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  • 1 prodigioso

    • prodigious

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > prodigioso

  • 2 prodigioso

    adj.
    prodigious, bodacious, bowdacious.
    * * *
    1 prodigious
    * * *
    ADJ prodigious, marvellous, marvelous (EEUU)
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <fuerza/esfuerzo> prodigious, incredible; < memoria> prodigious, phenomenal; < éxito> phenomenal; <jugador/músico> phenomenal, exceptional
    * * *
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <fuerza/esfuerzo> prodigious, incredible; < memoria> prodigious, phenomenal; < éxito> phenomenal; <jugador/músico> phenomenal, exceptional
    * * *

    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

    * * *
    ‹fuerza/esfuerzo› prodigious, incredible; ‹memoria› prodigious, phenomenal; ‹éxito› phenomenal; ‹jugador/músico› phenomenal, exceptional
    * * *

    prodigioso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    prodigious, phenomenal;

    ‹éxito/jugador/músico› phenomenal
    prodigioso,-a adjetivo
    1 (sin explicación) incredible
    2 (cualidades) wonderful, marvellous, US marvelous: es un pintor prodigioso, he's an exceptional painter
    tiene una memoria prodigiosa, he has a phenomenal memory
    ' prodigioso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    prodigiosa
    English:
    prodigious
    * * *
    prodigioso, -a adj
    1. [sobrenatural] miraculous
    2. [extraordinario] extraordinary;
    es de una inteligencia prodigiosa she is phenomenally intelligent
    * * *
    adj prodigious
    * * *
    prodigioso, -sa adj
    : prodigious, marvelous

    Spanish-English dictionary > prodigioso

  • 3 enorme

    adj.
    enormous, huge.
    * * *
    1 (grande) enormous, huge, vast
    2 (desmedido) tremendous, great
    3 familiar (muy bueno) very good, excellent
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=muy grande) enormous, huge
    2) * (=estupendo) killing *, marvellous
    * * *
    adjetivo <edificio/animal/suma> huge, enormous; < zona> vast, huge
    * * *
    = deep [deeper -comp., deepest -sup.], enormous, exponential, extensive, huge, infinite, mammoth, massive, monumental, prodigious, intense, abysmal, Herculean, colossal, of epic proportions, monstrous, a monster of a, Herculanian.
    Ex. The world's largest processing department's plans and policies are always of deep interest.
    Ex. In coventional libraries, such searches usually involve an enormous amount of time and energy.
    Ex. Information technology continues to develop at an exponential rate.
    Ex. The minutely detailed classification is of the type appropriate to an extensive collection.
    Ex. A user searching for Smith's 'History as Argument' who was not sure under which subject it would be entered, would have to prowl through a huge number of cards in a card catalog to find the entry under SMITH.
    Ex. It is still the same inexorably literal logic which must ultimately glance into the chaos, and small differences create infinite displacements between records.
    Ex. The only problem is the mammoth task of interfiling new cards, especially in catalogues where there are large numbers of new or amended entries.
    Ex. When the use of all synonymous terms would result in a massive duplication of A/Z subject index entries 'see references' are employed.
    Ex. She was chairperson of the Task Force that in 1972 wrote a monumental report about discrimination against women in the library profession.
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex. Mexico is undergoing an intense epidemiological transition characterised by a decline in the incidence of infectious diseases and a rapid increase in the importance of chronic illnesses and accidents.
    Ex. The major problem encountered in encouraging young adults to use public libraries is the abysmal lack of specialist young adult librarians = El principal problema que se encuentra para es incentivar a los jóvenes a usar las bibliotecas públicas es la enorme falta de bibliotecarios especialistas en temas relacionados con los adolescentes.
    Ex. A task of Herculean proportions is how some members of Senate describe it.
    Ex. University libraries have a problem in theft of books which is running at a colossal rate.
    Ex. Even though they are not as long as I think they should be, many of the stories are of epic proportions and many of them are very entertaining.
    Ex. Bogardus privately resolved that nothing would induce her to assent to this monstrous possibility.
    Ex. Hurricane Rita became a monster of a storm as it gathered strength over the Gulf of Mexico.
    Ex. The Ibbs family where founder members of this Herculanian pottery in Liverpool, England.
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    * boquete enorme = gaping hole.
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    adjetivo <edificio/animal/suma> huge, enormous; < zona> vast, huge
    * * *
    = deep [deeper -comp., deepest -sup.], enormous, exponential, extensive, huge, infinite, mammoth, massive, monumental, prodigious, intense, abysmal, Herculean, colossal, of epic proportions, monstrous, a monster of a, Herculanian.

    Ex: The world's largest processing department's plans and policies are always of deep interest.

    Ex: In coventional libraries, such searches usually involve an enormous amount of time and energy.
    Ex: Information technology continues to develop at an exponential rate.
    Ex: The minutely detailed classification is of the type appropriate to an extensive collection.
    Ex: A user searching for Smith's 'History as Argument' who was not sure under which subject it would be entered, would have to prowl through a huge number of cards in a card catalog to find the entry under SMITH.
    Ex: It is still the same inexorably literal logic which must ultimately glance into the chaos, and small differences create infinite displacements between records.
    Ex: The only problem is the mammoth task of interfiling new cards, especially in catalogues where there are large numbers of new or amended entries.
    Ex: When the use of all synonymous terms would result in a massive duplication of A/Z subject index entries 'see references' are employed.
    Ex: She was chairperson of the Task Force that in 1972 wrote a monumental report about discrimination against women in the library profession.
    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex: Mexico is undergoing an intense epidemiological transition characterised by a decline in the incidence of infectious diseases and a rapid increase in the importance of chronic illnesses and accidents.
    Ex: The major problem encountered in encouraging young adults to use public libraries is the abysmal lack of specialist young adult librarians = El principal problema que se encuentra para es incentivar a los jóvenes a usar las bibliotecas públicas es la enorme falta de bibliotecarios especialistas en temas relacionados con los adolescentes.
    Ex: A task of Herculean proportions is how some members of Senate describe it.
    Ex: University libraries have a problem in theft of books which is running at a colossal rate.
    Ex: Even though they are not as long as I think they should be, many of the stories are of epic proportions and many of them are very entertaining.
    Ex: Bogardus privately resolved that nothing would induce her to assent to this monstrous possibility.
    Ex: Hurricane Rita became a monster of a storm as it gathered strength over the Gulf of Mexico.
    Ex: The Ibbs family where founder members of this Herculanian pottery in Liverpool, England.
    * boquete enorme = gaping hole.

