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121 lectura de ocio
(n.) = recreational reading, leisure reading, pleasure readingEx. Bibliotherapy is not a mere extension of recommending a book for recreational reading.Ex. A library collection is only capable of fulfilling its intended function of providing a treasure of freely accessible materials for leisure reading if it is adequately organized for access.Ex. The article 'Virtual holiday excursions' covers metasites, holiday sites, virtual travel, pleasure reading, odd ball sites, personal psychology, personal ads, and fortune telling.* * *(n.) = recreational reading, leisure reading, pleasure readingEx: Bibliotherapy is not a mere extension of recommending a book for recreational reading.
Ex: A library collection is only capable of fulfilling its intended function of providing a treasure of freely accessible materials for leisure reading if it is adequately organized for access.Ex: The article 'Virtual holiday excursions' covers metasites, holiday sites, virtual travel, pleasure reading, odd ball sites, personal psychology, personal ads, and fortune telling. -
122 legitimizar
VT = legitimar* * *= legitimise [legitimize, -USA].Ex. One function of a reference librarian, not legitimatized by inclusion in the curriculum of a library school, is the role of a troubleshooter.* * *= legitimise [legitimize, -USA].Ex: One function of a reference librarian, not legitimatized by inclusion in the curriculum of a library school, is the role of a troubleshooter.
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123 lograr lo imposible
(v.) = achieve + the impossible, accomplish + the impossibleEx. While SDI systems may not be able to achieve the impossible, they can function very effectively within a particular organization.Ex. The author suggests a moratorium on publishing the UN's activities for so that there would then be no need for indexes that, failing to accomplish the impossible, are cavalierly declared inadequate.* * *(v.) = achieve + the impossible, accomplish + the impossibleEx: While SDI systems may not be able to achieve the impossible, they can function very effectively within a particular organization.
Ex: The author suggests a moratorium on publishing the UN's activities for so that there would then be no need for indexes that, failing to accomplish the impossible, are cavalierly declared inadequate. -
124 manipular
v.1 to handle.2 to manipulate.Ricardo manipula los alimentos Richard manipulates=handles the food.El mafioso manipulaba al alcalde The mobster manipulated the mayor.3 to use.El chico manipula a su novia The boy uses his girlfriend.* * *1 (persona) to manipulate2 (mercancías, alimentos) to handle3 (aparato, máquina) to use, operate4 figurado to interfere with* * *verb2) handle* * *1. VT1) (=manejar) [+ alimentos, géneros] to handle; [+ aparato] to operate, use2) (=mangonear) to manipulate2.VImanipular con o en algo — to manipulate sth
* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < mercancías> to handleb) <aparato/máquina> to operate, use2) <persona/información/datos> to manipulate; < cifras> to massage, manipulate2.manipular los resultados — to fix o rig the results
manipular vimanipulaba en or con las cuentas de sus clientes — he made illicit use of his clients' accounts
* * *= manipulate, tamper (with), fiddle, fuss with, tweak, twiddle, muck around/about, finesse, massage, fiddle with, play + Nombre + along, play + fast and loose with.Ex. Different stores offer access to distinct types of information or data and permit the information to be manipulated to varying extents.Ex. Their effective operation is not immediately obvious to the uninitiated and the cards in the index are liable to become disorganized if inexperienced information seekers tamper with the index.Ex. Thus, the wrong impression was gained, for instance, when the olive oil subsidies were being ' fiddled' in Italy.Ex. Editors are a bridge between the abstract writer and the printer: on the one hand they fuss with the content and intellectual quality of the abstract, and on the other hand they prepare copy that conforms to the constraints of the publishing world.Ex. This book offers strategies for high school teachers that provide tools for creating, repairing, and tweaking all the discernible components of teaching.Ex. Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.Ex. I have looked at the book and mucked around with the database and using switches but can't see a solution.Ex. The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.Ex. The author suggests ways of massaging the data contained in legacy systems lacking a good export function.Ex. The writer bemoans record studios' tendency to chop up and fiddle with opera performances.Ex. Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.Ex. Journalists are still playing fast and loose with the truth.----* manipular el mercado = rig + the market.* manipular indebidamente = meddle (in/with).* manipular la opinión = manipulate + opinion.* manipular las urnas = stuff + the ballot box.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < mercancías> to handleb) <aparato/máquina> to operate, use2) <persona/información/datos> to manipulate; < cifras> to massage, manipulate2.manipular los resultados — to fix o rig the results
manipular vimanipulaba en or con las cuentas de sus clientes — he made illicit use of his clients' accounts
* * *= manipulate, tamper (with), fiddle, fuss with, tweak, twiddle, muck around/about, finesse, massage, fiddle with, play + Nombre + along, play + fast and loose with.Ex: Different stores offer access to distinct types of information or data and permit the information to be manipulated to varying extents.
