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  • 1 scrap

    I [skræp]
    1. noun
    1) a small piece or fragment:

    a scrap of paper.

    قِطْعَه قَصيرَه
    2) ( usually in plural) a piece of food left over after a meal:

    They gave the scraps to the dog.

    فَضَلات الطَّعام
    3) waste articles that are only valuable for the material they contain:

    ( also adjective) scrap metal.

    نُفايَه
    4) a picture etc for sticking into a scrapbook.
    قُصاصَة وَرَق
    2. verb
    – past tense, past participle scrapped
    to discard:

    She decided to scrap the whole plan.

    يُلْقي الشَّيءَ تَخَلُّصا منه II [skræp]
    1. noun
    a fight:

    He tore his jacket in a scrap with another boy.

    شِجار، مُشاجَرَه
    2. verb
    – past tense, past participle scrapped
    to fight:

    The dogs were scrapping over a bone.

    يَتَشاجَر

    Arabic-English dictionary > scrap

  • 2 амортизационный лом

    Русско-английский новый политехнический словарь > амортизационный лом

  • 3 амортизационный лом

    2) Metallurgy: dormant scrap, old scrap

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > амортизационный лом

  • 4 tartana

    f.
    1 trap (carruaje).
    3 light carriage, waggonette, wagonette.
    4 wreck, old car.
    * * *
    2 (carruaje) trap
    3 familiar figurado (coche) banger, heap
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=carruaje) trap, light carriage
    2) * (=auto) banger *, clunker (EEUU) *
    * * *
    femenino covered trap
    * * *
    = rickety, lemon, jalopy.
    Ex. Only the nomads travel by camel, other desert travellers have to depend on aged and rickety vehicles.
    Ex. The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * * *
    femenino covered trap
    * * *
    = rickety, lemon, jalopy.

    Ex: Only the nomads travel by camel, other desert travellers have to depend on aged and rickety vehicles.

    Ex: The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.
    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

    * * *
    covered trap
    * * *

    tartana sustantivo femenino
    1 two-wheeled round-top carriage
    2 familiar (automóvil viejo, en mal estado) este automóvil está hecho una tartana, siempre está averiado, this car is a heap of old scrap, it's always breaking down
    * * *
    1. Fam [coche viejo] jalopy, Br banger
    2. [carruaje] trap
    * * *
    f
    1 ( carruaje) light carriage, trap
    2 ( coche) jalopy fam, Br
    old banger fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > tartana

  • 5 старый лом

    Aluminium industry: old scrap

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > старый лом

  • 6 старый скрап

    Aluminium industry: old scrap

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > старый скрап

  • 7 gammelt skrap

    subst. old scrap

    Norsk-engelsk ordbok > gammelt skrap

  • 8 zaśmie|cić

    pf — zaśmie|cać impf vt 1. (pokryć śmieciami) to litter
    - zaśmiecić podłogę papierami to strew a. litter the floor with papers
    2. (utworzyć warstwę) stare żelastwo zaśmiecało podwórze old scrap littered the yard 3. przen. (wprowadzić zbędne elementy) to spoil
    - krajobraz zaśmiecony efekciarską architekturą a landscape spoilt by pretentious architecture
    4. przen. (znaleźć się niepotrzebnie) to litter
    - wulgaryzmy zaśmiecają codzienny język vulgarisms litter everyday language

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > zaśmie|cić

  • 9 отдавать на слом

    стоимость лома; цена машины на слом — scrap value

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > отдавать на слом

  • 10 star

    old, aged, drevan ancient, zastario oldfashioned, trošan wornout
    * * *
    • scrap
    • decrepit
    • threadbare
    • vintage
    • senescent
    • stale
    • hoary
    • back
    • aged
    • ancestral
    • ancient
    • olden
    • old time
    • old timer
    • old
    • mouldy

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > star

  • 11 skrotbunke

    * * *
    scrapheap,
    ( gammel bil) wreck, crate, old crock.

    Danish-English dictionary > skrotbunke

  • 12 chatarra

    f.
    1 scrap (metal) (metal).
    2 junk (objetos, piezas).
    3 cheap and nasty jewelry (informal) (joyas).
    4 small change (informal) (monedas).
    5 scrap metal, waste iron, scrap iron, old iron.
    * * *
    1 (escoria) slag
    2 (hierro viejo) scrap iron, scrap
    4 familiar peyorativo (joyas) junk jewellery (US jewelry)
    5 familiar figurado (trasto) piece of junk
    \
    parque de chatarra scrap yard
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF scrap, scrap iron
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (Méx)
    II
    1) (Metal) scrap (metal)
    2) (fam) ( calderilla) change, small o loose change
    * * *
    = scrap, scrap metal, lemon, jalopy, cruft.
    Ex. The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.
    Ex. It may look like junk, but to thieves scrap metal has become as good as gold.
    Ex. The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex. This cruft doesn't harm the system, it merely takes up some space.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (Méx)
    II
    1) (Metal) scrap (metal)
    2) (fam) ( calderilla) change, small o loose change
    * * *
    = scrap, scrap metal, lemon, jalopy, cruft.

    Ex: The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.

