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  • 1 grabado en madera

    • wood engraving
    • woodcut

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > grabado en madera

  • 2 xilografía

    • wood engraving
    • xylary ray
    • xylographer
    • xylophagous

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > xilografía

  • 3 xilografía

    f.
    wood engraving, xylograph, xylography.
    * * *
    1 (arte) xylography
    2 (impresión) xylograph
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=arte) xylography
    2) (=impresión) xylograph, wood engraving
    * * *
    femenino ( arte) xylography; ( impresión) xylograph
    * * *
    = woodcut, wood engraving.
    Ex. A chapbook is a small book, without covers, containing about eight or twelve pages of popular matter or songs, with usually a woodcut on the title page.
    Ex. Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called ' wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    * * *
    femenino ( arte) xylography; ( impresión) xylograph
    * * *
    = woodcut, wood engraving.

    Ex: A chapbook is a small book, without covers, containing about eight or twelve pages of popular matter or songs, with usually a woodcut on the title page.

    Ex: Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called ' wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.

    * * *
    1 (arte) xylography, printing from woodcuts
    2 (impresión) xylograph, print from a woodcut
    * * *

    xilografía sustantivo femenino
    1 xylography
    2 xylograph
    * * *
    1. [técnica] [en el sentido de la fibra] woodcut (printing);
    [a contrafibra] wood engraving
    2. [impresión] [en el sentido de la fibra] woodcut;
    [a contrafibra] wood engraving

    Spanish-English dictionary > xilografía

  • 4 desde entonces

    adv.
    ever since, from that time on, ever after, from that time.
    * * *
    since then
    * * *
    * * *
    = ever since, henceforth, in the interim, since, since that time, since then, henceforward, ever since then, ever since then, thenceforth, in the intervening years, ever after, in the intervening period, since that day
    Ex. By the 1820s good white paper was regularly produced with the aid of chlorine bleaches, and the process has been used in the manufacture of virtually all white paper ever since.
    Ex. Henceforth the inventory function was no longer to be a part of the functions of the library's catalog.
    Ex. In the interim there has been considerable activity in developing guidelines for catalogue headings and in compiling authority lists.
    Ex. It has since been echoed repeatedly in the discussion of cataloging despite the persuasive and decisive refutation of it by Panizzi before the Royal Commission.
    Ex. This practice has been adopted by a number of national cataloguing codes promulgated since that time.
    Ex. Since then library planning has developed along lines best suited to British practise and needs.
    Ex. Originally the advent of on-line interactive searches was hailed by some as a boon to users who could henceforward conduct their own searches.
    Ex. Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead.
    Ex. Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead.
    Ex. From 1751 to 1766 he copied out the details of all the various processes in two books, which were thenceforth kept in the factory's archives.
    Ex. In the intervening years reference collections and reference services have changed greatly with the introduction of electronic media.
    Ex. The author focuses on debunking the Cinderella Myth -- that relates the tale of Cinderella who is abused and exploited until she finds Prince Charming and lives happily ever after.
    Ex. The present survey involved contacting the same libraries and institutions in order to see what changes had taken place in the intervening period.
    Ex. A lot has been written about the plunge in consumer confidence since that day.
    * * *
    = ever since, henceforth, in the interim, since, since that time, since then, henceforward, ever since then, ever since then, thenceforth, in the intervening years, ever after, in the intervening period, since that day

    Ex: By the 1820s good white paper was regularly produced with the aid of chlorine bleaches, and the process has been used in the manufacture of virtually all white paper ever since.

    Ex: Henceforth the inventory function was no longer to be a part of the functions of the library's catalog.
    Ex: In the interim there has been considerable activity in developing guidelines for catalogue headings and in compiling authority lists.
    Ex: It has since been echoed repeatedly in the discussion of cataloging despite the persuasive and decisive refutation of it by Panizzi before the Royal Commission.
    Ex: This practice has been adopted by a number of national cataloguing codes promulgated since that time.
    Ex: Since then library planning has developed along lines best suited to British practise and needs.
    Ex: Originally the advent of on-line interactive searches was hailed by some as a boon to users who could henceforward conduct their own searches.
    Ex: Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead.
    Ex: Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead.
    Ex: From 1751 to 1766 he copied out the details of all the various processes in two books, which were thenceforth kept in the factory's archives.
    Ex: In the intervening years reference collections and reference services have changed greatly with the introduction of electronic media.
    Ex: The author focuses on debunking the Cinderella Myth -- that relates the tale of Cinderella who is abused and exploited until she finds Prince Charming and lives happily ever after.
    Ex: The present survey involved contacting the same libraries and institutions in order to see what changes had taken place in the intervening period.
    Ex: A lot has been written about the plunge in consumer confidence since that day.

    Spanish-English dictionary > desde entonces

  • 5 grabado en madera

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    (n.) = woodcut, wood engraving
    Ex. A chapbook is a small book, without covers, containing about eight or twelve pages of popular matter or songs, with usually a woodcut on the title page.
    Ex. Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called ' wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    * * *
    * * *
    (n.) = woodcut, wood engraving

    Ex: A chapbook is a small book, without covers, containing about eight or twelve pages of popular matter or songs, with usually a woodcut on the title page.

    Ex: Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called ' wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.

    Spanish-English dictionary > grabado en madera

  • 6 madera

    f.
    1 wood.
    madera de pino pinewood
    de madera wooden
    madera noble fine wood
    2 piece of wood (tabla).
    * * *
    1 (en el árbol) wood; (cortada) timber, US lumber
    ■ es de madera it's made of wood, it's wooden
    \
    tener madera de... to have the makings of a...
    tocar madera to touch wood
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) wood
    * * *
    * * *
    1) ( material) wood; (para construcción, carpintería) lumber (esp AmE), timber (BrE)

    es de madera — it's made of wood, it's wooden

    tener madera: tiene madera de político he has the makings of a politician, he's politician material; tocar madera — to knock (on) wood (AmE), touch wood (BrE)

    2) maderas femenino plural (Mús) woodwind (+ sing o pl vb)
    3) ( en golf) wood
    * * *
    = lumber, timber, wood.
    Ex. While this city does have some light industry of its own - mostly metal, lumber, and paper products - its unhurried atmosphere and quiet shady streets camouflage all signs of mercantile activity.
    Ex. To match the small amount of existing furniture which was reused, internal joinery and furniture is in a light coloured timber.
    Ex. This hierarchy shows a general subject area, buildings, and its subordinate subject areas: building materials, auxiliary construction practices, construction in specific materials, wood construction, roofing and so on.
    ----
    * alcohol de madera = wood alcohol.
    * almacén de maderas = lumberyard, timber yard.
    * artesanía en madera = woodcraft.
    * barniz para la madera = wood varnish.
    * barniz para tratamiento de la madera = wood preservative.
    * barra redonda de madera = dowelling.
    * bloque de madera grabada = block.
    * cabaña de madera = log cabin, wood cabin.
    * cabaña de troncos de madera = log cabin, wood cabin.
    * casa de madera = log house, wood house.
    * casa de troncos de madera = log house.
    * con estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * conservante de la madera = wood preservative.
    * cubierto con paneles de madera de roble = oak panelled.
    * cuña de madera = wooden quoin.
    * de estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * de madera = wooden.
    * grabado en madera = woodcut, wood engraving.
    * guarnición de madera = wooden furniture.
    * impresión en plancha de madera = woodblock printing.
    * industria de la madera = timber industry.
    * letra de madera = wood letter.
    * madera a la deriva = driftwood.
    * madera contrachapada = plywood.
    * madera cortada a contrafibra = end-grain wood.
    * madera de abedul = birch wood.
    * madera de árbol frutal = fruit wood.
    * madera de teca = teak.
    * madera dura = hardwood.
    * madera encontrada en la playa = driftwood.
    * madera petrificada = petrified wood.
    * madera requemeda = charred wood.
    * mazo de madera = mallet.
    * pasta de madera = wood pulp [woodpulp].
    * pasta de madera triturada = groundwood, mechanical wood.
    * pasta de madera triturada químicamente = chemical wood.
    * plancha de madera = wood block [woodblock].
    * productos artesanos en madera = woodcraft.
    * revestimiento con paneles de madera = wainscoting [wainscotting].
    * revestimiento de paredes con paneles de madera = wood panelling.
    * sellador para madera = wood sealer.
    * sin madera = woodfree.
    * suelo de madera = wood flooring.
    * talla de madera = wood carving.
    * tallado en madera = wood carving.
    * tallista en madera = wood-carver.
    * tener madera de = be cut out for.
    * tornillo para madera = wood screw.
    * vivienda con estructura de madera = frame dwelling.
    * * *
    1) ( material) wood; (para construcción, carpintería) lumber (esp AmE), timber (BrE)

    es de madera — it's made of wood, it's wooden

    tener madera: tiene madera de político he has the makings of a politician, he's politician material; tocar madera — to knock (on) wood (AmE), touch wood (BrE)

    2) maderas femenino plural (Mús) woodwind (+ sing o pl vb)
    3) ( en golf) wood
    * * *
    = lumber, timber, wood.

