Man in spanish
pronunciation: oʊmbɹ̩e part of speech: noun
man [men, -pl.]1 = hombre, persona.
Example: No less prestigious an authority than a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the charges brought against the man principally responsible for that volume.more:
» a cloud no bigger than a man's hand = problema pequeño.
Example: By 1980 I had decided that developments were moving sufficiently rapidly to justify a new edition, revised to take into account the growth in the use of computer-based services which in 1977 in Australia were a cloud no bigger than a man's hand.» a dog is man's best friend = el perro es el mejor amigo del hombre.
Example: If a dog is man's best friend, and diamonds are a girl's best friend, which is the dumber sex?.» airman [airmen, -pl.] = aviador, piloto.
Example: This is foundation dedicate to preserving the history of America's first black military airmen.» alderman [aldermen, -pl.] = concejal.
Example: A group opposing the incumbent alderman decided that the board's feasibility study amounted to a covert plan to tear down the house that served as the library and erect an ugly building.» a man is only as good as his word = un hombre vale tanto como su palabra.
Example: Here is a company that still applies the principle that a man is only as good as his word.» a man of the people = ser un hombre de gentes.
Example: He is earthy, charismatic, a man of the people, & profoundly humane.» a man with a mission = un hombre con un objetivo muy claro, una persona con un objetivo muy claro.
Example: A leader in this sense is a man with a mission; he needs to believe in his mission, but his conviction must be shared by those he leads.» anchorman = presentador de noticias.
Example: I also remember the squarely reactionary and snide remarks by anchormen about her when she returned to Pakistan last year.» army man = soldado.
Example: The writer discusses the victualling of 17,000 army men in the two weeks leading up to the battle of Naseby in June 1645.» average man, the = ciudadano medio, el; persona típica, la. [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
Example: The average man is by nature indolent; he works as little as possible = El ciudadano medio es perezoso por naturaleza, trabaja lo menos posible.» bagman = vabagundo, vagamundo, mendigo, indigente.
Example: His hand went to the pistol in his belt as he turned and found a ragged, filthy bagman looking up at him from beneath a blanket of newspapers.» batsman = bateador.
Example: The England team form a guard of honour for retiring Australian batsman Justin Langer.» be a dead man/woman (walking) = ser hombre muerto, tener los días contados, no tener posibilidades, ser imposible, tener las horas contadas, quedar dos/tres telediarios, tener las uvas contadas.
Example: Probst thought he'd last longer, but I knew he was a dead man walking the minute he showed up.» be all things to all men = serlo todo para todos.
Example: Leaving aside the heretical thought that perhaps 'all things to all men' is exactly what the public library should be, this alone is not enough.» be a man of few words = ser un hombre de pocas palabras.
Example: He is a man of few words being always difficult to get anything out of him at all and when he does speak it is with a total lack of bombast.» be a man of his word = ser un hombre de palabra.
Example: Rove said simply that 'Senator Specter is a man of his word, and we'll take him at his word'.» be a man of the world = ser un hombre de mundo, ser un hombre que tiene mucho mundo.
Example: You can discuss anything with him -- he's a man of the world.» be man enough to = ser lo bastante hombre (como) para, ser lo suficiente hombre (como) para, ser lo bastante macho (como) para, ser lo suficiente macho (como) para.
Example: Some men are being driven away from macho occupations like surgery because they don't feel that they are 'man enough', according to new research.» best man, the = padrino, el.
Example: This was possibly the weepiest wedding we've worked to date, with everyone from the bride and groom themselves, to the father of the bride, the maid of honor and the best man all shedding a little tear at one point or another.» binman = basurero.
Example: A man who blocked in a rubbish lorry with his car in a dispute over waste collection was allegedly hit on the head and sworn at by a binman.» black man = hombre negro, negro.
Example: But he will soon discover that even then all the accidents of birth, upbringing, education, and social history will prevent his truly knowing the very thing he wants to know -- how can a white man experience directly what it means to be a black man.» blind man = ciego.
Example: Volunteering to answer a query that has not yet been asked is like helping a blind man to the other side of the street without first making sure he wants to cross.» boatman [boatmen, -pl.] = barquero.
Example: These descriptors are still alive: boatmen, city council-men, firemen, foremen, longshoremen, stunt men, statesmen, watchmen, man and manpower.» bogeyman [bogeymen] = coco, el; tío del saco, el; amenaza ficticia.
Example: The article is entitled 'Micrographics and eyestrain: more bogeyman than real threat'.» bookman [bookmen, -pl.] = bibliófilo.
