exile
    * * *
    m worm; de mosca maggot
    * * *
    gusano nm
    1) lombriz: worm, earthworm
    gusano de seda: silkworm
    2) : caterpillar, maggot, grub
    * * *
    1. (lombriz, etc) worm
    2. (oruga de mariposa) caterpillar

    Spanish-English dictionary > gusano

  • 91 hacer imaginar

    (v.) = conjure up + an image of, conjure up + a vision of
    Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.
    Ex. The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    * * *
    (v.) = conjure up + an image of, conjure up + a vision of

    Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

    Ex: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacer imaginar

  • 92 hacer pensar en

    (v.) = conjure, conjure up + a picture of, bring to + mind, conjure up + an image of, conjure up, conjure up + a vision of
    Ex. Any funeral scene in a story inevitably conjures in myself memories of my childhood spent as the son of an undertaker.
    Ex. This article argues in favour of the term 'conservator' rather than 'restorer' of books as the former does not conjure up a picture of the Victorian artisan vandalising documents with irreversible treatments simply for effect.
    Ex. These commands bring to mind word frequency-based automatic indexing algorithms of the past 3 decades.
    Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.
    Ex. As we enter full-throttle into the Information Age, the mere mention of 'the information highway' conjures up a predictable set of high-tech images.
    Ex. The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    * * *
    (v.) = conjure, conjure up + a picture of, bring to + mind, conjure up + an image of, conjure up, conjure up + a vision of

    Ex: Any funeral scene in a story inevitably conjures in myself memories of my childhood spent as the son of an undertaker.

    Ex: This article argues in favour of the term 'conservator' rather than 'restorer' of books as the former does not conjure up a picture of the Victorian artisan vandalising documents with irreversible treatments simply for effect.
    Ex: These commands bring to mind word frequency-based automatic indexing algorithms of the past 3 decades.
    Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.
    Ex: As we enter full-throttle into the Information Age, the mere mention of 'the information highway' conjures up a predictable set of high-tech images.
    Ex: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacer pensar en

  • 93 hallazgo

    m.
    1 discovery (descubrimiento).
    2 find (object).
    3 finding, discovery, find.
    * * *
    1 (descubrimiento) finding, discovery
    ■ 'hallazgo de un cadáver' "body found"
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) find
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=acto) discovery
    2) (=descubrimiento) [de la ciencia] discovery; [por investigador, institución] finding
    3) (=cosa hallada) find
    4) (=recompensa) reward
    * * *
    masculino find
    * * *
    = finding, research finding, find.
    Ex. An informative abstract presents a clear condensation of the essential arguments and findings of the original.
    Ex. These cases also serve as 'springboards' to more generalized discussions about issues, values, hypotheses, research findings, points of view, and so forth.
    Ex. This article provides an interpretation of a major historical and archaeological find, the 1st Emperor of China's terra-cotta figures of warriors and horses.
    ----
    * hallazgo fortuito = serendipity.
    * hallazgo secundario = incidental finding.
    * hallazgos principales = salient findings.
    * resultados + corroborar + hallazgos = results + corroborate + findings.
    * * *
    masculino find
    * * *
    = finding, research finding, find.

    Ex: An informative abstract presents a clear condensation of the essential arguments and findings of the original.

    Ex: These cases also serve as 'springboards' to more generalized discussions about issues, values, hypotheses, research findings, points of view, and so forth.
    Ex: This article provides an interpretation of a major historical and archaeological find, the 1st Emperor of China's terra-cotta figures of warriors and horses.
    * hallazgo fortuito = serendipity.
    * hallazgo secundario = incidental finding.
    * hallazgos principales = salient findings.
    * resultados + corroborar + hallazgos = results + corroborate + findings.

