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  • 21 caza de brujas

    witch-hunt
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    (n.) = witch-hunt, witch hunting
    Ex. The article 'Indexing witch-hunt and the failure of language' discusses the limitations of indexing systems, suggesting that those in vogue are much slanted to European subjects and concepts.
    Ex. The article ' Witch hunting in the online field' views with concern recent moves in the USA to classify certain information as sensitive.
    * * *
    * * *
    (n.) = witch-hunt, witch hunting

    Ex: The article 'Indexing witch-hunt and the failure of language' discusses the limitations of indexing systems, suggesting that those in vogue are much slanted to European subjects and concepts.

    Ex: The article ' Witch hunting in the online field' views with concern recent moves in the USA to classify certain information as sensitive.

    Spanish-English dictionary > caza de brujas

  • 22 comercio de la música

    (n.) = music trade
    Ex. The article 'Music to our ears?' compares the book and music trades suggesting that music retailing can offer many useful similarities and pointers.
    * * *

    Ex: The article 'Music to our ears?' compares the book and music trades suggesting that music retailing can offer many useful similarities and pointers.

    Spanish-English dictionary > comercio de la música

  • 23 comunicación vía satélite

    Ex. This article describes developments in satellite communications and what they can offer libraries suggesting that librarians, as intermediaries in the information industry, cannot ignore these developments.
    * * *

    Ex: This article describes developments in satellite communications and what they can offer libraries suggesting that librarians, as intermediaries in the information industry, cannot ignore these developments.

    Spanish-English dictionary > comunicación vía satélite

  • 24 consanguinidad

    f.
    1 blood relationship.
    2 consanguinity, blood relationship, kinship.
    * * *
    1 consanguinity, blood relationship
    * * *
    SF blood relationship, consanguinity frm
    * * *
    femenino consanguinity (frml)

    parentesco por consanguinidad — kinship, blood relationship

    * * *
    = blood relationship, consanguinity, blood relation.
    Ex. Consanguinity is the blood relationship that exists among individuals that descend from a common ancestor.
    Ex. Consanguinity is the blood relationship that exists among individuals that descend from a common ancestor.
    Ex. Anyone suggesting that the only way not get promoted through the company is by blood relation, is completely inaccurate in this assumption.
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    * parentesco por consanguinidad = blood relationship, consanguinity.
    * * *
    femenino consanguinity (frml)

    parentesco por consanguinidad — kinship, blood relationship

    * * *
    = blood relationship, consanguinity, blood relation.

    Ex: Consanguinity is the blood relationship that exists among individuals that descend from a common ancestor.

    Ex: Consanguinity is the blood relationship that exists among individuals that descend from a common ancestor.
    Ex: Anyone suggesting that the only way not get promoted through the company is by blood relation, is completely inaccurate in this assumption.
    * parentesco por consanguinidad = blood relationship, consanguinity.

    * * *
    consanguinity ( frml)
    parentesco por consanguinidad kinship, blood relationship
    * * *

    consanguinidad sustantivo femenino kinship, blood relationship
    * * *
    consanguinity;
    relación de consanguinidad blood relationship
    * * *
    f blood relationship

    Spanish-English dictionary > consanguinidad

  • 25 considerar

    v.
    1 to consider (pensar en).
    bien considerado, creo que tienes razón on reflection, I think you're right
    El chico considera a su madre The boy has regard for=considers his mother.
    Ricardo considera la propuesta de María Richard considers Ann's proposal.
    2 to esteem, to treat with respect.
    3 to consider to.
    Ella considera mejor ir al teatro She considers best to go to the theater.
    4 to consider oneself to.
    Considero estar listo I consider myself to be ready.
    * * *
    1 (reflexionar) to consider, think over, think about
    2 (tomar en consideración) to take into account
    3 (respetar) to treat with consideration, respect
    4 (juzgar) to judge, regard, deem
    1 to consider oneself
    \
    considerando que considering that, considering
    * * *
    verb
    2) deem
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    1. VT
    1) (=reflexionar sobre) to consider

    considera las ventajas y los inconvenientes de tu decisión — think about o consider the advantages and disadvantages of your decision

    2) (=tener en cuenta)

    considerando lo que cuesta, la calidad podría ser mejor — considering what it costs, the quality could be better

    3) (=creer)

    considerar algo/a algn (como) — + adj to consider sth/sb to be + adj

    se le considera culpable del robo — he is believed to be o considered to be guilty of the robbery

    se le considera como uno de los grandes pintores de este siglo — he is considered (to be) o regarded as one of the great painters of this century

    lo considero hijo mío — I look on him o regard him as my own son

    • considerar que — to believe that, consider that

    considero que deberíamos hacer algo — I believe o consider that we should do something

    4) (Jur)

    considerando... — whereas... ( word with which each item in a judgement begins)

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <asunto/posibilidad/oferta> to consider; <ventajas/consecuencias> to weigh up, consider

    tenemos que considerar que... — we must take into account that...

    b) (frml) ( tratar con respeto) to show consideration for, to consider
    2) (frml) (juzgar, creer) (+ compl) to consider
    2.
    considerarse v pron persona ( juzgarse) (+ compl) to consider oneself
    * * *
    = consider (as), contemplate, deem, envisage, judge, look at, perceive, reckon, regard as, see as, take into + consideration, take to + be, treat, view, weigh, take + stock of, see, look to as, see about, look upon, give + (some) thought to, have + regard for, class, hold out as, weigh up, look toward(s), flirt, adjudge, believe, look to.
    Ex. A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.
    Ex. These details are primarily useful as a record of expenditure or to organisations or individuals contemplating the purchase of a work.
    Ex. If a corporate body is deemed to have some intellectual responsibility for the content of a work, then the name of that body will usually feature as a heading on either a main or added entry.
    Ex. It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex. Nevertheless, whatever the basis for the major enumerative schemes they must be judged for their suitability for application in current libraries.
    Ex. This article looks at three interrelated issues regarding on-line services based on the recent literature.
    Ex. Many of the early systems were perceived as replacements for manual techniques.
    Ex. Book form is easy to use, readable, and reckoned to be an acceptable format for many users.
    Ex. In particular LCC has been regarded as suitable for the classification of large general libraries, and specifically those large libraries that have been established for research purposes.
    Ex. It is easiest to see the comments in this section as pertaining to controlled indexing languages.
    Ex. A certain number of days is to be added to today's date to calculate the date due, taking into consideration the dates the library is closed.
    Ex. An abridgement is usually taken to be a condensation that necessarily omits a number of secondary points.
    Ex. In troubleshooting, it is important to treat the cause as well as the symptom of the problem = En la solución de problemas, es importante tratar tanto la causa como el síntoma del problema.
    Ex. Many librarians viewed AACR1 as such a significant improvement upon its predecessors, that they were content.
    Ex. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex. The conference took stock of development within information technology, outlined new ways for its use and presented projects.
    Ex. When balls were compared with rollers in the ninenteenth century, their chief disadvantage was seen to be their cost: they were relatively uneconomical of ink.
    Ex. From the impressive library of his mansion home on Beacon Hill, Ticknor ruled over Boston's intellectual life and was looked to as the leading arbiter of intellectual and social life in that great city.
    Ex. The head of reference told me that he's going to see about a dress code for the staff, prohibiting slacks for women.
    Ex. Ticknor, we are told, was a liberal and democrat who welcomed change and looked upon human nature with great optimism.
    Ex. I encourage the reader to give thought to the longer case studies that have appeared in the library press.
    Ex. The apparent success of the project suggests it can be used or adapted for other members of the beef industry, having regard for their particular circumstances = El aparente éxito del proyecto sugiere que se puede utilizar o adaptar para otros miembros de la industria del ganado bovino, teniendo en cuenta sus circunstancias particulares.
    Ex. 30 million Americans are classed as functionally illiterate.
    Ex. Community information services seem light years away from the kind of electronic wizardry that is held out as the brave new information world of tomorrow.
    Ex. The author weighs up whether a dumbing down has taken place in the UK tabloid and broadsheet press.
    Ex. Libraries are looking towards some sort of cooperative system.
    Ex. The author examines key passages in the 1941 Nietzsche lectures where Heidegger appears to flirt with the possibility of a more primordial sense of existence.
    Ex. National library associations should look for sponsors who will publish manuscripts they have adjudged to have met international standards.
    Ex. The preferred citation order should be that order which is believed to match the approach of many users who can be expected to retrieve information on the topic.
    Ex. If you're looking to refinish and waterproof some outdoor furniture you might want to consider using teak oil.
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    * bien considerado = all things considered.
    * considerando = in view of.
    * considerar adecuado = judge + suitable, consider + appropriate.
    * considerar Algo = be under consideration.
    * considerar apropiado = consider + appropriate.
    * considerar como = class.
    * considerar como posible = entertain as + a possibility.
    * considerar desde una perspectiva = hold + perspective on.
    * considerar en detalle = consider + at length.
    * considerar en su justa medida = see + in proportion.
    * considerar importante = hold + Nombre + dear.
    * considerar + Infinitivo = view as + Gerundio.
    * considerar la posibilidad = entertain + the possibility.
    * considerar las consecuencias = weigh + implications.
    * considerar las posibilidades de algo = consider + possibilities.
    * considerar oportuno = consider + appropriate.
    * considerar peligroso = see + danger.
    * considerar pertinente = consider + appropriate.
    * considerar que significa = take to + mean.
    * considerarse = be known as, set + Reflexivo + up as, go down as.
    * considerarse afortunado = consider + Reflexivo + lucky, count + Reflexivo + lucky, think + Reflexivo + lucky.
    * considerar un problema = consider + problem.
    * merecer la pena considerar más detalladamente = repay + full consideration.
    * seguir considerando = consider + further.
    * volver a considerar = reconsider.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <asunto/posibilidad/oferta> to consider; <ventajas/consecuencias> to weigh up, consider

    tenemos que considerar que... — we must take into account that...

