Cero in english
pronunciation: zɪroʊ part of speech: noun, verb, adjective
cero = nought ; zero [zeroes/zeros, -pl.] ; nil ; zero + Nombre ; zilch ; goose egg ; zippo ; zip.
Example: Freeze drying is denoted by the special auxiliary .046 and introduced in a class mark by the facet indicator .0 (point nought).Example: If the first digit of the number is zero, the material type is not encoded in the bard-coded label.Example: While our vision of our readers is hazy and our interests in them nil, then criticism must be either trivial or irrelevant.Example: In recent years special libraries have been faced with a number of important factors, including reduced purchase budgets, zero increases in staffing, and the opportunities offered by automation.Example: Before you lend cash to Tom, Dick and Harry, be sure you know what you're doing or else your friendship will be worth zilch.Example: I think the overall objective was to get the win and finish the game, but the goose egg (shutout) at the end was a statement for our defense.Example: I googled that problem last night and got zippo for answers.Example: Talk about a spirit killer, I put all that work in and got zip for it except a pat on the back.more:
» bajo cero = below zero ; sub-zero ; below-freezing .
Example: Dirt roads, no electricity, one-room school a mile away, below zero blizzards in the winter, and mosquito clouds in the summer. Example: The documentary examines the growing number of skinny celebrities and the worrying trend for sub-zero sizes. Example: Sleet may occur when a warm layer of air lies above a below-freezing layer of air at the Earth's surface.» catalogar partiendo de cero = catalogue from + scratch .
Example: Since I was cataloging the collection from scratch, I was cataloging series by series.» cero a cero = scoreless .
Example: Having been kept scoreless during the first half, Wales came out after the break and began scoring.» cero a la izquierda = cipher ; non-entity ; zilch ; zippo .
Example: He had been feeling like a cipher, a nonentity. Example: He had been feeling like a cipher, a nonentity. Example: Before you lend cash to Tom, Dick and Harry, be sure you know what you're doing or else your friendship will be worth zilch. Example: I googled that problem last night and got zippo for answers.» cero a l izquierda = zip .
Example: Talk about a spirit killer, I put all that work in and got zip for it except a pat on the back.» cero tolerancia = zero tolerance ; no-nonsense .
Example: The large number of complaints from staff and students concerning the use of mobile telephones in the libraries led to the introduction of a pilot zero tolerance scheme to ban their use. Example: When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.» cilindro de cera = wax cylinder .
Example: He does so indirectly, by talking to a stenographer or a wax cylinder.» comenzar de cero = begin from + scratch ; start from + scratch ; start at + ground zero .
Example: If none of the items found are relevant, we have to begin the new search from scratch. Example: In other words, they want us to start from scratch and come up with a plan for a full-service centre, which might then be used as a model for the other regional centers. Example: Readers will feel compelled to listen to her; after all, she started at ground zero and worked her way up to the top.» comenzar desde cero = start at + ground zero ; start from + scratch .
Example: Readers will feel compelled to listen to her; after all, she started at ground zero and worked her way up to the top. Example: In other words, they want us to start from scratch and come up with a plan for a full-service centre, which might then be used as a model for the other regional centers.» comenzar partiendo de cero = build from + scratch .
Example: When a library outgrows its second automated circulation system it sets stringent functional, performance and growth specifications and builds from scratch.» compilar partiendo de cero = compile from + scratch .
Example: This article describes problems encountered in compiling a data base from scratch.» construir partiendo de cero = construct from + scratch .
Example: There are so many possibilities that the classifier may feel that he has the task of constructing the scheme from scratch!.» crecimiento cero = zero growth .
Example: Zero growth in the public sector will be the norm for the foreseable future, but change of priority in favour of the cultural sector is taking place.» de cero = from the ground up ; from scratch .
Example: This article describes the experiences of a library training officer whose brief was to build library services from the ground up. Example: The Office does not support development of new systems from scratch.» de coste cero = zero-cost .
Example: By contrast, the 80s and 90s will offer virtually zero-cost, highly reliable hardware but expensive software, unless a different approach to information processing is found.» dejar a cero = goose-egg [Usado principalmente en el lenguaje deportivo] .
Example: We could have goose-egged them if not for those two stupid penalties.» desde cero = from the ground up ; from scratch .
Example: This article describes the experiences of a library training officer whose brief was to build library services from the ground up. Example: The Office does not support development of new systems from scratch.» disco de cera = wax disc .
Example: Today we record conventionally by writing and photography, followed by printing; but we also record on film, on wax disks, and on magnetic wires.» empate a cero = scoreless tie ; scoreless draw .
Example: But in the end, neither team moved a muscle, as the two battled to a scoreless tie. Example: Nobody's really threatening at goal, and a dismal scoreless draw is looming.» empezando de cero = from scratch ; from the ground up .
Example: The Office does not support development of new systems from scratch. Example: This article describes the experiences of a library training officer whose brief was to build library services from the ground up.» empezar de cero = start at + ground zero ; begin from + scratch .
Example: Readers will feel compelled to listen to her; after all, she started at ground zero and worked her way up to the top. Example: If none of the items found are relevant, we have to begin the new search from scratch.» empezar desde cero = start at + ground zero ; start from + scratch .
