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wreaking destruction

  • 1 causar destrucción

    v.
    to wreak destruction, to ravage.
    * * *
    (v.) = wreak + destruction
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * * *
    (v.) = wreak + destruction

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Spanish-English dictionary > causar destrucción

  • 2 destruir

    v.
    to destroy.
    El temblor destruyó la pared The quake destroyed the wall.
    Sus trucos destruyeron a María His tricks destroyed Mary.
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    Conjugation model [ HUIR], like link=huir huir
    1 to destroy
    2 figurado to destroy, ruin, wreck
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    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ objeto, edificio] to destroy
    2) (=estropear) [+ amistad, matrimonio, armonía] to wreck, destroy; [+ argumento, teoría] to demolish; [+ esperanza] to dash, shatter; [+ proyecto, plan] to wreck, ruin
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <documentos/pruebas> to destroy; < ciudad> to destroy; < medio ambiente> to damage
    b) ( echar por tierra) < reputación> to ruin; < plan> to wreck; < esperanzas> to dash, shatter

    le destruyó la vida — it/he wrecked o destroyed his/her life

    * * *
    = demolish, destroy, knock out, scupper, wipe out, trash, pull apart, sweep away, knock down, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, destruct, shred, wreck, decimate, lay + waste to, wash out, run down, break down, blow up, rubbish, stomp + Nombre + out, smash.
    Ex. Having just demolished enumerative classification to some extent in the previous section, it is reasonable to ask how effective menu-based information retrieval systems might be.
    Ex. I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex. Two years ago Hurricane Hugo nearly knocked out Charleston.
    Ex. This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex. Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex. At the same time, the author takes issue with the view that the great libraries of America are being ' trashed' by the rush towards technology.
    Ex. If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex. Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex. That means that the abstractions of scientific knowledge reduce the reality and even destruct it.
    Ex. If they do muster up the courage to participate, they have learned what it is like to lose: they describe it as being 'slaughtered,' 'blown away,' or ' shredded'.
    Ex. They had made a secret deal with Otto Reich to wreck Cuba's economy.
    Ex. Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex. The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex. Some sections of road washed out by flood waters.
    Ex. It really is time we stopped kow-towing to every Tom, Dick and Harry who runs down our industry.
    Ex. It describes our experience in combatting mould which grew as a result of high humidity and temperatures when the air conditioning system broke down for several days after several days of rain.
    Ex. The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex. The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex. The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    ----
    * chocar destruyendo = smash into.
    * destruir completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destruir la esperanza = shatter + Posesivo + hopes.
    * destruir un mito = explode + myth.
    * fuego + destruir = fire + destroy.
    * fuego + destruir por completo = fire + gut.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <documentos/pruebas> to destroy; < ciudad> to destroy; < medio ambiente> to damage
    b) ( echar por tierra) < reputación> to ruin; < plan> to wreck; < esperanzas> to dash, shatter

    le destruyó la vida — it/he wrecked o destroyed his/her life

    * * *
    = demolish, destroy, knock out, scupper, wipe out, trash, pull apart, sweep away, knock down, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, destruct, shred, wreck, decimate, lay + waste to, wash out, run down, break down, blow up, rubbish, stomp + Nombre + out, smash.

    Ex: Having just demolished enumerative classification to some extent in the previous section, it is reasonable to ask how effective menu-based information retrieval systems might be.

    Ex: I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex: Two years ago Hurricane Hugo nearly knocked out Charleston.
    Ex: This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex: Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex: At the same time, the author takes issue with the view that the great libraries of America are being ' trashed' by the rush towards technology.
    Ex: If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex: Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex: That means that the abstractions of scientific knowledge reduce the reality and even destruct it.
    Ex: If they do muster up the courage to participate, they have learned what it is like to lose: they describe it as being 'slaughtered,' 'blown away,' or ' shredded'.
    Ex: They had made a secret deal with Otto Reich to wreck Cuba's economy.
    Ex: Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex: The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex: Some sections of road washed out by flood waters.
    Ex: It really is time we stopped kow-towing to every Tom, Dick and Harry who runs down our industry.
    Ex: It describes our experience in combatting mould which grew as a result of high humidity and temperatures when the air conditioning system broke down for several days after several days of rain.
    Ex: The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex: The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex: The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    * chocar destruyendo = smash into.
    * destruir completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destruir la esperanza = shatter + Posesivo + hopes.
    * destruir un mito = explode + myth.
    * fuego + destruir = fire + destroy.
    * fuego + destruir por completo = fire + gut.

