Letter in spanish
pronunciation: kɑɹ̩tɑ part of speech: noun
letter1 = letra.
Example: There are only two sets of symbols whose orders are reasonably universally recognised: the letters of the Roman alphabet (either small or capitals), and Arabic numerals.more:
» alphabetic letter = letra del alfabeto. [Símbolo del alfabeto como opuesto a número romano]
Example: How, then, is one to file a character which is at the same time an alphabetic letter and a roman numeral?.» alphabet letter = letra del alfabeto.
Example: According to BS1749, ampersands file before any alphabet letter.» arts and letters = filosofía y letras.
Example: Political science was the most popular undergraduate degree for lawyers working in all sectors, followed either by education or arts and letters.» black letter = letra gótica.
Example: Books in English began to be set in roman from the late 1550s, although the Bible survived in 'black letter' until 1640.» block letter = mayúscula, letra mayúscula, letra de imprenta, letra de molde, carácter de imprenta. [Generalmente usado en plural]
Example: Please fill out this form in block letters and send it back to us as soon as possible in order to benefit from pre-registration fees.» bold letters = letra negrita.
Example: When you DISPLAY or TYPE records, your search terms appear in green (bold letters on monochrome monitors).» broken letter = letra rota o a medio imprimir, letra cuya impresión en papel no está completa.
Example: And if you examine a certain page where you will find a broken letter in one, then you will also find it in the other one.» capital letter = letra mayúscula.
Example: Main classes are denoted by a capital letter, and in most classes a second capital letter is used to signal major sections or subclasses.» follow + a rule to the letter = seguir una norma al pie de la letra, seguir una regla al pie de la letra, seguir una norma a rajatabla, seguir una regla a rajatabla.
Example: The organisers could only confidently claim that less than 60 cars followed the rules to the letter throughout the entire parade.» follow + Nombre + to the letter = seguir Algo al pie de la letra, seguir Algo a rajatabla.
Example: Treating everybody fairly without showing favoritism is equally important; that also means following policies and procedures to the letter both with inmate patrons and inmate library workers.» jumbled letters = revoltijo de letras.
Example: These include: matching characters with nursery rhymes; quizzes; colouring and cutting out; treasure hunts; fancy dress parades; making words of jumbled letters; and a pets' parade.» keep + strictly to the letter = seguir al pie de la letra, seguir a rajatabla.
Example: Sometimes when we keep strictly to the letter of the law, we forget the spirit of the law, what the lawgiver intended.» kerned letter = letra desbordante, letra saliente. [En tipografía, letra algunos de cuyos trazos sobresalen del cuerpo de la misma]
Example: Alternatively vowels could be cast without accents as kerned letters, with bodies only half as wide as usual, part of the face being cast on the overhang, or kern.» letter by letter alphabetisation = ordenación alfabética letra a letra. [Método de ordenación alfabética por el cual el espacio de las palabras compuestas no tiene valor ninguno lo que daría lugar a la siguiente secuencia: Carbonería, Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal; mientras que la ordenación palabra por palabra daría lugar a: Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal, Carbonería]
Example: Alphabetization in the thesaurus is letter by letter, so that 'Lawrencium' precedes 'Law reports'.» letter by letter arrangement = ordenación letra a letra. [Método de ordenación alfabética por el cual el espacio de las palabras compuestas no tiene valor ninguno lo que daría lugar a la siguiente secuencia: Carbonería, Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal; mientras que la ordenación palabra por palabra daría lugar a: Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal, Carbonería]
Example: All three of these publications adopt a 'word by word' (or 'nothing before something') rather than a 'letter by letter' (or 'all through') arrangement.» letter-by-letter filing = ordenación letra a letra. [Método de ordenación alfabética por el cual el espacio de las palabras compuestas no tiene valor ninguno lo que daría lugar a la siguiente secuencia: Carbonería, Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal; mientras que la ordenación palabra por palabra daría lugar a: Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal, Carbonería]
Example: Letter-by-letter filing takes no account of spaces, and requires the filer to file in alphabetical order merely in response to the letters in the heading to be filed.» letter by letter method = método de ordenación letra a letra. [Método de ordenación alfabética por el cual el espacio de las palabras compuestas no tiene valor ninguno lo que daría lugar a la siguiente secuencia: Carbonería, Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal; mientras que la ordenación palabra por palabra daría lugar a: Carbón mineral, Carbón vegetal, Carbonería]
Example: One is known as the 'letter by letter' or 'all-through' method and the other as the 'word by word' or 'nothing before something' method.» letter-form = letra.
