sexual reaction

- recollection reaction
- acrosome reaction
- addition reaction
- alarm reaction
- alkali reaction
- all-or-none reaction
- antigen-antibody reaction
- As reaction
- autocatalytic reaction
- back reaction
- behavioral reaction
- bi-bi reaction
- blast-transformation reaction
- bodily reaction
- cell-mediated immune reaction
- chain reaction
- choosing reaction
- color reaction
- complement-fixation reaction
- conditioned reflex reaction
- consecutive reaction
- cortical reaction
- coupling reaction
- dark reaction
- decomposition reaction
- defense reaction
- deferred reaction
- delayed reaction
- depressory reaction
- early reaction
- elimination reaction
- endergonic reaction
- energy-releasing reaction
- energy-trapping reaction
- energy-yielding reaction
- enzymatic reaction
- exchange reaction
- exclusion reaction
- exergonic reaction
- exothermic reaction
- Feulgen reaction
- finishing dark reaction
- forward reaction
- graft versus host reaction
- Gram reaction
- group reaction
- heat-absorbing reaction
- heat-generating reaction
- heat-producing reaction
- hemagglutination reaction
- hemagglutination-inhibition reaction
- heterohemagglutinin reaction
- high-energy reaction
- Hill reaction
- hopping reaction
- hypersensitivity reaction
- idling reaction
- maladaptive reaction
- mating reaction
- motor reaction
- multistep reaction
- multisubstrate reaction
- optomotor reaction
- orientative-trying reaction
- orthostatic reaction
- oxidation reaction
- oxidizing reaction
- paraserum reaction
- periodic acid-Schiff reaction
- peroxidase reaction
- phage-antiphage reaction
- photochemical reaction
- phototactic reaction
- placing reaction
- precipitation reaction
- primed reaction
- priming reaction
- radiochemical reaction
- redox reaction
- reversible reaction
- sexual reaction
- shifting reaction
- side reaction
- single-step reaction
- soil reaction
- specific vigilance reaction
- staining reaction
- static reaction
- synthetic reaction
- turbidity reaction
- typing reaction
- ultrarapid reaction
- uninhibited reaction
- unprimed reaction
- vasomotor reaction
- vigilance reaction

Ex: The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.

Ex: Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.

* acto barbárico = barbaric act.

* acto comunicativo = communication act.

* acto de cobardía = act of cowardice.

* acto de evitar = avoidance.

* acto de fé = act of faith.

* acto delictivo = delinquent act, criminal act.

* acto de piratería = piracy.

* acto de publicar = publication.

* acto de rebeldía = act of opposition.

* acto de traición = treasonable, treasonable, act of treachery, act of treason.

* acto espontáneo de = random act of.

* acto extraño = weirdness.

* acto ilícito = wrongful act.

* acto irracional = irrational act.

* acto oficial = official act, public engagement.

* acto racional = rational act.

* acto raro = weirdness.

* acto reflejo = knee-jerk reaction.

* acto relacionado con el libro = book event.

* acto seguido = thereupon [thereon].

* acto sexual = sexual act.

* actos heróicos = heroics.

* acto social = networking event.

* acto terrorista = act of terror.

* cometer un acto de traición = commit + an act of treason.

* cometer un acto violento = commit + violence.

* en el acto = ipso facto, outright, on the spot, while-you-wait [while-u-wait], at the drop of a hat.

* fusilar en el acto = shoot on + sight.

* organizar un acto = hold + event.

* organizar un acto público = organise + function.

* presidir un acto = preside over + act.

 

acto sustantivo masculino
1



[policía/bombero] to die in the course of one's duty;



en el acto ‹ morir› instantly;

‹ acudir› immediately;

2


acto sustantivo masculino
1 act, action: es un acto impropio de su carácter, the behaviour is out of character for him
acto reflejo, reflex action
acto sexual, sexual intercourse
2 (evento público) ceremony: el acto de inauguración fue muy aburrido, the opening ceremony was really boring
3 Teat act
♦ Locuciones: hacer acto de presencia, to put in an appearance
acto seguido, immediately afterwards
Mil en acto de servicio, in action
en el acto, at once: vinieron en el acto, they came immediately
"se reparan zapatos en el acto", "shoes repaired while you wait"
' acto' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acción
- alevosa
- alevoso
- amarre
- coordinador
- coordinadora
- deplorable
- desarrollo
- deslucir
- escena
- fastos
- impresión
- presencia
- responder
- robar
- seca
- seco
- sumisión
- vandalismo
- abrir
- amor
- asistir
- atrocidad
- barbaridad
- cerrar
- cívico
- clausurar
- comienzo
- cultural
- desarrollar
- descortesía
- disparatado
- duración
- emotivo
- entierro
- estupidez
- extravagancia
- gamberrada
- hecho
- homenaje
- injusticia
- introducir
- lícito
- ligereza
- majadería
- maldad
- necedad
- obra
- patrocinador
- patrocinar
English:
act
- afterwards
- appearance
- benefit
- deed
- do
- formal
- function
- ill-considered
- impure
- impurity
- mindless
- mount
- on
- opening
- outright
- presence
- proceedings
- reception
- restoration
- roll call
- sober
- spot
- state
- stay away
- then
- action
- defiance
- intercourse
- most
- there
acto de conciliación = formal attempt to reach an out-of-court settlement; Ling acto de habla speech act; Ling acto ilocutivo illocution, illocutionary act; Ling acto perlocutivo perlocution, perlocutionary act; [policía] he was killed in the course of his duty;

1. 2. 1. 2.