    * * *
    ‹edificio/animal› huge, enormous; ‹aumento/suma› huge, enormous, vast; ‹zona› vast, huge
    la diferencia es enorme the difference is enormous o huge
    tiene unas manos enormes he has huge o enormous hands
    sentí una pena enorme I felt tremendously sad o a tremendous sense of sadness
    * * *

     

    enorme adjetivo ‹edificio/animal/suma› huge, enormous;
    ‹ zona› vast, huge;

    enorme adjetivo enormous, huge: vimos un elefante enorme, we saw an enormous elephant
    (de consideración) un enorme error, a clanger

    ' enorme' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atroz
    - botija
    - congratularse
    - desnivel
    - estrepitosa
    - estrepitoso
    - satisfacción
    - soberana
    - soberano
    - sofoco
    - supina
    - supino
    English:
    effective
    - enormous
    - face
    - gaping
    - ginormous
    - huge
    - immense
    - massive
    - monstrous
    - monumental
    - vast
    - whopper
    - world
    - derive
    - extreme
    - gigantic
    - it
    - prodigious
    - scar
    - yawning
    * * *
    enorme adj
    1. [muy grande] [objeto, persona, cantidad] huge, enormous;
    [defecto, error] huge;
    estos animales tienen una enorme capacidad para reproducirse these creatures have an enormous reproductive capacity;
    una torre de enorme altura an enormously tall tower;
    tu hijo está ya enorme your son's really huge;
    le invadía una enorme tristeza he was overcome by a great sadness
    2. Fam [excelente] great, fantastic
    * * *
    adj enormous, huge
    * * *
    enorme adj
    inmenso: enormous, huge
    ♦ enormemente adv
    * * *
    enorme adj enormous / huge

    Spanish-English dictionary > enorme

  • 4 portentoso

    adj.
    portentous, wonderful, marvelous, colossal.
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    1 prodigious
    * * *
    ADJ marvellous, marvelous (EEUU), extraordinary
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo < memoria> wonderful; <representación/voz> magnificent, superb
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo < memoria> wonderful; <representación/voz> magnificent, superb
    * * *
    portentoso1

    Ex: Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.

    portentoso2

    Ex: This novel is once again a most peculiar combination of broad farce and portentous significance.

    * * *
    ‹memoria› wonderful; ‹representación/voz› magnificent, wonderful, marvelous*, superb
    * * *

    portentoso,-a adjetivo marvelous, wonderful, prodigious: realizó una interpretación portentosa de Chopin, her rendition of Chopin was marvelous
    ' portentoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    portentosa
    * * *
    portentoso, -a adj
    amazing, incredible;
    tiene una inteligencia portentosa she's amazingly o incredibly intelligent
    * * *
    adj incredible, prodigious
    * * *
    portentoso, -sa adj
    maravilloso: marvelous, wonderful

    Spanish-English dictionary > portentoso

  • 5 adición

    f.
    1 addition, increase, increment.
    2 addition, annexation, adding, annex.
    3 addition, sum.
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    1 addition
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Mat) addition; (=sumar) adding, adding up
    2) (Jur) acceptance
    3) Cono Sur (=cuenta) bill, check (EEUU)
    * * *
    a) ( acción) addition; ( parte añadida) addition
    b) (Mat) addition
    c) (RPl) ( cuenta) check (AmE), bill (BrE)
    * * *
    = addition, summation, supplementation, accretion, infusion, adding.
    Ex. A scheme should allow expansion, to permit the additions of new subjects or more specific subdivision of existing subjects.
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex. Even with such a limitation and many later supplementations by various hands, by way of addition, correction and amplification, it falls far short of completeness.
    Ex. The introduction of computer filing has made us examine every aspect of the process, to stop doing things out of habit, to retain those principles which are logical and comprehensible and to discard those which are simply the accretions of the years.
    Ex. The infusion of computers and data bases into the law office and the tremendous increase in published legal materials have given rise to the need for the law librarian.
    Ex. This can range from simple adding of columns to automatic recalculation of all related figures when one is changed (as in a spreadsheet; see below).
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    * adición de valor = value adding.
    * * *
    a) ( acción) addition; ( parte añadida) addition
    b) (Mat) addition
    c) (RPl) ( cuenta) check (AmE), bill (BrE)
    * * *
    = addition, summation, supplementation, accretion, infusion, adding.

    Ex: A scheme should allow expansion, to permit the additions of new subjects or more specific subdivision of existing subjects.

    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex: Even with such a limitation and many later supplementations by various hands, by way of addition, correction and amplification, it falls far short of completeness.
    Ex: The introduction of computer filing has made us examine every aspect of the process, to stop doing things out of habit, to retain those principles which are logical and comprehensible and to discard those which are simply the accretions of the years.
    Ex: The infusion of computers and data bases into the law office and the tremendous increase in published legal materials have given rise to the need for the law librarian.
    Ex: This can range from simple adding of columns to automatic recalculation of all related figures when one is changed (as in a spreadsheet; see below).
    * adición de valor = value adding.

    * * *
    1 (acción) addition
    con la adición de un prefijo with the addition of a prefix, by adding a prefix
    2 (parte añadida) addition
    las últimas adiciones a su colección the latest additions to his collection
    3 ( Mat) addition
    4 ( RPl) (cuenta) check ( AmE), bill ( BrE)
    * * *

    adición sustantivo femenino
    a) (Mat) addition

    b) (RPl) ( cuenta) check (AmE), bill (BrE)

    adición sustantivo femenino addition ➣ Ver nota en sumar
    ' adición' also found in these entries:
    English:
    addition
    - bill
    - check
    - sum
    * * *
    1. [suma] addition;
    hay que efectuar la adición de todos los gastos we have to calculate the total cost
    2. [añadidura] addition;
    el garage es una adición reciente the garage is a recent addition
    3. RP [cuenta] Br bill, US check
    * * *
    f
    1 MAT addition
    2 Rpl
    en restaurante check, Br
    bill
    * * *
    adición nf, pl - ciones : addition
    * * *
    adición n addition

    Spanish-English dictionary > adición

  • 6 barco de vela

    sailing boat
    * * *
    sailing boat, sailboat (AmE)
    * * *
    (n.) = square-rigged ship, sailing ship, sail ship, sailboat, sailing boat
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex. Every sailing ship has a hull, rigging and at least one mast to hold up the sails that use the wind to power the ship.
    Ex. M Asthana, the Commanding Officer for the last leg of the voyage around the world, describes the sail-ship as 'the building block' of India's naval training.
    Ex. Proceeding upwind with a sailboat is called tacking, and involves moving into the wind with a series of zigzag maneuvers.
    Ex. Contrary to the beliefs of landlubbers, sailing boats are not compelled to travel with the wind.
    * * *
    sailing boat, sailboat (AmE)
    * * *
    (n.) = square-rigged ship, sailing ship, sail ship, sailboat, sailing boat

    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

    Ex: Every sailing ship has a hull, rigging and at least one mast to hold up the sails that use the wind to power the ship.
    Ex: M Asthana, the Commanding Officer for the last leg of the voyage around the world, describes the sail-ship as 'the building block' of India's naval training.
    Ex: Proceeding upwind with a sailboat is called tacking, and involves moving into the wind with a series of zigzag maneuvers.
    Ex: Contrary to the beliefs of landlubbers, sailing boats are not compelled to travel with the wind.

