In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
1.1ángulo masculinean angle of 45°/a 45° angle — un ángulo de 45°
- angle of approach — ángulo de aterrizaje
- at an angle
- she wore her hat at an angle — llevaba el sombrero ladeado
- at an angle to the wall — formando un ángulo con la pared
- the ball went off at an angle — la pelota salió torcida
- to cut sth at an angle — cortar algo al sesgo
- Extension involves the triceps muscle, and when fully extended the arm should be in a straight line - the elbow angle at 180 degrees.
- The lateral axes (first order shoots) diverge from the main trunk at angles of 80 degrees.
- The line must have clean-outs with tight fitting caps every 75 feet or less, or where the line has angles greater than 45 degrees.
- The curve value is the number of degrees formed by the angle of intersection of these perpendiculars.
- Bring the weights back down until your elbows form 90-degree angles.
- Three hollow rays diverge at angles of 120 degrees from the central part.
- The angles between two intersecting straight lines are equal.
- Both slopes intersect resting plane at angles varying between 50 and 70 degrees.
- The ICC experts say Muralitharan bends his arm to an angle of 14 degrees, and is proposing to allow a bend of up to 15 degrees.
- Figure 1 shows elevation angles for latitude 82 degrees north.
- Reticles are in the second focal plane, so as power is changed the angle subtended by the space between lines varies.
- For the three line locus we are given a point P and three directed lines a, b, and c drawn to meet at given angles, three fixed straight lines.
- The better the defender's peripheral vision, the closer the angle between man and ball approaches 180 degrees.
- The vertical time axis is the product of time and the speed of light so that world lines of light rays leaving the origin make a forty-five degree angle with each space axis.
- I found it, I measured it, and, well, I'm sorry, people, but an obtuse angle of 134 degrees just ain't a corner.
- Bend your elbows at 90-degree angles and keep them close to your body.
- Some others may have been produced by sapping or sub-surface flows, giving shape to short stubby channels that join at 90 degree angles.
- Finally, objects subtending an angle less than 5 degrees cannot be detected irrespective of the L-receptor contrast value.
- The shear angle is the angle of intersection between the tangent to the waveform at position s and the tangent to the waveform at the base of the flagellum.
- Located where the bisectors of a triangle's three angles intersect, the incenter is the center of the largest circle that can be inscribed inside that triangle.
- The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side.
- Exposed structure, unusual angles, and leaning walls give the building a noninstitutional energy.
- She examined the floor and all angles of the doorway and ladder, looking for any kind of plausible explanation.
- The sharp angle breaks up the structure, making it feel lighter.
- Even so, Leroy has created a lovely hotel, and one that's quite unlike any other - a mix of wacky curves and angles, secret spaces and roaring log fires.
- There are no angles or corners in the enclosure with which to orient yourself.
- It was all tan brick and glass, the epitome of modern chic with sharp angles and vaulted ceilings.
- As he turned an angle of the building, he heard a sound as of a door gently closed, and saw in the darkness, indistinctly, the figure of a man, which instantly disappeared among the trees of the lawn.
- The south front of the curtain, overlooking the crag, is tower-free but the south-east angle is projected outside to create a sort of bastion.
- With its metal projections and angles, wooden recesses and thin walls it has a serendipitous quality.
- Tonight of all nights you can expect bars and restaurants to bedeck every angle with TVs and those TVs to be tuned into the national elections.
- Scrim joints at internal and external angles (except where coincident with a metal bead).
- On the other side of campus, the sun beats on new red-brick buildings with modern angles and minimalist steeples.
- Looking at Tony Bevan's work almost makes your own neck ache, such is the empathy one feels with the contorted angles and distorted structures of his heads.
- If the nest is lined with soft or rotting bits of wood secured in the internal angles, the pair will derive endless pleasure from reducing it to crumbs.
- Because corners or other defined angles are the hardest ones to fit, select stones for those areas first and set them in place.
2.1(position)ángulo masculineseen from a different angle — visto desde otro ángulo
- a high-/low-angle shot — una toma desde un ángulo superior/inferior
- In bright sunlight, the blocks and shadows play curious visual tricks on the eye as you view the structure from different angles.