Example: They were used for elaborate illustrations, stylized ornaments, initial letters, and for words in large or complex letter-forms that were not available as type = Se utilizaban para ilusraciones compicadas, adornos estilizados, letras iniciales y para letras grandes o complejas que no se podían conseguir en tipos.» letter-perfect = letra a letra.
Example: If a particular name is already in the system, there is no need to re-enter it letter-perfect in order to catalog the document correctly.» letter set = juego de letras. [Colección de las letras del abecedario, generalmente como figuras recortadas y de tamaño grande, que se utiliza para poner mensajes en un sitio visible desde cierta distancia]
Example: The aim of the scheme is to organise a central pool of library displays (posters, polystyrene cutouts, mobiles, letter sets etc.) = El objetivo de este sistema de clasificación es organizar un fondo común central de objetos utilizados en las exposiciones de la biblioteca (posters, recortables de poliestireno, juguetes móviles colgantes, juegos de letras, etc.).» letter(s) rogatory = comisión rogatoria, carta rogatoria.
Example: They are likely to initiate the process of letter rogatory which is a formal request from a local court to a foreign court for assistance in the fake call centre case that duped thousands of gullible citizens.» lower case letter = letra minúscula.
Example: A mixed notation uses more than one kind of symbol such as, for example, a mixture of letters and numbers, or a mixture of lower case and upper case letters in specifying subjects.» man of letters = hombre de letras, hombre de humanidades, letrado, literato, erudito.
Example: The library was greatly expanded in the late 1650s to accommodate the needs of the scholars and men of letters attached to Fouquet and to add lustre to his political career.» red-letter day = día señalado, día especial, día memorable.
Example: Yes, November 5th 1955 was a red-letter day in the history of science, it was the day Doc Emmet Brown invented time travel.» signature-letter = letra de signatura. [Letra a modo de signatura que antiguamente se colocaba al pie de los pliegos para indicarle al encuadernador el orden que éstos debían seguir]
Example: It was usual for duplicated signature-letters to be set out in full, but English printers in the eighteenth century preferred to set 3A for Aaa, 6A for Aaaaaa, etc..» small letter = letra minúscula.
Example: It makes no difference whether the loan types are entered as capital or as small letters.» swash letter = letra adornada. [En impresión, letra que tiene como fondo o que está incluida en un dibujo]
Example: The text of the title-page is copied in full, including all punctuation and such things as long f, swash letters, digraphs, and VV for W.» tied letters = letras conjuntas. [En impresión, letras que se imprimen de tal modo que un costado de una monta sobre la otra, como "æ"]
Example: Its x-height was notably small, and the fount was equipped with many ligatures (tied letters) and with upright capitals; it was quickly and widely imitated.» to the letter = a rajatabla, al pie de la letra.
Example: The analysis revealed that the translator, not keeping close to the letter of the original, acted as an interpreter of the tex.» two-letter = de dos letras.
Example: The TAG option can be appended to a DISPLAY command to cause two-letter tags to appear along the left side of record.» upper case letter = letra mayúscula.
Example: A mixed notation uses more than one kind of symbol such as, for example, a mixture of letters and numbers, or a mixture of lower case and upper case letters in specifying subjects.» wood letter = letra de madera.
Example: Wood letter was also produced in Europe but less copiously than in the United States, where later technical advances included die-stamping in place of pantographic copying, and wood letter with veneered and enamelled faces.» world of letters, the = mundo de las letras, el.
Example: This article looks at how the first of the electronic technologies, radio, was initially perceived in the world of letters and libraries.letter2 = carta.
Example: Thus, where the text of an article is interspersed amongst advertisements, letters and other contributions, only those pages on which parts of the article are printed are listed.more:
» answer + a letter = contestar una carta.
Example: And since I myself am not so prompt in answering letters, I appreciate other people being better than I am.» apostolic letter = carta apostólica, carta eclesiástica.