    Ex: It may look like junk, but to thieves scrap metal has become as good as gold.
    Ex: The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.
    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex: This cruft doesn't harm the system, it merely takes up some space.

    * * *
    ( Méx): comida chatarra junk food
    productos chatarra cheap o shoddy goods
    empresas chatarra second-rate companies
    A ( Metal) scrap, scrap metal
    el coche es pura chatarra the car is just a heap of scrap
    B ( fam) (calderilla) change, small o loose change
    * * *

    chatarra adjetivo invariable (Méx):

    productos chatarra cheap goods
    ■ sustantivo femenino (Metal) scrap (metal);
    el coche es pura chatarra the car is just a heap of scrap
    chatarra sustantivo femenino
    1 scrap (metal), scrap iron
    2 familiar (piece of) junk

    ' chatarra' also found in these entries:
    English:
    rickety
    - scrap
    - scrap iron
    - junk food
    - junkyard
    * * *
    1. [metal] scrap (metal)
    2. [objetos, piezas] junk
    3. Fam [joyas] cheap and nasty jewellery;
    este anillo es pura chatarra this ring is a piece of tat
    4. Fam [condecoraciones] brass, medals;
    un general cargado de chatarra a general weighed down with medals
    5. Fam [monedas] small change
    6. Méx Fam [comida] junk food
    * * *
    f scrap
    * * *
    : scrap metal
    * * *
    1. (metal) scrap
    2. (monedas) small change

    Spanish-English dictionary > chatarra

  • 13 retazo

    m.
    1 remnant.
    2 remnant of cloth, left-over piece, remnant, remnant of clothes.
    3 offal, giblets.
    4 bargain.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: retazar.
    * * *
    1 (retal) remnant, scrap
    2 (fragmento) fragment, piece
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) excerpt, fragment
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Cos) remnant, bit, piece
    pl retazos snippets, bits and pieces
    2) Caribe bargain
    * * *
    masculino ( de tela) remnant; (de texto, obra) snippet
    * * *
    = remnant, snippet, scrap.
    Ex. What survived was a tiny remnant, sometimes, to judge from the binding, a relic of earlier antiquarianism.
    Ex. Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.
    Ex. The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.
    ----
    * retazo de = scrap of.
    * retazos = odds and ends, shavings, bits and pieces, bits and bobs.
    * * *
    masculino ( de tela) remnant; (de texto, obra) snippet
    * * *
    = remnant, snippet, scrap.

    Ex: What survived was a tiny remnant, sometimes, to judge from the binding, a relic of earlier antiquarianism.

    Ex: Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.
    Ex: The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.
    * retazo de = scrap of.
    * retazos = odds and ends, shavings, bits and pieces, bits and bobs.

    * * *
    1 (de tela) remnant
    2 (de un texto, una obra) snippet
    retazos de varias obras snippets o bits and pieces of several works
    3 ( Méx) ( Coc) offal
    * * *

    retazo sustantivo masculino
    1 (de tela) remnant
    2 (de información, etc) snippet
    ' retazo' also found in these entries:
    English:
    remnant
    * * *
    retazo nm
    1. [resto] remnant
    2. [pedazo] fragment;
    una conferencia hecha de retazos a speech patched together from bits and pieces of other speeches
    * * *
    m fig
    snippet, fragment
    * * *
    retazo nm
    1) : remnant, scrap
    2) : fragment, piece
    retazos de su obra: bits and pieces from his writings

    Spanish-English dictionary > retazo

  • 14 Schrott

    m; -(e)s, kein Pl.
    1. scrap metal; mit Schrott handeln deal in scrap (metal); ein Auto zu Schrott fahren umg. smash up (Brit. auch write off, Am. total) a car
    2. umg. (kaputte Dinge, schlechte Qualität) junk; diese Software ist der letzte Schrott this software is total crap
    3. umg. (Blödsinn, schlechter Film etc.) rubbish; er redet nur Schrott he talks nothing but rubbish
    * * *
    der Schrott
    scrap; scrap iron; scrap metal
    * * *
    Schrọtt [ʃrɔt]
    m -(e)s, no pl
    scrap metal; (aus Eisen auch) old iron; (fig) rubbish (Brit), garbage, trash; (COMPUT; inf) (= fehlerhafte Daten) corrupt data; (= überflüssige Daten) rubbish data, garbage
    See:
    → fahren
    * * *
    (waste articles that are only valuable for the material they contain: The old car was sold as scrap; ( also adjective) scrap metal.) scrap
    * * *
    <-[e]s>
    [ʃrɔt]
    1. (Metallmüll) scrap metal
    2. (fam: wertloses Zeug) rubbish no pl, junk no pl
    etw zu \Schrott fahren AUTO (fam) to write sth off
    * * *
    der; Schrott[e]s, Schrotte
    1) scrap [-metal]

    ein Auto zu Schrott fahren — (ugs.) write a car off

    2) o. Pl. (salopp fig.) rubbish; junk
    * * *
    Schrott m; -(e)s, kein pl
    1. scrap metal;
    mit Schrott handeln deal in scrap (metal);
    ein Auto zu Schrott fahren umg smash up (Br auch write off, US total) a car
    2. umg (kaputte Dinge, schlechte Qualität) junk;
    diese Software ist der letzte Schrott this software is total crap
    3. umg (Blödsinn, schlechter Film etc) rubbish;
    er redet nur Schrott he talks nothing but rubbish
    * * *
    der; Schrott[e]s, Schrotte
    1) scrap [-metal]

    ein Auto zu Schrott fahren — (ugs.) write a car off

    2) o. Pl. (salopp fig.) rubbish; junk
    * * *
    -e m.
    scrap metal n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Schrott

