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  • 61 creído

    adj.
    vain, arrogant, self-satisfied, conceited.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: creer.
    * * *
    1→ link=creer creer
    1 arrogant, vain, conceited
    \
    ser un creído,-a to be full of oneself
    * * *
    creído, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=engreído) conceited
    2) (=crédulo) credulous, trusting
    2.
    SM / F
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [ser] ( engreído) conceited
    b) [ser] (Arg) ( crédulo) gullible
    * * *
    = conceited, stuck-up, cocky [cockier -comp., cockiest -sup.], hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], cocksure, supercilious, big-headed.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex. Bold, ambitious and in-your-face I've always considered them to be just too cocky by half.
    Ex. Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex. A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    Ex. I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [ser] ( engreído) conceited
    b) [ser] (Arg) ( crédulo) gullible
    * * *
    = conceited, stuck-up, cocky [cockier -comp., cockiest -sup.], hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], cocksure, supercilious, big-headed.

    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.

    Ex: library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex: Bold, ambitious and in-your-face I've always considered them to be just too cocky by half.
    Ex: Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex: The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex: A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    Ex: I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.

    * * *
    creído -da
    1 [ SER] (engreído) conceited
    2 [ ESTAR]
    (confiado, convencido): está creído (de) que va a ganar he's convinced o quite sure he's going to win, he's very confident of victory
    3 [ SER] ( Arg) (crédulo) gullible
    * * *

    Del verbo creer: ( conjugate creer)

    creído es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    creer    
    creído
    creer ( conjugate creer) verbo intransitivo
    a) (tener fe, aceptar como verdad) to believe;

    creído en algo/algn to believe in sth/sb;
    ◊ ¿me crees? do you believe me?

    b) (pensar, juzgar) to think;

    ◊ ¿tú crees? do you think so?;

    no creo I don't think so;
    no creas, es bastante difícil believe me, it's quite hard
    verbo transitivo


    aunque no lo creas believe it or not;
    ¡no lo puedo creído! I don't believe it!;
    ¡ya lo creo! of course!
    b) (pensar, juzgar) to think;

    ◊ creo que sí/creo que no I think so/I don't think so;

    creo que va a llover I think it's going to rain;
    no la creo capaz I do not think she is capable;
    se cree que el incendio fue provocado the fire is thought to have been started deliberately;
    no lo creí necesario I didn't think it necessary;
    no creo que pueda ir I doubt if o I don't think I'll be able to go;
    creí oír un ruido I thought I heard a noise;
    creo recordar que … I seem to remember that …
    creerse verbo pronominal




    ¿quién se creídoá que es? who does he think he is?
    c) (CS fam) ( estimarse superior) to think one is special (o great etc)

    d) (Méx) ( fiarse) creídose de algn to trust sb

    creído
    ◊ -da adjetivo [ser] ( engreído) conceited

    creer
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (suponer) to think: ¿crees que está implicado?, do you think he's involved?
    creo que sí/no, I think so/don't think so
    ya lo creo, of course
    2 (tener fe, confianza) to believe: créeme, believe me
    te creo, I believe you
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 Rel to believe [en, in]
    cree en los marcianos, he believes in Martians
    2 (tener confianza) to trust: mi padre cree en mí, my father trusts me
    creído,-a
    I adjetivo arrogant, vain, conceited
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino big head

    ' creído' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    creerse
    - creída
    - pero
    English:
    bighead
    - bigheaded
    - cocksure
    - never
    - stuck-up
    - big
    * * *
    creído, -a Fam
    ♦ adj
    conceited;
    se lo tiene muy creído he's very full of himself, Br he really fancies himself
    ♦ nm,f
    es un creído he's a bighead
    * * *
    I part → creer
    II adj conceited
    * * *
    creído, -da adj
    1) fam : conceited
    2) : confident, sure
    * * *
    creído adj cocky

    Spanish-English dictionary > creído

  • 62 de acuerdo con

    in accordance with
    * * *
    * * *
    = according to, as far as + Nombre + be + concerned, consistent with, in harmony with, in accordance with, in concert with, in keeping with, in line with, in step with, in tune with, by, pursuant to, in concurrence with, based on, in agreement with, as far as + Sujeto + Verbo, in consonance with, in accord with, judging by, to judge by, in conformity with, in + Posesivo + view, judging from
    Ex. The headings will be arranged according to the filing sequence of the notation (for example, alphabetically for letters or numerically for numbers).
    Ex. As far as users are concerned, standardisation of command languages for different hosts is a highly desirable.
    Ex. If these two questions are considered the choice of titles will be consistent with the choice of author headings.
    Ex. It is argued that the research community is missing an opportunity to design systems that are in better harmony with the actual preferences of many users.
    Ex. The scheme remains discipline oriented, but each class is developed in accordance with strict application of analytico-synthetic principles.
    Ex. AGRIS is an international information system (akin to AGREP) for the agricultural sciences, compiled by the Commission in concert with member states, management of which is in the hands of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
    Ex. This revised chapter modified the code in keeping with the recently agreed ISBD(M), and proposed a slightly different description for monographs.
    Ex. Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco, as the first of Mexico's 31 states, has achieved full library coverage in line with the Programa Nacional de Bibliotecas Publicas.
    Ex. The challenge to the information professional is to integrate the use of information into the fabric of society, in step with the realization that information flow is the lifeline of modern democracies.
    Ex. There was a hard core of dedicated, British-trained librarians who practised their profession in tune with the social, economic and political situation of their time.
    Ex. The name to be chosen for the author must be, by rule 40, 'the name by which he is commonly identified, whether it is his real name, or an assumed name, nickname, title of nobility, or other appellation'.
    Ex. This approach involves the establishment and communication of organizational goals, the setting of individual objectives pursuant to the organizational goals, and the periodic and then final review of performance as it relates to the objectives.
    Ex. In concurrence with the advent of what Anthony Oettinger called 'compunications', the fusion of computing and communication, we need to develop a new vision of a future for national libraries.
    Ex. Libraries will make judgements based on criteria such as better information resources, quicker answers, and more cost-effective services = Las bibliotecas tomarán decisiones de acuerdo con criterios tales como mejores recursos informativos, rapidez de respuesta y servicios más rentables.
    Ex. The findings of this study were in agreement with most similar studies of the journal literature of the humanities with one important exception.
    Ex. As far as he knew (and he had been with the library 37 years) subsequent boards had not changed the rule.
    Ex. New modes may emerge in the future in consonance with new research trends and changing social needs.
    Ex. In accord with much existing literature, results indicate that a large part of the gender pay gap is unexplained, even when a wide range of variables are included.
    Ex. The number of titles is expected to double within a relatively short period, judging by the enthusiasm expressed by the publishers.
    Ex. To judge by some of the comments presented here, weeding may function as a homogenizing agent in many public libraries, creating a situation where the product lines (books) offered show little variation from library to library.
    Ex. The public library is not exempt from this rule, and in conformity with it this report has been prepared to offer a detailed answer to the challenge of the public.
    Ex. In her view, it is high time for the plays by this versatile and prolific dramatist to begin elbowing their way into the American repertoire.
    Ex. Judging from the history of warfare and skirmish between the British and the French, I am surprised you are so civil towards each other.
    * * *
    = according to, as far as + Nombre + be + concerned, consistent with, in harmony with, in accordance with, in concert with, in keeping with, in line with, in step with, in tune with, by, pursuant to, in concurrence with, based on, in agreement with, as far as + Sujeto + Verbo, in consonance with, in accord with, judging by, to judge by, in conformity with, in + Posesivo + view, judging from

    Ex: The headings will be arranged according to the filing sequence of the notation (for example, alphabetically for letters or numerically for numbers).