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    vt
    1 ‹documentos/pruebas› to destroy; ‹ciudad› to destroy
    productos que destruyen el medio ambiente products that damage the environment
    2 (echar por tierra) ‹reputación› to ruin; ‹plan› to ruin, wreck; ‹esperanzas› to dash, shatter
    los problemas económicos destruyeron su matrimonio financial problems wrecked o ruined their marriage
    la droga está destruyendo muchas vidas drugs are wrecking o ruining o destroying the lives of many people
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    destruir ( conjugate destruir) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹documentos/pruebas› to destroy;

    ‹ ciudad› to destroy;
    ‹ medio ambiente› to damage

    ‹ plan› to wreck;
    ‹ esperanzas› to dash, shatter
    destruir verbo transitivo to destroy
    ' destruir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acabar
    - barrer
    - dinamitar
    - minar
    - socavar
    - anular
    - consumir
    - liquidar
    English:
    destroy
    - flatten
    - gut
    - nuke
    - obliterate
    - shatter
    - zap
    - explode
    - ruin
    - shred
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    ♦ vt
    1. [destrozar] to destroy
    2. [desbaratar] [argumento] to demolish;
    [proyecto] to ruin, to wreck; [ilusión, esperanzas] to dash; [reputación] to ruin; [matrimonio, relación] to wreck; [pareja] to break up
    3. [hacienda, fortuna] to squander
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    v/t
    1 destroy
    2 ( estropear) ruin, wreck
    * * *
    destruir {41} vt
    : to destroy
    * * *
    destruir vb to destroy

    Spanish-English dictionary > destruir

  • 3 devastar

    v.
    to devastate.
    El fuego barrió con todo el pueblo The fire devastated the village.
    * * *
    1 to devastate, ravage, lay waste
    * * *
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to devastate
    * * *
    = devastate, wreak + devastation, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, lay + waste to, shatter, desolate.
    Ex. The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.
    Ex. This article describes the experiences of a fledgling information system in dealing with a hurricane which wreaked devastation on some of the most remote areas of Hawaii = Este artículo describe las experiencias de un sistema de información nuevo al verse afectado por un huracán que devastó algunas de las zonas más remotas de Hawaii.
    Ex. Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex. The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex. Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered.
    Ex. You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to devastate
    * * *
    = devastate, wreak + devastation, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, lay + waste to, shatter, desolate.

    Ex: The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.

    Ex: This article describes the experiences of a fledgling information system in dealing with a hurricane which wreaked devastation on some of the most remote areas of Hawaii = Este artículo describe las experiencias de un sistema de información nuevo al verse afectado por un huracán que devastó algunas de las zonas más remotas de Hawaii.
    Ex: Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex: The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex: Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered.
    Ex: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.

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    devastar [A1 ]
    vt
    to devastate
    * * *

    devastar ( conjugate devastar) verbo transitivo
    to devastate
    devastar verbo transitivo to devastate
    ' devastar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    devastate
    - ravage
    * * *
    to devastate
    * * *
    v/t devastate
    * * *
    : to devastate

    Spanish-English dictionary > devastar

  • 4 acceso violento

    m.
    forcible entry.
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    (n.) = paroxysm
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a ' paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * * *
    (n.) = paroxysm

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a ' paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Spanish-English dictionary > acceso violento

  • 5 ataque violento

    m.
    violent attack, coup de main.
    * * *
    (n.) = paroxysm
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a ' paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * * *
    (n.) = paroxysm

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a ' paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ataque violento

  • 6 combustión

    f.
    1 combustion.
    2 ambustion.
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    1 combustion, burning
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    femenino combustion
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    = combustion, burning.
    Ex. This article relates the development of an information storage and retrieval system for combustion research.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    ----
    * cámara de combustión = combustion chamber.
    * combustión espontánea = spontaneous combustion.
    * combustión lenta = smouldering combustion.
    * motor de combustión = combustion engine.
    * motor de combustión interna = internal combustion engine.
    * * *
    femenino combustion
    * * *
    = combustion, burning.

