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  • 21 crédulo

    adj.
    credulous, gullible, dupe, unsuspecting.
    * * *
    1 credulous, gullible
    * * *
    crédulo, -a
    1.
    ADJ gullible, credulous
    2.
    SM / F
    * * *
    - la adjetivo credulous, gullible
    * * *
    = credulous, unsuspecting, gullible.
    Ex. It is difficult to see how the following typical enquiries could be answered the consultation of a dictionary: 'Where does the phrase `to set the river on fire` come from?' or 'What does ` credulous` mean?'.
    Ex. There has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user.
    Ex. I argue that intellectual vices (such as being gullible, dogmatic, pigheaded, or prejudiced) are essential.
    ----
    * crédulos, los = unsuspecting, the, gullible, the.
    * * *
    - la adjetivo credulous, gullible
    * * *
    = credulous, unsuspecting, gullible.

    Ex: It is difficult to see how the following typical enquiries could be answered the consultation of a dictionary: 'Where does the phrase `to set the river on fire` come from?' or 'What does ` credulous` mean?'.

    Ex: There has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user.
    Ex: I argue that intellectual vices (such as being gullible, dogmatic, pigheaded, or prejudiced) are essential.
    * crédulos, los = unsuspecting, the, gullible, the.

    * * *
    credulous, gullible
    * * *

    crédulo
    ◊ -la adjetivo

    credulous, gullible
    crédulo,-a adjetivo credulous, gullible

    ' crédulo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    crédula
    - confiado
    English:
    credulous
    - deluded
    - gullible
    * * *
    crédulo, -a
    ♦ adj
    credulous, gullible
    ♦ nm,f
    credulous o gullible person
    * * *
    adj credulous
    * * *
    crédulo, -la adj
    : credulous, gullible

    Spanish-English dictionary > crédulo

  • 22 cuestionar

    v.
    1 to question.
    El detective cuestionó al pillo The detective questioned the thief.
    2 to challenge, to bring into question, to doubt, to question.
    El profesor cuestionó su conclusión The teacher challenged his conclusion.
    3 to have objections about.
    * * *
    1 to question
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to question
    2.
    cuestionarse v pron to ask oneself
    * * *
    = challenge, question, render + suspect, query, render + questionable.
    Ex. The only difference is the cataloger doesn't have to sit down and challenge himself, select one entry over the other, and say that this person is more responsible than another person for the work.
    Ex. If this appears to be excessively difficult, maybe it is time to question whether the tool is too complex.
    Ex. Poor standards of cataloguing in the past render many examples of retrospective music bibliography suspect.
    Ex. The author queries the value of selecting so much sexually permissive teenage fiction for young people who are already sexually afire, given the dangers of unwanted pregnancies and AIDS.
    Ex. Luhmann's attempt to assign to language a merely marginal role renders questionable the conclusiveness of his theory.
    ----
    * cuestionar la validez de = bring into + question the validity of, question + the validity of.
    * hacer que Alguien se cuestione Algo = make + Nombre + wonder.
    * no cuestionarse la veracidad de Algo temporalmente = suspend + disbelief.
    * que no se ha cuestionado = unquestioned, unscrutinised [unscrutinized, -USA].
    * sin cuestionarlo = uncritically.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to question
    2.
    cuestionarse v pron to ask oneself
    * * *
    = challenge, question, render + suspect, query, render + questionable.

    Ex: The only difference is the cataloger doesn't have to sit down and challenge himself, select one entry over the other, and say that this person is more responsible than another person for the work.