Example: The article is entitled 'The wayward bookman: the decline, fall and historical obliteration of an ALA president'.» bowman [bowmen, -pl.] = arquero.
Example: Wallowing in the mud, they were easy targets for the English bowmen.» burly man = tiarrón, gigantón.
Example: The door was opened by a burly man with square eyeglasses on the tip of his nose.» businessman [businessmen, -pl.] = empresario, hombre de negocios.
Example: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.» cameraman = cámara, camarógrafo.
Example: The bride and groom had doubts about about their choice of wedding cameraman when he turned up looking scruffy and dishevelled.» cavalryman [cavalrymen, -pl.] = soldado de caballería.
Example: This is the perfect vacation destination and visitors can stay where cavalrymen once bunked.» caveman = hombre de las cavernas, cavernícola, troglodita.
Example: The course is an audio and visual presentation of some of the works of music, art, architectural development and homey philosophy from caveman through the present day.» cellarman = bodeguero.
Example: The cellarman's mission commences when the grapes enter the cellar and ends with bottling.» chairman [chairmen, pl.] = presidente, director, responsable. [Masculino]
Example: As head of a committee, and being recognized as such, it's perfectly all right with me if I'm called the chairman rather than the chairwoman.» Chinaman = chino. [Uso ofensivo]
Example: An innocent Chinese man was punched right on his left eye and yelled at 'We don't need Chinamen in this country!'.» city council-man = concejal municipal.
Example: These descriptors are still alive: boatmen, city council-men, firemen, foremen, longshoremen, stunt men, statesmen, watchmen, man and manpower.» coloured man = hombre negro, negro, hombre de color, persona de color.
Example: He looked up and saw two figures cutting across the field, a colored man and woman, each carrying a bottle.» committeeman [committeemen, -pl.] = miembro de un comité.
Example: The committeeman registered surprise.» congressman [congresswoman, -fem.] = congresista, miembro del Congreso.
Example: Would it not be more productive to talk to city managers, finance directors, senators and congressmen about library problems?.» con man = estafador, timador, embaucador, farsante.
Example: His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.» corpsman [corpsmen, -pl.] = soldado sanitario, sanitario.
Example: This is a video material to teach corpsmen response procedures for each of seven emergency medical conditions: angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, stroke, diabetic coma, insulin shock, and epileptic seizure.» council-man [council-men, -pl.] = concejal.
Example: These descriptors are still alive: boatmen, city council-men, firemen, foremen, longshoremen, stunt men, statesmen, watchmen, man and manpower.» countryman [countrymen, -pl.] = paisano, compatriota.
Example: The finest and most influential of these French italics were the work of Robert Granjon, an artist of the stature of his countryman and near-contemporary Garamont and one of the greatest all-round type designers of any period.» cowman [cowmen, -pl.] = ganadero, vaquero.
Example: This research project has studied a number of cowmen in order to elucidate factors likely to influence their efficiency.» craftsman [craftsmen, -pl.] = artesano.
Example: Its gossamer parts, the precise location and alignment involved in its construction, would have occupied a master craftsman of the guild for months.» craftsmanlike = de un modo artesanal.
Example: The work is very much akin to journalism in the way that time presses, the content must be dealt with in a craftsmanlike way but the author will gain credit more for 'reporting' skills than for philosophical analyses.» crewman [crewmen, -pl.] = tripulante, tripulación.
Example: In his capacity as 'overseer of the deck' it was often necessary for the bosun to communicate with dozens of crewmen.» dairyman = lechero, ordeñador, vaquero.
Example: A jury has awarded $22 million to 11 dairymen who were defrauded out of profits by the cooperative that sold their milk.» dead men have no friends = el muerto al hoyo y el vivo al bollo.
Example: Dead men have no friends; consequently, Israel must abandon its love affair with its putative, feckless friends and kill, once for all, its mortal foes.» delivery man = repartidor.
Example: Officials are hopeful that all delivery men in the city will be equipped with balances within a month.» dirty old man = viejo verde.
Example: He is one of those dirty old men who married a younger woman from a third world country.» doorman [doormen, -pl.] = portero, conserje, bedel, subalterno, ujier.
Example: He somehow kept his head above water as a doorman at a bar and as a nightman at a slaughterhouse.» draughtsman [draftsman, -USA] = redactor. [De un documento]
Example: Usually, after a law is promulgated, its commentary is written by its draftsman in order to develop proper interpretation of the law.» draughtsman [draftsman, -USA] = dibujante, delineante, ilustrador, diseñador.
