joyful leap

mujer 1)

Ex: But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.

Ex: Properly read, live literature -- even the quietest or most light-hearted -- may be disturbing, may subvert our view of life.

Ex: 'Let folks alone and all will then be jolly'.

Ex: Maybe Juan and his merry companions would be happy to relegate us to the boiler room, or a janitor's closet!.

Ex: It's that joyful leap from one place to another that symbolises the freedom to explore on the web.

Ex: According to these librarians, prudent judgment and professional knowledge about the value of a title should never be replaced by a blithe trust in statistical data.

Ex: However, there is a gleeful bad-taste energy throughout; the film's dumb good nature is infectious, though hardly commendable.

Ex: The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.

Ex: The novel is a cheery social satire about geeky middle-aged men and their freakishly attractive, younger spouses.

Ex: This knowing sequel to the breezy glamor of 'Ocean's Eleven' provides more thieves, more heists, more twists, more locations, and more playfulness than the original.

Ex: The second thing is being good-humoured, not to get angry or pontificate or be dogmatic.

 

Del verbo alegrar: ( conjugate alegrar)

alegré es:


alegre es:




Multiple Entries:
alegrar    
alegre
alegrar ( conjugate alegrar) verbo transitivo



‹ fiesta› to liven up;
‹ habitación› to brighten up;

alegrarse verbo pronominal


se alegró muchísimo cuando lo vio she was really happy when she saw him;
¡cuánto me alegro! I'm so happy o pleased!;
está mucho mejor — me alegro she's much better — I'm glad (to hear that);
alegrese con algo to be glad o pleased about sth;
me alegro de verte it's good o nice to see you;
me alegro de que todo haya salido bien I'm glad o pleased that everything went well


alegre adjetivo

‹ color› bright;
‹fiesta/música› lively;

es muy alegre she's very cheerful, she's a very happy person

alegrar verbo transitivo
1 (contentar, satisfacer) to make happy o glad: me alegra que me haga esa pregunta, I'm glad you asked that
2 fig (animar) to enliven, brighten up
alegre adjetivo
1 (contento) happy, glad ➣ Ver nota en gay
2 (color vivo) bright
(música) lively
(habitáculo) pleasant, cheerful
3 fig (achispado, bebido) tipsy, merry
' alegre' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
excesivamente
- feliz
- gay
- pletórica
- pletórico
- viva
- vivo
- contento
- vida
English:
bright
- brighten up
- cheerful
- cheery
- festive
- gay
- glad
- gleeful
- happy
- jaunty
- jolly
- joyful
- joyous
- light-hearted
- merry
- perky
- rip-roaring
- sunny
- tipsy
- good
- light
- lively
- self

Ex: The user who is ignorant of the expansion of the abbreviations in these headings, will be happier to be able to find these headings file under their abbreviated form, than under a spelt-out version or complete version.

Ex: Vaguely blissful, but with nothing to occupy her save reflection, she sat in the cafeteria and gave herself up to the physical pleasures of coffee.

Ex: It's that joyful leap from one place to another that symbolises the freedom to explore on the web.

* desenlace feliz = success story, happy ending, happy end.

* ¡felices fiestas! = season's greetings!.

* final feliz = happy ending, happy end.

* hora feliz = happy hour.

* mundo feliz = brave new world.

 

feliz adjetivo
happy;

¡feliz cumpleaños! happy birthday!;
¡feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas!;
¡feliz Año Nuevo! Happy New Year!;
¡feliz viaje! have a good trip!
feliz adjetivo
1 (dichoso, alegre) happy
feliz cumpleaños, happy birthday
que tengas un feliz viaje, have a good trip
2 (acertado) fortunate
3 (afortunado) lucky ➣ Ver nota en gay

' feliz' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cumpleaños
- desenlace
- desocupación
- final
- gay
- infeliz
- Navidad
- alegrar
- anhelar
- contento
- desear
- dichoso
- etapa
- ser
English:
as
- birthday
- blissful
- bright
- burble
- Christmas
- end
- ending
- environment
- face
- gay
- happy
- merry
- greeting
- happily
- joyful
- joyous
- live
- make

Ex: Having made this prefatory warning, it has also to be said that many teachers successfully contrive to make reviewing an enjoyable and useful ingredient in their book and reading programs.

Ex: One time he showed me a photograph in an art book of a woman's bare breasts and said ' Nice tits, uh?'.

Ex: The library is generally an accepted, welcome and non-threatening feature of the rural scene and librarians often build up close and trusted links with their readers.

Ex: This provides the user with a pleasant outlook and gives natural light.

Ex: Obviously guiding, whether of the more fixed kind discussed above, or in the form of publications and leaflets, must be pleasantly presented.