- Also, the colour of the denomination numeral shifts between gold and green when the banknote is viewed at different angles.
- The camera angles were outstanding and provided one of the most intimate viewing experiences you will ever find for a show of this magnitude.
- Steven McDonnell added a free before he scored a great individual point from the tightest of angles in the right corner of the pitch.
- The sphere was scanned with a 1 mm step size, and the THz image was obtained for 18 different projection angles.
- It's composed of shots of the interior of the building from various angles, with a natural sound track; it's a nice, simple film.
- They used to come at teams wave upon wave, using the width of the field to vary the angle of assault and building up such speed and crispness in their passing that when the time came for an incursion it would be a sudden thrust.
- Horizontal and vertical viewing angles are also fairly poor, with the screen looking washed out at you move up and down and going dark as you move to the side.
- They had probably seen planes hitting buildings from a dozen angles.
- I spent years memorizing every strategy, learning how to read gun angles, bullet projections, all of it!
- The silk medium makes a filter effect on the pieces; viewing from angles other than directly in front ‘smudges’ the paintings.
- For someone like me, who has to bring his eyes very close to the monitor to read the text, the low viewing angles will pose a problem.
- He moved the camera to a lower angle as I switched positions.
- He's a master of visual flash, positioning cameras at myriad angles to enhance every car crash, explosion or close-up gun shot.
- You can solve most background problems by moving the subject, the camera or changing the angle of view.
- For example, the left-hand image above is a photograph of a flat wall of a building taken from an angle.
- Despite the team's expressed desire to create new forms in snow, the structure from certain angles had a traditional igloolike appearance.
- Some of this can be alleviated by changing the camera angle - the overhead view being the most useful.
- The game uses both first- and third-person camera angles to view the action.
- The mirror deflects a laser beam by rapidly switching its angle of orientation, building up the picture pixel by pixel.
2.2(point of view)perspectiva femininepunto de vista masculinethey studied it from the political angle — lo analizaron desde el punto de vista político / con una perspectiva política
- we need a new angle on the subject — tenemos que darle un nuevo enfoque al tema
- In Masters week it comes into its own; a special supplement is produced every day with every conceivable angle on the great tournament on its doorstep meticulously covered.
- There followed a novel which was praised by Taki in the Spectator for its angle on the Western malaise.
- Clay considers a new angle on the control of community structure.
- Another angle on this comes from a writer called Johann Christoph Arnold.
- Intel has a strong commitment to employee wellbeing and approaches the issue from two angles.
- Do you reject this idea because you've thought through the issue, considered it from various angles, possibly testing it and then rejecting it?
- When the subject matter is childhood itself, everyone has an angle on it, be they a child or an adult: it doesn't matter which end of the telescope you look through.
- Try approaching the issue from many different angles.
- But, to the extent that I had any angle on this issue, it was from interviewing current and retired career officers over the last year.
- For me, I guess the core reason was ‘fascination’ - things firing my imagination and integrating that with my angle on approaching the world.
- I approached reproductive health issues from two angles.
- Diana also points out a different angle to consider.
- And then I thought, well, this is a different angle on it.
- Whatever the issue of the day's, he's got an angle on it.
- But we approach a lot of issues from different angles and different viewpoints, and I respect him for that.
- I knew people like Liam in the children's home, it gives me a fresher angle on him than most have.
- It might help us get a new angle on what we have here in Saltaire as well as finding out more about the other World Heritage sites.
- If his latest drama promises to take a new angle on a popular political debate, his other new stage work, The Don, is, he believes, his most controversial.
- I have a weird angle on things and people find it odd.
- For the historically minded, the Glenbow Museum offers a different angle on those good old boys of Canadian art, the Group of Seven.