Ex: Their effective operation is not immediately obvious to the uninitiated and the cards in the index are liable to become disorganized if inexperienced information seekers tamper with the index.Ex: Thus, the wrong impression was gained, for instance, when the olive oil subsidies were being ' fiddled' in Italy.Ex: Editors are a bridge between the abstract writer and the printer: on the one hand they fuss with the content and intellectual quality of the abstract, and on the other hand they prepare copy that conforms to the constraints of the publishing world.Ex: This book offers strategies for high school teachers that provide tools for creating, repairing, and tweaking all the discernible components of teaching.Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.Ex: I have looked at the book and mucked around with the database and using switches but can't see a solution.Ex: The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.Ex: The author suggests ways of massaging the data contained in legacy systems lacking a good export function.Ex: The writer bemoans record studios' tendency to chop up and fiddle with opera performances.Ex: Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.Ex: Journalists are still playing fast and loose with the truth.* manipular el mercado = rig + the market.* manipular indebidamente = meddle (in/with).* manipular la opinión = manipulate + opinion.* manipular las urnas = stuff + the ballot box.* * *manipular [A1 ]vtA1 ‹mercancías› to handleel permiso para manipular alimentos the license to handle food2 ‹aparato/máquina› to operate, useB1 ‹persona› to manipulate2 ‹información/datos› to manipulatemanipular los resultados to fix o rig the results■ manipularvimanipulaba en or con las cuentas de sus clientes he made illicit use of his clients' accounts* * *
manipular ( conjugate manipular) verbo transitivo
1
2 ‹persona/información/datos› to manipulate;◊ manipular los resultados to fix o rig the results
manipular verbo transitivo
1 (con manos, instrumento) to handle: manipula sustancias químicas, he handles chemicals
2 (dirigir, utilizar) to manipulate: te está manipulando, she's using you
' manipular' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
jugar
- manejar
- tocar
English:
engineer
- handle
- manipulate
- manoeuvre
- rig
- tamper
- play
* * *manipular vt1. [manejar] to handle;manipuló el explosivo con mucho cuidado he handled the explosives very carefully;alguien había manipulado la cerradura someone had tampered with the lock;manipular genéticamente to genetically modify2. [trastocar, dominar] to manipulate;le acusaron de manipular las papeletas they accused him of tampering with the ballot papers;están manipulando a las masas they are manipulating the masses* * *v/t1 información, persona manipulate2 ( manejar) handle* * *manipular vt1) : to manipulate2) manejar: to handle* * *manipular vb1. (influir, dominar) to manipulate2. (manejar) to handle -
125 marco de referencia
(n.) = frame of reference, reference frameworkEx. However well a network may function, if the people communicating are not in the same frame of reference, the resulting problems will inpinge upon the benefits of office automation.Ex. To optimise the potential for interconnecting heterogeneous systems, various standards bodies prepared a reference framework to guide the development of standard procedures for open systems interconnection (OSI).* * *(n.) = frame of reference, reference frameworkEx: However well a network may function, if the people communicating are not in the same frame of reference, the resulting problems will inpinge upon the benefits of office automation.
Ex: To optimise the potential for interconnecting heterogeneous systems, various standards bodies prepared a reference framework to guide the development of standard procedures for open systems interconnection (OSI). -
126 misteriosamente
adv.mysteriously, secretly.* * *► adverbio1 mysteriously* * *ADV mysteriously* * *= darkly, inexplicably, mysteriously, unaccountably, uncannily.Ex. Stanley C Holliday hammers home the same message by more whimsical means hinting darkly that a sticky end at the hands of irritated colleagues awaits all librarians who fail to make adequate and accurate notes.Ex. Inexplicably, principals rated instruction 7th in importance out of 10 librarian's skills, but they expected librarians to spend more time on instruction than on any other library function.Ex. A book not available in October which is eventually delivered in the January following mysteriously becomes less needed by the students over a period of three months.Ex. Due to the recent political and economic changes began issues of well-known periodicals have been delayed or unaccountably stopped coming.Ex. Sawyer's works are at once uncomfortably personal and uncannily universal.* * *= darkly, inexplicably, mysteriously, unaccountably, uncannily.Ex: Stanley C Holliday hammers home the same message by more whimsical means hinting darkly that a sticky end at the hands of irritated colleagues awaits all librarians who fail to make adequate and accurate notes.