    * * *
    sailing ship

    Spanish-English dictionary > barco de vela

  • 7 barco velero

    (n.) = sail ship, sailing ship, square-rigged ship, sailboat, sailing boat
    Ex. M Asthana, the Commanding Officer for the last leg of the voyage around the world, describes the sail-ship as 'the building block' of India's naval training.
    Ex. Every sailing ship has a hull, rigging and at least one mast to hold up the sails that use the wind to power the ship.
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex. Proceeding upwind with a sailboat is called tacking, and involves moving into the wind with a series of zigzag maneuvers.
    Ex. Contrary to the beliefs of landlubbers, sailing boats are not compelled to travel with the wind.
    * * *
    (n.) = sail ship, sailing ship, square-rigged ship, sailboat, sailing boat

    Ex: M Asthana, the Commanding Officer for the last leg of the voyage around the world, describes the sail-ship as 'the building block' of India's naval training.

    Ex: Every sailing ship has a hull, rigging and at least one mast to hold up the sails that use the wind to power the ship.
    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex: Proceeding upwind with a sailboat is called tacking, and involves moving into the wind with a series of zigzag maneuvers.
    Ex: Contrary to the beliefs of landlubbers, sailing boats are not compelled to travel with the wind.

    Spanish-English dictionary > barco velero

  • 8 el fruto de + Nombre

    = the fruit of + Nombre
    Ex. The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.
    * * *
    = the fruit of + Nombre

    Ex: The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.

    Spanish-English dictionary > el fruto de + Nombre

  • 9 idiota genio

    (n.) = idiot savant
    Ex. Since it was first described a century ago, the phenomenon of the idiot savant -- the juxtaposition of severe mental handicap & prodigious mental ability -- has remained unexplained.
    * * *

    Ex: Since it was first described a century ago, the phenomenon of the idiot savant -- the juxtaposition of severe mental handicap & prodigious mental ability -- has remained unexplained.

    Spanish-English dictionary > idiota genio

  • 10 irritar

    v.
    1 to irritate.
    Su actitud irrita a Ricardo His attitude irritates Richard.
    La loción irrita la piel The lotion irritates the skin.
    2 to annul.
    El documento irrita la apelación The document annuls the appeal.
    * * *
    1 to irritate
    1 to lose one's temper, get annoyed
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=enfadar) to irritate
    2) (Med) to irritate
    3) [+ celos, pasiones] to stir up, inflame
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <piel/garganta> to irritate
    b) < persona> to annoy, irritate
    2.
    irritarse v pron
    a) piel/ojos to become irritated
    b) persona to get annoyed, get irritated
    * * *
    = irk, needle, irritate, rattle + Posesivo + cage, rub + Nombre + up the wrong way, spite, annoy, roil, nerve, gall, rile, peeve, enrage, hit + a (raw) nerve, strike + a nerve, exasperate, touch + a (raw) nerve, raise + Posesivo + hackles.
    Ex. She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.
    Ex. She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.
    Ex. Their education must accordingly be designed to prepare them for that future, however much this may irritate the myopics whose only concern is for the present.
    Ex. The author maintains that his poem makes an attempt to rattle the cage and is a gesture toward revolt, a call to abandon any vision of human life that does not embrace the sexual universe.
    Ex. Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.
    Ex. Men's abuse of children is in many instances instrumental in order to coerce or retaliate against women, echoing the Greek myth of Medea who killed her own children to spite her father.
    Ex. Library pests are any humans, large or microscopic beasts, library equipment or installations, or chemical and biological substances that hamper or annoy the reader.
    Ex. Episcopalians were roiled by the approval of a rector outspokenly conservative on such matters as the liturgy, the hymnal and ordination.
    Ex. But there's something which has nerved me before with the forum.
    Ex. It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.
    Ex. Now is not the time for superfluous rantings intended to rile the public.
    Ex. Things like talking over the performances and cutting to commercials in the middle of performances were really peaving the people who watched.
    Ex. On a recent field trip, he drank too much and became enraged with another student by whom he felt insulted.
    Ex. Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.
    Ex. His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex. Radical intellectuals often seem exasperated by what appears as excessive attention paid to conceptualization.
    Ex. Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.
    Ex. But be prepared to raise some hackles if you take this approach, because it is essential you do it openly and not behind your boss' back.
    ----
    * irritarse con = get + short with.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <piel/garganta> to irritate
    b) < persona> to annoy, irritate
    2.
    irritarse v pron
    a) piel/ojos to become irritated
    b) persona to get annoyed, get irritated
    * * *
    = irk, needle, irritate, rattle + Posesivo + cage, rub + Nombre + up the wrong way, spite, annoy, roil, nerve, gall, rile, peeve, enrage, hit + a (raw) nerve, strike + a nerve, exasperate, touch + a (raw) nerve, raise + Posesivo + hackles.

    Ex: She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.

    Ex: She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.
    Ex: Their education must accordingly be designed to prepare them for that future, however much this may irritate the myopics whose only concern is for the present.
    Ex: The author maintains that his poem makes an attempt to rattle the cage and is a gesture toward revolt, a call to abandon any vision of human life that does not embrace the sexual universe.
    Ex: Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.
    Ex: Men's abuse of children is in many instances instrumental in order to coerce or retaliate against women, echoing the Greek myth of Medea who killed her own children to spite her father.
    Ex: Library pests are any humans, large or microscopic beasts, library equipment or installations, or chemical and biological substances that hamper or annoy the reader.
    Ex: Episcopalians were roiled by the approval of a rector outspokenly conservative on such matters as the liturgy, the hymnal and ordination.
    Ex: But there's something which has nerved me before with the forum.
    Ex: It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.
    Ex: Now is not the time for superfluous rantings intended to rile the public.
    Ex: Things like talking over the performances and cutting to commercials in the middle of performances were really peaving the people who watched.
    Ex: On a recent field trip, he drank too much and became enraged with another student by whom he felt insulted.
    Ex: Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.
    Ex: His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex: Radical intellectuals often seem exasperated by what appears as excessive attention paid to conceptualization.
    Ex: Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.
    Ex: But be prepared to raise some hackles if you take this approach, because it is essential you do it openly and not behind your boss' back.
    * irritarse con = get + short with.

