single spreading

Ex: Similar and closely related subjects are likely to be scattered under different keywords.

•a la vez, hablaban todos a la vez — they were all talking at once o at the same time

•¿has estado alguna vez en...? — have you ever been to...?

• las más de las veces — mostly, in most cases

• por primera vez — for the first time

• toda vez que... — since..., given that...

• por última vez — for the last time

lo he hecho cien veces — I've done it hundreds o lots of times *

•a veces, [algunas] veces — sometimes, at times

• contadas veces — seldom

• de vez en cuando — now and again, from time to time, occasionally

•¿ cuántas veces? — how often?, how many times?

• dos veces — twice

•en... veces, se fríen las patatas en dos veces — fry the potatoes in two batches

• por enésima vez — for the umpteenth time *

• muchas veces — often

• otra vez — again

• pocas veces — seldom, rarely

• rara vez, [raras] veces — seldom, rarely

• repetidas veces — again and again, over and over again

• una vez — once

érase o había una vez una princesa... — once upon a time there was a princess...

• varias veces — several times

• de una vez — (=en una sola ocasión) in one go; (=definitivamente) once and for all *

¡acabemos de una vez! — let's get it over with (once and for all)! *

¡cállate de una vez! — for the last time, shut up! *

•en vez de — instead of

• hacer las veces de — to serve as

• una vez que — once

• de una vez para siempre, de una vez por [todas] — once and for all *, for good

• ceder la vez — (gen) to give up one's turn; (en cola) to give up one's place

• pedir la vez — to ask who's last in the queue

• quitar la vez a algn — to push in in front of sb

mil veces or miles de veces — a thousand times o thousands of times

la de veces or las veces que se lo dije! — the (number of) times I told him!

érase or había una vez — (liter) once upon a time (liter)

¿por qué no lo dejamos para otra vez? — why don't we leave it for another time o day?

una vez más — once again o more

cada vez — every o each time

se utiliza cada vez más — it's being used increasingly o more and more

de una vez — ( expresando impaciencia) once and for all; ( simultáneamente) in one go

una vez que hayan terminado — once o when you have finished

hacer las veces de algo — caja/libro to serve as something; persona to act as something

¿quién tiene or me da la vez? — who's last?

mil veces or miles de veces — a thousand times o thousands of times

la de veces or las veces que se lo dije! — the (number of) times I told him!

érase or había una vez — (liter) once upon a time (liter)

¿por qué no lo dejamos para otra vez? — why don't we leave it for another time o day?

una vez más — once again o more

cada vez — every o each time

se utiliza cada vez más — it's being used increasingly o more and more

de una vez — ( expresando impaciencia) once and for all; ( simultáneamente) in one go

una vez que hayan terminado — once o when you have finished

hacer las veces de algo — caja/libro to serve as something; persona to act as something

¿quién tiene or me da la vez? — who's last?

Ex: In particular note, for example by ticking them, those terms that merit a turn in the lead position, and those that do not.

hacer elogio(s) de algo — to sing the praises of something, to extol something

hacer elogio(s) de algo — to sing the praises of something, to extol something

Ex: It's a staggering list of accomplishments, and considering bureaucracy and some of the internal problems of the Library of Congress, I think that the Library deserves a great deal of credit and commendation.

Ex: For those involved in producing BNB, the eighties have seen this question leap in a single bound into the realm of stark reality from the cosy abstraction of AACR2.

un (disco) 33, 45 -i — a long-player o a long-playing record BE, a forty-five (record)

andare su di -i — [ motore] to rev (up); fig. [ persona] to have the hots

un giro per l'Italia — a tour o trip round Italy

la notizia ha fatto il giro del paese — fig. the news spread through the village

andare a fare un giro — to go for a walk; (in macchina) to go for a drive; (in bicicletta) to go for a ride

fare un giro in centro — to go into town BE o down town AE

prendere in giro qcn. — to make a fool o make fun of sb.

giro della morte — aer. loop

giro di prova — aut. test drive o run

giro vita — girovita

essere su di -i — [ persona] to be fired up o switched on o on a high