    Ex: If this appears to be excessively difficult, maybe it is time to question whether the tool is too complex.
    Ex: Poor standards of cataloguing in the past render many examples of retrospective music bibliography suspect.
    Ex: The author queries the value of selecting so much sexually permissive teenage fiction for young people who are already sexually afire, given the dangers of unwanted pregnancies and AIDS.
    Ex: Luhmann's attempt to assign to language a merely marginal role renders questionable the conclusiveness of his theory.
    * cuestionar la validez de = bring into + question the validity of, question + the validity of.
    * hacer que Alguien se cuestione Algo = make + Nombre + wonder.
    * no cuestionarse la veracidad de Algo temporalmente = suspend + disbelief.
    * que no se ha cuestionado = unquestioned, unscrutinised [unscrutinized, -USA].
    * sin cuestionarlo = uncritically.

    * * *
    cuestionar [A1 ]
    vt
    to question
    to ask oneself
    debemos cuestionarnos si es necesario we must ask ourselves o we must question whether it is necessary
    * * *

    cuestionar ( conjugate cuestionar) verbo transitivo
    to question
    cuestionar verbo transitivo to question
    ' cuestionar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    discutir
    English:
    challenge
    - dispute
    - query
    - question
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to question
    * * *
    v/t question
    * * *
    : to question
    * * *
    cuestionar vb to question

    Spanish-English dictionary > cuestionar

  • 23 de aspecto impresionante

    Ex. The search results can be edited, possibly to eliminate unwanted references, to make multiple copies, or perhaps to make a more impressive-looking report.
    * * *

    Ex: The search results can be edited, possibly to eliminate unwanted references, to make multiple copies, or perhaps to make a more impressive-looking report.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de aspecto impresionante

  • 24 de campo

    (adj.) = free-range
    Ex. An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.
    * * *
    (adj.) = free-range

    Ex: An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de campo

  • 25 de corral

    (adj.) = free-range
    Ex. An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.
    * * *
    (adj.) = free-range

    Ex: An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de corral

  • 26 de crianza intensiva

    (adj.) = battery-caged
    Ex. An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.
    * * *
    (adj.) = battery-caged

    Ex: An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de crianza intensiva

  • 27 de cría intensiva

    (adj.) = battery-caged
    Ex. An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.
    * * *
    (adj.) = battery-caged

    Ex: An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de cría intensiva

  • 28 de granja

    (adj.) = free-range
    Ex. An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.
    * * *
    (adj.) = free-range

    Ex: An inherent problem with all egg production, whether free-range or battery-caged, is the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de granja

  • 29 de sabor desagradable

    (adj.) = unpalatable
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.
    * * *
    (adj.) = unpalatable

    Ex: The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de sabor desagradable

  • 30 de segunda importancia

    (n.) = marginal, back burner, on the back burner, second in importance
    Ex. The title 'Unsolicited marginal gift collections: saying no or coping with the unwanted' deals with the problem of how to cope with collections which should have been declined, but were not.
    Ex. Assistive technology will continue to be a back burner issue in most libraries.
    Ex. Although the prospect of compulsory competitive tendering in libraries is on the back burner it has put acquisitions firmly in the limelight.
    Ex. In an emergency, good information about the building is second in importance only to good judgment.
    * * *
    (n.) = marginal, back burner, on the back burner, second in importance

    Ex: The title 'Unsolicited marginal gift collections: saying no or coping with the unwanted' deals with the problem of how to cope with collections which should have been declined, but were not.

    Ex: Assistive technology will continue to be a back burner issue in most libraries.
    Ex: Although the prospect of compulsory competitive tendering in libraries is on the back burner it has put acquisitions firmly in the limelight.
    Ex: In an emergency, good information about the building is second in importance only to good judgment.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de segunda importancia

