Перевод: с испанского на все языки

со всех языков на испанский

mere

  • 121 país tercermundista

    (n.) = third world country, banana republic, mickey mouse country
    Ex. Third world countries may not be on the receiving end of access because of lack of money or education.
    Ex. One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere ' banana republic' squabble over power.
    Ex. Syria unlike Iran is a mickey mouse country in terms of military power therefore cannot take any such a risk.
    * * *
    (n.) = third world country, banana republic, mickey mouse country

    Ex: Third world countries may not be on the receiving end of access because of lack of money or education.

    Ex: One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere ' banana republic' squabble over power.
    Ex: Syria unlike Iran is a mickey mouse country in terms of military power therefore cannot take any such a risk.

    Spanish-English dictionary > país tercermundista

  • 122 pelea

    f.
    1 fight (a golpes).
    peleas callejeras street fighting
    2 row, quarrel (riña).
    3 combat, armed struggle, engagement.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: pelear.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: pelear.
    * * *
    1 (física) fight; (verbal) quarrel, row
    2 (esfuerzo) struggle
    \
    buscar pelea to look for trouble
    * * *
    noun f.
    3) row
    * * *
    SF [a golpes, patadas] fight; (=discusión, riña) quarrel, row

    gallo de pelea — fighting cock, gamecock

    * * *
    a) ( discusión) quarrel, fight (colloq), argument

    tuvimos una pelea — we quarreled o had an argument

    b) ( en sentido físico) fight
    c) ( en boxeo) fight
    * * *
    = scramble, fight, quarrel, fray, donnybrook, run-in, altercation, fighting, bickering, squabble, squabbling, brawl, rumble, fistfight, dust-up.
    Ex. Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.
    Ex. The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    Ex. The following account of a quarrel which took place in about 1540 between Thomas Platter and Balthasar Ruch comes from Platter's autobiography = El siguiente relato de la pelea que tuvo lugar alreadedor de 1540 entre Thomas Platter y Balthasar Ruch procede de la autobiografía del mismo Platter.
    Ex. The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.
    Ex. Feaver mentioned that she and Claverhouse frequently engage in some real ' donnybrooks,' as she put it, which invariably include a lot of amicable bantering, whenever they discuss anything.
    Ex. 'When you've been here a while, you'll see that it's hard to avoid run-ins with her,' Lehmann spoke up.
    Ex. Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex. The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.
    Ex. Even if the management decided to make an arbitrary decision, it would be better than the endless bickering and ad-hoc measures we are having to put up with.
    Ex. One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere 'banana republic' squabble over power.
    Ex. The DVD-RW drive has arrived but not without lots of squabbling among industry competitors.
    Ex. About 75% of all personal acts of violence (murder, assault and battery), 90% of vandalism, 75% of public brawls, & more than 50% of burglaries & thefts are alcohol-related.
    Ex. It is common practice for gang members to make sure that the police are informed of an impending rumble.
    Ex. Gone are the days of the good old fistfight, where instead of grabbing a gun, a knife or a bat to end an argument, you actually used your fist to make your point.
    Ex. The annual global dust-up over whale hunting is about to kick off again.
    ----
    * pelea a bofetadas = face-slapping.
    * pelea a muerte = fight to death.
    * pelea a puñetazos = fistfight.
    * pelea de almohadas = pillow fight.
    * pelea de boxeo = prize fight, boxing match.
    * pelea de perros = dogfight [dog fight].
    * pelea hasta la muerte = fight to death.
    * separar una pelea = break up + fight.
    * * *
    a) ( discusión) quarrel, fight (colloq), argument

    tuvimos una pelea — we quarreled o had an argument

    b) ( en sentido físico) fight
    c) ( en boxeo) fight
    * * *
    = scramble, fight, quarrel, fray, donnybrook, run-in, altercation, fighting, bickering, squabble, squabbling, brawl, rumble, fistfight, dust-up.

    Ex: Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.

