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  • 21 desenfrenado

    adj.
    wild, unchecked, uncontrolled, unrestrained.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desenfrenar.
    * * *
    1→ link=desenfrenar desenfrenar
    1 (gen) frantic, uncontrolled, wild
    2 (pasiones, vicios) unbridled, uncontrolled
    * * *
    ADJ [persona] wild, uncontrolled; [apetito, pasiones] unbridled
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < pasión> unbridled; <baile/ritmo> frenzied

    sus ansias desenfrenadas de éxito — his intense o burning desire to succeed

    * * *
    = headlong, unrestrained, rampant, wild [wilder -comp., wildest -sup.], raging, unbridled, on the loose, runaway, roistering, frenzied, fast and furious.
    Ex. Neither was there doubt that SLIS should adapt their programmes accordingly but, equally, too headlong a rush into the unknown posed dangers.
    Ex. 'Hello, Tom!' said the director, greeting him enthusiastically, as he rounded his desk to shake hands, which he did with unrestrained ardor.
    Ex. And so, the public library was conceived as a deterrent to irresponsibility, intemperance, and rampant democracy.
    Ex. The letter sent Tomas Hernandez into a frenzy of conflicting reactions: ecstatic jubilation and ego-tripping, wild speculation and outrageous fantasy, compounded by confusion and indirection.
    Ex. This problem is unlikely to be solved during a period of raging inflation and cutbacks in education spending = Es poco probable que este problema se resuelva durante un período de inflación disparada y recortes en los gastos en la educación.
    Ex. Unbridled photocopying will lead to the imminent demise of the communications skein.
    Ex. The article 'Librarians on the loose' reports on visits to foreign libraries by several Zimbabwe librarians.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'How to control a runaway state documents collection'.
    Ex. Morris writes rhapsodically about celebrity-studded parties, roistering interludes with major writers and artists, as well as gossip-column habitues.
    Ex. There was a frenzied last-minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj Mahal through to the elite list of the new Seven Wonders of the World.
    Ex. The pace was fast and furious and the noise was non-stop.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < pasión> unbridled; <baile/ritmo> frenzied

    sus ansias desenfrenadas de éxito — his intense o burning desire to succeed

    * * *
    = headlong, unrestrained, rampant, wild [wilder -comp., wildest -sup.], raging, unbridled, on the loose, runaway, roistering, frenzied, fast and furious.

    Ex: Neither was there doubt that SLIS should adapt their programmes accordingly but, equally, too headlong a rush into the unknown posed dangers.

    Ex: 'Hello, Tom!' said the director, greeting him enthusiastically, as he rounded his desk to shake hands, which he did with unrestrained ardor.
    Ex: And so, the public library was conceived as a deterrent to irresponsibility, intemperance, and rampant democracy.
    Ex: The letter sent Tomas Hernandez into a frenzy of conflicting reactions: ecstatic jubilation and ego-tripping, wild speculation and outrageous fantasy, compounded by confusion and indirection.
    Ex: This problem is unlikely to be solved during a period of raging inflation and cutbacks in education spending = Es poco probable que este problema se resuelva durante un período de inflación disparada y recortes en los gastos en la educación.
    Ex: Unbridled photocopying will lead to the imminent demise of the communications skein.
    Ex: The article 'Librarians on the loose' reports on visits to foreign libraries by several Zimbabwe librarians.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'How to control a runaway state documents collection'.
    Ex: Morris writes rhapsodically about celebrity-studded parties, roistering interludes with major writers and artists, as well as gossip-column habitues.
    Ex: There was a frenzied last-minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj Mahal through to the elite list of the new Seven Wonders of the World.
    Ex: The pace was fast and furious and the noise was non-stop.

    * * *
    ‹apetito› insatiable; ‹pasión› unbridled; ‹baile/ritmo› frenzied; ‹odio› violent, intense
    viven a un ritmo desenfrenado they live at a hectic o frenzied pace
    sus ansias desenfrenadas de éxito his intense o burning desire to succeed
    * * *

    Del verbo desenfrenar: ( conjugate desenfrenar)

    desenfrenado es:

    el participio

    desenfrenado,-a adj (ritmo, etc) frantic, uncontrolled
    (vicio, pasión) unbridled
    ' desenfrenado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desenfrenada
    English:
    mad
    - rampant
    - riotous
    - unrestrained
    - wild
    - unbridled
    * * *
    desenfrenado, -a adj
    [ritmo, baile, carrera] frantic, frenzied; [fiesta, juerga, diversión] wild; [vida] wild, riotous; [comportamiento] uncontrolled; [deseo, pasión, entusiasmo] unbridled; [apetito] insatiable;
    el público bailaba desenfrenado the audience were dancing in a frenzy
    * * *
    adj frenzied, hectic
    * * *
    desenfrenado, -da adj
    : unbridled, unrestrained

    Spanish-English dictionary > desenfrenado

  • 22 detectar un problema

    (v.) = spot + problem, spot + trouble
    Ex. By spotting problems in the system early, you can 'nip them in the bud'.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    * * *
    (v.) = spot + problem, spot + trouble

    Ex: By spotting problems in the system early, you can 'nip them in the bud'.

    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.

    Spanish-English dictionary > detectar un problema

  • 23 disminuir

    v.
    1 to reduce.
    2 to decrease.
    El medicamento disminuyó la fiebre The drug decreased the fever.
    Me disminuyó la temperatura My temperature decreased.
    3 to diminish, to decrease, to fall off, to drop off.
    El calor disminuyó The heat diminished.
    4 to lessen, to take down, to humiliate, to deflate.
    Su actitud disminuyó a su hijo His attitude lessened his son.
    5 to have less.
    Te disminuyó la fiebre You have less fever.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ HUIR], like link=huir huir
    1 (gen) to decrease
    2 (medidas, velocidad) to reduce
    1 (gen) to diminish
    2 (temperatura, precios) to drop, fall
    * * *
    verb
    2) drop, fall
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=reducir) [+ nivel, precio, gastos, intereses] to reduce, bring down; [+ riesgo, incidencia, dolor] to reduce, lessen; [+ temperatura] to lower, bring down; [+ prestigio, autoridad] to diminish, lessen; [+ fuerzas] to sap; [+ entusiasmo] to dampen

    algunos bancos han disminuido en un 0,15% sus tipos de interés — some banks have reduced o brought down their interest rates by 0.15%

    disminuyó la velocidad para tomar la curva — she slowed down o reduced her speed to go round the bend

