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roving

  • 1 itinerante

    adj.
    itinerant (vida).
    f. & m.
    itinerant.
    * * *
    1 itinerant
    * * *
    ADJ [biblioteca, exposición] travelling, traveling (EEUU); [compañía de teatro] touring

    embajador itinerante — roving ambassador, ambassador at large

    * * *
    adjetivo <exposición/muestra> traveling* (before n), itinerant (frml)
    * * *
    = roving, itinerant, touring, wayfaring, travelling [traveling, -USA].
    Ex. He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    Ex. In recent years the concept of the itinerant, or journeyman, cataloguer has been suggested as one solution to cataloguing backlogs and shortages of professionally trained cataloguers.
    Ex. The work of the Parliament's information offices is to educate the general public on the work of the Parliament by means of touring displays, posters, booklets, slides, etc..
    Ex. In the LAN world, there are several reasons to unite with other wayfaring librarians delving into the multifaceted world of computer networks.
    Ex. There were no plans to revive either branch, so the bookmobiles had to fill the vacuum as traveling branches.
    ----
    * asesoría itinerante en furgón = mobile advice van.
    * asesoría y oficina de información itinerante en furgón = mobile information and advice van.
    * furgón itinerante = travelling van.
    * reportero itinerante = roving reporter.
    * * *
    adjetivo <exposición/muestra> traveling* (before n), itinerant (frml)
    * * *
    = roving, itinerant, touring, wayfaring, travelling [traveling, -USA].

    Ex: He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.

    Ex: In recent years the concept of the itinerant, or journeyman, cataloguer has been suggested as one solution to cataloguing backlogs and shortages of professionally trained cataloguers.
    Ex: The work of the Parliament's information offices is to educate the general public on the work of the Parliament by means of touring displays, posters, booklets, slides, etc..
    Ex: In the LAN world, there are several reasons to unite with other wayfaring librarians delving into the multifaceted world of computer networks.
    Ex: There were no plans to revive either branch, so the bookmobiles had to fill the vacuum as traveling branches.
    * asesoría itinerante en furgón = mobile advice van.
    * asesoría y oficina de información itinerante en furgón = mobile information and advice van.
    * furgón itinerante = travelling van.
    * reportero itinerante = roving reporter.

    * * *
    ‹exposición/muestra› traveling* ( before n), itinerant ( frml) embajador
    * * *

    itinerante adjetivo travelling
    una compañía de teatro itinerante, a travelling theatre company
    ' itinerante' also found in these entries:
    English:
    itinerant
    - traveling
    - travelling
    - migrant
    * * *
    [vida] itinerant; [exposición] travelling; [embajador] roving
    * * *
    adj traveling, Br
    travelling, itinerant
    * * *
    ambulante: traveling, itinerant

    Spanish-English dictionary > itinerante

  • 2 ambulante

    adj.
    traveling.
    vendedor ambulante peddler, hawker
    f. & m.
    street vendor, street vender.
    * * *
    1 itinerant, travelling
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ (=que anda) walking; [circo, vendedor] travelling, traveling (EEUU); [biblioteca] mobile; [músico] itinerant; [actor] strolling
    2.
    SMF (=vendedor callejero) street seller, street vendor
    * * *
    adjetivo traveling* (before n)

    un grupo de teatro ambulante — a traveling o itinerant theater group

    biblioteca ambulante — bookmobile (AmE), mobile library (BrE)

    es una enciclopedia ambulante — (hum) she's a walking encyclopedia (hum)

    * * *
    = mobile, peripatetic, roving, touring, wayfaring, travelling [traveling, -USA], walking.
    Ex. One of the most cited shortcomings of mobile advice centres, that their conspicuousness deters people from using them, does not seem to have been a problem.
    Ex. NACAB have a research project to develop a mini-information pack that could be used by peripatetic advice workers.
    Ex. He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    Ex. The work of the Parliament's information offices is to educate the general public on the work of the Parliament by means of touring displays, posters, booklets, slides, etc..
    Ex. In the LAN world, there are several reasons to unite with other wayfaring librarians delving into the multifaceted world of computer networks.
    Ex. There were no plans to revive either branch, so the bookmobiles had to fill the vacuum as traveling branches.
    Ex. He is a walking history of modern librarianship and has been a mentor to many.
    ----
    * población con mercado ambulante = market centre, market town.
    * puesto ambulante = roadside vendor, street vendor.
    * vendedor ambulante = pedlar [peddler, -USA], roadside vendor, street vendor.
    * * *
    adjetivo traveling* (before n)

    un grupo de teatro ambulante — a traveling o itinerant theater group

    biblioteca ambulante — bookmobile (AmE), mobile library (BrE)

    es una enciclopedia ambulante — (hum) she's a walking encyclopedia (hum)

    * * *
    = mobile, peripatetic, roving, touring, wayfaring, travelling [traveling, -USA], walking.

    Ex: One of the most cited shortcomings of mobile advice centres, that their conspicuousness deters people from using them, does not seem to have been a problem.