Example: Readers will feel compelled to listen to her; after all, she started at ground zero and worked her way up to the top. Example: In other words, they want us to start from scratch and come up with a plan for a full-service centre, which might then be used as a model for the other regional centers.» introducir datos partiendo de cero = enter from + scratch .
Example: Records for this program, however, have to be entered from scratch.» justo desde cero = straight from scratch .
Example: I simply love lemon meringue pies and I can easily bake one at home straight from scratch.» justo empezando de cero = straight from scratch .
Example: I simply love lemon meringue pies and I can easily bake one at home straight from scratch.» justo partiendo de cero = straight from scratch .
Example: I simply love lemon meringue pies and I can easily bake one at home straight from scratch.» lápiz de cera = crayon .
Example: Normally black crayon or ink was used so that the artist could see what he was doing, but otherwise the colour was of no importance.» meridiano cero = prime meridian .
Example: In addition, all countries west of the prime meridian are in the Western Hemisphere while those east of the prime meridian are in the Eastern Hemisphere.» papel de cera = greaseproof paper ; waxed paper .
Example: The original, known as a translucency, is normally a line drawing on a sheet of translucent paper which resembles tracing paper or greaseproof paper. Example: Toffee apples may be stored wrapped individually in greaseproof or waxed paper.» partiendo de cero = from scratch ; from an empty slate ; from the ground up .
Example: The Office does not support development of new systems from scratch. Example: The article 'Creation of an academic library: lessons from an empty slate' describes the construction of a new library at Arizona State University. Example: This article describes the experiences of a library training officer whose brief was to build library services from the ground up.» partir de cero = begin from + scratch ; start from + scratch ; start at + ground zero .
Example: If none of the items found are relevant, we have to begin the new search from scratch. Example: In other words, they want us to start from scratch and come up with a plan for a full-service centre, which might then be used as a model for the other regional centers. Example: Readers will feel compelled to listen to her; after all, she started at ground zero and worked her way up to the top.» ponerse a cero = roll over to + zero .
Example: Problems are caused because PC BIOS chips are hardwired to return to 4 Jan 80 when the year rolls over to zero, i.e 2000.» por debajo de cero = sub-zero ; below-freezing .
Example: The documentary examines the growing number of skinny celebrities and the worrying trend for sub-zero sizes. Example: Sleet may occur when a warm layer of air lies above a below-freezing layer of air at the Earth's surface.» por encima de cero = above freezing .
Example: It's been windy, but everyone is happy it's above freezing.» presupuesto de base cero = zero-base(d) budgeting (ZZB) [En gestión de bibliotecas, método por el cual al establecer el presupuesto de una empresa no se dan por válidos ninguno de los elementos del presupuesto anterior y se someten a discusión tanto los elementos antiguos como los nuevos] ; zero-base(d) budget [En contabilidad, método por el cual al establecer el presupuesto de una empresa no se dan por válidos ninguno de los elementos del presupuesto anterior y se someten a discusión tanto los elementos antiguos como los nuevos] .
Example: Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs. Example: With a zero base budget every activity must be justified afresh each year.» reducir a cero = reduce + Nombre + to nil .
Example: During the war a law was passed to limit the consumption of newsprint by 'obnoxious newspapers' and even reducing it to nil = Durante la guerra se aprobó una ley para limitar el consumo de papel de periódico por los llamados "periódicos detestables" e incluso reducirlo a cero.» rellenar con ceros los espacios vacíos = zero fill .
Example: The length is a 5-digit decimal number justified right with zero fill if necessary.» replantearse todo desde cero = get back to + basics .
Example: The article is entitled 'Biotech companies must get back to basics to weigh up risks'.» sentirse un cero a la izquierda = feel like + a spare part .
Example: Rebellious, copper-haired teenager Niamh Keegan feels like a spare part in her boring, staid adopted family.» ser un cero a la izquierda = be a dead loss .
Example: There is now never the need for someone with a hair problem to feel that the problem cannot be solved; hair loss is no longer a dead loss!.» temperatura bajo cero = sub-zero temperature .
Example: The mammoth hunters braved sub-zero temperatures on desolate tundra at least 20000 years earlier than was thought.» temperaturas bajo cero = freezing temperatures ; freezing weather .
Example: This causes a typical cycle of three successive cold days followed by four warmer days, relieving people from freezing temperatures. Example: Snow and freezing weather swept parts of Europe on Saturday causing travel chaos for thousands.» tolerancia cero = no-nonsense .
Example: When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.» uno a cero = one down [Usado generalmente en competiciones deportivas] .
Example: Rovers were slow off the mark and found themselves one down after five minutes, but Pat Daly soon had Rovers level.» volver a empezar de cero = be back to square one ; go back to + square one .
Example: She told me that I was all at sixes and sevens with my eight times table and that it was 'back to square one' for me. Example: At today's open meeting, the Commissioners voted unanimously to go back to square one.» zona cero = ground zero .
Example: The resulting cloud rose to a height of 12000 feet and subsequent fallout drifted in an easterly direction, travelling as far as 225 km from ground zero.