    Ex: While this city does have some light industry of its own - mostly metal, lumber, and paper products - its unhurried atmosphere and quiet shady streets camouflage all signs of mercantile activity.

    Ex: To match the small amount of existing furniture which was reused, internal joinery and furniture is in a light coloured timber.
    Ex: This hierarchy shows a general subject area, buildings, and its subordinate subject areas: building materials, auxiliary construction practices, construction in specific materials, wood construction, roofing and so on.
    * alcohol de madera = wood alcohol.
    * almacén de maderas = lumberyard, timber yard.
    * artesanía en madera = woodcraft.
    * barniz para la madera = wood varnish.
    * barniz para tratamiento de la madera = wood preservative.
    * barra redonda de madera = dowelling.
    * bloque de madera grabada = block.
    * cabaña de madera = log cabin, wood cabin.
    * cabaña de troncos de madera = log cabin, wood cabin.
    * casa de madera = log house, wood house.
    * casa de troncos de madera = log house.
    * con estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * conservante de la madera = wood preservative.
    * cubierto con paneles de madera de roble = oak panelled.
    * cuña de madera = wooden quoin.
    * de estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * de madera = wooden.
    * grabado en madera = woodcut, wood engraving.
    * guarnición de madera = wooden furniture.
    * impresión en plancha de madera = woodblock printing.
    * industria de la madera = timber industry.
    * letra de madera = wood letter.
    * madera a la deriva = driftwood.
    * madera contrachapada = plywood.
    * madera cortada a contrafibra = end-grain wood.
    * madera de abedul = birch wood.
    * madera de árbol frutal = fruit wood.
    * madera de teca = teak.
    * madera dura = hardwood.
    * madera encontrada en la playa = driftwood.
    * madera petrificada = petrified wood.
    * madera requemeda = charred wood.
    * mazo de madera = mallet.
    * pasta de madera = wood pulp [woodpulp].
    * pasta de madera triturada = groundwood, mechanical wood.
    * pasta de madera triturada químicamente = chemical wood.
    * plancha de madera = wood block [woodblock].
    * productos artesanos en madera = woodcraft.
    * revestimiento con paneles de madera = wainscoting [wainscotting].
    * revestimiento de paredes con paneles de madera = wood panelling.
    * sellador para madera = wood sealer.
    * sin madera = woodfree.
    * suelo de madera = wood flooring.
    * talla de madera = wood carving.
    * tallado en madera = wood carving.
    * tallista en madera = wood-carver.
    * tener madera de = be cut out for.
    * tornillo para madera = wood screw.
    * vivienda con estructura de madera = frame dwelling.

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    Madeira
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    madera sustantivo femenino ( material) wood;
    (para construcción, carpintería) lumber (esp AmE), timber (BrE);
    ◊ madera blanda/dura softwood/hardwood;

    es de madera it's made of wood, it's wooden;
    mesa de madera wooden table;
    madera de pino pine (wood);
    tener madera de algo to have the makings of sth;
    tocar madera to knock (on) wood (AmE), touch wood (BrE)
    madera sustantivo femenino wood
    una puerta de madera, a wooden door
    (para construir) timber, US lumber
    ♦ Locuciones: tienes madera de artista, you have all the makings of an artist
    ¡toquemos madera!, touch wood!

    ' madera' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adelgazar
    - barnizar
    - caoba
    - carpintería
    - de
    - enmohecerse
    - esculpir
    - forjada I
    - forjado
    - grabada
    - grabado
    - haya
    - indicada
    - indicado
    - labrar
    - labrada
    - labrado
    - nogalina
    - nudo
    - nudosa
    - nudoso
    - palo
    - perforación
    - perforado
    - podrida
    - podrido
    - pulir
    - revestimiento
    - roble
    - sándalo
    - somier
    - tablón
    - talla
    - tallar
    - tarugo
    - teca
    - trabajar
    - traspasar
    - veta
    - viga
    - viruta
    - abierto
    - apolillado
    - apolillarse
    - astilla
    - astillarse
    - barda
    - barniz
    - blando
    - cepillar
    English:
    bend
    - board
    - bunk
    - carve
    - chip
    - chisel
    - crate
    - cut
    - drill
    - eat into
    - grain
    - hobbyhorse
    - knotty
    - laminated
    - length
    - lumber
    - nail
    - of
    - out of
    - ply
    - polish
    - polished
    - post
    - potential
    - pulp
    - score
    - scrape
    - seasoned
    - shape
    - shave
    - shaving
    - slab
    - sliver
    - splinter
    - split
    - stain
    - stained
    - stamp
    - timber
    - timber-yard
    - touch
    - vaulting-horse
    - walnut
    - warp
    - weather
    - wood
    - woodcarving
    - woodcut
    - wooden
    - woodwind
    * * *
    madera nf
    1. [en árbol] wood;
    [en carpintería] timber, US lumber;
    de madera wooden;
    RP Fam
    ser de madera to be slow on the uptake;
    Fam
    tocar madera Br to touch wood, US to knock on wood
    madera contrachapada plywood;
    madera noble fine wood;
    madera policromada polychrome wood
    2. [tabla] piece of wood;
    atrancaron la puerta con dos maderas they barred the door with two planks of wood
    3. [cualidades]
    tener madera de algo to have the makings of sth;
    tener madera para algo to have what it takes for sth
    4. [palo de golf] wood;
    5. [en orquesta]
    la madera the woodwind (instruments)
    6. Esp muy Fam [policía]
    la madera the pigs
    * * *
    f wood;
    tener madera de fig have the makings of;
    tocar madera knock on wood, Br touch wood;
    ¡toca madera! knock on wood, Br touch wood
    * * *
    madera nf
    1) : wood
    2) : lumber, timber
    3)
    madera noble : hardwood
    * * *
    1. (material) wood
    2. (tabla) piece of wood

    Spanish-English dictionary > madera

  • 7 litografía

    f.
    1 litography.
    2 lithograph.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: litografiar.
    * * *
    1 (arte) lithography
    2 (reproducción) lithograph
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=proceso) lithography
    2) (=cuadro) lithograph
    * * *
    femenino ( sistema) lithography; ( grabado) lithograph
    * * *
    = lithograph, stone lithograph, lithography, offset lithography.
    Ex. An art print is an engraving, etching, lithograph, etc. printed from the plate prepared by the artist.
    Ex. It is not usually possible to tell a wood engraving from an electro of an engraving, or a stone lithograph from a zinc-plate lithograph.
    Ex. Lithography as a printing process dates from the 19th century.
    Ex. With offset lithography, there is no direct contact between the plate and the copy paper.
    ----
    * litografía en plancha de zinc = zinc-plate lithograph.
    * * *
    femenino ( sistema) lithography; ( grabado) lithograph
    * * *
    = lithograph, stone lithograph, lithography, offset lithography.

    Ex: An art print is an engraving, etching, lithograph, etc. printed from the plate prepared by the artist.

    Ex: It is not usually possible to tell a wood engraving from an electro of an engraving, or a stone lithograph from a zinc-plate lithograph.
    Ex: Lithography as a printing process dates from the 19th century.
    Ex: With offset lithography, there is no direct contact between the plate and the copy paper.
    * litografía en plancha de zinc = zinc-plate lithograph.