    b) (frml) ( tratar con respeto) to show consideration for, to consider
    2) (frml) (juzgar, creer) (+ compl) to consider
    2.
    considerarse v pron persona ( juzgarse) (+ compl) to consider oneself
    * * *
    = consider (as), contemplate, deem, envisage, judge, look at, perceive, reckon, regard as, see as, take into + consideration, take to + be, treat, view, weigh, take + stock of, see, look to as, see about, look upon, give + (some) thought to, have + regard for, class, hold out as, weigh up, look toward(s), flirt, adjudge, believe, look to.

    Ex: A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.

    Ex: These details are primarily useful as a record of expenditure or to organisations or individuals contemplating the purchase of a work.
    Ex: If a corporate body is deemed to have some intellectual responsibility for the content of a work, then the name of that body will usually feature as a heading on either a main or added entry.
    Ex: It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex: Nevertheless, whatever the basis for the major enumerative schemes they must be judged for their suitability for application in current libraries.
    Ex: This article looks at three interrelated issues regarding on-line services based on the recent literature.
    Ex: Many of the early systems were perceived as replacements for manual techniques.
    Ex: Book form is easy to use, readable, and reckoned to be an acceptable format for many users.
    Ex: In particular LCC has been regarded as suitable for the classification of large general libraries, and specifically those large libraries that have been established for research purposes.
    Ex: It is easiest to see the comments in this section as pertaining to controlled indexing languages.
    Ex: A certain number of days is to be added to today's date to calculate the date due, taking into consideration the dates the library is closed.
    Ex: An abridgement is usually taken to be a condensation that necessarily omits a number of secondary points.
    Ex: In troubleshooting, it is important to treat the cause as well as the symptom of the problem = En la solución de problemas, es importante tratar tanto la causa como el síntoma del problema.
    Ex: Many librarians viewed AACR1 as such a significant improvement upon its predecessors, that they were content.
    Ex: Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex: The conference took stock of development within information technology, outlined new ways for its use and presented projects.
    Ex: When balls were compared with rollers in the ninenteenth century, their chief disadvantage was seen to be their cost: they were relatively uneconomical of ink.
    Ex: From the impressive library of his mansion home on Beacon Hill, Ticknor ruled over Boston's intellectual life and was looked to as the leading arbiter of intellectual and social life in that great city.
    Ex: The head of reference told me that he's going to see about a dress code for the staff, prohibiting slacks for women.
    Ex: Ticknor, we are told, was a liberal and democrat who welcomed change and looked upon human nature with great optimism.
    Ex: I encourage the reader to give thought to the longer case studies that have appeared in the library press.
    Ex: The apparent success of the project suggests it can be used or adapted for other members of the beef industry, having regard for their particular circumstances = El aparente éxito del proyecto sugiere que se puede utilizar o adaptar para otros miembros de la industria del ganado bovino, teniendo en cuenta sus circunstancias particulares.
    Ex: 30 million Americans are classed as functionally illiterate.
    Ex: Community information services seem light years away from the kind of electronic wizardry that is held out as the brave new information world of tomorrow.
    Ex: The author weighs up whether a dumbing down has taken place in the UK tabloid and broadsheet press.
    Ex: Libraries are looking towards some sort of cooperative system.
    Ex: The author examines key passages in the 1941 Nietzsche lectures where Heidegger appears to flirt with the possibility of a more primordial sense of existence.
    Ex: National library associations should look for sponsors who will publish manuscripts they have adjudged to have met international standards.
    Ex: The preferred citation order should be that order which is believed to match the approach of many users who can be expected to retrieve information on the topic.
    Ex: If you're looking to refinish and waterproof some outdoor furniture you might want to consider using teak oil.
    * bien considerado = all things considered.
    * considerando = in view of.
    * considerar adecuado = judge + suitable, consider + appropriate.
    * considerar Algo = be under consideration.
    * considerar apropiado = consider + appropriate.
    * considerar como = class.
    * considerar como posible = entertain as + a possibility.
    * considerar desde una perspectiva = hold + perspective on.
    * considerar en detalle = consider + at length.
    * considerar en su justa medida = see + in proportion.
    * considerar importante = hold + Nombre + dear.
    * considerar + Infinitivo = view as + Gerundio.
    * considerar la posibilidad = entertain + the possibility.
    * considerar las consecuencias = weigh + implications.
    * considerar las posibilidades de algo = consider + possibilities.
    * considerar oportuno = consider + appropriate.
    * considerar peligroso = see + danger.
    * considerar pertinente = consider + appropriate.
    * considerar que significa = take to + mean.
    * considerarse = be known as, set + Reflexivo + up as, go down as.
    * considerarse afortunado = consider + Reflexivo + lucky, count + Reflexivo + lucky, think + Reflexivo + lucky.
    * considerar un problema = consider + problem.
    * merecer la pena considerar más detalladamente = repay + full consideration.
    * seguir considerando = consider + further.
    * volver a considerar = reconsider.

    * * *
    considerar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹asunto/posibilidad› to consider; ‹oferta› to consider, give … consideration; ‹ventajas/consecuencias› to weigh up, consider
    considera los pros y los contras weigh up the pros and cons
    bien considerado, creo que … all things considered, I think that …
    tenemos que considerar que ésta es su primera infracción we must take into account that this is her first offense
    considerando que ha estado enfermo considering (that) he's been ill
    2 ( frml) (tratar con respeto) to show consideration for, to consider
    B ( frml) (juzgar, creer) (+ compl) to consider
    fue considerado como una provocación it was considered (to be) o ( frml) deemed (to be) provocative
    eso se considera de mala educación that's considered bad manners
    considero casi imposible que podamos llegar a un acuerdo I believe it is o I consider it to be almost impossible for us to reach an agreement
    se le considera responsable del secuestro he is believed to be responsible for the kidnapping
    está muy bien considerado he is very highly regarded
    «persona» (juzgarse) (+ compl) to consider oneself
    se considera afortunado he considers himself (to be) very fortunate o lucky
    * * *

     

    considerar ( conjugate considerar) verbo transitivo ‹asunto/posibilidad/oferta› to consider;
    ‹ventajas/consecuencias› to weigh up, consider;

    tenemos que considerar que … we must take into account that …;
    eso se considera de mala educación that's considered bad manners;
    está muy bien considerado he is very highly regarded
    considerarse verbo pronominal [ persona] ( juzgarse) to consider oneself;
    se considera afortunado he considers himself (to be) lucky
    considerar verbo transitivo to consider: lo considera un genio, she thinks he's a genius ➣ Ver nota en consider

    ' considerar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    archivar
    - barajar
    - cada
    - dar
    - discutir
    - encontrar
    - estimar
    - homologar
    - óptica
    - pararse
    - plantearse
    - ponderar
    - reparar
    - tantear
    - tener
    - tratar
    - ver
    - catalogar
    - estudiar
    - juzgar
    - llamar
    - medir
    - meditar
    - mirar
    - pensar
    - plantear
    English:
    account
    - class
    - consider
    - contemplate
    - count
    - debate
    - entertain
    - judge
    - ponder
    - rate
    - reckon
    - regard
    - see
    - think over
    - think through
    - treat
    - view
    - come
    - conceive
    - deem
    - feel
    - hold
    - look
    - think
    - weigh
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [pensar en] to consider;
    hay que considerar que es la primera vez que lo intentamos you should take into account that this is the first time we've tried to do it;
    consideré la posibilidad de presentarme, pero al final desistí I thought about applying but in the end I gave up the idea
    2. [juzgar, estimar] to believe, to think;
    no quiso considerar mi propuesta she wouldn't consider my proposal;
    bien considerado, creo que tienes razón on reflection, I think you're right;
    considero que se han equivocado I believe they've made a mistake
    3. [respetar] to esteem, to treat with respect;
    sus compañeros lo consideran mucho his colleagues have a high regard for him o think highly of him
    * * *
    v/t consider
    * * *
    1) : to consider, to think over
    2) : to judge, to deem
    3) : to treat with respect
    * * *
    1. (relexionar) to consider / to think about [pt. & pp. thought]
    2. (juzgar) to regard / to think

    Spanish-English dictionary > considerar

  • 26 correcto

    adj.
    1 correct, accurate, precise.
    2 correct, proper, appropriate, right.
    3 correct, well-bred, polite, well-mannered.
    4 correct, suitable, appropriate, convenient.
    intj.
    1 right, correct, righto, just right.
    2 right, is that right.
    * * *
    1 (sin errores) correct, accurate
    2 (adecuado) suitable
    3 (educado) polite, courteous
    4 (conducta) proper
    * * *
    (f. - correcta)
    adj.
    correct, right
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [respuesta] correct, right

    ¡correcto! — right!