  • 31 desagradable

    adj.
    1 unpleasant.
    2 disagreeable, distasteful, unpleasant, displeasing.
    * * *
    1 disagreeable, unpleasant
    * * *
    adj.
    unpleasant, disagreeable
    * * *
    ADJ unpleasant, disagreeable más frm
    * * *
    adjetivo <respuesta/comentario> unkind; <ruido/sensación> unpleasant, disagreeable; <escena/sorpresa> unpleasant; <tiempo/clima> unpleasant, horrible
    * * *
    = off-putting, unwelcome, unpleasant, disagreeable, unkind, obnoxious, peevish, distasteful, unappealing, seamy [seamier -comp., seamiest -sup.], unsavoury [unsavory, -USA], unpalatable, unsightly, minging, abrasive, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unwholesome, insalubrious, invidious, ill-natured.
    Ex. Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.
    Ex. The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission.
    Ex. And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.
    Ex. Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex. The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
    Ex. During the war a law was passed to limit the consumption of newsprint by ' obnoxious newspapers' and even reducing it to nil = Durante la guerra se aprobó una ley para limitar el consumo de papel de periódico por los llamados "periódicos detestables" e incluso reducirlo a cero.
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. The physical effort of keeping tabs on people as well as the distasteful practice of checking up on staff output achieves nothing and may do considerable damage.
    Ex. In addition, it is pointed out that tourists often have a strange fascination for tragic, macabre or other equally unappealing historical sights.
    Ex. In general, the writer explains, crimes are depicted in such a way that they are associated with seamy characters who have little regard for conventional morality.
    Ex. Despite the unsavory characters, bawdiness, and amorality in several of his plays, Middleton was more committed to a single theological system than, for example, Shakespeare.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.
    Ex. He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex. Everyone is attractive to someone, there is no such thing as a minger, but there are many people who I think are minging.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.
    Ex. The text raises the possibility that there might be something unwholesome in the Buddhist obsession with hell.
    Ex. Specific actions are those which are intended to reinforce the fight against specific medical conditions related to insalubrious living.
    Ex. Within the ranks of authorship therefore there are many types of author and it is invidious to claim that one sort is necessarily 'better' than another.
    Ex. Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
    ----
    * algo desagradable a la vista = a blot on the landscape.
    * darle a Uno escalofríos por Algo desagradable = make + Nombre + flinch.
    * de sabor desagradable = unpalatable.
    * desagradable a la vista = eyesore.
    * encontrarse con una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * esperar una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * lo desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * situación desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening.
    * * *
    adjetivo <respuesta/comentario> unkind; <ruido/sensación> unpleasant, disagreeable; <escena/sorpresa> unpleasant; <tiempo/clima> unpleasant, horrible
    * * *
    = off-putting, unwelcome, unpleasant, disagreeable, unkind, obnoxious, peevish, distasteful, unappealing, seamy [seamier -comp., seamiest -sup.], unsavoury [unsavory, -USA], unpalatable, unsightly, minging, abrasive, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unwholesome, insalubrious, invidious, ill-natured.

    Ex: Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.

    Ex: The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission.
    Ex: And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.
    Ex: Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex: The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
    Ex: During the war a law was passed to limit the consumption of newsprint by ' obnoxious newspapers' and even reducing it to nil = Durante la guerra se aprobó una ley para limitar el consumo de papel de periódico por los llamados "periódicos detestables" e incluso reducirlo a cero.
    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: The physical effort of keeping tabs on people as well as the distasteful practice of checking up on staff output achieves nothing and may do considerable damage.
    Ex: In addition, it is pointed out that tourists often have a strange fascination for tragic, macabre or other equally unappealing historical sights.
    Ex: In general, the writer explains, crimes are depicted in such a way that they are associated with seamy characters who have little regard for conventional morality.
    Ex: Despite the unsavory characters, bawdiness, and amorality in several of his plays, Middleton was more committed to a single theological system than, for example, Shakespeare.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.
    Ex: He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex: Everyone is attractive to someone, there is no such thing as a minger, but there are many people who I think are minging.
    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex: Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.
    Ex: The text raises the possibility that there might be something unwholesome in the Buddhist obsession with hell.
    Ex: Specific actions are those which are intended to reinforce the fight against specific medical conditions related to insalubrious living.
    Ex: Within the ranks of authorship therefore there are many types of author and it is invidious to claim that one sort is necessarily 'better' than another.
    Ex: Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
    * algo desagradable a la vista = a blot on the landscape.
    * darle a Uno escalofríos por Algo desagradable = make + Nombre + flinch.
    * de sabor desagradable = unpalatable.
    * desagradable a la vista = eyesore.
    * encontrarse con una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * esperar una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * lo desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * situación desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening.