    Ex: NACAB have a research project to develop a mini-information pack that could be used by peripatetic advice workers.
    Ex: He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    Ex: The work of the Parliament's information offices is to educate the general public on the work of the Parliament by means of touring displays, posters, booklets, slides, etc..
    Ex: In the LAN world, there are several reasons to unite with other wayfaring librarians delving into the multifaceted world of computer networks.
    Ex: There were no plans to revive either branch, so the bookmobiles had to fill the vacuum as traveling branches.
    Ex: He is a walking history of modern librarianship and has been a mentor to many.
    * población con mercado ambulante = market centre, market town.
    * puesto ambulante = roadside vendor, street vendor.
    * vendedor ambulante = pedlar [peddler, -USA], roadside vendor, street vendor.

    * * *
    traveling* ( before n)
    un grupo de teatro ambulante a traveling o itinerant theater group
    biblioteca ambulante bookmobile ( AmE), mobile library ( BrE)
    es una enciclopedia ambulante ( hum); she's a walking encyclopedia ( hum)
    vendedor2 (↑ vendedor (2)), venta
    * * *

    ambulante adjetivo
    traveling( conjugate traveling) ( before n);

    ambulante adjetivo travelling, US traveling, mobile

    ' ambulante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    vendedor
    English:
    bookmobile
    - car-boot sale
    - fleece
    - hawker
    - mobile
    - mobile library
    - peddler
    - pedlar
    - roving
    - sandwich-man
    - street musician
    - traveling
    - travelling
    - vendor
    - walking
    - door
    - itinerant
    * * *
    [circo, feria] travelling;
    vendedor ambulante pedlar, hawker;
    prohibida la venta ambulante [en letrero] no street trading;
    una biblioteca ambulante a mobile library
    * * *
    I adj traveling, Br
    travelling;
    venta ambulante peddling, hawking;
    vendedor ambulante hawker, street seller
    II m/f L.Am.
    vendedor hawker, street seller
    * * *
    1) : traveling, itinerant
    2)
    vendedor ambulante : street vendor
    * * *
    ambulante adj travelling

    Spanish-English dictionary > ambulante

  • 3 reportero itinerante

    Ex. He's been out and about in New York in the role of a roving reporter to film a documentary investigating fair trade practises.
    * * *

    Ex: He's been out and about in New York in the role of a roving reporter to film a documentary investigating fair trade practises.

    Spanish-English dictionary > reportero itinerante

  • 4 embajador

    m.
    ambassador, diplomat who represents a foreign country, emissary, envoy.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 ambassador
    * * *
    (f. - embajadora)
    noun
    * * *
    embajador, -a
    SM / F ambassador (en in)

    embajador(a) itinerante — roving ambassador, ambassador at large

    embajador(a) político/a — politically-appointed ambassador

    embajador(a) volante — = embajador itinerante

    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Adm, Pol) ambassador
    b) embajadora femenino ( esposa) ambassador's wife
    * * *
    Ex. We librarians are the ambassadors of an indivisible world, of culture and books and ideas.
    ----
    * embajador especial = envoy.
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Adm, Pol) ambassador
    b) embajadora femenino ( esposa) ambassador's wife
    * * *

    Ex: We librarians are the ambassadors of an indivisible world, of culture and books and ideas.

    * embajador especial = envoy.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Adm, Pol) ambassador
    2
    embajadora feminine (esposa) ambassador's wife
    Compuesto:
    embajador/embajadora itinerante or volante
    masculine, feminine roving ambassador
    * * *

    embajador
    ◊ - dora sustantivo masculino, femenino (Adm, Pol) ambassador

    embajador,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino ambassador

    ' embajador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acreditar
    - embajadora
    - saluda
    - categoría
    - retirar
    English:
    ambassador
    - recall
    - resign
    * * *
    embajador, -ora nm,f
    1. [diplomático] ambassador
    embajador itinerante roving ambassador
    2. [abanderado] ambassador;
    es el mejor embajador del cine español en Estados Unidos he is the best ambassador for Spanish cinema in the United States
    * * *
    m, embajadora f ambassador
    * * *
    : ambassador
    * * *
    embajador n ambassador

    Spanish-English dictionary > embajador

  • 5 errante

    adj.
    1 wandering.
    2 errant, wandering, strolling, vagabond.
    f. & m.
    wanderer, rambler, rover, gallivanter.
    * * *
    1 wandering, vagrant, errant
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=ambulante) [trovador] wandering; [reportero] roving; [vida] nomadic; [animal] stray, lost
    2) (=infiel) errant
    * * *
    a) < persona> wandering (before n), roaming (before n); < pueblo> wandering (before n)
    b) < mirada> faraway, distant
    * * *
    = wandering, errant.
    Ex. I've tolerated his remarks and his wandering hands because, frankly, I need the job.
    Ex. She was the type of kid who was always coming home with a new pet and we're not talking about your standard kitten in a shoebox or errant neighborhood mutt.
    ----
    * mente errante = meandering mind.
    * pensamiento errante = meandering thought.
    * * *
    a) < persona> wandering (before n), roaming (before n); < pueblo> wandering (before n)
    b) < mirada> faraway, distant
    * * *
    = wandering, errant.

