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stereotypical

  • 1 estereotípico

    adj.
    stereotypic, stereotypical.
    * * *
    * * *
    = stereotypical, stereotypic, clichéd.
    Ex. The stereotypical writer, for example, needs only a cold garret, some paper, and ink to produce a masterpiece.
    Ex. The stereotypic female hourglass figure has often been attributed to sexual selection.
    Ex. He reinforces the self-deprecating and cliched concept that in order to be a writer, 'one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work'.
    * * *
    = stereotypical, stereotypic, clichéd.

    Ex: The stereotypical writer, for example, needs only a cold garret, some paper, and ink to produce a masterpiece.

    Ex: The stereotypic female hourglass figure has often been attributed to sexual selection.
    Ex: He reinforces the self-deprecating and cliched concept that in order to be a writer, 'one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work'.

    * * *
    stereotypical
    * * *
    estereotípico, -a adj
    stereotypical, stereotypic

    Spanish-English dictionary > estereotípico

  • 2 típico

    adj.
    1 typical, characteristic, peculiar, archetypal.
    2 clear-cut.
    3 typical, conventional, traditional, customary.
    * * *
    1 (característico) typical, characteristic
    2 (pintoresco) picturesque; (tradicional) traditional
    ■ un plato típico a traditional dish, a local dish
    \
    eso es típico de... that's just like...
    ¡lo típico! the same old thing!
    * * *
    (f. - típica)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=característico) typical

    ¡lo típico! — typical!

    2) (=pintoresco) full of local colour o (EEUU) color; (=tradicional) traditional; (=regional) regional; [costumbre] typical

    baile típico — regional dance, national dance

    * * *
    - ca adjetivo typical; <plato/traje> typical, traditional

    los turistas buscan lo típico — tourists are always looking for local color*

    * * *
    = familiar, standard, typical, stock, commonly seen, symptomatic, clichéd, stereotypical, stereotypic.
    Ex. For anyone involved with online searching, the equipment needed for electronic mail will be familiar: in addition to the microcomputer itself (which is the terminal), an acoustic coupler or modem will be needed.
    Ex. Photographs are normally kept in drawers of standard filing cabinets, with folders or pockets, or both.
    Ex. Typical local data might be locations, loan status, items in special collections.
    Ex. True personal discrimination cannot be forced by exercises in selecting the good and rejecting the bad by the application of stock critical formulas: it may indeed be stunted.
    Ex. This typology divides humor comics into commonly seen subject areas, such as teen, kiddie, horror, military, and so on = Esta tipología divide los comics de humor en áreas temáticas conocidas como adolescentes, infantil, terror, militar, etc.
    Ex. One of the patients had a symptomatic humpback deformity which could not be treated.
    Ex. He reinforces the self-deprecating and cliched concept that in order to be a writer, 'one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work'.
    Ex. The stereotypical writer, for example, needs only a cold garret, some paper, and ink to produce a masterpiece.
    Ex. The stereotypic female hourglass figure has often been attributed to sexual selection.
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    * ciudadano medio, el = average man, the.
    * desviación estándar = standard deviation.
    * ejemplo típico = classical example, typical example.
    * expresión típica de Gran Bretaña = Briticism.
    * expresión típica del Canadá = Canadianism.
    * extravagancia típica de los hippies = hippiedom.
    * mujer con un cutis de porcelana típico inglés = an English rose.
    * tela típica escocesa = tartan.
    * tela típica escocesa de cuadros = tartan.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * típica rubia tonta = bimbo.
    * típico de la época = olde quaynte.
    * típico de la región = vernacular.
    * típico del cólico = colicky.
    * típico guaperas tonto = himbo.
    * venta típica, posada = country inn.
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo typical; <plato/traje> typical, traditional

    los turistas buscan lo típico — tourists are always looking for local color*

    * * *
    = familiar, standard, typical, stock, commonly seen, symptomatic, clichéd, stereotypical, stereotypic.

    Ex: For anyone involved with online searching, the equipment needed for electronic mail will be familiar: in addition to the microcomputer itself (which is the terminal), an acoustic coupler or modem will be needed.

    Ex: Photographs are normally kept in drawers of standard filing cabinets, with folders or pockets, or both.
    Ex: Typical local data might be locations, loan status, items in special collections.
    Ex: True personal discrimination cannot be forced by exercises in selecting the good and rejecting the bad by the application of stock critical formulas: it may indeed be stunted.
    Ex: This typology divides humor comics into commonly seen subject areas, such as teen, kiddie, horror, military, and so on = Esta tipología divide los comics de humor en áreas temáticas conocidas como adolescentes, infantil, terror, militar, etc.
    Ex: One of the patients had a symptomatic humpback deformity which could not be treated.
    Ex: He reinforces the self-deprecating and cliched concept that in order to be a writer, 'one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work'.
    Ex: The stereotypical writer, for example, needs only a cold garret, some paper, and ink to produce a masterpiece.
    Ex: The stereotypic female hourglass figure has often been attributed to sexual selection.
    * ciudadano medio, el = average man, the.
    * desviación estándar = standard deviation.
    * ejemplo típico = classical example, typical example.
    * expresión típica de Gran Bretaña = Briticism.
    * expresión típica del Canadá = Canadianism.
    * extravagancia típica de los hippies = hippiedom.
    * mujer con un cutis de porcelana típico inglés = an English rose.
    * tela típica escocesa = tartan.
    * tela típica escocesa de cuadros = tartan.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * típica rubia tonta = bimbo.
    * típico de la época = olde quaynte.
    * típico de la región = vernacular.
    * típico del cólico = colicky.
    * típico guaperas tonto = himbo.
    * venta típica, posada = country inn.

    * * *
    típico -ca
    typical
    volvió a llegar tarde — típico de él he was late again — typical! o that's typical of him o that's just like him
    es el típico tío ligón ( Esp); he's your typical womanizer ( colloq)
    el plato/traje típico de la región the typical o traditional local dish/costume
    los turistas vienen en busca de lo típico tourists come in search of local color*
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    típico
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    typical;

    ‹plato/traje› typical, traditional;
    ◊ ¡eso es típico de él! that's typical of him!

    típico,-a adjetivo
    1 (característico) typical: la actriz lleva un típico traje de los sesenta, the actress is wearing a typical sixties's suit
    es típico de él, it's typical of him
    una bebida típica de Escocia, a typical Scottish drink
    2 (tradicional) traditional, typical

    ' típico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    clásica
    - clásico
    - evasor
    - evasora
    - típica
    - tipismo
    - cosa
    - plato
    - propio
    English:
    classic
    - feminine
    - like
    - masculine
    - mince pie
    - stock
    - typical
    - character
    - john
    - over
    - standard
    - type
    * * *
    típico, -a adj
    1. [característico] typical (de of);
    es un plato típico de Francia it is a typical French dish;
    es un rasgo típico de los orientales it is a characteristic of orientals;
    es típico de o [m5] en él llegar tarde it's typical of him to arrive late;
    es la típica frase de saludo it's the traditional o customary greeting;
    ¿y qué hiciste – pues lo típico so what did you do? – all the usual o typical things
    2. [traje, restaurante] traditional
    * * *
    adj typical (de of)
    * * *
    típico, -ca adj
    : typical
    ♦ típicamente adv
    * * *
    típico adj
    2. (tradicional) traditional

    Spanish-English dictionary > típico

  • 3 aburrido

    adj.
    1 boring, dull, humdrum, uninteresting.
    2 bored, tired.
    f. & m.
    bore, boring person, tiresome person.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: aburrir.
    * * *
    1→ link=aburrir aburrir
    1 (ser aburrido) boring, tedious; (monótono) dull, dreary
    2 (estar aburrido) bored, weary; (cansado) tired of; (harto) fed up with
    * * *
    (f. - aburrida)
    adj.
    1) boring, tedious
    2) bored, fed up
    * * *
    ADJ (=que aburre) boring, tedious; (=que siente aburrimiento) bored

    ¡estoy aburrido de decírtelo! — I'm tired of telling you!