    2) (Cos) [+ puntos] to decrease
    2. VI
    1) (=decrecer) [número, población] to decrease, drop, fall; [temperatura, precios] to drop, fall; [distancia, diferencia, velocidad, tensión] to decrease; [fuerzas, autoridad, poder] to diminish; [días] to grow shorter; [luz] to fade; [prestigio, entusiasmo] to dwindle

    el paro disminuyó en un 0,3% — unemployment dropped o fell by 0.3%

    2) (=empeorar) [memoria, vista] to fail
    3) (Cos) [puntos] to decrease
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( menguar) número/cantidad to decrease, drop, fall; entusiasmo/interés to wane, diminish; precios/temperaturas to drop, fall; poder/fama to diminish; dolor to diminish, lessen
    2) ( al tejer) to decrease
    2.
    1) ( reducir) <gastos/costos/impuestos> to reduce, cut; < velocidad> to reduce; <número/cantidad> to reduce, diminish
    2) ( al tejer) < puntos> to decrease
    * * *
    = decline, decrease, diminish, dwindle, fall off, reduce, relax, shrink, slow down, tail off, lower, dip, subside, mitigate, lessen, abate, decelerate, regress, wane, take + a dive, ebb, slacken, whittle (away/down/at), slow up, taper, scale back, remit, take + a dip, turn down.
    Ex. Library use declines during the June-October period when examinations have finished and the students are on vacation.
    Ex. Recall is inversely proportional to precision, and vice versa, or in other words, as one increases, the other must decrease.
    Ex. While another colleague of mine offered the wry comment that 'as the computer's capabilities have increased our expectations of what it can do have proportionally diminished'.
    Ex. Whereas this proportion is dwindling as a percentage of the total budget, agricultural spending continues to rise in real terms.
    Ex. When the recording procedures were removed study time fell off immediately.
    Ex. The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex. Since the Federal Government has not been willing to relax import restrictions on books, academic librarians have had to devise a number of strategies for the survival of collection development.
    Ex. The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex. However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex. In this unsettled atmosphere, it is not surprising that enthusiasm for membership of the Community should tail off.
    Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex. The proportions of books bought for children have been extraordinarily steady for four of the five years, only dipping at all appreciably in the last year of 1979-80.
    Ex. Her agitation subsided suddenly.
    Ex. Confusion caused by repetition of descriptive information in access points can be mitigated by careful screen design.
    Ex. Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex. As the sobbing abated, the secretary's voice regained some steadiness.
    Ex. Accumulation of new data bases is decelerating rapidly with the focus on deriving subsets from current files to serve niche markets.
    Ex. Interloans have regressed recently, despite the rapid advancement of the computer age.
    Ex. The population waxed again slightly, then waned again, until it finally stabilized around its present 55,000.
    Ex. The article 'Wages, hours, bookfunds take a dive' examines how some authorities are proposing cuts in wages to preserve services; others reducing bookfunds by as much as a quarter, or cutting their opening hours in half.
    Ex. Subsequently, library development stalled as cultural interaction ebbed from classical levels.
    Ex. The trend direct supply of books to schools shows no sign of slackening.
    Ex. However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex. Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex. The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. The fever was resolved and the skin lesions started to remit during the following 3 weeks.
    Ex. Sales took a dip in 2005 but exploded in 2006.
    Ex. Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
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    * atención + disminuir = attention + wane.
    * disminuir casi hasta su desaparación = drop to + near vanishing point.
    * disminuir de tamaño = dwindle in + size.
    * disminuir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * disminuir el valor de = belittle.
    * disminuir la importancia de = lessen + the importance of.
    * disminuir la marcha = slow down.
    * disminuir la posibilidad = lessen + possibility.
    * disminuir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * disminuir las probabilidades = lengthen + the odds.
    * disminuir la velocidad = slow up.
    * sin disminuir = non-decreasing, unabated.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( menguar) número/cantidad to decrease, drop, fall; entusiasmo/interés to wane, diminish; precios/temperaturas to drop, fall; poder/fama to diminish; dolor to diminish, lessen
    2) ( al tejer) to decrease
    2.
    1) ( reducir) <gastos/costos/impuestos> to reduce, cut; < velocidad> to reduce; <número/cantidad> to reduce, diminish
    2) ( al tejer) < puntos> to decrease
    * * *
    = decline, decrease, diminish, dwindle, fall off, reduce, relax, shrink, slow down, tail off, lower, dip, subside, mitigate, lessen, abate, decelerate, regress, wane, take + a dive, ebb, slacken, whittle (away/down/at), slow up, taper, scale back, remit, take + a dip, turn down.

    Ex: Library use declines during the June-October period when examinations have finished and the students are on vacation.

    Ex: Recall is inversely proportional to precision, and vice versa, or in other words, as one increases, the other must decrease.
    Ex: While another colleague of mine offered the wry comment that 'as the computer's capabilities have increased our expectations of what it can do have proportionally diminished'.
    Ex: Whereas this proportion is dwindling as a percentage of the total budget, agricultural spending continues to rise in real terms.
    Ex: When the recording procedures were removed study time fell off immediately.
    Ex: The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex: Since the Federal Government has not been willing to relax import restrictions on books, academic librarians have had to devise a number of strategies for the survival of collection development.
    Ex: The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex: However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex: In this unsettled atmosphere, it is not surprising that enthusiasm for membership of the Community should tail off.
    Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex: The proportions of books bought for children have been extraordinarily steady for four of the five years, only dipping at all appreciably in the last year of 1979-80.
    Ex: Her agitation subsided suddenly.
    Ex: Confusion caused by repetition of descriptive information in access points can be mitigated by careful screen design.
    Ex: Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex: As the sobbing abated, the secretary's voice regained some steadiness.
    Ex: Accumulation of new data bases is decelerating rapidly with the focus on deriving subsets from current files to serve niche markets.
    Ex: Interloans have regressed recently, despite the rapid advancement of the computer age.
    Ex: The population waxed again slightly, then waned again, until it finally stabilized around its present 55,000.
    Ex: The article 'Wages, hours, bookfunds take a dive' examines how some authorities are proposing cuts in wages to preserve services; others reducing bookfunds by as much as a quarter, or cutting their opening hours in half.
    Ex: Subsequently, library development stalled as cultural interaction ebbed from classical levels.
    Ex: The trend direct supply of books to schools shows no sign of slackening.
    Ex: However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex: Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex: The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: The fever was resolved and the skin lesions started to remit during the following 3 weeks.
    Ex: Sales took a dip in 2005 but exploded in 2006.
    Ex: Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
    * atención + disminuir = attention + wane.
    * disminuir casi hasta su desaparación = drop to + near vanishing point.
    * disminuir de tamaño = dwindle in + size.
    * disminuir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * disminuir el valor de = belittle.
    * disminuir la importancia de = lessen + the importance of.
    * disminuir la marcha = slow down.
    * disminuir la posibilidad = lessen + possibility.
    * disminuir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * disminuir las probabilidades = lengthen + the odds.
    * disminuir la velocidad = slow up.
    * sin disminuir = non-decreasing, unabated.