    * * *
    ‹respuesta/comentario› unkind; ‹sabor/ruido/sensación› unpleasant, disagreeable; ‹escena› horrible
    estuvo realmente desagradable conmigo he was really unpleasant to me
    ¡no seas tan desagradable! dale una oportunidad don't be so mean o unkind! give him a chance
    ¡qué tiempo más desagradable! what nasty o horrible weather
    hacía un día bastante desagradable the weather was rather unpleasant, it was a rather unpleasant day
    se llevó una sorpresa desagradable she got a nasty o an unpleasant surprise
    * * *

     

    desagradable adjetivo
    unpleasant;
    ‹respuesta/comentario› unkind
    desagradable adjetivo unpleasant, disagreeable: hay un olor desagradable, there's an unpleasant smell
    es una persona muy desagradable, he's really disagreeable
    ' desagradable' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    escopetazo
    - fresca
    - fresco
    - graznido
    - grosera
    - grosero
    - gustillo
    - horrorosa
    - horroroso
    - impresión
    - marrón
    - palma
    - sensación
    - terrible
    - terrorífica
    - terrorífico
    - chocante
    - ingrato
    - mal
    - shock
    English:
    bullet
    - business
    - creep
    - dirty
    - disagreeable
    - distasteful
    - emptiness
    - filthy
    - hard
    - ill-natured
    - miserable
    - nasty
    - off
    - off-putting
    - rude
    - thankless
    - ugly
    - unkind
    - unpleasant
    - unsavory
    - unsavoury
    - unwelcome
    - why
    - home
    - objectionable
    - offensive
    - painful
    - peevish
    - unpalatable
    - unwholesome
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [sensación, tiempo, escena] unpleasant;
    no voy a salir, la tarde está muy desagradable I'm not going to go out, the weather's turned quite nasty this afternoon;
    una desagradable sorpresa an unpleasant o a nasty surprise
    2. [persona, comentario, contestación] unpleasant;
    está muy desagradable con su familia he's very unpleasant to his family;
    no seas desagradable y ven con nosotros al cine don't be unsociable, come to the cinema with us
    ♦ nmf
    son unos desagradables they're unpleasant people
    * * *
    adj unpleasant, disagreeable
    * * *
    : unpleasant, disagreeable
    * * *
    desagradable adj unpleasant

    Spanish-English dictionary > desagradable

  • 32 desecho

    m.
    1 unwanted object (objeto usado).
    2 dregs (escoria).
    3 reject, second, discard, throw-out.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: desechar.
    * * *
    2 (ropa) castoff
    1 waste sing, rubbish sing
    \
    de desecho (ropa) cast-off 2 (material) waste
    ser un desecho de la sociedad figurado to be a social outcast
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=residuo)
    2) pl desechos (=desperdicios) [gen] rubbish sing, garbage sing (EEUU); [de la industria] waste sing ; [de ropa] castoffs; [de animal] offal sing
    3) * (=persona inútil) dead loss *

    el desecho de la sociedad — the scum o dregs pl of society

    4) (=desprecio) contempt, scorn
    5) LAm (=atajo) short cut; (=desvío) detour; (=sendero) path, temporary road
    * * *
    masculino ( despojo) waste
    * * *
    = left-off, cast-off.
    Ex. But until these new pretty garments are ready, the boy will still have to put up with his girl cousins' left-off petticoats and pinnies.
    Ex. Indeed, these days, it seems that more cast-offs than ever can be recycled.
    ----
    * de desecho = discarded.
    * desechos = junk, detritus, scraps.
    * desechos nucleares = nuclear waste.
    * líquido de desecho = effluent.
    * procedente de desecho = discarded.
    * * *
    masculino ( despojo) waste
    * * *
    = left-off, cast-off.