    ABURRIDO ¿"Bored" o "boring"? ► Usamos bored para referirnos al hecho de {estar} aburrido, es decir, de sentir aburrimiento: Si estás aburrida podrías ayudarme con este trabajo If you're bored you could help me with this work ► Usamos boring con personas, actividades y cosas para indicar que alguien o algo {es} aburrido, es decir, que produce aburrimiento: ¡Qué novela más aburrida! What a boring novel! No me gusta salir con él; es muy aburrido I don't like going out with him; he's very boring
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    1) < persona>
    a) [estar] ( sin entretenimiento) bored
    b) [estar] ( harto) fed up

    aburrido de algo — tired of something, fed up with something

    aburrido de + inf — tired of -ing

    2) [ser] <película/persona> boring; < trabajo> boring, tedious
    II
    - da masculino, femenino bore
    * * *
    = tedious, deadly [deadlier -comp., deadliest -sup.], drab, stodgy, unexciting, uninteresting, wearisome, weary [wearier -comp., weariest -sup.], bored, boring, wearying, dreary [drearier -comp., dreariest -sup.], uninspiring, unmoving, dull, cut and dried [cut and dry].
    Ex. In other places too many references could make for a very tedious search.
    Ex. Some authors, of course, object to their work being subjected to compulsory dissection for exams in the traditional deadly manner and like Bernard Shaw, they swear to haunt anyone who so mistreats them (Shaw's ghost must be busy these days).
    Ex. Have reading foisted on you as a duty, a task to be put up with, from which you expect no delight, and it can appear a drab business gladly to be given up.
    Ex. One could easily prefer the convenience of the stodgy single-volume work.
    Ex. The author argues that the advantages for higher education are unclear, and rather unexciting.
    Ex. There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
    Ex. The earliest binding machines replaced the wearisome hand-beating of the sheets in order to fold them.
    Ex. Humanity is returning to the downsized, reengineered, total quality management weary business world.
    Ex. One should answer the telephone clearly and pleasantly -- not in a bored voice or in slurred haste.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex. A new wave of books dealing frankly with such concerns as sex, alcoholism and broken homes was seen as a breakthrough, but plots and styles have begun to show a wearying sameness.
    Ex. The city was considered to be seedy (decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
    Ex. Though the novel begins like a house ablaze, it later thickens slightly into an acceptable if uninspiring finale.
    Ex. The outcome is strangely unmoving.
    Ex. These librarians are given Haykin upon the day of their arrival and are expected to read the entire dull document and use it as a guideline in establishing subject headings.
    Ex. I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons -- when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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    * de un modo aburrido y pesado = tediously, ponderously, boringly.
    * día aburrido = dull day.
    * estar aburrido como una ostra = be bored stiff.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    1) < persona>
    a) [estar] ( sin entretenimiento) bored
    b) [estar] ( harto) fed up

    aburrido de algo — tired of something, fed up with something

    aburrido de + inf — tired of -ing

    2) [ser] <película/persona> boring; < trabajo> boring, tedious
    II
    - da masculino, femenino bore
    * * *
    = tedious, deadly [deadlier -comp., deadliest -sup.], drab, stodgy, unexciting, uninteresting, wearisome, weary [wearier -comp., weariest -sup.], bored, boring, wearying, dreary [drearier -comp., dreariest -sup.], uninspiring, unmoving, dull, cut and dried [cut and dry].

    Ex: In other places too many references could make for a very tedious search.

    Ex: Some authors, of course, object to their work being subjected to compulsory dissection for exams in the traditional deadly manner and like Bernard Shaw, they swear to haunt anyone who so mistreats them (Shaw's ghost must be busy these days).
    Ex: Have reading foisted on you as a duty, a task to be put up with, from which you expect no delight, and it can appear a drab business gladly to be given up.
    Ex: One could easily prefer the convenience of the stodgy single-volume work.
    Ex: The author argues that the advantages for higher education are unclear, and rather unexciting.
    Ex: There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
    Ex: The earliest binding machines replaced the wearisome hand-beating of the sheets in order to fold them.
    Ex: Humanity is returning to the downsized, reengineered, total quality management weary business world.
    Ex: One should answer the telephone clearly and pleasantly -- not in a bored voice or in slurred haste.
    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex: A new wave of books dealing frankly with such concerns as sex, alcoholism and broken homes was seen as a breakthrough, but plots and styles have begun to show a wearying sameness.
    Ex: The city was considered to be seedy (decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
    Ex: Though the novel begins like a house ablaze, it later thickens slightly into an acceptable if uninspiring finale.
    Ex: The outcome is strangely unmoving.
    Ex: These librarians are given Haykin upon the day of their arrival and are expected to read the entire dull document and use it as a guideline in establishing subject headings.
    Ex: I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons -- when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
    * de un modo aburrido y pesado = tediously, ponderously, boringly.
    * día aburrido = dull day.
    * estar aburrido como una ostra = be bored stiff.

    * * *
    aburrido1 -da
    A ‹persona›
    1 [ ESTAR] (sin entretenimiento) bored
    estoy muy aburrido I'm bored stiff
    2 [ ESTAR] (harto) fed up
    me tienes aburrido con tus quejas I'm fed up with your complaints
    aburrido DE algo tired OF sth, fed up WITH sth
    estoy aburrido de sus bromas I'm tired of o fed up with her jokes
    aburrido DE + INF tired of -ING
    estoy aburrido de pedírselo I'm tired of asking him for it
    B [ SER] ‹película/persona› boring
    es un trabajo muy aburrido it's a really boring o tedious job
    la conferencia fue aburridísima the lecture was really boring
    aburrido2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    bore
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    Del verbo aburrir: ( conjugate aburrir)

    aburrido es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    aburrido    
    aburrir
    aburrido
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    1 [estar] ‹ persona›


    b) ( harto) fed up;

    aburrido de algo tired of sth, fed up with sth;
    aburrido de hacer algo tired of doing sth
    2 [ser] ‹película/persona› boring;
    ‹ trabajo› boring, tedious
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    bore
    aburrir ( conjugate aburrir) verbo transitivo
    to bore
    aburrirse verbo pronominal

    b) ( hartarse) aburridose de algo/algn to get tired of o fed up with sth/sb;

