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  • 41 contribuir con

    v.
    to contribute with, to contribute.
    * * *
    Ex. Thanks for chiming in with a wonderful explanation.
    * * *

    Ex: Thanks for chiming in with a wonderful explanation.

    Spanish-English dictionary > contribuir con

  • 42 criticar

    v.
    1 to criticize.
    Su padre criticó su vestimenta Her father criticized her clothes.
    María critica cuando siente envidia Mary criticizes when she feels envy.
    El profesor criticó su proceder The teacher criticized his behavior.
    2 to review (enjuiciar) (literatura, arte).
    3 to gossip.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ SACAR], like link=sacar sacar
    1 to criticize
    1 (murmurar) to gossip
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=censurar) to criticize
    2) (=hablar mal)

    siempre está criticando a la gente — he's always criticizing people, he's always finding fault with people

    3) (Arte, Literat, Teat) [+ libro, obra] to review
    2.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (atacar, censurar) to criticize
    b) (Art, Espec, Lit) <libro/película> to review
    2.
    criticar vi to gossip, backbite
    * * *
    = come under + criticism, condemn, criticise [criticize, -USA], decry, find + fault with, put down, take + Nombre + to task, deprecate, castigate, speak against, chide, censure, berate, critique, bash, raise + criticism, come under + attack, pick on, go to + bat against, chastise, carp, damn, recreminate, reprove, reproach, single out for + criticism, slam, take + a swat at, chew + Nombre + up, roast, give + Nombre + a good roasting.
    Ex. In the 2nd period, 1912-1933, the methods and direction of the movement came under criticism from socialists and educationalists, and a heated debate ensued.
    Ex. It must, however, also be considered as a major source of the 'subject index illusion' so trenchantly condemned by Bliss, as mentioned below.
    Ex. AACR2 has been criticised on the grounds that it does not identify the cataloguing unit to which the rules refer.
    Ex. Dick decried the feeling among some scholarly publishers that there is no link between scholarly researchers, publishers, and the library.
    Ex. I will add that since I have been working with the access LC provides to materials on women, a basic fault that I have found with LC subject cataloging is the absence of specificity.
    Ex. 'Specifically, I'm told you delight in putting down the professional'.
    Ex. I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex. In these instances, it is important to avoid putting one's colleagues in another unit on the defensive or deprecating another unit to a patron.
    Ex. In his report, one of the few really inspiring documents to have come out of librarianship, McColvin castigated the standards of cataloguing and classification he found.
    Ex. As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.
    Ex. Some authors of papers lament the lack of a philosophy and gently chide librarians for the 'simplicity of their pragmatism'.
    Ex. This agreement must build in incentives to participating libraries as well as methods of censuring those participants which do not fulfil their obligations to the other participating libraries in the network = Este acuerdo debe incorporar incentivos para las bibliotecas participantes así cómo la forma de llamarle la atención a aquellos participantes que no cumplan sus obligaciones con las otras bibliotecas de la red.
    Ex. Unfortunately, many of the writers are simply berating the current situation, holding to rather ancient models of mass culture.
    Ex. This paper critiques the jurisprudential assumptions upon which legal resources are created, materials are collected, and research practices are justified.
    Ex. Newspapers took advantage of the accident to attack or ' bash' the nuclear industry or nuclear power in general.
    Ex. The author raises some criticisms of the international standard ISO 2709.
    Ex. This bipartite approach has recently come under heavy attack.
    Ex. By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.
    Ex. The article has the title 'The minority press goes to bat against segregated baseball'.
    Ex. The profession should cease practising the amateurism for which it chastises employers who have untrained persons trying to function as librarians.
    Ex. You who carped that the 007 films had devolved into a catalog of fresh gadgets and stale puns, eat crow.
    Ex. The play is damned by the critics but packs in the crowds and the producers may be upset by the adverse criticisms but they can, as the saying goes, cry all the way to the bank.
    Ex. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote: 'Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate'.
    Ex. The person reproving his friend must understand that before he can reprove someone else, he must first reprove himself.
    Ex. The Governor, it is learnt, sternly reproached the party for putting the public to inconvenience for the last two days.
    Ex. Though what exactly constitutes moral decay is debatable, one group traditionally has been singled out for criticism, namely young people.
    Ex. Britain's top cop was today slammed for leaving three white detectives 'hanging out to dry' after they were wrongly accused of racism.
    Ex. I get pretty tired of ignorant people taking swats at the Catholic religion for 'worshiping statues'.
    Ex. A war of words went up when Jewish zealots redacted out this or that word or phrase in order to deny Joshua, and the Christians chewed them up for it.
    Ex. The critics, however, roasted her for playing a tragic French heroine with a flat Midwestern accent.
    Ex. What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.
    ----
    * criticar a = fulminate about, level + criticism at.
    * criticar a Alguien a sus espaldas = cut + Nombre + up + behind + Posesivo + back.
    * criticar duramente = tear + Nombre + to shreds, slate, flail away at.
    * criticar las ideas de Alguien = trample on + Posesivo + ideas.
    * ser criticado = come under + fire.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (atacar, censurar) to criticize
    b) (Art, Espec, Lit) <libro/película> to review
    2.
    criticar vi to gossip, backbite
    * * *
    = come under + criticism, condemn, criticise [criticize, -USA], decry, find + fault with, put down, take + Nombre + to task, deprecate, castigate, speak against, chide, censure, berate, critique, bash, raise + criticism, come under + attack, pick on, go to + bat against, chastise, carp, damn, recreminate, reprove, reproach, single out for + criticism, slam, take + a swat at, chew + Nombre + up, roast, give + Nombre + a good roasting.