    * * *
    irritar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹piel/garganta› to irritate
    el humo le irritaba los ojos the smoke was irritating his eyes
    tiene la garganta irritada his throat is sore o inflamed
    2 ‹persona› to annoy, irritate
    1 «piel/ojos» to become irritated
    2 «persona» to get annoyed, get irritated
    se irritó por lo que le dije he got annoyed o irritated at what I said
    nunca se irrita con las críticas de sus adversarios she never gets annoyed at her opponents' criticisms
    * * *

    irritar ( conjugate irritar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹piel/garganta› to irritate;

    ◊ tiene la garganta irritada his throat is sore o inflamed


    irritarse verbo pronominal
    a) [piel/ojos] to become irritated


    irritar verbo transitivo to irritate
    ' irritar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    crispar
    - enfermar
    - picar
    - provocar
    - chocar
    - fastidiar
    - reventar
    English:
    gall
    - irk
    - irritate
    - needle
    - rile
    - roil
    - rub
    - annoy
    - vex
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [enfadar] to irritate, to annoy
    2. [piel, garganta] to irritate;
    me irritó la garganta/piel it gave me a sore throat/a rash;
    el humo me irrita los pulmones smoke irritates my lungs
    * * *
    v/t tb MED irritate
    * * *
    : to irritate
    * * *
    irritar vb to irritate

    Spanish-English dictionary > irritar

  • 11 laberinto

    m.
    1 labyrinth.
    2 labyrinth, maze (cosa complicada).
    3 web, set of confusedly elaborated circumstances.
    * * *
    1 labyrinth, maze
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=enredo) [de corredores, calles] labyrinth, maze; [en parque] maze; [de situaciones, ideas, reglas] labyrinth, maze
    2) esp LAm * (=griterío) row, racket
    * * *
    masculino (de caminos, pasillos) maze, labyrinth; (en jardín, parque) maze
    * * *
    = maze, labyrinth, tangled web.
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex. In the end few men are able to find their way through the labyrinth.
    Ex. A reason for this can be found in the tangled web of social services and welfare provisions that prevail in the United States and which are infinitely more complicated than in Britain.
    ----
    * parecido a un laberinto = maze-like.
    * * *
    masculino (de caminos, pasillos) maze, labyrinth; (en jardín, parque) maze
    * * *
    = maze, labyrinth, tangled web.

    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

    Ex: In the end few men are able to find their way through the labyrinth.
    Ex: A reason for this can be found in the tangled web of social services and welfare provisions that prevail in the United States and which are infinitely more complicated than in Britain.
    * parecido a un laberinto = maze-like.

    * * *
    1 (de caminos, pasillos) maze, labyrinth; (en un parque, jardín) maze
    un laberinto de normas y regulaciones a labyrinth o maze of rules and regulations
    2 ( Per fam) commotion, hubbub
    * * *

    laberinto sustantivo masculino (de caminos, pasillos) maze, labyrinth;
    (en jardín, parque) maze
    laberinto sustantivo masculino labyrinth
    ' laberinto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    rompecabezas
    - intrincado
    English:
    labyrinth
    - maze
    - warren
    * * *
    1. [mitológico] labyrinth;
    [en jardín] maze;
    un laberinto de calles a labyrinth o maze of streets
    2. [cosa complicada] labyrinth, maze
    * * *
    m labyrinth, maze
    * * *
    : labyrinth, maze
    * * *
    laberinto n maze

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  • 12 momentáneamente

    adv.
    for a moment, for one moment, momentarily.
    * * *
    1 (por poco tiempo) momentarily
    2 (imnmediatamente) immediately, straightaway
    * * *
    * * *
    adverbio momentarily, for a moment
    * * *
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    * * *
    adverbio momentarily, for a moment
    * * *

    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

    * * *
    momentarily, for a moment
    * * *

    momentáneamente adverbio momentarily, for a moment: su cara se iluminó momentáneamente, his face lit up for a moment
    ' momentáneamente' also found in these entries:
    English:
    momentarily
    - mislay
    - misplace
    * * *
    1. [en un momento] immediately, right now
    2. [de forma pasajera] momentarily
    * * *
    : momentarily

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  • 13 no tan bueno

    (adj.) = not-so-good
    Ex. The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.
    * * *
    (adj.) = not-so-good

    Ex: The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.

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  • 14 peor

    adj.
    worse.
    he visto cosas peores I've seen worse
    adv.
    1 worse.
    ahora veo peor I see worse now
    ¿qué tal las vacaciones? — peor imposible how were your holidays? — they couldn't have been worse
    peor para ti/él/etc. that's your/his/etc problem
    peor que peor so much the worse
    2 worst.
    el que lo hizo peor the one who did it (the) worst
    * * *
    \
    peor es nada it's better than nothing
    * * *
    1. adv. 2. adj.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [comparativo de malo] [producto, resultado, situación] worse; [oferta] lower; [calidad] poorer

    • ir a peor — to get worse

    • y lo que es peor — and what's worse

    • peor es nada — LAm it's better than nothing

    tanto 3., 2)
    2) [superlativo de malo] worst

    • en el peor de los casos — if the worst comes to the worst

    • lo peor, lo peor de todo es que no podemos hacer nada — the worst thing is that there is nothing we can do

    • la peor parte — the worst part

    2. ADV
    1) [comparativo de mal] worse

    • si no le gusta, peor para él — if he doesn't like it, that's his loss o that's just too bad

    mal 1., 6), mejor 2., 1)
    2) [superlativo de mal] worst

    ¿quién es el que lo hace peor de los tres? — who does it worst out of the three?, which of the three does it worst?

    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) ( comparativo de malo) <producto/película/profesor> worse; < calidad> poorer

    pues peor para él — that's his loss

    y si vienen los dos, tanto peor or peor que peor — and it'll be even worse if the two of them come

    b) ( comparativo de mal) worse
    2)
    a) ( superlativo de malo) ( entre dos)worse; ( entre varios) worst

    lo peor de todo es que... — the worst thing of all is that...

    los enfermos que estaban peor or peores — the patients who were most seriously ill

    son los que están peor or peores de dinero — they're the worst off (for money)

    II
    1) ( comparativo de mal) worse

    cuanto más lo mimas, peor se porta — the more you spoil him, the worse he behaves