Ex: This is not to say that the library should be cluttered with ugly signs; all notices should be carefully contrived and aesthetically pleasing.

Ex: Work in a duly ordered community should be made attractive by the consciousness of usefulness, by variety, and by being exercised amidst pleasurable surroundings.

Ex: It was a sweet, sharp, sunshiny morning in early October, and Bogardus felt good.

Ex: The ideal archivist should have advanced training in history, facilitate access to records, and provide congenial servicing conditions.

Ex: The library is generally an accepted, welcome and non-threatening feature of the rural scene and librarians often build up close and trusted links with their readers.

Ex: It's that joyful leap from one place to another that symbolises the freedom to explore on the web.

Ex: This is a likable, well-organized, and quite funny comedy that tells the story of a man who is left on a remote Scottish island on his stag night.

Ex: I never suggested that horseradish would make horse meat any more or less palatable, or that the user was unaware of the fact that Trilling, L. is in fact Trilling, Lionel.

Ex: The friendly-sounding British bobbies, created in 1829, were the first professional police force, copied by cities around the world.

Ex: After practice, however, the usually affable Jackson looked to be in a fog as he prepared to walk to his locker.

* agradable al gusto = palatable.

* de olor agradable = sweet-smelling.

* de sabor agradable = palatable.

* pasar a cosas más agradables = on a happier note.

* ser agradable de oír = be good to hear.

* ser agradable + Verbo = be neat to + Verbo.

 

agradable adjetivo ‹ persona› pleasant, nice;
‹ carácter› pleasant;
‹día/velada› enjoyable, nice;
‹sensación/efecto› pleasant, pleasing;
‹sabor/olor› pleasant, nice;

agradable adjetivo pleasant

' agradable' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bastante
- encanto
- esforzarse
- extemporánea
- extemporáneo
- fresca
- fresco
- gustosa
- gustoso
- hospitalaria
- hospitalario
- imaginar
- música
- simpática
- simpático
- suave
- trato
- vida
- bien
- bueno
- cambio
- dije
- lindo
- rico
- sabroso
English:
above
- agreeable
- change
- congenial
- convivial
- cool
- decent
- delightful
- doll
- doorman
- engaging
- enjoyable
- guy
- length
- likable
- likeable
- livable
- nice
- personable
- place
- pleasant
- pleasantly
- pleasing
- pleasurable
- company
- cozy
- easy
- friendly
- have
- make
- palatable
- sight
- sweet
[olor, sabor, película, ciudad] nice, pleasant;

Freu|den|sprung joyful leap

Del verbo ser: ( conjugate ser)

es es:


Multiple Entries:
es    
ser
es see

ser ( conjugate ser) cópula
1 ( seguido de adjetivos) to be

es sorda de nacimiento she was born deaf;
es inglés/católico he's English/(a) Catholic;
era cierto it was true;
sé bueno, estate quieto be a good boy and keep still;
que seas muy feliz I hope you'll be very happy;

(+ me/te/le etc)

ver tb imposible, difícil etc
2 ( hablando de estado civil) to be;

es viuda she's a widow;
ver tb estar 1 cópula 2
3 (seguido de nombre, pronombre) to be;

ábreme, soy yo open the door, it's me
4 (con predicado introducido por `de'):

soy de Córdoba I'm from Cordoba;
es de los vecinos it belongs to the neighbors, it's the neighbors';
no soy de aquí I'm not from around here
5 (hipótesis, futuro):

¿será cierto? can it be true?
verbo intransitivo
1



2


¿dónde fue el accidente? where did the accident happen?


¿qué es de Marisa? (fam) what's Marisa up to (these days)? (colloq);
¿qué va a ser de nosotros? what will become of us?
3 ( sumar):

son 3.000 pesos that'll be o that's 3,000 pesos;
somos diez en total there are ten of us altogether
4 (indicando finalidad, adecuación) es para algo to be for sth;

( en locs)

¿cómo es eso? why is that?, how come? (colloq);
como/cuando/donde sea: tengo que conseguir ese trabajo como sea I have to get that job no matter what;
hazlo como sea, pero hazlo do it any way o however you want but get it done;
el lunes o cuando sea next Monday or whenever;
puedo dormir en el sillón o donde sea I can sleep in the armchair or wherever you like o anywhere you like;
de ser así (frml) should this be so o the case (frml);
¡eso es! that's it!, that's right!;
es que …: ¿es que no lo saben? do you mean to say they don't know?;
es que no sé nadar the thing is I can't swim;
lo que sea: cómete una manzana, o lo que sea have an apple or something;
estoy dispuesta a hacer lo que sea I'm prepared to do whatever it takes;
o sea: en febrero, o sea hace un mes in February, that is to say a month ago;
o sea que no te interesa in other words, you're not interested;
o sea que nunca lo descubriste so you never found out;
(ya) sea …, (ya) sea … either …, or …;
sea como sea at all costs;
sea cuando sea whenever it is;
sea donde sea no matter where;
sea quien sea whoever it is;
si no fuera/hubiera sido por … if it wasn't o weren't/hadn't been for …
( en el tiempo) to be;

serían las cuatro cuando llegó it must have been (about) four (o'clock) when she arrived;
ver tb v impers
es v impers to be;

es v aux ( en la voz pasiva) to be;
fue construido en 1900 it was built in 1900
■ sustantivo masculino
1