    Ex: In the 2nd period, 1912-1933, the methods and direction of the movement came under criticism from socialists and educationalists, and a heated debate ensued.

    Ex: It must, however, also be considered as a major source of the 'subject index illusion' so trenchantly condemned by Bliss, as mentioned below.
    Ex: AACR2 has been criticised on the grounds that it does not identify the cataloguing unit to which the rules refer.
    Ex: Dick decried the feeling among some scholarly publishers that there is no link between scholarly researchers, publishers, and the library.
    Ex: I will add that since I have been working with the access LC provides to materials on women, a basic fault that I have found with LC subject cataloging is the absence of specificity.
    Ex: 'Specifically, I'm told you delight in putting down the professional'.
    Ex: I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex: In these instances, it is important to avoid putting one's colleagues in another unit on the defensive or deprecating another unit to a patron.
    Ex: In his report, one of the few really inspiring documents to have come out of librarianship, McColvin castigated the standards of cataloguing and classification he found.
    Ex: As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.
    Ex: Some authors of papers lament the lack of a philosophy and gently chide librarians for the 'simplicity of their pragmatism'.
    Ex: This agreement must build in incentives to participating libraries as well as methods of censuring those participants which do not fulfil their obligations to the other participating libraries in the network = Este acuerdo debe incorporar incentivos para las bibliotecas participantes así cómo la forma de llamarle la atención a aquellos participantes que no cumplan sus obligaciones con las otras bibliotecas de la red.
    Ex: Unfortunately, many of the writers are simply berating the current situation, holding to rather ancient models of mass culture.
    Ex: This paper critiques the jurisprudential assumptions upon which legal resources are created, materials are collected, and research practices are justified.
    Ex: Newspapers took advantage of the accident to attack or ' bash' the nuclear industry or nuclear power in general.
    Ex: The author raises some criticisms of the international standard ISO 2709.
    Ex: This bipartite approach has recently come under heavy attack.
    Ex: By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.
    Ex: The article has the title 'The minority press goes to bat against segregated baseball'.
    Ex: The profession should cease practising the amateurism for which it chastises employers who have untrained persons trying to function as librarians.
    Ex: You who carped that the 007 films had devolved into a catalog of fresh gadgets and stale puns, eat crow.
    Ex: The play is damned by the critics but packs in the crowds and the producers may be upset by the adverse criticisms but they can, as the saying goes, cry all the way to the bank.
    Ex: Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote: 'Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate'.
    Ex: The person reproving his friend must understand that before he can reprove someone else, he must first reprove himself.
    Ex: The Governor, it is learnt, sternly reproached the party for putting the public to inconvenience for the last two days.
    Ex: Though what exactly constitutes moral decay is debatable, one group traditionally has been singled out for criticism, namely young people.
    Ex: Britain's top cop was today slammed for leaving three white detectives 'hanging out to dry' after they were wrongly accused of racism.
    Ex: I get pretty tired of ignorant people taking swats at the Catholic religion for 'worshiping statues'.
    Ex: A war of words went up when Jewish zealots redacted out this or that word or phrase in order to deny Joshua, and the Christians chewed them up for it.
    Ex: The critics, however, roasted her for playing a tragic French heroine with a flat Midwestern accent.
    Ex: What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.
    * criticar a = fulminate about, level + criticism at.
    * criticar a Alguien a sus espaldas = cut + Nombre + up + behind + Posesivo + back.
    * criticar duramente = tear + Nombre + to shreds, slate, flail away at.
    * criticar las ideas de Alguien = trample on + Posesivo + ideas.
    * ser criticado = come under + fire.

    * * *
    criticar [A2 ]
    vt
    1 (atacar) to criticize
    una postura que fue muy criticada por los ecologistas a position which came in for fierce criticism from o which was fiercely criticized by ecologists
    criticó duramente a los especuladores he strongly attacked o criticized the speculators
    un proyecto muy criticado a plan which has been heavily criticized o which has come in for a lot of criticism
    2 (hablar mal de) to criticize
    tú no hace falta que la critiques porque eres igual de egoísta que ella you're in no position to criticize o ( colloq) you can't talk, you're just as selfish as she is
    3 ( Art, Espec, Lit) ‹libro/película› to review
    ■ criticar
    vi
    to gossip, backbite
    * * *

     

    criticar ( conjugate criticar) verbo transitivo

    b) (Art, Espec, Lit) ‹libro/película› to review

    verbo intransitivo
    to gossip, backbite
    criticar
    I verbo transitivo to criticize
    II verbo intransitivo (murmurar) to gossip
    ' criticar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    censurar
    - dedicarse
    - desollar
    - despellejar
    - tralla
    - vapulear
    - arremeter
    - murmurar
    - rajar
    - sino
    English:
    attack
    - carp
    - critical
    - criticize
    - fault
    - knock
    - pan
    - pick on
    - run down
    - slam
    - slate
    - get
    - run
    * * *
    1. [censurar] to criticize
    2. [enjuiciar] [literatura, arte] to review
    * * *
    v/t criticize
    * * *
    criticar {72} vt
    : to criticize
    * * *
    1. (en general) to criticize
    2. (cotillear) to gossip

