Contar in english
pronunciation: tel part of speech: verb
contar1 = count ; tally ; tell out into ; number ; count out ; take + inventory ; keep + count of.
Example: To ease the cataloguer's job and save him the trouble of counting characters, DOBIS/LIBIS uses a special function.Example: The statistic programs have been designed to make it possible to extract, tally, and print statistical information from the journal.Example: The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.Example: I would therefore like to give a blanket thankyou to everyone who has talked or written to me in my research and they must now number thousands rather than hundreds.Example: At midnight, one pirate arose, opened the chest, and counted out the gold pieces into five even piles.Example: Anna, like most women in a room full of strangers, was taking inventory of the opposite sex and picking her choice if she were forced to sleep with one person.Example: It's also important to keep count of the puppies and placentas, because the afterbirth does not always come out with the puppy.more:
» al contar = at the count of .
Example: One of the great tips that I got for group pictures is to ask the group to close their eyes and open them at the count of three.» contar con los dedos de la mano = count on + Posesivo + hands .
Example: I do have to also admit, that I can count on my hands how many purchases I've made this year at full price.» contar con poco dinero = be on a limited budget .
Example: If you're on a limited budget, you're going to have to eat meals at home simply because it costs way less than eating out.» contar con una fortuna = sit on + a fortune .
Example: Kenya and other African states are sitting on a fortune in the form of unexploited natural cures.» contar con un presupuesto limitado = be on a limited budget .
Example: If you're on a limited budget, you're going to have to eat meals at home simply because it costs way less than eating out.» contar con un presupuesto reducido = be on a limited budget .
Example: If you're on a limited budget, you're going to have to eat meals at home simply because it costs way less than eating out.» contar dinero = count + money .
Example: The process of counting the money, reconciling the receipts and balancing the cash drawer creates an accountability of the day's transactions.» contar (las) cabezas = count + noses [Contar las personas generalmente para comprobar que no falta nadie] ; count + heads [Contar las personas generalmente para comprobar que no falta nadie] .
Example: Responsibilities include taking roll, counting noses after each stop and keeping the children and youth on the bus safe. Example: Please designate someone to count heads after each stop, and someone to keep the bus clean.» contar las manos levantadas = count + hands .
Example: If we have to start counting hands to see who likes and dislikes a rule change, we're all in trouble.» contar los días que faltan = count down to .
Example: The article 'Keeping New Year's resolutions while counting down to the new millennium' discusses the following topics: self-discipline; losing weight; stopping smoking; starting an exercise programme; paying off bills; and meeting someone new.» contar los días que faltan para = count down + the days until/till/to .
Example: I now have a little over a week of hard training left and I'm counting down the days until fight night in Hamburg.» contar los días que quedan = count down to .
Example: The article 'Keeping New Year's resolutions while counting down to the new millennium' discusses the following topics: self-discipline; losing weight; stopping smoking; starting an exercise programme; paying off bills; and meeting someone new.» contar los días que quedan para = count down + the days until/till/to .
Example: I now have a little over a week of hard training left and I'm counting down the days until fight night in Hamburg.» contar ovejas = count + sheep .
Example: As sleep aids go, counting sheep is probably the oldest in the book.» dinero contante y sonante = readies ; the ready ; hard cash ; cold cash ; cold hard cash .
Example: To add insult to injury, she came back from the cash-point without enough readies and had to make a return journey. Example: The government has an obligation to ensure that those who are genuinely incapable of earning a minimally decent living for themselves have the ready needed to secure the basics. Example: It is unlikely the cost of using digital currency will be low enough to displace the use of hard cash. Example: Forget cold cash, money's going digital. Example: And yet the best gifts I've ever got -- and by best I mean the most meaningful -- have been cold hard cash.» que se cuentan por millones = numbered in millions .
Example: No critics review issues of magazines or the weekly episodes of Crossroads or Coronation Street but women's magazines and these television serials all have readership and viewers numbered in millions.» ser estupendo poder contar con + Nombre = be nice to have + Nombre + on board .
Example: He is so humble and such a sport -- it's really nice to have him on board.» volver a contar = recount ; retell [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio retold] .
Example: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins. Example: What is often clear is why particular scenes are the ones a reader chooses to retell.contar2 = relate ; narrate ; hip ; tell ; recount ; share + Posesivo + thoughts.