    Ex: This article relates the development of an information storage and retrieval system for combustion research.

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * cámara de combustión = combustion chamber.
    * combustión espontánea = spontaneous combustion.
    * combustión lenta = smouldering combustion.
    * motor de combustión = combustion engine.
    * motor de combustión interna = internal combustion engine.

    * * *
    combustion
    combustión espontánea spontaneous combustion
    * * *

    combustión sustantivo femenino
    combustion
    combustión sustantivo femenino combustion
    ' combustión' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    motor
    English:
    combustion
    - combustion engine
    - exhaust
    - internal-combustion engine
    * * *
    combustion
    combustión espontánea spontaneous combustion;
    combustión lenta slow combustion;
    combustión nuclear nuclear combustion
    * * *
    f combustion
    * * *
    combustión nf, pl - tiones : combustion

    Spanish-English dictionary > combustión

  • 7 de la misma categoría que

    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * * *

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de la misma categoría que

  • 8 del mismo calibre que

    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * * *

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Spanish-English dictionary > del mismo calibre que

  • 9 falta de visión de futuro

    (n.) = shortsightedness, nearsightedness [near-sightedness], myopia
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex. The nearsightedness in these works is mirrored in contemporary American analysis of events & life.
    Ex. We have demonstrated that managerial myopia may result in actions that maximize the short-term market value, not the fundamental value, of the firm.
    * * *
    (n.) = shortsightedness, nearsightedness [near-sightedness], myopia

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Ex: The nearsightedness in these works is mirrored in contemporary American analysis of events & life.
    Ex: We have demonstrated that managerial myopia may result in actions that maximize the short-term market value, not the fundamental value, of the firm.

    Spanish-English dictionary > falta de visión de futuro

  • 10 fanático

    adj.
    fanatical, fanatic, bigoted.
    m.
    1 fanatic, fan, blind follower.
    2 extremist, fanatic, holder of extreme views, hothead.
    3 crazy fan, geek.
    4 religious fanatic, bigot.
    * * *
    1 fanatic, fanatical
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 fanatic
    * * *
    (f. - fanática)
    noun adj.
    * * *
    fanático, -a
    1.
    2.
    SM / F [gen] fanatic; LAm (Dep) fan
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo fanatical
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino (Pol, Relig) fanatic; ( entusiasmado) fanatic (colloq); ( de fútbol) (AmS period) fan
    * * *
    = radical, fanatic, over zealous [overzealous], hothead, hot-headed [hotheaded], zealot, bigot.
    Ex. A similar approach to arrangement, but one which is less radical than reader interest arrangement, is to rely upon broad categorisation rather than detailed specification.
    Ex. No one but an obsessed fanatic would suggest that reading is all or enough in itself.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex. This put the matter down to the work of a marginal fringe of hotheads & lunatics.
    Ex. The 1996 film of 'Romeo and Juliet' is a gripping presentation of Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers in an impulsive, hot-headed, violent world.
    Ex. The author points to the threat posed to the success of the Linux open source operating system by Linux zealots determined to wage war on Microsoft by challenging in on the basis of desktop computing.
    Ex. It has become far too easy for charlatans and bigots to harness religion to their own political agenda.
    ----
    * casi fanático = near-frantic.
    * fanático del deporte = sports freak.
    * fanático religioso = religious zealot, religionist, religious bigot.
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo fanatical
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino (Pol, Relig) fanatic; ( entusiasmado) fanatic (colloq); ( de fútbol) (AmS period) fan
    * * *
    = radical, fanatic, over zealous [overzealous], hothead, hot-headed [hotheaded], zealot, bigot.