Example: Last Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI threw a spanner in the works with his long-awaited, much-rumored, and oft-debated apostolic letter which more or less gives any priest the choice of which Mass to offer.» autograph letter = carta autógrafa.
Example: Whether the item of information is in an encyclopaedia article, a textbook, a patent specification, an autograph letter, a citation in a bibliographic data-base, a trade catalogue, a newspaper article, an audio-cassette, or any possible alternative, it can only be traced by employing the access language of the collection.» business letter = carta comercial.
Example: This document is a long business letter detailing activities between a Scotch fish merchant and his Canadian suppliers.» certified letter = carta certificada.
Example: I got a certified letter from Microsoft the other day and after a bit of nerviness opening it up it turned out to be just junk mail.» chasing letter = recordatorio.
Example: As a result of a report from the supplier the production of chasing letters may be blocked, eg. if an item is reprinting.» circular letter = circular.
Example: The computer is also programmed to print out circular letters and address labels to obtain up-dated information, which are sent to agencies every six months.» collection of letters = epistolario.
Example: He had a penchant for letter writing, and offered his collection of letters to the Bodleian Library for the use of future historians.» confidential letter = carta personal, carta confidencial.
Example: But using her confidential letter to harm and embarrass her is absolutely without justification.» confirmation letter = carta de confirmación.
Example: A confirmation letter is sent out to customers to confirm a reservation.» covering letter = carta adjunta. [Carta de introducción o explicación que normalmente acompaña a un documento más complejo]
Example: The abstracts are then returned to the abstractor with a covering letter to explain that the purpose of the feedback is not to find fault but to share improvements.» cover letter = carta de presentación. [Carta de introducción o explicación que normalmente acompaña a un documento más complejo]
Example: This article examines the growth in the publishing of books on careers education in the USA, ranging from guides on writing resumes and cover letters to books on the metaphysics of work = Este artículo estudia el crecimiento de la publicación de libros sobre orientación profesional en los Estados Unidos, que abarcan desde guías sobre la confección de curriculums y cartas de presentación hasta tratados teóricos sobre la metafísica del trabajo.» ecclesiastic letter = carta apostólica, carta eclesiástica.
Example: Pope John Paul II, in an ecclesiastic letter to the Roman Catholic clergy, stressed celibacy as a prerequisite for the priesthood.» formal letter = carta formal.
Example: This worksheet helps students to write a formal letter asking for information.» frank + a letter = franquear una carta.
Example: Letters and parcels would be weighed by library staff and franked to show the correct amount in lieu of sticking on postage stamps.» French letter = condón, preservativo.
Example: I expect you find that difficult to believe, but in fact, when a guy is young, putting on a 'French letter' can be quite a nerve-racking thing.» informal letter = carta informal.
Example: The teacher wants us to write an informal letter to a friend and I don't even know where to begin!.» invitation letter = carta de invitación.
Example: Also included is a complete bibliography for all reference materials needed and samples of invitation letters, evaluations, and other items.» letter bomb = carta bomba.
Example: The letter bomb seriously injured her and caused extensive and irreparable damage to her resources.» letterbook [letter book] = libro de registro de entrada y salida de cartas.
Example: This article presents the letterbooks of six New Zealand chief post offices, (early 1880s-late 1910s) and their value as social and administrative archives.» letter-box = buzón.
Example: The difference between the two systems can be illustrated by analogy with a set of letter-boxes located in the entrance to an apartment block, with one box for each resident.» letterhead = membrete, papel con membrete.
Example: To be effective, the logo must be as easily recognizable on a large scale, such as on a billboard or on the side of a bookmobile, as it is on a small scale, such as on a letterhead, library card or form.» letter of appointment = carta de nombramiento. [Notificación que se manda a un solicitante de un trabajo para indicarle que ha sido elegido para ocupar el puesto y cualquier otra información pertinente]
Example: The file will start with the job description and personnel description, and will contain copies of the advertisement, the completed application form, references taken up, comments made during interview and the letter of appointment.» letter of complaint = queja, reclamación.
Example: In the course of reading this article, you may spot a factual error which makes you bristle, or you may think the writing is biased, but by now the ink has dried; all you can do is send a letter of complaint.» letter of confirmation = carta de confirmación.