    Ex: I've tolerated his remarks and his wandering hands because, frankly, I need the job.

    Ex: She was the type of kid who was always coming home with a new pet and we're not talking about your standard kitten in a shoebox or errant neighborhood mutt.
    * mente errante = meandering mind.
    * pensamiento errante = meandering thought.

    * * *
    ‹persona› wandering ( before n), roaming ( before n), roving ( before n) ( liter); ‹pueblo› wandering ( before n); ‹mirada› faraway, distant
    llevó una vida errante she led a nomadic existence
    * * *

    errante adjetivo

    ‹ pueblo› wandering ( before n)
    b) ‹ mirada› faraway, distant;


    errante adjetivo wandering
    ' errante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    vagabunda
    - vagabundo
    English:
    roaming
    - roving
    - traveler
    * * *
    errante adj
    wandering;
    una estrella errante a wandering star
    * * *
    adj wandering
    * * *
    errante adj
    errabundo, vagabundo: errant, wandering

    Spanish-English dictionary > errante

  • 6 errabundo

    adj.
    wandering, strolling about.
    * * *
    1 wandering, vagrant
    2 figurado aimless
    * * *
    ADJ wandering, roving
    * * *
    - da adjetivo errante (a)
    * * *
    - da adjetivo errante (a)
    * * *
    wandering ( before n), roving ( before n)
    * * *
    errabundo, -a adj
    wandering, roving
    * * *
    errabundo, -da adj
    errante, vagabundo: wandering

    Spanish-English dictionary > errabundo

  • 7 moderador

    adj.
    balancing, buffering, stabilizing.
    m.
    moderator.
    * * *
    1 moderating
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (de reunión) chairperson; (- hombre) chairman; (- mujer) chairwoman; (de debate) moderator
    * * *
    moderador, -a
    1.
    ADJ [papel, poder] moderating
    2. SM / F
    1) [en un debate, coloquio] moderator, chairperson; (TV) presenter
    2) (Pol) moderator
    3.
    SM (Fís) moderator
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo moderating (before n)
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino
    1) ( en debate) moderator, chair; (Rad, TV) presenter
    2) moderador masculino (Fís) moderator
    * * *
    = show host, moderator, praeses, facilitator, moderating.
    Ex. He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    Ex. Academic disputations are generally entered under the heading for the faculty moderator.
    Ex. A praeses is a faculty moderator of an academic disputation, who normally proposes a thesis and participates in the ensuing disputation.
    Ex. The facilitator begins with broad, general questions and leads the group to focus more and more tightly on specifics as the meeting progresses.
    Ex. The study finds some interesting support for the moderating effects of learning styles.
    ----
    * moderador de la lista = list moderator.
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo moderating (before n)
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino
    1) ( en debate) moderator, chair; (Rad, TV) presenter
    2) moderador masculino (Fís) moderator
    * * *
    = show host, moderator, praeses, facilitator, moderating.

    Ex: He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.

    Ex: Academic disputations are generally entered under the heading for the faculty moderator.
    Ex: A praeses is a faculty moderator of an academic disputation, who normally proposes a thesis and participates in the ensuing disputation.
    Ex: The facilitator begins with broad, general questions and leads the group to focus more and more tightly on specifics as the meeting progresses.
    Ex: The study finds some interesting support for the moderating effects of learning styles.
    * moderador de la lista = list moderator.

    * * *
    moderating ( before n)
    masculine, feminine
    A (en un debate) moderator, chair; ( Rad, TV) presenter
    B
    moderador masculine ( Fís) moderator
    * * *

    moderador
    ◊ - dora sustantivo masculino, femenino ( en debate) moderator, chair;


    (Rad, TV) presenter
    moderador,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino chairperson
    ' moderador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    moderadora
    English:
    act
    - moderator
    * * *
    moderador, -ora
    ♦ adj
    moderating;
    un elemento moderador de las temperaturas a factor which keeps temperatures at a reasonable level
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [de debate] chair, facilitator
    2. Informát [de grupo de noticias] moderator
    ♦ nm
    Fís moderator
    * * *
    I adj moderating
    II m, moderadora f TV presenter
    * * *
    : moderator, chair

    Spanish-English dictionary > moderador

  • 8 móvil3

    3 = mobile, movable, moveable, moving, roving.
    Ex. One of the most cited shortcomings of mobile advice centres, that their conspicuousness deters people from using them, does not seem to have been a problem.
    Ex. A mock-up is a representation of a device or process that usually has movable parts that can be manipulated.
    Ex. Furniture which traditionally has been conceived as 'fixed' or 'built in' is demountable and moveable.
    Ex. For one, the record is made by a moving beam of electrons rather than a moving pointer, for the reason that an electron beam can sweep across the picture very rapidly indeed.
    Ex. He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    ----
    * antena de telefonía móvil = cellular antenna.
    * biblioteca móvil = bookmobile, mobile library.
    * biblioteca móvil en trailer = trailer library.
    * blanco móvil = moving target.
    * casa móvil = mobile home.
    * encuentro de bibliotecas móviles = mobile meet.
    * inmóvil = immobile.
    * reunión de bibliotecas móviles = mobilemeet.
    * tipo móvil = moveable type.
    * tipos móviles = movable type.
    * unidad móvil = mobile unit.
    * zona para casas móviles = mobile home park, trailer park.