    2) (=educado) [persona] correct; [conducta, comportamiento] courteous; [vestido] proper, fitting
    3) [rasgos] regular, well-formed
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( educado) correct, polite
    b) ( honesto) correct
    2)
    a) <respuesta/solución> correct, right

    correcto! — (AmC, Méx) (that's) right

    b) <funcionamiento/procedimiento> correct
    * * *
    = correct, polite, right, decorous, seemly, alright [all right], all right [alright], well-mannered, gentlemanlike.
    Ex. If an entry with cross-references or notes must be corrected, add the correct form and then delete the incorrect form.
    Ex. Events are not named according to what it is polite or ideal to call them, but according to what they are actually called by authorities in the field.
    Ex. The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex. One might be forgiven for assuming that the question of class did not impinge upon the decorous and even tenor of the average librarian's working week.
    Ex. They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex. The article 'The kids are alright?' presents some of the findings of the questionnaire study which had as its focus the qualitative impact of public libraries on children's reading.
    Ex. So the system apparently works all right and no one is suggesting that it needs a major overhaul.
    Ex. One should avoid giving less effort to the resolution of a problem presented by a calm, well-mannered individual than to those presented by loud, demanding, and persistent pests.
    Ex. Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike: he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
    ----
    * adoptar la postura moral correcta = take + the high ground, take + the high road.
    * camino correcto, el = way forward, the.
    * correcto políticamente = politically correct.
    * correcto y formal = prim and proper.
    * el camino correcto = the way to go.
    * el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
    * en posición correcta = the right way round.
    * estar correcto = be correct.
    * hacer lo correcto = do + the right thing.
    * la forma correcta de hacer las cosas = the way to go.
    * poco correcto = ungentlemanlike.
    * ser correcto = be all right, be correct, be right.
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( educado) correct, polite
    b) ( honesto) correct
    2)
    a) <respuesta/solución> correct, right

    correcto! — (AmC, Méx) (that's) right

    b) <funcionamiento/procedimiento> correct
    * * *
    = correct, polite, right, decorous, seemly, alright [all right], all right [alright], well-mannered, gentlemanlike.

    Ex: If an entry with cross-references or notes must be corrected, add the correct form and then delete the incorrect form.

    Ex: Events are not named according to what it is polite or ideal to call them, but according to what they are actually called by authorities in the field.
    Ex: The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex: One might be forgiven for assuming that the question of class did not impinge upon the decorous and even tenor of the average librarian's working week.
    Ex: They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex: The article 'The kids are alright?' presents some of the findings of the questionnaire study which had as its focus the qualitative impact of public libraries on children's reading.
    Ex: So the system apparently works all right and no one is suggesting that it needs a major overhaul.
    Ex: One should avoid giving less effort to the resolution of a problem presented by a calm, well-mannered individual than to those presented by loud, demanding, and persistent pests.
    Ex: Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike: he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
    * adoptar la postura moral correcta = take + the high ground, take + the high road.
    * camino correcto, el = way forward, the.
    * correcto políticamente = politically correct.
    * correcto y formal = prim and proper.
    * el camino correcto = the way to go.
    * el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
    * en posición correcta = the right way round.
    * estar correcto = be correct.
    * hacer lo correcto = do + the right thing.
    * la forma correcta de hacer las cosas = the way to go.
    * poco correcto = ungentlemanlike.
    * ser correcto = be all right, be correct, be right.

    * * *
    A
    1 (educado, cortés) ‹comportamiento› correct, polite; ‹persona› correct, polite, well-mannered
    2 (honesto) correct
    B ‹respuesta/solución› correct, right
    lo dijo en un correcto alemán she said it in correct German
    ¿nos juntamos mañana? — ¡correcto, a las diez! ( AmC); so we're meeting tomorrow, then? — (that's) right, at ten
    C ‹funcionamiento/procedimiento› correct
    * * *

     

    Del verbo corregir: ( conjugate corregir)

    corregido, correcto es:

    el participio

    correcto
    ◊ -ta adjetivo


    ( honesto) honest
    b) ‹respuesta/solución› correct, right

    c) ‹funcionamiento/procedimiento› correct

    correcto,-a adjetivo
    1 (atento, educado) polite, courteous [con, to]
    (comportamiento) proper
    2 (sin fallos) correct
    ' correcto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bonita
    - bonito
    - correcta
    - doña
    - infante
    - bien
    - bueno
    - valer
    English:
    accurate
    - correct
    - pc
    - politically correct
    - proper
    - right
    - right-thinking
    - grammatical
    - socially
    * * *
    correcto, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [resultado, texto, respuesta] correct;
    habla un correcto francés she speaks correct French
    2. [persona, conducta] courteous;
    el agente de policía fue muy correcto con nosotros the police officer treated us very correctly;
    estos niños son muy correctos en la mesa these children have very good table manners
    ♦ interj
    right!, ok!
    * * *
    adj
    1 correct;
    políticamente correcto politically correct
    2 ( educado) polite
    * * *
    correcto, -ta adj
    1) : correct, right
    2) : courteous, polite
    * * *
    1. (sin faltas) correct
    2. (educado) polite

    Spanish-English dictionary > correcto

  • 27 dar un repaso a

    (v.) = give + a review of, provide + overview
    Ex. This article gives a brief review of recent developments in disc storage media.
    Ex. Chapter 1 provides an overview of today's reference services, suggesting the rich possibilities for applying basic professional skills.
    * * *
    (v.) = give + a review of, provide + overview

    Ex: This article gives a brief review of recent developments in disc storage media.

    Ex: Chapter 1 provides an overview of today's reference services, suggesting the rich possibilities for applying basic professional skills.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dar un repaso a

  • 28 de hecho

    in fact
    * * *
    = actually, as a matter of fact, as it happened, de facto, in actual fact, in effect, in fact, indeed, in point of fact, in actuality, as it happens, as it is, effectively, for all intents and purposes, to all intents and purposes, for that matter
    Ex. Dr. Richmond actually has had two careers.
    Ex. As a matter of fact, the record of the change is retained in at least the OCLC files and is, I am told, available to libraries.
    Ex. As it happened, the snowfall was moderate and all the rest of us worked all day and got home without difficulty.
    Ex. Will LC, after becoming the de facto national library as a result of the technological innovation of the standard, printed catalog card, be forced to abdicate its role?.
    Ex. Despite carefully framed acquistions policy statements regarding fiction in actual fact libraries allocate only a small percentage of their meagre book funds to fiction.
    Ex. In effect, we'd be suggesting to them we don't have the book.
    Ex. However, one important feature to note about such systems is that many of them do not in fact organise knowledge or retrieve information.
    Ex. Indeed the selection of an indexing approach is crucially dependent upon the way in which the index is to be used.
    Ex. In point of fact, I am well aware that catalogers, as a group, resist with every cell in their bodies any attempt to erode or degrade or compromise the catalog.
    Ex. In actuality every librarian has a different concept of ephemeral materials.
    Ex. As it happens, the way the Library of Congress automated the ISBD was different from the way we did it in Britain.
    Ex. As it is, Berlin's position - not only in Germany, but in the whole Europe and subsequently the world - is changing daily.
    Ex. A financial survey views the net effect of California's Proposition 13 as effectively lowering financial support of libraries by 25%.
    Ex. In the 20th century, the debate about weeding followed, for all intents and purposes, the contours of the controversy surrounding the Quincy Plan.
    Ex. To all intents and purposes he is unaware of its existence.
    Ex. A machine-readable national data base, or for that matter any catalog, should be capable of existing in time.
    * * *
    = actually, as a matter of fact, as it happened, de facto, in actual fact, in effect, in fact, indeed, in point of fact, in actuality, as it happens, as it is, effectively, for all intents and purposes, to all intents and purposes, for that matter

    Ex: Dr. Richmond actually has had two careers.