Example: In the 'office of the present', a document is usually produced by several people: someone, say an administrator or manager, who originates and checks it, a typist, who prepares the text, and a draughtsman or artist who prepares the diagrams.» drayman = carretero, carrero. [Persona que conduce una carreta]
Example: I've since learned that the hat is from around the 1920's and would probably have been worn by a drayman delivering beer from a wagon.» dustbin man = basurero.
Example: I know a few guys that are dustbin men and it is bloody hard work for a average of £6.50 an hour.» dustman = basurero.
Example: Though my old man's a dustman he's got a heart of gold.» each man for himself = sálvese quien pueda, cada uno que se las apañe como pueda, cada cual por su cuenta, que cada perro se lama su pijo/capullo, cada perro que se lama su pijo/capullo.
Example: Once the community works together and stops seeing each other as the enemy, or each man for himself, then things will change.» early man = hombre prehistórico, el; hombre primitivo, el.
Example: Early man couldn't stomach milk, according to research.» elderly man = hombre mayor, anciano, ancianito.
Example: She pleaded, futilely, in broken French, until an elderly man, hearing the commotion, came to her rescue.» Englishman [Englishmen, -pl.] = inglés. [Sexo masculino]
Example: The great practical education of the Englishman is derived from incessant intercourse between man and man, in trade.» every man for himself = sálvese quien pueda, cada uno que se las apañe como pueda, cada cual por su cuenta, que cada perro se lama su pijo/capullo, cada perro que se lama su pijo/capullo.
Example: If more and more of us begin to see life purely as 'every man for himself,' what other unintended consequences may come with such a shift.» family man = padre de familia, hombre de familia.
Example: Participants generated 306 different labels for female types (e.g. housewife, feminist, femme fatale, secretary, slob) and 310 for male types (e.g. workaholic, family man, sissy, womanizer, labourer).» fancy man = amante, querido, amiguito.
Example: It's the story of Jo, a working-class girl who gets pregnant while her mother holidays with her fancy man.» fellow-man [fellow-men, -pl.] = conciudadano.
Example: Like many whose vocation is to serve their fellow-man, from New York cab drivers to Parisian cafe waiters, they do not always feel like smiling.» ferryman [ferrymen, -pl.] = barquero.
Example: A ferryman in a traditional costume will pole the skiff through a seemingly endless labyrinth of brooks, rivers and canals which earned the land the name of Venice of the North.» fireman [firemen, -pl.] = bombero.
Example: Headings such as SALESMEN AND SALESMANSHIP and FIREMEN, since they are assigned to works covering the activities of both men and women in these occupations, are not specific.» fisherman [fishermen, -pl.] = pescador.
Example: However, in addition to the couple of examples that Ms Marshall cited from the extant and altogether active LC subject thesaurus, there are also BUS BOYS, MAN, LUMBERMEN, LONGSHOREMEN, FISHERMEN, etc.» foreman [foremen, -pl.] = capataz.
Example: These descriptors are still alive: boatmen, city council-men, firemen, foremen, longshoremen, stunt men, statesmen, watchmen, man and manpower.» four men and a dog = cuatro gatos, cuatro pelagatos.
Example: But very few people have any time for domestic cricket, where matches are often played in front of the proverbial four men and a dog.» freshman [freshmen, -pl.] = estudiante universitario de primer año.
Example: This study yielded mixed results but has proven valuable in reshaping the freshman bibliographic instruction programme.» frontman = hombre de paja.
Example: By the time he made his shameless UN appearance, Powell had already spent almost four decades as a frontman for some of the most vicious and ugly elements in American politics and government.» gamesmanship = astucia.
Example: Must she become a master at the art of corporate gamesmanship?.» garbage man = basurero.
Example: I don't know about your garbage men but mine are rather huge guys with grim faces.» gay man [gay men, -pl.] = homosexual. [Sexo masculino]
Example: It is the proper function of New Zealand libraries to provide affirmative and empowering information to minority groups such as lesbians and gay men.» gentleman [gentlemen, -pl.] = caballero, señor.
Example: These were gentlemen whose forebears had upset Elizabeth I by encouraging the people to think a little too much for themselves and who proved very difficult to control.» grown man = hombre maduro, hombre adulto, hombre hecho y derecho, adulto hecho y derecho.
Example: The fact is a lot of grown men don't know how to iron a shirt.» grumpy old man = viejo gruñón.
Example: The idea of male menopause (andropause) -- or grumpy old men syndrome -- has been steadily gaining ground in recent years.» gunman [gunmen, -pl.] = pistolero, asesino.
Example: Many of the inhabitants were shot dead or injured by a crazed gunman.» handyman [handymen, pl.] = manitas, persona mañosa, hombre para todo.