    * * *
    1 (sistema) lithography
    2 (grabado) lithograph
    * * *

    litografía sustantivo femenino ( sistema) lithography;
    ( grabado) lithograph
    litografía sustantivo femenino
    1 (método, arte) lithography
    2 (reproducción, estampa) lithograph
    ' litografía' also found in these entries:
    English:
    lithograph
    * * *
    1. [arte] lithography
    2. [grabado] lithograph
    3. [taller] lithographer's (workshop)
    * * *
    f lithography
    * * *
    1) : lithography
    2) : lithograph

    Spanish-English dictionary > litografía

  • 8 grabado

    adj.
    1 recorded.
    2 engraved, graven, stamped.
    m.
    1 engraving.
    2 etching.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: grabar.
    * * *
    1 (arte) engraving
    2 (dibujo) picture, drawing
    ————————
    1→ link=grabar grabar
    1 engraved
    1 (arte) engraving
    2 (dibujo) picture, drawing
    \
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ
    2.
    SM (=impresión) engraving, print; [en un libro] illustration, print

    grabado en cobre, grabado en dulce — copperplate

    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < música> recorded, taped
    II
    masculino engraving
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < música> recorded, taped
    II
    masculino engraving
    * * *
    grabado1
    1 = art reproduction, engraving, print.

    Ex: An art reproduction is a mechanically reproduced copy of a work of art, generally as one of a commercial edition.

    Ex: An art print is an engraving, etching, lithograph, etc. printed from the plate prepared by the artist.
    Ex: Engelmann's technique used only three colour stones (red, yellow, and blue) to make a full-colour print.
    * grabado al ácido = etching.
    * grabado a la punta seca = drypoint.
    * grabado de moda = fashion plate.
    * prensa para grabados en cobre = copperplate press.

    grabado2

    Ex: The reform process that forces a growing number of women out of the recorded labor force into casual, unremunerated, & informal work.

    * algo grabado en piedra = tablet of stone.
    * bloque de madera grabada = block.
    * equipo para escuchar visitas grabadas = audio tour unit.
    * grabado de antemano = pre-recorded.
    * grabado en cinta = tape-recorded, audiotaped [audio-taped].
    * grabado en madera = woodcut, wood engraving.
    * grabado en piedra = carved in a tablet of stone.
    * grabado en relieve = embossed.
    * grabado en vídeo = videotaped.
    * grabados en acero = steel engraving.
    * libro grabado en audio = talking book.
    * risas grabadas = canned laughter.

    * * *
    grabado1 -da
    me quedó grabado lo que me dijo what he said stuck in my mind
    tengo su cara grabada his face is engraved on o ( liter) etched in my memory
    1 (acción) engraving
    2 (reproducción) engraving
    Compuestos:
    etching
    copperplate
    intaglio
    woodcut
    embossing
    * * *

     

    Del verbo grabar: ( conjugate grabar)

    grabado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    grabado    
    grabar
    grabado sustantivo masculino
    engraving
    grabar ( conjugate grabar) verbo transitivo/intransitivo
    a) (Audio, TV) to record, tape

    b) (Art) to engrave

    grabarse verbo pronominal:

    su cara se me quedó grabada I'll never forget her face
    grabado,-a sustantivo masculino
    1 (técnica, oficio) engraving
    2 (dibujo) me gustan los grabados, I like engravings
    un libro con grabados en cobre/madera, a book with copperplates/woodcuts
    grabar verbo transitivo
    1 (en una cinta magnética) to record: he grabado la conferencia para poder escucharla con detenimiento, I recorded the lecture so that I could later listen to it carefully
    2 Inform to save: ¡no te olvides de grabar antes de salir!, don't forget to save your work before closing!
    3 Arte to engrave: he grabado mis iniciales en el dorso del plato, I engraved my initials on the back of the plate

    ' grabado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    digitalmente
    - enlatada
    - enlatado
    - grabar
    - grabada
    - aguafuerte
    - cuadro
    - litografía
    English:
    canned
    - engraving
    - print
    - recorded
    - tape
    - woodcut
    - etching
    * * *
    1. [técnica] engraving
    grabado al aguafuerte etching;
    2. [lámina] engraving
    * * *
    m engraving
    * * *
    1) : engraving
    2)

    Spanish-English dictionary > grabado

  • 9 litografía en plancha de zinc

    Ex. It is not usually possible to tell a wood engraving from an electro of an engraving, or a stone lithograph from a zinc-plate lithograph.
    * * *

    Ex: It is not usually possible to tell a wood engraving from an electro of an engraving, or a stone lithograph from a zinc-plate lithograph.

    Spanish-English dictionary > litografía en plancha de zinc

  • 10 xilógrafo

    m.
    wood engraver, xylographer.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 xylographer
    * * *
    Nota: En imprenta antigua, persona que grababa en bloques de madera el objeto de impresión.
    Ex. Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    * * *
    Nota: En imprenta antigua, persona que grababa en bloques de madera el objeto de impresión.

    Ex: Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.

    Spanish-English dictionary > xilógrafo

  • 11 adobe

    m.
    1 adobe.
    2 sun-dried brick, sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, adobe, mixture of clay and straw used as building material.
    3 shackle.
    pres.subj.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: adobar.
    * * *
    1 adobe
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=tabique) adobe, sun-dried brick
    2) Cono Sur hum (=pie) big foot
    3)

    descansar haciendo adobes — Méx to moonlight, do work on the side

    * * *
    masculino adobe
    * * *
    = clay, mud.
    Ex. Even 1950-2000 is a fairly short time, considering that the first library catalog dates from a piece of clay fried in 3000 BC = Incluso 1950-2000 es un tiempo bastante corto, considerando que el primer catálogo de biblioteca data de un trozo de arcilla cocida del 3000 A.C.
    Ex. Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead = Desde entonces, se han probado muchos materiales para producir los tipos de imprenta, incluido el barro cocido, los tallados en madera, el cobre, el estaño y el plomo.
    ----
    * casa de ladrillos de adobe = mud-brick house.
    * ladrillo de adobe = mud brick.
    * * *
    masculino adobe
    * * *
    = clay, mud.

    Ex: Even 1950-2000 is a fairly short time, considering that the first library catalog dates from a piece of clay fried in 3000 BC = Incluso 1950-2000 es un tiempo bastante corto, considerando que el primer catálogo de biblioteca data de un trozo de arcilla cocida del 3000 A.C.

    Ex: Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead = Desde entonces, se han probado muchos materiales para producir los tipos de imprenta, incluido el barro cocido, los tallados en madera, el cobre, el estaño y el plomo.
    * casa de ladrillos de adobe = mud-brick house.
    * ladrillo de adobe = mud brick.

    * * *
    adobe
    una casa de adobe an adobe (house)
    sólo te/le falta hacer adobes ( Chi fam); you certainly don't/he certainly doesn't believe in sitting around!
    * * *

    Del verbo adobar: ( conjugate adobar)

    adobé es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    adobe es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

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

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    adobar    
    adobe
    adobar ( conjugate adobar) verbo transitivo ‹carne/pescado› ( condimentar) to marinade;
    ( para conservar) to pickle;
    ( para curar) to cure
    adobe sustantivo masculino
    adobe
    adobar vtr Culin to marinate
    ' adobe' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    barraca
    - jacal
    English:
    mud
    * * *
    adobe nm
    adobe
    * * *
    m adobe
    * * *
    adobe nm
    : adobe

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  • 12 barro

    m.
    1 mud (fango).
    2 clay (arcilla).
    una figurita de barro a clay figure
    3 blackhead (grano).
    4 pimple.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: barrer.
    * * *
    1 (grano) spot, pimple
    ————————
    1 (lodo) mud
    2 (arcilla) clay
    3 (objeto) earthenware object
    \
    de barro earthenware
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) clay
    2) mud
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=lodo) mud
    2) (Arte) (=arcilla) potter's clay
    3) (=loza) earthenware
    pl barros earthenware sing, crockery sing
    4) ** (=dinero) dough **, brass *
    * (=desacierto)
    6) (Anat) pimple
    7)

    barros luca — Chile toasted ham and cheese sandwich

    * * *
    a) ( lodo) mud
    b) (Art) clay, earthenware (before n)
    * * *
    = mud, clay, earthenware.
    Ex. Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead = Desde entonces, se han probado muchos materiales para producir los tipos de imprenta, incluido el barro cocido, los tallados en madera, el cobre, el estaño y el plomo.
    Ex. Even 1950-2000 is a fairly short time, considering that the first library catalog dates from a piece of clay fried in 3000 BC = Incluso 1950-2000 es un tiempo bastante corto, considerando que el primer catálogo de biblioteca data de un trozo de arcilla cocida del 3000 A.C.
    Ex. It was produced in earthenware, metalwork and bone china and in its heyday was used by the great transatlantic liners and by hotel and restaurant chains.
    ----
    * baño de barro = mud bath.
    * bola de barro = mudpie.
    * cubierto de barro = muddy [muddier -comp., muddiest -sup,].
    * manchado de barro = draggled.
    * objeto de barro = earthenware.
    * revolcarse en el barro = wallow in + the mud.
    * tablilla de barro = clay tablet.
    * * *
    a) ( lodo) mud
    b) (Art) clay, earthenware (before n)
    * * *
    = mud, clay, earthenware.