Example: This article relates what happened to the records of the German era after the colony became a mandate under the British administration and after the attainment of independence.Example: The inmates satisfied their need for reading by smuggling in Polish books, or else narrating stories from memory.Example: He was aghast after having been hipped to the fact there are hookers on the Internet.Example: Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.Example: We recount the parts of the book which absorbed us utterly, which made us feel that the alternative world was more vivid, more alive, more immediate than our life outside the book.Example: This year's inductees share their thoughts on what they wished they had known when they were just starting their career.more:
» anécdota obligatoria de contar = must-tell .
Example: What kind of secrets are must-tells, and what are simply meant to die with you?.» contar Algo a Alguien = let + Nombre + in on .
Example: If I decide to spring for this I'll let you in on what I find out.» contar chascarrillos = crack + jokes .
Example: He says he has finally accepted his short stature and sometimes even cracks jokes at his size rather than feeling bitter.» contar chismes de Alguien = tell + tales out of school about + Alguien .
Example: 'I'd be disappointed to learn that my boss or subordinates -- or peers for that matter -- told tales out of school about me to others'.» contar chistes = crack + jokes .
Example: He says he has finally accepted his short stature and sometimes even cracks jokes at his size rather than feeling bitter.» contar de = tell of [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio told] .
Example: Roger Horn tells of a librarian who actually complained in print that just as the materials began to pile up nicely the enquirers were in the habit of disappearing.» contar en confianza = confide (in/to) .
Example: When the interviewer made a second visit to some households and had become accepted, more and complicated problems were confided simply because she was an outside person.» contar experiencias = tell + tales .
Example: All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.» contar historias = tell + tales ; recount + stories .
Example: All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling. Example: Join a retired trainman who will provide a guided tour of our cabooses and recount some great stories about life on a caboose.» contar intimidades = confide + intimacies .
Example: In 1985, the average US citizen had three friends in whom to confide intimacies; by 2004, the figure had slipped to two, and one American in four had no confidants at all.» contar la experiencia = recount + experience .
Example: This article recounts the experience of a director of public libraries in the USA who took a year off from work.» contar las ideas a Alguien = run + ideas + past + Pronombre .
Example: If you would like to run ideas past me at this time, that is OK as well .» contarle las penas a Alguien = sob + Posesivo + heart out to .
Example: The Prime Minister has been heard to scoff at the idea that he was sobbing his heart out to Tessa Jowell.» contar + Posesivo + historia = tell + Posesivo + story .
Example: While they lead a bleak existence of isolation, danger and loneliness, these men reach out to tell their stories and try to understand their own actions through art.» contar + Posesivo + propia vida y milagros = spill + Posesivo + guts .
Example: He's as shy as shy can be, but give him a couple of beers and he'll spill his guts about anything.» contar + Posesivo + vida = tell + Posesivo + story ; tell + Posesivo + life .
Example: While they lead a bleak existence of isolation, danger and loneliness, these men reach out to tell their stories and try to understand their own actions through art. Example: They do not profess that their lives were better or worse but just tell their lives as they were .» contar relatos = recount + stories .
Example: Join a retired trainman who will provide a guided tour of our cabooses and recount some great stories about life on a caboose.» contar todo sobre = give + Nombre + the lowdown on .
Example: Beck added: 'We would have given you the lowdown on Tilly the Hun' = Beck añadió: "Te lo hubieramos contado todo sobre Tilly el alemán".» contar una anécdota = tell + a story .
Example: I have already said that on the whole it is not difficult to stimulate children into telling stories.» contar una experiencia = relate + an experience .
Example: The article 'Towards the cyber-library?' relates the experience of Hertfordshire libraries in the provision of electronic public information and library services.» contar una historia = spin + a yarn ; weave + a tale ; narrate + story ; weave + a story .
Example: The old expressions 'spin a yarn', 'weave a tale' suggest the anecdotal, conversational quality that must be striven for by the storyteller. Example: The old expressions 'spin a yarn', 'weave a tale' suggest the anecdotal, conversational quality that must be striven for by the storyteller. Example: According to Eisner, sequential art is 'the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea' = De acuerdo con Eisner, el arte secuencial es "la combinación de dibujos e imágenes y palabras para narrar una historia o representar una idea". Example: Based on hundreds of interviews with Hollywood's power players, she weaves Eisner's story together with those who have crossed his path.» contar una mentira = tell + a lie ; tell + a porky .
Example: These people do not just tell lies but they live a lie -- everything they say and do is tainted with dishonesty. Example: We were telling porkies all along about this being just a peace treaty.» contar un chiste = make + a joke ; tell + Nombre + a joke .