Example: The impact of television series' and home improvement stores is in the process of transforming a solid handyman niche market into a publishing and bookselling bonanza in the US.» hangman = verdugo.
Example: A number of Ireland's most important historical figures died here by firing squad or by the hangman's noose.» hatchetman = persona encargada de hacer los trabajos sucios, asesino a sueldo.
Example: The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.» hefty man = tiarrón, gigantón.
Example: And Philippe, the cook, although a hefty man with a look that could turn a heart to stone, too was a kind man, truly a gentle giant.» henchman = esbirro, secuaz, hombre de confianza.
Example: Even the president and his henchmen could not resist blowing their own trumpet.» herdsman [herdsmen, -pl.] = pastor.
Example: The article is entitled 'Research and evaluation on the experience of transferring scientific and technical information to herdsmen in Senegal'.» highwayman = bandolero, bandido, salteador, salteador de caminos, atracador.
Example: He was one of the best-known highwaymen of the day with a swashbuckling, devil-may-care character.» hit man = asesino a sueldo, sicario.
Example: This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and a idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.» holy man = hombre santo, santo varón.
Example: Many Mauritanians have faith in the supernatural powers of holy men called marabouts.» homeless man [homeless people, -pl.] = vagabundo, vagamundo, persona sin hogar, persona sin techo.
Example: This article presents the issue of library use by homeless people in the form of two alternating fictional monologues, one in the mind of a homeless man, the other in the mind of a library official.» horseman [horsemen, -pl.] = jinete, caballista, cabalgador.
Example: Only a good horseman, in fine fettle, with Herculean reserves of pluck and verve should consider this challenge.» hunk of a man = cachas, tío bueno, tío cachas, morenazo.
Example: Our sense of beauty serves an evolutionary function: it helps us choose the best mates -- the wide-hipped woman best suited to bearing children, or the broad-shouldered hunk of a man who could protect and provide.» husbandman [husbandmen, -pl.] = agricultor.
Example: Most of the testators were yeomen, husbandmen, tradesmen, craftsmen and laborers, and the widows of such men.» ice cream man = heladero, vendedor de helados.
Example: He abandoned West Africa for a better life in America, trying his hand as an ice cream man.» iceman [icemen, -pl.] = hombre de la edad del hielo.
Example: Like the popular image of a prehistoric iceman taken from a glacier and warmed back to life, libraries were startled awake to a new information era = Como la imagen popular de un hombre prehistórico de la edad del hielo prehistórico sacado de un glaciar y devuelto a la vida, las bibliotecas se despertaron sobresaltadas en una nueva era de la información.» ideal man, the = hombre ideal, el.
Example: This is a skillfully written book about a woman who unleashes her emotions and heartfelt opinions whilst in search of the ideal man.» infantryman = soldado de infantería.
Example: The writer challenges that idea that the auxiliary infantryman of the Roman army was merely expendable 'cannon fodder'.» in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king = en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey.
Example: As the saying goes, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.» in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king = en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey.
Example: As the old saying goes, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.» in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king = en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey.
Example: Another less talked about reason for the strength in the dollar right now is as the old saying goes 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'.» Irishman [Irishmen, -pl.] = irlandés.
Example: His legacy continue to inspire generations of Irishmen, Irishwomen, and Americans of all walks of life.» journeyman [journeymen, -pl.] = oficial aprendiz.
Example: Meanwhile the journeymen, who had just gone to bed, hearing the row quickly got up again, came downstairs and then shoved me out of the door.» kinsman [kinsmen, -pl.] = familiar, pariente.
Example: The article 'Two noble kinsmen: libraries and museums' explains how libraries and museums reflect a common ancestry yet they have evolved separately.» kit man = utillero.
Example: It was only after the arrival of Rafa Benitez in 2004 that his job changed to kit man.» ladies' man = donjuán, casanova, mujeriego.
Example: Sweet Lou is a ladies' man who does not have to say much to have his way with women.» lame man = cojo.
Example: So the unhappy lame man got up with a flea in his ear and went to the second Prince, but here, too, he got the rough edge of his tongue = Así pues, el cojo desafortunado se levantó con las orejas gachas y fue a ver al segundo príncipe, pero de nuevo salió escaldado.» Latin man = latino, hombre latino.
Example: Search our extensive database and find the Latin woman or man you are looking for.» lawman = agente del orden.
Example: One of the most famous lawman of all time, Wyatt Earp was also an accomplished gunslinger who was greatly feared by the outlaws of the era.» layman [laymen, -pl.] = profano, lego, laico, seglar, hombre de la calle.