    * * *
    vi
    A (menguar) «número/cantidad» to decrease, drop, fall; «desempleo/exportaciones/gastos» to decrease, drop, fall; «entusiasmo» to wane, diminish; «interés» to wane, diminish, fall off
    el número de fumadores ha disminuido the number of smokers has dropped o fallen o decreased
    los impuestos no disminuyeron there was no decrease o cut in taxes
    los casos de malaria han disminuido there has been a drop o fall o decrease in the number of malaria cases
    disminuyó la intensidad del viento the wind died down o dropped
    la agilidad disminuye con los años one becomes less agile with age
    B (al tejer) to decrease
    ■ disminuir
    vt
    A (reducir) ‹gastos/costos› to reduce, bring down, cut
    disminuimos la velocidad we reduced speed
    es un asunto muy grave y se intenta disminuir su importancia it is a very serious matter, and its importance is being played down
    el alcohol disminuye la rapidez de los reflejos alcohol slows down your reactions
    B (al tejer) ‹puntos› to decrease
    * * *

     

    disminuir ( conjugate disminuir) verbo intransitivo ( menguar) [número/cantidad] to decrease, fall;
    [precios/temperaturas] to drop, fall;
    [ dolor] to diminish, lessen
    verbo transitivo ( reducir) ‹gastos/producción› to cut back on;
    ‹ impuestos› to cut;
    ‹velocidad/número/cantidad› to reduce
    disminuir
    I verbo transitivo to reduce: esto disminuye sus probabilidades de entrar en la Universidad, this lowers his chances of admission to the University
    II verbo intransitivo to diminish: el calor ha disminuido, the heat has lessened
    ' disminuir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aclararse
    - atenuar
    - bajar
    - descender
    - enfriar
    - perder
    - rebajar
    - reducir
    - reducirse
    - velocidad
    English:
    cut back
    - decline
    - decrease
    - die down
    - diminish
    - drop
    - dwindle
    - ease off
    - ease up
    - lessen
    - lower
    - odds
    - reduce
    - shrink
    - sink
    - slacken
    - slacken off
    - taper off
    - thin out
    - abate
    - ease
    - flag
    - go
    - let
    - tail
    - taper
    - wane
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to reduce, to decrease;
    disminuye la velocidad al entrar en la curva reduce speed as you go into the curve;
    pastillas que disminuyen el sueño tablets that prevent drowsiness;
    la lesión no ha disminuido su habilidad con el balón the injury hasn't affected his skill with the ball
    ♦ vi
    [cantidad, velocidad, intensidad, contaminación] to decrease, to decline; [desempleo, inflación] to decrease, to fall; [precios, temperatura] to fall, to go down; [vista, memoria] to fail; [interés] to decline, to wane;
    no disminuye la euforia inversora investor enthusiasm continues unabated
    * * *
    I v/t gastos, costos reduce, cut; velocidad reduce
    II v/i decrease, diminish
    * * *
    disminuir {41} vt
    reducir: to reduce, to decrease, to lower
    1) : to lower
    2) : to drop, to fall
    * * *
    1. (reducir) to reduce
    2. (bajar, menguar) to fall [pt. fell; pp. fallen] / to drop [pt. & pp. dropped]

    Spanish-English dictionary > disminuir

  • 24 disparado

    adj.
    1 shot.
    2 disproportionate.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: disparar.
    * * *
    1 familiar in a hurry
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=con prisa)

    salir disparado — to shoot out, be off like a shot

    2) Caribe ** randy *, horny **
    * * *
    - da adjetivo (fam)

    salir disparado — ( irse de prisa) to shoot off (colloq)

    pasó disparado — he shot by like greased lightning

    * * *
    = sharply rising, raging, galloping, soaring.
    Ex. The end of the eighteenth century saw a sharply rising demand for cheap print, associated with increases in population and in literacy which occurred all over Europe.
    Ex. This problem is unlikely to be solved during a period of raging inflation and cutbacks in education spending = Es poco probable que este problema se resuelva durante un período de inflación disparada y recortes en los gastos en la educación.
    Ex. But the introduction of market economics, galloping inflation and the breakdown of old administrative structures are causing problems, especially over funding..
    Ex. And to make matters worse, retirees on fixed incomes have recently presented the mayor with a petition deploring the soaring property taxes.
    ----
    * coste disparado = escalating cost.
    * costes disparados = spiralling costs, soaring cost.
    * inflación disparada = rampant inflation, soaring inflation, runaway inflation.
    * precios disparados = spiralling prices.
    * salir disparado = bolt, make + a bolt for, shoot off, dash off, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo (fam)

    salir disparado — ( irse de prisa) to shoot off (colloq)

    pasó disparado — he shot by like greased lightning

    * * *
    = sharply rising, raging, galloping, soaring.

    Ex: The end of the eighteenth century saw a sharply rising demand for cheap print, associated with increases in population and in literacy which occurred all over Europe.

    Ex: This problem is unlikely to be solved during a period of raging inflation and cutbacks in education spending = Es poco probable que este problema se resuelva durante un período de inflación disparada y recortes en los gastos en la educación.
    Ex: But the introduction of market economics, galloping inflation and the breakdown of old administrative structures are causing problems, especially over funding..
    Ex: And to make matters worse, retirees on fixed incomes have recently presented the mayor with a petition deploring the soaring property taxes.
    * coste disparado = escalating cost.
    * costes disparados = spiralling costs, soaring cost.
    * inflación disparada = rampant inflation, soaring inflation, runaway inflation.
    * precios disparados = spiralling prices.
    * salir disparado = bolt, make + a bolt for, shoot off, dash off, take to + Posesivo + heels, run off.