  • 15 desechar

    v.
    1 to throw out, to discard.
    Ella desechó los zapatos She discarded the shoes.
    2 to refuse, to turn down (rechazar) (ayuda, oferta).
    3 to ignore, to take no notice of.
    4 to dismiss, to refuse, to drop, to drop off.
    Elsa desechó la idea Elsa dismissed the idea.
    5 to nonsuit.
    * * *
    1 (tirar) to discard, throw out, throw away
    2 (rechazar) to refuse, reject; (proyecto, idea) to drop, discard
    3 (apartar de sí) to put aside, cast aside
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=tirar) [+ basura] to throw out; [+ objeto inútil] to scrap, get rid of
    2) (=rechazar) [+ consejo, miedo] to cast aside; [+ oferta] to reject; [+ plan] to drop
    3) (=censurar) to censure, reprove
    4) [+ llave] to turn
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <ayuda/idea/propuesta> to reject

    desechó la idea de ir — he abandoned o gave up the idea of going

    b) <restos/residuos> to throw away o out; < ropa> to throw out
    * * *
    = discard, dismiss, short-circuit [shortcircuit], throw out, set + aside, discount, scrap, toss out, ditch, dismiss with + the wave of the hand, turf out, count + Nombre + out.
    Ex. The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex. It is too early to dismiss those physical forms associated with non-computerised cataloguing and indexing.
    Ex. There is little modulation, whole steps of division being short-circuited and an odd assembly of terms being frequently found: e.g.: LAW see also JURY, JUDGES.
    Ex. Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex. Such championship cannot be lightly set aside, nevertheless it is now quiet certain that 'bibliography', incorrect and unfortunate as it may be, is here to stay and the situation must be accepted.
    Ex. Assistance from part-time librarians should not be totally discounted, however.
    Ex. There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex. In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex. It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.
    Ex. International 'rules' are often dismissed with the wave of the hand or a snort of contempt one week, and gilded and placed on a pedestal the next.
    Ex. You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex. Right now, there is no clear Republican candidate, though the inimitable Joe Kelly can never be counted out until the deadline passes.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <ayuda/idea/propuesta> to reject

    desechó la idea de ir — he abandoned o gave up the idea of going

    b) <restos/residuos> to throw away o out; < ropa> to throw out
    * * *
    = discard, dismiss, short-circuit [shortcircuit], throw out, set + aside, discount, scrap, toss out, ditch, dismiss with + the wave of the hand, turf out, count + Nombre + out.

    Ex: The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.

    Ex: It is too early to dismiss those physical forms associated with non-computerised cataloguing and indexing.
    Ex: There is little modulation, whole steps of division being short-circuited and an odd assembly of terms being frequently found: e.g.: LAW see also JURY, JUDGES.
    Ex: Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex: Such championship cannot be lightly set aside, nevertheless it is now quiet certain that 'bibliography', incorrect and unfortunate as it may be, is here to stay and the situation must be accepted.
    Ex: Assistance from part-time librarians should not be totally discounted, however.
    Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex: In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex: It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.
    Ex: International 'rules' are often dismissed with the wave of the hand or a snort of contempt one week, and gilded and placed on a pedestal the next.
    Ex: You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex: Right now, there is no clear Republican candidate, though the inimitable Joe Kelly can never be counted out until the deadline passes.

    * * *
    desechar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹ayuda/consejo/propuesta› to reject
    debes desechar esos malos pensamientos you must banish those wicked thoughts from your mind
    no desechó nunca la sospecha de que fuera él she never managed to rid herself of the suspicion that it was him
    después de un mes desechó la idea de quedarse after a month he gave up o abandoned the idea of staying there
    desecharon la idea de pedir un préstamo they rejected the idea of asking for a loan
    2 ‹restos/residuos› to throw away o out; ‹ropa› to throw out
    * * *

     

    desechar ( conjugate desechar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹ayuda/propuesta› to reject;

    ‹idea/plan› ( rechazar) to reject;
    ( renunciar a) to drop, give up
    b) ‹restos/residuos› to throw away o out;

    ‹ ropa› to throw out
    desechar verbo transitivo
    1 (un objeto) to discard, throw out o away
    2 (una oferta) to turn down, refuse
    (descartar una idea, un proyecto) to drop, discard
    ' desechar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    tirar
    English:
    cast aside
    - shrift
    - discard
    - dismiss
    - ditch
    - scrap
    - sweep
    * * *
    1. [tirar] to throw out, to discard
    2. [rechazar] [ayuda, oferta] to refuse, to turn down;
    [idea, pensamiento] to reject; [posibilidad, sospecha] to dismiss; [propuesta, sugerencia] to reject, to turn down;
    pensó ir a pie, pero luego desechó la idea he thought of going on foot but then dropped the idea;
    no desecho la posibilidad de que haya sido ella I don't rule out the possibility that it was her
    * * *
    v/t
    1 ( tirar) throw away
    2 ( rechazar) reject
    * * *
    1) : to discard, to throw away
    2) rechazar: to reject