Example: Upon receipt of the registration form and the payment, a letter of confirmation will be sent to the participants.» letter of dismissal = carta de despido.
Example: If the dismissal or termination was the result of a disciplinary action, then the letter of dismissal is open to the public.» letter of intent = carta de intenciones, declaración de intenciones.
Example: Following the issue of a letter of intent to major bodybuilders, the tender was drawn up requiring tenderers to submit a breakdown of costs.» letter of introduction = carta de presentación.
Example: Examples of letters of introduction and resumes are included.» letter of invitation = carta de invitación.
Example: An initial letter of invitation should include a stamped, self-addressed envelope.» Letter of Marque and Reprisal = patente de corso.
Example: Letters of Marque and Reprisal were the official documents by which 18th-century governments commissioned private commercial ships, known as privateers, to act on their behalf, attacking ships carrying the flags of enemy nations.» letter of recommendation = carta de recomendación.
Example: Researchers planning to work in UK libraries and archives, whether they are professors, freelance writers, or genealogists, will need to consider practical matters such as photocopying policies and letters of recommendation.» letter of reference = carta de recomendación.
Example: She had just received a letter from a former student who wanted a letter of reference.» letter of resignation = carta de dimisión.
Example: Letters of resignation are just a formality, and not even required in many companies (in my part of the world at least).» letter of support = carta de adhesión, carta de apoyo.
Example: Below are links to the text of letters of support received before and during the protest.» letter opener = abrecartas.
Example: The author discusses the evolution of silver letter openers designed by Georg Jensen silversmiths 1904-1994.» letter to the editor = cartas al director.
Example: Short communications, newspaper articles and letters to the editor present problems in abstracting, both from the selection viewpoint and also as to abstract content.» letter writing = redacción de cartas, escritura de cartas.
Example: He had a penchant for letter writing, and offered his collection of letters to the Bodleian Library for the use of future historians.» love letter = carta de amor.
Example: The film is also produced in an interactive format on DVD that lets viewers explore subjects related to Wilson, from the politics of his time to his love letters.» model letter = carta modelo.
Example: These model letters are not only for business correspondence, but also cover different topics such as invitations, sympathy, and congratulations to friends.» newsletter = boletín de noticias, circular, boletín informativo, hoja informativa. [Publicación seriada, normalmente distribuido regularmente, con información de interés para los miembros de una profesión o grupo]
Example: A newsletter is a serial publication consisting of one or a few printed sheets containing news and/or information of interest to a special group.» night letter = telegrama nocturno. [Telegrama de tarifa reducida cuya transmisión se hace durante la noche]
Example: The abstract should be a model of brevity, yet it should not read like a night letter that is costing the abstractor $500 a word.» open letter = carta abierta.
Example: The title of the article is 'Is the public library still searching for its identity?: an open letter from an outsider'.» order letter = carta de pedido.
Example: Order letters are usually used when requesting free publications or when a purchase order is not appropriate.» personal letter = carta personal.
Example: Before 1650 if scientists communicated with each other at all it was through the medium of personal letters.» poison-pen letter = diatriba.
Example: Suggestions, reactions, criticisms, praise, and poison-pen letters all will be gratefully received at [email protected].» private letter = carta personal.
Example: Her private letters reveal her frustration in being excluded by the nineteenth century scientific establishment.» recommendation letter = carta de recomendación.
Example: The recommendation letters provide a third person's perspective on the kind of person you are.» reference letter = carta de recomendación.
Example: Around this time of year, professors are up to their eyeballs in work and. are likely handling lots of requests for reference letters.» registered letter = carta certificada.
Example: The New Zealand Post Office Museum and Archives acquired the outward letterbooks and a number of registers (of correspondence, paid vouchers, overtime payments, registered letters etc) from several post offices in New Zealand.» send + a letter = enviar una carta.
Example: Sending a letter to Santa is as traditional as leaving him milk and cookies on Christmas Eve.» thank-you letter = carta de agradecimiento.
Example: In the second experiment, students who rated the course highly during the early part of the term were unaffected by a thank-you letter from the instructor.letter3 = rotular, inscribir. [Inscribir letras en la cubierta o páginas de un libro]
Example: A binder's title is the title lettered on the cover of an item by a binder, as distinguished from the title on the publisher's original cover.