    * * *
    ( fam):
    salir disparado «objeto» to shoot out;
    «persona» (irse de prisa) to shoot off ( colloq)
    (salir lanzado): con el choque salió disparado del asiento the impact catapulted him from his seat
    iba disparado y ni me saludó he was in a tremendous hurry and didn't even say hello to me ( colloq)
    * * *

    Del verbo disparar: ( conjugate disparar)

    disparado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    disparado    
    disparar
    disparado
    ◊ -da adjetivo (fam): salir disparado ( irse de prisa) to shoot off (colloq);

    con el choque salió disparado del asiento the impact catapulted him from his seat;
    ver tb disparar
    disparar ( conjugate disparar) verbo intransitivo

    ◊ disparado al aire to fire o shoot into the air;

    disparado a matar to shoot to kill;
    le disparó por la espalda he shot him in the back;
    disparado a quemarropa or a bocajarro to fire at point-blank range;
    disparado contra algn to shoot o fire at sb
    b) (Dep) to shoot

    verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹arma/flecha› to shoot, fire;

    ‹tiro/proyectil› to fire;

    b) (Dep):


    2 (Méx fam) ( pagar) to buy
    dispararse verbo pronominal
    1

    b) ( refl):


    2 (fam) [ precio] to shoot up, rocket
    disparado,-a adj loc salimos disparados de allí, we shot out of there
    disparar verbo transitivo
    1 (un arma de fuego) to fire
    (un proyectil) to shoot: le dispararon en el hombro, he was shot in the shoulder
    2 Ftb to shoot
    disparar a puerta, to shoot at goal
    ' disparado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    disparada
    English:
    balloon
    - dash out
    - shoot
    - shoot out
    - spiral up
    - tear off
    - bolt
    - scurry
    * * *
    disparado, -a adj
    salir/entrar disparado to shoot out/in;
    todos los días sale disparado de casa he leaves the house in a rush every day
    * * *
    adj
    :
    salir disparado rush off; de un edificio etc rush out
    * * *
    disparado, -da adj
    salir disparado fam : to take off in a hurry, to rush away

    Spanish-English dictionary > disparado

  • 25 efervescente

    adj.
    1 fizzy (bebida).
    aspirina/comprimido efervescente soluble aspirin/tablet
    2 effervescent, bubbling, bubbly, ebullient.
    m.
    effervescent tablet, effervescent powder.
    * * *
    1 (gen) effervescent
    2 (bebida) sparkling, fizzy
    3 (pastilla) soluble
    4 figurado high-spirited, vivacious
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=con burbujas) [pastilla, sustancia] effervescent; [bebida] fizzy
    2) (=animado) high-spirited
    * * *
    a) < pastilla> effervescent; < bebida> sparkling, fizzy (colloq)
    b) < situación> volatile
    c) ( vivaz) bubbly, vivacious; ( excitado) high-spirited
    * * *
    = effervescent, sparkling, ebullient, carbonated.
    Ex. Some books provoke vocal responses, a kind of literary effervescent effect, while others seem to turn people in on themselves, when they prefer to say nothing but savor the reading in silence.
    Ex. She looked at them it with sparkling eyes, as though the problem was now solved.
    Ex. The ebullient Mr Wang is a chatterbox and a bit of a show-off.
    Ex. The same problem is posed a fortiori when the liquid to be pasteurized contains dissolved gas under pressure ( carbonated liquid) -- the case of beer for example.
    * * *
    a) < pastilla> effervescent; < bebida> sparkling, fizzy (colloq)
    b) < situación> volatile
    c) ( vivaz) bubbly, vivacious; ( excitado) high-spirited
    * * *
    = effervescent, sparkling, ebullient, carbonated.

    Ex: Some books provoke vocal responses, a kind of literary effervescent effect, while others seem to turn people in on themselves, when they prefer to say nothing but savor the reading in silence.

    Ex: She looked at them it with sparkling eyes, as though the problem was now solved.
    Ex: The ebullient Mr Wang is a chatterbox and a bit of a show-off.
    Ex: The same problem is posed a fortiori when the liquid to be pasteurized contains dissolved gas under pressure ( carbonated liquid) -- the case of beer for example.

    * * *
    1 ‹pastilla› effervescent; ‹bebida› carbonated, sparkling, fizzy ( colloq)
    2 ‹situación› volatile
    3 (vivaz) bubbly, vivacious; (excitado) high-spirited
    * * *

    efervescente adjetivo ‹ pastilla› effervescent;
    ‹ bebida› sparkling, fizzy (colloq)
    efervescente adjetivo effervescent
    (bebida) fizzy
    (aspirina) soluble
    ' efervescente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gaseosa
    English:
    bubbly
    - effervescent
    - fizzy
    - still
    - vibrant
    * * *
    [bebida] fizzy;
    aspirina/comprimido efervescente effervescent aspirin/tablet
    * * *
    adj
    1 effervescent;
    tableta efervescente effervescent tablet
    2 bebida carbonated, sparkling
    * * *
    1) : effervescent
    2) : vivacious
    * * *
    efervescente adj (con burbujas) fizzy [comp. fizzier; superl. fizziest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > efervescente

  • 26 en mi opinión

    = to my mind, in my opinion, to the best of my knowledge, in my view, to my knowledge, in my books
    Ex. Armstrong Sperry's 'Call It Courage' is now some years old but still to my mind an attractive and alive book.
    Ex. This attack is directed against a particular heresy; one which is widespread, but it is in my opinion none the less damnable.
    Ex. For another thing, to the best of my knowledge IQ tests do not differentiate between different kinds of giftedness.
    Ex. The problem can only be solved by analogy; in my view, the regulations on communication to the public should be applied mutatis mutandis.
    Ex. No public library user has benefited much, to my knowledge, from information expressing centimeter sizes for spines.
    Ex. In my books they did the right thing by bringing the problem up as early as they could, the failing was FIA's inability to act on this early enough to do something constructive about it.
    * * *
    = to my mind, in my opinion, to the best of my knowledge, in my view, to my knowledge, in my books

    Ex: Armstrong Sperry's 'Call It Courage' is now some years old but still to my mind an attractive and alive book.