    Spanish-English dictionary > móvil3

  • 9 presentador

    adj.
    presenting.
    m.
    1 master of ceremonies, anchorman, front man, host.
    2 presenter, master of ceremonies in charge a presenting awards.
    3 presenter, petitioner, applier, applicant.
    4 presenter, speaker.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 presenter
    * * *
    (f. - presentadora)
    noun
    * * *
    presentador, -a
    SM / F
    1) [de acto] host/hostess, presenter
    2) (TV, Radio) [de debate, documental, informativo] presenter; [de programa de variedades, concurso] host/hostess, presenter
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino presenter
    * * *
    = show host, presenter, introducer.
    Ex. He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    Ex. The problem of inadequate citation of conference papers can usually be traced back to authors of papers or books who cite conference papers they have heard or read by somewhat laconic statements of the name of the author/ presenter of the paper.
    Ex. Like a good introducer, the author leads students to the text, presents the difficulties and alternatives, and then retreats to allow them to make up their own mind.
    ----
    * presentador de radio = radio show host, broadcaster.
    * presentador de televisión = talking head, broadcaster.
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino presenter
    * * *
    = show host, presenter, introducer.

    Ex: He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.

    Ex: The problem of inadequate citation of conference papers can usually be traced back to authors of papers or books who cite conference papers they have heard or read by somewhat laconic statements of the name of the author/ presenter of the paper.
    Ex: Like a good introducer, the author leads students to the text, presents the difficulties and alternatives, and then retreats to allow them to make up their own mind.
    * presentador de radio = radio show host, broadcaster.
    * presentador de televisión = talking head, broadcaster.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    presenter
    Compuesto:
    presentador/presentadora de programa de videos or ( Esp) vídeos musicales
    video jockey, veejay ( AmE colloq)
    * * *

    presentador
    ◊ - dora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    presenter
    presentador,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 presenter
    2 (de un concurso, etc) (hombre) host, (mujer) hostess
    3 (de un informativo) newsreader

    ' presentador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    escalada
    - presentadora
    English:
    anchor
    - host
    - newsreader
    - presenter
    - broadcaster
    - news
    * * *
    presentador, -ora nm,f
    presenter
    * * *
    m, presentadora f TV presenter
    * * *
    : newscaster, anchorman m, anchorwoman f
    * * *
    presentador n presenter

    Spanish-English dictionary > presentador

  • 10 programa de debate

    (n.) = talk show
    Ex. He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    * * *
    (n.) = talk show

    Ex: He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.

    Spanish-English dictionary > programa de debate

  • 11 programa de entrevistas

    (n.) = talk show
    Ex. He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    * * *
    (n.) = talk show

    Ex: He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.

    Spanish-English dictionary > programa de entrevistas

  • 12 reportero

    m.
    reporter, newspaper reporter, news hawk, newscaster.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 reporter
    * * *
    (f. - reportera)
    noun
    * * *
    reportero, -a
    SM / F reporter

    reportero/a gráfico/a — news photographer, press photographer

    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino reporter
    * * *
    = reporter, legman [legmen, -pl.], newspaper reporter, newspaper correspondent.
    Ex. If the report is to a considerable extent in the words of the reporter then entry will be made under the heading for the reporter.
    Ex. The article 'Elmore Leonard's legman' describes the work of Gregg Sutter, the full time researcher of the US mystery writer Elmore Leonard.
    Ex. A newspaper reporter has been threatened after writing about drug trafficking.
    Ex. Sir George Hubert Wilkins was leader of the expedition in which a submarine travelled under Arctic pack ice for the 1st time, as well as a scientist, photographer, and newspaper correspondent.
    ----
    * periodista reportero de imágenes = video journalist.
    * reportero de guerra = war journalist, war correspondent, war reporter.
    * reportero de imágenes = video journalist.
    * reportero itinerante = roving reporter.
    * reportero político = political reporter, political correspondent.
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino reporter
    * * *
    = reporter, legman [legmen, -pl.], newspaper reporter, newspaper correspondent.

    Ex: If the report is to a considerable extent in the words of the reporter then entry will be made under the heading for the reporter.