    Spanish-English dictionary > desechar

  • 16 ausrangieren

    v/t (trennb., hat)
    1. (aussortieren) sort out; (wegwerfen) throw out, get rid of, discard; (Maschinen etc.) scrap
    2. EISENB. shunt out
    * * *
    aus|ran|gie|ren ptp ausrangiert
    vt sep (inf)
    Kleider to throw out; Maschine, Auto to scrap

    ein altes ausrangiertes Auto — an old disused car

    * * *
    1) (to throw away as useless: They discarded the empty bottles.) discard
    2) (to discard: They scapped the old television set; She decided to scrap the whole plan.) scrap
    * * *
    aus|ran·gie·ren *
    vt
    ▪ etw \ausrangieren to throw out sth sep
    ein Auto \ausrangieren to scrap [or fam junk] a car
    einen Fernseher \ausrangieren to throw out sep [or fam junk] a television set
    Reifen \ausrangieren to discard tyres [or AM tires]
    * * *
    transitives Verb (ugs.) throw out; discard; scrap <vehicle, machine>
    * * *
    ausrangieren v/t (trennb, hat)
    1. (aussortieren) sort out; (wegwerfen) throw out, get rid of, discard; (Maschinen etc) scrap
    2. BAHN shunt out
    * * *
    transitives Verb (ugs.) throw out; discard; scrap <vehicle, machine>
    * * *
    v.
    to scrap v.
    to shelve v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > ausrangieren

  • 17 лом

    debris, pinch bar, wrecking bar, bar, ( инструмент) breaker, crowbar, dwang, lever, broken piece метал., pinch, scrap, scrappage, waste
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    лом м.
    1. ( инструмент) crow(-bar); pinch(-bar); breaker
    2. ( материал) scrap, junk
    дроби́ть лом — fragment the scrap
    измельча́ть лом — reduce [shred, macerate] the scrap
    классифици́ровать лом — classify the scrap
    маркирова́ть лом — brand the scrap
    пакети́ровать лом — bale [bundle, faggot] the scrap
    разде́лывать лом — upgrade [shred, macerate] the scrap
    сортирова́ть лом — sort [segregate, preselect] the scrap
    амортизацио́нный лом — obsolete [obsolescent, old, dormant] scrap
    бытово́й лом — household scrap
    вагра́ночный лом — foundry [cupola] scrap
    валко́вый лом — roll scrap
    высоколеги́рованный стально́й лом — high-alloy scrap
    высокопло́тный лом — high-density scrap
    габари́тный лом — standard-size [sized] scrap
    длинноме́рный лом — long-length scrap
    лом для вскры́тия лё́тки метал. — tapping iron, tapping [tap-out] bar
    лом для вы́пуска шла́ка — skimmer bar
    лом для кислоро́дных конверте́ров — basic-oxygen furnace scrap
    лом для пакети́рования — faggoting scrap
    лом для перепла́вки — (re)melting scrap
    лом для пробива́ния лё́тки метал. — tapping iron, tapping [tap-cut] bar
    желе́зный лом — scrap [waste] iron
    кантова́льный лом — pinch bar
    кондицио́нный лом — specification scrap
    крупногабари́тный лом — bulky scrap
    кру́пный лом — capital scrap
    кусково́й лом — lump scrap
    ла́пчатый лом — spike drawer
    легкове́сный лом — light scrap
    лите́йный лом — casting scrap
    марте́новский лом — open-hearth scrap
    маши́нный лом — scrap machinery, machinery scrap
    металли́ческий лом — scrap metal
    лом металлообрабо́тки — industrial scrap
    негабари́тный лом — oversize [oversize, irregular] scrap
    неподгото́вленный лом — unprepared [loose] scrap
    низкока́чественный лом — low-grade scrap
    оборо́тный лом — home [plant, return] scrap
    по́довый лом — bottom bar
    сло́жный лом — mixed scrap
    со́ртный лом — graded scrap
    това́рный лом — saleable scrap
    тяжё́лый лом — heavy scrap
    шурово́й лом литейн. — poking bar, poker

    Русско-английский политехнический словарь > лом

  • 18 eliminar

    v.
    to eliminate.
    El líquido eliminó las manchas The liquid eliminated the stains.
    El mafioso eliminó al testigo The mobster eliminated the witness.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to eliminate, exclude
    2 (esperanzas, miedos, etc) to get rid of, cast aside
    3 familiar (matar) to kill, eliminate
    * * *
    verb
    3) kill
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=hacer desaparecer) [+ mancha, obstáculo] to remove, get rid of; [+ residuos] to dispose of; [+ pobreza] to eliminate, eradicate; [+ posibilidad] to rule out

    eliminar un directorio — (Inform) to remove o delete a directory

    2) [+ concursante, deportista] to knock out, eliminate

    fueron eliminados de la competición — they were knocked out of o eliminated from the competition