    Ex: This attack is directed against a particular heresy; one which is widespread, but it is in my opinion none the less damnable.
    Ex: For another thing, to the best of my knowledge IQ tests do not differentiate between different kinds of giftedness.
    Ex: The problem can only be solved by analogy; in my view, the regulations on communication to the public should be applied mutatis mutandis.
    Ex: No public library user has benefited much, to my knowledge, from information expressing centimeter sizes for spines.
    Ex: In my books they did the right thing by bringing the problem up as early as they could, the failing was FIA's inability to act on this early enough to do something constructive about it.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en mi opinión

  • 27 enloquecido

    adj.
    maddened, crazed, crazy, freaked-out.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: enloquecer.
    * * *
    ADJ crazed, frenzied
    * * *
    = raging, maddened, berserk.
    Ex. This problem is unlikely to be solved during a period of raging inflation and cutbacks in education spending = Es poco probable que este problema se resuelva durante un período de inflación disparada y recortes en los gastos en la educación.
    Ex. The author portrayed the hero so maddened as to kill his wife and sons.
    Ex. Today, hyperbolic comic and cartoon imagery is an established movie aesthetic -- a berserk but ironic Pop Art expressionism.
    * * *
    = raging, maddened, berserk.

    Ex: This problem is unlikely to be solved during a period of raging inflation and cutbacks in education spending = Es poco probable que este problema se resuelva durante un período de inflación disparada y recortes en los gastos en la educación.

    Ex: The author portrayed the hero so maddened as to kill his wife and sons.
    Ex: Today, hyperbolic comic and cartoon imagery is an established movie aesthetic -- a berserk but ironic Pop Art expressionism.

    * * *
    enloquecido, -a adj
    mad, crazed

    Spanish-English dictionary > enloquecido

  • 28 fatídico

    adj.
    ill-fated, unfortunate, doom-laden, fatal.
    * * *
    1 (desastroso) disastrous, calamitous
    2 formal (profético) fateful, ominous
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=desgraciado) fateful, ominous
    2) (=profético) prophetic
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo fateful
    * * *
    = doomsday, fateful, star-crossed, fatal, unfortunate.
    Ex. Problems are never solved by doomsday proclamations and categorical statements of 'That won't work'.
    Ex. The Russian delegation also presented a handmade book to the National Library of Scotland in remembrance of that fateful Moscow meeting.
    Ex. The 1996 film of 'Romeo and Juliet' is a gripping presentation of Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers in an impulsive, hot-headed, violent world.
    Ex. Quite apart from the great toll of unasked questions, any hint of mutual antipathy between enquirer and librarian is fatal to the reference interview.
    Ex. It is an unfortunate fact that many external services cannot hope to mirror the interests of a specific organisation.
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo fateful
    * * *
    = doomsday, fateful, star-crossed, fatal, unfortunate.

    Ex: Problems are never solved by doomsday proclamations and categorical statements of 'That won't work'.

    Ex: The Russian delegation also presented a handmade book to the National Library of Scotland in remembrance of that fateful Moscow meeting.
    Ex: The 1996 film of 'Romeo and Juliet' is a gripping presentation of Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers in an impulsive, hot-headed, violent world.
    Ex: Quite apart from the great toll of unasked questions, any hint of mutual antipathy between enquirer and librarian is fatal to the reference interview.
    Ex: It is an unfortunate fact that many external services cannot hope to mirror the interests of a specific organisation.

    * * *
    fateful
    el día/momento fatídico en que te conocí that fateful day/moment when I met you ( liter)
    tiene una letra fatídica ( fam); he has terrible handwriting ( colloq), his handwriting is appalling o dreadful ( colloq)
    * * *

    fatídico,-a adjetivo fateful
    ' fatídico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    fatídica
    English:
    evil
    - fatal
    - fateful
    * * *
    fatídico, -a adj
    fateful
    * * *
    adj fateful
    * * *
    fatídico, -ca adj
    : fateful, momentous

    Spanish-English dictionary > fatídico

  • 29 grosero

    adj.
    rude, impolite, coarse, discourteous.
    m.
    rough person, rough, rough and disorderly person, rude.
    * * *
    1 (tosco) coarse, crude
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 rude person
    * * *
    (f. - grosera)
    adj.
    2) rude
    * * *
    ADJ (=descortés) rude; (=ordinario) coarse, vulgar; (=tosco) rough, loutish; (=indecente) indelicate
    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo
    a) ( descortés) <persona/comportamiento> rude, ill-mannered; < lenguaje> rude
    b) ( vulgar) crude
    II
    - ra masculino, femenino

    es un grosero — ( vulgar) he's so vulgar o crude!; ( descortés) he's so rude!

    * * *
    = rude [ruder -comp., rudest -sup.], churlish, abusive, vulgar, uncouth, coarse [coarser -comp.; coarsest -sup.], gross [grosser -comp., grossest -sup.], churl, boorish, short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], tasteless, crass [crasser -comp., crassest -sup.].
    Ex. 'That young man was terribly rude'.
    Ex. 'He's slipping back into a churlish mood', the director said averting his eyes.
    Ex. Reference supervisors have a responsibility to protect their staff as well as other library users from the unpleasant, abusive behavior of some persons.
    Ex. This paper is a somewhat whimsical glance backwards, recalling 6 vulgar American parodies of 7 enduring songs.
    Ex. All the writers chosen characterized eastern Europe throughout the 18th century as uncouth and backward.
    Ex. The sections of a book were stapled to a coarse cloth backing, but unfortunately the staples soon rusted and became brittle.
    Ex. Janell has always had a soft spot in her heart for animals most people might find gross.
    Ex. Then again, who but a churl could fail to grieve at the waste of an artistic life of such immensity and grandeur?.
    Ex. He says he dislikes Rose way more because she is a big mouth, intolerant, boorish, know-it-all and always talking about her gay life.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex. Of the hundreds of figurines currently on the market, here are the most bizarrely tasteless.
    Ex. In these new book, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety in a literary world ever more crass.
    ----
    * ser grosero con = be abusive of.
    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo
    a) ( descortés) <persona/comportamiento> rude, ill-mannered; < lenguaje> rude
    b) ( vulgar) crude
    II
    - ra masculino, femenino

    es un grosero — ( vulgar) he's so vulgar o crude!; ( descortés) he's so rude!

    * * *
    = rude [ruder -comp., rudest -sup.], churlish, abusive, vulgar, uncouth, coarse [coarser -comp.; coarsest -sup.], gross [grosser -comp., grossest -sup.], churl, boorish, short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], tasteless, crass [crasser -comp., crassest -sup.].

    Ex: 'That young man was terribly rude'.