    Ex: The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    Ex: The following account of a quarrel which took place in about 1540 between Thomas Platter and Balthasar Ruch comes from Platter's autobiography = El siguiente relato de la pelea que tuvo lugar alreadedor de 1540 entre Thomas Platter y Balthasar Ruch procede de la autobiografía del mismo Platter.
    Ex: The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.
    Ex: Feaver mentioned that she and Claverhouse frequently engage in some real ' donnybrooks,' as she put it, which invariably include a lot of amicable bantering, whenever they discuss anything.
    Ex: 'When you've been here a while, you'll see that it's hard to avoid run-ins with her,' Lehmann spoke up.
    Ex: Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex: The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.
    Ex: Even if the management decided to make an arbitrary decision, it would be better than the endless bickering and ad-hoc measures we are having to put up with.
    Ex: One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere 'banana republic' squabble over power.
    Ex: The DVD-RW drive has arrived but not without lots of squabbling among industry competitors.
    Ex: About 75% of all personal acts of violence (murder, assault and battery), 90% of vandalism, 75% of public brawls, & more than 50% of burglaries & thefts are alcohol-related.
    Ex: It is common practice for gang members to make sure that the police are informed of an impending rumble.
    Ex: Gone are the days of the good old fistfight, where instead of grabbing a gun, a knife or a bat to end an argument, you actually used your fist to make your point.
    Ex: The annual global dust-up over whale hunting is about to kick off again.
    * pelea a bofetadas = face-slapping.
    * pelea a muerte = fight to death.
    * pelea a puñetazos = fistfight.
    * pelea de almohadas = pillow fight.
    * pelea de boxeo = prize fight, boxing match.
    * pelea de perros = dogfight [dog fight].
    * pelea hasta la muerte = fight to death.
    * separar una pelea = break up + fight.

    * * *
    1 (riña, discusión) quarrel, fight ( colloq), argument
    anda siempre buscando pelea he's always trying to pick a quarrel o fight, he's always looking for an argument
    es ella la que siempre está armando pelea she's the one who always starts the fights
    tuvimos una pelea we quarreled o had an argument
    ni en pelea de perros ( Chi fam); never in one's life
    3 (en boxeo) fight
    Compuesto:
    (literal) cockfight; (discusión acalorada) shouting match
    * * *

    Del verbo pelear: ( conjugate pelear)

    pelea es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    pelea    
    pelear
    pelea sustantivo femenino
    a) ( discusión) quarrel, fight (colloq), argument;

    ◊ buscar pelea to try to pick a quarrel o fight;

    tuvimos una pelea we quarreled o had an argument


    pelear ( conjugate pelear) verbo intransitivo

    ◊ peleaon por una tontería they quarreled o (colloq) had a fight over a silly little thing


    ( terminar) to break up, split up

    pelea por algo to fight over sth
    pelearse verbo pronominal

    ( pegarse) to fight;
    pelease por algo to quarrel/fight over sth

    ( terminar) to break up, split up
    pelea sustantivo femenino
    1 (lucha) fight
    2 (discusión) row, quarrel: siempre está buscando pelea, he's always trying to pick a quarrel
    pelear verbo intransitivo
    1 (luchar) to fight
    2 (discutir) to quarrel, argue
    3 (esforzarse por algo) to work hard
    ' pelea' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bronca
    - callejera
    - callejero
    - contienda
    - deslucir
    - disputa
    - gallera
    - gallero
    - gallo
    - gresca
    - lance
    - reñida
    - reñido
    - riña
    - tomo
    - trapisonda
    - amañar
    - andar
    - armar
    - bochinche
    - interponerse
    - intervenir
    - lucha
    - parado
    - peleador
    - rendir
    - tongo
    English:
    aggro
    - argument
    - bang
    - bust-up
    - culminate
    - fight
    - fistfight
    - pick
    - punch-up
    - rough-and-tumble
    - roughhouse
    - row
    - run-in
    - scrap
    - spoil for
    - struggle
    - tussle
    - work up to
    - brawl
    - bust
    - ensue
    - falling
    - fist
    - quarrel
    - spoil
    * * *
    pelea nf
    1. [a golpes] fight;
    una pelea cuerpo a cuerpo a hand-to-hand fight
    2. [discusión] row, quarrel
    3. [combate] fight;
    una pelea de gallos a cockfight
    * * *
    f fight
    * * *
    pelea nf
    1) lucha: fight
    2) : quarrel
    * * *
    1. (lucha) fight
    2. (riña) quarrel / row