    Ex: Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead = Desde entonces, se han probado muchos materiales para producir los tipos de imprenta, incluido el barro cocido, los tallados en madera, el cobre, el estaño y el plomo.

    Ex: Even 1950-2000 is a fairly short time, considering that the first library catalog dates from a piece of clay fried in 3000 BC = Incluso 1950-2000 es un tiempo bastante corto, considerando que el primer catálogo de biblioteca data de un trozo de arcilla cocida del 3000 A.C.
    Ex: It was produced in earthenware, metalwork and bone china and in its heyday was used by the great transatlantic liners and by hotel and restaurant chains.
    * baño de barro = mud bath.
    * bola de barro = mudpie.
    * cubierto de barro = muddy [muddier -comp., muddiest -sup,].
    * manchado de barro = draggled.
    * objeto de barro = earthenware.
    * revolcarse en el barro = wallow in + the mud.
    * tablilla de barro = clay tablet.

    * * *
    A
    1 (lodo) mud
    traes los zapatos llenos de barro your shoes are covered in mud
    arrastraron su buen nombre por el barro they dragged his good name through the mud
    2 ( Art) clay
    una cazuela de barro a clay o an earthenware dish
    barros earthenware
    Compuestos:
    fired clay
    fire clay, refractory clay
    * * *

     

    Del verbo barrer: ( conjugate barrer)

    barro es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    barrer    
    barro
    barrer ( conjugate barrer) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹suelo/cocina› to sweep
    2


    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( con escoba) to sweep
    2 ( arrasar) [equipo/candidato] to sweep to victory;
    barro con algo ‹con premios/medallas› to walk off with sth;

    barrió con todos los premios she walked off with all the prizes
    barrerse verbo pronominal (Méx) [ vehículo] to skid;
    (en fútbol, béisbol) to slide
    barro sustantivo masculino ( lodo) mud;
    (Art) clay, earthenware ( before n)
    barrer
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to sweep: hace una semana que no barro el salón, I haven't swept the living room for a week
    el anticiclón está barriendo el norte, the anticyclone is sweping through the North
    2 (destruir, rechazar) to sweep away
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (en una votación) to win by a landslide: el partido conservador barrió en las regiones del norte, the conservatives won by a landslide in the North
    2 (acaparar, agotar las existencias) to take away: los clientes barrieron con las ofertas, the customers snapped up the bargains
    ♦ Locuciones: barrer para casa, to look after number one
    barro sustantivo masculino
    1 (mezcla de tierra y agua) mud
    una mascarilla de b., a mud face pack
    2 (para alfarería) clay
    ' barro' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    barnizar
    - barrer
    - cacerola
    - empantanarse
    - entera
    - entero
    - fango
    - loza
    - moldear
    - pisada
    - salpicar
    - tarro
    - vasija
    - chapotear
    - ensuciar
    - forma
    - hundir
    - limo
    - lodo
    - moldeable
    English:
    cake
    - churn
    - earthenware
    - land
    - mud
    - muddy
    - plough through
    - sink
    - stick
    - fast
    - knee
    - scrape
    - wade
    * * *
    barro nm
    1. [fango] mud;
    arrastrarse por el barro to abase oneself
    2. [arcilla] clay;
    una figurita de barro a clay figure
    barro cocido terracotta
    3. [grano] spot
    4. Cuba Fam [peso] peso
    5. Chile barros jarpa [ropa] morning coat;
    [sandwich] toasted ham and cheese sandwich;
    barros luco [sandwich] toasted beef and cheese sandwich
    * * *
    m mud
    * * *
    barro nm
    1) lodo: mud
    2) arcilla: clay
    3) espinilla, grano: pimple, blackhead
    * * *
    1. (lodo) mud
    2. (arcilla) clay

    Spanish-English dictionary > barro

  • 13 cuidadoso

    adj.
    careful, heedful, mindful, cautious.
    * * *
    1 (atento) careful
    2 (celoso) cautious
    * * *
    (f. - cuidadosa)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=atento) [persona, observación, estrategia] careful
    2) (=prudente) careful
    3) (=solícito) attentive
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < persona> careful
    b) <búsqueda/investigación> careful, thorough
    * * *
    = careful, thoughtful, delicate, scrupulous, parsimonious, fastidious.
    Ex. The format of the description in an analytical entry requires careful consideration.
    Ex. Production quotas, I believe, are antithetical to careful, thoughtful cataloging.
    Ex. Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex. Happily the rules of quasi-facsimile are easily mastered; what is difficult is to observe them with scrupulous, undeviating accuracy.
    Ex. He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.
    Ex. Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < persona> careful
    b) <búsqueda/investigación> careful, thorough
    * * *
    = careful, thoughtful, delicate, scrupulous, parsimonious, fastidious.

    Ex: The format of the description in an analytical entry requires careful consideration.

    Ex: Production quotas, I believe, are antithetical to careful, thoughtful cataloging.
    Ex: Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex: Happily the rules of quasi-facsimile are easily mastered; what is difficult is to observe them with scrupulous, undeviating accuracy.
    Ex: He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.
    Ex: Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.

    * * *
    1 ‹persona› careful
    no te lo presto porque eres muy poco cuidadoso I'm not going to lend it to you because you don't look after things
    cuidadoso CON algo careful WITH sth
    tienes que ser más cuidadoso con tus juguetes you have to be more careful with your toys, you have to take better care of your toys o look after your toys better
    cuidadoso DE algo:
    es muy cuidadoso de su apariencia he takes great care over his appearance
    es muy cuidadoso de los detalles he pays great attention to detail
    2 ‹búsqueda/investigación› careful, thorough
    * * *

    cuidadoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    a) ‹ persona› careful;

    cuidadoso con algo careful with sth
    b) ‹búsqueda/investigación› careful, thorough

    cuidadoso,-a adjetivo careful
    ' cuidadoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    celosa
    - celoso
    - chapucera
    - chapucero
    - cuidadosa
    - descuidada
    - descuidado
    - escrutinio
    - responsable
    English:
    careful
    - close
    - bear
    - thorough
    * * *
    cuidadoso, -a adj
    careful;
    es muy cuidadosa con lo que hace she's very careful o takes a lot of care in what she does;
    sé muy cuidadoso con lo que dices be very careful what you say, you'd better watch what you say;
    es muy poco cuidadoso he's very careless, he doesn't take much care
    * * *
    adj careful
    * * *
    cuidadoso, -sa adj
    : careful, attentive
    * * *
    cuidadoso adj careful

    Spanish-English dictionary > cuidadoso

  • 14 delicado

    adj.
    1 delicate, frail, breakable, fragile.
    2 touch-and-go, delicate, sensible.
    3 finicky, overparticular about trivial details, fiddly, pernickety.
    * * *
    1 (fino) delicate; (exquisito) exquisite; (refinado) refined
    2 (difícil) delicate, difficult
    3 (enfermizo) frail, delicate
    4 (frágil) fragile
    5 (exigente) fussy, fastidious, hard to please
    6 (cortés) refined, polite
    7 (muy sensible) hypersensitive, extremely sensitive
    \
    manjar delicado delicacy
    * * *
    (f. - delicada)
    adj.
    2) fine
    3) ill
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=suave) [tejido, piel] delicate; [tela] fine; [color] soft
    2) (=frágil) [máquina] sensitive; [salud] delicate
    3) (=fino) [rasgos] delicate, fine; [gusto] delicate, subtle
    4) (=difícil) [situación] delicate, tricky; [punto] sore; [tema] delicate
    5) [persona] (=difícil de contentar) hard to please, fussy; (=sensible) hypersensitive; (=discreto) tactful; (=atento) considerate
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1) ( fino) <rasgos/manos> delicate; < sabor> delicate, subtle; <lenguaje/modales> refined
    2)
    a) ( que requiere cuidados) <cerámica/cristal> fragile; < tela> delicate; < piel> sensitive