    aburridose de hacer algo to get tired of doing sth
    aburrido,-a adjetivo
    1 (cargante, tedioso) tu hermano es aburrido, your brother's boring
    2 (que no se divierte) tu hermano está aburrido, your brother's bored
    (cansado, hastiado) estoy aburrido de tus quejas, I'm tired of your complaints
    aburrir verbo transitivo to bore
    ♦ Locuciones: aburrir a las ovejas, to be incredibly boring
    ' aburrido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aburrida
    - acto
    - amargada
    - amargado
    - harta
    - harto
    - insípida
    - insípido
    - ladrillo
    - pesada
    - pesado
    - petardo
    - plomo
    - sopa
    - tostón
    - aburridor
    - aguado
    - bastante
    - cansado
    - de
    - enojoso
    - latoso
    - mamado
    - podrido
    English:
    bored
    - boring
    - dreary
    - dull
    - grind
    - plough through
    - quiet
    - shade
    - stiff
    - tedious
    - tediously
    - uninspiring
    - especially
    - staid
    - wade
    * * *
    aburrido, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [harto, fastidiado] bored;
    estar aburrido de hacer algo to be fed up with doing sth;
    estoy aburrido de esperar I'm fed up with o tired of waiting;
    me tiene muy aburrido con sus constantes protestas I'm fed up with her constant complaining;
    Fam
    2. [que aburre] boring;
    este libro es muy aburrido this book is very boring;
    la fiesta está muy aburrida it's a very boring party
    ♦ nm,f
    bore;
    ¡eres un aburrido! you're so boring!
    * * *
    adj que aburre boring; que se aburre bored;
    aburrido de algo bored o fed up fam with sth
    * * *
    aburrido, -da adj
    1) : bored, tired, fed up
    2) tedioso: boring, tedious
    * * *
    aburrido1 adj
    2. (tedioso, pesado) boring
    ¡qué programa más aburrido! what a boring programme!

    Spanish-English dictionary > aburrido

  • 4 anticuado

    adj.
    old-fashioned, archaic, out-of-date, antiquated.
    f. & m.
    old-fashioned person, fuddy-duddy, fuddy, lame.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: anticuar.
    * * *
    1 antiquated, old-fashioned, obsolete, out-of-date
    * * *
    (f. - anticuada)
    adj.
    old-fashioned, outdated
    * * *
    ADJ [maquinaria, infraestructura, tecnología] antiquated; [moda] old-fashioned, out-of-date; [técnica] obsolete
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo old-fashioned
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    * * *
    = antiquated, backwater, out of date [out-of-date], outdated [out-dated], stale, old-fashioned, outworn, musty [mustier -comp., mustiest -sup.], timed, fossilised [fossilized, -USA], passé, atavistic, moth-eaten, mothy [mothier -comp., mothiest -sup.], dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.], fuddy-duddy, daggy [daggier -comp., daggiest -sup], long in the tooth.
    Ex. Almost without exception these problems occurred in libraries with antiquated or inadequate ventilation without air-conditioning.
    Ex. When he was younger he really turned the library around, from a backwater, two-bit operation to the respected institution it is today.
    Ex. It is for this reason that many special libraries have constructed their own indexing language; they have avoided being tied to a possibly out of date published list.
    Ex. For example, the outdated subject heading 'Female emancipation' could be changed to the newer term 'Women's liberation' with this function.
    Ex. Does the library continue a stale tradition, or does it interpret social change?.
    Ex. One is tempted to say that the enthusiasts for postcoordinate systems, being forced to admit reluctantly that control was necessary, couldn't bear to use the old-fashioned term 'list of subject headings'.
    Ex. This advertisement was part of a publicity campaign which was based on a presentation of Europe so outworn as to be almost meaningless.
    Ex. Only if we continuously redefine our goals in accordance with the developments in our societies will we remain dynamic libraries and not turn into musty institutions.
    Ex. Librarians need to be vociferous about achievements and services offered in order to dispel ideas about the stereotype librarian, timed and out of touch with contemporary society.
    Ex. The article deals with matters of image and status, professional associations, cultural policies, collections, censorship, outdated infrastructure and fossilised mentalities.
    Ex. By conscious or unconscious fixation on this single, already passé, facet of data processing technology we risk totally ignoring the other functions of a catalog.
    Ex. Teaching lost its status when education became secularized as a tool for economic mobility, when concerns for the spiritual became embarrassingly atavistic.
    Ex. He said: 'The outer shell of democracy is, no doubt, intact but it appears to be moth-eaten from inside'.
    Ex. So, he cleaned the bird cage from top to bottom and threw out all the mothy bird seed.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex. According to him, tea as a category has lacked innovation and upgradation in recent years and hence has a very fuddy-duddy image.
    Ex. What wearing daggy clothes is all about for me is feeling relaxed, knowing I can wear them around people I'm comfortable with.
    Ex. Training would be needed for the reception staff, who all said they were a bit long in the tooth for learning how to use a computer.
    ----
    * estar anticuado = dated.
    * estar un poco anticuado = be some years old.
    * quedarse anticuado = date.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo old-fashioned
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    * * *
    = antiquated, backwater, out of date [out-of-date], outdated [out-dated], stale, old-fashioned, outworn, musty [mustier -comp., mustiest -sup.], timed, fossilised [fossilized, -USA], passé, atavistic, moth-eaten, mothy [mothier -comp., mothiest -sup.], dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.], fuddy-duddy, daggy [daggier -comp., daggiest -sup], long in the tooth.

    Ex: Almost without exception these problems occurred in libraries with antiquated or inadequate ventilation without air-conditioning.

    Ex: When he was younger he really turned the library around, from a backwater, two-bit operation to the respected institution it is today.
    Ex: It is for this reason that many special libraries have constructed their own indexing language; they have avoided being tied to a possibly out of date published list.
    Ex: For example, the outdated subject heading 'Female emancipation' could be changed to the newer term 'Women's liberation' with this function.
    Ex: Does the library continue a stale tradition, or does it interpret social change?.
    Ex: One is tempted to say that the enthusiasts for postcoordinate systems, being forced to admit reluctantly that control was necessary, couldn't bear to use the old-fashioned term 'list of subject headings'.
    Ex: This advertisement was part of a publicity campaign which was based on a presentation of Europe so outworn as to be almost meaningless.
    Ex: Only if we continuously redefine our goals in accordance with the developments in our societies will we remain dynamic libraries and not turn into musty institutions.
    Ex: Librarians need to be vociferous about achievements and services offered in order to dispel ideas about the stereotype librarian, timed and out of touch with contemporary society.
    Ex: The article deals with matters of image and status, professional associations, cultural policies, collections, censorship, outdated infrastructure and fossilised mentalities.
    Ex: By conscious or unconscious fixation on this single, already passé, facet of data processing technology we risk totally ignoring the other functions of a catalog.
    Ex: Teaching lost its status when education became secularized as a tool for economic mobility, when concerns for the spiritual became embarrassingly atavistic.
    Ex: He said: 'The outer shell of democracy is, no doubt, intact but it appears to be moth-eaten from inside'.
    Ex: So, he cleaned the bird cage from top to bottom and threw out all the mothy bird seed.
    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex: According to him, tea as a category has lacked innovation and upgradation in recent years and hence has a very fuddy-duddy image.
    Ex: What wearing daggy clothes is all about for me is feeling relaxed, knowing I can wear them around people I'm comfortable with.
    Ex: Training would be needed for the reception staff, who all said they were a bit long in the tooth for learning how to use a computer.
    * estar anticuado = dated.
    * estar un poco anticuado = be some years old.
    * quedarse anticuado = date.