    Ex: As far as users are concerned, standardisation of command languages for different hosts is a highly desirable.
    Ex: If these two questions are considered the choice of titles will be consistent with the choice of author headings.
    Ex: It is argued that the research community is missing an opportunity to design systems that are in better harmony with the actual preferences of many users.
    Ex: The scheme remains discipline oriented, but each class is developed in accordance with strict application of analytico-synthetic principles.
    Ex: AGRIS is an international information system (akin to AGREP) for the agricultural sciences, compiled by the Commission in concert with member states, management of which is in the hands of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
    Ex: This revised chapter modified the code in keeping with the recently agreed ISBD(M), and proposed a slightly different description for monographs.
    Ex: Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco, as the first of Mexico's 31 states, has achieved full library coverage in line with the Programa Nacional de Bibliotecas Publicas.
    Ex: The challenge to the information professional is to integrate the use of information into the fabric of society, in step with the realization that information flow is the lifeline of modern democracies.
    Ex: There was a hard core of dedicated, British-trained librarians who practised their profession in tune with the social, economic and political situation of their time.
    Ex: The name to be chosen for the author must be, by rule 40, 'the name by which he is commonly identified, whether it is his real name, or an assumed name, nickname, title of nobility, or other appellation'.
    Ex: This approach involves the establishment and communication of organizational goals, the setting of individual objectives pursuant to the organizational goals, and the periodic and then final review of performance as it relates to the objectives.
    Ex: In concurrence with the advent of what Anthony Oettinger called 'compunications', the fusion of computing and communication, we need to develop a new vision of a future for national libraries.
    Ex: Libraries will make judgements based on criteria such as better information resources, quicker answers, and more cost-effective services = Las bibliotecas tomarán decisiones de acuerdo con criterios tales como mejores recursos informativos, rapidez de respuesta y servicios más rentables.
    Ex: The findings of this study were in agreement with most similar studies of the journal literature of the humanities with one important exception.
    Ex: As far as he knew (and he had been with the library 37 years) subsequent boards had not changed the rule.
    Ex: New modes may emerge in the future in consonance with new research trends and changing social needs.
    Ex: In accord with much existing literature, results indicate that a large part of the gender pay gap is unexplained, even when a wide range of variables are included.
    Ex: The number of titles is expected to double within a relatively short period, judging by the enthusiasm expressed by the publishers.
    Ex: To judge by some of the comments presented here, weeding may function as a homogenizing agent in many public libraries, creating a situation where the product lines (books) offered show little variation from library to library.
    Ex: The public library is not exempt from this rule, and in conformity with it this report has been prepared to offer a detailed answer to the challenge of the public.
    Ex: In her view, it is high time for the plays by this versatile and prolific dramatist to begin elbowing their way into the American repertoire.
    Ex: Judging from the history of warfare and skirmish between the British and the French, I am surprised you are so civil towards each other.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de acuerdo con

  • 63 equivocarse

    1 to make a mistake, be mistaken, be wrong (de dirección, camino etc) to go wrong, get wrong
    * * *
    to make a mistake, be wrong
    * * *
    VPR (=no tener razón) to be wrong, be mistaken; (=cometer un error) to make a mistake

    te equivocas, eso no es así — you're wrong o mistaken, it isn't like that

    si crees que voy a dejarte ir, te equivocas — if you think I'm going to let you go, you're wrong o mistaken

    • equivocarse con algn — to be wrong about sb

    la consideraba honesta, pero me equivoqué con ella — I thought she was honest, but I was wrong about her

    • equivocarse de algo, nos equivocamos de hora y llegamos tarde — we got the time wrong, and we arrived late

    perdone, me he equivocado de número — sorry, (I've got the) wrong number

    * * *
    (v.) = commit + error, err, mistake, make + error, bark up + the wrong tree, get + it + (all) wrong, slip up
    Ex. Let us perform a simple thought experiment: assume that a cataloger has committed a simple transposition error and transcribed YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER as YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.
    Ex. Wherein had she erred? Try as she might she could think of nothing.
    Ex. A flat 'no' to a question such as 'Is this book recommended for Professor Shaw's course?' leaves uncertainty as to whether one was mistaken in the professor or in the suggestion that it was for a course.
    Ex. This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
    Ex. The article ' Barking up the wrong tree' argues that the belief, by many book publishers, that they can use the Internet to bypass booksellers and sell their books direct to purchasers, is fallacious.
    Ex. There are risks in assuming that the enquirer has got it all wrong.
    Ex. He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.
    * * *
    (v.) = commit + error, err, mistake, make + error, bark up + the wrong tree, get + it + (all) wrong, slip up

    Ex: Let us perform a simple thought experiment: assume that a cataloger has committed a simple transposition error and transcribed YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER as YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.

    Ex: Wherein had she erred? Try as she might she could think of nothing.
    Ex: A flat 'no' to a question such as 'Is this book recommended for Professor Shaw's course?' leaves uncertainty as to whether one was mistaken in the professor or in the suggestion that it was for a course.
    Ex: This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
    Ex: The article ' Barking up the wrong tree' argues that the belief, by many book publishers, that they can use the Internet to bypass booksellers and sell their books direct to purchasers, is fallacious.
    Ex: There are risks in assuming that the enquirer has got it all wrong.
    Ex: He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.

    * * *

     

    ■equivocarse verbo reflexivo
    1 (confundirse, errar) to make a mistake: me equivoqué de calle, I took the wrong street
    te equivocas de persona, you've got the wrong person
    2 (estar en un error) to be mistaken: te equivocas, you are mistaken
    no te equivocas, you are right
    ' equivocarse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    despistarse
    - patinar
    - resbalar
    - confundir
    - equivocar
    - tiro
    English:
    astray
    - blunder
    - flub
    - fluff
    - goof
    - misdiagnose
    - mistake
    - trial
    - wrong
    - err
    - safely
    - slip
    * * *
    vpr
    [estar en un error] to be wrong; [cometer un error] to make a mistake;
    yo creo que te equivocas I think you're mistaken;
    te equivocas si crees que me voy a asustar you're mistaken if you think you're going to frighten me;
    se equivocó al girar she took the wrong turning;
    te equivocas con tu profesor, no es tan mala persona you're wrong about your teacher, he's not such a bad person;
    se equivocó de nombre/puerta he got the wrong name/door;
    equivocarse de fecha/día to get the date/day wrong;
    te equivocaste de profesión, deberías haber sido actor you're in the wrong profession, you should have been an actor;
    equivocarse en algo to make a mistake in sth;
    ¿en qué nos equivocamos con él? where did we go wrong with him?;
    se equivocó en la suma she got the total wrong
    * * *
    v/r make a mistake;
    te has equivocado you are wrong o mistaken;
    equivocarse de número TELEC get the wrong number;
    equivocarse de camino take the wrong road;
    si no me equivoco if I’m not mistaken
    * * *
    vr
    : to make a mistake, to be wrong
    * * *
    1. (confundirse) to be wrong / to make a mistake
    2. (de camino, dirección, etc) to go wrong / to get wrong