    2) ( superlativo de mal) worst
    III
    masculino y femenino

    el/la peor — ( de dos) the worse; ( de varios) the worst

    * * *
    = worse off, worse, not-so-good, low-end, losingest.
    Ex. Thus far we seem to be worse off than before -- for we can enormously extend the record; yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it.
    Ex. There is now an even better (or worse) example that supplants rock music as the classical example of, not cultural lag, but musical lag, and that's GOSPEL MUSIC or GOSPEL SONGS, which has just now been established.
    Ex. The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.
    Ex. Therefore real time interaction is feasible on both low-end and high-end machines.
    Ex. Futility has followed them since the day they were born, and Sunday night was no different for the losingest team in sports history.
    ----
    * aun peor = worse, worse still, even worse, worse still.
    * cada vez peor = worsening.
    * de lo peor = at + Posesivo + very worst, at + Posesivo + worst.
    * de los peores = low-end.
    * el peor de todos = the worst of the lot.
    * en el momento peor de Alguien = at + Posesivo + weakest.
    * en el peor de los casos = at worst, in the worst of circumstances, at + Posesivo + very worst, the worst case scenario, at + Posesivo + worst, in the worst case.
    * esperar lo peor = expect + the worst.
    * ir de mal en peor = go from + bad to worse.
    * lo peor de = brunt of, the.
    * lo peor del = the armpit of the.
    * lo que es aun peor = worse still.
    * lo que es peor = what's worse.
    * los peores + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.
    * mucho peor = far worse.
    * peor afectado = worst-hit.
    * peor aun = even worse.
    * peor caso, el = worst case, the.
    * peor... de, el = worst... in, the.
    * peor de los casos, el = worst case, the.
    * peor económicamente = worst off.
    * peor aun = worse still.
    * Posesivo + peor enemigo = Posesivo + worst enemy.
    * prepararse para lo peor = batten down, batten down + the hatches.
    * sacar a relucir lo peor de = bring out + the worst in.
    * salir peor = be a little worse off.
    * ser peor que = be sorrier than, compare + unfavourably.
    * y lo peor de todo = and worst of all.
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) ( comparativo de malo) <producto/película/profesor> worse; < calidad> poorer

    pues peor para él — that's his loss

    y si vienen los dos, tanto peor or peor que peor — and it'll be even worse if the two of them come

    b) ( comparativo de mal) worse
    2)
    a) ( superlativo de malo) ( entre dos)worse; ( entre varios) worst

    lo peor de todo es que... — the worst thing of all is that...

    los enfermos que estaban peor or peores — the patients who were most seriously ill

    son los que están peor or peores de dinero — they're the worst off (for money)

    II
    1) ( comparativo de mal) worse

    cuanto más lo mimas, peor se porta — the more you spoil him, the worse he behaves

    2) ( superlativo de mal) worst
    III
    masculino y femenino

    el/la peor — ( de dos) the worse; ( de varios) the worst

    * * *
    = worse off, worse, not-so-good, low-end, losingest.

    Ex: Thus far we seem to be worse off than before -- for we can enormously extend the record; yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it.

    Ex: There is now an even better (or worse) example that supplants rock music as the classical example of, not cultural lag, but musical lag, and that's GOSPEL MUSIC or GOSPEL SONGS, which has just now been established.
    Ex: The not-so-good news is that we now need to spend equally prodigious efforts at preserving the fruits of our labor.
    Ex: Therefore real time interaction is feasible on both low-end and high-end machines.
    Ex: Futility has followed them since the day they were born, and Sunday night was no different for the losingest team in sports history.
    * aun peor = worse, worse still, even worse, worse still.
    * cada vez peor = worsening.
    * de lo peor = at + Posesivo + very worst, at + Posesivo + worst.
    * de los peores = low-end.
    * de mal en peor = out of the fire and into the frying pan.
    * el peor de todos = the worst of the lot.
    * en el momento peor de Alguien = at + Posesivo + weakest.
    * en el peor de los casos = at worst, in the worst of circumstances, at + Posesivo + very worst, the worst case scenario, at + Posesivo + worst, in the worst case.
    * esperar lo peor = expect + the worst.
    * ir de mal en peor = go from + bad to worse.
    * lo peor de = brunt of, the.
    * lo peor del = the armpit of the.
    * lo que es aun peor = worse still.
    * lo que es peor = what's worse.
    * los peores + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.
    * mucho peor = far worse.
    * peor afectado = worst-hit.
    * peor aun = even worse.
    * peor caso, el = worst case, the.
    * peor... de, el = worst... in, the.
    * peor de los casos, el = worst case, the.
    * peor económicamente = worst off.
    * peor aun = worse still.
    * Posesivo + peor enemigo = Posesivo + worst enemy.
    * prepararse para lo peor = batten down, batten down + the hatches.
    * quedar peor = be a little worse prepared.
    * sacar a relucir lo peor de = bring out + the worst in.
    * salir peor = be a little worse off.
    * ser peor que = be sorrier than, compare + unfavourably.
    * y lo peor de todo = and worst of all.

    * * *
    A
    1 (comparativo de malo1 (↑ malo (1))) ‹producto/película/profesor› worse; ‹calidad› poorer
    resultó peor que el otro/de lo que pensábamos it was worse than the other one/than we expected, it wasn't as good as the other one/as we expected
    no quiere venir — peor para él he doesn't want to come — that's his loss o ( colloq) that's his lookout
    y si vienen los dos, tanto peoror peor que peor and it'll be even worse if the two of them come
    y para peor hacía un calor insoportable and to make matters worse the heat was unbearable
    éste huele peor que el otro this one smells worse than the other one, this one doesn't smell as good as the other one
    B
    de los dos, éste es el peor of the two, this one is worse
    es el peor alumno de la clase he's the worst pupil in the class
    en el peor de los casos podemos ir en tren if the worst comes to the worst we can go by train
    lo peor de todo es que … the worst thing of all is that …
    los enfermos que estaban peoror peores the patients who were most seriously ill
    de toda la familia son los que están peoror peores de dinero of the whole family they're the worst off (for money)
    A (comparativo de mal3 (↑ mal (3))) worse
    desde aquí se ve peor you can't see as well from here
    cuanto más lo mimas, peor se porta the more you spoil him, the worse he behaves
    juega cada vez peor she's playing worse and worse
    cantó peor que nunca he sang worse than ever, he's never sung so badly
    B (superlativo de mal3 (↑ mal (3))) worst
    el lugar donde peor se come en toda la ciudad the worst place to eat in the whole city
    es la novela peor escrita que he leído it's the most badly written novel I've ever read
    el/la peor (de dos) the worse; (de varios) the worst
    eligió el peor de los dos/de todos she chose the worse one of the two/the worst one of them all
    es el peor de la clase he's the worst in the class
    * * *

     

    peor adj/adv
    1 ( uso comparativo) worse;

    y si vienen los dos, tanto peor and it'll be even worse if the two of them come;
    cada vez peor worse and worse;
    su situación es peor que la mía his situation is worse than mine;
    está peor que nunca it's worse than ever
    2 ( uso superlativo) worst;

    lo peor que puede pasar the worst (thing) that can happen;
    en el peor de los casos if the worst comes to the worst;
    el lugar donde peor se come the worst place to eat in
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino:
    ◊ el/la peor ( de dos) the worse;