    3) euf (=matar) to eliminate, do away with *
    4) [+ incógnita] to eliminate
    5) (Fisiol) to eliminate
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove
    b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)
    d) < residuos> to dispose of
    2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate
    3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate
    * * *
    = abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.
    Ex. It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.
    Ex. The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.
    Ex. Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
    Ex. The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex. With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex. The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex. List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.
    Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.
    Ex. Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.
    Ex. In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.
    Ex. Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex. He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".
    Ex. The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.
    Ex. The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.
    Ex. Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.
    Ex. This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.
    Ex. It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.
    Ex. A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex. Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex. Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex. This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex. Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.
    Ex. Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.
    Ex. But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.
    Ex. Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.
    Ex. 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.
    Ex. Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.
    Ex. Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.
    Ex. Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.
    Ex. Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.
    Ex. Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex. There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex. Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
    Ex. This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.
    Ex. In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.
    Ex. Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.
    Ex. This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.
    Ex. The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.
    Ex. There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.
    Ex. Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
    Ex. Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.
    Ex. The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex. His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.
    Ex. Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.
    Ex. It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.
    Ex. It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.
    Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex. This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.
    Ex. My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.
    ----
    * ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.
    * eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.
    * eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.
    * eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.
    * eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.
    * eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.
    * eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].
    * eliminar el sarro = descale.
    * eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.
    * eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.
    * eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.
    * eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.
    * eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.
    * eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.
    * eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * eliminar puliendo = buff out.
    * eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.
    * eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.
    * eliminar un error = remove + error.
    * eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove
    b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)
    d) < residuos> to dispose of
    2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate
    3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate
    * * *
    = abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.

    Ex: It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.

    Ex: The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.
    Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
    Ex: The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex: With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex: The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex: List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.
    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.
    Ex: Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.
    Ex: In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.
    Ex: Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex: He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".
    Ex: The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.
    Ex: The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.
    Ex: Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.
    Ex: This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.
    Ex: It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.
    Ex: A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex: Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex: Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex: This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex: Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.
    Ex: Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.
    Ex: But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.
    Ex: Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.
    Ex: 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.
    Ex: Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.
    Ex: Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.
    Ex: Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.
    Ex: Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.
    Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
    Ex: This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.
    Ex: In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.
    Ex: Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.
    Ex: This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.
    Ex: The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.
    Ex: There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.
    Ex: Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
    Ex: Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.
    Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex: His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.
    Ex: Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.
    Ex: It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.
    Ex: It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.
    Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex: This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.
    Ex: My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.
    * ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.
    * eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.
    * eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.
    * eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.
    * eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.
    * eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.
    * eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].
    * eliminar el sarro = descale.
    * eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.
    * eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.
    * eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.
    * eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.
    * eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.
    * eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.
    * eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * eliminar puliendo = buff out.
    * eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.
    * eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.
    * eliminar un error = remove + error.
    * eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.

    * * *
    eliminar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹obstáculo› to remove; ‹párrafo› to delete, remove
    para eliminar las cucarachas to get rid of o exterminate o kill cockroaches
    2 ‹equipo/candidato› to eliminate
    fueron eliminados del torneo they were knocked out of o eliminated from the tournament
    3 ( euf) (matar) to eliminate ( euph), to get rid of ( euph)
    B ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate
    C ( Mat) ‹incógnita› to eliminate
    * * *

     

    eliminar ( conjugate eliminar) verbo transitivo

    ‹ párrafo› to delete, remove

    (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)


    e) ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate

    eliminar verbo transitivo to eliminate
    ' eliminar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acabar
    - cortar
    - descalificar
    - michelín
    - quitar
    - sonda
    - terminar
    - tranquilizar
    English:
    cut out
    - debug
    - eliminate
    - face
    - hit list
    - knock out
    - liquidate
    - obliterate
    - remove
    - weed
    - cut
    - delete
    - do
    - knock
    - take
    - zap
    * * *
    1. [en juego, deporte, concurso] to eliminate (de from);
    el que menos puntos consiga queda eliminado the person who scores the lowest number of points is eliminated;
    lo eliminaron en la segunda ronda he was eliminated o knocked out in the second round
    2. [acabar con] [contaminación] to eliminate;
    [grasas, toxinas] to eliminate, to get rid of; [residuos] to dispose of; [manchas] to remove, to get rid of; [fronteras, obstáculos] to remove, to eliminate;
    eliminó algunos trozos de su discurso he cut out some parts of his speech
    3. Mat [incógnita] to eliminate
    4. Euf [matar] to eliminate, to get rid of
    * * *
    v/t
    1 eliminate
    2 desperdicios dispose of
    3 INFOR delete
    * * *
    1) : to eliminate, to remove
    2) : to do in, to kill
    * * *
    1. (en general) to eliminate
    2. (manchas) to remove

