Definitions in spanish

Definiciones

pronunciation: definiθioʊnes part of speech: noun
In gestures

definition1 = definición. [Descripción verbal de un concepto]

Example: Examine the definition of geography in a few dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

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» by definition = por definición, por naturaleza.

Example: By definition, these are benefits, often in cash, which the state has decided are required by various needy categories of its citizens.

» explode + definition = desarrollar una definición.

Example: This is why we quite often find that literary uses of language deliberately explode dictionary definitions, and by the particular way a particular author uses words, selects and orders them, they take on a highly personal color we call style.

» hammer out + a definition = elaborar una definición, llegar a una definición.

Example: One of the first and hardest tasks of the Working Party was to hammer out an agreed definition which would avoid confusion.

» liberal definition = definición libre.

Example: The same survey showed that given a liberal definition, about 68% of libraries were 'providing some level of I&R as a standard service'.

» operational definition = definición operativa, definición funcional, definición práctica. [Generalmente referido a una definición que se elabora no desde un punto de vista práctico para aplicarlo a una situación concreta más que desde el punto de vista etimológico o formal]

Example: The term must be reinstated in the official vocabulary of cataloguing and operational definitions of 'title proper' and 'subtitle' formulated = Se debe restituir el término en el vocabulario oficial de catalogación y se deben formular definiciones funcionales de los conceptos "título propiamente dicho" y "subtítulo".

» working definition = definición de trabajo.

Example: The glossary comprises working definitions of terms commonly in use in the various subject areas of library management.

definition2 = planteamiento. 

Example: Corporate reference collections may differ in kind and in definition from reference collections of other types of libraries.

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» redefinition = replanteamiento.

Example: The next institution to change drastically will be libraries and the change will be no less than a redefinition of purpose.
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