    ( de varios) the worst
    peor
    I adjetivo
    1 (comparativo de malo) worse: esa marca es peor que esta otra, that brand is worse than this one
    2 (superlativo de malo) worst: es la peor película que he visto, it's the worst film I've ever seen
    II adverbio
    1 (comparativo de mal) worse: con estas gafas veo peor, I see worse with these glasses
    2 (superlativo de mal) worst: esa cama es donde peor se duerme, that is the worst bed to sleep in
    ♦ Locuciones: ir de mal en peor, to go from bad to worse
    en el peor de los casos, if the worst comes to the worst
    ¡peor para mí o ti!, too bad!
    ' peor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cada
    - caso
    - desperdicio
    - deteriorarse
    - jamás
    - lo
    - nivel
    - tanta
    - tanto
    - temerse
    - última
    - último
    - vicio
    - cambiar
    - estar
    - ir
    - mal
    English:
    all
    - anything
    - arguably
    - at
    - booby prize
    - brunt
    - downhill
    - insomnia
    - mildly
    - miserably
    - part
    - pit
    - still
    - worse
    - worst
    - bad
    - booby
    - down
    - ever
    - far
    - history
    - in
    - memory
    - mercy
    - over
    - than
    - turn
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. (comparativo) worse ( que than);
    este disco es bastante peor this record is quite a lot worse;
    hace mucho peor tiempo en la montaña the weather is much worse in the mountains;
    he visto cosas peores I've seen worse;
    una televisión de peor calidad a worse quality television;
    es peor no decir nada it's even worse not to say anything at all;
    no hay nada peor que… there's nothing worse than…;
    podría haber sido peor it could have been worse;
    un cambio a peor a change for the worse;
    y lo que es peor… and what's worse…;
    fue peor el remedio que la enfermedad it only made things worse
    2. (superlativo)
    el/la peor… the worst…;
    el peor equipo de todos/del mundo the worst team of all/in the world;
    un producto de la peor calidad an extremely poor quality product;
    es lo peor que nos podía ocurrir it's the worst thing that could happen to us;
    es una persona despreciable, le deseo lo peor he's a horrible person, I hate him;
    lo peor fue que… the worst thing was that…;
    lo peor estaba aún por venir the worst was still to come;
    ponerse en lo peor to expect the worst
    ♦ nmf
    el/la peor the worst;
    el peor de todos/del mundo the worst of all/in the world;
    el peor de los dos the worse of the two;
    en el peor de los casos at worst, if the worst comes to the worst
    Am Fam Hum peor es nada [novio] boyfriend; [novia] girlfriend;
    vino con su peor es nada he came with his other half
    ♦ adv
    1. (comparativo) worse ( que than);
    ahora veo peor I can't see as well now;
    el francés se me da peor que el inglés I'm worse at French than I am at English;
    las cosas me van peor que antes things aren't going as well for me as before;
    ¿qué tal las vacaciones? – peor imposible how were your holidays? – they couldn't have been worse;
    está peor preparado que tú he's not as well prepared as you;
    lo hace cada vez peor she's getting worse and worse at it;
    está peor [el enfermo] he has got worse;
    estoy peor [de salud] I feel worse;
    peor para ti/él/ etc[m5]. that's your/his/ etc problem;
    que se calle, y si no quiere, peor que peor o [m5] tanto peor tell him to shut up, and if he doesn't want to, so much the worse for him;
    y si además llueve, peor que peor o [m5] tanto peor and if it rains too, that would be even worse
    2. (superlativo) worst;
    el que lo hizo peor the one who did it (the) worst;
    esto es lo que se me da peor this is what I'm worst at;
    los exámenes peor presentados the worst-presented exams
    * * *
    adj
    1 comp worse;
    de mal en peor from bad to worse;
    ir a peor get worse, deteriorate;
    peor que peor, tanto peor it will make matters worse
    2 sup
    :
    lo peor the worst (thing);
    haber pasado lo peor be over the worst
    * * *
    peor adv
    1) comparative of mal : worse
    se llevan peor que antes: they get along worse than before
    2) superlative of mal : worst
    me fue peor que a nadie: I did the worst of all
    peor adj
    1) comparative of malo : worse
    es peor que el original: it's worse than the original
    2) superlative of malo : worst
    el peor de todos: the worst of all
    * * *
    peor adj adv
    1. (comparativo) worse
    2. (superlativo) worst

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  • 15 poner el dedo en la llaga

    figurado to touch on a sore spot
    ————————
    to touch a sore spot
    * * *
    [de error] to put one's finger on it; [de tema delicado] to touch a raw nerve
    * * *
    (v.) = hit + a (raw) nerve, touch on + raw nerve, hit + the nail on the head, strike + home, strike + a nerve, touch on + a sore spot, touch + a (raw) nerve
    Ex. Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.
    Ex. Adults should treat books children read for the pertinent present they reveal with more caution and wariness since they touch on raw nerves.
    Ex. One ISO team member hit the nail on the head by saying that the ISO certificate would mean a lot for our customers.
    Ex. Among many observations in this widely bruited report, one in particular struck home: fewer books had been translated into Arabic in a millennium than were translated into Spanish in a year.
    Ex. His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex. This interpretation obviously touched on a sore spot and the relation between the two countries remained troublesome for centuries.
    Ex. Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.
    * * *
    (v.) = hit + a (raw) nerve, touch on + raw nerve, hit + the nail on the head, strike + home, strike + a nerve, touch on + a sore spot, touch + a (raw) nerve

    Ex: Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.

    Ex: Adults should treat books children read for the pertinent present they reveal with more caution and wariness since they touch on raw nerves.
    Ex: One ISO team member hit the nail on the head by saying that the ISO certificate would mean a lot for our customers.
    Ex: Among many observations in this widely bruited report, one in particular struck home: fewer books had been translated into Arabic in a millennium than were translated into Spanish in a year.
    Ex: His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex: This interpretation obviously touched on a sore spot and the relation between the two countries remained troublesome for centuries.
    Ex: Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.

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  • 16 por el momento

    for the time being
    * * *
    = for the time being, momentarily, at the moment, for the nonce, for the present
    Ex. Authorities for subject headings were excluded for the time being from the scope of the Working Group tasks.
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex. Further, changes in the external world serve to render judgments, valid at the moment, wrong at best, and detrimental to the effectiveness of the catalog at worst.
    Ex. Nonce is a curious fossil word, occurring only in the single phrase ' for the nonce'.
    Ex. For the present it is sufficient to note that, as aids to the retrieval of documents, they have the following advantages over shelf arrangement.
    * * *
    = for the time being, momentarily, at the moment, for the nonce, for the present

    Ex: Authorities for subject headings were excluded for the time being from the scope of the Working Group tasks.