    Spanish-English dictionary > eliminar

  • 19 piltrafa

    f.
    1 scrap.
    estar hecho una piltrafa to be a wreck; (persona, coche) to be worn out (chaqueta, zapatos)
    2 skinny flesh.
    3 offal.
    4 weakling, wimp.
    * * *
    1 scrap
    \
    estar hecho,-a una piltrafa (persona) to be just skin and bones 2 (ropa) to be tatty
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de carne] poor quality meat
    2) (fig) (=cosa) worthless object; (=persona) wretch
    3) pl piltrafas LAm [de ropa] rags, old clothes
    4) And, Cono Sur (=ganga) bargain; (=suerte) piece of luck; (=ganancia) profit
    * * *
    a) ( de comida) scrap

    estar hecho una piltrafa humana — (fam) to be a complete wreck (colloq)

    b) ( cosa inservible) useless thing
    * * *
    a) ( de comida) scrap

    estar hecho una piltrafa humana — (fam) to be a complete wreck (colloq)

    b) ( cosa inservible) useless thing
    * * *
    1 (de comida) scrap
    estar hecho una piltrafa humana ( fam) (flaco) to be scrawny o all skin and bones ( colloq) (enfermo) to be a complete wreck ( colloq)
    2 (cosa inservible) useless thing
    no es un vestido, es una piltrafa that's not a dress, it looks more like a rag!
    * * *

    piltrafa sustantivo femenino


    piltrafa sustantivo femenino useless thing, worthless object: estoy hecha una piltrafa, I'm knackered
    no te pongas esa piltrafa de vestido, you can't wear that old rag
    ' piltrafa' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    guiñapo
    * * *
    1. [de comida] scrap
    2. Fam [persona débil] wreck
    3. Fam [cosa inservible] piece of junk;
    estar hecho una piltrafa [persona, coche] to be a wreck;
    [chaqueta, zapatos] to be worn out
    * * *
    f
    :
    piltrafas rags;
    estar hecho una piltrafa fig be a total wreck f
    * * *
    1) : poor quality meat
    2) : wretch
    3) piltrafas nfpl
    : food scraps

    Spanish-English dictionary > piltrafa

  • 20 Spur

    f; -, -en
    1. im Sand, Schnee etc.: track(s Pl.); (Schneckenspur, Blutspur, Leuchtspur, Fährte) trail; Jagd: auch scent; (Bremsspur) skidmark; eine Spur aufnehmen pick up a trail; seine Spuren verwischen cover up one’s tracks; keine Spur hinterlassen leave no trace; Verbrecher: leave no clues ( oder evidence); vom Täter fehlt jede Spur there are no clues as to who did it; immer noch keine Spur von der Vermissten there is still no trace ( oder sign) of the missing woman ( oder girl); die Spur führt nach... the trail leads ( oder takes us) to...; jemandem auf die Spur kommen get onto s.o.’s trail ( oder track); einer Sache auf die Spur kommen get onto s.th.; (finden) track s.th. down; jemandem auf der Spur sein be on s.o.’s trail ( oder track), be after s.o.; auf der falschen Spur sein be on the wrong track; jemanden von der Spur ablenken put ( oder throw) s.o. off the scent; jemanden auf die richtige Spur bringen put s.o. on the right track; auf jemandes Spuren wandeln follow in s.o.’s tracks
    2. (Fahrspur) lane; (Schienen) track(s Pl.); einer Loipe: track; linke / rechte Spur MOT. left-hand / right-hand lane; die Spur halten keep in lane; die Spur wechseln switch lanes; in der Spur sein / aus der Spur gehen Langlauf: be in / leave the track(s)
    3. (Spurweite) EISENB. ga(u)ge; MOT. track; die Spur kontrollieren / einstellen MOT. check / adjust the track
    4. des Tonbands, EDV: track
    5. (Fahrtlinie) Spur halten stay on ( oder keep to) its line; aus der Spur geraten / ausbrechen swerve off course
    6. (Rest, kleine Menge) trace; GASTR. touch; man fand Spuren eines Schlafmittels traces of a barbiturate were found; eine Spur Knoblauch a touch of garlic; eine Spur zu stark / süß a touch ( oder shade) too strong / sweet; nicht die leiseste Spur eines Zweifels / Verdachts haben have not the slightest shadow of a doubt / suspicion; keine Spur von Anständigkeit etc. not a scrap of decency etc.; keine Spur! umg. not at all!, no way!
    7. (Anzeichen) trace, sign; Pl. (Überreste) remains; Spuren des Krieges traces left behind by the war, scars ( oder marks) of war; Spuren einer alten Kultur traces ( oder remains, remnants) of an ancient civilization; Spuren des Alters signs of old age; seine Spuren hinterlassen Trauma etc.: leave its marks; heiß
    * * *
    die Spur
    (Abdruck) rut;
    (Anzeichen) trace; suspicion;
    (Fahrbahn) lane;
    (Fährte) track; scent; spoor; trail;
    (Rückstand) vestige;
    (Spurweite) gauge; gage;
    (Tonspur) track;
    (kleine Menge) tinge; dash
    * * *
    [ʃpuːɐ]
    f -, -en
    1) (= Abdruck im Boden etc) track; (HUNT) track, spoor no pl; (= hinterlassenes Zeichen) trace, sign; (= Bremsspur) skidmarks pl; (= Blutspur, Schleimspur etc, Fährte zur Verfolgung) trail

    von den Tätern fehlt jede Spúr — there is no clue as to the whereabouts of the persons responsible