    * * *
    anticuado1 -da
    ‹persona/ideas› old-fashioned, antiquated; ‹ropa› old-fashioned; ‹sistema/aparato› antiquated
    anticuado2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    eres un anticuado you're so old-fashioned
    * * *

    Del verbo anticuarse: ( conjugate anticuarse)

    anticuado es:

    el participio

    anticuado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    old-fashioned
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino: eres un anticuado you're so old-fashioned
    anticuado,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino old-fashioned, antiquated

    ' anticuado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    anticuada
    - apolillada
    - apolillado
    - antiguo
    - atrasado
    - pasado
    - zanahoria
    English:
    antiquated
    - date
    - fuddy-duddy
    - old
    - old-fashioned
    - outdated
    - outmoded
    - dated
    - out
    - time
    * * *
    anticuado, -a
    ♦ adj
    [persona, ropa] old-fashioned;
    esa técnica está anticuada that method is out of date;
    mi módem se ha quedado anticuado my modem is out of date
    ♦ nm,f
    old-fashioned person;
    mi madre es una anticuada my mother is very old-fashioned
    * * *
    adj antiquated
    * * *
    anticuado, -da adj
    : antiquated, outdated
    * * *
    anticuado adj old fashioned

    Spanish-English dictionary > anticuado

  • 5 bibliotecaria

    f., (m. - bibliotecario)
    * * *
    = female librarian, woman librarian, women librarian.
    Nota: Singular woman librarian.
    Ex. To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.
    Ex. Although some women librarians are married, most are childless: since the career is demanding, women librarians must choose often between career and children.
    Ex. The article focuses on the stereotypical images of librarians, particularly women librarians, conveyed by such television programmes.
    * * *
    = female librarian, woman librarian, women librarian.
    Nota: Singular woman librarian.

    Ex: To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.

    Ex: Although some women librarians are married, most are childless: since the career is demanding, women librarians must choose often between career and children.
    Ex: The article focuses on the stereotypical images of librarians, particularly women librarians, conveyed by such television programmes.

    * * *

    bibliotecario,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino librarian
    * * *
    m, bibliotecaria f librarian

    Spanish-English dictionary > bibliotecaria

  • 6 bicho raro

    m.
    oddball, freak, odd person, odd fish.
    * * *
    oddball, weirdo
    * * *
    (adj.) = flake, freak, oddball [odd ball], kooky, rare bird, odd bird, odd fish, freak of nature, rare breed, weirdo, nerd, geek, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]
    Ex. It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.
    Ex. It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.
    Ex. Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex. Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex. Variously described as information consultant, resource person, intelligence officer, communication scientist, etc, they are still rare birds.
    Ex. This type of service is an odd bird in an IT (Information Technology) company.
    Ex. The biographer controls the innumerable aspects of Buchan's life in an exemplary manner, without losing sight of the fact that Buchan was 'a very odd fish indeed'.
    Ex. Despite statistics showing their phenomenal growth and use, on-line data bases in US libraries are still somewhat a freak of nature.
    Ex. At the same time, all her friends are sports freaks, and they're a rare breed.
    Ex. The novel often has an unjustified negative image as a book only loved by weirdos and social outcasts.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    * * *
    (adj.) = flake, freak, oddball [odd ball], kooky, rare bird, odd bird, odd fish, freak of nature, rare breed, weirdo, nerd, geek, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]

    Ex: It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.

    Ex: It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.
    Ex: Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex: Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex: Variously described as information consultant, resource person, intelligence officer, communication scientist, etc, they are still rare birds.
    Ex: This type of service is an odd bird in an IT (Information Technology) company.
    Ex: The biographer controls the innumerable aspects of Buchan's life in an exemplary manner, without losing sight of the fact that Buchan was 'a very odd fish indeed'.
    Ex: Despite statistics showing their phenomenal growth and use, on-line data bases in US libraries are still somewhat a freak of nature.
    Ex: At the same time, all her friends are sports freaks, and they're a rare breed.
    Ex: The novel often has an unjustified negative image as a book only loved by weirdos and social outcasts.
    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bicho raro

  • 7 buhardilla

    f.
    1 attic.
    2 dormer (window) (ventana).
    * * *
    1→ link=buharda buharda
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    a) ( desván) attic
    b) ( apartamento) attic apartment (AmE) o (BrE) room
    c) ( ventana) dormer window
    * * *
    = garret, loft, dormer window, dormer.
    Ex. The stereotypical writer, for example, needs only a cold garret, some paper, and ink to produce a masterpiece.
    Ex. The library was subsequently housed for some years in a local school until, in 1983, the loft of the village hall was converted for library use = Posteriormente, la biblioteca se albergó durante algunos años en una escuela local hasta que, en 1983, la galería del centro social se transformó para uso de la biblioteca.
    Ex. According to the new design, the roof will have gable ends as opposed to being hipped with dormer windows.
    Ex. As with the previous design there will be front dormers and balconies at first floor level.
    * * *
    a) ( desván) attic
    b) ( apartamento) attic apartment (AmE) o (BrE) room
    c) ( ventana) dormer window
    * * *
    = garret, loft, dormer window, dormer.

    Ex: The stereotypical writer, for example, needs only a cold garret, some paper, and ink to produce a masterpiece.

    Ex: The library was subsequently housed for some years in a local school until, in 1983, the loft of the village hall was converted for library use = Posteriormente, la biblioteca se albergó durante algunos años en una escuela local hasta que, en 1983, la galería del centro social se transformó para uso de la biblioteca.
    Ex: According to the new design, the roof will have gable ends as opposed to being hipped with dormer windows.
    Ex: As with the previous design there will be front dormers and balconies at first floor level.

    * * *
    buhardilla, buharda
    1 (desván) attic
    2 (apartamento) attic apartment ( AmE) o ( BrE) flat
    3 (ventana) dormer window
    * * *

    buhardilla sustantivo femenino

    b) ( apartamento) attic apartment (AmE) o (BrE) room


    buhardilla sustantivo femenino attic
    ' buhardilla' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    miscelánea
    - misceláneo
    English:
    garret
    * * *
    buhardilla, bo(h)ardilla nf
    1. [habitación] attic
    2. [ventana] dormer (window)
    * * *
    f attic, Br tb
    loft
    * * *
    1) ático, desván: attic
    2) : dormer window
    * * *
    buhardilla n attic

    Spanish-English dictionary > buhardilla

  • 8 cerebrito

    = boffin, brain box, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.].
    Ex. 'Boffins' have been identified as the category of learners who 'delight in unrelated fragments of knowledge for knowledge's sake,' and 'put these fragments into a framework and analyze them'.
    Ex. Sometimes called a query file or an information file or even a brain box, it is normally a quite informal affair, on cards, arranged alphabetically by subject.
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    * * *
    = boffin, brain box, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.].