    Spanish-English dictionary > criticar

  • 43 cuidarse de

    v.
    to beware of, to beware about, to look out for.
    María se guarda de los ladrones Mary watches out for thieves.
    * * *
    (preocuparse) to worry about, mind
    * * *
    = beware (of/that)
    Ex. He should beware that the 'gee whiz' or 'Isn't science wonderful' syndrome is not uncommon among the recently converted = Debería tener cuidado de que el síndrome "recórcholis" o "la ciencia es maravillosa" es frecuente entre los nuevos conversos.
    * * *
    = beware (of/that)

    Ex: He should beware that the 'gee whiz' or 'Isn't science wonderful' syndrome is not uncommon among the recently converted = Debería tener cuidado de que el síndrome "recórcholis" o "la ciencia es maravillosa" es frecuente entre los nuevos conversos.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cuidarse de

  • 44 dar con una idea

    (v.) = hit on/upon + idea
    Ex. And so the editors hit upon a wonderful idea -- they would take those articles that were too long to be included in the printed version of the journal and publish them on the web.
    * * *
    (v.) = hit on/upon + idea

    Ex: And so the editors hit upon a wonderful idea -- they would take those articles that were too long to be included in the printed version of the journal and publish them on the web.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dar con una idea

  • 45 dar vida a Algo

    (v.) = bring + Nombre + to life
    Ex. A prerequisite to bring all these wonderful concepts such as knowledge servers, multimedia collections and the virtual library to life, is or wil be the use of digital formats in the library.
    * * *
    (v.) = bring + Nombre + to life

    Ex: A prerequisite to bring all these wonderful concepts such as knowledge servers, multimedia collections and the virtual library to life, is or wil be the use of digital formats in the library.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dar vida a Algo

  • 46 desbordante

    adj.
    1 boundless (sentimiento, entusiasmo).
    2 plentiful, bursting, profuse.
    * * *
    1 overflowing, bursting
    2 (sin límite) unrestrained, unbounded
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=que rebosa)
    2) (=abundante) [alegría, entusiasmo, actividad] overwhelming; [humor, imaginación] unbounded, boundless
    3)

    desbordante de — [+ salud, entusiasmo, energía] brimming (over) with

    * * *
    adjetivo <entusiasmo/júbilo> boundless
    * * *
    Ex. With her overflowing sensibility and sense of humor, poetess Carilda Oliver Labra affirmed that it is a unique opportunity 'that this wonderful fair of culture and love is dedicated to me'.
    ----
    * estar desbordante de = spill over with.
    * imaginación desbordante = wild imagination.
    * * *
    adjetivo <entusiasmo/júbilo> boundless
    * * *

    Ex: With her overflowing sensibility and sense of humor, poetess Carilda Oliver Labra affirmed that it is a unique opportunity 'that this wonderful fair of culture and love is dedicated to me'.

    * estar desbordante de = spill over with.
    * imaginación desbordante = wild imagination.

    * * *
    ‹entusiasmo/júbilo› boundless, unbounded ( liter)
    está desbordante de entusiasmo he's bursting with enthusiasm
    estaba desbordante de júbilo she was bursting with o overflowing with o brimming over with happiness
    * * *

    desbordante adjetivo ‹entusiasmo/júbilo› boundless;


    ' desbordante' also found in these entries:
    English:
    abundant
    * * *
    [sentimiento, pasión] boundless, unrestrained; [entusiasmo, amor, alegría] boundless;
    tiene una imaginación desbordante he has a rich imagination
    * * *
    adj energía, entusiasmo etc boundless;
    desbordante de bursting with, overflowing with
    * * *
    : overflowing, bursting
    desbordante de energía: bursting with energy

    Spanish-English dictionary > desbordante

  • 47 destrozo

    m.
    1 damage.
    alguien tendrá que pagar los destrozos someone will have to pay for the damage
    2 destruction, desolation, rout, ravage.
    3 breakage, damage, wreckage.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: destrozar.
    * * *
    1 (acción) destruction
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=acción) destruction
    2) pl destrozos (=daños) havoc sing ; (=pedazos) debris sing

    causar o provocar destrozos — to cause o wreak havoc (en in)

    los destrozos causados por las inundaciones — the destruction caused by the flooding, the havoc wrought by the floods

    * * *
    * * *
    = defacement, smashing, ravages, rampage, decimation, rack and ruin, shambles.
    Ex. Finally, a few copies of an edition seem generally to have slipped through with their cancellanda uncancelled, so that examples of the original settings may sometimes be found (occasionally slashed by the warehouse keeper's shears, deliberate defacement which escaped notice).
    Ex. The traditional sacred silence has even been replaced by a wonderful and imaginative smashing of the 'sound barrier' between silent print and the world of activity.
    Ex. Problems faced maybe entirely new ones, such as protecting the library's stock from the ravages of climate or of insects.
    Ex. These nocturnal rampages by gangs of werewolves included chasing women, eating prodigiously, being splattered with mud, and caterwauling generally.
    Ex. Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.
    Ex. The policies that the Mugabe government have taken have lead the country to economic and political rack and ruin.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'From shambles to showplace'.
    ----
    * causar destrozos = wreak + devastation.
    * destrozo intencionado = mutilation.
    * destrozo producido por las condiciones ambientales = environmental damage.
    * * *
    * * *
    = defacement, smashing, ravages, rampage, decimation, rack and ruin, shambles.