    Spanish-English dictionary > equivocarse

  • 64 esforzarse al máximo

    (v.) = do + Posesivo + utmost, stretch + Reflexivo, stretch + Nombre + to the limit, give + Posesivo + utmost, lean over + backwards, work + hard, give + Posesivo + best
    Ex. But all of them did their utmost and knew that their position was a key one within the school.
    Ex. She told him that these management techniques seemed to her designed to harness people to treadmills, to make them slaves to their schedules, and to convert them into employees crippled by anxiety, stretching themselves incessantly against unrealistic goals.
    Ex. All agencies, it was found, were stretched to the limit, but by pooling resources these might be made to go further.
    Ex. Many Swiss colleagues are giving their utmost, after all preparatory meetings, to make a grand final.
    Ex. In his commentary, Briggs leans over backwards to avoid all but the barest possible mention of the darker side of the complex relationship between occupiers and occupied.
    Ex. Not only are the standards written, but there is a body called the Peer Council which works very hard at enforcing the standards.
    Ex. This year's football tournament was held on a very hot afternoon and all the teams gave their best despite the heat.
    * * *
    (v.) = do + Posesivo + utmost, stretch + Reflexivo, stretch + Nombre + to the limit, give + Posesivo + utmost, lean over + backwards, work + hard, give + Posesivo + best

    Ex: But all of them did their utmost and knew that their position was a key one within the school.

    Ex: She told him that these management techniques seemed to her designed to harness people to treadmills, to make them slaves to their schedules, and to convert them into employees crippled by anxiety, stretching themselves incessantly against unrealistic goals.
    Ex: All agencies, it was found, were stretched to the limit, but by pooling resources these might be made to go further.
    Ex: Many Swiss colleagues are giving their utmost, after all preparatory meetings, to make a grand final.
    Ex: In his commentary, Briggs leans over backwards to avoid all but the barest possible mention of the darker side of the complex relationship between occupiers and occupied.
    Ex: Not only are the standards written, but there is a body called the Peer Council which works very hard at enforcing the standards.
    Ex: This year's football tournament was held on a very hot afternoon and all the teams gave their best despite the heat.

    Spanish-English dictionary > esforzarse al máximo

  • 65 estímulo

    m.
    1 encouragement, drive, boost, incentive.
    2 incentive, inducement.
    * * *
    1 stimulus, stimulation
    2 figurado encouragement
    3 COMERCIO incentive
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Psic) stimulus
    2) (=incentivo) incentive
    * * *
    a) ( incentivo) encouragement

    sirve de estímulo a la inversión — it acts as an incentive to investment, it encourages investment

    b) (Biol, Fisiol) stimulus
    * * *
    = boost, incentive, leaven, prodding, spur, stimulation, stimulus [stimuli, -pl.], encouragement, enhancer, facilitator, prod, kick-start [kickstart], kick-start [kickstart], word of encouragement, nudge, titillation, driving force, stimulant, pick-me-up.
    Ex. Consequently, Leforte came to expect -- perhaps even take for granted -- the periodic boosts of ego and income that the evaluations provided.
    Ex. This article considers the strengths of a pay scale as a work incentive.
    Ex. But the leaven of the principles, promulgated by the International Federation, has not yet penetrated into more than half the lump of documentary material.
    Ex. Computers are quite adroit at such simple yes/no response without much prodding.
    Ex. This was a spur to several other London boroughs who set up shop-front consumer advice centres from 1972.
    Ex. The reader of this work can relive with some degree of verisimilitude the excitement and stimulation created by these institutes and such colloquies as the Kilgour-Lubetzky exchange.
    Ex. This was not intended as a criticism of their hard working colleagues but simply as an admission that they needed additional support and stimulus.
    Ex. Nevertheless my debts are real, and I particularly want to thank David Foxon for his illuminating commentary on the final sections, and D. F. McKenzie for his encouragement throughout.
    Ex. The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.
    Ex. Information technology may have acted as a catalyst or facilitator for some of the changes which have occurred.
    Ex. She sat back in her chair and considered her supervisor's gentle prods.
    Ex. That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
    Ex. That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
    Ex. This he knew happens to employees who are not given a word of encouragement, some recognition.
    Ex. Results showed that student teachers needed additional support, either via nudge or overt expectations, to actually apply what they had learned.
    Ex. At heart, it is a smirkingly adolescent pursuit of cheap laughs and mild titillation, with a surfeit of jokes involving breasts and bums and with new extremes of scatological humiliation.
    Ex. On-line services have been one of the most powerful driving forces moving information away from its traditional definition and towards the commodity view.
    Ex. The system consequently retrieves any record in which the term ' stimulants' appears.
    Ex. Maybe it's just a passing mood or maybe it's a particularly bad string of events, but sometimes in this hectic life we just need a pick-me-up.
    ----
    * dar estímulo = provide + boost.
    * estímulo excesivo = overstimulation.
    * estímulos visuales = visual stimuli.
    * ofrecer estímulo = provide + stimulus.
    * ser un estímulo = be motivating.
    * * *
    a) ( incentivo) encouragement

    sirve de estímulo a la inversión — it acts as an incentive to investment, it encourages investment

    b) (Biol, Fisiol) stimulus
    * * *
    = boost, incentive, leaven, prodding, spur, stimulation, stimulus [stimuli, -pl.], encouragement, enhancer, facilitator, prod, kick-start [kickstart], kick-start [kickstart], word of encouragement, nudge, titillation, driving force, stimulant, pick-me-up.

    Ex: Consequently, Leforte came to expect -- perhaps even take for granted -- the periodic boosts of ego and income that the evaluations provided.

    Ex: This article considers the strengths of a pay scale as a work incentive.
    Ex: But the leaven of the principles, promulgated by the International Federation, has not yet penetrated into more than half the lump of documentary material.
    Ex: Computers are quite adroit at such simple yes/no response without much prodding.
    Ex: This was a spur to several other London boroughs who set up shop-front consumer advice centres from 1972.
    Ex: The reader of this work can relive with some degree of verisimilitude the excitement and stimulation created by these institutes and such colloquies as the Kilgour-Lubetzky exchange.
    Ex: This was not intended as a criticism of their hard working colleagues but simply as an admission that they needed additional support and stimulus.
    Ex: Nevertheless my debts are real, and I particularly want to thank David Foxon for his illuminating commentary on the final sections, and D. F. McKenzie for his encouragement throughout.
    Ex: The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.
    Ex: Information technology may have acted as a catalyst or facilitator for some of the changes which have occurred.
    Ex: She sat back in her chair and considered her supervisor's gentle prods.
    Ex: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
    Ex: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
    Ex: This he knew happens to employees who are not given a word of encouragement, some recognition.
    Ex: Results showed that student teachers needed additional support, either via nudge or overt expectations, to actually apply what they had learned.
    Ex: At heart, it is a smirkingly adolescent pursuit of cheap laughs and mild titillation, with a surfeit of jokes involving breasts and bums and with new extremes of scatological humiliation.
    Ex: On-line services have been one of the most powerful driving forces moving information away from its traditional definition and towards the commodity view.
    Ex: The system consequently retrieves any record in which the term ' stimulants' appears.
    Ex: Maybe it's just a passing mood or maybe it's a particularly bad string of events, but sometimes in this hectic life we just need a pick-me-up.
    * dar estímulo = provide + boost.
    * estímulo excesivo = overstimulation.
    * estímulos visuales = visual stimuli.
    * ofrecer estímulo = provide + stimulus.
    * ser un estímulo = be motivating.