    Ex: The article 'Elmore Leonard's legman' describes the work of Gregg Sutter, the full time researcher of the US mystery writer Elmore Leonard.
    Ex: A newspaper reporter has been threatened after writing about drug trafficking.
    Ex: Sir George Hubert Wilkins was leader of the expedition in which a submarine travelled under Arctic pack ice for the 1st time, as well as a scientist, photographer, and newspaper correspondent.
    * periodista reportero de imágenes = video journalist.
    * reportero de guerra = war journalist, war correspondent, war reporter.
    * reportero de imágenes = video journalist.
    * reportero itinerante = roving reporter.
    * reportero político = political reporter, political correspondent.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    reporter
    Compuesto:
    press photographer
    * * *

    reportero
    ◊ -ra sustantivo masculino, femenino

    reporter;
    reportero gráfico press photographer
    reportero,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino reporter

    ' reportero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    reportera
    English:
    court reporter
    - press
    - reporter
    * * *
    reportero, -a nm,f
    reporter
    reportero gráfico press photographer
    * * *
    m, reportera f reporter
    * * *
    reportero, -ra n
    1) : reporter
    2)
    reportero gráfico : photojournalist
    * * *
    reportero n reporter

    Spanish-English dictionary > reportero

  • 13 vagabundo

    adj.
    vagabond, do-nothing, stray, footloose.
    m.
    vagabond, loafer, bum, do-nothing.
    * * *
    1 wandering, roving
    2 peyorativo vagrant
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (trotamundos) wanderer, rover
    2 peyorativo vagrant, tramp, US hobo
    3 (sin casa) tramp, US hobo
    \
    perro vagabundo stray dog
    * * *
    (f. - vagabunda)
    noun
    rover, vagabond
    * * *
    vagabundo, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=errante) [persona] wandering, roving; [perro] stray
    2) (=pordiosero) vagabond frm; pey vagrant
    2. SM/ F
    1) (=persona errante) wanderer, rover
    2) (=pordiosero) vagabond frm, tramp, bum (EEUU); pey vagrant
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < perro> stray
    II
    - da masculino, femenino tramp, vagrant
    * * *
    = vagabond, transient, homeless man [homeless people, -pl.], tramp, vagrant, rover, errant, swagman, hobo [hoboes/hobos, -pl.], bagman.
    Ex. Some headings are vague and without scope notes to define them: ROBBERS AND OUTLAWS; CRIME AND CRIMINALS; ROGUES AND vagabonds.
    Ex. The librarian would at the end of such a search have a list of terms such as the following: emigres, evacuees, fugitives, immigration, migrants, migration, naturalisation, population transfers, transients.
    Ex. This article presents the issue of library use by homeless people in the form of two alternating fictional monologues, one in the mind of a homeless man, the other in the mind of a library official.
    Ex. These indigents, known to the public as tramps & skid row winos, are very visible & more likely to be arrested for drunkenness & other petty offenses than a person with a permanent home.
    Ex. This paper outlines the problems caused by vagrants who use public libraries as a refuge.
    Ex. Greed and fearlessness linked the Elizabethan sea rover, the 18th-century naval captain hungry for prize money, and the early-Victorian soldier for whom the storming of an Indian city offered the chance of booty.
    Ex. She was the type of kid who was always coming home with a new pet and we're not talking about your standard kitten in a shoebox or errant neighborhood mutt.
    Ex. After colonisation, swagmen wandered the countryside looking for work, looking for gold, running from something, seeking inspiration, or just living off the land.
    Ex. Chicago became the " Hobo Capital of America" during the late nineteenth century.
    Ex. His hand went to the pistol in his belt as he turned and found a ragged, filthy bagman looking up at him from beneath a blanket of newspapers.
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    * hacerse un vagabundo = take to + the road.
    * pensión para vagabundos = flophouse.
    * vagabundos = homeless people.
    * vagabundos, los = homeless, the.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < perro> stray
    II
    - da masculino, femenino tramp, vagrant
    * * *
    = vagabond, transient, homeless man [homeless people, -pl.], tramp, vagrant, rover, errant, swagman, hobo [hoboes/hobos, -pl.], bagman.

    Ex: Some headings are vague and without scope notes to define them: ROBBERS AND OUTLAWS; CRIME AND CRIMINALS; ROGUES AND vagabonds.

    Ex: The librarian would at the end of such a search have a list of terms such as the following: emigres, evacuees, fugitives, immigration, migrants, migration, naturalisation, population transfers, transients.
    Ex: This article presents the issue of library use by homeless people in the form of two alternating fictional monologues, one in the mind of a homeless man, the other in the mind of a library official.
    Ex: These indigents, known to the public as tramps & skid row winos, are very visible & more likely to be arrested for drunkenness & other petty offenses than a person with a permanent home.
    Ex: This paper outlines the problems caused by vagrants who use public libraries as a refuge.
    Ex: Greed and fearlessness linked the Elizabethan sea rover, the 18th-century naval captain hungry for prize money, and the early-Victorian soldier for whom the storming of an Indian city offered the chance of booty.
    Ex: She was the type of kid who was always coming home with a new pet and we're not talking about your standard kitten in a shoebox or errant neighborhood mutt.
    Ex: After colonisation, swagmen wandered the countryside looking for work, looking for gold, running from something, seeking inspiration, or just living off the land.
    Ex: Chicago became the " Hobo Capital of America" during the late nineteenth century.
    Ex: His hand went to the pistol in his belt as he turned and found a ragged, filthy bagman looking up at him from beneath a blanket of newspapers.
    * hacerse un vagabundo = take to + the road.
    * pensión para vagabundos = flophouse.
    * vagabundos = homeless people.
    * vagabundos, los = homeless, the.

