pleting

1) (whole; with nothing missing: a complete set of Shakespeare's plays.) completo

2) (thorough: My car needs a complete overhaul; a complete surprise.) completo

3) (finished: My picture will soon be complete.) acabado

- completely

complete¹ adj

1. completo

2. acabado / terminado

3. total

complete² vb terminar / acabar / completar

El gerundio de complete se escribe completing

tr[kəm'pliːt]

adjective

1 (entire) completo,-a

■ the complete works of Lorca las obras completas de Lorca

2 (finished) acabado,-a, terminado,-a

3 (thorough, absolute, total) total, completo,-a

■ he's a complete stranger es un completo desconocido

■ you're a complete idiot eres tonto de remate

■ a complete surprise una verdadera sorpresa

transitive verb

1 (make whole) completar

2 (finish) acabar, terminar

3 (fill in - form) rellenar

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complete with something con algo incluido,-a

■ a large house complete with swimming pool una casa enorme con piscina incluida

complete [kəm'pli:t] vt, - pleted ; - pleting

1) : completar, hacer entero

this piece completes the collection: esta pieza completa la colección

2) finish: completar, acabar, terminar

she completed her studies: completó sus estudios

complete adj, - pleter ; - est

1) whole: completo, entero, íntegro

2) finished: terminado, acabado

3) total: completo, total, absoluto

• acabado, -a adj.

• cabal adj.

• completo, -a adj.

• cumplido, -a adj.

• entero, -a adj.

• finalizado, -a adj.

• harto, -a adj.

• largo, -a adj.

• lleno, -a adj.

• perfecto, -a adj.

• tajante adj.

• acabalar v.

• acabar v.

• complementar v.

• completar v.

• llenar v.

• terminar v.

1)

a) ( entire) <set/edition> completo

b) ( finished) terminado, concluido

2) (thorough, absolute) (as intensifier) total, completo

a) ( finish) \<\<building/education\>\> acabar, terminar; \<\<sentence\>\> cumplir; \<\<investigations\>\> completar, concluir*

b) ( make whole) \<\<set/collection\>\> completar

c) ( fill in) (frml) \<\<form\>\> llenar, rellenar

1. ADJ

1) (=whole) entero

2) (=finished) terminado

3) (=total) [control, lack] total, absoluto; [change] total; [surprise] auténtico

4) (=full) [list, set, group] completo

5) (=all-round) [novelist, footballer] completo, perfecto

6)

2. VT

1) (=make up) [+ set, collection, team] completar; [+ misfortune, happiness] colmar

2) (=finish) [+ work] terminar, acabar; [+ contract] cumplir, llevar a cabo

3) (=fill in) [+ form, questionnaire] rellenar

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1)

a) ( entire) <set/edition> completo

b) ( finished) terminado, concluido

2) (thorough, absolute) (as intensifier) total, completo

a) ( finish) \<\<building/education\>\> acabar, terminar; \<\<sentence\>\> cumplir; \<\<investigations\>\> completar, concluir*

b) ( make whole) \<\<set/collection\>\> completar

c) ( fill in) (frml) \<\<form\>\> llenar, rellenar

- depletion

tr[dɪ'pliːt]

transitive verb

1 formal use reducir, agotar

■ we are depleting the Earth's natural resources estamos agotando los recursos naturales de la Tierra

deplete [di'pli:t] vt, - pleted ; - pleting

1) exhaust: agotar

2) reduce: reducir

• agotar v.

• desalmar v.

• vaciar v.

transitive verb ( reduce) \<\<supply/stock\>\> reducir*; ( exhaust) \<\<energy source\>\> agotar

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transitive verb ( reduce) \<\<supply/stock\>\> reducir*; ( exhaust) \<\<energy source\>\> agotar

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Civil engineering

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From 1795 Rondelet was Professor at the Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publics and while there was responsible for a major treatise on building construction: this was his Traité théorique et pratique de l'art de bâtir, published in four volumes in 1802–17. From 1806 he taught at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, which was soon afterwards merged with the Ecole Polytechnique. It was when Rondelet took over the work of com-pleting the Panthéon in Paris, after the death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, that he had the opportunity of putting some of his particular structural ideas into practice. In 1755 the King had appointed Soufflot architect of the great new church to be dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Sainte Geneviève. In this neo-classical structure based upon Greek cross plan, Soufflot intended four slender piers, each encased in three engaged columns, to support the pendentives for the dome to rise over the crossing. It was a fine and elegant building on a large scale, but by the early nineteenth century, when the church had become a pantheon, cracks were appearing in the masonry. When Rondelet succeeded as architect after Soufflot's death, he strengthened and enlarged the piers, employing a faced concrete structure reinforced with metal. He used a metalreinforced mortar with rubble aggregate.

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