    Ex: Finally, a few copies of an edition seem generally to have slipped through with their cancellanda uncancelled, so that examples of the original settings may sometimes be found (occasionally slashed by the warehouse keeper's shears, deliberate defacement which escaped notice).

    Ex: The traditional sacred silence has even been replaced by a wonderful and imaginative smashing of the 'sound barrier' between silent print and the world of activity.
    Ex: Problems faced maybe entirely new ones, such as protecting the library's stock from the ravages of climate or of insects.
    Ex: These nocturnal rampages by gangs of werewolves included chasing women, eating prodigiously, being splattered with mud, and caterwauling generally.
    Ex: Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.
    Ex: The policies that the Mugabe government have taken have lead the country to economic and political rack and ruin.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'From shambles to showplace'.
    * causar destrozos = wreak + devastation.
    * destrozo intencionado = mutilation.
    * destrozo producido por las condiciones ambientales = environmental damage.

    * * *
    las inundaciones han causado grandes destrozos en toda la zona the floods have caused widespread damage throughout the area
    los destrozos causados por el temporal the storm damage, the destruction caused by the storm
    los niños hacen destrozos cuando los dejo solos the children wreck everything o cause havoc if I leave them on their own
    * * *

    Del verbo destrozar: ( conjugate destrozar)

    destrozo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    destrozó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    destrozar    
    destrozo
    destrozar ( conjugate destrozar) verbo transitivo
    a) (romper, deteriorar) ‹ zapatos› to ruin;

    ‹cristal/jarrón› to smash;
    ‹ juguete› to pull … apart;
    ‹ coche› to wreck;
    ‹ libro› to pull apart
    b) ‹felicidad/matrimonio/vida› to wreck, destroy;

    ‹ corazón› to break;

    destrozarse verbo pronominal

    [jarrón/cristal] to smash
    b) ‹estómago/hígado› to ruin

    destrozo sustantivo masculino: tb

    destrozar verbo transitivo
    1 (romper) to tear up, wreck, ruin
    2 (una tela, un papel) to tear to shreds, rip up
    3 (apenar, desgarrar) to shatter, devastate: me destroza verte así, it breaks my heart to see you this way
    4 (los planes, la convivencia, etc) to ruin
    destrozo sustantivo masculino
    1 destruction 2 destrozos, damage sing

    ' destrozo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    carnicería
    - estragos
    - daño
    * * *
    damage;
    alguien tendrá que pagar los destrozos someone will have to pay for the damage;
    causar u [m5] ocasionar o [m5] provocar grandes destrozos to cause a lot of damage;
    el perro y el gato hicieron un destrozo en el jardín the dog and the cat caused havoc in the garden;
    ¡vaya destrozo que te has hecho en la rodilla! you've made a real mess of your knee!
    * * *
    1) daño: damage
    2) : havoc, destruction

    Spanish-English dictionary > destrozo

  • 48 diminuto

    adj.
    tiny, diminutive, little, minute.
    * * *
    1 tiny, minute
    * * *
    (f. - diminuta)
    adj.
    minute, tiny
    * * *
    ADJ tiny, diminutive
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo tiny, minute
    * * *
    = minute, microscopic, tiny [tinier -comp., tiniest -sup.], poky [pokier -comp., pokiest -sup.], dinky [dinkier -comp., dinkiest -sup.], diminute.
    Ex. A microscope slide is a slide designed for holding a minute object to be viewed through a microscope or by a microprojector.
    Ex. The 120 mm diameter disc contains more than 20,000 tracks within which sound is represented in the same physical form (by microscopic pits and plateaus) as in an optical video disc.
    Ex. With an estimated 300,000 'titles' in print it is clear that no bookshop can hope to stock more than a tiny fraction of those titles.
    Ex. A few were great establishments with ten or more presses, run by masters of discrimination and learning, but many were poky little shops with one, two, or three presses (and eight or ten workmen in all) with masters lacking all but the most rudimentary skills.
    Ex. Pluto, scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.
    Ex. Nature is even more wonderful in its diminute products: the smallest and most negligible insects are those that better reveal Nature's art.
    ----
    * parque diminuto = vest-pocket park.
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo tiny, minute
    * * *
    = minute, microscopic, tiny [tinier -comp., tiniest -sup.], poky [pokier -comp., pokiest -sup.], dinky [dinkier -comp., dinkiest -sup.], diminute.

    Ex: A microscope slide is a slide designed for holding a minute object to be viewed through a microscope or by a microprojector.

    Ex: The 120 mm diameter disc contains more than 20,000 tracks within which sound is represented in the same physical form (by microscopic pits and plateaus) as in an optical video disc.
    Ex: With an estimated 300,000 'titles' in print it is clear that no bookshop can hope to stock more than a tiny fraction of those titles.
    Ex: A few were great establishments with ten or more presses, run by masters of discrimination and learning, but many were poky little shops with one, two, or three presses (and eight or ten workmen in all) with masters lacking all but the most rudimentary skills.
    Ex: Pluto, scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.
    Ex: Nature is even more wonderful in its diminute products: the smallest and most negligible insects are those that better reveal Nature's art.
    * parque diminuto = vest-pocket park.