    Ex: But until these new pretty garments are ready, the boy will still have to put up with his girl cousins' left-off petticoats and pinnies.

    Ex: Indeed, these days, it seems that more cast-offs than ever can be recycled.
    * de desecho = discarded.
    * desechos = junk, detritus, scraps.
    * desechos nucleares = nuclear waste.
    * líquido de desecho = effluent.
    * procedente de desecho = discarded.

    * * *
    A (despojo) waste
    [ S ] se compran pendientes sueltos, desecho en general we buy odd earrings and all kinds of scrap gold and silver
    esculturas hechas con materiales de desecho sculptures made out of waste materials
    Compuestos:
    mpl industrial waste
    mpl (CS) army surplus
    ● desechos nucleares/radiactivos
    mpl nuclear/radioactive waste
    B ( Chi) (sendero) side path
    * * *

    Del verbo desechar: ( conjugate desechar)

    desecho es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    desechó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    desechar    
    desecho
    desechar ( conjugate desechar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹ayuda/propuesta› to reject;

    ‹idea/plan› ( rechazar) to reject;
    ( renunciar a) to drop, give up
    b) ‹restos/residuos› to throw away o out;

    ‹ ropa› to throw out
    desecho sustantivo masculino
    waste
    desechar verbo transitivo
    1 (un objeto) to discard, throw out o away
    2 (una oferta) to turn down, refuse
    (descartar una idea, un proyecto) to drop, discard
    ' desecho' also found in these entries:
    English:
    abandon
    - discard
    - effluent
    - waste
    * * *
    1. [objeto usado] unwanted object;
    [ropa] cast-off;
    material de desecho [residuos] waste products;
    [metal] scrap
    2. [escoria] dregs;
    desechos [basura] Br rubbish, US garbage, trash;
    [residuos] waste products;
    no era más que un desecho humano he was a contemptible creature
    desechos industriales industrial waste;
    desechos nucleares nuclear waste;
    desechos radiactivos radioactive waste
    3. CAm, Carib [tabaco] class A tobacco
    * * *
    1) : reject
    2) desechos nmpl
    residuos: rubbish, waste

    Spanish-English dictionary > desecho

  • 33 desprevenido

    adj.
    unprepared, unaware, off-guard, not ready.
    * * *
    1 unprepared, unready
    \
    coger/pillar a alguien desprevenido,-a to catch somebody unawares, take somebody by surprise
    * * *
    ADJ (=no preparado) unready, unprepared

    coger o pillar o LAm agarrar a algn desprevenido — to catch sb unawares, catch sb off his guard

    * * *
    - da adjetivo

    pillar a alguien desprevenido — pregunta to catch somebody unawares o off guard; lluvia to catch somebody by surprise

    * * *
    = unwary, unsuspecting.
    Ex. Experience has shown that the vastness of this as yet unordered field holds many pitfalls for the unwary librarian and researcher.
    Ex. There has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user.
    ----
    * coger a Alguien desprevenido = catch + Nombre + off-guard, catch + Nombre + napping, catch + Nombre + flat-footed.
    * coger desprevenido = catch + unprepared, take + Nombre + unawares.
    * desprevenidos, los = unsuspecting, the.
    * pillar a Alguien desprevenido = catch + Nombre + off-guard, catch + Nombre + napping, catch + Nombre + flat-footed.
    * pillar desprevenido = take + Nombre + unawares.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo

    pillar a alguien desprevenido — pregunta to catch somebody unawares o off guard; lluvia to catch somebody by surprise

    * * *
    = unwary, unsuspecting.