    * * *
    1 (incentivo) encouragement
    sirve de estímulo a la inversión it acts as an incentive o a stimulus to investment, it encourages investment
    2 ( Biol, Fisiol) stimulus
    * * *

    Del verbo estimular: ( conjugate estimular)

    estimulo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    estimuló es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    estimular    
    estímulo
    estimular ( conjugate estimular) verbo transitivo


    estímulo sustantivo masculino

    b) (Biol, Fisiol) stimulus

    estimular verbo transitivo
    1 (dar ánimos) to encourage
    2 (potenciar, activar) to stimulate
    estímulo sustantivo masculino
    1 (acicate, ánimo) encouragement
    2 Biol Fís stimulus
    (acción) stimulation
    ' estímulo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ánimo
    - incentivo
    - responder
    - respuesta
    - revulsiva
    - revulsivo
    - acicate
    - arriba
    English:
    boost
    - encouragement
    - inspiration
    - lift
    - shot
    - spur
    - stimulation
    - stimulus
    * * *
    1. [aliciente] incentive;
    [ánimo] encouragement;
    servir de estímulo to act o serve as an incentive;
    medidas de estímulo a la creación de empleo measures to encourage job creation
    2. Fisiol stimulus
    * * *
    m
    1 stimulus
    2 ( incentivo) incentive
    * * *
    1) : stimulus
    2) incentivo: incentive, encouragement
    * * *
    estímulo n stimulus [pl. stimuli]

    Spanish-English dictionary > estímulo

  • 66 exquisitez

    f.
    1 exquisiteness.
    2 exquisite thing (cosa).
    3 fine thing, daintiness, lovely thing.
    * * *
    1 exquisiteness
    2 (manjar) delicacy
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=cualidad) [de algo refinado] exquisiteness; [de algo excelente] excellence
    2) [de comida] delicacy
    3) pey affectation
    * * *
    1) ( cualidad) exquisiteness, deliciousness; ( comida deliciosa)
    * * *
    = delicacy, titbit [tidbit, -UK], morsel.
    Ex. What was new about the iron presses was their capacity for printing large formes with great delicacy.
    Ex. Her young companion was exceedingly perturbed by this titbit of news; he knew that Kate Lespran was not one to make empty threats.
    Ex. The three monkeys used in this study chose the left arm as the leading arm to reach out and pull back a spring-loaded drawer containing a food morsel.
    * * *
    1) ( cualidad) exquisiteness, deliciousness; ( comida deliciosa)
    * * *
    = delicacy, titbit [tidbit, -UK], morsel.

    Ex: What was new about the iron presses was their capacity for printing large formes with great delicacy.

    Ex: Her young companion was exceedingly perturbed by this titbit of news; he knew that Kate Lespran was not one to make empty threats.
    Ex: The three monkeys used in this study chose the left arm as the leading arm to reach out and pull back a spring-loaded drawer containing a food morsel.

    * * *
    A
    1 (cualidad) exquisiteness, deliciousness
    2
    (comida deliciosa): la tarta es una exquisitez the cake is absolutely delicious o superb
    B
    (refinamiento): se vestía con exquisitez she dressed exquisitely
    un bordado de una exquisitez extraordinaria a quite exquisite piece of embroidery
    * * *

    exquisitez sustantivo femenino
    1 (cualidad) exquisiteness: siempre se ha distinguido por la exquisitez de su trato, she has always been known for her refined manner
    2 (cosa) la mesa estaba llena de exquisiteces, the table was laden with delicious dishes
    ' exquisitez' also found in these entries:
    English:
    nicety
    - delicacy
    - titbit
    * * *
    1. [cualidad] exquisiteness;
    se comporta con exquisitez he behaves impeccably
    2. [cosa] exquisite thing;
    [comida] delicacy
    * * *
    f
    1 cualidad exquisiteness
    2 ( cosa exquisita) delicacy
    * * *
    exquisitez nf, pl - teces
    1) : exquisiteness, refinement
    2) : delicacy, special dish

    Spanish-English dictionary > exquisitez

  • 67 gilipollas

    adj.
    coward.
    m. s.&pl.
    1 stupid person, jerk, prat, git.
    2 coward.
    * * *
    1 tabú stupid
    1 jerk, arsehole (US asshole), GB prat
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (Esp fam o vulg)
    II
    masculino y femenino (pl gilipollas) (Esp fam o vulg) jerk (sl & pej)
    * * *
    = dickhead, arsehole [asshole, -USA], twat, arse, wanker, tosser, mug, shithead, prick, schmuck, schmo, jerk, plonker.
    Ex. Whoever said Moby is the leader of dickheads that beat people up? He is just a bald-headed hippie who wouldn't hurt a fly.
    Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    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. In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.
    Ex. These are the wankers who thought they knew all about fashion.
    Ex. The site shows that the highest proportions of ' tossers' -- or overspenders -- are in Northern Ireland and eastern England.
    Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex. With all the pandering shitheads in politics today, it's so refreshing to see some one who will just say 'fuck off, don't bother me'.
    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. 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. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (Esp fam o vulg)
    II
    masculino y femenino (pl gilipollas) (Esp fam o vulg) jerk (sl & pej)
    * * *
    = dickhead, arsehole [asshole, -USA], twat, arse, wanker, tosser, mug, shithead, prick, schmuck, schmo, jerk, plonker.

    Ex: Whoever said Moby is the leader of dickheads that beat people up? He is just a bald-headed hippie who wouldn't hurt a fly.

    Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    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: In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.
    Ex: These are the wankers who thought they knew all about fashion.
    Ex: The site shows that the highest proportions of ' tossers' -- or overspenders -- are in Northern Ireland and eastern England.
    Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex: With all the pandering shitheads in politics today, it's so refreshing to see some one who will just say 'fuck off, don't bother me'.
    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: 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: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.

    * * *
    ( Esp fam o vulg): ¡qué gilipollas es ese tío! that guy's such a jerk! ( sl pej), that guy's such a prat o git! ( BrE sl pej)
    jerk ( sl pej), prat ( BrE sl pej), git ( BrE sl pej)
    anda, gilipollas, cállate la boca shut up, you jerk o prat o git!
    * * *

     

    gilipollas adjetivo invariable (Esp fam o vulg):
    ◊ ¡qué gilipollas es ese tío! that guy's such a jerk! (sl &

    pej)
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (pl
    ◊ gilipollas) (Esp fam o vulg) jerk (sl &

    pej)
    gilipollas mf ofens bloody fool o idiot
    ' gilipollas' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    boluda
    - boludo
    English:
    bloody
    - dork
    - jerk
    - prick
    - twat
    - wanker
    * * *
    gilipollas, jilipollas Esp muy Fam
    ♦ adj inv
    ser gilipollas to be a Br prat o Br pillock o US dork
    ♦ nmf inv
    Br prat, Br pillock, US dork
    * * *
    m/f inv pop
    jerk pop

    Spanish-English dictionary > gilipollas

  • 68 hacerlo lo mejor que Uno pueda

    (v.) = do + Posesivo + utmost, give + Posesivo + utmost, give + Posesivo + best
    Ex. But all of them did their utmost and knew that their position was a key one within the school.
    Ex. Many Swiss colleagues are giving their utmost, after all preparatory meetings, to make a grand final.
    Ex. This year's football tournament was held on a very hot afternoon and all the teams gave their best despite the heat.
    * * *
    (v.) = do + Posesivo + utmost, give + Posesivo + utmost, give + Posesivo + best

    Ex: But all of them did their utmost and knew that their position was a key one within the school.

