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1 pasar sin
v.to go without, to do without.* * *to do without* * *(v.) = get along without, forego [forgo], do without, live withoutEx. It is thus that the library makes itself almost impossible to get along without.Ex. I cannot forgo commenting first on Mr Gorman's presentation because I think that it characterizes best the spirit of the present revision.Ex. Serials management is one application that a majority of the public libraries have opted to do without.Ex. The article is entitled 'I cannot live without books': Thomas Jefferson, bibliophile'.* * *(v.) = get along without, forego [forgo], do without, live withoutEx: It is thus that the library makes itself almost impossible to get along without.
Ex: I cannot forgo commenting first on Mr Gorman's presentation because I think that it characterizes best the spirit of the present revision.Ex: Serials management is one application that a majority of the public libraries have opted to do without.Ex: The article is entitled 'I cannot live without books': Thomas Jefferson, bibliophile'. -
2 serpentear
v.1 to wind, to snake.2 to wriggle (culebra).3 to zigzag, to move in loops, to slither, to slither along like a snake.* * *1 (gen) to crawl, wriggle* * *verbto twist, wind* * ** * *= meander, wind, wind + Posesivo + way.Ex. They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.Ex. The writer muses on a little creek that winds by his apartment commenting on how the creek's environment has changed = El escritor reflexiona sobre un pequeño arroyo que serpentea junto a su apartamento comentando cómo ha cambiado su entorno.Ex. The plain is crisscrossed by a number of smaller rivers which wind their way lazily down toward the St. Lawrence = La llanura está entrecruzada por varios ríos más pequeños que serpentean perezosamente hasta desembocar en el San Lorenzo.* * ** * *= meander, wind, wind + Posesivo + way.Ex: They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.
Ex: The writer muses on a little creek that winds by his apartment commenting on how the creek's environment has changed = El escritor reflexiona sobre un pequeño arroyo que serpentea junto a su apartamento comentando cómo ha cambiado su entorno.Ex: The plain is crisscrossed by a number of smaller rivers which wind their way lazily down toward the St. Lawrence = La llanura está entrecruzada por varios ríos más pequeños que serpentean perezosamente hasta desembocar en el San Lorenzo.* * *serpentear [A1 ]vi«río» to meander, wind; «camino» to wind, twist* * *
serpentear ( conjugate serpentear) verbo intransitivo [ río] to meander, wind;
[ camino] to wind, twist
serpentear vi (una carretera, un río) to wind, meander
' serpentear' also found in these entries:
English:
meander
- twist
- wind
- wriggle
- loop
- weave
* * *serpentear vi1. [río, camino] to wind, to snake2. [culebra] to wriggle* * ** * *serpentear vi: to twist, to wind♦ serpenteante adj* * *serpentear vb to twist / to wind [pt. & pp. wound]
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