Example: Mechanization may yet force the issue, especially in the scientific field; whereupon scientific jargon would become still less intelligible to the layman.» leading man = protagonista, actor principal.
Example: Tinseltown's leading men never get their due on the red carpet.» legman [legmen, -pl.] = reportero, ayudante.
Example: The article 'Elmore Leonard's legman' describes the work of Gregg Sutter, the full time researcher of the US mystery writer Elmore Leonard.» linesman = juez de línea, linier.
Example: The teacher explains the rules and also acts as timekeeper and linesman to judge on offside.» longshoreman [longshoremen, -pl.] = estibador, obrero portuario.
Example: However, in addition to the couple of examples that Ms Marshall cited from the extant and altogether active LC subject thesaurus, there are also BUS BOYS, MAN, LUMBERMEN, LONGSHOREMEN, FISHERMEN, etc.» lumberman [lumbermen, -pl.] = leñador.
Example: And when, finally, the heavily timbered ranges had been pillaged almost beyond repair, many lumbermen pulled stakes and pushed westward.» made man = hombre de éxito, triunfador.
Example: At the end of the journey, once you become a made man, you can look back and find meaning in the suffering you had to go through to get there.» made man = hombre de honor. [Categoría especial concedida a ciertos hombres de la mafia]
Example: His Albanian origins and lacking Sicilian blood meant that he could never rise up the ranks to become a 'made man'.» madman = loco, majareta.
Example: Since January of 2006 we have had to deal with the raving lunatics and suicidal madmen of the ruling party of Hamas.» mailman [mailmen, -pl.] = cartero.
Example: If you have more than one dog, you may notice that rather than barking at intruders, such as the mailman, your dogs will first bark at each other.» make + a man of = hacer un hombre de, hacer un hombre.
Example: A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.» man-about-town = vividor, señorito, hombre de mundo. [Plural men-about-town]
Example: He is a dashing man-about-town and his rakish behaviour towards women has gained him a notorious reputation.» man-eater = caníbal, animal que ataca al hombre.
Example: Man-eaters epitomize this in their ability to somehow overcome human intelligence and hunt our species as any other animal.» man-eater = devoradora de hombres, mujer fatal.
Example: She has hit out at rumours that she is a man-eater.» man-hater = andrófobo.
Example: While feminists and lesbians are regularly accused of being man-haters, gay men are never accused of being woman-haters.» man-hatred = androfobia.
Example: If anything is going down here it's woman-hatred, not man-hatred, a veritable war against women.» manhood = madurez, hombría, virilidad, masculinidad.
Example: This article describes the exploration of Japanese boyhood, manhood and masculine values contained in Kazumi Yumoto's novel 'The Friends'.» man-hour = hora hombre, hora de trabajo. [Trabajo realizado por una persona en una hora]
Example: To assist public library staff with the increased workload the Provincial Library Centre loans 2 staff for 20 man-hours each week.» manhunt = cacería humana, persecución, búsqueda.
Example: Is the war in Afghanistan, deep down, anything more than a manhunt for a handful of individuals?.» man in the street, the = hombre de la calle, el; hombre de a pie, el; simple ciudadano, el.
Example: But the man in the street wouldn't know them from Adam.» man-made = hecho por el hombre, causado por el hombre, provocado por el hombre.
Example: The term realia refers to natural objects as opposed to man-made ones.» man of honour = hombre de honor.
Example: The myth of a courageous and generous 'man of honor' must be destroyed, because a mafioso is just the opposite.» 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.» man of means = hombre de dinero, hombre acomodado, hombre de fortuna, hombre acaudalado.
Example: Almost all of them were well-educated men of means who were leaders in their communities.» man of substance = hombre acomodado, hombre de fortuna, hombre de peso.
Example: Half his adult life had been spent in a struggle to raise that capital -- a fruitless struggle, for he had not yet found a single man of substance to share his vision.» man-on-the-street = hombre de la calle, el; hombre de a pie, el; simple ciudadano, el.
Example: On December 8, 1941, Lomax sent a telegram urging folklorists around the United States to collect and record man-on-the-street reactions to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by the United States.» Man proposes, God disposes = el hombre propone y Dios dispone.
Example: The article 'Man proposes, God disposes' is reminder that all planning should take place in a spirit of prayerful reliance on God.» mantrap = cepo.
Example: Mantraps became popular in Britain in the latter half of the 18th century, not against the threat of assault, but to deter poachers.» mantrap = tentadora, seductora, mujer tentadora, mujer seductora.