    Ex: A similar approach to arrangement, but one which is less radical than reader interest arrangement, is to rely upon broad categorisation rather than detailed specification.

    Ex: No one but an obsessed fanatic would suggest that reading is all or enough in itself.
    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex: This put the matter down to the work of a marginal fringe of hotheads & lunatics.
    Ex: The 1996 film of 'Romeo and Juliet' is a gripping presentation of Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers in an impulsive, hot-headed, violent world.
    Ex: The author points to the threat posed to the success of the Linux open source operating system by Linux zealots determined to wage war on Microsoft by challenging in on the basis of desktop computing.
    Ex: It has become far too easy for charlatans and bigots to harness religion to their own political agenda.
    * casi fanático = near-frantic.
    * fanático del deporte = sports freak.
    * fanático religioso = religious zealot, religionist, religious bigot.

    * * *
    fanático1 -ca
    fanatical
    fanático2 -ca
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Pol, Relig) fanatic
    2 (entusiasmado) fanatic ( colloq)
    es un fanático de la música clásica ( fam); he's mad o crazy about classical music ( colloq), he's a classical music fanatic o freak ( colloq)
    es una fanática de la gimnasia she's a gym fanatic, she's fanatical about gym
    * * *

    fanático
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    fanatical
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino ( en general) fanatic;
    es un fanático de la gimnasia he's a gym fanatic;

    ( de fútbol) (AmS period) fan
    fanático,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 fanatical
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 fanatic
    2 (muy aficionado) enthusiast: es un fanático del cine negro, he's a film noir fanatic
    ' fanático' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adherirse
    - fanática
    English:
    addicted
    - fanatic
    - fanatical
    - fiend
    - freak
    - zealot
    * * *
    fanático, -a
    ♦ adj
    fanatical
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [exaltado] fanatic;
    Dep fanatical supporter
    2. [aficionado]
    es una fanática del cine she's mad about cinema o the movies;
    * * *
    I adj fanatical
    II m, fanática f fanatic
    * * *
    fanático, -ca adj & n
    : fanatic

    Spanish-English dictionary > fanático

  • 11 fundamentalista

    adj.
    fundamentalist.
    f. & m.
    fundamentalist.
    * * *
    1 fundamentalist
    1 fundamentalist
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino y femenino fundamentalist
    * * *
    = fundamentalist, over zealous [overzealous].
    Ex. The archives of the Billy Graham Center document the nondenominational efforts of North American fundamentalist and evangelical Protestants to spread the gospel.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino y femenino fundamentalist
    * * *
    = fundamentalist, over zealous [overzealous].

    Ex: The archives of the Billy Graham Center document the nondenominational efforts of North American fundamentalist and evangelical Protestants to spread the gospel.

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    * * *
    adj/mf
    fundamentalist
    * * *

    fundamentalista sustantivo masculino fundamentalist
    ' fundamentalista' also found in these entries:
    English:
    fundamentalist
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    fundamentalist
    ♦ nmf
    fundamentalist
    * * *
    I adj fundamentalist
    II m/f fundamentalist

    Spanish-English dictionary > fundamentalista

  • 12 miopía

    f.
    nearsightedness, near-sightedness, short sight, shortsightedness.
    * * *
    1 short-sightedness
    * * *
    SF short-sightedness, near-sightedness (EEUU), myopia frm
    * * *
    a) (Med, Ópt) myopia (tech), nearsightedness (AmE), short-sightedness (BrE)
    b) ( falta de perspicacia) shortsightedness
    * * *
    = shortsightedness, nearsightedness [near-sightedness], myopia.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex. The seers -- the sybils and prophets -- of Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling reveal imperfections of bodily sight (such as near- and far- sightedness), emphasizing their spiritual foresight.
    Ex. Among the refractive errors, myopia is a leading cause of visual impairment throughout the world and its prevalence is on the increase.
    * * *
    a) (Med, Ópt) myopia (tech), nearsightedness (AmE), short-sightedness (BrE)
    b) ( falta de perspicacia) shortsightedness
    * * *
    = shortsightedness, nearsightedness [near-sightedness], myopia.