    * * *
    vagabundo1 -da
    ‹perro› stray
    niños vagabundos street urchins
    vagabundo2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    hobo ( AmE), tramp ( BrE), vagabond ( liter)
    * * *

    vagabundo
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ perro› stray;

    niños vagabundos street urchins
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    tramp, vagrant
    vagabundo,-a
    I adj (sin rumbo cierto) wandering
    (perro) stray dog
    II m,f (errante) wanderer
    (sin hogar) vagrant, tramp

    ' vagabundo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    vagabunda
    - atorrante
    English:
    bum
    - down-and-out
    - hobo
    - roaming
    - runabout
    - tramp
    - vagrant
    - vagabond
    * * *
    vagabundo, -a
    ♦ adj
    [persona] vagrant; [perro] stray
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [sin domicilio] tramp, vagrant, US bum
    2. Ven [sinvergüenza] crook
    * * *
    I adj perro stray
    II m, vagabunda f hobo, Br
    tramp
    * * *
    vagabundo, -da adj
    1) errante: wandering
    2) : stray
    vagabundo, -da n
    : vagrant, bum, vagabond
    * * *
    vagabundo n tramp

    Spanish-English dictionary > vagabundo

  • 14 móvil

    adj.
    movable, mobile, moveable, motile.
    m.
    1 motive, drive, inducement, motivation.
    2 mobile phone, cellular phone, mobile, cell phone.
    3 mobile, suspended decorative sculpture.
    * * *
    1 movable, mobile
    1 FÍSICA moving body
    2 (motivo) motive
    3 (decoración, juguete) mobile
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) (=motivo) motive
    2) (=teléfono) mobile (phone) (Brit), cellphone (EEUU)
    3) (Arte) mobile
    2.
    ADJ [teléfono, unidad] mobile
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo mobile
    II
    1)
    a) (frml) ( impulso) motive
    b) ( adorno) mobile
    2)
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo mobile
    II
    1)
    a) (frml) ( impulso) motive
    b) ( adorno) mobile
    2)
    * * *
    móvil1
    1 = cellular phone, cell phone.

    Ex: By the end of 1992 there were more than 10 million cellular phone users in the US.

    Ex: The particular issue has to do with pagers and cell phones going off in a public library and the need for a policy to control the situation.
    * mercado de telefonía móvil = mobile telephone market.
    * móvil con cámara = cameraphone.
    * red de telefonía móvil = mobile network.
    * servicio de telefonía móvil = mobile telephone service, mobile phone service.
    * tecnología móvil = cellular technology.

    móvil2
    2 = mobile.
    Nota: Juguete que se suspende generalmente del techo y que consta de varias partes ligeras que se mueven y a veces hacen ruido con la corriente de aire o al abrir una puerta.

    Ex: The aim of the scheme is to organise a central pool of library displays (posters, polystyrene cutouts, mobiles, letter sets etc.) = El objetivo de este sistema de clasificación es organizar un fondo común central de objetos utilizados en las exposiciones de la biblioteca (posters, recortables de poliestireno, juguetes móviles colgantes, juegos de letras, etc.).

    * escala móvil = sliding scale.
    * pasillo móvil = travelator, moving walkway, moving sidewalk, moving pavement, walkalator.
    * rampa móvil = moving ramp.

    móvil3
    3 = mobile, movable, moveable, moving, roving.

    Ex: One of the most cited shortcomings of mobile advice centres, that their conspicuousness deters people from using them, does not seem to have been a problem.

    Ex: A mock-up is a representation of a device or process that usually has movable parts that can be manipulated.
    Ex: Furniture which traditionally has been conceived as 'fixed' or 'built in' is demountable and moveable.
    Ex: For one, the record is made by a moving beam of electrons rather than a moving pointer, for the reason that an electron beam can sweep across the picture very rapidly indeed.
    Ex: He conducted the morning sessions as if he were a roving talk show host.
    * antena de telefonía móvil = cellular antenna.
    * biblioteca móvil = bookmobile, mobile library.
    * biblioteca móvil en trailer = trailer library.
    * blanco móvil = moving target.
    * casa móvil = mobile home.
    * encuentro de bibliotecas móviles = mobile meet.
    * inmóvil = immobile.
    * reunión de bibliotecas móviles = mobilemeet.
    * tipo móvil = moveable type.
    * tipos móviles = movable type.
    * unidad móvil = mobile unit.
    * zona para casas móviles = mobile home park, trailer park.