    * * *
    find
    ¡qué hallazgo! es el regalo ideal para él what a find! it's the ideal gift for him
    el nuevo programador ha sido un verdadero hallazgo the new programmer has been a real find
    quedaron horrorizados ante tan macabro hallazgo they were horrified by this macabre discovery
    * * *

     

    hallazgo sustantivo masculino
    find
    hallazgo sustantivo masculino
    1 (descubrimiento) discovery: el autor del hallazgo es un científico colombiano, the person responsible for the discovery is Colombian
    2 (objeto encontrado) find: ¡qué hallazgo!, what a find!
    ' hallazgo' also found in these entries:
    English:
    find
    * * *
    1. [descubrimiento] discovery;
    comunicaron el hallazgo del cuerpo a las autoridades they informed the authorities that the body had been discovered o found;
    publicó sus hallazgos en una revista científica he published his findings in a scientific journal
    2. [objeto] find;
    un hallazgo arqueológico an archaeological find;
    ese restaurante fue todo un hallazgo that restaurant was a real find
    * * *
    m find; ( descubrimiento) discovery
    * * *
    1) : discovery
    2) : find
    ¡es un verdadero hallazgo!: it's a real find!
    * * *
    hallazgo n find / discovery [pl. discoveries]

    Spanish-English dictionary > hallazgo

  • 94 herradura

    f.
    horseshoe.
    * * *
    1 horseshoe
    \
    en forma de herradura horseshoe-shaped
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *

    curva en herradura — (Aut) hairpin bend

    * * *
    femenino horseshoe
    * * *
    = horseshoe [horse shoe].
    Ex. Failure, for example, to observe the distinction between HORSE and HORSES creates the possibility of having to consider CHESTNUT; HORSESHOE; and HORSEPOWER (MECHANICS) while attempting to connect the two sequences.
    ----
    * camino de herradura = bridle path, bridleway.
    * cangrejo herradura = horseshoe crab.
    * * *
    femenino horseshoe
    * * *
    = horseshoe [horse shoe].

    Ex: Failure, for example, to observe the distinction between HORSE and HORSES creates the possibility of having to consider CHESTNUT; HORSESHOE; and HORSEPOWER (MECHANICS) while attempting to connect the two sequences.

    * camino de herradura = bridle path, bridleway.
    * cangrejo herradura = horseshoe crab.

    * * *
    horseshoe
    * * *

    herradura sustantivo femenino
    horseshoe
    herradura sustantivo femenino horseshoe
    ' herradura' also found in these entries:
    English:
    bridle path
    - gouge out
    - horseshoe
    - shoe
    - horse
    * * *
    horseshoe
    * * *
    f
    1 horseshoe
    2
    :
    camino de herradura bridle path
    * * *
    : horseshoe
    * * *
    herradura n horseshoe

    Spanish-English dictionary > herradura

  • 95 herrero

    m.
    blacksmith, smith.
    * * *
    1 blacksmith, smith
    * * *
    (f. - herrera)
    noun
    * * *
    herrero, -a
    SM / F blacksmith, smith
    - en casa del herrero cuchillo de palo

    herrero/a de grueso — foundry worker

    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino blacksmith
    * * *
    = blacksmith, farrier.
    Ex. Displays and exhibits include folk art and portraiture, fireams and militia accouterments, blacksmith shop, shoe repair shop, cooperage, gardens of culinary and medicinal herbs, and much more.
    Ex. On flat footed horses, to many farriers are leery of cutting down the white line because they're afraid of blood.
    ----
    * en casa de herrero cuchillo de palo = the cobbler's children run barefoot.
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino blacksmith
    * * *
    = blacksmith, farrier.

    Ex: Displays and exhibits include folk art and portraiture, fireams and militia accouterments, blacksmith shop, shoe repair shop, cooperage, gardens of culinary and medicinal herbs, and much more.

    Ex: On flat footed horses, to many farriers are leery of cutting down the white line because they're afraid of blood.
    * en casa de herrero cuchillo de palo = the cobbler's children run barefoot.

    * * *
    herrero -ra
    masculine, feminine
    blacksmith
    * * *

    herrero
    ◊ -ra sustantivo masculino, femenino

    blacksmith
    herrero sustantivo masculino blacksmith, smith

    ' herrero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    tenaza
    - tenazas
    - yunque
    English:
    blacksmith
    - smith
    - black
    * * *
    1. [herrador] blacksmith, smith
    2. Am [de caballos] horseshoer
    * * *
    m, herrera f blacksmith
    * * *
    herrero, -ra n
    : blacksmith
    * * *
    herrero n blacksmith