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Ex: The seers -- the sybils and prophets -- of Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling reveal imperfections of bodily sight (such as near- and far- sightedness), emphasizing their spiritual foresight.
    Ex: Among the refractive errors, myopia is a leading cause of visual impairment throughout the world and its prevalence is on the increase.

    * * *
    1 ( Med, Ópt) myopia ( tech), nearsightedness ( AmE), short-sightedness ( BrE)
    2 (falta de perspicacia) shortsightedness
    miopía política political shortsightedness
    * * *

    miopía sustantivo femenino
    a) (Med, Ópt) myopia (tech), nearsightedness (AmE), short-sightedness (BrE)


    miopía sustantivo femenino short-sightedness
    ' miopía' also found in these entries:
    English:
    myopia
    - near-sightedness
    - short-sightedness
    * * *
    1. [en la visión] short-sightedness, Espec myopia
    2. [falta de perspicacia] short-sightedness
    * * *
    f near-sightedness, short-sightedness
    * * *
    : myopia, nearsightedness

    Spanish-English dictionary > miopía

  • 13 paroxismo

    m.
    paroxysm.
    * * *
    1 paroxysm
    * * *

    paroxismo de risa — convulsions pl of laughter

    * * *
    masculino paroxysm
    * * *
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a ' paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    * * *
    masculino paroxysm
    * * *

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a ' paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    * * *
    paroxysm
    en el paroxismo de los celos in a fit o ( liter) paroxysm of jealousy
    * * *

    paroxismo sustantivo masculino paroxysm: su música te conduce al paroxismo, his music is out of this world
    ' paroxismo' also found in these entries:
    English:
    fever
    - paroxysm
    * * *
    paroxysm;
    su furia llegó al paroxismo her rage reached a climax
    * * *
    m MED, fig
    paroxysm

    Spanish-English dictionary > paroxismo

  • 14 quema

    f.
    burning.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: quemar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: quemar.
    * * *
    1 (acción, efecto) burning
    2 (fuego) fire
    \
    huir de la quema to beat it, flee
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=incendio) fire; (=combustión) burning; LAm (Agr) burning-off (of scrub)

    salvarse de la quema —

    2) Arg (=vertedero) rubbish dump
    3)

    hacer quema — (=acertar) to hit the target

    4) Méx (=peligro) danger
    * * *
    1) ( acción de quemar) burning

    huir de la quema: trataron de huir de la quema — they tried to get out before things got too hot

    2) (AmL) (Agr) burn-off
    3) (Arg) ( basural) garbage dump (AmE), rubbish dump o tip (BrE)
    * * *
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    ----
    * quema de arbustos = bush burning.
    * quema de libros = book burning.
    * quema de matorrales = bush burning.
    * * *
    1) ( acción de quemar) burning

    huir de la quema: trataron de huir de la quema — they tried to get out before things got too hot

    2) (AmL) (Agr) burn-off
    3) (Arg) ( basural) garbage dump (AmE), rubbish dump o tip (BrE)
    * * *

    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    * quema de arbustos = bush burning.
    * quema de libros = book burning.
    * quema de matorrales = bush burning.

    * * *
    [ S ] prohibida la quema de basuras the burning of garbage ( AmE) o ( BrE) rubbish is prohibited
    huir de la quema: trataron de huir de la quema they tried to get out before things got too hot o before the going got too tough
    pocas estaciones se salvaron de la quema few stations escaped closure o the axe
    B ( Arg) (basurero) garbage dump ( AmE), rubbish dump o tip ( BrE)
    * * *

    Del verbo quemar: ( conjugate quemar)

    quema es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    quema    
    quemar
    quemar ( conjugate quemar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹basura/documentos/leña/CDs› to burn

    b) ‹herejes/brujas› to burn … at the stake

    2 ‹ calorías› to burn up;
    ‹ grasa› to burn off
    3
    a) ‹comida/mesa/mantel› to burn;