    Spanish-English dictionary > pelea

  • 123 perder el culo

    (v.) = go into + raptures
    Ex. Most of my friends live in the city, yet they always go into raptures at the mere mention of the country.
    * * *
    (v.) = go into + raptures

    Ex: Most of my friends live in the city, yet they always go into raptures at the mere mention of the country.

    Spanish-English dictionary > perder el culo

  • 124 perito de extensión agraria

    Ex. The specific task and function of the agricultural extension worker are identified as being more than those of a mere information intermediary.
    * * *

    Ex: The specific task and function of the agricultural extension worker are identified as being more than those of a mere information intermediary.

    Spanish-English dictionary > perito de extensión agraria

  • 125 persona que nunca se deshace de nada

    (n.) = packrat, hoarder, magpie
    Ex. In broad terms, lack of weeding was associated with fear, inertia, and a ' packrat mentality,' causing one librarian to remark that it is 'time to weed librarians who don't want to weed'.
    Ex. Hoarders may become anxious and angry at the mere suggestion of getting rid of items that they've held onto for years.
    Ex. Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.
    * * *
    (n.) = packrat, hoarder, magpie

    Ex: In broad terms, lack of weeding was associated with fear, inertia, and a ' packrat mentality,' causing one librarian to remark that it is 'time to weed librarians who don't want to weed'.

    Ex: Hoarders may become anxious and angry at the mere suggestion of getting rid of items that they've held onto for years.
    Ex: Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.

    Spanish-English dictionary > persona que nunca se deshace de nada

  • 126 personal técnico

    m.
    technical staff.
    * * *
    Ex. But unless technical staff want to remain in a servant role as mere tool jockeys, they must complete the evolution from craftsperson to professional.
    * * *

    Ex: But unless technical staff want to remain in a servant role as mere tool jockeys, they must complete the evolution from craftsperson to professional.

    Spanish-English dictionary > personal técnico

  • 127 perversidad

    f.
    1 wickedness.
    2 perversity, evilness, meanness, obliquity.
    3 perverse action, evil deed, perverse act, perverse deed.
    * * *
    1 (maldad) wickedness
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=cualidad) [de depravado] depravity; [de malvado] wickedness
    2) (=acto) evil deed
    * * *
    femenino ( depravación) depravity; ( maldad) wickedness
    * * *
    = perversity, viciousness, wickedness, iniquity, maliciousness.
    Ex. Deliberately to pay less attention to a query because it comes from the mayor of the city, or the chairman of the company, or the vice-chancellor of the university, would betray a perversity foreign to the normal well-adjusted librarian.
    Ex. She said they've tolerated his moods, his viciousness -- everything else -- but that this was the last straw.
    Ex. With the right ingredients put together so that virtue triumphs and wickedness is punished a very satisfying story can be produced.
    Ex. To redress this iniquity women are demanding not only equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.
    Ex. Never attribute to maliciousness that which can adequately be explained by mere stupidity.
    * * *
    femenino ( depravación) depravity; ( maldad) wickedness
    * * *
    = perversity, viciousness, wickedness, iniquity, maliciousness.

    Ex: Deliberately to pay less attention to a query because it comes from the mayor of the city, or the chairman of the company, or the vice-chancellor of the university, would betray a perversity foreign to the normal well-adjusted librarian.

    Ex: She said they've tolerated his moods, his viciousness -- everything else -- but that this was the last straw.
    Ex: With the right ingredients put together so that virtue triumphs and wickedness is punished a very satisfying story can be produced.
    Ex: To redress this iniquity women are demanding not only equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.
    Ex: Never attribute to maliciousness that which can adequately be explained by mere stupidity.