    Ex: Experience has shown that the vastness of this as yet unordered field holds many pitfalls for the unwary librarian and researcher.

    Ex: There has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user.
    * coger a Alguien desprevenido = catch + Nombre + off-guard, catch + Nombre + napping, catch + Nombre + flat-footed.
    * coger desprevenido = catch + unprepared, take + Nombre + unawares.
    * desprevenidos, los = unsuspecting, the.
    * pillar a Alguien desprevenido = catch + Nombre + off-guard, catch + Nombre + napping, catch + Nombre + flat-footed.
    * pillar desprevenido = take + Nombre + unawares.

    * * *
    estar desprevenido to be unprepared o unready
    pillar a algn desprevenido «pregunta» to catch sb unawares o off guard;
    «lluvia» to catch sb by surprise
    el lector desprevenido the unsuspecting reader
    * * *

    desprevenido
    ◊ -da adjetivo: estar desprevenido to be unprepared o unready;

    pillar a algn desprevenido [ pregunta] to catch sb unawares o off guard;

    [ lluvia] to catch sb by surprise
    desprevenido,-a adjetivo unprepared
    ♦ Locuciones: coger a alguien desprevenido, to catch someone unawares
    ' desprevenido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bola
    - descuidada
    - descuidado
    - desprevenida
    - sorprender
    English:
    guard
    - nap
    - pants
    - surprise
    - unawares
    - unprepared
    - unready
    - catch
    - unsuspecting
    * * *
    desprevenido, -a adj
    unprepared;
    pillar o Esp [m5] coger desprevenido a alguien to catch sb unawares, to take sb by surprise;
    el golpe lo pilló desprevenido the blow caught him off guard;
    una decisión que pilló a todo el mundo desprevenido a decision which took everyone by surprise
    * * *
    adj unprepared;
    pillar o L.Am.
    agarrar desprevenido catch unawares
    * * *
    desprevenido, -da adj
    desapercibido: unprepared, off guard, unsuspecting
    * * *
    coger a alguien desprevenido to catch somebody unawares [pt. & pp. caught] / to take somebody by surprise [pt. took; pp. taken]
    su pregunta me cogió desprevenido his question caught me unawares / his question took me by surprise

    Spanish-English dictionary > desprevenido

  • 34 detenerse

    1 (pararse) to stop, halt
    2 (entretenerse) to hang about, linger
    * * *
    * * *
    VPR
    1) (=pararse) to stop

    ¡no te detengas! — don't hang about!

    2) (=demorarse) to waste time (en on)
    * * *
    (v.) = become + stagnant, break off, sit back, stall, pull up, run into + the sand(s), stop over
    Ex. Research in the social sciences has become increasingly stagnant and impoverished, largely because of the insistence on using objective, quantitative methods derived from the natural sciences.
    Ex. During this period the compositors worked non-stop, breaking off only to eat, for the almost incredible period of fifty hours: two days and two nights without rest 'in an atmosphere that would poison a vulture'.
    Ex. When carried out correctly, performance review provides an opportunity to sit back and assess the job.
    Ex. In other instances, however, the pay equity process has been stalled becasue of the reluctance on the part of some municipalities to include library workers in their pay equity plans.
    Ex. Trucks started pulling up every hour, day and night, to the library's loading dock and depositing heaps of unordered and unwanted books.
    Ex. The king must have then realised, if he had not already done so, that his efforts to secure an annulment from the pope had run into the sand.
    Ex. With luck the lapwings will now be able to stop over in Syria without coming to further harm.
    * * *
    (v.) = become + stagnant, break off, sit back, stall, pull up, run into + the sand(s), stop over

    Ex: Research in the social sciences has become increasingly stagnant and impoverished, largely because of the insistence on using objective, quantitative methods derived from the natural sciences.