    ( con la plancha) to scorch
    b) [líquido/vapor] to scald

    c) [ ácido] ‹ropa/piel› to burn

    d) ‹ motor› to burn … out;

    ‹ fusible› to blow
    e) [ sol] ‹ plantas› to scorch;

    ‹ piel› to burn;
    ( broncear) (AmL) to tan
    verbo intransitivo
    a) [plato/sartén] to be very hot;

    [café/sopa] to be boiling (hot) (colloq)
    b) [ sol] to burn

    quemarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) ( refl) (con fuego, calor) to burn oneself;

    (con líquido, vapor) to scald oneself;
    ‹mano/lengua› to burn;
    ‹pelo/cejas› to singe

    (— broncearse) (AmL) to tan
    2

    [ edificio] to burn down
    b) ( sufrir daños) [alfombra/vestido] to get burned;

    [ comida] to burn;

    3 [ persona] ( desgastarse) to burn oneself out
    quema sustantivo femenino burning
    ♦ Locuciones: huir de la quema, to get away
    quemar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (con el sol, fuego, etc) to burn
    2 (con líquido) to scald
    3 fam (psíquicamente) to burn out
    II vi (una bebida, etc) to be boiling hot
    ' quema' also found in these entries:
    English:
    boiling
    - burning
    * * *
    quema nf
    burning;
    los soldados procedieron a la quema del pueblo the soldiers set fire to the village;
    prohibida la quema de rastrojos stubble burning prohibited;
    huir de la quema to get out before it is too late;
    salvarse de la quema to escape the carnage o rout
    * * *
    f burning
    * * *
    quema nf
    1) fuego: fire
    2) : burning

    Spanish-English dictionary > quema

  • 15 extremista2

    2 = fire-breathing, radical, extremist, over zealous [overzealous].
    Ex. Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.
    Ex. A similar approach to arrangement, but one which is less radical than reader interest arrangement, is to rely upon broad categorisation rather than detailed specification.
    Ex. Extremist material, although housed separately, is classified in the same manner as the regular collection, preceded by a designation signifying literature of an anti-Semitic nature.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    Spanish-English dictionary > extremista2

  • 16 extremista

    adj.
    extremist.
    f. & m.
    extremist, holder of extreme views, borderline fanatic, out and outer.
    * * *
    1 extremist
    1 extremist
    * * *
    noun mf. adj.
    * * *
    ADJ SMF extremist
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo ( extremo) extreme; (Pol) extremist
    II
    masculino y femenino (Pol) extremist
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo ( extremo) extreme; (Pol) extremist
    II
    masculino y femenino (Pol) extremist
    * * *
    extremista1
    1 = extremist, hardliner.

    Ex: This paper examines the ways in which extremists and moderates in the two communities frame the televised representation of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

    Ex: Iranians have voted for hardliners just out of spite.

    extremista2
    2 = fire-breathing, radical, extremist, over zealous [overzealous].

    Ex: Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.

    Ex: A similar approach to arrangement, but one which is less radical than reader interest arrangement, is to rely upon broad categorisation rather than detailed specification.
    Ex: Extremist material, although housed separately, is classified in the same manner as the regular collection, preceded by a designation signifying literature of an anti-Semitic nature.
    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

    * * *
    (extremo, exagerado) extreme; ( Pol) extremist
    ( Pol) extremist
    extremistas de derechas right-wing extremists
    es un extremista que no hace nada a medias he's so extreme, he never does things by halves
    * * *

    extremista adjetivo ( extremo) extreme;
    (Pol) extremist
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (Pol) extremist
    extremista adjetivo & mf Pol extremist
    ' extremista' also found in these entries:
    English:
    extremist
    - extreme
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    extremist;
    ¡no seas extremista!, no es para tanto don't exaggerate! it's not that bad
    ♦ nmf
    extremist
    * * *
    I adj extreme
    II m/f POL extremist
    * * *
    extremista adj & nmf
    : extremist

    Spanish-English dictionary > extremista

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