    Ex: 'Boffins' have been identified as the category of learners who 'delight in unrelated fragments of knowledge for knowledge's sake,' and 'put these fragments into a framework and analyze them'.

    Ex: Sometimes called a query file or an information file or even a brain box, it is normally a quite informal affair, on cards, arranged alphabetically by subject.
    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cerebrito

  • 9 conservador

    adj.
    1 conservative, discreet, moderate, restrained.
    2 conservative, orthodox, rightist, right-wing.
    3 Conservative.
    m.
    1 conservative, praetorian, rightist, right-winger.
    2 preservative, preserver.
    3 Conservative.
    4 curator.
    * * *
    1 PLÍTICA conservative
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 PLÍTICA conservative
    2 (de museos) curator
    * * *
    1. (f. - conservadora)
    noun
    2. (f. - conservadora)
    adj.
    * * *
    conservador, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (Pol) conservative, Tory
    2) (Culin) preservative
    2. SM / F
    1) (Pol) conservative, Tory
    2) [de museo] curator, keeper
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo conservative
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Pol) conservative
    b) ( de museo) curator
    * * *
    = conservative, conservator, curator, custodian, standpatter, preserver, ingrown, old-fashioned, backward-looking, keeper, custodial, Luddite, laggard, conservationist, conservative, illiberal, risk-averse, tweedy [tweedier -comp., tweediest -sup.], safekeeper [sake-keeper], dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.], straitlaced [strait-laced].
    Ex. There is a tendency to advance propositions premised upon the assumption that SLIS are staffed by inherently conservative, where they are not simply obtuse, individuals.
    Ex. The benefits of an on-site conservation laboratory and conservator are underlined.
    Ex. In her previous vocation she served as curator of History at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and later as Assistant to the Director of Johns Hopkins University, Institute of History and Medicine.
    Ex. This article maintains that archivists as custodians of the records have an ethical obligation to support the freest possible access to public records.
    Ex. The 'standpatters' have seen power shift away from themselves to the newcomers and other lifelong 'progressive' Junctionvillers, who were muted under previous administrations.
    Ex. He also lumps himself and librarians together as 'devoted and in some instances veteran pursuers, preservers, and disseminators of truth'.
    Ex. Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y mucho menos conservadores.
    Ex. One is tempted to say that the enthusiasts for postcoordinate systems, being forced to admit reluctantly that control was necessary, couldn't bear to use the old-fashioned term 'list of subject headings'.
    Ex. The book is essentially backward-looking rather than forward-looking in content.
    Ex. Vervliet's involvement with books began with his appointment in 1949 as keeper at the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp, where he acquired a wide knowledge of the history of printing in the Low Countries.
    Ex. Broadly, one can distinguish, then, between what one might call the ' custodial' or 'warehouse' aspects of the librarian's task, and the 'communications' aspect.
    Ex. Librarians who have reservations about the spread of electronically based services are not Luddites.
    Ex. Individuals are distributed along a normal bell-shaped curve, with the majority in the large center and innovators and laggards a the the two extremes.
    Ex. The present conservationist approach to librarianship reflects Victorian priorities.
    Ex. He ends his book with a discussion of the politicizing effects of the actions of conservatives and loyalists at the end of the century.
    Ex. It is argued that Israel, in spite of its free elections, is an illiberal democracy.
    Ex. This is typical of the old corporate forms of hierarchy-based processes and of the ' risk-averse systems that crush new ideas'.
    Ex. No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.
    Ex. Libraries find themselves frustrated in their role as safekeepers of science: how can they ensure optimal access and availability if they do not control the access systems?.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex. Three years later, when he was fifteen, he slipped into Rachel's bedroom and her straitlaced mother caught them petting and giggling on the side of the bed.
    ----
    * conservador de documentos = records custodian.
    * conservador del archivo = archives custodian.
    * de un modo conservador = conservatively.
    * neoconservador = neoconservative [neo-conservative], neoconservative [neo-conservative].
    * partido conservador = conservative party.
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo conservative
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino
    a) (Pol) conservative
    b) ( de museo) curator
    * * *
    = conservative, conservator, curator, custodian, standpatter, preserver, ingrown, old-fashioned, backward-looking, keeper, custodial, Luddite, laggard, conservationist, conservative, illiberal, risk-averse, tweedy [tweedier -comp., tweediest -sup.], safekeeper [sake-keeper], dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.], straitlaced [strait-laced].

    Ex: There is a tendency to advance propositions premised upon the assumption that SLIS are staffed by inherently conservative, where they are not simply obtuse, individuals.

    Ex: The benefits of an on-site conservation laboratory and conservator are underlined.
    Ex: In her previous vocation she served as curator of History at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and later as Assistant to the Director of Johns Hopkins University, Institute of History and Medicine.
    Ex: This article maintains that archivists as custodians of the records have an ethical obligation to support the freest possible access to public records.
    Ex: The 'standpatters' have seen power shift away from themselves to the newcomers and other lifelong 'progressive' Junctionvillers, who were muted under previous administrations.
    Ex: He also lumps himself and librarians together as 'devoted and in some instances veteran pursuers, preservers, and disseminators of truth'.
    Ex: Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y mucho menos conservadores.
    Ex: One is tempted to say that the enthusiasts for postcoordinate systems, being forced to admit reluctantly that control was necessary, couldn't bear to use the old-fashioned term 'list of subject headings'.
    Ex: The book is essentially backward-looking rather than forward-looking in content.
    Ex: Vervliet's involvement with books began with his appointment in 1949 as keeper at the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp, where he acquired a wide knowledge of the history of printing in the Low Countries.
    Ex: Broadly, one can distinguish, then, between what one might call the ' custodial' or 'warehouse' aspects of the librarian's task, and the 'communications' aspect.
    Ex: Librarians who have reservations about the spread of electronically based services are not Luddites.
    Ex: Individuals are distributed along a normal bell-shaped curve, with the majority in the large center and innovators and laggards a the the two extremes.
    Ex: The present conservationist approach to librarianship reflects Victorian priorities.
    Ex: He ends his book with a discussion of the politicizing effects of the actions of conservatives and loyalists at the end of the century.
    Ex: It is argued that Israel, in spite of its free elections, is an illiberal democracy.
    Ex: This is typical of the old corporate forms of hierarchy-based processes and of the ' risk-averse systems that crush new ideas'.
    Ex: No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.
    Ex: Libraries find themselves frustrated in their role as safekeepers of science: how can they ensure optimal access and availability if they do not control the access systems?.
    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex: Three years later, when he was fifteen, he slipped into Rachel's bedroom and her straitlaced mother caught them petting and giggling on the side of the bed.
    * conservador de documentos = records custodian.
    * conservador del archivo = archives custodian.
    * de un modo conservador = conservatively.
    * neoconservador = neoconservative [neo-conservative], neoconservative [neo-conservative].
    * partido conservador = conservative party.