    prendas delicadas — delicates, delicate garments

    3) <asunto/cuestión/tema> delicate, sensitive; < situación> delicate, tricky
    4)
    a) ( melindroso) delicate, fussy
    b) ( susceptible) touchy
    * * *
    = gentle [gentler -comp., gentlest -sup.], sensitive, tricky [trickier -comp., trickiest -sup.], delicate, ticklish, awkward, choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.], touchy, frail, tender [tenderer -comp., tenderest -sup.], dainty [daintier -comp., daintiest -sup.], lissom(e), fragile, fussy [fussier -comp., fussiest -sup.], picky [pickier -comp., pickiest -sup.].
    Ex. Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as she recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.
    Ex. Numerous different models are available, ranging from models where communication is via a heat sensitive screen, through to terminals linked to an outside computer by a telephone line.
    Ex. Bertrand Russell has written a great deal of sense about the tricky problem of individual liberty and achievement and its relationship to government control.
    Ex. Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex. The vast majority of management problems, even those which seem at first glance to be wholly planning or organizing or controlling problems, usually turn out to be bristling with ticklish human relations problems.
    Ex. Access is impaired by archaic, awkward, or simply strange headings that most normal persons would never look for on their first try.
    Ex. I became a hungry reader who was not choosy at all about the food.
    Ex. Censorship is a touchy subject with prison librarians.
    Ex. Previous research has demonstrated that frail elderly living in subsidized high-rise apartments have greater unmet needs than elderly who reside in traditional community housing.
    Ex. A single drawing can have a highly emotional impact and can be effective as either a heavy, bold statement or a tender reminder.
    Ex. They then went to a rather dainty little Italian restaurant where they ate a scrumptious meal and drank a bottle of wine.
    Ex. She is not just lissome and beautiful, but also cultured, artful, expressive, and energetic.
    Ex. The material which carries the message is fragile.
    Ex. Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex. If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
    ----
    * asunto delicado = sore subject, sore spot, sore point, sensitive issue, hot potato.
    * pregunta delicada = awkward question.
    * ser muy delicado con la comida = be a picky eater.
    * ser muy delicado para comer = be a picky eater.
    * tejido muy delicado = gossamer.
    * tema delicado = sore subject, sore spot, sore point, sensitive issue, hot potato.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1) ( fino) <rasgos/manos> delicate; < sabor> delicate, subtle; <lenguaje/modales> refined
    2)
    a) ( que requiere cuidados) <cerámica/cristal> fragile; < tela> delicate; < piel> sensitive

    prendas delicadas — delicates, delicate garments

    3) <asunto/cuestión/tema> delicate, sensitive; < situación> delicate, tricky
    4)
    a) ( melindroso) delicate, fussy
    b) ( susceptible) touchy
    * * *
    = gentle [gentler -comp., gentlest -sup.], sensitive, tricky [trickier -comp., trickiest -sup.], delicate, ticklish, awkward, choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.], touchy, frail, tender [tenderer -comp., tenderest -sup.], dainty [daintier -comp., daintiest -sup.], lissom(e), fragile, fussy [fussier -comp., fussiest -sup.], picky [pickier -comp., pickiest -sup.].

    Ex: Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as she recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.

    Ex: Numerous different models are available, ranging from models where communication is via a heat sensitive screen, through to terminals linked to an outside computer by a telephone line.
    Ex: Bertrand Russell has written a great deal of sense about the tricky problem of individual liberty and achievement and its relationship to government control.
    Ex: Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex: The vast majority of management problems, even those which seem at first glance to be wholly planning or organizing or controlling problems, usually turn out to be bristling with ticklish human relations problems.
    Ex: Access is impaired by archaic, awkward, or simply strange headings that most normal persons would never look for on their first try.
    Ex: I became a hungry reader who was not choosy at all about the food.
    Ex: Censorship is a touchy subject with prison librarians.
    Ex: Previous research has demonstrated that frail elderly living in subsidized high-rise apartments have greater unmet needs than elderly who reside in traditional community housing.
    Ex: A single drawing can have a highly emotional impact and can be effective as either a heavy, bold statement or a tender reminder.
    Ex: They then went to a rather dainty little Italian restaurant where they ate a scrumptious meal and drank a bottle of wine.
    Ex: She is not just lissome and beautiful, but also cultured, artful, expressive, and energetic.
    Ex: The material which carries the message is fragile.
    Ex: Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex: If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
    * asunto delicado = sore subject, sore spot, sore point, sensitive issue, hot potato.
    * pregunta delicada = awkward question.
    * ser muy delicado con la comida = be a picky eater.
    * ser muy delicado para comer = be a picky eater.
    * tejido muy delicado = gossamer.
    * tema delicado = sore subject, sore spot, sore point, sensitive issue, hot potato.

    * * *
    A (fino) ‹rasgos/manos› delicate; ‹sabor› delicate, subtle; ‹lenguaje/modales› refined
    ¡qué delicada eres! ¿qué más da si está un poco quemado? you're so fussy! what does it matter if it's a little burned?
    B (que requiere cuidados) ‹cerámica/cristal› fragile; ‹tela› delicate
    prendas delicadas delicates, delicate garments
    una crema para pieles delicadas a cream for sensitive skin
    la delicada piel del bebé the baby's delicate skin
    ¡qué delicado eres! no lo dijo por molestarte don't be so touchy! he didn't mean to upset you
    está delicado del estómago his stomach's a little delicate
    tiene el corazón delicado he has a weak o delicate o bad heart
    después de la operación quedó muy delicado he was very frail o weak after his operation
    D ‹asunto/cuestión/tema› delicate, sensitive; ‹situación› delicate, tricky
    * * *

     

    delicado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    1 ( fino) ‹rasgos/manos› delicate;
    ‹ sabor› delicate, subtle;
    ‹lenguaje/modales› refined
    2
    a) ( que requiere cuidados) ‹cerámica/cristal› fragile;

    ‹ tela› delicate;
    ‹ piel› sensitive
    b) ‹salud/estómago› delicate;

    ‹ corazón› weak
    3 ‹asunto/cuestión/tema› delicate, sensitive;
    ‹ situación› delicate, tricky
    4


    delicado,-a adjetivo
    1 (frágil, primoroso) delicate
    una delicada porcelana, a delicate porcelain figure
    ese jarrón es muy delicado, that vase is very fragile
    2 (enfermizo) delicate: está delicada del corazón, she has a weak heart
    3 (exigente) fussy, hard to please: Juan es muy delicado para la comida, Juan is a fussy eater
    4 (difícil de tratar) un asunto delicado, a delicate matter
    ' delicado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    delicada
    - dulce
    - exquisita
    - exquisito
    - primor
    - asunto
    - embromado
    - fregado
    - jorobado
    - maniático
    - melindroso
    - remilgón
    - tema
    English:
    dainty
    - delicate
    - fine
    - fragile
    - frail
    - picky
    - sensitive
    - slight
    - sore
    - subject
    - subtle
    - ticklish
    - touch on
    - touchy
    - tricky
    - awkward
    - delicacy
    - shaky
    - subtlety
    * * *
    delicado, -a adj
    1. [aroma, gesto, manos] delicate;
    un perfume muy delicado a very delicate perfume
    2. [material, objeto] delicate;
    piel delicada sensitive o delicate skin;
    loción hidratante para pieles delicadas moisturizing lotion for sensitive skin;
    detergente para ropa delicada o [m5] prendas delicadas detergent for delicates
    3. [asunto, situación] delicate, tricky;
    una situación delicada a delicate o tricky situation
    4. [persona] [débil, enfermizo] weak, delicate;
    su estado (de salud) es delicado his condition is delicate;
    estar delicado de salud to have delicate health;
    estar delicado del corazón to have a weak heart
    5. [persona] [sensible] sensitive
    6. [educado] [persona] polite;
    [lenguaje, modales] refined
    7. [persona] [tiquismiquis] fussy, choosy, picky;
    es demasiado delicado para ir de camping he likes his creature comforts too much to go camping;
    ¡no seas delicado, hay que comérselo todo! don't be so picky, you've got to eat all of it!
    * * *
    adj delicate
    * * *
    delicado, -da adj
    1) : delicate, fine
    2) : sensitive, frail
    3) : difficult, tricky
    4) : fussy, hard to please
    5) : tactful, considerate
    * * *
    delicado adj delicate

    Spanish-English dictionary > delicado

  • 15 despiadado

    adj.
    merciless, cruel, inhuman, cold-hearted.
    * * *
    1 ruthless, merciless
    * * *
    (f. - despiadada)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ [persona] heartless; [ataque] merciless
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < persona> ruthless, heartless; <ataque/crítica> savage, merciless
    * * *
    = hard-hearted, relentless, savage, ruthless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, cold-blooded, ferocius, unsparing, merciless, soulless, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat, unforgiving.
    Ex. For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.
    Ex. They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex. The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex. The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex. The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex. The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex. The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex. He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex. Fuller's novel make for a form of intellectual clarity, even if that clarity, paradoxically, is expressed in a ferocious hell-bent manner.
    Ex. The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex. The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex. One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex. However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
    Ex. As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    Ex. Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    ----
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * ser despiadado = play + hardball.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < persona> ruthless, heartless; <ataque/crítica> savage, merciless
    * * *
    = hard-hearted, relentless, savage, ruthless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, cold-blooded, ferocius, unsparing, merciless, soulless, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat, unforgiving.