    * * *
    depravity
    la perversidad de los torturadores the depravity o evil cruelty of the torturers
    la perversidad de la madrastra en los cuentos the wickedness of the stepmother in fairytales
    * * *
    wickedness
    * * *
    f wickedness, evil
    * * *
    : perversity, depravity

    Spanish-English dictionary > perversidad

  • 128 peón

    m.
    1 unskilled laborer, labourer, laborer, day laborer.
    2 pawn, chess pawn.
    3 farm-hand, ranch hand.
    4 top, spinning top.
    5 mine prop.
    * * *
    1 (trabajador) unskilled labourer (US laborer)
    2 (agrícola) farm hand, farm worker
    4 (peonza) top, spinning top
    \
    peón caminero road mender
    peón de albañil building labourer (US laborer)
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Téc) labourer, laborer (EEUU); esp LAm (Agr) farm labourer, farmhand; (Taur) assistant; Méx (=aprendiz) apprentice; (=ayudante) assistant

    peón caminero — navvy, roadmender

    2) (Ajedrez) pawn
    3) (Mil, Hist) infantryman, foot-soldier
    4) (=peonza) spinning top
    5) (Mec) spindle, shaft
    * * *
    1) (Const) laborer*; (Agr) (esp AmL) agricultural laborer*, farm worker
    2) ( en ajedrez) pawn; ( en damas) piece, checker (AmE), draughtsman (BrE)
    * * *
    = hand, farm worker, labourer [laborer, -USA], jockey, pawn, farmworker [farm worker], farm-hand, farm labourer, harvest hand.
    Ex. The clicker paid each man according to what he had set, keeping for himself a share equal to that of the most productive hand.
    Ex. In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
    Ex. Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex. But unless technical staff want to remain in a servant role as mere tool jockeys, they must complete the evolution from craftsperson to professional.
    Ex. The protagonist becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal.
    Ex. School librarians regularly visit farmworkers' labour camps to help with the literacy needs of migrant children.
    Ex. The agricultural labourer receiving payment in kind was a married farm-hand with a one-year contract and whose wife had the duty to milk the cows morning and night.
    Ex. Despite these hardships, farm laborers enjoy their work since they like to be outdoors near plants and animals.
    Ex. So thousands of harvest hands come and go every year like birds of passage.
    ----
    * peón agrícola = farm labourer, farm worker.
    * peón caminero = road worker.
    * * *
    1) (Const) laborer*; (Agr) (esp AmL) agricultural laborer*, farm worker
    2) ( en ajedrez) pawn; ( en damas) piece, checker (AmE), draughtsman (BrE)
    * * *
    = hand, farm worker, labourer [laborer, -USA], jockey, pawn, farmworker [farm worker], farm-hand, farm labourer, harvest hand.

    Ex: The clicker paid each man according to what he had set, keeping for himself a share equal to that of the most productive hand.

    Ex: In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
    Ex: Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex: But unless technical staff want to remain in a servant role as mere tool jockeys, they must complete the evolution from craftsperson to professional.
    Ex: The protagonist becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal.
    Ex: School librarians regularly visit farmworkers' labour camps to help with the literacy needs of migrant children.
    Ex: The agricultural labourer receiving payment in kind was a married farm-hand with a one-year contract and whose wife had the duty to milk the cows morning and night.
    Ex: Despite these hardships, farm laborers enjoy their work since they like to be outdoors near plants and animals.
    Ex: So thousands of harvest hands come and go every year like birds of passage.
    * peón agrícola = farm labourer, farm worker.
    * peón caminero = road worker.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Const) laborer*
    2 ( esp AmL) ( Agr) agricultural laborer*, farm worker, ranch hand
    Compuestos:
    (bricklayer's) laborer*, building laborer*
    road worker, roadmender, navvy ( BrE colloq)
    bullfighter's assistant ( who draws the bull to the picador)
    B ( Jueg)
    1 (en ajedrez) pawn; (en damas) piece, checker ( AmE), draughtsman ( BrE)
    2 (trompo) spinning top
    * * *