Example: Talented but not altogether confident, soulfully pretty though hardly a mantrap, she's a singer-songwriter who just can't get the lyrics right.» man under cover = espía.
Example: It was the age old story of fanatical courage against the methodical precision of trained men under cover.» man year = año de trabajo. [Trabajo realizado por una persona en un año]
Example: For example, a competent, robust, efficient free text storage and retrieval system represents at least five man years of programming work.» marksman [marksmen, -pl.] = tirador.
Example: It has no capacity, for example, to make the intellectual decisions which would attribute publications by Puschkin, Puskin, and Puszkin to the noted poor marksman Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.» married man = hombre casado.
Example: Meet other married women and men looking for discreet affairs, relationships and extramarital affairs by becoming a member today.» may the best man win! = ¡que gane el mejor!.
Example: So our best wishes to all competitors and as the rules stipulate 'May the best man win!'.» may the best man win! = ¡que gane el mejor!.
Example: Finally, and most importantly, I would like to wish all competitors the best of luck and may the best team win!.» medicine man = curandero, chamán, brujo, hechicero.
Example: The medicine man establishes his suggestive charismatic authority by the performance of a conjuring trick that displays his magical powers.» men's valet = galán de noche. [Soporte sobre el que se coloca la ropa de uso diario en la habitación para que se airee]
Example: These men's valets are made of super high quality wood with incredible attention to detail.» merman = tritón.
Example: In popular belief the human being who went to live with a mermaid or a merman lost his or her soul and became as one of these.» middleman [middlemen, -pl.] = intermediario. [También escrito middle man]
Example: Many library managers believe that the services provided by jobbers and other middlemen are well worth the additional cost.» midshipman = guardia marina.
Example: Even with a midshipman's demanding academic and athletic schedule, you will have time for extracurricular activities.» militiaman [militiamen, -pl.] = miliciano, miembro de una milicia.
Example: During these campaigns, black soldiers served as militiamen, guides, teamsters, and spies.» milkman [milkmen, -pl.] = lechero, repartidor de leche.
Example: Truncation serves as a means of merging different word forms, but not always; MILK* will retrieve milkman but not lactation or lactic.» motorman [motormen, -pl.] = maquinista, conductor.
Example: In this chapter we are told about Willis Joe Whinny, the motorman who drives the subway train that eventually almost kills Slake, but who instead rescues him from his underground life = En este capítulo se nos cuenta cómo Willis Joe Whinny, maquinista de metro, casi atropella a Slake aunque posteriormente lo rescata de su vida en los subterráneos del metro.» Neanderthal man = hombre de Neanderthal.
Example: It is a curious fact of history that the first Neanderthal man to have been discovered did, indeed, walk with a stoop.» newsman = reportero, periodista, locutor.
Example: He, however, declined the request by newsmen to explain the specific nature of the 'domestic issues' that came up at the meeting.» newspaperman [newspapermen, -pl.] = periodista.
Example: The public library's sole reason for being is to help people get along in the world, to help school children get better grades, to help preachers write better sermons that will keep the congregation awake, to help newspapermen find facts.» nightman = basurero. [Hace varios siglos, persona que se encargaba de recoger los excrementos humanos de las casas de la ciudad]
Example: In England, this job fell to the nightmen, who came after dark to cart the city waste into the countryside for fertilizer.» nightman [nightmen, -pl.] = vigilante de noche, portero de noche.
Example: He somehow kept his head above water as a doorman at a bar and as a nightman at a slaughterhouse.» nobleman [noblemen, -pl.] = noble, hidalgo, aristócrata.
Example: He was assassinated by noblemen who feared that his licentious manner and ignorance would undermine the monarchy.» no man is an island = el hombre no es una isla.
Example: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.» no man is a prophet in his own land = nadie es profeta en su tierra.
Example: And his life confirms the famous old saw: No man is a prophet in his own land.» no-man's land = tierra de nadie.
Example: We stand squarely in a no-man's land between a rough technology and a vague science.» not a man of his word = hombre que no tiene palabra.
Example: Why would tradesmen do work for him without being paid up-front, if he is not a man of his word?.» nurseryman [nurserymen, -pl.] = trabajador de vivero.
Example: Spring is the most important planting time here in the west, and nurserymen are hard pressed for time to fill all the orders.» oarsman [oarsmen, -pl.] = remero, remador, barquero.
Example: The tradition of the shore dinner dates back to the late 1800s when the oarsmen would row passengers in their skiffs to and from fishing grounds.» old man = viejo.