    Ex: For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.

    Ex: They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex: The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex: The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex: The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex: The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex: The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex: Fuller's novel make for a form of intellectual clarity, even if that clarity, paradoxically, is expressed in a ferocious hell-bent manner.
    Ex: The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex: The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex: One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex: However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
    Ex: As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    Ex: Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * ser despiadado = play + hardball.

    * * *
    ‹persona› ruthless, heartless; ‹ataque/crítica› savage, merciless
    * * *

    despiadado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ persona› ruthless, heartless;


    ‹ataque/crítica› savage, merciless
    despiadado,-a adjetivo merciless, ruthless
    ' despiadado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acerba
    - acerbo
    - bárbara
    - bárbaro
    - despiadada
    English:
    cold-blooded
    - cold-hearted
    - cutthroat
    - merciless
    - pitiless
    - remorseless
    - ruthless
    - unmerciful
    - vicious
    - cold
    * * *
    despiadado, -a adj
    [persona] merciless; [trato] inhuman, pitiless; [ataque] savage, merciless
    * * *
    adj ruthless
    * * *
    despiadado, -da adj
    cruel: cruel, merciless, pitiless
    * * *
    despiadado adj hard-hearted / heartless / ruthless

    Spanish-English dictionary > despiadado

  • 16 difícil

    adj.
    difficult, tough, arduous, cumbersome.
    Un trabajo difícil [duro] A stiff job.
    * * *
    1 difficult, hard
    2 (improbable) unlikely
    ■ es difícil que nos encontremos allí it's unlikely that we'll meet there, we're unlikely to meet there
    * * *
    adj.
    difficult, hard
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=complicado) [problema] difficult; [tiempos, vida] difficult, hard; [situación] difficult, delicate

    me resulta muy difícil decidir — I find it very hard to decide, I have great difficulty in deciding

    2) [persona] difficult
    3) * [cara] ugly
    * * *
    1)
    a) [ser] <problema/situación> difficult; < examen> hard, difficult

    me fue muy difícil decírselo — it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him

    resulta difícil evaluar las pérdidas — it is difficult o hard to put a figure on the losses

    difícil de + inf — difficult o hard to + inf

    b) [estar] (fam)
    2) [ser] ( poco probable) unlikely

    es posible pero lo veo difícil — it's possible, but I don't think it's very likely

    3) [ser] <persona/carácter> difficult
    * * *
    = arduous, demanding, difficult, intractable, laborious, painful, taxing, tough [tougher -comp., toughest -sup.], thorny [thornier -comp., thorniest -sup.], delicate, tortuous, hardscrabble, obstinate, bumpy, dicey [dicier -comp., diciest -sup.], uphill, problematic, problematical, hard [harder -comp., hardest -sup.].
    Ex. Plays and music performances put on by staff and children require less arduous preparation than a full-length public performance.
    Ex. It is clear to me that they face a professional role that will be far more complicated and far more demanding that the one we have known.
    Ex. It's already difficult to find a lot of these things as it is, but it would be absolute irresponsibility to go to a title-main entry.
    Ex. Unfortunately, these factors simultaneously make the resolution of the situation more intractable.
    Ex. The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex. The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex. It is difficult to remember the special interests of more than a few people, and hence rather taxing to provide SDI manually to more than a handful of users.
    Ex. As educators, then, we need to ask ourselves some very tough questions -- some to which we would rather not hear the answers.
    Ex. The article 'The comfortable pew is a thorny throne' reviews the technological, political, philosophical, professional and educational issues associated with filtering access to information.
    Ex. Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex. The promulgation of Community law represents the culmination of an often tortuous legal process whose main features are laid down in the Treaty of Rome.
    Ex. And so, from its hardscrabble beginnings to immediate time, Wexler has lead a varied existence, changing from shipping point for fruit to resting place for travelers = Y por lo tanto, desde sus comienzos difíciles hasta el presente, Wexler ha llevado una vida variada, pasando de ser un centro de recepción y envío de fruta a un lugar de descanso para los viajeros.
    Ex. It is not wise, by the way, to approach the author by telephone for this puts him on the spot and he may refuse simply in self-defense and especially if you happen to butt in when he is struggling with an obstinate chapter in a new book.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'The big bumpy shift: digital music via the Internet'.
    Ex. Predicting the future is dicey.
    Ex. Promoters of this tax will have an uphill fight and the cultural objections will be very great.
    Ex. This attitude is based on the waste bin decision process widely used in political and educational organisations, which tend to have open-ended goals, problematic preferences, hazy technology, and poor feeback.
    Ex. The manufacture of these high-density chips is problematical.
    Ex. The amount of stuffing in the balls was varied to suit the nature of the work; large, soft balls with weak ink were used for low-grade work; small, hard balls and strong ink for work of better quality.
    ----
    * ahorrar para cuando lleguen tiempos difíciles = save for + a rainy day.
    * algo muy difícil = a tough sell.
    * aprender de la forma más difícil = learn + the hard way.
    * aunque parezca difícil = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * cuestión difícil = poser.
    * de difícil solución = intractable.
    * de la forma más difícil = the hard way.
    * difícil de aceptar = hard to swallow.
    * difícil de agradar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de complacer = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de comprender = difficult to understand.
    * difícil de conseguir = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de contentar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de descifrar = cryptic.
    * difícil de distinguir = indistinguishable.
    * difícil de encontrar = hard-to-find.
    * difícil de entender = cryptic.
    * difícil de gestionar = unmanageable.
    * difícil de gestionar + Adjetivo = unmanageably + Adjetivo.
    * difícil de hacer = hard to do.
    * difícil de localizar = irretraceable.
    * difícil de manejar = clumsy [clumsier -comp., clumsiest -sup.], unwieldy.
    * difícil de masticar = chewy [chewier -comp., chewiest -sup.].
    * difícil de obtener = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de seguir = heavy going.
    * difícil de sustituir = hard to replace.
    * difícil de tratar = unruly.
    * empezar por lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en circunstancias difíciles = under difficult circumstances.
    * en condiciones difíciles = under difficult conditions.
    * encontrar Algo demasiado difícil = be out of + Posesivo + league.
    * encontrar Algo difícil = have + a hard time, have + a tough time.
    * encontrar difícil de explicar = be hard put to explain.
    * encontrar difícil + Infinitivo = find it hard to + Infinitivo.
    * encontrar muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * en épocas difíciles = in times of need.
    * enfrascado en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * enfrascar a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * enfrascarse en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end, plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en tiempos difíciles = in times of need.
    * hacer difícil = make + it + difficult, make + difficult.
    * hacerlo difícil de + Infinitivo = make + it + hard to + Infinitivo.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * meter a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end.
    * metido en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * muy difícil de traducir = defy + translation.
    * por muy difícil que parezca = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * pregunta difícil = poser.
    * pregunta difícil de responder = awkward-to-handle enquiry.
    * problema difícil = poser.
    * problema difícil de resolver = tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack, brain tickler.
    * resultar difícil de conseguir = prove + elusive.
    * ser Algo demasiado difícil para = be in over + Posesivo + head, be out of + Posesivo + depth.
    * ser difícil = be a stretch.
    * ser difícil de bregar = be a (real) handful.
    * ser difícil de conseguir = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de creer = beggar + belief.
    * ser difícil de encontrar = be hard to find.
    * ser difícil de lograr = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de superar = take + some beating.
    * ser muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * situación difícil = hardship.
    * tarea difícil = hard task.
    * tarea muy difícil = uphill struggle.
    * tenerlo difícil = not be easy.
    * tiempos difíciles = embattled time(s).
    * * *
    1)
    a) [ser] <problema/situación> difficult; < examen> hard, difficult

    me fue muy difícil decírselo — it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him

    resulta difícil evaluar las pérdidas — it is difficult o hard to put a figure on the losses

    difícil de + inf — difficult o hard to + inf

    b) [estar] (fam)
    2) [ser] ( poco probable) unlikely

    es posible pero lo veo difícil — it's possible, but I don't think it's very likely

    3) [ser] <persona/carácter> difficult
    * * *
    = arduous, demanding, difficult, intractable, laborious, painful, taxing, tough [tougher -comp., toughest -sup.], thorny [thornier -comp., thorniest -sup.], delicate, tortuous, hardscrabble, obstinate, bumpy, dicey [dicier -comp., diciest -sup.], uphill, problematic, problematical, hard [harder -comp., hardest -sup.].

