Almacén in english
Warehouse
pronunciation: werhaʊs part of speech: noun
pronunciation: werhaʊs part of speech: noun
In gestures
almacén = storehouse ; warehouse ; storeroom [store-room] ; storing room ; depot ; stockroom ; storage facility ; storage room.
Example: The first alternative views the library as a storehouse for cultural materials, a reservoir of significant books.Example: Our warehouse shelter a 13 metre high, 60 ton ammonia retort and a 37 metre wingspan airliner.Example: Mathematical models are presented that describe the diffusion of gaseous pollutants from the air in a storeroom into protective containers and the reaction with the documents lying in them.Example: It is unlikely for libraries in poor countries to set up a special building or storing room and finance its maintenance.Example: The depot buys the books for the schools and passes on to them some of the discount it receives by buying direct from the publishers.Example: Among the causes of damage to archival records, temperature, moisture content, and pollution of the air in stockrooms play an important role.Example: Due to a seasonal demand, when the storage facility is full this product has to be dumped into the quarry using dumpers.Example: All storage rooms where flammable liquids are stored should have restricted access and be properly identified.more:
» almacén de bricolaje = DIY store ; home improvement store .
Example: They cost around £10 and can be bought at most supermarkets, DIY stores and electrical equipment shops. 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.» almacén de libros = book-warehouse .
Example: James Lackington established a large and successful retail book-warehouse in 1780-98 with the motto 'Small profits do great things'.» almacén de maderas = lumberyard ; timber yard .
Example: Working at the lumberyard pushing a tree through the buzz saw he accidentally sheared off all ten of his fingers. Example: Once a very common piece of equipment in most timber yards for moving trees for processing and cut logs such cranes are now rare.» almacén de papelería = stationery store .
Example: The local stationery store offers the advantages of convenience, personal contact, and easy access.» almacén frigorífico = freezer warehouse .
Example: 375,000 books were destroyed and 700,000 wet books were sent to freezer warehouses for drying and restoration.» chico de almacén = stock boy .
Example: He sold the store to the first stock boy he hired in 1988.» encargado del almacén = warehouse keeper ; warehouseman [warehousemen, pl.] .
Example: Finally, a few copies of an edition seem generally to have slipped through with their cancellanda uncancelled, so that examples of the original settings may sometimes be found (occasionally slashed by the warehouse keeper's shears, deliberate defacement which escaped notice). Example: Then the warehouseman arranged all the heaps of printed sheets in order on a bench, and took one sheet from each heap in turn, until at the end he had collected a copy of the whole book in sheets.» gran almacén = discount retailer .
Example: Discount retailers have started to feel the pinch from belt-tightening consumers as sales at US stores have fallen for the first time.» grandes almacenes = department store .
Example: Take the prosaic problem of the great department store.» mozo de almacén = stock boy .
Example: He sold the store to the first stock boy he hired in 1988.