    der Täter hat keine Spúren hinterlassen — the culprit left no traces or marks

    jds Spúr aufnehmen — to take up sb's trail

    auf der richtigen/falschen Spúr sein (lit, fig) — to be on the right/wrong track

    jdn auf jds Spúr bringen — to put sb onto sb's trail or onto sb

    jdn auf die richtige Spúr bringen (fig) — to put sb on(to) the right track

    jdm/einer Sache auf der Spúr sein/auf die Spúr kommen — to be/get onto sb/sth

    die Polizei ist ihm jetzt auf der Spúr — the police are onto him now

    auf or in jds Spúren wandeln (fig) — to follow in sb's footsteps

    (seine) Spúren hinterlassen (fig) — to leave its mark

    Spúren hinterlassen (fig) — to leave one's/its mark

    ohne Spúr(en) an jdm vorübergehen — to have no effect on sb

    nicht ohne Spúr(en) an jdm vorübergehen — to leave its mark on sb

    2) (fig = kleine Menge, Überrest) trace; (von Pfeffer, Paprika etc) touch, soupçon; (von Vernunft, Anstand, Talent etc) scrap, ounce

    von Anstand/Takt keine Spúr (inf) — no decency/tact at all

    von Liebe keine Spúr (inf) — love doesn't/didn't come into it

    keine Spúr! (inf) — not at all

    keine Spúr davon ist wahr (inf) — there's not a scrap or an ounce of truth in it

    wir hatten nicht die Spúr einer Chance — we didn't have a ghost of a chance (inf)

    eine Spúr zu laut/grell — a shade or a touch too loud/garish

    3) (= Fahrbahn) lane

    auf der linken Spúr fahren — to drive in the left-hand lane

    in der Spúr bleiben — to keep in lane

    die Spúr wechseln — to change lanes

    4) (AUT = gerade Fahrtrichtung) tracking

    Spúr halten (beim Bremsen etc) — to hold its course; (nach Unfall) to track properly

    aus der Spúr geraten or kommen (durch Seitenwind etc) — to go off course; (beim Bremsen etc) to skid

    5) (= Spurweite) (RAIL) gauge; (AUT) track
    6) (COMPUT) track
    * * *
    die
    1) (a very small amount: There isn't a grain of truth in that story.) grain
    2) (a hasty application (of paint): These doors could do with a lick of paint.) lick
    3) (a slight amount: The weather is a shade better today.) shade
    4) (a very slight amount: There's not a shadow of doubt that he stole the money.) shadow
    5) (a trace of some quality in a person's character etc: She has a streak of selfishness.) streak
    6) (a slight trace or sign: There was a suggestion of boredom in his tone.) suggestion
    7) (a slight quantity or trace: There was a suspicion of triumph in his tone.) suspicion
    8) (a mark or sign left by something: There were traces of egg on the plate; There's still no trace of the missing child.) trace
    9) (a small amount: Traces of poison were found in the cup.) trace
    10) (a line, or series of marks, left by something as it passes: There was a trail of blood across the floor.) trail
    * * *
    <-, -en>
    [ʃpu:ɐ̯]
    f
    1. (hinterlassenes Anzeichen) trace; Verbrecher a. clue
    \Spuren hinterlassen to leave traces; Verbrecher a. to leave clues
    keine \Spuren hinterlassen to leave no trace
    der Täter hat keine \Spuren hinterlassen the culprit has left no traces [or marks]
    \Spuren einer Hochkultur remnants of an advanced civilization
    \Spuren des Krieges scars of the war
    seine \Spuren verwischen to cover up one's tracks
    \Spuren der Verwüstung signs [or marks] of devastation
    2. (Reihe von Hinweisen, Fährte) trail no pl; (Abdrücke) track[s pl]; JAGD scent
    dieses Beweisstück brachte die Polizei auf die \Spur des Täters this piece of evidence helped the police [to] trace [or track down] the culprit pl
    die \Spur aufnehmen to pick up the trail
    andere \Spuren verfolgen to follow up other leads
    3. (kleine Menge) trace; Knoblauch, Pfeffer touch, soupçon a. hum
    \Spuren von Blut traces of blood
    4. (Fünkchen) scrap, shred
    hätte er nur eine \Spur mehr Verstand gehabt, wäre dies nicht geschehen if he'd had just an ounce more common sense this wouldn't have happened
    keine \Spur von Anstand not a scrap of decency
    eine \Spur zu laut a touch too load
    eine \Spur salziger/süßer a touch saltier/sweeter
    die Suppe könnte eine \Spur salziger sein this soup could do with a touch more salt
    eine \Spur zu salzig/süß a touch too salty/sweet
    die linke/rechte \Spur the left-hand/right-hand lane
    aus der \Spur geraten to move [or swerve] out of lane
    \Spur halten to keep in lane
    die \Spur wechseln to switch lanes
    7. AUTO (Spurweite) track [or AM tread] width; (Radstellung) tracking no pl, no indef art
    \Spur halten (Fahreigenschaft) to keep track
    8. TECH, INFORM track
    das Tonbandgerät hat acht \Spuren the tape recorder has eight tracks, this is an 8-track tape recorder
    9. SKI course, track
    10.
    ▶ auf der falschen \Spur sein to be on the wrong track [or barking up the wrong tree]
    ▶ eine heiße \Spur a firm lead
    ▶ etw hat seine \Spuren hinterlassen Schicksal sth has left its marks
    ▶ keine [o nicht die] \Spur (fam) not at all
    ▶ jdm/einer Sache auf die \Spur kommen to get onto sb/something
    ▶ jdn auf die richtige \Spur bringen to put sb on[to] the right track [or the scent]
    ▶ auf der richtigen \Spur sein to be on the right track
    ▶ jdm auf der \Spur sein to be on sb's trail [or the trail of sb]
    ▶ auf jds \Spuren wandeln to follow in sb's tracks
    * * *
    die; Spur, Spuren
    1) (Abdruck im Boden) track; (Folge von Abdrücken) tracks pl.; (BlutSpur, SchleimSpur usw.) trail