    Ex: Many Swiss colleagues are giving their utmost, after all preparatory meetings, to make a grand final.
    Ex: This year's football tournament was held on a very hot afternoon and all the teams gave their best despite the heat.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacerlo lo mejor que Uno pueda

  • 69 ininterrumpido

    adj.
    uninterrupted, continuous, breakless, sustained.
    * * *
    1 uninterrupted
    * * *
    ADJ (=sin interrupción) [gen] uninterrupted; [proceso] continuous; [progreso] steady, sustained
    * * *
    - da adjetivo <lluvias/trabajo> continuous, uninterrupted; < sueño> uninterrupted; < línea> continuous
    * * *
    = continued, continuous, ongoing [on-going], running, sustained, unbroken, steady [steadier -comp., steadiest -sup.], uninterrupted, unobstructed, in a row, back-to-back, on-the-go.
    Ex. Instructional development is a goal-oriented, problem-solving process involving techniques such as development of specific objectives, analysis of learners and tasks, preliminary trials, formative and summative evaluation, and continued revision.
    Ex. However, in 1983, Forest Press decided to opt for the concept of continuous revision.
    Ex. This study has many implications for an ongoing COMARC effort beyond the present pilot project because it is evident that a very small number of libraries can furnish machine-readable records with full LC/MARC encoding.
    Ex. Tom Hernandez knew that there had been a ' running feud' between Lespran and Balzac during the last year or so.
    Ex. Research has shown that strong centralized control of employees is not the best way to achieve operational efficiency or sustained productivity.
    Ex. Ideally it would be preferable to keep the main monograph collection in one unbroken sequence.
    Ex. Susan Blanch is a fairly steady customer, taking only fiction books.
    Ex. For this purpose it is assumed that the usual 23-letter latin alphabet, or an uninterrupted series of numerals, is used for signing the gatherings.
    Ex. From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
    Ex. The integrated library systems installed in Canandian libraries are surveyed for the 3rd year in a row.
    Ex. The conference program includes back-to-back papers on techniques for sorting Unicode data.
    Ex. With technologies such as SMS, Podcasting, voice over IP (VoIP), and more becoming increasingly mainstream, the potential to provide instant, on-the-go reference is limitless.
    ----
    * de modo ininterrumpido = in an unbroken line.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo <lluvias/trabajo> continuous, uninterrupted; < sueño> uninterrupted; < línea> continuous
    * * *
    = continued, continuous, ongoing [on-going], running, sustained, unbroken, steady [steadier -comp., steadiest -sup.], uninterrupted, unobstructed, in a row, back-to-back, on-the-go.

    Ex: Instructional development is a goal-oriented, problem-solving process involving techniques such as development of specific objectives, analysis of learners and tasks, preliminary trials, formative and summative evaluation, and continued revision.

    Ex: However, in 1983, Forest Press decided to opt for the concept of continuous revision.
    Ex: This study has many implications for an ongoing COMARC effort beyond the present pilot project because it is evident that a very small number of libraries can furnish machine-readable records with full LC/MARC encoding.
    Ex: Tom Hernandez knew that there had been a ' running feud' between Lespran and Balzac during the last year or so.
    Ex: Research has shown that strong centralized control of employees is not the best way to achieve operational efficiency or sustained productivity.
    Ex: Ideally it would be preferable to keep the main monograph collection in one unbroken sequence.
    Ex: Susan Blanch is a fairly steady customer, taking only fiction books.
    Ex: For this purpose it is assumed that the usual 23-letter latin alphabet, or an uninterrupted series of numerals, is used for signing the gatherings.
    Ex: From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
    Ex: The integrated library systems installed in Canandian libraries are surveyed for the 3rd year in a row.
    Ex: The conference program includes back-to-back papers on techniques for sorting Unicode data.
    Ex: With technologies such as SMS, Podcasting, voice over IP (VoIP), and more becoming increasingly mainstream, the potential to provide instant, on-the-go reference is limitless.
    * de modo ininterrumpido = in an unbroken line.

    * * *
    ‹lluvias› continuous, uninterrupted; ‹sueño› uninterrupted; ‹línea› continuous
    seis horas de música ininterrumpida six hours of nonstop music
    20 horas de funcionamiento ininterrumpido 20 hours of continuous use
    * * *

    ininterrumpido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹lluvias/trabajo› continuous, uninterrupted;


    ‹ sueño› uninterrupted;
    ‹ línea› continuous
    ininterrumpido,-a adjetivo uninterrupted, continuous
    ' ininterrumpido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ininterrumpida
    English:
    undisturbed
    - uninterrupted
    - solid
    - unbroken
    * * *
    ininterrumpido, -a adj
    uninterrupted, continuous;
    bailaron durante cinco horas ininterrumpidas they danced for five hours non-stop;
    lleva tres años ininterrumpidos viviendo en el país she's been living in the country continuously for three years
    * * *
    adj uninterrupted
    * * *
    ininterrumpido, -da adj
    : uninterrupted, continuous

    Spanish-English dictionary > ininterrumpido

  • 70 llamar por el busca

    (v.) = bleep
    Ex. This time the surgeon on-call was not one they knew and so they bleeped him nervously.
    * * *
    (v.) = bleep

    Ex: This time the surgeon on-call was not one they knew and so they bleeped him nervously.

    Spanish-English dictionary > llamar por el busca

  • 71 lívido

    adj.
    livid, colorless, pale, discolored.
    * * *
    1 livid
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=pálido) pallid, pale, livid
    2) (=amoratado) black and blue, livid
    * * *
    - da adjetivo ( pálido) pallid; ( morado) livid
    * * *
    = pale [paler -comp., palest -sup.], haggard, bruised.
    Ex. There may be pale drip marks in the neighbourhood of the tranchefiles, where drops of water fell from the deckle or from the maker's hand on to the new-made sheet.
    Ex. To see a haggard face in your dreams, denotes misfortune and defeat in love matters.
    Ex. 'Small, near-sighted, dreaming, bruised, an outlander in the city of his birth,' thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake fled one day to the only refuge he knew, the New York subway system.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo ( pálido) pallid; ( morado) livid
    * * *
    = pale [paler -comp., palest -sup.], haggard, bruised.

    Ex: There may be pale drip marks in the neighbourhood of the tranchefiles, where drops of water fell from the deckle or from the maker's hand on to the new-made sheet.

    Ex: To see a haggard face in your dreams, denotes misfortune and defeat in love matters.
    Ex: 'Small, near-sighted, dreaming, bruised, an outlander in the city of his birth,' thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake fled one day to the only refuge he knew, the New York subway system.