    Ex: As a matter of fact, the record of the change is retained in at least the OCLC files and is, I am told, available to libraries.
    Ex: As it happened, the snowfall was moderate and all the rest of us worked all day and got home without difficulty.
    Ex: Will LC, after becoming the de facto national library as a result of the technological innovation of the standard, printed catalog card, be forced to abdicate its role?.
    Ex: Despite carefully framed acquistions policy statements regarding fiction in actual fact libraries allocate only a small percentage of their meagre book funds to fiction.
    Ex: In effect, we'd be suggesting to them we don't have the book.
    Ex: However, one important feature to note about such systems is that many of them do not in fact organise knowledge or retrieve information.
    Ex: Indeed the selection of an indexing approach is crucially dependent upon the way in which the index is to be used.
    Ex: In point of fact, I am well aware that catalogers, as a group, resist with every cell in their bodies any attempt to erode or degrade or compromise the catalog.
    Ex: In actuality every librarian has a different concept of ephemeral materials.
    Ex: As it happens, the way the Library of Congress automated the ISBD was different from the way we did it in Britain.
    Ex: As it is, Berlin's position - not only in Germany, but in the whole Europe and subsequently the world - is changing daily.
    Ex: A financial survey views the net effect of California's Proposition 13 as effectively lowering financial support of libraries by 25%.
    Ex: In the 20th century, the debate about weeding followed, for all intents and purposes, the contours of the controversy surrounding the Quincy Plan.
    Ex: To all intents and purposes he is unaware of its existence.
    Ex: A machine-readable national data base, or for that matter any catalog, should be capable of existing in time.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de hecho

  • 29 debatir

    v.
    to debate.
    Ellos contienden entre sí They contend among themselves.
    * * *
    1 to debate, discuss
    1 (forcejear) to struggle
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ ley, presupuesto] to debate
    2) [+ punto de vista, problema] to discuss, debate
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to debate; ( más informal) to discuss
    2.
    debatirse v pron
    * * *
    = argue, debate, discuss, talk over, deliberate, pick up on, bring into + discussion, bounce off + ideas.
    Ex. Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
    Ex. The reader is left to debate the relative merits of such a format - obviously its applications are limited.
    Ex. This review also illustrates some of the issues which cataloguers have discussed over the years, and demonstrates other solutions to standards in cataloguing than those embodied in modern cataloguing codes.
    Ex. Let's try to talk this over calmly and coolly.
    Ex. Ethical principles are called into play when deliberating about values, particularly when values run into conflict.
    Ex. The report picks up on this as a surprising finding, suggesting implicitly that open access journals are lagging behind in this regard.
    Ex. Furthermore, this example brings into discussion the concept of a more complex relationship between the human senses and water in architecture.
    Ex. The men outnumbered us women and it was great to be able to chat to them about all kinds of subjects and bounce off ideas.
    ----
    * debatir con Alguien = bounce + ideas off + Nombre.
    * debatir el impacto de algo = discuss + the impact of.
    * debatir en profundidad = discuss + at length.
    * debatir las consecuencias de algo = discuss + the implications of.
    * debatitse entre... y/o... = hover between... and/or....
    * debatir sobre lo ocurrido = debrief.
    * debatir una cuestión = discuss + idea, discuss + idea, discuss + issue.
    * debatir un problema = discuss + problem.
    * empezar a debatir = embark on/upon + discussion.
    * estar debatiéndose = be under discussion.
    * que no tiene que ver con el tema debatido = off-topic.
    * sin debatir = undiscussed.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to debate; ( más informal) to discuss
    2.
    debatirse v pron
    * * *
    = argue, debate, discuss, talk over, deliberate, pick up on, bring into + discussion, bounce off + ideas.

    Ex: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.

    Ex: The reader is left to debate the relative merits of such a format - obviously its applications are limited.
    Ex: This review also illustrates some of the issues which cataloguers have discussed over the years, and demonstrates other solutions to standards in cataloguing than those embodied in modern cataloguing codes.
    Ex: Let's try to talk this over calmly and coolly.
    Ex: Ethical principles are called into play when deliberating about values, particularly when values run into conflict.
    Ex: The report picks up on this as a surprising finding, suggesting implicitly that open access journals are lagging behind in this regard.
    Ex: Furthermore, this example brings into discussion the concept of a more complex relationship between the human senses and water in architecture.
    Ex: The men outnumbered us women and it was great to be able to chat to them about all kinds of subjects and bounce off ideas.
    * debatir con Alguien = bounce + ideas off + Nombre.
    * debatir el impacto de algo = discuss + the impact of.
    * debatir en profundidad = discuss + at length.
    * debatir las consecuencias de algo = discuss + the implications of.
    * debatitse entre... y/o... = hover between... and/or....
    * debatir sobre lo ocurrido = debrief.
    * debatir una cuestión = discuss + idea, discuss + idea, discuss + issue.
    * debatir un problema = discuss + problem.
    * empezar a debatir = embark on/upon + discussion.
    * estar debatiéndose = be under discussion.
    * que no tiene que ver con el tema debatido = off-topic.
    * sin debatir = undiscussed.

    * * *
    debatir [I1 ]
    vt
    to debate; (más informal) to discuss
    se debate entre la vida y la muerte he's fighting for his life
    se debatía entre sus sentimientos personales y las presiones que recibía she was torn between her personal feelings and the pressures which were being put on her
    la región se debate en una masa de problemas the region is struggling to overcome a whole series of problems
    * * *

    debatir ( conjugate debatir) verbo transitivo
    to debate;
    ( más informal) to discuss
    debatir verbo transitivo to debate
    ' debatir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    discutir
    - disputar
    English:
    argue
    - debate
    - enact
    - tear
    - discuss
    - dispute
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to debate;
    la ley se debate hoy en el Parlamento the bill is being debated in Parliament today;
    en nuestro próximo programa debatiremos el tema “moda y anorexia” in our next programme we'll be discussing “fashion and anorexia”
    ♦ vi
    to debate;
    debatir sobre algo to discuss o debate sth
    * * *
    I v/t debate, discuss
    II v/i struggle
    * * *
    : to debate, to discuss
    * * *
    debatir vb to debate

    Spanish-English dictionary > debatir

  • 30 decisión permanente

    Ex. 'Mind you,' the manager appended, 'I'm suggesting this as a permanent arrangement, not as a stop-gap measure'.
    * * *

    Ex: 'Mind you,' the manager appended, 'I'm suggesting this as a permanent arrangement, not as a stop-gap measure'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > decisión permanente

  • 31 demonización

    = demonisation [demonization, -USA].
    Ex. The late 1980s and 1990s saw the demonization of science suggesting that empirical methods should not be employed.
    * * *
    = demonisation [demonization, -USA].

    Ex: The late 1980s and 1990s saw the demonization of science suggesting that empirical methods should not be employed.

    * * *
    demonization

    Spanish-English dictionary > demonización

  • 32 demógrafo

    m.
    demographer, demographist.
    * * *
    demógrafo, -a
    SM / F demographer
    * * *
    - fa masculino, femenino demographer
    * * *
    Ex. The contents of the collection are described suggesting that they will be of interest and value to social, economic and urban historians, demographers, and other researchers in African studies.
    * * *
    - fa masculino, femenino demographer
    * * *

    Ex: The contents of the collection are described suggesting that they will be of interest and value to social, economic and urban historians, demographers, and other researchers in African studies.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    demographer
    * * *
    demógrafo, -a nm,f
    demographer

    Spanish-English dictionary > demógrafo

  • 33 descarado

    adj.
    cynical, bare-faced, barefaced, bold-faced.
    f. & m.
    cheeky person.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: descararse.
    * * *
    1 (actitud) shameless, brazen, insolent; (persona) cheeky
    2 (patente) blatant
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 shameless person, cheeky person
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [persona] (=desvergonzado) shameless; (=insolente) cheeky, sassy (EEUU)
    2) (=evidente) [mentira] barefaced; [prejuicio] blatant
    2.
    ADV *

    sí voy, descarado — I'm going all right, you bet I'm going

    si supiera inglés, descarado que me iba a Londres — if I spoke English, you can bet your life I'd go to London

    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/actitud> brazen, shameless
    II
    - da masculino, femenino

    no contestes así a tu madre descarado! — don't talk back to your mother like that, you rude little boy

    * * *
    = blatant, cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], brazen, shameless, sassy [sassier -comp., sassiest -sup.], in-your-face, unabashed, brash [brasher -comp., brashest -sup.], insolent, rude [ruder -comp., rudest -sup.], impudent, unashamed, saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.
    Ex. And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.
    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. 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. Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.
    Ex. This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.
    Ex. Some female readers also appreciate bad-girl books for their powerful, independent heroines, and in-your-face attitude.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'What's the number?: an unofficial and unabashed guide to the Library of Congress Classification for the social sciences'.
    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. He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
    Ex. 'That young man was terribly rude'.
    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. There is a need for more study of current lending patterns to establish a clear mandate for unashamed purchase of AV materials by traditionally print-oriented librarians.
    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.
    ----
    * mentira descarada = blatant lie, bare-faced lie.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/actitud> brazen, shameless
    II
    - da masculino, femenino

    no contestes así a tu madre descarado! — don't talk back to your mother like that, you rude little boy

    * * *
    = blatant, cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], brazen, shameless, sassy [sassier -comp., sassiest -sup.], in-your-face, unabashed, brash [brasher -comp., brashest -sup.], insolent, rude [ruder -comp., rudest -sup.], impudent, unashamed, saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], pert.