2 ( naturaleza):

ser
I sustantivo masculino
1 being: es un ser despreciable, he's despicable
ser humano, human being
ser vivo, living being
2 (esencia) essence: eso forma parte de su ser, that is part of him
II verbo intransitivo
1 (cualidad) to be: eres muy modesto, you are very modest
2 (fecha) to be: hoy es lunes, today is Monday
ya es la una, it's one o'clock
3 (cantidad) eran unos cincuenta, there were about fifty people
(al pagar) ¿cuánto es?, how much is it?
son doscientas, it is two hundred pesetas
Mat dos y tres son cinco, two and three make five
4 (causa) aquella mujer fue su ruina, that woman was his ruin
5 (oficio) to be a(n): Elvira es enfermera, Elvira is a nurse
6 (pertenencia) esto es mío, that's mine
es de Pedro, it is Pedro's
7 (afiliación) to belong: es del partido, he's a member of the party
es un chico del curso superior, he is a boy from the higher year
8 (origen) es de Málaga, she is from Málaga
¿de dónde es esta fruta? where does this fruit come from?
9 (composición, material) to be made of: este jersey no es de lana, this sweater is not (made of) wool
10 ser de, (afinidad, comparación) lo que hizo fue de tontos, what she did was a foolish thing
11 (existir) Madrid ya no es lo que era, Madrid isn't what it used to be
12 (suceder) ¿qué fue de ella?, what became of her?
13 (tener lugar) to be: esta tarde es el entierro, the funeral is this evening 14 ser para, (finalidad) to be for: es para pelar patatas, it's for peeling potatoes
(adecuación, aptitud) no es una película para niños, the film is not suitable for children
esta vida no es para ti, this kind of life is not for you
15 (efecto) era para llorar, it was painful
es (como) para darle una bofetada, it makes me want to slap his face
no es para tomárselo a broma, it is no joke
16 (auxiliar en pasiva) to be: fuimos rescatados por la patrulla de la Cruz Roja, we were rescued by the Red Cross patrol
17 ser de (+ infinitivo) era de esperar que se marchase, it was to be expected that she would leave
♦ Locuciones: a no ser que, unless
como sea, anyhow
de no ser por..., had it not been for
es más, furthermore
es que..., it's just that...
lo que sea, whatever
o sea, that is (to say)
sea como sea, in any case o be that as it may
ser de lo que no hay, to be the limit
'es' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- abanderada
- abanderado
- abarcar
- aberración
- abertura
- abierta
- abierto
- abogada
- abogado
- abominable
- absurda
- absurdo
- abundar
- aburrida
- aburrido
- abusón
- abusona
- acabose
- acierto
- aconfesional
- acto
- actual
- actualización
- acuerdo
- además
- adictiva
- adictivo
- aferrada
- aferrado
- ahorcarse
- algo
- alma
- alquilar
- alta
- alto
- amargada
- amargado
- ámbito
- amén
- amiga
- amigo
- amueblada
- amueblado
- anacrónica
- anacrónico
- añadidura
- ancha
- ancho
- angular
English:
A
- about
- above
- above-board
- abroad
- absent
- absolutely
- absorb
- acceptable
- accurate
- acknowledge
- acoustic
- acquiesce
- acquiescent
- acting
- actual
- addicted
- address
- adequate
- admittedly
- advanced
- affair
- Afro
- against
- agent
- aggravating
- aggressive
- agreeable
- aim
- airport
- ale
- all
- allow
- altogether
- alumnus
- amazing
- amenable
- anybody
- appealing
- applicable
- approachable
- appropriate
- approximation
- apt
- Aquarius
- area
- arguable
- arguably
- Aries
- armchair

    gestiō īvī, —, īre    [2 gestus], to gesticulate, express strong feeling, leap, be transported, exult, be joyful, be delighted: sic, T.: cum laetitia gestiat: studio lavandi, V.: voluptate nimiā: otio, L.— To desire eagerly, wish passionately, be eager, thirst, long: scire ista omnia: divitum Partīs linquere, H.: ipsum gestio Dari mihi in conspectum, T.