    Ex: During this period the compositors worked non-stop, breaking off only to eat, for the almost incredible period of fifty hours: two days and two nights without rest 'in an atmosphere that would poison a vulture'.
    Ex: When carried out correctly, performance review provides an opportunity to sit back and assess the job.
    Ex: In other instances, however, the pay equity process has been stalled becasue of the reluctance on the part of some municipalities to include library workers in their pay equity plans.
    Ex: Trucks started pulling up every hour, day and night, to the library's loading dock and depositing heaps of unordered and unwanted books.
    Ex: The king must have then realised, if he had not already done so, that his efforts to secure an annulment from the pope had run into the sand.
    Ex: With luck the lapwings will now be able to stop over in Syria without coming to further harm.

    * * *

    ■detenerse verbo reflexivo to stop: ¡deténganse!, stop!
    ' detenerse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    demorarse
    - estancarse
    - detener
    - parar
    English:
    draw up
    - pull over
    - pull up
    - stick
    - stop
    - cease
    - draw
    - grind
    - halt
    - pause
    - rest
    - slow
    * * *
    vpr
    1. [pararse] to stop;
    no te detengas, sigue don't stop, carry on;
    no se levanten hasta que el avión se haya detenido do not get up until the plane has come to a stop;
    detenerse en seco to stop dead;
    detenerse a hacer algo to stop to do sth;
    se detuvo un momento a pensar she stopped to think for a moment;
    se detuvo a hablar con una amiga y llegó tarde she stopped to talk to a friend and was late
    2. [demorarse] to hang about, to linger;
    no te detengas tanto con la presentación y ve al grano don't spend so much time on the presentation and get to the point
    * * *
    v/r stop
    * * *
    vr
    1) : to stop
    2) : to delay, to linger
    * * *
    detenerse vb to stop [pt. & pp. stopped]

    Spanish-English dictionary > detenerse

  • 35 donación de libros

    (n.) = gift collection, book endowment, book donation, book gift
    Ex. The title 'Unsolicited marginal gift collections: saying no or coping with the unwanted' deals with the problem of how to cope with collections which should have been declined, but were not.
    Ex. The library began with a book endowment by Sebald Welser in 1581.
    Ex. If book donations to developing countries do not take into account existing needs and conditions, their only use may be to feed the goats.
    Ex. This article describes a book gift ceremony to promote awareness among developing countries of the Book Aid International (BAI) (formerly Ranfurly Library Service) programme to provide books which are relevant to their needs.
    * * *
    (n.) = gift collection, book endowment, book donation, book gift

    Ex: The title 'Unsolicited marginal gift collections: saying no or coping with the unwanted' deals with the problem of how to cope with collections which should have been declined, but were not.

    Ex: The library began with a book endowment by Sebald Welser in 1581.
    Ex: If book donations to developing countries do not take into account existing needs and conditions, their only use may be to feed the goats.
    Ex: This article describes a book gift ceremony to promote awareness among developing countries of the Book Aid International (BAI) (formerly Ranfurly Library Service) programme to provide books which are relevant to their needs.

    Spanish-English dictionary > donación de libros

  • 36 en un extremo ... en el otro

    = at one end... at the other
    Ex. The article describes how an unwanted library building was moved by barge from Belfair, a community at one end of Hood Canal in Washington State, to Hoodsport, at the other end.
    * * *
    = at one end... at the other

    Ex: The article describes how an unwanted library building was moved by barge from Belfair, a community at one end of Hood Canal in Washington State, to Hoodsport, at the other end.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en un extremo ... en el otro

  • 37 en una punta ... en la otra

    = at one end... at the other
    Ex. The article describes how an unwanted library building was moved by barge from Belfair, a community at one end of Hood Canal in Washington State, to Hoodsport, at the other end.
    * * *
    = at one end... at the other

    Ex: The article describes how an unwanted library building was moved by barge from Belfair, a community at one end of Hood Canal in Washington State, to Hoodsport, at the other end.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en una punta ... en la otra

  • 38 envío de correo publicitario no solicitado

    (n.) = spamming
    Ex. Some Internet users have found their daily electronic mail swamped with large numbers of unwanted messages (spamming) caused by a type of computer vandal (hacker) called a mail bomber who places its victims on a large number of mailing lists.
    * * *
    (n.) = spamming

    Ex: Some Internet users have found their daily electronic mail swamped with large numbers of unwanted messages (spamming) caused by a type of computer vandal (hacker) called a mail bomber who places its victims on a large number of mailing lists.