    Spanish-English dictionary > herrero

  • 96 hipódromo

    m.
    racecourse, race track, racetrack, hippodrome.
    * * *
    1 racetrack, racecourse
    * * *
    SM [de caballos] racecourse, racetrack (EEUU); ( Hist) hippodrome
    * * *
    masculino (Equ, Ocio) racecourse, racetrack (AmE); (Hist) hippodrome
    * * *
    = horse racing track, horse racing grounds, racecourse, race track.
    Ex. At one time there were horse racing tracks on several of the islands but the sport died out in Hawaii by the 1950's.
    Ex. In recent years, there has been considerable investment at horse racing grounds around Scotland, transforming the sometimes run-down facilities into first class venues.
    Ex. About 38 per cent of these horses die on racecourses, while the others are destroyed as a result of training injuries, or are killed because they are no longer commercially viable.
    Ex. When people make bets at the race track, they sometimes mistakenly think they have lost and throw away their ticket.
    * * *
    masculino (Equ, Ocio) racecourse, racetrack (AmE); (Hist) hippodrome
    * * *
    = horse racing track, horse racing grounds, racecourse, race track.

    Ex: At one time there were horse racing tracks on several of the islands but the sport died out in Hawaii by the 1950's.

    Ex: In recent years, there has been considerable investment at horse racing grounds around Scotland, transforming the sometimes run-down facilities into first class venues.
    Ex: About 38 per cent of these horses die on racecourses, while the others are destroyed as a result of training injuries, or are killed because they are no longer commercially viable.
    Ex: When people make bets at the race track, they sometimes mistakenly think they have lost and throw away their ticket.

    * * *
    1 ( Equ, Ocio) racecourse, racetrack ( AmE)
    2 ( Hist) hippodrome
    * * *

    hipódromo sustantivo masculino (Equ, Ocio) racecourse, racetrack (AmE);
    (Hist) hippodrome
    hipódromo sustantivo masculino racetrack, racecourse
    ' hipódromo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    pista
    English:
    course
    - hippodrome
    - race
    - racecourse
    - racetrack
    * * *
    racecourse, racetrack
    * * *
    m racetrack
    * * *
    : racetrack
    * * *
    hipódromo n racecourse

    Spanish-English dictionary > hipódromo

  • 97 hoz

    f.
    1 sickle (tool).
    la hoz y el martillo the hammer and sickle
    2 gorge, canyon (barranco).
    3 falx.
    * * *
    1 AGRICULTURA sickle
    \
    la hoz y el martillo PLÍTICA the hammer and the sickle
    ————————
    1 GEOGRAFÍA ravine, gorge
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Agr) sickle
    2) (Geog) gorge, narrow pass, defile frm
    3)
    * * *
    femenino sickle
    * * *
    = sickle, scythe.
    Ex. This type of tree gum is obtained by making deep cuts at the base of the tree using an axe or a sickle.
    Ex. The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    ----
    * la hoz y el martillo = the hammer and sickle.
    * * *
    femenino sickle
    * * *
    = sickle, scythe.

    Ex: This type of tree gum is obtained by making deep cuts at the base of the tree using an axe or a sickle.

    Ex: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    * la hoz y el martillo = the hammer and sickle.

    * * *
    sickle
    * * *

    hoz sustantivo femenino
    sickle
    hoz sustantivo femenino
    1 Agr sickle
    2 Geography narrow pass, ravine
    ' hoz' also found in these entries:
    English:
    sickle
    * * *
    hoz nf
    1. [herramienta] sickle;
    la hoz y el martillo [símbolo] the hammer and sickle
    2. [barranco] gorge, ravine
    * * *
    f sickle
    * * *
    hoz nf, pl hoces : sickle

    Spanish-English dictionary > hoz

  • 98 inducido por el ejercicio

    Ex. Exercise-induced gastritis and gastric ulcers are common in humans and horses, and recently have been described in racing sled dogs.
    * * *

    Ex: Exercise-induced gastritis and gastric ulcers are common in humans and horses, and recently have been described in racing sled dogs.

    Spanish-English dictionary > inducido por el ejercicio

  • 99 larga puesta de sol

    Ex. The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    * * *

    Ex: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.

    Spanish-English dictionary > larga puesta de sol

  • 100 largo atardecer

    Ex. The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
    * * *

    Ex: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.

    Spanish-English dictionary > largo atardecer

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