    Ex: And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.

    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: 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: Another librarian described herself as 'a shameless, self-promoter'.
    Ex: This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.
    Ex: Some female readers also appreciate bad-girl books for their powerful, independent heroines, and in-your-face attitude.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'What's the number?: an unofficial and unabashed guide to the Library of Congress Classification for the social sciences'.
    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: He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
    Ex: 'That young man was terribly rude'.
    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: There is a need for more study of current lending patterns to establish a clear mandate for unashamed purchase of AV materials by traditionally print-oriented librarians.
    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.
    * mentira descarada = blatant lie, bare-faced lie.

    * * *
    descarado1 -da
    1 ‹persona/actitud› brazen, shameless
    el muy descarado, pedirme dinero así what (a) nerve he has, asking me for money like that
    las elecciones fueron un fraude descarado the elections were a blatant fraud o were clearly rigged
    ( Esp fam): si tuviese dinero, descarado que me iría a vivir sola you can bet your life if I had the money, I'd go off and live alone ( colloq)
    lo hizo adrede, descarado make no mistake, she did it on purpose, she did it on purpose, you can be sure of it o you can bet your life on it
    descarado2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    no contestes así a tu madre ¡descarado! don't talk back to your mother like that, you rude o ( BrE) cheeky little boy
    ese chico es un descarado that boy has a lot of nerve
    * * *

    Del verbo descararse: ( conjugate descararse)

    descarado es:

    el participio

    descarado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹persona/actitud› brazen, shameless;

    es muy descarado he has a lot of nerve
    descarado,-a
    I adj (insolente) cheeky, insolent
    (desvergonzado) shameless
    una mentira descarada, a barefaced lie
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino cheeky person

    ' descarado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atrevida
    - atrevido
    - cara
    - descarada
    - desvergonzada
    - desvergonzado
    - golfa
    - golfo
    - lisa
    - liso
    - sinvergüenza
    - fresco
    - patudo
    English:
    audacious
    - barefaced
    - blatant
    - bold
    - brash
    - brassy
    - brazen
    - cheeky
    - downright
    - forward
    - shameless
    - unabashed
    - outright
    - pert
    * * *
    descarado, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [desvergonzado] [persona] cheeky, impertinent;
    ¡no seas (tan) descarado! don't be (so) cheeky!;
    ¡el muy descarado se ha atrevido a burlarse de mí! the cheeky devil had the nerve to make fun of me!
    2. [flagrante] barefaced, blatant;
    una mentira descarada a barefaced lie;
    ¡es un robo descarado! it's daylight robbery!;
    ¡ha sido un penalti descarado! there's no way that wasn't a penalty!
    ♦ adv
    Esp Fam [por supuesto, seguro] you bet!;
    no lo conseguirá, descarado there's no way she'll manage to do it;
    ¡descarado que iremos! too right we're going to go!
    ♦ nm,f
    cheeky devil;
    eres un descarado mirando you are awful the way you stare at people
    * * *
    adj rude, impertinent
    * * *
    descarado, -da adj
    : brazen, impudent
    * * *
    descarado adj cheeky [comp. cheekier; superl. cheekiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > descarado

  • 34 ejercer una gran influencia en

    (v.) = play + a strong hand in
    Ex. Economic issues play a strong hand in suggesting its demise.
    * * *
    (v.) = play + a strong hand in

    Ex: Economic issues play a strong hand in suggesting its demise.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ejercer una gran influencia en

  • 35 en contra de la raza blanca

    (adj.) = anti-white [antiwhite]
    Ex. Experience sensitized counselees to the limitations of white counselors, suggesting they became pro-black rather than anti-white.
    * * *
    (adj.) = anti-white [antiwhite]

    Ex: Experience sensitized counselees to the limitations of white counselors, suggesting they became pro-black rather than anti-white.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en contra de la raza blanca

  • 36 escrito por varios autores

    (adj.) = multiauthored [multi-authored], collaboratively authored
    Ex. This has resulted in a corresponding increase in multiauthored papers and a decrease in single authored papers = Esto ha producido un aumento de los artículos escritos por varios autores y, al mismo tiempo, una disminución de los artículos escritos por un solo autor.
    Ex. The acceptance rate of articles which are collaboratively authored tends to be higher than that for single-authored papers, thereby suggesting a positive relationship between collaboration and quality.
    * * *
    (adj.) = multiauthored [multi-authored], collaboratively authored

    Ex: This has resulted in a corresponding increase in multiauthored papers and a decrease in single authored papers = Esto ha producido un aumento de los artículos escritos por varios autores y, al mismo tiempo, una disminución de los artículos escritos por un solo autor.

    Ex: The acceptance rate of articles which are collaboratively authored tends to be higher than that for single-authored papers, thereby suggesting a positive relationship between collaboration and quality.

    Spanish-English dictionary > escrito por varios autores

  • 37 estimular

    v.
    1 to encourage.
    2 to stimulate.
    El dinero estimula a los empleados Money stimulates the employees.
    El aroma estimula los sentidos The aroma stimulates the senses.
    * * *
    1 (animar) to encourage, stimulate
    2 (apetito, pasiones) to whet
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=alentar) [+ persona] to encourage
    2) (=favorecer) [+ apetito, economía, esfuerzos, ahorro] to stimulate; [+ debate] to promote
    3) [+ organismo, célula] to stimulate
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) clase/lectura to stimulate
    b) ( alentar) < persona> to encourage
    c) <apetito/circulación> to stimulate
    d) ( sexualmente) to stimulate
    2) <inversión/ahorro> to encourage, stimulate
    * * *
    = encourage, give + a boost, prompt, provide + boost, spur, spur on, stimulate, whip up, provide + stimulus, set + Nombre + off, abet, buoy, prod, egg on, stir up, nudge, reawaken [re-awaken], kick-start [kickstart], pep up, hearten, incite.
    Ex. A common catalogue encourages users to regard the different information carrying media as part of range of media.
    Ex. CD-ROM has given the library a public relations boost but this has led to higher expectations of the library by users at a time of budgetary restraint.
    Ex. An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
    Ex. Merely having the materials available will not provide the desired boost to the library's stature unless the collection is exceptional.
    Ex. Spurred by press comments on dumping of withdrawn library books in rubbish skips, Birkerd Library requested the Ministry of Culture's permission to sell withdrawn materials.
    Ex. The paper-makers, spurred on by the urgent need to increase their supply of raw material, eventually mastered the new technique.
    Ex. An alertness to work in related fields may stimulate creativity in disseminating ideas from one field of study to another, for both the researcher and the manager.
    Ex. The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.
    Ex. The effort involved in creating an hospitable niche is repaid by the stimulus such courses provide to staff members.
    Ex. This local tale could have been used to set me and my classmates off on a search for other similar stories that litter the area up and down the east coast of Britain.
    Ex. This article questions the pricing policies of some publishers for journals suggesting that librarians have inadvertently aided and abetted them in some cases.
    Ex. 'Well,' recommenced the young librarian, buoyed up by the director's interest, 'I believe that everybody is a good employee until they prove differently to me'.
    Ex. Science Citation Index (SCI) depends for intellectual content entirely on citations by authors, who are sometimes prodded by editors and referees.
    Ex. In the novel, residents of the drought-plagued hamlet of Champaner, egged on by a salt-of-the-earth hothead leader, recklessly accept a sporting challenge thrown down by the commander of the local British troops.
    Ex. The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.
    Ex. By the 1980s, leftist philosophies had fallen into disfavor, & globalization & neoliberalism nudged the unions to seek other alliances.
    Ex. The first weeks are vital, and after that the shop must be constantly on the lookout for ways of stimulating further interest and re-awakening those who lapse.
    Ex. Shock tactics are sometimes necessary in order to expose injustice and kick-start the process of reform.
    Ex. Soccer ace David Beckham has started wearing mystical hippy beads to pep up his sex life.
    Ex. We are heartened by the fact that we are still so far a growth story in the midst of this global challenge.
    Ex. It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
    ----
    * estimular el debate = provoke + discussion, prompt + discussion, pepper + debate.
    * estimular el desarrollo de = stimulate + the development of.
    * estimular la economía = stimulate + the economy, spur + the economy.
    * estimular la imaginación = spark + imagination.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) clase/lectura to stimulate
    b) ( alentar) < persona> to encourage
    c) <apetito/circulación> to stimulate
    d) ( sexualmente) to stimulate
    2) <inversión/ahorro> to encourage, stimulate
    * * *
    = encourage, give + a boost, prompt, provide + boost, spur, spur on, stimulate, whip up, provide + stimulus, set + Nombre + off, abet, buoy, prod, egg on, stir up, nudge, reawaken [re-awaken], kick-start [kickstart], pep up, hearten, incite.