    * * *
    tiny, minute, diminutive ( frml)
    * * *

    diminuto
    ◊ -ta adjetivo

    tiny, minute
    diminuto,-a adjetivo minute, tiny

    ' diminuto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    diminuta
    - minúsculo
    English:
    diminutive
    - dwarf
    - itsy-bitsy
    - itty-bitty
    - miniature
    - minute
    - tiny
    - poky
    * * *
    diminuto, -a adj
    tiny, minute
    * * *
    adj tiny, diminutive
    * * *
    diminuto, -ta adj
    : minute, tiny
    * * *
    diminuto adj tiny [comp. tinier; superl. tiniest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > diminuto

  • 49 en antaño

    = in olden times, in olden days
    Ex. We have made wonderful inventions but in the courts we still move as slowly as the travelers that in olden times creeped along in ox carts and canal boats.
    Ex. In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.
    * * *
    = in olden times, in olden days

    Ex: We have made wonderful inventions but in the courts we still move as slowly as the travelers that in olden times creeped along in ox carts and canal boats.

    Ex: In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en antaño

  • 50 en tiempos de Maricastaña

    = in olden days, in olden times
    Ex. In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.
    Ex. We have made wonderful inventions but in the courts we still move as slowly as the travelers that in olden times creeped along in ox carts and canal boats.
    * * *
    = in olden days, in olden times

    Ex: In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.

    Ex: We have made wonderful inventions but in the courts we still move as slowly as the travelers that in olden times creeped along in ox carts and canal boats.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en tiempos de Maricastaña

  • 51 en un tiempo relativamente corto

    = in a relatively short time, in a relatively short span of time
    Ex. 'We've come a long way in a relatively short time and achieved some wonderful results,' said Perry.
    Ex. Hurricanes affect large coastal areas and inland in a relatively short span of time.
    * * *
    = in a relatively short time, in a relatively short span of time

    Ex: 'We've come a long way in a relatively short time and achieved some wonderful results,' said Perry.

    Ex: Hurricanes affect large coastal areas and inland in a relatively short span of time.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en un tiempo relativamente corto

  • 52 entusiasmo

    m.
    enthusiasm.
    despertar entusiasmo (en alguien) to arouse (somebody's) enthusiasm
    aplaudieron con entusiasmo they applauded enthusiastically
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: entusiasmar.
    * * *
    1 enthusiasm
    \
    con entusiasmo keenly, enthusiastically
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *

    con entusiasmo — (=con apasionamiento) enthusiastically; (=con interés) keenly

    * * *
    masculino enthusiasm
    * * *
    = enthusiasm, zeal, zealousness, keenness, zest, elan, eagerness.
    Ex. Enthusiasm in a searcher, of course, all are agreed on: 'he must delight in the chase for its own sake'.
    Ex. One is to believe, for instance, that the public library movement began in a passion of liberal and humanitarian zeal, and yet public libraries were generally cold, rigidly inflexible, and elitist institutions from the beginning.
    Ex. Unless there is reason to believe that the author himself ordered these changes; they have no authority since they are merely the result of the carelessness, or zealousness, of the compositor.
    Ex. The conviction that books are important and a keenness to share them with others are fundamental qualities in any librarian = La convicción de que los libros son importantes y el entusiasmo por compartirlos con otros son cualidades fundamentales en cualquier bibliotecario.
    Ex. In the humanistic perspective, the concern is with potential, unique capabilities, and dignity -- with a dash of joy to add zest.
    Ex. It is a perky love story filmed with wonderful elan in black and white.
    Ex. The sense of alienation that had evolved over 50 years has gradually given way to a spirit of teamwork and eagerness to learn.
    ----
    * acabarse el entusiasmo = run out of + steam.
    * acoger con entusiasmo = greet + warmly.
    * apagar el entusiasmo = dampen + Posesivo + ardor.
    * asintiendo con entusiasmo = in eager assent.
    * cobrar nuevo entusiasmo = develop + renewed enthusiasm.
    * con entusiasmo = eagerly, enthusiastically, rhapsodically, wholeheartedly [whole-heartedly].
    * con entusiasmo en los ojos = bright-eyed.
    * con poco entusiasmo = half-heartedly.
    * despertar el entusiasmo = work up + an enthusiasm.
    * despertar el entusiasmo = capture + the imagination.
    * despertar entusiasmo = arouse + enthusiasm.
    * enfriar el entusiasmo = dampen + Posesivo + excitement, dampen + Posesivo + enthusiasm.
    * hablar con entusiasmo = gush about.
    * hacer perder el entusiasmo = dampen + Posesivo + enthusiasm.
    * lleno de entusiasmo = enthusiastic.
    * perder el entusiasmo = lose + heart.
    * perder entusiasmo = lose + enthusiasm.
    * rebosante de energía y lleno de entusiasmo = all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
    * recobrar entusiasmo = develop + renewed enthusiasm.
    * sentir entusiasmo por = be enamoured of/with.
    * sin entusiasmo = half-hearted [halfhearted].
    * * *
    masculino enthusiasm
    * * *
    = enthusiasm, zeal, zealousness, keenness, zest, elan, eagerness.

    Ex: Enthusiasm in a searcher, of course, all are agreed on: 'he must delight in the chase for its own sake'.