    * * *
    1 ( Pol) ‹partido/gobierno› conservative
    2 (tradicional) ‹persona/ideas› conservative
    es muy conservador en sus gustos he's very conservative in his tastes
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Pol) conservative
    2 (de un museo) curator
    3
    conservador masculine ( Coc) preservative
    * * *

    conservador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    conservative
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    a) (Pol) conservative


    conservador,-ora
    I adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino conservative
    Pol Conservative
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 Pol Conservative
    2 (de un museo, una biblioteca) curator
    ' conservador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    barrer
    - bloque
    - conservadora
    - europeísta
    English:
    conservative
    - keeper
    - seat
    - Tory
    - wet
    - Conservative
    - curator
    - custodian
    - round
    * * *
    conservador, -ora
    ♦ adj
    1. [tradicionalista] conservative;
    es un entrenador muy conservador he's a very conservative manager
    2. [del partido conservador] Conservative
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [tradicionalista] conservative
    2. [miembro del partido conservador] Conservative
    3. [de museo] curator;
    [de biblioteca] librarian; [de parque natural] keeper
    * * *
    I adj conservative
    II m, conservadora f
    1 de museo curator
    2 POL conservative
    * * *
    conservador, - dora adj & n
    : conservative
    : preservative
    * * *
    conservador adj n conservative

    Spanish-English dictionary > conservador

  • 10 contaminar

    v.
    1 to contaminate.
    La fábrica contamina el aire The factory contaminates the air.
    El viejo contaminó a la muchacha The old man contaminated the girl.
    2 to corrupt.
    * * *
    1 to contaminate (agua, aire) to pollute
    2 figurado to contaminate, corrupt
    1 to become contaminated (agua, aire) to become polluted
    2 figurado to be infected, be corrupted
    * * *
    verb
    to contaminate, pollute
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ aire, mar] to pollute; [+ alimentos, agua potable] to contaminate; [+ ropa] to soil
    2) [+ texto] to corrupt; (Literat) to influence, affect
    3) (Rel) to profane
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <mar/atmósfera> to pollute; <agua potable/comida> to contaminate; ( por radiactividad) to contaminate
    b) <lengua/cultura> to corrupt
    * * *
    = contaminate, corrupt, pollute, foul, taint, defile.
    Ex. The cellulose fibres used in the manufacture of paper for books readily become contaminated with radioactive materials through their ecological cycle.
    Ex. Libraries which have public access computers should take precautions to prevent their systems being corrupted.
    Ex. Bugeja investigates the impact and motives of media ecosystems that have polluted the Internet and other digital devices with marketing ploys.
    Ex. For the past five years, large quantities of decaying algae have been fouling Lake Michigan shoreline.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex. No person shall throw any waste, building debris or vehicle scrap into the public domain or defile the public domain.
    ----
    * sin contaminar = untainted, uncontaminated.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <mar/atmósfera> to pollute; <agua potable/comida> to contaminate; ( por radiactividad) to contaminate
    b) <lengua/cultura> to corrupt
    * * *
    = contaminate, corrupt, pollute, foul, taint, defile.

    Ex: The cellulose fibres used in the manufacture of paper for books readily become contaminated with radioactive materials through their ecological cycle.

    Ex: Libraries which have public access computers should take precautions to prevent their systems being corrupted.
    Ex: Bugeja investigates the impact and motives of media ecosystems that have polluted the Internet and other digital devices with marketing ploys.
    Ex: For the past five years, large quantities of decaying algae have been fouling Lake Michigan shoreline.
    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex: No person shall throw any waste, building debris or vehicle scrap into the public domain or defile the public domain.
    * sin contaminar = untainted, uncontaminated.

    * * *
    contaminar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹mar/atmósfera› to pollute; ‹agua potable/comida› to contaminate; (por radiactividad) to contaminate
    2 ‹lengua/cultura› to corrupt
    * * *

    contaminar ( conjugate contaminar) verbo transitivo ‹mar/atmósfera› to pollute;
    ‹agua potable/comida› to contaminate;
    ( por radiactividad) to contaminate
    contaminar verbo transitivo
    1 (la atmósfera) to pollute
    2 (un alimento, etc) to contaminate
    3 (una cultura, lengua) to corrupt
    ' contaminar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    contaminate
    - foul
    - infect
    - pollute
    - taint
    - poison
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [alimento] to contaminate
    2. [medio ambiente] to pollute
    3. [pervertir] to corrupt
    4. [texto] to corrupt
    ♦ vi
    to pollute;
    el que contamine que pague the polluter pays
    * * *
    v/t agua etc contaminate; río, medio ambiente pollute; fig
    corrupt
    * * *
    : to contaminate, to pollute
    * * *
    contaminar vb (agua, aire) to pollute

    Spanish-English dictionary > contaminar

  • 11 desacreditar

    v.
    to discredit.
    Ella desacredita a Ricardo She discredits Richard.
    Ella desacreditó a su amiga She discredited=debunked her friend.
    El político desacreditó al oponente The politician discredited his opponent
    * * *
    1 to discredit, bring discredit on, bring into discredit
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    VT [+ político, gobierno] to discredit
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < persona> to discredit; <buen nombre/institución> to discredit, bring... into disrepute
    b) < teoría> to discredit
    2.
    desacreditarse v pron (refl) to discredit oneself, damage one's reputation
    * * *
    = discredit, denigrate, debunk, bring + Nombre + into disrepute, disgrace, taint.
    Ex. Such circulation may contribute little to the creation of whole personalities but it may do much to discredit the circulators.
    Ex. This is not to denigrate such writing, much of which is extremely valuable.
    Ex. Process reengineering is in the debunking phase of its life cycle - an evolutionary pattern in which management ideas and techniques are first presented as panaceas for business success and subsequently debunked as worthless.
    Ex. This article considers the danger that inherent bias in such research might bring library and information science research into disrepute.
    Ex. The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    ----
    * desacreditarse = come into + disrepute, fall into + disrepute.
    * desacreditar un mito = debunk + a myth.
    * estar desacreditado = hold in + disrepute.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < persona> to discredit; <buen nombre/institución> to discredit, bring... into disrepute
    b) < teoría> to discredit
    2.
    desacreditarse v pron (refl) to discredit oneself, damage one's reputation
    * * *
    = discredit, denigrate, debunk, bring + Nombre + into disrepute, disgrace, taint.

    Ex: Such circulation may contribute little to the creation of whole personalities but it may do much to discredit the circulators.

    Ex: This is not to denigrate such writing, much of which is extremely valuable.
    Ex: Process reengineering is in the debunking phase of its life cycle - an evolutionary pattern in which management ideas and techniques are first presented as panaceas for business success and subsequently debunked as worthless.
    Ex: This article considers the danger that inherent bias in such research might bring library and information science research into disrepute.
    Ex: The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.
    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    * desacreditarse = come into + disrepute, fall into + disrepute.
    * desacreditar un mito = debunk + a myth.
    * estar desacreditado = hold in + disrepute.