    * * *
    mobile
    A ( frml) (impulso) motive
    el móvil del crimen the motive for the crime
    su acción obedeció a móviles interesados his motives were purely selfish, he acted out of selfishness
    B
    1 ( Fís) moving object
    2 (adorno) mobile
    C ( Esp) ( Tel) mobile (telephone)
    * * *

     

    móvil adjetivo
    mobile
    ■ sustantivo masculino
    1 (frml) ( impulso) motive
    2 ( adorno) mobile
    3 (Esp) ( teléfono) cell phone (AmE), mobile (BrE)
    móvil
    I adjetivo mobile
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 (razón) motive
    2 fam Tel mobile phone, US cellular phone
    ' móvil' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alguna
    - alguno
    - bicho
    - telefonía
    - teléfono
    - llamar
    English:
    aim at
    - ambulatory
    - cellular phone
    - get at
    - mobile
    - motive
    - movable
    - moving
    - pool
    - sliding scale
    - call
    - cell
    - fleet
    - sliding
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    un blanco móvil a moving target;
    teléfono móvil cellphone, Br mobile phone;
    unidad móvil mobile unit
    ♦ nm
    1. [motivo] motive;
    se desconoce el móvil del secuestro the motive for the kidnapping is unknown
    2. [teléfono] mobile
    3. [juguete] mobile
    * * *
    I adj mobile
    II m TELEC cell phone, Br
    mobile (phone)
    * * *
    móvil adj
    : mobile
    móvil nm
    1) motivo: motive
    2) : mobile
    * * *
    móvil1 adj (portátil) mobile
    móvil2 n
    1. (causa) motive
    2. (decoración) mobile

    Spanish-English dictionary > móvil

  • 15 vago

    adj.
    1 footloose, errant, roving, shiftless.
    2 nebulous, amorphous, formless, shapeless.
    3 vague, general, unspecific.
    4 rambling, excursive.
    f. & m.
    1 bum, loafer, deadbeat, good-for-nothing.
    2 vagus.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: vagar.
    * * *
    1 (impreciso) vague
    ————————
    1 (vacío) empty; (desocupado) vacant
    2 (holgazán) lazy, idle
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (holgazán) idler, layabout, slacker
    2 DERECHO vagrant
    \
    hacer el vago to laze around
    * * *
    1. (f. - vaga)
    adj.
    1) idle, lazy
    2. (f. - vaga)
    noun
    * * *
    vago, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (gen) vague; (Arte, Fot) blurred, ill-defined; (=indeterminado) indeterminate
    2) [persona] (=perezoso) lazy, slack; (=poco fiable) unreliable; (=ocioso) idle, unemployed
    3) [ojo] lazy; [objeto] idle, unused; [espacio] empty
    4) (=errante) roving, wandering
    5) †

    en vago — [mantenerse] unsteadily; [esforzarse] in vain

    dar golpes en vago — to flail about, beat the air

    2. SM/ F
    1) (=holgazán) idler, lazybones *; (=inútil) useless individual, dead loss
    2) (=vagabundo) tramp, vagrant, bum (EEUU); (=pobre) down-and-out
    * * *
    I
    - ga adjetivo
    1) (fam) < persona> lazy, idle
    2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; < explicación> vague
    II
    - ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)
    * * *
    I
    - ga adjetivo
    1) (fam) < persona> lazy, idle
    2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; < explicación> vague
    II
    - ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)
    * * *
    vago1
    1 = slacker, bum, lazybones, layabout, idler.

    Ex: The article is entitled 'No slackers here: SLA's youngest members have the vision and enthusiasm to shape the profession'.

    Ex: Although the results provide support for the 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.
    Ex: Many see his art as a vocation for lazybones and social misfits.
    Ex: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.
    Ex: This magazine prints essays and stories that celebrate the joyful life of an idler.
    * persona vaga y mal vestida = slob.

    vago2
    2 = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], vague [vaguer -comp., vaguest -sup.], feeble, loose [looser -comp., loosest -sup.], wooly [woolier -comp., wooliest -sup.], indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous.

    Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.

    Ex: This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.
    Ex: Some of the terms are vague.
    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: Kast points out that there is a 'rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches' in this developing field.
    Ex: On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.
    Ex: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
    Ex: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
    Ex: The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.
    * de manera vaga = hazily.

    * * *
    vago1 -ga
    A ( fam); ‹persona› lazy, idle
    B ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy; ‹contorno/forma› vague, indistinct
    hay un vago parecido entre los dos there is a vague resemblance between them
    me dio una explicación muy vaga de lo que había sucedido she gave me a very vague explanation of what had happened, she only explained very vaguely what had happened
    tengo la vaga sensación de haberlo visto antes I have a vague feeling I've seen him before
    vago2 -ga
    masculine, feminine
    ( fam)
    layabout, slacker ( colloq)
    deja ya de hacer el vago y ponte a trabajar stop lazing around and get some work done ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo vagar: ( conjugate vagar)

    vago es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    vagó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    vagar    
    vago
    vagar ( conjugate vagar) verbo intransitivo
    to wander, roam
    vago
    ◊ -ga adjetivo