    Ex: One is to believe, for instance, that the public library movement began in a passion of liberal and humanitarian zeal, and yet public libraries were generally cold, rigidly inflexible, and elitist institutions from the beginning.
    Ex: Unless there is reason to believe that the author himself ordered these changes; they have no authority since they are merely the result of the carelessness, or zealousness, of the compositor.
    Ex: The conviction that books are important and a keenness to share them with others are fundamental qualities in any librarian = La convicción de que los libros son importantes y el entusiasmo por compartirlos con otros son cualidades fundamentales en cualquier bibliotecario.
    Ex: In the humanistic perspective, the concern is with potential, unique capabilities, and dignity -- with a dash of joy to add zest.
    Ex: It is a perky love story filmed with wonderful elan in black and white.
    Ex: The sense of alienation that had evolved over 50 years has gradually given way to a spirit of teamwork and eagerness to learn.
    * acabarse el entusiasmo = run out of + steam.
    * acoger con entusiasmo = greet + warmly.
    * apagar el entusiasmo = dampen + Posesivo + ardor.
    * asintiendo con entusiasmo = in eager assent.
    * cobrar nuevo entusiasmo = develop + renewed enthusiasm.
    * con entusiasmo = eagerly, enthusiastically, rhapsodically, wholeheartedly [whole-heartedly].
    * con entusiasmo en los ojos = bright-eyed.
    * con poco entusiasmo = half-heartedly.
    * despertar el entusiasmo = work up + an enthusiasm.
    * despertar el entusiasmo = capture + the imagination.
    * despertar entusiasmo = arouse + enthusiasm.
    * enfriar el entusiasmo = dampen + Posesivo + excitement, dampen + Posesivo + enthusiasm.
    * hablar con entusiasmo = gush about.
    * hacer perder el entusiasmo = dampen + Posesivo + enthusiasm.
    * lleno de entusiasmo = enthusiastic.
    * perder el entusiasmo = lose + heart.
    * perder entusiasmo = lose + enthusiasm.
    * rebosante de energía y lleno de entusiasmo = all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
    * recobrar entusiasmo = develop + renewed enthusiasm.
    * sentir entusiasmo por = be enamoured of/with.
    * sin entusiasmo = half-hearted [halfhearted].

    * * *
    enthusiasm
    mostró or manifestó gran entusiasmo por la propuesta she showed great enthusiasm for the proposal, she was very enthusiastic about the proposal
    ha despertado gran entusiasmo it has aroused great enthusiasm
    trabaja con gran entusiasmo he works enthusiastically
    * * *

    Del verbo entusiasmar: ( conjugate entusiasmar)

    entusiasmo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    entusiasmó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    entusiasmar    
    entusiasmo
    entusiasmar ( conjugate entusiasmar) verbo transitivo ( apasionar):

    no me entusiasma mucho la idea I'm not very enthusiastic about the idea
    entusiasmarse verbo pronominal entusiasmose con algo to get excited o enthusiastic about sth
    entusiasmo sustantivo masculino
    enthusiasm
    entusiasmar verbo transitivo
    1 (animar) to fill with enthusiasm
    2 (gustar mucho) to delight: le entusiasman las películas del oeste, she loves westerns
    entusiasmo sustantivo masculino enthusiasm
    ♦ Locuciones: con entusiasmo, enthusiastically

    ' entusiasmo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    borrachera
    - delirio
    - enfriamiento
    - enfriarse
    - compensar
    - comunicar
    - desbordante
    - desgana
    - enfriar
    - excitación
    - extinguir
    - furor
    - languidecer
    - loco
    - rebosar
    English:
    catching
    - clap
    - dampen
    - enthusiasm
    - enthusiastic
    - enthusiastically
    - fire
    - gush
    - gusto
    - half-heartedly
    - half-heartedness
    - jaded
    - jump at
    - keeness
    - lap up
    - misplaced
    - rapturously
    - unenthusiastically
    - wholehearted
    - wholeheartedly
    - wild
    - zeal
    - zest
    - zestfully
    - bubble
    - eagerly
    - excited
    - excitement
    - over-
    * * *
    enthusiasm;
    aplaudieron con entusiasmo they clapped enthusiastically;
    despertar entusiasmo (en alguien) to arouse (sb's) enthusiasm;
    la noticia despertó un enorme entusiasmo the news aroused great excitement;
    pone mucho entusiasmo en todo lo que hace she puts a lot of enthusiasm into everything she does
    * * *
    m enthusiasm
    * * *
    : enthusiasm
    * * *
    entusiasmo n enthusiasm

    Spanish-English dictionary > entusiasmo

  • 53 estar al día

    figurado to be up to date
    * * *
    (v.) = monitor + developments, stay on top of + the game, stay on top of, stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things
    Ex. Users of federal statistics have to rely on a wide variety of sources to monitor developments = Los usuarios de las estadísticas federales tienen que utilizar una amplia variedad de fuentes para estar al día.
    Ex. Making progress and staying on top of the game in anything you set out to do is vital to ensuring a favorable outcome.
    Ex. Adapting to change -- and staying on top of the changes -- is a huge key to success in industry.
    Ex. Climate change has moved up the agenda massively in recent years and the meat industry needs to stay on top of things to avoid being caught out.
    Ex. It's a winning situation, as long as you keep on top of things.
    Ex. Email is a wonderful invention for people who want to be on top of things.
    * * *
    (v.) = monitor + developments, stay on top of + the game, stay on top of, stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things

    Ex: Users of federal statistics have to rely on a wide variety of sources to monitor developments = Los usuarios de las estadísticas federales tienen que utilizar una amplia variedad de fuentes para estar al día.