    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex: Further, changes in the external world serve to render judgments, valid at the moment, wrong at best, and detrimental to the effectiveness of the catalog at worst.
    Ex: Nonce is a curious fossil word, occurring only in the single phrase ' for the nonce'.
    Ex: For the present it is sufficient to note that, as aids to the retrieval of documents, they have the following advantages over shelf arrangement.

    Spanish-English dictionary > por el momento

  • 17 progresar con dificultad

    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    * * *

    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

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  • 18 prosa ampulosa

    (n.) = plethoric prose, turgid prose
    Ex. His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex. His novels are filled with the turgid prose that passed for elegance among the literary circles in America at the time.
    * * *
    (n.) = plethoric prose, turgid prose

    Ex: His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.

    Ex: His novels are filled with the turgid prose that passed for elegance among the literary circles in America at the time.

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  • 19 provocar

    v.
    1 to provoke.
    El golpe provocó su muerte The blow brought about her death.
    Sus comentarios provocaron al borracho His comments provoked the drunk.
    2 to cause, to bring about (causar) (accidente, muerte).
    provocar las iras de alguien to anger somebody
    provocó las risas de todos he made everyone laugh
    el polvo me provoca estornudos dust makes me sneeze
    3 to lead on (excitar sexualmente).
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ SACAR], like link=sacar sacar
    1 to provoke
    \
    provocar el parto to induce birth
    provocar un incendio (con intención) to commit arson 2 (sin intención) to cause a fire
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=causar) [+ protesta, explosión] to cause, spark off; [+ fuego] to cause, start (deliberately); [+ cambio] to bring about, lead to; [+ proceso] to promote
    2) [+ parto] to induce, bring on
    3) [+ persona] [gen] to provoke; (=incitar) to rouse, stir up (to anger); (=tentar) to tempt, invite

    ¡no me provoques! — don't start me!

    provocar a algn a cólera o indignación — to rouse sb to fury

    4) [sexualmente] to rouse
    2. VI
    1) LAm (=gustar, apetecer)

    ¿te provoca un café? — would you like a coffee?, do you fancy a coffee?

    ¿qué le provoca? — what would you like?, what do you fancy?

    no me provoca la idea — the idea doesn't appeal to me, I don't fancy the idea

    -¿por qué no vas? -no me provoca — "why aren't you going?" - "I don't feel like it"

    no me provoca estudiar hoy — I'm not in the mood for studying today, I don't feel like studying today

    2) * (=vomitar) to be sick, throw up *
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < explosión> to cause; < incendio> to start; < polémica> to spark off, prompt
    b) (Med)

    provocar el parto — to induce labor*

    2) < persona> ( al enfado) to provoke; ( sexualmente) to lead... on
    2.
    provocar vi (Andes) ( apetecer)

    ¿le provoca un traguito? — do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? (BrE colloq)

    * * *
    = provoke, spark off, trigger, induce, bring on, elicit, instigate, tease, evoke, titillate, ignite, rouse, stir up, spark, twit, taunt, tantalise [tantalize, -USA], touch off, set off, hit + a (raw) nerve, strike + a nerve, bring about, precipitate, incite, touch + a (raw) nerve, give + rise to, give + cause to, give + occasion to.
    Ex. 3 different kinds of paper were deacidified by different aqueous and nonaqueous methods, and then treated to provoke accelerated attack of air pollutants.
    Ex. Like the librarians and the bookshop staff, the club members are catalysts who spark off that fission which will spread from child to child an awareness of books and the habit of reading them.
    Ex. Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex. Then, the reference librarian has better justification to buy and perhaps to induce others to contribute to the purchase.
    Ex. In frequent cases, unionization is brought on by the inept or irresponsible action of management.
    Ex. This article looks at ways in which librarians in leadership roles can elicit the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of the organisation.
    Ex. The first mass removal of material was instigated by the trade unions and although admitted in 1932 to have been a mistake, the purges proved difficult to stop.
    Ex. I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.
    Ex. It is known that in ancient Rome the complexity of the administrative job evoked considerable development of management techniques.
    Ex. However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.
    Ex. In turn, that change ignited a body of literature that discussed those cataloguers' future roles.
    Ex. The spirit, if not the content, of Marx can be the joust to rouse the sleepy theory of academic sociology.
    Ex. The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.
    Ex. The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex. Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.
    Ex. The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.
    Ex. He may have wished to tease and tantalize his readers by insoluble problems.
    Ex. This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.
    Ex. The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
    Ex. Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.
    Ex. His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex. Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
    Ex. What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex. It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
    Ex. Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.
    Ex. The method of indexing called post-coordinate indexing gives rise to physical forms of indexes which differ from the more 'traditional' catalogues mentioned above.
    Ex. That crucial evidence was withheld from the final report could give cause to bring charges of criminal negligence.
    Ex. Many soldiers took advantage of the impoverished conditions giving occasion to assaults, rapes and murders.
    ----
    * provocar cambios = wreak + changes.
    * provocar controversia = arouse + controversy.
    * provocar el debate = prompt + discussion, spark + debate, stir + debate.
    * provocar escarnio = evoke + response.
    * provocar estragos = create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc.
    * provocar estragos en = play + havoc with.
    * provocar la controversia = court + controversy.
    * provocar la ira de Alguien = incur + Posesivo + wrath.
    * provocar menosprecio = evoke + scorn.
    * provocar sospechas = stir + suspicion.
    * provocar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * provocar una guerra = ignite + war, precipitate + war.
    * provocar una protesta = call forth + protest.
    * provocar una reacción = cause + reaction, provoke + reaction.
    * provocar un ataque = provoke + attack.
    * provocar un cambio = bring about + change.
    * provocar un debate = ignite + debate.
    * provocar un diálogo = elicit + dialogue.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < explosión> to cause; < incendio> to start; < polémica> to spark off, prompt
    b) (Med)

    provocar el parto — to induce labor*

    2) < persona> ( al enfado) to provoke; ( sexualmente) to lead... on
    2.
    provocar vi (Andes) ( apetecer)

    ¿le provoca un traguito? — do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? (BrE colloq)

    * * *
    = provoke, spark off, trigger, induce, bring on, elicit, instigate, tease, evoke, titillate, ignite, rouse, stir up, spark, twit, taunt, tantalise [tantalize, -USA], touch off, set off, hit + a (raw) nerve, strike + a nerve, bring about, precipitate, incite, touch + a (raw) nerve, give + rise to, give + cause to, give + occasion to.

    Ex: 3 different kinds of paper were deacidified by different aqueous and nonaqueous methods, and then treated to provoke accelerated attack of air pollutants.