    * * *
    vt
    esos rumores lo han desacreditado mucho those rumors have done his reputation a great deal of harm o have seriously damaged his reputation
    la oposición intentó desacreditarlo the opposition tried to discredit him
    ( refl) to discredit oneself, damage one's reputation
    * * *

    desacreditar ( conjugate desacreditar) verbo transitivo
    to discredit
    desacreditarse verbo pronominal ( refl) to discredit oneself, damage one's reputation
    desacreditar verbo transitivo (desprestigiar) to discredit, bring into discredit
    ' desacreditar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    descalificar
    English:
    discredit
    - disgrace
    - disparage
    - debunk
    - disrepute
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to discredit;
    hubo una campaña para desacreditarla there was a campaign to discredit her;
    este nuevo fracaso lo desacredita como político this latest failure has destroyed his credibility as a politician;
    su actuación ha desacreditado al partido his behaviour has brought the party into disrepute
    * * *
    v/t discredit
    * * *
    desprestigiar: to discredit, to disgrace

    Spanish-English dictionary > desacreditar

  • 12 deshonrar

    v.
    1 to dishonor.
    con su conducta deshonra a toda la familia he is dishonoring the entire family with his conduct
    Elsa deshonró a su familia Elsa dishonored her family.
    2 to trample on, to tread on.
    Elsa deshonró su reputación Elsa trampled on her good name.
    3 to bring shame on, to shame.
    Elsa deshonró a sus padres Elsa brought shame on her parents.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to dishonour (US dishonor), disgrace
    2 (injuriar) to insult, defame
    3 (a una mujer) to dishonour (US dishonor)
    * * *
    verb
    to dishonor, disgrace
    * * *
    VT
    1) [+ familia, compañeros] to dishonour, dishonor (EEUU), disgrace
    2) (=afrentar) to insult
    3) euf [+ mujer] to dishonour, dishonor (EEUU)
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <familia/patria> to dishonor*, disgrace; < mujer> to dishonor*
    * * *
    = taint, vilify, stigmatise [stigmatize, -USA], besmirch, bring + Nombre + into disrepute, disgrace, defile.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex. Robert Kent's sole agenda is to attack Cuba and vilify the Cuban library community while supporting the US government's interventionist destabilization policies.
    Ex. Findings reaffirm that television stigmatises the occupation of business, independently of economic factors.
    Ex. the gulag was an atrocious system of incarceration and forced labor that had little to do with correction, that poisoned society, and that besmirched Soviet communism.
    Ex. This article considers the danger that inherent bias in such research might bring library and information science research into disrepute.
    Ex. The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.
    Ex. No person shall throw any waste, building debris or vehicle scrap into the public domain or defile the public domain.
    ----
    * deshonrar la reputación = besmirch + reputation.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <familia/patria> to dishonor*, disgrace; < mujer> to dishonor*
    * * *
    = taint, vilify, stigmatise [stigmatize, -USA], besmirch, bring + Nombre + into disrepute, disgrace, defile.

    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.

    Ex: Robert Kent's sole agenda is to attack Cuba and vilify the Cuban library community while supporting the US government's interventionist destabilization policies.
    Ex: Findings reaffirm that television stigmatises the occupation of business, independently of economic factors.
    Ex: the gulag was an atrocious system of incarceration and forced labor that had little to do with correction, that poisoned society, and that besmirched Soviet communism.
    Ex: This article considers the danger that inherent bias in such research might bring library and information science research into disrepute.
    Ex: The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.
    Ex: No person shall throw any waste, building debris or vehicle scrap into the public domain or defile the public domain.
    * deshonrar la reputación = besmirch + reputation.

    * * *
    deshonrar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹familia/patria› to dishonor*, disgrace, bring dishonor* o disgrace o shame on
    trabajar no deshonra a nadie working is nothing to be ashamed of
    2 ‹mujer› to dishonor*
    * * *

    deshonrar ( conjugate deshonrar) verbo transitivo ‹familia/patria› to dishonor( conjugate dishonor), disgrace;
    ‹ mujer› to dishonor( conjugate dishonor)
    deshonrar verbo transitivo
    1 to dishonour, US dishonor
    2 (a la familia, etc) to bring disgrace on
    ' deshonrar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    disgrace
    - dishonor
    - dishonour
    - shame
    - blacken
    - taint
    * * *
    1. [injuriar] to dishonour;
    con su conducta deshonra a toda la familia his behaviour is bringing disgrace upon the entire family
    2. [mujer] to dishonour
    * * *
    v/t dishonor, Br
    dishonour
    * * *
    : to dishonor, to disgrace

    Spanish-English dictionary > deshonrar

  • 13 empañar

    v.
    to cover with breadcrumbs, to bread.
    María empMaría los filetes Mary covers the fillets with breadcrumbs.
    * * *
    1 (rebozar) to coat in breadcrumbs
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    VT (Culin) [con masa] to cover in a pastry case ; [con pan rallado] to cook or roll in breadcrumbs or pastry
    * * *
    (Méx) empanizar verbo transitivo to coat... in breadcrumbs
    * * *
    = mist, cloud, tarnish, taint.
    Ex. The revenue-making services are glamorous, and their magic mists the fundamental democratic perspective of the free public library.
    Ex. Whilst library schools should continue to concentrate upon traditional priorities and the obsession with machines and techniques should not cloud those priorities.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'NCLIS (National Commission on Libraries and Information Science) assessment of public information dissemination: some sound ideas tarnished by defense of obsolete approaches' = El artículo se titula "Evaluación de la difusión de información pública por la NCLIS (Comisión Nacional sobre Bibliotecas y Documentación): algunas ideas acertadas deslucidas por la defensa de métodos obsoletos".
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    ----
    * empañarse = blur.
    * * *
    (Méx) empanizar verbo transitivo to coat... in breadcrumbs
    * * *
    = mist, cloud, tarnish, taint.

    Ex: The revenue-making services are glamorous, and their magic mists the fundamental democratic perspective of the free public library.

    Ex: Whilst library schools should continue to concentrate upon traditional priorities and the obsession with machines and techniques should not cloud those priorities.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'NCLIS (National Commission on Libraries and Information Science) assessment of public information dissemination: some sound ideas tarnished by defense of obsolete approaches' = El artículo se titula "Evaluación de la difusión de información pública por la NCLIS (Comisión Nacional sobre Bibliotecas y Documentación): algunas ideas acertadas deslucidas por la defensa de métodos obsoletos".
    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    * empañarse = blur.