    Ex: Plays and music performances put on by staff and children require less arduous preparation than a full-length public performance.

    Ex: It is clear to me that they face a professional role that will be far more complicated and far more demanding that the one we have known.
    Ex: It's already difficult to find a lot of these things as it is, but it would be absolute irresponsibility to go to a title-main entry.
    Ex: Unfortunately, these factors simultaneously make the resolution of the situation more intractable.
    Ex: The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex: The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex: It is difficult to remember the special interests of more than a few people, and hence rather taxing to provide SDI manually to more than a handful of users.
    Ex: As educators, then, we need to ask ourselves some very tough questions -- some to which we would rather not hear the answers.
    Ex: The article 'The comfortable pew is a thorny throne' reviews the technological, political, philosophical, professional and educational issues associated with filtering access to information.
    Ex: Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex: The promulgation of Community law represents the culmination of an often tortuous legal process whose main features are laid down in the Treaty of Rome.
    Ex: And so, from its hardscrabble beginnings to immediate time, Wexler has lead a varied existence, changing from shipping point for fruit to resting place for travelers = Y por lo tanto, desde sus comienzos difíciles hasta el presente, Wexler ha llevado una vida variada, pasando de ser un centro de recepción y envío de fruta a un lugar de descanso para los viajeros.
    Ex: It is not wise, by the way, to approach the author by telephone for this puts him on the spot and he may refuse simply in self-defense and especially if you happen to butt in when he is struggling with an obstinate chapter in a new book.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'The big bumpy shift: digital music via the Internet'.
    Ex: Predicting the future is dicey.
    Ex: Promoters of this tax will have an uphill fight and the cultural objections will be very great.
    Ex: This attitude is based on the waste bin decision process widely used in political and educational organisations, which tend to have open-ended goals, problematic preferences, hazy technology, and poor feeback.
    Ex: The manufacture of these high-density chips is problematical.
    Ex: The amount of stuffing in the balls was varied to suit the nature of the work; large, soft balls with weak ink were used for low-grade work; small, hard balls and strong ink for work of better quality.
    * ahorrar para cuando lleguen tiempos difíciles = save for + a rainy day.
    * algo muy difícil = a tough sell.
    * aprender de la forma más difícil = learn + the hard way.
    * aunque parezca difícil = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * cuestión difícil = poser.
    * de difícil solución = intractable.
    * de la forma más difícil = the hard way.
    * difícil de aceptar = hard to swallow.
    * difícil de agradar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de complacer = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de comprender = difficult to understand.
    * difícil de conseguir = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de contentar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de descifrar = cryptic.
    * difícil de distinguir = indistinguishable.
    * difícil de encontrar = hard-to-find.
    * difícil de entender = cryptic.
    * difícil de gestionar = unmanageable.
    * difícil de gestionar + Adjetivo = unmanageably + Adjetivo.
    * difícil de hacer = hard to do.
    * difícil de localizar = irretraceable.
    * difícil de manejar = clumsy [clumsier -comp., clumsiest -sup.], unwieldy.
    * difícil de masticar = chewy [chewier -comp., chewiest -sup.].
    * difícil de obtener = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de seguir = heavy going.
    * difícil de sustituir = hard to replace.
    * difícil de tratar = unruly.
    * empezar por lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en circunstancias difíciles = under difficult circumstances.
    * en condiciones difíciles = under difficult conditions.
    * encontrar Algo demasiado difícil = be out of + Posesivo + league.
    * encontrar Algo difícil = have + a hard time, have + a tough time.
    * encontrar difícil de explicar = be hard put to explain.
    * encontrar difícil + Infinitivo = find it hard to + Infinitivo.
    * encontrar muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * en épocas difíciles = in times of need.
    * enfrascado en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * enfrascar a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * enfrascarse en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end, plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en tiempos difíciles = in times of need.
    * hacer difícil = make + it + difficult, make + difficult.
    * hacerlo difícil de + Infinitivo = make + it + hard to + Infinitivo.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * meter a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end.
    * metido en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * muy difícil de traducir = defy + translation.
    * por muy difícil que parezca = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * pregunta difícil = poser.
    * pregunta difícil de responder = awkward-to-handle enquiry.
    * problema difícil = poser.
    * problema difícil de resolver = tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack, brain tickler.
    * resultar difícil de conseguir = prove + elusive.
    * ser Algo demasiado difícil para = be in over + Posesivo + head, be out of + Posesivo + depth.
    * ser difícil = be a stretch.
    * ser difícil de bregar = be a (real) handful.
    * ser difícil de conseguir = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de creer = beggar + belief.
    * ser difícil de encontrar = be hard to find.
    * ser difícil de lograr = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de superar = take + some beating.
    * ser muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * situación difícil = hardship.
    * tarea difícil = hard task.
    * tarea muy difícil = uphill struggle.
    * tenerlo difícil = not be easy.
    * tiempos difíciles = embattled time(s).

    * * *
    A
    1 [ SER] ‹problema/tema/situación› difficult
    el examen fue muy difícil the exam was very hard o difficult
    es un problema difícil it's a tricky o difficult problem
    corren tiempos difíciles para nuestra economía this is a difficult time for our economy
    con tu actitud me lo estás poniendo más difícil you're not making it any easier for me o you're making it harder for me by being like that
    no creo que gane, lo tiene muy difícil I don't think she'll win, she's in a difficult position
    me fue muy difícil decírselo it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him
    resulta difícil evaluar las pérdidas it is difficult o hard to put a figure on the losses
    cada vez se hace más difícil encontrar un buen empleo it is becoming more and more difficult o it's becoming harder and harder to get a good job
    difícil DE + INF difficult o hard to + INF
    mi madre es muy difícil de complacer my mother is very hard o difficult to please
    2 [ ESTAR] ( fam):
    está la cosa difícil things are pretty difficult o tricky ( colloq)
    B [ SER]
    (poco probable): es posible pero lo veo difícil it's possible, but I think it's unlikely o I don't think it's very likely
    difícil QUE + SUBJ:
    va a ser muy difícil que acepte it's very unlikely that he'll accept
    veo difícil que gane I doubt if she'll win, I think it's unlikely that she'll win
    C [ SER] ‹persona/carácter› difficult
    un niño difícil a difficult child
    * * *

     

    difícil adjetivo
    1
    a) ‹problema/situación› difficult;

    ‹ examen› hard, difficult;
    ◊ me fue muy difícil decírselo it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him;

    es difícil de hacer/entender it's difficult o hard to do/understand
    b) ‹persona/carácter› difficult