    Ex: Like the librarians and the bookshop staff, the club members are catalysts who spark off that fission which will spread from child to child an awareness of books and the habit of reading them.
    Ex: Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex: Then, the reference librarian has better justification to buy and perhaps to induce others to contribute to the purchase.
    Ex: In frequent cases, unionization is brought on by the inept or irresponsible action of management.
    Ex: This article looks at ways in which librarians in leadership roles can elicit the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of the organisation.
    Ex: The first mass removal of material was instigated by the trade unions and although admitted in 1932 to have been a mistake, the purges proved difficult to stop.
    Ex: I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.
    Ex: It is known that in ancient Rome the complexity of the administrative job evoked considerable development of management techniques.
    Ex: However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.
    Ex: In turn, that change ignited a body of literature that discussed those cataloguers' future roles.
    Ex: The spirit, if not the content, of Marx can be the joust to rouse the sleepy theory of academic sociology.
    Ex: The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.
    Ex: The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
    Ex: Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.
    Ex: The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.
    Ex: He may have wished to tease and tantalize his readers by insoluble problems.
    Ex: This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.
    Ex: The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
    Ex: Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.
    Ex: His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.
    Ex: Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
    Ex: What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex: It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
    Ex: Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.
    Ex: The method of indexing called post-coordinate indexing gives rise to physical forms of indexes which differ from the more 'traditional' catalogues mentioned above.
    Ex: That crucial evidence was withheld from the final report could give cause to bring charges of criminal negligence.
    Ex: Many soldiers took advantage of the impoverished conditions giving occasion to assaults, rapes and murders.
    * provocar cambios = wreak + changes.
    * provocar controversia = arouse + controversy.
    * provocar el debate = prompt + discussion, spark + debate, stir + debate.
    * provocar escarnio = evoke + response.
    * provocar estragos = create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc.
    * provocar estragos en = play + havoc with.
    * provocar la controversia = court + controversy.
    * provocar la ira de Alguien = incur + Posesivo + wrath.
    * provocar menosprecio = evoke + scorn.
    * provocar sospechas = stir + suspicion.
    * provocar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * provocar una guerra = ignite + war, precipitate + war.
    * provocar una protesta = call forth + protest.
    * provocar una reacción = cause + reaction, provoke + reaction.
    * provocar un ataque = provoke + attack.
    * provocar un cambio = bring about + change.
    * provocar un debate = ignite + debate.
    * provocar un diálogo = elicit + dialogue.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons.

    * * *
    provocar [A2 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (causar, ocasionar) to cause
    un cigarrillo pudo provocar la explosión the explosion may have been caused by a cigarette
    una decisión que ha provocado violentas polémicas a decision which has sparked off o prompted violent controversy
    no se sabe qué provocó el incendio it is not known what started the fire
    2 ( Med):
    provocar el parto to induce labor*
    las pastillas le provocaron una reacción cutánea the pills caused o brought on a skin reaction
    el antígeno provoca la formación de anticuerpos the antigen stimulates the production of antibodies
    B ‹persona›
    1 (al enfado) to provoke
    2 (en sentido sexual) to lead … on
    ■ provocar
    vi
    ( Andes) (apetecer): ¿le provoca un traguito? do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? ( BrE colloq)
    ( refl):
    se disparó un tiro provocándose la muerte he shot (and killed) himself
    * * *

     

    provocar ( conjugate provocar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹ explosión› to cause;

    ‹ incendio› to start;
    ‹ polémica› to spark off, prompt;
    ‹ reacción› to cause
    b) (Med) ‹ parto› to induce

    2 ‹ persona› ( al enfado) to provoke;
    ( sexualmente) to lead … on
    verbo intransitivo (Andes) ( apetecer):
    ◊ ¿le provoca un traguito? do you want a drink?, do you fancy a drink? (BrE colloq)

    provocar verbo transitivo
    1 (causar) to cause: su decisión fue provocada por..., his decision was prompted by..., provocar un incendio, to start a fire
    2 (un parto, etc) to induce: tuvieron que provocarle el vómito, they had to make her vomit
    3 (irritar, enfadar) to provoke: no lo provoques, don't provoke him
    4 (la ira, etc) to rouse
    (un aplauso) to provoke
    5 (excitar el deseo sexual) to arouse, provoke

    ' provocar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    campanada
    - desatar
    - engendrar
    - hacer
    - motivar
    - organizar
    - pinchar
    - chulear
    - dar
    - meter
    - parto
    - reclamo
    - torear
    English:
    bait
    - bring
    - bring about
    - bring on
    - cause
    - excite
    - fight
    - incur
    - induce
    - instigate
    - invite
    - prompt
    - provoke
    - raise
    - rouse
    - roust
    - short-circuit
    - spark off
    - start
    - stir up
    - tease
    - trigger
    - disturbance
    - draw
    - elicit
    - evoke
    - short
    - spark
    - stir
    - taunt
    - whip
    - wreck
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [incitar] to provoke;
    ¡no me provoques! don't provoke me!
    2. [causar] [accidente, muerte] to cause;
    [incendio, rebelión] to start; [sonrisa, burla] to elicit;
    una placa de hielo provocó el accidente the accident was caused by a sheet of black ice;
    provocó las risas de todos he made everyone laugh;
    el polvo me provoca estornudos dust makes me sneeze;
    su actitud me provoca más lástima que otra cosa her attitude makes me pity her more than anything else
    3. [excitar sexualmente] to lead on;
    le gusta provocar a los chicos con su ropa she likes to tease the boys with her clothes
    ♦ vi
    Carib, Col, Méx Fam [apetecer]
    ¿te provoca ir al cine? would you like to go to the movies?, Br do you fancy going to the cinema?;
    ¿te provoca un vaso de vino? would you like a glass of wine?, Br do you fancy a glass of wine?;
    ¿qué te provoca? what would you like to do?, Br what do you fancy doing?
    * * *
    v/t
    1 cause
    2 el enfado provoke
    3 sexualmente lead on
    4 parto induce
    5
    :
    ¿te provoca un café? S.Am. how about a coffee?
    * * *
    provocar {72} vt
    1) causar: to provoke, to cause
    2) irritar: to provoke, to pique
    * * *
    1. (en general) to cause
    2. (incendio) to start
    3. (una persona) to provoke

    Spanish-English dictionary > provocar

  • 20 savant

    Nota: Persona retrasada mental pero con ciertas habilidades cognitivas superdesarrolladas.
    Ex. Since it was first described a century ago, the phenomenon of the idiot savant -- the juxtaposition of severe mental handicap & prodigious mental ability -- has remained unexplained.
    * * *
    Nota: Persona retrasada mental pero con ciertas habilidades cognitivas superdesarrolladas.

    Ex: Since it was first described a century ago, the phenomenon of the idiot savant -- the juxtaposition of severe mental handicap & prodigious mental ability -- has remained unexplained.

    Spanish-English dictionary > savant

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