    Ex: Making progress and staying on top of the game in anything you set out to do is vital to ensuring a favorable outcome.
    Ex: Adapting to change -- and staying on top of the changes -- is a huge key to success in industry.
    Ex: Climate change has moved up the agenda massively in recent years and the meat industry needs to stay on top of things to avoid being caught out.
    Ex: It's a winning situation, as long as you keep on top of things.
    Ex: Email is a wonderful invention for people who want to be on top of things.

    Spanish-English dictionary > estar al día

  • 54 estar al tanto de las cosas

    (v.) = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things
    Ex. Climate change has moved up the agenda massively in recent years and the meat industry needs to stay on top of things to avoid being caught out.
    Ex. It's a winning situation, as long as you keep on top of things.
    Ex. Email is a wonderful invention for people who want to be on top of things.
    * * *
    (v.) = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things

    Ex: Climate change has moved up the agenda massively in recent years and the meat industry needs to stay on top of things to avoid being caught out.

    Ex: It's a winning situation, as long as you keep on top of things.
    Ex: Email is a wonderful invention for people who want to be on top of things.

    Spanish-English dictionary > estar al tanto de las cosas

  • 55 estar pendiente de todo

    (v.) = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things
    Ex. Climate change has moved up the agenda massively in recent years and the meat industry needs to stay on top of things to avoid being caught out.
    Ex. It's a winning situation, as long as you keep on top of things.
    Ex. Email is a wonderful invention for people who want to be on top of things.
    * * *
    (v.) = stay on + top of things, keep on + top of things, be on top of things

    Ex: Climate change has moved up the agenda massively in recent years and the meat industry needs to stay on top of things to avoid being caught out.

    Ex: It's a winning situation, as long as you keep on top of things.
    Ex: Email is a wonderful invention for people who want to be on top of things.

    Spanish-English dictionary > estar pendiente de todo

  • 56 fervor

    m.
    fervor.
    con fervor fervently
    * * *
    1 fervour (US fervor)
    * * *
    SM
    1) [religioso, nacionalista, popular] fervour, fervor (EEUU)
    2) (=dedicación) fervour, fervor (EEUU), enthusiasm
    * * *
    masculino fervor*
    * * *
    = fervour [fervor, -USA], zeal, elan, ardour [ardor, -USA].
    Ex. Librarians and bibliographers are as deeply fired with the idealistic fervour which is alleged to have imbued the medieval knights.
    Ex. One is to believe, for instance, that the public library movement began in a passion of liberal and humanitarian zeal, and yet public libraries were generally cold, rigidly inflexible, and elitist institutions from the beginning.
    Ex. It is a perky love story filmed with wonderful elan in black and white.
    Ex. 'Hello, Tom!' said the director, greeting him enthusiastically, as he rounded his desk to shake hands, which he did with unrestrained ardor.
    * * *
    masculino fervor*
    * * *
    = fervour [fervor, -USA], zeal, elan, ardour [ardor, -USA].

    Ex: Librarians and bibliographers are as deeply fired with the idealistic fervour which is alleged to have imbued the medieval knights.

    Ex: One is to believe, for instance, that the public library movement began in a passion of liberal and humanitarian zeal, and yet public libraries were generally cold, rigidly inflexible, and elitist institutions from the beginning.
    Ex: It is a perky love story filmed with wonderful elan in black and white.
    Ex: 'Hello, Tom!' said the director, greeting him enthusiastically, as he rounded his desk to shake hands, which he did with unrestrained ardor.

    * * *
    fervor*
    lo aclamaron con fervor they applauded him fervently o enthusiastically
    * * *

    fervor sustantivo masculino
    fervor( conjugate fervor);

    fervor sustantivo masculino fervour, US fervor

    ' fervor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ardor
    - piedad
    - celo
    English:
    fervor
    - fervour
    - ardor
    - zeal
    * * *
    fervor nm
    1. [religioso] fervour;
    rezaba a la virgen con fervor she prayed fervently to the Virgin
    2. [entusiasmo] eagerness, keenness;
    trabajaba con fervor he worked away keenly o eagerly
    * * *
    m fervor, Br
    fervour
    * * *
    fervor nm
    : fervor, zeal

    Spanish-English dictionary > fervor

  • 57 formato digital

    (n.) = digital format, digital form
    Ex. A prerequisite to bring all these wonderful concepts such as knowledge servers, multimedia collections and the virtual library to life, is or wil be the use of digital formats in the library.
    Ex. There is, however, an increasing range of other devices to convert data to digital form: optical and magnetic document (character) readers, laser scanners, graphic tablets and digitizers, voice input devices, analogue-to-digital converters, telecommunication modems, etc.
    * * *
    (n.) = digital format, digital form

    Ex: A prerequisite to bring all these wonderful concepts such as knowledge servers, multimedia collections and the virtual library to life, is or wil be the use of digital formats in the library.

    Ex: There is, however, an increasing range of other devices to convert data to digital form: optical and magnetic document (character) readers, laser scanners, graphic tablets and digitizers, voice input devices, analogue-to-digital converters, telecommunication modems, etc.

