Sounding in spanish
pronunciation: soʊndeoʊ part of speech: adjective
sound4 = sonar.
Example: Leforte could usually identify those footsteps easily; but today they sounded less forceful and deliberate.more:
» sound + a cautionary note = prevenir, advertir.
Example: The paper sounds a cautionary note about Singapore's recent embracement of the 'new regionalism'.» sound + a note of caution = prevenir, advertir.
Example: Ranganathan himself sounds a note of caution when he warns that, because the use of this device requires an uncommon degree of `spiritual insight', any notation suggested by it should be discussed widely before being finalized.» sound + a note of hope = darse una situación más esperanzadora.
Example: A note of hope was sounded in Australia with women occupying many senior posts.» sound + a wake-up call = dar una llamada de atención, advertir, avisar, alertar, prevenir.
Example: The article 'Robert Nawrocki sounds a wake-up call for records managers' reports an interview with the President of ARMA (Association of Records Managers and Administrators) International.» sound + a word of caution = prevenir, advertir.
Example: A word of caution must also be sounded over the word 'Kommune' which is found in some Scandinavian countries.» sound + Greek to = no entender ni jota, no entender ni gota, no entender ni papa, sonar (todo) a chino, no entender ni torta.
Example: This may sound Greek to many, but to Nicole, it's her bread and butter.» sound like + music to + Posesivo + ears = sonar como música para + Posesivo + oídos.
Example: Make sure that what you say on a first date sounds like music to her ears, not screeching brakes.» sound + Nombre + out = sonsacar, tratar de averiguar, tratar de descubrir.
Example: My sister visits Minsmere from time to time, I'll sound her out about the best places to go and information on what you can see.» sound + note of defeat = darse por derrotado.
Example: Finally, in 1939, Clarence Sherman sounded the note of defeat when he wrote that librarians had been forced to abandon `the long-cherished hope that the free public library would reach a constantly expanding population, book-conscious and reading-desirous'.» sound + the alarm = dar la alarma, dar la voz de alarma, hacer sonar una alarma, avisar.
Example: If loans to this borrower have been blocked, the system displays the screen shown in Figure 88 and sounds the alarm at the terminal.» sound + the clarion = dar la señal de alerta, dar la señal de alarma.
Example: The article 'Misty, water-colored images' sounds the clarion for preservation activist librarians.» sound + the death knell for = tocar a muerto, doblar a muerto, poner fin a, dar fin a, poner punto (y) final a, firmar la sentencia de muerte a.
Example: Terror threats have sounded the death knell for traditional Christmas festivities in Peshawar.» sound + the tocsin = tocar a rebato, dar la voz de alarma.
Example: Eventually reaching a circulation of 800000, the journal sounded the tocsin of a presumed world Jewish conspiracy.sound5 = parecer.
Example: Limitless flexibility sounds to be the answer but it is, of course, impossibly expensive and unacceptable aesthetically.more:
» as difficult as it sounds = tan difícil como parece, tan difícil como suena.
Example: Building a sleigh doesn't have to be as difficult as it sounds.» sound + attractive = parecer tentador, parecer atrayente.
Example: While donation might not sound attractive, you have to consider the tax advantages of giving an automobile.» sound + crazy = parecer una locura, parecer loco.
Example: I know it sounds crazy, but whitewashing brick or wood is a unique way to provide color to the outside of a home.» sound + fishy = oler algo sospechoso, oler a gato encerrado, haber gato encerrado.
Example: It sounds fishy to me -- I would steer clear of this and use your $850 to invest in a mutual fund.» sound + great = parecer estupendo, parecer maravilloso.
Example: Wonderful! This sounds great and wish I could participate!.» sound like = parecer.
Example: 'I hope this doesn't sound like an off-the-wall remark but have you ever heard of or read anything about the so called mid-life crisis?'.» sound like + a broken record = sonar como un disco rayado, parecer un disco rayado.
Example: He is already sounding like a broken record in saying that he will explain everything in due time.» sound + odd = sonar raro, parecer raro, sonar extraño, parecer extraño, sonar insólito, parecer insólito.
Example: These decisions may sound odd, like the assumption of an 'unreliable' network, but history has proven that most of them were reasonably correct.» sound + rude = sonar grosero, parecer grosero.
Example: I don't want to sound rude but over the past few months I've been finding it more and more difficult to move my bowels, to put it politely.» sound + weird = sonar raro, parecer raro, sonar extraño, parecer extraño, sonar insólito, parecer insólito.
Example: It sounds weird but in my short no-way-out street there are two wheelchairs parked permanently.sounding
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» dubious-sounding = sospechoso, dudoso, que parece sospechoso, que parece dudoso.
Example: But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.» foreign sounding = que suena extranjero.
Example: This applies to anyone of immigrant background who has a foreign sounding name and purposely uses an Anglicised form of their name.» friendly-sounding = amable, cortés, amable, agradable.
Example: The friendly-sounding British bobbies, created in 1829, were the first professional police force, copied by cities around the world.» phlegmy-sounding = que suena como si fuera flema.
Example: A chronic persistent wet cough is a mucousy, phlegmy-sounding cough that lasts more than four weeks and is present most days.» sounding board = persona de confianza. [A la que se recurre para que nos dé su parecer u opinión]
Example: So he has become not only a great sounding board but a great adviser and someone we can turn to readily for advice in a lot of these areas.» sounding board = caja de resonancia, tornavoz.
Example: Like the speaker of a radio, a piano's sounding board is a vibrating diaphragm.» sounding board = grupo de sondeo, terreno de pruebas.
Example: He dominated the class discussions, using them as a sounding board for the exploration and testing of his own unformed ideas.