    Ex: A common catalogue encourages users to regard the different information carrying media as part of range of media.

    Ex: CD-ROM has given the library a public relations boost but this has led to higher expectations of the library by users at a time of budgetary restraint.
    Ex: An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
    Ex: Merely having the materials available will not provide the desired boost to the library's stature unless the collection is exceptional.
    Ex: Spurred by press comments on dumping of withdrawn library books in rubbish skips, Birkerd Library requested the Ministry of Culture's permission to sell withdrawn materials.
    Ex: The paper-makers, spurred on by the urgent need to increase their supply of raw material, eventually mastered the new technique.
    Ex: An alertness to work in related fields may stimulate creativity in disseminating ideas from one field of study to another, for both the researcher and the manager.
    Ex: The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.
    Ex: The effort involved in creating an hospitable niche is repaid by the stimulus such courses provide to staff members.
    Ex: This local tale could have been used to set me and my classmates off on a search for other similar stories that litter the area up and down the east coast of Britain.
    Ex: This article questions the pricing policies of some publishers for journals suggesting that librarians have inadvertently aided and abetted them in some cases.
    Ex: 'Well,' recommenced the young librarian, buoyed up by the director's interest, 'I believe that everybody is a good employee until they prove differently to me'.
    Ex: Science Citation Index (SCI) depends for intellectual content entirely on citations by authors, who are sometimes prodded by editors and referees.
    Ex: In the novel, residents of the drought-plagued hamlet of Champaner, egged on by a salt-of-the-earth hothead leader, recklessly accept a sporting challenge thrown down by the commander of the local British troops.
    Ex: The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.
    Ex: By the 1980s, leftist philosophies had fallen into disfavor, & globalization & neoliberalism nudged the unions to seek other alliances.
    Ex: The first weeks are vital, and after that the shop must be constantly on the lookout for ways of stimulating further interest and re-awakening those who lapse.
    Ex: Shock tactics are sometimes necessary in order to expose injustice and kick-start the process of reform.
    Ex: Soccer ace David Beckham has started wearing mystical hippy beads to pep up his sex life.
    Ex: We are heartened by the fact that we are still so far a growth story in the midst of this global challenge.
    Ex: It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
    * estimular el debate = provoke + discussion, prompt + discussion, pepper + debate.
    * estimular el desarrollo de = stimulate + the development of.
    * estimular la economía = stimulate + the economy, spur + the economy.
    * estimular la imaginación = spark + imagination.

    * * *
    estimular [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 «clase/lectura» to stimulate
    2 (alentar) to encourage
    hay que estimularla para que trabaje she needs encouraging to get her to work
    gritaban para estimular a su equipo they cheered their team on, they shouted encouragement to their team
    3 ‹apetito› to whet, stimulate; ‹circulación› to stimulate
    4 (sexualmente) to stimulate
    B ‹inversión/ahorro› to encourage, stimulate
    * * *

    estimular ( conjugate estimular) verbo transitivo


    estimular verbo transitivo
    1 (dar ánimos) to encourage
    2 (potenciar, activar) to stimulate
    ' estimular' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    animar
    - impulsar
    English:
    animate
    - drum up
    - fuel
    - stimulate
    - stir
    - work up
    - boost
    - promote
    - revitalize
    - revive
    - spur
    - whet
    * * *
    1. [animar] to encourage;
    el orgullo le estimula a seguir his pride spurs him to go on
    2. [incitar] to encourage, to urge on;
    la muchedumbre lo estimuló con gritos the crowd shouted him on
    3. [excitar sexualmente] to stimulate
    4. [activar] [apetito] to stimulate, to whet;
    [circulación, economía] to stimulate; [ventas, inversión] to stimulate, to encourage
    * * *
    v/t
    1 stimulate
    2 ( animar) encourage
    * * *
    1) : to stimulate
    2) : to encourage
    * * *
    1. (activar) to stimulate
    2. (animar) to encourage

    Spanish-English dictionary > estimular

  • 38 estratagema

    f.
    stratagem (military).
    * * *
    1 MILITAR stratagem
    * * *
    noun f.
    stratagem, device
    * * *
    * * *
    femenino stratagem
    * * *
    = course of action, stratagem, ruse, ploy, artifice, power play, scheme, stalking horse, trick, gaff.
    Ex. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex. Must she fortify herself with an arsenal of stratagems in order to survive?.
    Ex. The library did not burn and the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library as a replacement was a ruse to help pay the former President's debts.
    Ex. They are using such ploys as citing budget cuts as the reason for making government information more expensive.
    Ex. Such canons need not transcend human artifice to be of enduring significance.
    Ex. The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.
    Ex. These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.
    Ex. Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.
    Ex. But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.
    Ex. There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.
    * * *
    femenino stratagem
    * * *
    = course of action, stratagem, ruse, ploy, artifice, power play, scheme, stalking horse, trick, gaff.

    Ex: Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.

    Ex: Must she fortify herself with an arsenal of stratagems in order to survive?.
    Ex: The library did not burn and the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library as a replacement was a ruse to help pay the former President's debts.
    Ex: They are using such ploys as citing budget cuts as the reason for making government information more expensive.
    Ex: Such canons need not transcend human artifice to be of enduring significance.
    Ex: The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.
    Ex: These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.
    Ex: Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.
    Ex: But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.
    Ex: There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.

    * * *
    stratagem
    * * *

    estratagema sustantivo femenino
    stratagem
    estratagema sustantivo femenino stratagem
    ' estratagema' also found in these entries:
    English:
    device
    - frame-up
    - scheme
    - stratagem
    * * *
    1. Mil stratagem
    2. [astucia] artifice, trick
    * * *
    f stratagem
    * * *
    artimaña: stratagem, ruse

    Spanish-English dictionary > estratagema

  • 39 estrategia

    f.
    strategy.
    estrategia de marketing marketing strategy
    * * *
    1 strategy
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    * * *
    femenino strategy
    * * *
    = approach [approaches, -pl.], course of action, strategy, tactics, tack, power play.
    Ex. During the last twenty years the variety of approaches to the organisation of knowledge has proliferated with the introduction of computer-based methods.
    Ex. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex. A number of publication strategies are possible for announcing the modifications to classification schemes.
    Ex. Purists might argue that this is tactics rather than strategy.
    Ex. The simplest tack would be to include the metadata in the notes field but sorting by metadata attributes is problematic and clunky.
    Ex. The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.
    ----
    * cambiar de estrategia = change + tack.
    * elaborar una estrategia = formulate + strategy.
    * estrategia cognitiva = cognitive strategy.
    * estrategia comercial = business plan, market strategy.
    * estrategia de ahorro = saver.
    * estrategia de búsqueda = search strategy, search process.
    * estrategia de búsqueda de información = information seeking pattern.
    * estrategia de defensa = defence strategy.
    * estrategia de gestión = management strategy, managerial strategy.
    * estrategia de gestión de la información = information management strategy.
    * estrategia de investigación = research strategy.
    * estrategia de mercado = marketing strategy.
    * estrategia de salida = exit strategy, exit strategy.
    * estrategia de supervivencia = coping strategy, coping skill.
    * estrategia de ventas = sales strategy.
    * estrategia documental = documentation strategy.
    * estrategia final = endgame.
    * estrategia militar = military strategy.
    * estrategia para enfrentarse a las necesidades diarias = coping strategy, coping skill.
    * estrategia publicitaria = sales pitch.
    * estrategia que ahorra dinero = money saver.
    * estrategia que ahorra trabajo = labour saver.
    * formular una estrategia = formulate + strategy.
    * seguir una estrategia = take + tack.
    * * *
    femenino strategy
    * * *
    = approach [approaches, -pl.], course of action, strategy, tactics, tack, power play.