    Ex: 'He's slipping back into a churlish mood', the director said averting his eyes.
    Ex: Reference supervisors have a responsibility to protect their staff as well as other library users from the unpleasant, abusive behavior of some persons.
    Ex: This paper is a somewhat whimsical glance backwards, recalling 6 vulgar American parodies of 7 enduring songs.
    Ex: All the writers chosen characterized eastern Europe throughout the 18th century as uncouth and backward.
    Ex: The sections of a book were stapled to a coarse cloth backing, but unfortunately the staples soon rusted and became brittle.
    Ex: Janell has always had a soft spot in her heart for animals most people might find gross.
    Ex: Then again, who but a churl could fail to grieve at the waste of an artistic life of such immensity and grandeur?.
    Ex: He says he dislikes Rose way more because she is a big mouth, intolerant, boorish, know-it-all and always talking about her gay life.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex: Of the hundreds of figurines currently on the market, here are the most bizarrely tasteless.
    Ex: In these new book, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety in a literary world ever more crass.
    * ser grosero con = be abusive of.

    * * *
    grosero1 -ra
    1 (descortés) ‹persona/comportamiento› rude, ill-mannered; ‹lenguaje› rude
    2 (vulgar) crude, vulgar, coarse
    grosero2 -ra
    masculine, feminine
    es un grosero (vulgar) he's so vulgar o crude o coarse!; (descortés) he's so rude!
    * * *

     

    grosero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo

    a) ( descortés) ‹persona/lenguaje› rude


    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino:
    ◊ es un grosero ( vulgar) he's so vulgar o crude!;


    ( descortés) he's so rude!
    grosero,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (tosco, de baja calidad) coarse
    2 (ofensivo, desagradable) rude
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino es un grosero, he's very rude
    ' grosero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    basta
    - basto
    - bruta
    - bruto
    - conmigo
    - grosera
    - ordinaria
    - ordinario
    - primitiva
    - primitivo
    - tono
    - animal
    - bestia
    - gamberro
    - gesto
    - guarango
    - ordinariez
    - patán
    - pelado
    English:
    boor
    - boorish
    - coarse
    - crude
    - earthy
    - foul
    - rude
    - throw out
    - uncouth
    - apologize
    - downright
    - dream
    - how
    - just
    - so
    - vulgar
    * * *
    grosero, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [maleducado] rude, crude
    2. [tosco] coarse, rough
    3. [malhablado] foul-mouthed
    ♦ nm,f
    rude person;
    es un grosero he's terribly rude
    * * *
    I adj rude
    II m, grosera f rude person
    * * *
    grosero, -ra adj
    1) : rude, fresh
    2) : coarse, vulgar
    grosero, -ra n
    : rude person
    * * *
    grosero adj rude

    Spanish-English dictionary > grosero

  • 30 hasta el extremo que

    = up to the point where, to the point where
    Ex. This process stretchess up to the point where it can be mutually agreed that the original problem has been solved.
    Ex. Telecommunications services have deteriorated to the point where they are unable to satisfy the needs of a large fraction of the nation's population.
    * * *
    = up to the point where, to the point where

    Ex: This process stretchess up to the point where it can be mutually agreed that the original problem has been solved.

    Ex: Telecommunications services have deteriorated to the point where they are unable to satisfy the needs of a large fraction of the nation's population.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hasta el extremo que

  • 31 hasta el momento que

    = up to the point where, to the point where
    Ex. This process stretchess up to the point where it can be mutually agreed that the original problem has been solved.
    Ex. Telecommunications services have deteriorated to the point where they are unable to satisfy the needs of a large fraction of the nation's population.
    * * *
    = up to the point where, to the point where

    Ex: This process stretchess up to the point where it can be mutually agreed that the original problem has been solved.

    Ex: Telecommunications services have deteriorated to the point where they are unable to satisfy the needs of a large fraction of the nation's population.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hasta el momento que

  • 32 hasta el punto que

    = up to the point where, to the point where
    Ex. This process stretchess up to the point where it can be mutually agreed that the original problem has been solved.
    Ex. Telecommunications services have deteriorated to the point where they are unable to satisfy the needs of a large fraction of the nation's population.
    * * *
    = up to the point where, to the point where

    Ex: This process stretchess up to the point where it can be mutually agreed that the original problem has been solved.

    Ex: Telecommunications services have deteriorated to the point where they are unable to satisfy the needs of a large fraction of the nation's population.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hasta el punto que

  • 33 hasta los topes

    (v.) = packed to capacity, bursting at the seams, choc-a-block, chock-full, overloaded, packed to the rafters
    Ex. His small foreign-made car strained with the added burden of an interior packed to capacity with personal belongings and a heavily laden U-Haul trailor attached to the rear.
    Ex. The library solved the problems of budget cuts, a library building bursting at the seams, and stock ill matched to some of the courses by switching to the use of on-line search services.
    Ex. The library was choc-a-block with celebrities and children as they swarmed to see the signing of the new Harry Potter book by its author.
    Ex. Herbal cancer remedy is chock-full of drugs.
    Ex. He dismissed the image of overloaded libraries collapsing under the weight of a surfeit of paper as 'mythology'.
    Ex. The local church was packed to the rafters for the funeral of a much-loved parish priest who died last month aged 69.
    * * *
    (v.) = packed to capacity, bursting at the seams, choc-a-block, chock-full, overloaded, packed to the rafters

    Ex: His small foreign-made car strained with the added burden of an interior packed to capacity with personal belongings and a heavily laden U-Haul trailor attached to the rear.

    Ex: The library solved the problems of budget cuts, a library building bursting at the seams, and stock ill matched to some of the courses by switching to the use of on-line search services.
    Ex: The library was choc-a-block with celebrities and children as they swarmed to see the signing of the new Harry Potter book by its author.
    Ex: Herbal cancer remedy is chock-full of drugs.
    Ex: He dismissed the image of overloaded libraries collapsing under the weight of a surfeit of paper as 'mythology'.
    Ex: The local church was packed to the rafters for the funeral of a much-loved parish priest who died last month aged 69.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hasta los topes

  • 34 hierro fundido

    m.
    cast iron.
    * * *
    cast iron
    * * *
    Ex. In 1800, however, Earl Stanhope built a hand press with a full-sized platen in a cast-iron frame, and the problem was solved.
    * * *

    Ex: In 1800, however, Earl Stanhope built a hand press with a full-sized platen in a cast-iron frame, and the problem was solved.