    * * *
    lívido -da
    1 (pálido) deathly pale, pallid, livid ( liter)
    2 (morado) livid
    estaba lívido de rabia he was livid (with rage)
    * * *

    lívido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ( pálido) pallid;


    ( morado) livid
    lívido,-a adjetivo livid
    ' lívido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    lívida
    English:
    livid
    * * *
    lívido, -a adj
    1. [pálido] very pale, pallid
    2. [amoratado] livid
    * * *
    adj pale, pallid
    * * *
    lívido, -da adj
    1) amoratado: livid
    2) pálido: pallid, extremely pale

    Spanish-English dictionary > lívido

  • 72 mago

    m.
    1 magician, conjurer, wonder-worker, conjuror.
    2 wizard, imaginary character of a story, magus.
    3 wizard, crafty person, very ingenious person.
    4 sorcerer.
    5 magus.
    6 astrologer.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (gen) magician, conjurer; (de los cuentos) wizard
    \
    los Reyes Magos the Magi, the Three Wise Men, the Three Kings
    * * *
    mago, -a
    SM / F
    1) (=prestidigitador) magician
    2) [en cuentos] magician, wizard/sorceress

    los Reyes Magos — the Three Wise Men, the Magi frm

    * * *
    - ga masculino, femenino
    a) ( prestidigitador) conjurer, magician
    b) ( en cuentos) wizard, magician
    c) ( persona habilidosa) wizard
    d) (Hist) ( sacerdote) magus
    * * *
    = wizard, magician, sorcerer, conjurer [conjuror], illusionist.
    Ex. I was in for yet another of those numerously produced fantasies in which a pubescent child gets involved with underworld beings that are substandard versions of Le Guin's 'The wizard of Earthsea' or peritonitic spinoffs from the detritus of ill-digested Tolkien.
    Ex. One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.
    Ex. In legend a potion is a concoction used to heal, bewitch or poison people, made by a magician, sorcerer or witch.
    Ex. It is known that the word 'hocus pocus' appeared in the seventeenth century as a mock-Latin formula or incantation used by conjurers.
    Ex. Two Lithuanian illusionists have reportedly set three new world records for holding their breath underwater.
    ----
    * día de los Reyes Magos, el = Epiphany, the.
    * El Mago de Oz = The Wizard of Oz.
    * * *
    - ga masculino, femenino
    a) ( prestidigitador) conjurer, magician
    b) ( en cuentos) wizard, magician
    c) ( persona habilidosa) wizard
    d) (Hist) ( sacerdote) magus
    * * *
    = wizard, magician, sorcerer, conjurer [conjuror], illusionist.

    Ex: I was in for yet another of those numerously produced fantasies in which a pubescent child gets involved with underworld beings that are substandard versions of Le Guin's 'The wizard of Earthsea' or peritonitic spinoffs from the detritus of ill-digested Tolkien.

    Ex: One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.
    Ex: In legend a potion is a concoction used to heal, bewitch or poison people, made by a magician, sorcerer or witch.
    Ex: It is known that the word 'hocus pocus' appeared in the seventeenth century as a mock-Latin formula or incantation used by conjurers.
    Ex: Two Lithuanian illusionists have reportedly set three new world records for holding their breath underwater.
    * día de los Reyes Magos, el = Epiphany, the.
    * El Mago de Oz = The Wizard of Oz.

    * * *
    mago -ga
    masculine, feminine
    1 (prestidigitador) conjurer, magician
    2 (en cuentos) wizard, magician
    4 ( Hist) (sacerdote) magus rey
    * * *

    mago
    ◊ -ga sustantivo masculino, femenino




    mago,-a m,f (hechicero) wizard, magician
    el mago de Oz, the Wizard of Oz
    los Reyes Magos, the Wise Men
    ' mago' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    maga
    - rey
    English:
    conjure
    - magician
    - wizard
    - conjurer
    * * *
    mago, -a nm,f
    1. [prestidigitador] magician
    2. [en cuentos, leyendas] wizard
    3. [persona habilidosa] wizard;
    un mago de las finanzas a financial wizard
    * * *
    I m magician; ( brujo) wizard; fig
    magician, wizard
    II adj
    :
    los Reyes Magos the Three Wise Men, the Three Kings
    * * *
    mago, -ga n
    1) : magician
    2) : wizard (in folk tales, etc.)
    3)
    los Reyes Magos : the Magi
    * * *
    mago n
    1. (ilusionista) magician
    2. (brujo) wizard

    Spanish-English dictionary > mago

  • 73 magullado

    adj.
    bruised.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: magullar.
    * * *
    * * *
    Ex. 'Small, near-sighted, dreaming, bruised, an outlander in the city of his birth,' thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake fled one day to the only refuge he knew, the New York subway system.
    * * *

    Ex: 'Small, near-sighted, dreaming, bruised, an outlander in the city of his birth,' thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake fled one day to the only refuge he knew, the New York subway system.

    * * *
    magullado, -a adj
    bruised

    Spanish-English dictionary > magullado

  • 74 meter la pata

    familiar to put one's foot in it
    * * *
    * * *
    (v.) = bark up + the wrong tree, be caught out, put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, screw up, make + a bloomer, slip up, make + a blunder, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, blunder
    Ex. The article ' Barking up the wrong tree' argues that the belief, by many book publishers, that they can use the Internet to bypass booksellers and sell their books direct to purchasers, is fallacious.
    Ex. All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.
    Ex. She somehow manages to put her foot in it and get laughed at every time, usually as a direct consequence of her unsureness of her own capabilities.
    Ex. She put her foot in her mouth when she asked a fat woman who was not pregnant when her baby was due.
    Ex. In other words, we have become our worst enemy, continually shooting ourselves in the foot.
    Ex. She's just always shooting her mouth off and sticking her foot in it.
    Ex. Although we're lucky to have them, eager beavers can screw up if you give them the opportunity.
    Ex. He is well-known for making bloomers in public engagements.
    Ex. He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.
    Ex. Since its independence 61 years ago our nation has erred, but this time they have made a blunder.
    Ex. After dropping a clanger, you are left with a sense of shame and you just want to disappear and hide away.
    Ex. But we are all only human and I have recently ' dropped a bollock' as we English say.
    Ex. Michael Howard has blundered again, and again he has done so by trying to imitate Blair while lacking his finesse.
    * * *
    (v.) = bark up + the wrong tree, be caught out, put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, screw up, make + a bloomer, slip up, make + a blunder, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, blunder

    Ex: The article ' Barking up the wrong tree' argues that the belief, by many book publishers, that they can use the Internet to bypass booksellers and sell their books direct to purchasers, is fallacious.

    Ex: All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.
    Ex: She somehow manages to put her foot in it and get laughed at every time, usually as a direct consequence of her unsureness of her own capabilities.
    Ex: She put her foot in her mouth when she asked a fat woman who was not pregnant when her baby was due.
    Ex: In other words, we have become our worst enemy, continually shooting ourselves in the foot.
    Ex: She's just always shooting her mouth off and sticking her foot in it.
    Ex: Although we're lucky to have them, eager beavers can screw up if you give them the opportunity.
    Ex: He is well-known for making bloomers in public engagements.
    Ex: He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.
    Ex: Since its independence 61 years ago our nation has erred, but this time they have made a blunder.
    Ex: After dropping a clanger, you are left with a sense of shame and you just want to disappear and hide away.
    Ex: But we are all only human and I have recently ' dropped a bollock' as we English say.
    Ex: Michael Howard has blundered again, and again he has done so by trying to imitate Blair while lacking his finesse.