    peón sustantivo masculino
    1 (Const) laborer( conjugate laborer);
    (Agr) (esp AmL) agricultural laborer( conjugate laborer), farm worker;
    ◊ peón albañil (building) laborer( conjugate laborer);

    peón caminero road worker
    2 ( en ajedrez) pawn;
    ( en damas) piece, checker (AmE), draughtsman (BrE)
    peón sustantivo masculino
    1 unskilled labourer o US laborer
    2 Ajedrez pawn
    ' peón' also found in these entries:
    English:
    farmhand
    - labourer
    - pawn
    - farm
    - hand
    - laborer
    * * *
    peón nm
    1. [obrero] unskilled labourer
    Taurom peón de brega bullfighter's assistant;
    peón caminero roadworker, Br navvy
    2. [en granja] farmhand, farm worker
    3. [en ajedrez] pawn
    4. [peonza] (spinning) top
    * * *
    m
    1 en ajedrez pawn
    2 trabajador laborer, Br
    labourer
    * * *
    peón nm, pl peones
    1) : laborer, peon
    2) : pawn (in chess)
    * * *
    1. (obrero) labourer
    2. (en ajedrez) pawn

    Spanish-English dictionary > peón

Страницы

См. также в других словарях:

  • mère — mère …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • mère — 1. (mè r ; Chiflet, Gramm. p. 190, au XVIIe siècle, dit qu on prononce mére) s. f. 1°   Femme qui a mis un enfant au monde. •   Que ne peut point un fils sur le coeur d une mère !, CORN. Rodog. IV, 4. •   Comme un enfant que sa mère arrache d… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Mere — Mere …   Wikipédia en Français

  • mere — mere·ly; mere·stone; meso·mere; meta·mere; mi·cro·mere; my·e·lo·mere; my·o·mere; neph·ro·mere; neu·ro·mere; opis·tho·mere; par·a·mere; phal·lo·mere; plas·to·mere; pod·o·mere; pros·tho·mere; rhab·do·mere; sar·co·mere; scle·ro·mere; tar·so·mere;… …   English syllables

  • mere — Mere, f. penac. Est celle qui nous a conceuz et enfantez, Mater, Genitrix. La mere de ma femme, Ma belle mere, Socrus. La mere grand de ma femme, Maior socrus. Ma mere grand, Auia. La mere grand de nostre pere grand, ou mere grand, Abauia. Je… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Mere — may refer to: Mere (lake), a lake that is broad in relation to its depth Mere (weapon), a Māori war club Mere (live album) by Norwegian rock band deLillos Ain Ervin Mere (1903–1969), Estonian war criminal Places Mere, Cheshire, England Mere,… …   Wikipedia

  • -mère — ♦ Élément, du gr. meros « partie » : centromère, métamère, polymère. mère, mérie, méro . éléments, du grec meros, partie . I. ⇒ MÈRE1, MÉRIE1, élém. formant I. mère, élém. tiré du gr. , de «partie», entrant dans la constr. de mots sav.,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • MÉRÉ (A. de) — MÉRÉ ANTOINE GOMBAUD chevalier de (1607 1684) Il y a aujourd’hui trois facettes du personnage d’Antoine Gombaud, chevalier de Méré, qui méritent de retenir l’attention: l’«honnête homme», l’interlocuteur de Pascal, l’écrivain. Il est certain que …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Mere — (m[=e]r), a. [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. [1913 Webster] Then entered they the mere, main sea. Chapman. [1913 Webster] The sorrows of this world would be …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Meré —   Parish   Country Spain Autonomous community Asturias Province Asturias Municipality …   Wikipedia

  • Mere — (m[=e]r), n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor, Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное

Прямая ссылка:
… Нажмите правой клавишей мыши и выберите «Копировать ссылку»