Asta in english
Pole
pronunciation: poʊl part of speech: noun
pronunciation: poʊl part of speech: noun
In gestures
asta1 = horn ; antler.
Example: She situates the vessels in the context of Icelandic carving traditions in horn, bone, and walrus ivory = She situates the vessels in the context of Icelandic carving traditions in horn, bone, and walrus ivory.Example: She uses alder bark for dye, whale sinew for thread, sealskin for trim, a tough piece of hide for a thimble, a sharpened ground-squirrel leg bone for a needle, and an awl made from moose antler.asta2 = shaft ; mast.
Example: Christ bears the cross on his shoulder at the head of a long shaft supported by a male prisoner fettered at the legs and a mendicant friar.Example: To do so should the public library nail its colours firmly to the technological mast and accept that print-based and other services should no longer have a high priority?.more:
» a media asta = at half-mast ; at half staff .
Example: The flags flew at half-mast on Sunday in honour of Poland's president and over 90 other top officials who died in an air crash on Saturday. Example: Obama orders US flags to be flown at half staff in honor of 29 miners killed in blast.» asta de bandera = flagpole ; flagstaff .
Example: A request such as `Where can I buy a flagpole?' might be dealt with by showing the enquirer where the trade directories are kept. Example: In the absence of Their Majesties, the flagstaff on the Round Tower of Windsor Castle is being cleaned and beeswaxed.» bandera + estar izada + a media hasta = flag + fly/be + at half-mast .
Example: All European flags fly at half-mast today to pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack in Paris.» media asta = half-mast .
Example: Flags sites will be lowered to half-mast from sunrise to sunset on Tuesday to reflect on violence against women in our society.asta3 = kern ; stress.
Example: Indeed, the Clarendon Press kept a Napier double platen machine at work until 1950 for the sake of its gentleness with the delicate kerns of Fell italic.Example: For the first time the stress was uncompromisingly vertical, while the italic was intended to be a mechanically sloped roman, quite unconnected with calligraphy.more:
» asta ascendente = ascender .
Example: This can usually be established by finding a place where the descender from a letter such as 'g' or 'p' comes down immediately above an ascender rising from the line below = En tipografía, trazos de una letra que exceden el límite superior de una línea de impresión. Pincha en para ver otras palabras que acaban con esta terminación.» asta descendente = descender [En tipografía, trazos de una letra que exceden el límite inferior de una línea de impresión] .
Example: Print without descenders can be confusing to a typesetter or typist who may have difficulty in distinguishing upper and lower case when there are no descenders.» asta uniforme = vertical stress .
Example: Didot's first neo-classic type did not show marked contrast, but later developments of the form, by Didot himself and by Bodoni in Italy, resulted by 1800 in faces of great contrast combined with vertical stress and unbracketed, hairline serifs.