    * * *
    cast iron

    Spanish-English dictionary > hierro fundido

  • 35 impertinente

    adj.
    1 impertinent.
    ponerse impertinente to be impertinent o rude
    2 cheeky, given to answering back, mouthy, lippy.
    f. & m.
    1 impertinent person (person).
    2 busybody, meddlesome person, snooper.
    * * *
    1 impertinent
    1 lorgnette sing
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=insolente) impertinent
    2) frm (=irrelevante) irrelevant, not pertinent
    2.
    SMPL lorgnette sing
    * * *
    I
    a) ( irrespetuoso) <persona/pregunta/tono> impertinent
    b) ( inoportuno) <momento/hora> inopportune (frml), inappropriate; < llamada> ill-timed; < comentario> uncalled-for
    II
    masculino y femenino
    1) ( persona)
    2) impertinentes masculino plural lorgnette
    * * *
    = cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.
    Ex. The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex. Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.
    Ex. He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.
    * * *
    I
    a) ( irrespetuoso) <persona/pregunta/tono> impertinent
    b) ( inoportuno) <momento/hora> inopportune (frml), inappropriate; < llamada> ill-timed; < comentario> uncalled-for
    II
    masculino y femenino
    1) ( persona)
    2) impertinentes masculino plural lorgnette
    * * *
    = cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.

    Ex: The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.

    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex: Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.
    Ex: He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.

    * * *
    1 (descarado, irrespetuoso) ‹persona› impertinent; ‹pregunta/risa/tono› impertinent
    2 (inoportuno, fuera de lugar) ‹momento/hora› inopportune ( frml), inappropriate; ‹llamada› ill-timed; ‹comentario› uncalled-for
    me parece impertinente entrar en este momento I don't think this is a very good o opportune moment to go in
    3 ( frml) (no relevante) irrelevant
    A
    (persona): eres una impertinente you're very impertinent
    B impertinentes mpl lorgnette
    * * *

    impertinente adjetivo ‹persona/pregunta/tono› impertinent;
    ‹ comentario› uncalled-for
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino ( persona):

    impertinente
    I adjetivo
    1 (atrevido) impertinent: estuvo muy impertinente con nosotros, she was impertinent
    2 (improcedente) irrelevant
    II mf impertinent person
    III mpl impertinentes, lorgnette sing

    ' impertinente' also found in these entries:
    English:
    impertinent
    - intrusive
    - nosy
    - presumptuous
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [insolente] impertinent;
    no te pongas impertinente con tu madre don't be rude o impertinent to your mother;
    hoy estás muy impertinente you're being very impertinent today
    2. [inoportuno] inappropriate
    ♦ nmf
    [persona] impertinent person;
    es un impertinente he's very rude o impertinent
    ♦ impertinentes nmpl
    [anteojos] lorgnette
    * * *
    I adj impertinent
    II m/f
    :
    ¡eres un impertinente! you’re so impertinent!
    * * *
    1) insolente: impertinent, insolent
    2) inoportuno: inappropriate, uncalled-for
    3) irrelevante: irrelevant
    * * *
    impertinente adj impertinent

    Spanish-English dictionary > impertinente

  • 36 incompatible

    adj.
    incompatible.
    * * *
    1 incompatible
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    * * *
    a) <personas/caracteres> incompatible
    b) <cargo/horario>
    * * *
    = incompatible, ill matched, unreconciled.
    Ex. The moment we compromise among ourselves to adopt rules that are incompatible with ideology then I think we are merely providing the necessity before very long to have these changes brought about.
    Ex. The library solved the problems of budget cuts, a library building bursting at the seams, and stock ill matched to some of the courses by switching to the use of on-line search services.
    Ex. Any items left unreconciled in the central fund such as bank transfers, should now be reconciled.
    ----
    * algo incompatible = a square peg in a round hole.
    * ser incompatible (con) = be irreconcilable (with).
    * * *
    a) <personas/caracteres> incompatible
    b) <cargo/horario>
    * * *
    = incompatible, ill matched, unreconciled.

    Ex: The moment we compromise among ourselves to adopt rules that are incompatible with ideology then I think we are merely providing the necessity before very long to have these changes brought about.

    Ex: The library solved the problems of budget cuts, a library building bursting at the seams, and stock ill matched to some of the courses by switching to the use of on-line search services.
    Ex: Any items left unreconciled in the central fund such as bank transfers, should now be reconciled.
    * algo incompatible = a square peg in a round hole.
    * ser incompatible (con) = be irreconcilable (with).

    * * *
    1 ‹personas/caracteres› incompatible
    2 ‹cargos/trabajos›
    los dos cargos son incompatibles the two posts may not be held concurrently o at the same time
    el horario de clases es incompatible con el de mi trabajo the times of the classes clash with my work hours
    * * *

    incompatible adjetivo ‹personas/caracteres› incompatible;

    incompatible adjetivo incompatible [con, with]
    (una pareja) ill-suited

    ' incompatible' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    reñida
    - reñido
    English:
    ill-suited
    - incompatible
    - unsuited
    * * *
    1. [medicamento, personalidad] incompatible ( con with);
    el perdón es incompatible con el rencor forgiveness and resentment are incompatible;
    un programa incompatible con versiones anteriores del sistema operativo a program which is incompatible with previous versions of the operating system
    2. [cargo]
    estos dos puestos son incompatibles the two posts cannot be held by the same person at the same time
    * * *
    adj tb
    INFOR incompatible
    * * *
    : incompatible, uncongenial

    Spanish-English dictionary > incompatible

  • 37 infrautilización

    f.
    underemployment, under-use, under-utilising, under-using.
    * * *
    * * *
    = underuse [under-use], underutilisation/under-utilization [underutilization/under-utilisation, -USA], under-exploitation [underexploitation].
    Ex. There appears to be serious under-use and widespread ignorance of medical information sources.
    Ex. This may explain the underutilisation of secondary information services by scholars.
    Ex. The problems of under-exploitation of stock could be solved by integrating at least part of the children's stock with the adult stock.
    * * *
    = underuse [under-use], underutilisation/under-utilization [underutilization/under-utilisation, -USA], under-exploitation [underexploitation].

    Ex: There appears to be serious under-use and widespread ignorance of medical information sources.

    Ex: This may explain the underutilisation of secondary information services by scholars.
    Ex: The problems of under-exploitation of stock could be solved by integrating at least part of the children's stock with the adult stock.