Example: The book follows Philip's development from a bashful teenager to a more self-assured, but tortured, adult, and finally to a pathetic old man, who often suffered from long bouts of debilitating depression.» Posesivo + old man = Posesivo + viejo. [Forma cariñosa de referirse al padre de alguien]
Example: Though my old man's a dustman he's got a heart of gold.» ombudsman [ombudsmen, -pl.] = defensor del pueblo. [Persona nombrada por un colectivo para defender los intereses del mismo]
Example: A consumer ombudsman's department looks after consumer complaints and, in addition, many municipalities now have a consumer guidance office.» one-man = en solitario, de una sola persona.
Example: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.» one man's ceiling is another man's floor = sobre gustos no hay nada escrito, para gustos hay colores, nunca llueve a gusto de todos.
Example: One man's ceiling is another man's floor, so there can be no one right way to evaluate the potential value of a Web page.» one man's meat is another man's poison = lo que a uno cura a otro mata.
Example: If the old saying 'one man's meat is another man's poison' is true, certainly one man's book may be another man's boredom.» one-upmanship = competitividad.
Example: She had a distant fleeting vision of a workplace in which people acted like free and sensible human beings, instead of like the martyrized and victimized puppets of a terrible system called 'one-upmanship'.» ordinary men and women = gente normal.
Example: Role reversal seeks to answer some of these questions by having ordinary men and women switch genders for a month.» patrolman = policía, guardia.
Example: Arabs who played a role in the Holocaust included those who personally took part in the persecution of Jews, and patrolmen who tracked down Jewish escapees from forced labor camps.» pitman [pitmen, -pl.] = minero.
Example: An earlier psychometric study of a mine revealed that pitmen have by far the highest incidence of psychological complaints, & that their complaints are related to conflicts at work.» policeman [policemen, -pl.] = policía.
Example: As a rule, a message-switching computer is not used to provide general computational or text processing facilities, it is more like a policeman directing traffic at a busy intersection of 'data highways'.» postman [postmen, -pl.] = cartero.
Example: These figures of 'authority', the local postman, the vicar, the village postmistress and schoolmaster were fast disappearing from the rural scene.» prehistoric man = hombre de las cavernas, cavernícola, troglodita.
Example: The park was set aside to preserve the works and relics of prehistoric man and Native American culture.» pressman [pressmen, -pl.] = impresor.
Example: Pressmen sometimes employed boys privately by the week to take printed sheets off the tympan, and thus speed up their rate of work = Los impresores algunas veces empleaban por su cuenta y por semanas a chicos aprendices para retirar del tímpano los pliegos impresos y así acelerar su ritmo de trabajo.» primitive man = hombre primitivo.
Example: Primitive man was a being barely more developed than the ape.» PR man [PR men, -pl.] = persona encargada de las relaciones públicas.
Example: Otherwise they run the risk of being usurped by upstart local government PR men or newspaper consortia.» rag-and-bone man = chatarrero, trapero.
Example: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.» ragman = chatarrero, trapero.
Example: As a teenager, he used to earn pocket change by collecting and selling recyclable newsprint with his uncle, a former old-time 'ragman'.» Renaissance man = hombre del renacimiento.
Example: He was a real Renaissance man, dabbling in anything that caught his interest.» Posesivo + right-hand man = la mano derecha de, el brazo derecho de, el hombre de confianza de. [Generalmente precedido por un adjetivo posesivo]
Example: After World War II, Hitler's right-hand man was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.» river man = ribereño.
Example: Stopping a few miles north of where the Lewark meets the great Modoc River in what is now called the American midwest, they constructed a humble cabin and began trading with river men and friendly Indians.» rule of men = estado de hecho.
Example: Every law student promptly learns the national ideal that our country is governed by the rule of law, not the rule of men.» salesman [salesmen, -pl.] = dependiente, vendedor.
Example: It does not sanction subsuming saleswomen under salesmen.» salesmanship = arte de vender.
Example: Headings such as SALESMEN AND salesmanship and FIREMEN, since they are assigned to works covering the activities of both men and women in these occupations, are not specific.» sandwich-board man = hombre anuncio.
Example: On the streets of London we meet some of the denizens of the city -- there is the sandwich-board man, a blind old hag, and a lamplighter among them.» sandwich man = hombre anuncio.
Example: As a young man he worked as a 'sandwich man' in order to make a living.» Scotsman [Scotsmen, -pl.] = escocés.
Example: The article is entitled 'Wresting money from the canny Scotsman: Melvil Dewey's designs on Carnegie's millions, 1902-1906'.» see + a man about a dog/horse = hacer pis, hacer pipí, cambiarle el agua al canario, echar una meada, mear, orinar.