    1 (fam) ‹ persona› lazy, idle
    2 ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy;
    ‹contorno/forma› vague, indistinct;
    ‹explicación/parecido› vague
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq);

    vagar vi (ir sin rumbo fijo) to wander, roam: vagamos por la ciudad toda la noche, we wandered around the town all night long
    vagaba por el desierto, he was wandering about in the desert
    vago,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 pey (holgazán) lazy
    2 (difuso) slight, vague: tiene una vaga idea de lo que ocurrió, he has a vague idea of what happened
    II m,f (gandul) layabout
    ' vago' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    boluda
    - boludo
    - floja
    - flojo
    - sambenito
    - señorito
    - vaga
    - hecho
    - indeterminado
    English:
    bone-idle
    - dim
    - do-nothing
    - easy-going
    - faint
    - hazy
    - indistinct
    - layabout
    - obscure
    - screw around
    - slack
    - slob
    - swan about
    - swan around
    - vague
    - work shy
    - bum
    - wooly
    * * *
    vago, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [persona] lazy, idle;
    Fam Hum
    2. [imagen, recuerdo] vague
    3. Med
    nervio vago vagus nerve
    ♦ nm,f
    lazy person, idler;
    ser un vago to be lazy o idle
    ♦ nm
    hacer el vago to laze around
    * * *
    I adj
    1 ( holgazán) lazy;
    hacer el vago laze around
    2 ( indefinido) vague
    II m, vaga f idler, Br
    layabout fam
    * * *
    vago, -ga adj
    1) : vague
    2) perezoso: lazy, idle
    vago, -ga n
    1) : idler, loafer
    2) vagabundo: vagrant, bum
    * * *
    vago1 adj
    1. (gandul) lazy [comp. lazier; superl. laziest]
    2. (impreciso) vague
    vago2 n lazybones

    Spanish-English dictionary > vago

  • 16 corsario

    m.
    1 corsair, raider, sea-roving bandit, Viking.
    2 fast pirate ship.
    3 privateer.
    * * *
    1 privateer
    1 privateer
    ————————
    1 privateer
    * * *
    SM privateer, corsair
    * * *
    masculino corsair, privateer
    * * *
    Ex. The barnacled cannons found in the coastal waters off Catalina Island are thought to belong to a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd.
    * * *
    masculino corsair, privateer
    * * *

    Ex: The barnacled cannons found in the coastal waters off Catalina Island are thought to belong to a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd.

    * * *
    corsair, privateer
    * * *
    corsario, -a
    ♦ adj
    [pirata] pirate;
    un buque corsario a pirate ship
    ♦ nm
    [pirata] corsair, pirate
    * * *
    m HIST corsair, privateer
    * * *
    : privateer

    Spanish-English dictionary > corsario

  • 17 merodeador

    adj.
    marauding, roving.
    m.
    marauder, loiterer, vagabond, prowler.
    * * *
    1 prowling
    2 MILITAR marauding
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 prowler
    2 MILITAR marauder
    * * *
    merodeador, -a
    1.
    ADJ prowling; [pandilla, tropas] marauding
    2.
    SM / F prowler
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino prowler
    * * *
    Ex. Certainly the last thing we want is that books be shut up in tastefully decorated warehouses, watched over by highly trained storekeepers whose main purpose is to see that everything is kept tidily in its place and, as far as possible, untouched by human hands -- especially the sticky-fingered hands of marauding children.
    * * *
    - dora masculino, femenino prowler
    * * *

    Ex: Certainly the last thing we want is that books be shut up in tastefully decorated warehouses, watched over by highly trained storekeepers whose main purpose is to see that everything is kept tidily in its place and, as far as possible, untouched by human hands -- especially the sticky-fingered hands of marauding children.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    prowler
    * * *
    merodeador, -ora nm,f
    prowler, snooper
    * * *
    1) : marauder
    2) : prowler

    Spanish-English dictionary > merodeador

  • 18 andariego

    adj.
    1 restless, of a roving disposition.
    2 fond of walking, fond of travelling, footloose, good at walking.
    * * *
    1 (que anda) fond of walking
    2 (que viaja) fond of travelling (US traveling)
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (andador) good walker
    2 (viajero) person who likes travelling (US traveling)
    * * *
    ADJ fond of travelling, restless
    * * *
    - ga adjetivo fond of walking
    * * *
    - ga adjetivo fond of walking
    * * *
    fond of o ( BrE) keen on walking
    * * *
    andariego, -a, andarín, -ina adj
    fond of walking;
    es muy andariego he's a very keen walker
    * * *
    adj fond of walking

    Spanish-English dictionary > andariego

  • 19 deambulatorio

    adj.
    deambulatory, ambulatory, roving.
    m.
    apse aisle.
    * * *
    1 ambulatory
    * * *
    SM (Rel) ambulatory
    * * *
    masculino ambulatory
    * * *
    masculino ambulatory
    * * *
    ambulatory
    * * *
    ambulatory

    Spanish-English dictionary > deambulatorio

  • 20 placero

    adj.
    1 belonging to a market or other public place.
    2 roving idly about.
    * * *
    placero, -a
    SM / F
    1) (=vendedor) stallholder, market trader
    2) [ocioso] gossip
    * * *
    masculino (Per) street vendor
    * * *
    masculino (Per) street vendor
    * * *
    ( Per)
    street vendor
    * * *

    placero sustantivo masculino (Per) street vendor

    Spanish-English dictionary > placero

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