    Spanish-English dictionary > meter la pata

  • 75 miope

    adj.
    1 short-sighted.
    2 near-sighted, shortsighted, short-sighted, myopic.
    3 narrow-minded, narrow-sighted, shortsighted.
    4 unimaginative, limited in scope.
    f. & m.
    near-sighted person, short-sighted person, myope.
    * * *
    1 short-sighted, myopic
    1 short-sighted person
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ short-sighted, near-sighted (EEUU), myopic frm
    2.
    SMF short-sighted person, near-sighted person (EEUU), myopic person frm
    * * *
    I
    a) (Med, Ópt) myopic (tech), nearsighted (AmE), short-sighted (BrE)
    b) ( falto de perspicacia) short-sighted
    II
    masculino y femenino myopic person (tech), nearsighted person (AmE), short-sighted person (BrE)
    * * *
    = nearsighted [near-sighted], myopic, short-sighted [shortsighted], myopic.
    Ex. 'Small, near-sighted, dreaming, bruised, an outlander in the city of his birth,' thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake fled one day to the only refuge he knew, the New York subway system.
    Ex. Street boys like Slake, a dodger used to running away, do not, even when they are myopic and dreamers, allow themselves to bump into lampposts.
    Ex. Progressing a stage further, it would be economically short-sighted, to say the least, for a large co-operative network such as OCLC in the United States or BLCMP in the UK, not to take advantage of the MARC service.
    Ex. It is claimed that the use of bifocals will slow ocular growth in myopic children.
    * * *
    I
    a) (Med, Ópt) myopic (tech), nearsighted (AmE), short-sighted (BrE)
    b) ( falto de perspicacia) short-sighted
    II
    masculino y femenino myopic person (tech), nearsighted person (AmE), short-sighted person (BrE)
    * * *
    = nearsighted [near-sighted], myopic, short-sighted [shortsighted], myopic.

    Ex: 'Small, near-sighted, dreaming, bruised, an outlander in the city of his birth,' thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake fled one day to the only refuge he knew, the New York subway system.

    Ex: Street boys like Slake, a dodger used to running away, do not, even when they are myopic and dreamers, allow themselves to bump into lampposts.
    Ex: Progressing a stage further, it would be economically short-sighted, to say the least, for a large co-operative network such as OCLC in the United States or BLCMP in the UK, not to take advantage of the MARC service.
    Ex: It is claimed that the use of bifocals will slow ocular growth in myopic children.

    * * *
    1 ( Med, Ópt) myopic ( tech), nearsighted ( AmE), short-sighted ( BrE)
    no me acerques tanto el libro que no soy miope ( hum); don't put the book so close, I'm not blind!
    2 (falto de perspicacia) short-sighted
    myopic person ( tech), nearsighted person ( AmE), short-sighted person ( BrE)
    * * *

    miope adjetivo
    a) (Med, Ópt) myopic (tech), nearsighted (AmE), short-sighted (BrE)


    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino
    myopic person (tech), nearsighted person (AmE), short-sighted person (BrE)
    miope adjetivo & mf short-sighted: soy miope, I'm short-sighted
    ' miope' also found in these entries:
    English:
    near-sighted
    - short-sighted
    - nearsighted
    - peer
    - short
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [corto de vista] short-sighted, US near-sighted, Espec myopic
    2. [poco perspicaz] short-sighted;
    una política miope a short-sighted policy
    ♦ nmf
    short-sighted o US near-sighted person, Espec myopic person;
    es un miope he's short-sighted o US near-sighted, Espec he's myopic
    * * *
    I adj near-sighted, short-sighted
    II m/f near-sighted o
    short-sighted person
    * * *
    miope adj
    : nearsighted, myopic
    * * *
    miope adj short sighted

    Spanish-English dictionary > miope

  • 76 muerto de curiosidad

    (adj.) = agog
    Ex. One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.
    * * *
    (adj.) = agog

    Ex: One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.

    Spanish-English dictionary > muerto de curiosidad

  • 77 pendejo

    adj.
    coward.
    m.
    1 coward.
    2 jerk, asshole, arsehole.
    * * *
    1 familiar nincompoop
    * * *
    pendejo, -a *
    1. ADJ
    1) LAm (=imbécil) idiotic; (=cobarde) cowardly, yellow *
    2) And (=listo) smart; (=taimado) cunning
    3) Caribe, Méx (=torpe) ham-fisted
    2. SM / F
    1) LAm (=imbécil) fool, idiot; (=cobarde) coward
    2) Cono Sur (=muchacho) kid *; (=sabelotodo) know-all
    3.
    SM [del pubis] pubic hair, pube **
    * * *
    I
    - ja adjetivo
    a) (AmL exc CS fam) ( estúpido) dumb (AmE colloq), thick (BrE colloq)
    b) (Per fam) ( listo) sly, sharp (colloq)
    II
    - ja masculino, femenino
    a) (AmL exc CS fam) ( estúpido) dummy (colloq), nerd (colloq)

    hacerse el pendejo — (fam) ( hacerse el tonto) to act dumb (colloq); ( no hacer nada) to loaf around (colloq)

    b) (Per fam) ( persona lista) sly devil
    c) (CS vulg) ( mocoso) snotty-nosed kid (colloq)
    * * *
    = wanker, tosser, shithead.
    Ex. These are the wankers who thought they knew all about fashion.
    Ex. The site shows that the highest proportions of ' tossers' -- or overspenders -- are in Northern Ireland and eastern England.
    Ex. With all the pandering shitheads in politics today, it's so refreshing to see some one who will just say 'fuck off, don't bother me'.
    * * *
    I
    - ja adjetivo
    a) (AmL exc CS fam) ( estúpido) dumb (AmE colloq), thick (BrE colloq)
    b) (Per fam) ( listo) sly, sharp (colloq)
    II
    - ja masculino, femenino
    a) (AmL exc CS fam) ( estúpido) dummy (colloq), nerd (colloq)

    hacerse el pendejo — (fam) ( hacerse el tonto) to act dumb (colloq); ( no hacer nada) to loaf around (colloq)

    b) (Per fam) ( persona lista) sly devil
    c) (CS vulg) ( mocoso) snotty-nosed kid (colloq)
    * * *
    = wanker, tosser, shithead.

    Ex: These are the wankers who thought they knew all about fashion.

    Ex: The site shows that the highest proportions of ' tossers' -- or overspenders -- are in Northern Ireland and eastern England.
    Ex: With all the pandering shitheads in politics today, it's so refreshing to see some one who will just say 'fuck off, don't bother me'.