    * * *
    underuse, underutilization
    * * *
    underuse
    * * *
    f under-use

    Spanish-English dictionary > infrautilización

  • 38 injerto

    m.
    graft.
    injerto de piel skin graft
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: injertar.
    * * *
    1 graft
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=acción) grafting
    2) (Agr, Med) graft
    * * *
    a) (Agr) ( acción) grafting; ( tallo) graft, scion
    b) (Med) graft
    * * *
    = infill, graft, grafting.
    Ex. This paper discusses the following methods of treatment in the conservation of seals: cleaning; dealing with cracks; the questions of infill and reversibility; and polishing.
    Ex. The problem of grafts not sticking sufficiently to the document was solved by beating and the correct solvents.
    Ex. Topics covered include planting the seed, transplanting the seed, propagation by cuttings, and grafting.
    ----
    * injerto cutáneo = skin graft.
    * injerto de piel = skin graft.
    * inserción de injertos = infilling.
    * * *
    a) (Agr) ( acción) grafting; ( tallo) graft, scion
    b) (Med) graft
    * * *
    = infill, graft, grafting.

    Ex: This paper discusses the following methods of treatment in the conservation of seals: cleaning; dealing with cracks; the questions of infill and reversibility; and polishing.

    Ex: The problem of grafts not sticking sufficiently to the document was solved by beating and the correct solvents.
    Ex: Topics covered include planting the seed, transplanting the seed, propagation by cuttings, and grafting.
    * injerto cutáneo = skin graft.
    * injerto de piel = skin graft.
    * inserción de injertos = infilling.

    * * *
    1 ( Agr) (acción) grafting; (tallo) graft, scion
    2 ( Med) graft
    un injerto de piel a skin graft
    injerto2 -ta
    masculine, feminine
    * * *

    Del verbo injertar: ( conjugate injertar)

    injerto es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    injertó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    injertar    
    injerto
    injertar ( conjugate injertar) verbo transitivo
    to graft
    injerto sustantivo masculino
    a) (Agr) ( acción) grafting;

    ( tallo) graft, scion
    b) (Med) graft

    injertar vtr Agr Med to graft
    injerto sustantivo masculino graft
    ' injerto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    agarrar
    - tomar
    English:
    graft
    * * *
    1. [acción] grafting
    2. [rama] graft
    3. [en ser humano] graft;
    injerto de cabello hair implants;
    injerto de piel skin graft
    * * *
    m graft
    * * *
    : graft
    injerto de piel: skin graft

    Spanish-English dictionary > injerto

  • 39 insolente

    adj.
    insolent (descarado).
    f. & m.
    insolent person.
    pres.subj.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: insolentar.
    * * *
    1 (descarado) insolent
    2 (soberbio) haughty
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (descarado) insolent person
    2 (soberbio) haughty person
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=descarado) insolent, rude
    2) (=altivo) haughty, contemptuous
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo rude, insolent
    II
    masculino y femenino
    * * *
    = insolent, brash [brasher -comp., brashest -sup.], cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], petulant, uncouth, sassy [sassier -comp., sassiest -sup.], flamer, brazen, impudent, short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.
    Ex. He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
    Ex. Caslon rejected the brash contrast of the later Dutch founts, and produced types that were without serious blemish, but also without much life.
    Ex. The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.
    Ex. His manner was more animated, but not in the usual petulant sense: he even seemed years younger.
    Ex. All the writers chosen characterized eastern Europe throughout the 18th century as uncouth and backward.
    Ex. This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.
    Ex. Like other technologies, the Internet is vulnerable to misuse by hostile individuals ( flamers), sexual predators, and pornographers.
    Ex. They accepted the government's brazen lies stating that Ramón Colás, the co-founder of the library movement, has not been arrested as a prisoner of conscience.
    Ex. The Library Association is impudent in suggesting that it will impose sanctions on those who fail to keep abreast of developments in librarianship.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex. Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.
    Ex. He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.
    ----
    * de un modo insolente = defiantly.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo rude, insolent
    II
    masculino y femenino
    * * *
    = insolent, brash [brasher -comp., brashest -sup.], cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], petulant, uncouth, sassy [sassier -comp., sassiest -sup.], flamer, brazen, impudent, short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.

    Ex: He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.

    Ex: Caslon rejected the brash contrast of the later Dutch founts, and produced types that were without serious blemish, but also without much life.
    Ex: The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.
    Ex: His manner was more animated, but not in the usual petulant sense: he even seemed years younger.
    Ex: All the writers chosen characterized eastern Europe throughout the 18th century as uncouth and backward.
    Ex: This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.
    Ex: Like other technologies, the Internet is vulnerable to misuse by hostile individuals ( flamers), sexual predators, and pornographers.
    Ex: They accepted the government's brazen lies stating that Ramón Colás, the co-founder of the library movement, has not been arrested as a prisoner of conscience.
    Ex: The Library Association is impudent in suggesting that it will impose sanctions on those who fail to keep abreast of developments in librarianship.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex: Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.
    Ex: He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.
    * de un modo insolente = defiantly.

    * * *
    ‹persona› rude, insolent; ‹respuesta/actitud› insolent
    es una insolente she's so rude o insolent
    * * *

    Del verbo insolentar: ( conjugate insolentar)

    insolenté es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    insolente es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    insolente adjetivo
    rude, insolent
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino:
    ◊ es una insolente she's so rude o insolent

    insolente adjetivo insolent

    ' insolente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atrevida
    - atrevido
    - chula
    - chulo
    - descarada
    - descarado
    - farruca
    - farruco
    - malencarada
    - malencarado
    - liso
    English:
    audacious
    - defiant
    - impudent
    - insolent
    - saucy
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    [descarado] insolent; [orgulloso] haughty
    ♦ nmf
    insolent person;
    es un insolente he's very insolent
    * * *
    adj insolent
    * * *
    impertinente: insolent

    Spanish-English dictionary > insolente

  • 40 irascible

    adj.
    1 irascible.
    2 angry, crabby, gnarled, morose.
    * * *
    1 irascible, irritable
    * * *
    ADJ irascible frm
    * * *
    adjetivo irascible
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex. The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * * *
    adjetivo irascible
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).

    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex: The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

    * * *
    irascible
    * * *

    irascible adjetivo irascible, irritable, short-tempered
    ' irascible' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    temperamental
    English:
    cantankerous
    - hot-headed
    - irascible
    - quicktempered
    - crusty
    - hot
    - quick
    - snappy
    * * *
    irascible
    * * *
    adj irascible
    * * *
    : irascible, irritable

    Spanish-English dictionary > irascible

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