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 ( conjugate provocar) verbo transitivo
1

‹ incendio› to start;
‹ polémica› to spark off, prompt;
‹ reacción› to cause

2 ‹ persona› ( al enfado) to provoke;
( sexualmente) to lead … on
verbo intransitivo (Andes) ( apetecer):

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
[incendio, rebelión] to start; [sonrisa, burla] to elicit; Carib, Col, Méx Fam [apetecer]

Ex: A picture of dissatisfaction and helplessness emerged, with no pattern of action.

Ex: Powerlessness may be a reaction to the size of a problem or may be created by fear of the consequences of action.

Ex: For years past, the harpies of power have been industriously inculcating the idea that all our difficulties proceed from the impotency of Congress.

impotencia sustantivo femenino ( falta de poder) powerlessness, helplessness;
(Med) impotence
impotencia sustantivo femenino
1 powerlessness, helplessness
2 Med impotence
' impotencia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
sensación
English:
helplessness
- impotence
- helpless

["stImjU'leISən] to +gen); (of criticism) Anregung f (of zu); (of response) Hervorrufen nt

pl atracciones (Teat) (=espectáculos) attractions

Ex: It is therefore one of the librarian's prime tasks to preserve the attractiveness of the stock for as long as possible.

Ex: In many cases needs other than those of the user are driving the further introduction of the Internet into libraries, e. g. the glamour and marketing value of connectivity, and the egos of librarians = En muchos casos necesidades diferentes a las de los usuarios están fomentando aún más la introducción de Internet en las bibliotecas, por ej., el carisma y el valor comercial de la red y el ego del bibliotecario.

Ex: Sometimes this exchange can be sufficient to reshape our reaction from one of dislike and puzzlement to liking and understanding.

Ex: The draw of earning up to 30 pounds per cadaver without risking life or limb proved too tempting for some of the more barbarous resurrectionists, however, leading them to commit murder.

* atracción fatal = fatal attraction.

* atracción peligrosa = siren song.

* atracción personal = personal attraction.

* atracción secundaria = sideshow [side-show].

* factor de atracción = pull factor.

* foco de atracción de turistas = honeypot.

* atracción de feria = funfair ride.

* atracción de la feria = carnival ride, ride, fairground ride, fair ride, ride attraction, amusement ride.

* atracción turística = scenic attraction, tourist attraction.

atracción sustantivo femenino
attraction;

una atracción turística a tourist attraction;
las atracciones están en la playa the funfair is on the beach;
siente una gran atracción por ella he feels strongly attracted to her
atracción sustantivo femenino attraction
parque de atracciones, funfair

' atracción' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
noria
- turístico
English:
attraction
- draw
- magnetic
- pull
- gravitate
atracción gravitacional gravitational pull; atracción turística tourist attraction

Ex: The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.

Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.

Ex: The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.

Ex: With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.

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

Ex: List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.

Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.

Ex: Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.

Ex: In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.

Ex: Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.

Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.

Ex: He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".

Ex: The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.

Ex: The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.

Ex: Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.

Ex: This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.

Ex: It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.

Ex: A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.

Ex: Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.

Ex: Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.

Ex: This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.

Ex: Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.

Ex: Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.

Ex: But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.

Ex: Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.

Ex: 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.

Ex: Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.

Ex: Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.

Ex: Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.

Ex: Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.

Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.

Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.

Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.

Ex: This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.

Ex: In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.

Ex: Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.

Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.

Ex: Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.

Ex: This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.

Ex: The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.

Ex: There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.

Ex: Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.

Ex: Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.

Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.

Ex: His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.

Ex: Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.

Ex: It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.

Ex: It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.

Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.

Ex: This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.

Ex: My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.

* ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.

* eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.

* eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.

* eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.

* eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.

* eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.

* eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].

* eliminar el sarro = descale.

* eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.

* eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.

* eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.

* eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.

* eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.

* eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.

* eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar por etapas = phase out.

* eliminar progresivamente = phase out.

* eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.

* eliminar puliendo = buff out.

* eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.

* eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.

* eliminar un error = remove + error.

* eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.

 

eliminar ( conjugate eliminar) verbo transitivo

‹ párrafo› to delete, remove

(Dep) to eliminate, knock out



eliminar verbo transitivo to eliminate
' eliminar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acabar
- cortar
- descalificar
- michelín
- quitar
- sonda
- terminar
- tranquilizar
English:
cut out
- debug
- eliminate
- face
- hit list
- knock out
- liquidate
- obliterate
- remove
- weed
- cut
- delete
- do
- knock
- take
- zap
[grasas, toxinas] to eliminate, to get rid of; [residuos] to dispose of; [manchas] to remove, to get rid of; [fronteras, obstáculos] to remove, to eliminate;