2.3(scheme, ploy)he knows all the angles — se las sabe todas informal
1(direct)(shot/pass) sesgar(lamp) orientar(lamp) dirigir
2(bias, slant)the story was angled to show their actions in the best possible light — el artículo estaba sesgado a favor de su gestión
- his column is angled at a middle-class readership — su columna está dirigida a lectores de clase media
1(fish)pescar (con caña)
- Normally tranquil Morden Hall Park has been beset over the past months by fisherman angling in the River Wandle, even though a by-law bans fishing because of conservation reasons.
- At sea three more fatalities occurred from people angling from boats and rock fishing off our coastline.
- If you like to go fishing, chances are you've angled for trout.
- Afterwards, Pa pointed out a good spot and Adam settled down on a large rock to angle for catfish.
- Stepping back in time, Edison broke a bamboo fishing rod while angling near Rawlins and that night he threw it on the campfire.
- When possible, the field crew angled in the vicinity of the fish they were tracking, and on several occasions captured striped bass in this manner.
- Sports fisherman Tomas Plattig, who has been angling on the Capilano for 25 years, said he became concerned this week after noticing the shopping carts in the river.
- Salmon and sardine would be better fish to angle for.
- For the urban poor, the storm waters bring a unique opportunity to angle for fish in the swollen canals criss-crossing the city.
- This piece of kit is obviously designed for world-wide distribution and seems to be the ideal tool for all lure anglers whether they angle in salt or fresh-water.
- Even so, carp anglers have been theorising on the use of ‘specials’ for as long as people have angled for cypry, and the carp bait industry is huge.
1anglo masculineangla feminine
- These fierce and savage warriors actually consisted of Jutes, Friesians, Angles and Saxons.
- The Romans, the Angles, the Normans - and, more recently, the industrial revolution - all left their mark.
- With the departure of the Romans, the British Isles were invaded by a succession of warlike peoples from the European mainland, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; there were also persistent Danish raids.
- The collapse of Roman rule in the early fifth century ended urban life, as groups of Germanic Angles, Jutes, and Saxons carved the country into tribal enclaves and later created the heptarchy.
- In the eleventh century, the Scottish kingdom was a politico-ethnic patchwork of Scots, Picts, Angles, and Britons.
- His great-grandson Edward began as king of the West Saxons, became king of Mercia after the death of his sister who ruled there, and took over the kingdom of the East Angles after a series of military campaigns.
- From these and other scraps came the long-accepted story of the Anglo-Saxon takeover of Britain: of raids by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from north Germany and Denmark, followed by piecemeal settlement and conquest.
- The Angles held Gregory in particularly high esteem, and traced their conversion to his missionary efforts in 597 A.D., even though Roman Britain had seen Christianity hundreds of years earlier.
- This explanation sounds plausible, but we need to be wary of assuming that the Danes and East Angles still thought of themselves as fundamentally different from one another.
- I have always understood the Angles, Saxons and Jutes were Germanic tribes who moved to Britain following the retreat of the Roman Empire.
- But her report says the citadel ‘puts Stirling firmly on the map at a time when Picts, Scots, Britons and Angles ruled their separate kingdoms in the four quarters of mainland Scotland’.
- The tribes we're following - the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes - lived on the coast of West Germany and Denmark and spoke various Frisian dialects.
- The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards.
- We could then be clear whether the ‘aboriginal’ British are the Picts, Scots and Welsh, or whether such recent immigrants as Angles, Saxons, Danes and suchlike also qualify.
- The story of Yorkshire dialect began in earnest in the fifth century AD with the arrival on these shores of the Angles, Saxons and other Germanic migrants from what is now northern Germany and southern Scandinavia.
- Yet Angles and Saxons were settlers from the continent, and for 250 years before the Norman Conquest Britain and Ireland were subject to more invasion and settlement from Scandinavia.
- In an attempt to track the genes associated with common diseases, the University of Oxford is conducting a new project to find genetic links to invading populations of Vikings, Saxons and Angles.
- The name of the country and the term ‘English’ derive from the Old English word for one of the three Germanic peoples that invaded the British Isles in the fifth century C. E., the Angles.
- The Angles eventually took the remainder of England as far north as the Firth of Forth, including the future Edinburgh and the Scottish lowlands’.
- To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped.
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