Ex: Inexplicably, principals rated instruction 7th in importance out of 10 librarian's skills, but they expected librarians to spend more time on instruction than on any other library function.Ex: A book not available in October which is eventually delivered in the January following mysteriously becomes less needed by the students over a period of three months.Ex: Due to the recent political and economic changes began issues of well-known periodicals have been delayed or unaccountably stopped coming.Ex: Sawyer's works are at once uncomfortably personal and uncannily universal.* * *mysteriously* * *
misteriosamente adverbio mysteriously, enigmatically, strangely: misteriosamente, nadie se había percatado de que no estaba allí, strangely, nobody had noticed that she wasn't there
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127 mudanza
f.1 change (cambio).2 move.estar de mudanza to be moving3 change of residence, move, removal.4 fickleness.* * *1 (de residencia) moving2 (cambio) change3 (de ideas) changeability1 removals plural, removal firm\estar de mudanza to be moving* * *noun f.1) move2) change* * *SF1) (=cambio) change2) [de casa] movepl mudanzas removalscamión de mudanzas — removal van, moving van (EEUU)
empresa de mudanzas — removals company, moving company (EEUU)
3) (Baile) figure* * *femenino move (AmE), removal (BrE)camión de mudanzas — moving (AmE) o (BrE) removal van
* * *= move, moving.Ex. Although microcomputers are relatively robust, they do not take kindly to frequent moves from one location to another, particularly on wheeled trollies.Ex. Qualifiers function as an integral part of the index terms, so that terms of the form ' Moving (House)', 'Mergers (Industrial)' are created and used.----* camión de mudanzas = moving van.* empresa de mudanzas = mover.* * *femenino move (AmE), removal (BrE)camión de mudanzas — moving (AmE) o (BrE) removal van
* * *= move, moving.Ex: Although microcomputers are relatively robust, they do not take kindly to frequent moves from one location to another, particularly on wheeled trollies.
Ex: Qualifiers function as an integral part of the index terms, so that terms of the form ' Moving (House)', 'Mergers (Industrial)' are created and used.* camión de mudanzas = moving van.* empresa de mudanzas = mover.* * *removalcamión de mudanzas removal van[ S ] mudanzas removalsestoy de mudanza I'm in the process of moving (house)se ha perdido una caja en la mudanza one box has been lost in o during the move* * *
mudanza sustantivo femenino
move, removal (BrE);
estoy de mudanza I'm in the process of moving (house)
mudanza sustantivo femenino move: mañana estoy de mudanza, I'm moving (house) tomorrow
' mudanza' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
jaleo
English:
move
- removal
* * *mudanza nf1. [de casa] move;estar de mudanza to be moving;una empresa de mudanzas a furniture remover2. [cambio] change;[de carácter] changeability, fickleness* * *f de casa move* * *mudanza nf1) cambio: change2) traslado: move, moving* * *mudanza n move -
128 negarse
1 to refuse (a, to)* * *VPR1)2)* * *(v.) = refuse, baulk at [balk at]Ex. If not, it displays an error message and refuses to allow you start the requested function.Ex. Bloomington has a well-used circulating periodicals collection and library users responded enthusiastically to InfoTrac2, although staff baulked at the $2,500 annual cost.* * *(v.) = refuse, baulk at [balk at]Ex: If not, it displays an error message and refuses to allow you start the requested function.
Ex: Bloomington has a well-used circulating periodicals collection and library users responded enthusiastically to InfoTrac2, although staff baulked at the $2,500 annual cost.* * *
■negarse verbo reflexivo to refuse [a, to]: me niego a aceptar que Juan sea el culpable, I just can't believe that Juan is guilty ➣ Ver nota en refuse
' negarse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
redonda
- redondo
- negar
English:
decline
- point-blank
- refuse
- repudiate
* * *vprme niego a creer que fuera él I refuse to believe it was him;se negó en redondo a escucharnos she refused point-blank to listen to us* * *v/r refuse (a to)* * *vr1) : to refuse2) : to deny oneself* * *negarse vb to refuse
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