    Ex: During the last twenty years the variety of approaches to the organisation of knowledge has proliferated with the introduction of computer-based methods.

    Ex: Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex: A number of publication strategies are possible for announcing the modifications to classification schemes.
    Ex: Purists might argue that this is tactics rather than strategy.
    Ex: The simplest tack would be to include the metadata in the notes field but sorting by metadata attributes is problematic and clunky.
    Ex: The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.
    * cambiar de estrategia = change + tack.
    * elaborar una estrategia = formulate + strategy.
    * estrategia cognitiva = cognitive strategy.
    * estrategia comercial = business plan, market strategy.
    * estrategia de ahorro = saver.
    * estrategia de búsqueda = search strategy, search process.
    * estrategia de búsqueda de información = information seeking pattern.
    * estrategia de defensa = defence strategy.
    * estrategia de gestión = management strategy, managerial strategy.
    * estrategia de gestión de la información = information management strategy.
    * estrategia de investigación = research strategy.
    * estrategia de mercado = marketing strategy.
    * estrategia de salida = exit strategy, exit strategy.
    * estrategia de supervivencia = coping strategy, coping skill.
    * estrategia de ventas = sales strategy.
    * estrategia documental = documentation strategy.
    * estrategia final = endgame.
    * estrategia militar = military strategy.
    * estrategia para enfrentarse a las necesidades diarias = coping strategy, coping skill.
    * estrategia publicitaria = sales pitch.
    * estrategia que ahorra dinero = money saver.
    * estrategia que ahorra trabajo = labour saver.
    * formular una estrategia = formulate + strategy.
    * seguir una estrategia = take + tack.

    * * *
    strategy
    * * *

     

    estrategia sustantivo femenino
    strategy
    estrategia sustantivo femenino strategy
    ' estrategia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    perfilar
    - trazar
    English:
    strategy
    - tactic
    * * *
    strategy;
    cambiar de estrategia to change strategy
    Mktg estrategia de márketing marketing strategy
    * * *
    f strategy
    * * *
    : strategy
    * * *
    estrategia n strategy [pl. strategies]

    Spanish-English dictionary > estrategia

  • 40 estudiar

    v.
    1 to study (carrera, libro, asunto).
    estudia biológicas he's studying biology
    después de estudiar tu propuesta he decidido no aceptarla after studying your proposal, I've decided not to accept it
    estudia todas las tardes he spends every afternoon studying
    estudió con el Presidente he went to school/university with the President
    ¿estudias o trabajas? do you work or are you a student?
    Lisa estudia arduamente Lisa studies hard.
    Lisa estudia todos los libros Lisa studies every book.
    Lisa estudia historia americana Lisa studies American history.
    2 to observe.
    3 to be a student, to study.
    4 to feel out, to study.
    El profesor estudia sus reacciones The teacher feels out their reactions.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to study, learn
    2 (en universidad) to read, study
    3 (trabajar) to work, study
    4 (observar) to examine, observe
    1 to study
    1 to consider
    \
    estudiar de memoria to learn by heart
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=aprender) [+ lección, papel] to learn
    2) (=cursar) to study

    ¿qué curso estudias? — what year are you in?

    3) (=examinar) [informe, experimento] to examine, look into; [persona] to study, look into

    el informe estudia los efectos de la sequía — the report examines o looks into the effects of the drought

    4) (=considerar) to consider, study

    estudiaremos su oferta y ya le contestaremos — we shall consider o study your offer and get back to you

    están estudiando la posibilidad de convocar una huelga — they are looking into the possibility of calling a strike, they are considering calling a strike

    2. VI
    1) (=aprender) to study
    2) (=cursar estudios) to study
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < asignatura> to study

    estudia música — he's studying music; ( en la universidad) to study, read (frml)

    estudia medicina — she's studying o doing o reading medicine

    ¿qué carrera estudió? — what subject did he do at college/university?

    b) < instrumento> to learn
    2) <lección/tablas> to learn
    3) ( observar) <rostro/comportamiento> to study
    4) (considerar, analizar) <mercado/situación/proyecto> to study; < propuesta> to study, consider
    2.
    estudiar vi to study
    3.
    estudiarse v pron
    a) (enf) < lección> to study; < papel> to learn
    b) (recípr) ( observarse)
    * * *
    = analyse [analyze, -USA], envisage, examine, explore, look, look at, look into, ponder (over/on/upon), present + discussion, study, survey, think out, weigh, work on, get into, see about, observe, weigh up, look toward(s), review, work through, probe.
    Ex. With a clear objective, the next step is to analyse the concepts that are present in a search.
    Ex. It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex. The article 'Home schoolers: a forgotten clientele?' examines ways in which the library can support parents and children in the home schooling situation.
    Ex. Next I will illustrate a simple search profile which does not explore all possible synonyms, but does serve to illustrate weighted term logic.
    Ex. This chapter takes the opportunity to look at an assortment of other aspects of bibliographic description.
    Ex. This article looks at three interrelated issues regarding on-line services based on the recent literature.
    Ex. The main concern is to look into current use of, and interest in, electronic information services, and also to gauge opinion on setting up a data base concerned solely with development issues.
    Ex. If we instruct it to ponder this question more leisurely, it will quickly try the user's patience with digressions concerning the less illustrious senior MOZART, LEOPOLD.
    Ex. This article presents a detailed discussion of the use of Hypermedia for authoring, organisation and presentation of information.
    Ex. Each of the binders is portable and can be separately studied.
    Ex. Chapters 7 and 8 introduced the problems associated with author cataloguing and have surveyed the purpose of cataloguing codes.
    Ex. A recitation of the best thought out principles for a cataloging code is easily drowned out by the clatter of a bank of direct access devices vainly searching for misplaced records.
    Ex. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex. I've been working on next year's budget, and it would be fair to add eight percent to materials and salaries.
    Ex. 'But didn't you say that one of the reasons you wanted to leave was because you were tired of macramËéË and wanted to get into computers?'.
    Ex. The head of reference told me that he's going to see about a dress code for the staff, prohibiting slacks for women.
    Ex. 141 data bases were observed, most of them had been developed in the life sciences as well as in the earth, ocean and space sciences.
    Ex. The author weighs up whether a dumbing down has taken place in the UK tabloid and broadsheet press.
    Ex. Libraries are looking towards some sort of cooperative system.
    Ex. There is only space to review briefly the special problems associated with the descriptive cataloguing of nonbook materials.
    Ex. Some theorists hold that one stage must be completely worked through before the next stage can be entered.
    Ex. The librarian sometimes must probe to discover the context of the question and to be able to discuss various possible approaches and explore their merits.
    ----
    * al estudiar Algo más detenidamente = on closer examination, on closer inspection.
    * estudiar Algo = be under consideration.
    * estudiar alternativas = explore + alternative.
    * estudiar desde una perspectiva = see through.
    * estudiar detenidamente = take + a hard look at, take + a long hard look at, go through, be carefully considered, think through.
    * estudiar el modo de = explore + ways in which, explore + ways and means of.
    * estudiar en detalle = study + at length.
    * estudiar en el extranjero = study abroad, study + abroad.
    * estudiar en una Universidad = attend + Universidad.
    * estudiar hasta muy tarde = burn + the midnight oil.
    * estudiar la evolución histórica de Algo = historicise [historicize, -USA].
    * estudiar la manera de = explore + ways in which, explore + ways and means of.
    * estudiar la posibilidad = explore + the possibility.
    * estudiar minuciosamente = study + in great depth, pore.
    * estudiar + Nombre + teniendo en cuenta + Nombre = place + Nombre + against the background of + Nombre.
    * estudiar una necesidad = analyse + need.
    * estudiar una posibilidad = explore + idea.
    * estudiar una Titulación = work toward/on + Titulación.
    * estudiar un tema = pursue + subject.
    * merecer la pena estudiar Algo = repay + study.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < asignatura> to study

    estudia música — he's studying music; ( en la universidad) to study, read (frml)

    estudia medicina — she's studying o doing o reading medicine

    ¿qué carrera estudió? — what subject did he do at college/university?

    b) < instrumento> to learn
    2) <lección/tablas> to learn
    3) ( observar) <rostro/comportamiento> to study
    4) (considerar, analizar) <mercado/situación/proyecto> to study; < propuesta> to study, consider
    2.
    estudiar vi to study
    3.
    estudiarse v pron
    a) (enf) < lección> to study; < papel> to learn
    b) (recípr) ( observarse)
    * * *
    = analyse [analyze, -USA], envisage, examine, explore, look, look at, look into, ponder (over/on/upon), present + discussion, study, survey, think out, weigh, work on, get into, see about, observe, weigh up, look toward(s), review, work through, probe.