    * * *
    pendejo1 -ja
    1 ( AmL exc CS fam) (estúpido) dumb ( AmE colloq), thick ( BrE colloq)
    2 ( Per fam) (listo) sly, sharp ( colloq)
    pendejo2 -ja
    masculine, feminine
    A
    1 ( AmL exc CS fam) (estúpido) dummy ( colloq), nerd ( colloq)
    hacerse el pendejo ( fam) (hacerse el tonto) to act dumb ( colloq) (no hacer nada) to bum around (sl), to loaf around ( colloq)
    2 ( Per fam) (persona lista) sly devil, sharp character ( colloq)
    3 (CS vulg) (mocoso) snotty-nosed kid ( colloq)
    B
    pendejo masculine ( vulg) (vello pubiano) pubic hair, pube ( colloq)
    * * *

    pendejo
    ◊ -ja adjetivo

    a) (AmL exc CS fam) ( estúpido) dumb (AmE colloq), thick (BrE colloq)

    b) (Per fam) ( listo) sly, sharp (colloq)

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    a) (AmL exc CS fam) ( estúpido) dummy (colloq), nerd (colloq);



    ( no hacer nada) to loaf around (colloq)
    b) (Per fam) ( persona lista) sly devil

    ' pendejo' also found in these entries:
    English:
    wanker
    - jerk
    * * *
    pendejo, -a
    ♦ nm
    muy Fam [pelo] pube; RP muy Fam Hum
    un pendejo tira más que una yunta de bueyes sex appeal can move mountains
    ♦ nm,f
    1. Méx Fam [cobarde] coward
    2. Am muy Fam [tonto] jerk, Br tosser;
    Méx Fam
    hacerse pendejo to act dumb
    3. RP muy Fam Pey [adolescente] spotty teenager
    * * *
    I m ( pelea) fight
    II m, pendeja f L.Am. fam
    dummy fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > pendejo

  • 78 poner en entredicho

    (v.) = challenge, cast + doubt on, subvert, compromise, cast + aspersions on, challenge + Posesivo + assumptions, doubt, question, call into + question, impugn
    Ex. The only difference is the cataloger doesn't have to sit down and challenge himself, select one entry over the other, and say that this person is more responsible than another person for the work.
    Ex. His article casts doubt on the future of local technical libraries in the new economic climate.
    Ex. Properly read, live literature -- even the quietest or most light-hearted -- may be disturbing, may subvert our view of life.
    Ex. This article looks at what security measures can be taken without compromising access to materials.
    Ex. Also, the pursuit of applied ethics is viewed by some as being economically or opportunistically motivated, which casts aspersions on its contents.
    Ex. He challenged their assumptions and, I think, made them doubt what they thought they knew.
    Ex. He explained that while there was considerable turnover he doubted 18 assistants would be needed in the year, perhaps three or four at best.
    Ex. If this appears to be excessively difficult, maybe it is time to question whether the tool is too complex.
    Ex. Some of the work discussed in chapter 28 may seem to call into question the value of this research.
    Ex. If we are going to impugn somebody's integrity, let it be with the right facts.
    * * *
    (v.) = challenge, cast + doubt on, subvert, compromise, cast + aspersions on, challenge + Posesivo + assumptions, doubt, question, call into + question, impugn

    Ex: The only difference is the cataloger doesn't have to sit down and challenge himself, select one entry over the other, and say that this person is more responsible than another person for the work.

    Ex: His article casts doubt on the future of local technical libraries in the new economic climate.
    Ex: Properly read, live literature -- even the quietest or most light-hearted -- may be disturbing, may subvert our view of life.
    Ex: This article looks at what security measures can be taken without compromising access to materials.
    Ex: Also, the pursuit of applied ethics is viewed by some as being economically or opportunistically motivated, which casts aspersions on its contents.
    Ex: He challenged their assumptions and, I think, made them doubt what they thought they knew.
    Ex: He explained that while there was considerable turnover he doubted 18 assistants would be needed in the year, perhaps three or four at best.
    Ex: If this appears to be excessively difficult, maybe it is time to question whether the tool is too complex.
    Ex: Some of the work discussed in chapter 28 may seem to call into question the value of this research.
    Ex: If we are going to impugn somebody's integrity, let it be with the right facts.

    Spanish-English dictionary > poner en entredicho

  • 79 prestidigitador

    m.
    illusionist, legerdemainist, prestidigitator.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 conjuror, magician
    * * *
    prestidigitador, -a
    SM / F (=ilusionista) conjurer, prestidigitator frm; (=malabarista) juggler
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino conjurer
    * * *
    = magician, conjurer [conjuror], illusionist.
    Ex. One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.
    Ex. It is known that the word 'hocus pocus' appeared in the seventeenth century as a mock-Latin formula or incantation used by conjurers.
    Ex. Two Lithuanian illusionists have reportedly set three new world records for holding their breath underwater.
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino conjurer
    * * *
    = magician, conjurer [conjuror], illusionist.

    Ex: One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.

    Ex: It is known that the word 'hocus pocus' appeared in the seventeenth century as a mock-Latin formula or incantation used by conjurers.
    Ex: Two Lithuanian illusionists have reportedly set three new world records for holding their breath underwater.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    conjurer, prestidigitator ( frmlor hum)
    * * *

    prestidigitador
    ◊ - dora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    conjurer
    prestidigitador,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino conjurer, magician

    ' prestidigitador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    prestidigitadora
    - mago
    English:
    conjurer
    - magician
    * * *
    prestidigitador, -ora nm,f
    conjuror
    * * *
    m, prestidigitadora f conjurer
    * * *
    : conjurer, magician

    Spanish-English dictionary > prestidigitador

  • 80 presuntuoso

    adj.
    1 conceited, arrogant, assuming, vain.
    2 pompous, highfaluting, lavish, highfalutin.
    m.
    self-conceited person, snob.
    * * *
    1 (presumido) conceited, vain; (arrogante) presumptuous
    * * *
    ADJ (=vanidoso) conceited, presumptuous; (=pretencioso) pretentious
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo conceited, vain
    * * *
    = conceited, pompous, presumptuous, immodest, pretentious, stuck-up, hyfoluted, high-blown, snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], poseur, cocksure, big-headed, portentous.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. Many feel that it is presumptuous to think that a 150- to 250-word abstract can carry enough information from a well-written 3,000-word paper to be of much use except as a guide.
    Ex. The author reviews an article by Tom Eadie, ' Immodest proposals: user instruction for students does not work'.
    Ex. Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex. library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex. I can believe that changing the logo broke some hyfoluted view ofthe library.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex. Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex. The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex. It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.
    Ex. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex. This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.
    Ex. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex. I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.
    Ex. He is described in the play as a "rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech'.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo conceited, vain
    * * *
    = conceited, pompous, presumptuous, immodest, pretentious, stuck-up, hyfoluted, high-blown, snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], poseur, cocksure, big-headed, portentous.

    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.

    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex: Many feel that it is presumptuous to think that a 150- to 250-word abstract can carry enough information from a well-written 3,000-word paper to be of much use except as a guide.
    Ex: The author reviews an article by Tom Eadie, ' Immodest proposals: user instruction for students does not work'.
    Ex: Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex: library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex: I can believe that changing the logo broke some hyfoluted view ofthe library.
    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex: It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex: Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex: The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex: It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.
    Ex: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex: This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.
    Ex: The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex: I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.
    Ex: He is described in the play as a "rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech'.

    * * *
    conceited, vain
    * * *

    presuntuoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    conceited, vain
    presuntuoso,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 (presumido) vain, conceited
    2 (pretencioso) pretentious, showy

    ' presuntuoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    chula
    - chulo
    - presuntuosa
    - suficiente
    - ufana
    - ufano
    English:
    bumptious
    - immodest
    - jumped up
    - pompous
    - pretentious
    - upstart
    - conceited
    * * *
    presuntuoso, -a
    ♦ adj
    [vanidoso] conceited; [pretencioso] pretentious
    ♦ nm,f
    conceited person
    * * *
    adj conceited
    * * *
    presuntuoso, -sa adj
    : conceited
    * * *
    presuntuoso adj boastful

    Spanish-English dictionary > presuntuoso

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