    * * *
    empanar [A1 ]
    vt
    to coat … in breadcrumbs
    * * *

    Multiple Entries:
    empanar    
    empañar
    empanar ( conjugate empanar), (Méx)

    to coat … in breadcrumbs
    empañar ( conjugate empañar) verbo transitivo ‹vidrio/espejo› to steam o mist up
    empañarse verbo pronominal [vidrio/espejo] to steam o mist up
    empañar verbo transitivo
    1 (con vapor de agua) to steam up: afuera hacía tanto frío que nuestro aliento empañaba los cristales, it was so cold outside that our breath left all the windows steamed up
    2 (la fama, reputación) to tarnish: sus comentarios machistas empañaron su prestigio, his sexist remarks were a blemish on his reputation

    ' empañar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apanar
    - empanar
    English:
    mist over
    - mist up
    - taint
    - color
    - pall
    - tarnish
    * * *
    empanar, Méx empanizar vt
    Culin to coat in egg and breadcrumbs
    * * *
    v/t coat in breadcrumbs
    * * *
    : to bread

    Spanish-English dictionary > empañar

  • 14 empollón

    adj.
    bookish.
    m.
    1 crammer, student who studies intensively at the very last minute, swot.
    2 grind, swot.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    * * *
    empollón, -ona
    * SM / F (=estudiante) swot *, grind (EEUU) *
    * * *
    - llona masculino, femenino (Esp fam & pey) grind (AmE colloq), swot (BrE colloq & pej)
    * * *
    = swotter, boffin, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.], swot.
    Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.
    Ex. 'Boffins' have been identified as the category of learners who 'delight in unrelated fragments of knowledge for knowledge's sake,' and 'put these fragments into a framework and analyze them'.
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    Ex. Jack is dead brainy, such a swot that he always comes top in every exam.
    * * *
    - llona masculino, femenino (Esp fam & pey) grind (AmE colloq), swot (BrE colloq & pej)
    * * *
    = swotter, boffin, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.], swot.

    Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

    Ex: 'Boffins' have been identified as the category of learners who 'delight in unrelated fragments of knowledge for knowledge's sake,' and 'put these fragments into a framework and analyze them'.
    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    Ex: Jack is dead brainy, such a swot that he always comes top in every exam.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    ( Esp fam pey) grind ( AmE colloq), swot ( BrE colloq pej)
    * * *

    empollón
    ◊ - llona sustantivo masculino, femenino (Esp fam &

    pey) grind (AmE colloq), swot (BrE colloq & pej)
    empollón,-ona fam pey sustantivo masculino y femenino swot
    ' empollón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    empollona
    English:
    swot
    * * *
    empollón, -ona Esp Fam
    ♦ adj
    ser empollón to be Br swotty o US a grind
    ♦ nm,f
    Br swot, US grind
    * * *
    m, empollona f fam
    grind fam, Br
    swot fam
    * * *
    empollón n swot

    Spanish-English dictionary > empollón

  • 15 envilecer

    v.
    1 to debase.
    2 to pervert, to corrupt, to debase, to debauch.
    3 to adulterate.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ AGRADECER], like link=agradecer agradecer
    1 to debase, degrade
    1 to lose value, be debased
    1 to debase oneself, degrade oneself
    * * *
    1.
    VT to debase, degrade
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to degrade, debase
    2.
    envilecer vi to degrade, be degrading
    3.
    envilecerse v pron to degrade o debase oneself
    * * *
    = abase, taint, defile.
    Ex. Fairy tales not abased by the 'culture industry' might save us from our present state of barbarism resulting from a capitalism run wild.
    Ex. This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex. No person shall throw any waste, building debris or vehicle scrap into the public domain or defile the public domain.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to degrade, debase
    2.
    envilecer vi to degrade, be degrading
    3.
    envilecerse v pron to degrade o debase oneself
    * * *
    = abase, taint, defile.

    Ex: Fairy tales not abased by the 'culture industry' might save us from our present state of barbarism resulting from a capitalism run wild.

    Ex: This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
    Ex: No person shall throw any waste, building debris or vehicle scrap into the public domain or defile the public domain.

    * * *
    envilecer [E3 ]
    vt
    to degrade, debase
    ■ envilecer
    vi
    to degrade, be degrading
    to degrade o debase oneself
    * * *

    envilecer verbo transitivo to degrade, debase
    ' envilecer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    degradar
    English:
    debase
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to debase
    ♦ vi
    to become debased
    * * *
    v/t degrade, debase
    * * *
    envilecer {53} vt
    : to degrade, to debase

    Spanish-English dictionary > envilecer

  • 16 estereotipado

    adj.
    stereotyped, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, hackneyed.
    m.
    stereotyping.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: estereotipar.
    * * *
    1→ link=estereotipar estereotipar
    1 figurado stereotyped, standard, set
    \
    frase estereotipada hackneyed phrase, cliché
    * * *
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < frase> clichéd; <idea/personaje> stereotyped
    * * *
    = stereotyped, clichéd.
    Ex. His work is criticized for its triviality, quantity, linguistically impoverished style, anemia of characterization, and cliched, stereotyped ideas and plots.
    Ex. He reinforces the self-deprecating and cliched concept that in order to be a writer, 'one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work'.
    ----
    * estereotipado, lo = cliched, the.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < frase> clichéd; <idea/personaje> stereotyped
    * * *
    = stereotyped, clichéd.

    Ex: His work is criticized for its triviality, quantity, linguistically impoverished style, anemia of characterization, and cliched, stereotyped ideas and plots.

    Ex: He reinforces the self-deprecating and cliched concept that in order to be a writer, 'one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work'.
    * estereotipado, lo = cliched, the.

    * * *
    ‹frase› clichéd; ‹idea/personaje› stereotyped
    una obra llena de personajes estereotipados a play full of stereotypes, a play full of stereotype o stereotyped characters
    * * *

    Del verbo estereotipar: ( conjugate estereotipar)

    estereotipado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    estereotipado    
    estereotipar
    estereotipado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ frase› clichéd;


    ‹idea/personaje› stereotyped
    * * *
    estereotipado, -a adj
    stereotyped, stereotypical;
    una imagen estereotipada de México a stereotyped image of Mexico;
    personajes de ficción estereotipados stereotypical o clichéd fictional characters
    * * *
    adj stereotyped
    * * *
    estereotipado, -da adj
    : stereotyped

    Spanish-English dictionary > estereotipado

  • 17 friki

    = nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.].
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    ----
    * friki de la informática = computer geek, computer whiz.
    * friki informático = computer geek, computer whiz.
    * * *
    = nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.].

    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.

    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    * friki de la informática = computer geek, computer whiz.
    * friki informático = computer geek, computer whiz.

    Spanish-English dictionary > friki

  • 18 friqui

    = nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.], freaky [freakier -comp., freakiest -sup.].
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    Ex. This film is really just a series of throwaway skits that the director and scriptwriter attempt to lard with parody and freaky fantasy.
    ----
    * friqui de la informática = computer geek, computer whiz.
    * friqui informático = computer geek, computer whiz.
    * * *
    = nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.], freaky [freakier -comp., freakiest -sup.].

    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.

    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    Ex: This film is really just a series of throwaway skits that the director and scriptwriter attempt to lard with parody and freaky fantasy.
    * friqui de la informática = computer geek, computer whiz.
    * friqui informático = computer geek, computer whiz.

    * * *
    friqui nm
    [en fútbol] free kick

    Spanish-English dictionary > friqui

  • 19 incompetente social

    (adj.) = geek, nerd, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    * * *
    (adj.) = geek, nerd, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]

    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.

    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.

    Spanish-English dictionary > incompetente social

  • 20 inepto social

    (adj.) = nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    * * *
    (adj.) = nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], nerd, geek, geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]

    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.

    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.

    Spanish-English dictionary > inepto social

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