    Ex: With a clear objective, the next step is to analyse the concepts that are present in a search.

    Ex: It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex: The article 'Home schoolers: a forgotten clientele?' examines ways in which the library can support parents and children in the home schooling situation.
    Ex: Next I will illustrate a simple search profile which does not explore all possible synonyms, but does serve to illustrate weighted term logic.
    Ex: This chapter takes the opportunity to look at an assortment of other aspects of bibliographic description.
    Ex: This article looks at three interrelated issues regarding on-line services based on the recent literature.
    Ex: The main concern is to look into current use of, and interest in, electronic information services, and also to gauge opinion on setting up a data base concerned solely with development issues.
    Ex: If we instruct it to ponder this question more leisurely, it will quickly try the user's patience with digressions concerning the less illustrious senior MOZART, LEOPOLD.
    Ex: This article presents a detailed discussion of the use of Hypermedia for authoring, organisation and presentation of information.
    Ex: Each of the binders is portable and can be separately studied.
    Ex: Chapters 7 and 8 introduced the problems associated with author cataloguing and have surveyed the purpose of cataloguing codes.
    Ex: A recitation of the best thought out principles for a cataloging code is easily drowned out by the clatter of a bank of direct access devices vainly searching for misplaced records.
    Ex: Examines the advantages and disadvantages of approval plans suggesting that each library must carefully weigh them in order to determine its own best course of action.
    Ex: I've been working on next year's budget, and it would be fair to add eight percent to materials and salaries.
    Ex: 'But didn't you say that one of the reasons you wanted to leave was because you were tired of macramËéË and wanted to get into computers?'.
    Ex: The head of reference told me that he's going to see about a dress code for the staff, prohibiting slacks for women.
    Ex: 141 data bases were observed, most of them had been developed in the life sciences as well as in the earth, ocean and space sciences.
    Ex: The author weighs up whether a dumbing down has taken place in the UK tabloid and broadsheet press.
    Ex: Libraries are looking towards some sort of cooperative system.
    Ex: There is only space to review briefly the special problems associated with the descriptive cataloguing of nonbook materials.
    Ex: Some theorists hold that one stage must be completely worked through before the next stage can be entered.
    Ex: The librarian sometimes must probe to discover the context of the question and to be able to discuss various possible approaches and explore their merits.
    * al estudiar Algo más detenidamente = on closer examination, on closer inspection.
    * estudiar Algo = be under consideration.
    * estudiar alternativas = explore + alternative.
    * estudiar desde una perspectiva = see through.
    * estudiar detenidamente = take + a hard look at, take + a long hard look at, go through, be carefully considered, think through.
    * estudiar el modo de = explore + ways in which, explore + ways and means of.
    * estudiar en detalle = study + at length.
    * estudiar en el extranjero = study abroad, study + abroad.
    * estudiar en una Universidad = attend + Universidad.
    * estudiar hasta muy tarde = burn + the midnight oil.
    * estudiar la evolución histórica de Algo = historicise [historicize, -USA].
    * estudiar la manera de = explore + ways in which, explore + ways and means of.
    * estudiar la posibilidad = explore + the possibility.
    * estudiar minuciosamente = study + in great depth, pore.
    * estudiar + Nombre + teniendo en cuenta + Nombre = place + Nombre + against the background of + Nombre.
    * estudiar una necesidad = analyse + need.
    * estudiar una posibilidad = explore + idea.
    * estudiar una Titulación = work toward/on + Titulación.
    * estudiar un tema = pursue + subject.
    * merecer la pena estudiar Algo = repay + study.

    * * *
    estudiar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹asignatura› to study; (en la universidad) to study, read ( frml)
    estudiaba inglés en una academia I used to study English at a language school
    estudia medicina en la universidad de Salamanca she's studying o doing o reading medicine at Salamanca university
    ¿qué carrera estudió? what subject did he do at college/university?, what did he study at college/university?, what (subject) did he take his degree in?
    2 ( Mús) ‹instrumento› to learn
    B ‹lección/tablas› to learn
    me tengo que poner a estudiar geografía para el examen I have to get down to studying o ( AmE) reviewing o ( BrE) revising geography for the test
    C (observar) to study
    estudia el comportamiento de las aves he studies the behavior of birds
    me di cuenta de que me estaba estudiando I realized that he was observing o watching o studying me
    D (considerar, analizar) ‹mercado/situación/proyecto› to study; ‹propuesta› to study, consider
    están estudiando los pasos a seguir they're considering what steps to take
    estudiaron las posibles causas del accidente they looked into the possible causes of the accident
    ■ estudiar
    vi
    to study
    este fin de semana tengo que estudiar para el examen this weekend I have to do some work o studying for the test o I have to review ( AmE) o ( BrE) revise for the test
    estudia en un colegio privado he goes to a private school
    a ver si este año estudias más I hope you're going to work harder this year
    tuvo que dejar de estudiar a los 15 años para ayudar a su madre she had to leave school at 15 to help her mother
    estudiar PARA algo to study to be sth
    estudia para economista she's studying to be an economist
    no come nada, está estudiando para fideo ( hum); she doesn't eat a thing, she's in training for the slimming olympics ( hum)
    1 ( enf) ‹lección› to study
    se estudió el papel en una tarde he learned his part in an afternoon
    2 ( recípr)
    (observarse): los dos niños se estudiaron largo rato the two children watched each other closely for a long time
    * * *

     

    estudiar ( conjugate estudiar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹ asignatura› to study;

    ( en la universidad) to study, read (frml);
    ◊ ¿qué carrera estudió? what subject did he do at college/university?


    c) ‹lección/tablas› to learn

    2 ( observar) ‹rostro/comportamiento› to study
    3 (considerar, analizar) ‹mercado/situación/proyecto› to study;
    ‹ propuesta› to study, consider;
    ‹ causas› to look into, investigate
    verbo intransitivo
    to study;

    debes estudiar más you must work harder;
    dejó de estudiar a los 15 años she left school at 15;
    estudiar para algo to study to be sth
    estudiarse verbo pronominal ( enf) ‹ lección› to study;

    ‹ papel› to learn
    estudiar verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo to study: estudia para abogado, she's studying to become a lawyer ➣ Ver nota en study
    ' estudiar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    base
    - chapar
    - concentrarse
    - cursar
    - empollar
    - investigar
    - machacar
    - mamarrachada
    - repasar
    - servir
    - trabajar
    - valer
    - chancar
    - duro
    - empeño
    - empezar
    - firme
    - fuerza
    - haber
    - hacer
    - ir
    - junto
    - más
    - matar
    - tener
    - tragar
    - ver
    English:
    award
    - bar
    - burn
    - consideration
    - do
    - hard
    - investigate
    - pore
    - read
    - read up
    - resolve
    - school
    - stop
    - study
    - text
    - think out
    - train
    - whatever
    - work
    - day
    - depth
    - examine
    - further
    - get
    - kick
    - look
    - research
    - review
    - swot
    - take
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [carrera, asignatura, lección] to study;
    estudia biológicas he's studying biology;
    tengo que estudiar más inglés I've got to work at my English;
    ¿qué estudiaste en la universidad? what did you study at university?
    2. [asunto] to study;
    [oferta, propuesta] to study, to consider;
    después de estudiar tu propuesta he decidido no aceptarla having considered your proposal, I've decided not to accept it;
    lo estudiaré y mañana te doy una respuesta I'll consider it and get back to you tomorrow;
    el gobierno estudia la posibilidad de subir las pensiones the government is studying the possibility of raising pensions
    3. [observar] to observe;
    estuvo estudiándonos durante un rato he stayed watching us for a while;
    desde allí podía estudiar todos los movimientos del animal from there I could observe all the animal's movements
    ♦ vi
    to study;
    estudia todas las tardes he spends every afternoon studying;
    no puede salir, tiene que estudiar she can't come out, she's got to study;
    hay que estudiar más, González you'll have to work harder, González;
    estudió con el Presidente he went to school/university with the President;
    dejó de estudiar a los quince años he left school at fifteen;
    estudié en los jesuitas I went to a Jesuit school;
    estudia en la Universidad Centroamericana he's a student o he's studying at the University of Central America;
    estudiar para médico to be studying to be a doctor;
    ¿estudias o trabajas? do you work or are you still at school?;
    Esp Hum ≈ do you come here often?
    * * *
    v/t & v/i study
    * * *
    : to study
    * * *
    estudiar vb to study [pt. & pp. studied]
    Si se estudia un idioma o un instrumento musical, se dice learn

    Spanish-English dictionary > estudiar

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