Example: When I was growing up, my father would often excuse himself and say suddenly in the middle of a conversation, 'I have to see a man about a dog'.» selectman [selectmen, -pl.] = concejal.
Example: He explained to the selectman that pages were hired on a 'first-come, first-take' basis.» self-made-man, the = persona que ha llegado donde está por su propio esfuerzo. [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
Example: Samuel Smiles praises the self-made-man who 'on his fellows' necks his footing raises'.» serviceman [servicemen, -pl.] = militar, soldado.
Example: Personal readers' guidance was provided to World War I servicemen.» shoe repair man [shoe repair men, -pl.] = zapatero.
Example: The small art gallery, which often features local crafts, doubles as a room for seniors to play euchre, the local shoe repair man to teach chess, community leaders to plan special action, and so on.» showman [showmen, -pl.] = showman, hombre espectáculo.
Example: The storyteller has in fact to be something of a showman, a performer, before he gets anywhere.» sideman = acompañanate musical, músico acompañante. [Generalmente, músico contratado temporalmente para acompañar a otro u otros músicos. También se puede usar sidewoman/sidewomen y sideperson/sidepersons]
Example: Bassist Nathan East is one of the most acclaimed sidemen of all time.» single man = hombre soltero.
Example: Where do you meet single men for dating, relationship and marriage is the question that women wonder.» slaughterman = matarife.
Example: This helps the slaughterman to later strip the fleece once the carcass is hung.» snowman [snowmen, -pl.] = muñeco de nieve.
Example: When a young boy's snowman comes to life on Christmas Eve, the two set off on a night-time quest for adventure, meeting penguins, reindeer and naturally, Father Christmas.» space man [space men, -pl.] = astronauta, cosmonauta.
Example: The space man, poor fellow, has presumably wandered up and somehow indicated that his UFO has conked out.» spokesman [spokesmen, -pl.] = portavoz, exponente, representante. [Masculino]
Example: The philosophy of these critics was enunciated by one of their most prominent spokesmen, the famous Thomas Carlyle.» sportsman [sportsmen, -pl.] = deportista.
Example: A useful example of a non-fiction book of this sort is the autobiography (often ghosted) or the biography of a leading sportsman or woman or of a stage or film actor or actress.» statesman [states man] [statesmen, -pl.] = hombre de estado.
Example: These descriptors are still alive: boatmen, city council-men, firemen, foremen, longshoremen, stunt men, statesmen, watchmen, man and manpower.» stockman [stockmen, -pl.] = ganadero.
Example: Most important factors were reachability of the udder for the piglets and reachability of the sow and piglets for the stockman.» storeman = tendero, dependiente, almacenista.
Example: He lived with his mother and two younger sisters in an inner-city suburb and worked as a storeman at a local supermarket.» straight man = heterosexual, no homosexual.
Example: This ostensible comedy about two straight men on a gay cruise is acutely unfunny.» straw man = hombre de paja, testaferro, quimera.
Example: This has long been known to be a straw man (i.e., an obvious fallacy) to be knocked down.» strongman = déspota, tirano, autócrata, dictador, sátrapa.
Example: He was president on three occasions during this time, and ruled as an unelected military strongman for the rest of the era.» stunt man [stunt men, -pl.] = doble, especialista. [Persona que sustituye a otra en película para realizar escenas peligrosas o persona que se dedica a realizar hazañas peligrosas]
Example: These descriptors are still alive: boatmen, city council-men, firemen, foremen, longshoremen, stunt men, statesmen, watchmen, man and manpower.» successful man = hombre de éxito, hombre con éxito, hombre exitoso.
Example: Groucho Marx once said, 'Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife'.» swagman = vagabundo, vagamundo. [Término australiano]
Example: After colonisation, swagmen wandered the countryside looking for work, looking for gold, running from something, seeking inspiration, or just living off the land.» swordsman = espadachín, esgrimidor.
Example: They assembled a force of archers, musketeers and swordsmen, and challenged Musashi to a duel outside Kyoto.» the child is father of the man = lo que se mama de niño dura toda la vida.
Example: The truth of the saying that 'the child is father of the man' will hardly be questioned by anyone who has observed life carefully.» the man of + Posesivo + dreams = el hombre de + Posesivo + sueños.
Example: I'm worried the man of my dreams has vanished after bedding me.» tradesman [tradesmen, -pl.] = comerciante.
Example: In practice, however, the gilds were federations of tradesmen who, in return for monopolistic privileges, co-operated with the government in its censorship of the press.» trainman [trainmen, -pl.] = ferroviario.
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