    Spanish-English dictionary > envío de correo publicitario no solicitado

  • 39 escolta

    f.
    f. & m.
    1 bodyguard (para protección) (persona, grupo).
    2 escort, chaperon, convoy.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: escoltar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: escoltar.
    * * *
    1 escort
    2 MARÍTIMO convoy
    \
    dar escolta to escort, accompany
    escolta personal bodyguard
    * * *
    noun mf.
    * * *
    1.
    SMF (=acompañante) escort; (=guardaespaldas) bodyguard; [de ministro] minder *
    2.

    dar escolta a — to escort, accompany

    * * *
    masculino y femenino
    1) ( persona) escort; ( en baloncesto) guard
    2) escolta femenino ( grupo) escort
    * * *
    = escort, chaperon.
    Ex. Escort can be seen as part of the referral process or as a separate activity of accompanying a client to ensure that the person reaches the source of help.
    Ex. Apart from the tale that babies are found under gooseberry bushes, to 'play gooseberry' was to act as a chaperon, or be an unwanted third presence when lovers wanted to be alone.
    ----
    * escolta policial = police escort.
    * trabajo de escolta = escort work.
    * * *
    masculino y femenino
    1) ( persona) escort; ( en baloncesto) guard
    2) escolta femenino ( grupo) escort
    * * *
    = escort, chaperon.

    Ex: Escort can be seen as part of the referral process or as a separate activity of accompanying a client to ensure that the person reaches the source of help.

    Ex: Apart from the tale that babies are found under gooseberry bushes, to 'play gooseberry' was to act as a chaperon, or be an unwanted third presence when lovers wanted to be alone.
    * escolta policial = police escort.
    * trabajo de escolta = escort work.

    * * *
    A
    1 (persona) escort
    B
    * * *

    Del verbo escoltar: ( conjugate escoltar)

    escolta es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    escolta    
    escoltar
    escolta sustantivo masculino y femenino ( persona) escort;
    ( en baloncesto) guard
    ■ sustantivo femenino ( grupo) escort
    escoltar ( conjugate escoltar) verbo transitivo
    to escort
    escolta sustantivo femenino
    1 (grupo) escort
    2 (guardaespaldas) bodyguard
    3 (baloncesto) guard
    escoltar verbo transitivo to escort
    ' escolta' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    séquito
    English:
    convoy
    - escort
    - body
    - guard
    * * *
    ♦ nf
    [acompañamiento] escort;
    lleva escolta veinticuatro horas al día he has a twenty-four-hour escort
    escolta policial police escort
    ♦ nmf
    1. [persona] bodyguard
    2. [en baloncesto] shooting guard
    * * *
    I f escort
    II m/f
    1 motorista outrider
    2 ( guardaespaldas) bodyguard
    3 en baloncesto shooting guard
    * * *
    escolta nmf
    : escort
    * * *
    escolta n escort

    Spanish-English dictionary > escolta

  • 40 estimar la demanda de Algo

    (v.) = gauge + the demand for
    Ex. Gauging the potential demand for a 'difficult' novel by a completely new author is obviously a hazardous business and might result in books standing unwanted on the shelves.
    * * *
    (v.) = gauge + the demand for

    Ex: Gauging the potential demand for a 'difficult' novel by a completely new author is obviously a hazardous business and might result in books standing unwanted on the shelves.

    Spanish-English dictionary > estimar la demanda de Algo

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