    eine heiße Spur — (fig.) a hot trail

    jemandem/einer Sache auf der Spur sein — be on the track or trail of somebody/something

    2) (Anzeichen) trace; (eines Verbrechens) clue (Gen. to)
    3) (sehr kleine Menge; auch fig.) trace

    von Reue keine Spur — not a trace or sign of penitence

    keine od. nicht die Spur — (ugs.): (als Antwort) not in the slightest

    4) (Verkehrsw.): (FahrSpur) lane

    in od. auf der linken Spur fahren — drive in the left-hand lane

    [die] Spur halten — stay on its line

    6) (Elektrot., DV) track
    * * *
    Spur f; -, -en
    1. im Sand, Schnee etc: track(s pl); (Schneckenspur, Blutspur, Leuchtspur, Fährte) trail; Jagd: auch scent; (Bremsspur) skidmark;
    eine Spur aufnehmen pick up a trail;
    seine Spuren verwischen cover up one’s tracks;
    keine Spur hinterlassen leave no trace; Verbrecher: leave no clues ( oder evidence);
    vom Täter fehlt jede Spur there are no clues as to who did it;
    immer noch keine Spur von der Vermissten there is still no trace ( oder sign) of the missing woman ( oder girl);
    die Spur führt nach … the trail leads ( oder takes us) to …;
    jemandem auf die Spur kommen get onto sb’s trail ( oder track);
    einer Sache auf die Spur kommen get onto sth; (finden) track sth down;
    jemandem auf der Spur sein be on sb’s trail ( oder track), be after sb;
    auf der falschen Spur sein be on the wrong track;
    jemanden von der Spur ablenken put ( oder throw) sb off the scent;
    jemanden auf die richtige Spur bringen put sb on the right track;
    auf jemandes Spuren wandeln follow in sb’s tracks
    2. (Fahrspur) lane; (Schienen) track(s pl); einer Loipe: track;
    linke/rechte Spur AUTO left-hand/right-hand lane;
    die Spur halten keep in lane;
    die Spur wechseln switch lanes;
    in der Spur sein/aus der Spur gehen Langlauf: be in/leave the track(s)
    3. (Spurweite) BAHN ga(u)ge; AUTO track;
    die Spur kontrollieren/einstellen AUTO check/adjust the track
    4. des Tonbands, IT track
    Spur halten stay on ( oder keep to) its line;
    aus der Spur geraten/ausbrechen swerve off course
    6. (Rest, kleine Menge) trace; GASTR touch;
    man fand Spuren eines Schlafmittels traces of a barbiturate were found;
    eine Spur Knoblauch a touch of garlic;
    eine Spur zu stark/süß a touch ( oder shade) too strong/sweet;
    nicht die leiseste Spur eines Zweifels/Verdachts haben have not the slightest shadow of a doubt/suspicion;
    keine Spur von Anständigkeit etc not a scrap of decency etc;
    keine Spur! umg not at all!, no way!
    7. (Anzeichen) trace, sign; pl (Überreste) remains;
    Spuren des Krieges traces left behind by the war, scars ( oder marks) of war;
    Spuren einer alten Kultur traces ( oder remains, remnants) of an ancient civilization;
    Spuren des Alters signs of old age;
    seine Spuren hinterlassen Trauma etc: leave its marks; → heiß
    * * *
    die; Spur, Spuren
    1) (Abdruck im Boden) track; (Folge von Abdrücken) tracks pl.; (BlutSpur, SchleimSpur usw.) trail

    eine heiße Spur — (fig.) a hot trail

    jemandem/einer Sache auf der Spur sein — be on the track or trail of somebody/something

    2) (Anzeichen) trace; (eines Verbrechens) clue (Gen. to)
    3) (sehr kleine Menge; auch fig.) trace

    von Reue keine Spur — not a trace or sign of penitence

    keine od. nicht die Spur — (ugs.): (als Antwort) not in the slightest

    4) (Verkehrsw.): (FahrSpur) lane

    in od. auf der linken Spur fahren — drive in the left-hand lane

    [die] Spur halten — stay on its line

    6) (Elektrot., DV) track
    * * *
    -en (Mathematik) f.
    trace n. -en (beim Auto) f.
    toe n. -en f.
    groove n.
    soupcon n.
    spoor n.
    trace n.
    track n.
    vestige n.

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