    2 ( poco probable) unlikely;

    veo difícil que gane I doubt if she'll win
    difícil adjetivo
    1 (que cuesta trabajo o esfuerzo intelectual) difficult, hard
    difícil de explicar, difficult to explain
    difícil de soportar, hard to bear
    2 (improbable) unlikely: es difícil que suceda, it is unlikely that that will happen
    3 (una persona) difficult
    ' difícil' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amarre
    - cañón
    - compaginación
    - concienciarse
    - delicada
    - delicado
    - despreocuparse
    - disyuntiva
    - engorrosa
    - engorroso
    - escabrosa
    - escabroso
    - escala
    - espinosa
    - espinoso
    - estrechamiento
    - gustar
    - harta
    - harto
    - hueso
    - impronunciable
    - insensible
    - judicatura
    - lance
    - mas
    - onerosa
    - oneroso
    - papelón
    - respirar
    - sí
    - tocha
    - tocho
    - viabilidad
    - arrecho
    - caprichoso
    - contentar
    - costar
    - creer
    - duro
    - epopeya
    - especial
    - esperar
    - esquivo
    - fregado
    - hacer
    - ingrato
    - jodido
    - malabarismo
    - mancha
    - manchar
    English:
    arduous
    - around
    - awkward
    - beating
    - choose
    - climb
    - concentrate
    - cumbersome
    - desperately
    - difficult
    - distance
    - dodgy
    - elusive
    - embark
    - folly
    - for
    - gap
    - grammar
    - hard
    - hard-won
    - housekeeper
    - immensely
    - injustice
    - lean
    - mess
    - problematic
    - problematical
    - realize
    - replacement
    - ruggedness
    - scramble
    - shake off
    - situation
    - so
    - sticky
    - stiff
    - surely
    - think ahead
    - to
    - tough
    - tricky
    - trying
    - agonizing
    - deep
    - demanding
    - going
    - increasingly
    - keep
    - likely
    - plight
    * * *
    1. [complicado] difficult;
    va a ser difícil encontrar un sitio abierto a estas horas it's going to be difficult o hard to find anywhere that's open at this time;
    son tiempos difíciles these are difficult times;
    pasaron por una situación difícil they went through a difficult period;
    no es difícil imaginar lo que pasó it's not difficult o hard to imagine what happened;
    es una pregunta difícil de responder it's a difficult question to answer;
    hacerse difícil: se hace difícil entender por qué lo hizo it's difficult to understand why she did it;
    se me hace difícil acostumbrarme a madrugar I can't get used to getting up early;
    ponérselo difícil a alguien to make things difficult for sb;
    no me lo pongas difícil don't make things difficult o hard for me;
    serle difícil a alguien: le va a ser muy difícil encontrar trabajo it's going to be very difficult for him to find a job, he's going to find it very difficult to get a job;
    tener difícil algo: tiene muy difícil encontrar trabajo it's very difficult o hard for him to find work
    2. [improbable] unlikely;
    puede ser, aunque me parece difícil maybe, but I think it's unlikely;
    es difícil que ganen they're unlikely to win;
    no es difícil que ocurra it could easily happen
    3. [rebelde] difficult, awkward;
    es un niño muy difícil he's a very awkward o difficult child;
    tener un carácter difícil to be an awkward person, to be difficult to get on with
    * * *
    adj
    1 difficult;
    ponerlo difícil a alguien make it difficult for s.o.;
    difícil de decir hard o difficult to say
    :
    es difícil que venga he’s unlikely to come, it’s unlikely that he’ll come
    * * *
    : difficult, hard
    * * *
    1. (en general) difficult
    2. (improbable) unlikely [comp. unlikelier; superl. unlikeliest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > difícil

  • 17 historia de la imprenta

    Ex. The history of printing can be considered in 2 stages: wood engraving and movable types.
    * * *

    Ex: The history of printing can be considered in 2 stages: wood engraving and movable types.

    Spanish-English dictionary > historia de la imprenta

  • 18 implacable

    adj.
    implacable, relentless.
    * * *
    1 implacable, relentless
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ implacable, relentless
    * * *
    a) <odio/furia> implacable; <avance/lucha> relentless; < sol> relentless
    b) <juez/crítico> implacable
    c) <enemigo/contrincante> ruthless
    * * *
    = unrelenting, relentless, ruthless, remorseless, unforgiving, bitter, implacable, inexorable, nagging, unsparing, cutthroat.
    Nota: Adjetivo.
    Ex. Unrelenting tuition increases are pricing private institutions out of the reach of many middle-class parents.
    Ex. They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex. The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex. The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex. Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    Ex. The author notes the work of Melvyl Dewey in espousing library education and the bitter opposition from some library leaders.
    Ex. The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex. The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex. With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex. The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex. As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    ----
    * actuar de un modo implacable = play + hardball.
    * ser implacable = play + hardball.
    * * *
    a) <odio/furia> implacable; <avance/lucha> relentless; < sol> relentless
    b) <juez/crítico> implacable
    c) <enemigo/contrincante> ruthless
    * * *
    = unrelenting, relentless, ruthless, remorseless, unforgiving, bitter, implacable, inexorable, nagging, unsparing, cutthroat.
    Nota: Adjetivo.

    Ex: Unrelenting tuition increases are pricing private institutions out of the reach of many middle-class parents.

    Ex: They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex: The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex: The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex: Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    Ex: The author notes the work of Melvyl Dewey in espousing library education and the bitter opposition from some library leaders.
    Ex: The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex: The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex: With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex: The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex: As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    * actuar de un modo implacable = play + hardball.
    * ser implacable = play + hardball.

    * * *
    1 ‹odio/furia› implacable; ‹avance/lucha› relentless
    el implacable sol del mediodía the relentless midday sun
    el paso implacable del tiempo the inexorable passage of time
    2 ‹juez/crítico› implacable
    es implacable cuando se trata de corregir errores de ortografía she is unforgiving o uncompromising when it comes to correcting spelling mistakes
    3 ‹enemigo/contrincante› ruthless
    * * *

    implacable adjetivo
    a) ‹odio/furia› implacable;

    ‹avance/lucha› relentless;
    ‹ sol› relentless
    b) ‹juez/crítico› implacable

    c) ‹enemigo/contrincante› ruthless

    implacable adjetivo relentless, implacable
    ' implacable' also found in these entries:
    English:
    bitter
    - fierce
    - persecution
    - pitiless
    - relentless
    - remorseless
    - unrelenting
    - hard
    - implacable
    - ruthless
    - unyielding
    * * *
    1. [odio, ira] implacable;
    [sol] relentless; [clima] harsh;
    el implacable avance del desierto the relentless o inexorable advance of the desert
    2. [persona] inflexible, firm;
    es implacable con sus alumnos she's very hard on her pupils
    3. [incontestable] unassailable;
    un argumento de una lógica implacable an argument of unassailable logic
    * * *
    adj implacable
    * * *
    : implacable, relentless

    Spanish-English dictionary > implacable

  • 19 lodo

    m.
    * * *
    1 mud
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM (=barro) mud, mire liter
    pl lodos (Med) mudbath sing ; (Min) sludge sing
    * * *
    * * *
    = mud, sludge, muck, mire.
    Ex. Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead = Desde entonces, se han probado muchos materiales para producir los tipos de imprenta, incluido el barro cocido, los tallados en madera, el cobre, el estaño y el plomo.
    Ex. This is a project to incinerate an estimated 700, 000 tonnes of toxic sludge created as a byproduct of a century of steelmaking.
    Ex. However, those who have tasted the succulent meat of this type of clam are more than willing to dig up to their armpits in the intertidal muck to capture such delicious quarry.
    Ex. This international network of specialists promote, encourage and co-ordinate the conservation of mires and related ecosystems.
    ----
    * baño de lodo = mud bath.
    * * *
    * * *
    = mud, sludge, muck, mire.

    Ex: Ever since then, numerous materials have been tried for producing types, including baked mud, wood engraving, copper, tin, and lead = Desde entonces, se han probado muchos materiales para producir los tipos de imprenta, incluido el barro cocido, los tallados en madera, el cobre, el estaño y el plomo.

    Ex: This is a project to incinerate an estimated 700, 000 tonnes of toxic sludge created as a byproduct of a century of steelmaking.
    Ex: However, those who have tasted the succulent meat of this type of clam are more than willing to dig up to their armpits in the intertidal muck to capture such delicious quarry.
    Ex: This international network of specialists promote, encourage and co-ordinate the conservation of mires and related ecosystems.
    * baño de lodo = mud bath.

    * * *
    mud, mire, sludge para modismos ver barro
    * * *

    lodo sustantivo masculino
    mud;
    para modismos ver
    ◊ barro

    lodo sustantivo masculino mud

    ' lodo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    baño
    - fango
    - barro
    - batir
    - revolcar
    English:
    mud
    - sludge
    - muddy
    * * *
    lodo nm
    mud;
    arrastrar por el lodo to drag through the mud
    * * *
    m mud;
    arrastrar por el lodo fig drag through the mud
    * * *
    lodo nm
    barro: mud, mire
    * * *
    lodo n mud

    Spanish-English dictionary > lodo

  • 20 que no perdona

    (adj.) = unforgiving
    Ex. Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    * * *
    (adj.) = unforgiving

    Ex: Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.

    Spanish-English dictionary > que no perdona

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