    Spanish-English dictionary > formato digital

  • 58 gracias

    intj.
    thank you, thanks.
    f.pl.
    1 thanks.
    2 antics.
    * * *
    1 thank you, thanks
    * * *
    thanks, thank you
    * * *
    = thanks, thankyou, thanx.
    Nota: Forma coloquial de decir thanks en la que el sonido "ks" se sustituye por su representción equivalente "x" en otras palabras.
    Ex. Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.
    Ex. I would therefore like to give a blanket thankyou to everyone who has talked or written to me in my research and they must now number thousands rather than hundreds.
    Ex. I would like to give a huge THANX to all of the wonderful people who contributed to our site, and helped make it an incredible, international, award-winning success.
    ----
    * dar gracias por lo que Uno tiene = count + Posesivo + blessings.
    * gracias a = thanks to, courtesy of.
    * gracias a Dios = thank goodness.
    * gracias a la TI = IT-enabled.
    * gracias al cual = whereby.
    * gracias de antemano = TIA [Thanks in advance], thanks in advance.
    * gracias por = thanks for.
    * Muchas gracias = Thank you very much.
    * muchísimas gracias = thanks a bunch!.
    * * *
    = thanks, thankyou, thanx.
    Nota: Forma coloquial de decir thanks en la que el sonido "ks" se sustituye por su representción equivalente "x" en otras palabras.

    Ex: Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.

    Ex: I would therefore like to give a blanket thankyou to everyone who has talked or written to me in my research and they must now number thousands rather than hundreds.
    Ex: I would like to give a huge THANX to all of the wonderful people who contributed to our site, and helped make it an incredible, international, award-winning success.
    * dar gracias por lo que Uno tiene = count + Posesivo + blessings.
    * gracias a = thanks to, courtesy of.
    * gracias a Dios = thank goodness.
    * gracias a la TI = IT-enabled.
    * gracias al cual = whereby.
    * gracias de antemano = TIA [Thanks in advance], thanks in advance.
    * gracias por = thanks for.
    * Muchas gracias = Thank you very much.
    * muchísimas gracias = thanks a bunch!.

    * * *

    gracias excl (agradecimiento) thanks
    ♦ Locuciones: dar gracias a alguien, to thank
    gracias a, thanks to: a Dios gracias estamos vivos, thank goodness we are alive
    muchas gracias, thank you very much
    ' gracias' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acción
    - agradecer
    - bien
    - dar
    - despeje
    - estraperlo
    - garbosa
    - garboso
    - gracia
    - graciosa
    - gracioso
    - igualmente
    - nada
    - no
    - proporcionar
    - reír
    - satisfecha
    - satisfecho
    - dios
    - estar
    - haber
    - más
    - millón
    - usted
    English:
    all
    - all right
    - behalf
    - blessing
    - cheer
    - cranberry
    - god
    - goodness
    - heaven
    - indeed
    - live off
    - lot
    - mention
    - much
    - not
    - please
    - pleasure
    - profusely
    - pull
    - star
    - stick up for
    - ta
    - thank
    - thanks
    - thanksgiving
    - ungrateful
    - welcome
    - cut
    - due
    - ever
    - gee
    - grace
    - manage
    - OK
    - self
    - so
    - thankfully
    - Thanksgiving (Day)
    - treasure
    - very
    - well
    * * *
    gracias interj thank you / thanks
    muchas gracias thanks very much / thanks a lot

    Spanish-English dictionary > gracias

  • 59 guardarse de

    v.
    1 to watch out for, to beware of, to beware, to guard against.
    María se guarda de los ladrones Mary watches out for thieves.
    2 to be careful not to, to be very careful not to, to beware not to, to take care not to.
    María se guarda de decir mentiras Mary takes care not to tell lies.
    3 to refrain from, to abstain from.
    María se guardó de contestarle Mary refrained from answering him.
    4 to be protected from.
    Se me guarda del mal I am protected from evil.
    5 to be made to refrain from.
    Se nos guarda de decir la verdad We are made to refrain from telling the..
    * * *
    * * *
    (v.) = beware (of/that), be shy of + Gerundio
    Ex. He should beware that the 'gee whiz' or 'Isn't science wonderful' syndrome is not uncommon among the recently converted = Debería tener cuidado de que el síndrome "recórcholis" o "la ciencia es maravillosa" es frecuente entre los nuevos conversos.
    Ex. Printers or publishers were sometimes shy of giving their real names -- usually because a book was treasonable, or libellous, or a piracy -- and for similar reasons they might give a false place of publication and a false date.
    * * *
    (v.) = beware (of/that), be shy of + Gerundio

    Ex: He should beware that the 'gee whiz' or 'Isn't science wonderful' syndrome is not uncommon among the recently converted = Debería tener cuidado de que el síndrome "recórcholis" o "la ciencia es maravillosa" es frecuente entre los nuevos conversos.

    Ex: Printers or publishers were sometimes shy of giving their real names -- usually because a book was treasonable, or libellous, or a piracy -- and for similar reasons they might give a false place of publication and a false date.

    Spanish-English dictionary > guardarse de

  • 60 hacer eco

    v.
    to echo.
    * * *
    (v.) = echo, resonate
    Ex. Soon the hills began to echo with the thud of the woodsman's axe and a sawmill was erected.
    Ex. By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.
    * * *
    (v.) = echo, resonate

    Ex: Soon the hills began to echo with the thud of the woodsman's axe and a sawmill was erected.

    Ex: By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacer eco

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