Example: Every time I make a joke I expect a few laughs and recently I told this girl a joke and it was very awkward when she didn't laugh. Example: Every time I make a joke I expect a few laughs and recently I told this girl a joke and it was very awkward when she didn't laugh.» contar un cuento = tell + a story .
Example: I have already said that on the whole it is not difficult to stimulate children into telling stories.» cuenta la leyenda que = legend has it that ; as legend goes .
Example: Legend has it that he sold his soul to the devil so that he could play anything. Example: As legend goes Cortes was greeted by natives that gave him a sackful of cacao beans in exchange for some of his own merchandise.» deja de contar milongas = pull the other one (it's got bells on (it)) .
Example: Put simply, my attitude to any claim of a supernatural order is summed up in the phrase 'Pull the other one... it's got bells on it' = En resumen, mi actitud ante la noción de que exista un orden sobrenatural se resume con la frase "deja de contar milongas".» no me cuentes más milongas = pull the other one (it's got bells on (it)) .
Example: Put simply, my attitude to any claim of a supernatural order is summed up in the phrase 'Pull the other one... it's got bells on it' = En resumen, mi actitud ante la noción de que exista un orden sobrenatural se resume con la frase "deja de contar milongas".» relato obligatorio de contar = must-tell .
Example: What kind of secrets are must-tells, and what are simply meant to die with you?.» según cuenta la leyenda = legend has it that ; as legend goes .
Example: Legend has it that he sold his soul to the devil so that he could play anything. Example: As legend goes Cortes was greeted by natives that gave him a sackful of cacao beans in exchange for some of his own merchandise.» un pajarito me ha contado = a little (dicky) bird told me .
Example: A little dicky bird told me you have a soft spot for a man in uniform.» visión contada por una persona de adentro = an insider's look .
Example: The book 'If Looks Could Kill' is a juicy, tell-all, insider's look at the true world of fashion.» volver a contar = recount ; retell [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio retold] .
Example: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins. Example: What is often clear is why particular scenes are the ones a reader chooses to retell.» y ahora me cuentas una de vaqueros = pull the other one (it's got bells on (it)) .
Example: Put simply, my attitude to any claim of a supernatural order is summed up in the phrase 'Pull the other one... it's got bells on it' = En resumen, mi actitud ante la noción de que exista un orden sobrenatural se resume con la frase "deja de contar milongas".» y ahora me cuentas una de indios = pull the other one (it's got bells on (it)) .
Example: Put simply, my attitude to any claim of a supernatural order is summed up in the phrase 'Pull the other one... it's got bells on it' = En resumen, mi actitud ante la noción de que exista un orden sobrenatural se resume con la frase "deja de contar milongas".» y ahora me cuentas una de chinos = pull the other one (it's got bells on (it)) .
Example: Put simply, my attitude to any claim of a supernatural order is summed up in the phrase 'Pull the other one... it's got bells on it' = En resumen, mi actitud ante la noción de que exista un orden sobrenatural se resume con la frase "deja de contar milongas".contar3 = count.
Example: People must be made to feel that they and their ideas count.more:
» contando = counting .
Example: Counting the media center (which everyone persists in calling the library), there are 26 classrooms, 2 shops (one for auto repair and one for woodworking), a basement gymnasium, and a flat-floor auditorium.» contar con = hold [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio held] ; count on ; have at + Posesivo + disposal ; bank on ; set + your watch by .
Example: If the search is made with a call number, a summary of copies with that call number which are held by the library is first displayed. Example: Bookstores can no longer count on customers buying books if there is a more attractive entertainment option. Example: But this would require time and competencies, which not all policy makers have at their disposal. Example: Don't bank on it, there can be bright sunshine, hailstones, drizzle, pouring rain and snowflurries in any given hour of the day. Example: There are a few things you can count on; I mean really set your watch by in life.» contar con Alguien = count + Pronombre + in .
Example: She responded that if the folks against the war decided to hold a march 'for peace,' then they could count her in.» contar con apoyo para = have + support for .
Example: A librarian made the announcement that he had some support for the idea that the Library of Congress and about 13 other ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries do all of the cataloging for the country.» contar con el apoyo de Alguien = have + Nombre + behind + Pronombre .
Example: The emphasis on title entry came from the specialized libraries, primarily the technical libraries, that were small but had the money and the power behind them to see that their view prevails.» contar con el apoyo necesario para = have + the power behind to .
Example: The emphasis on title entry came from the specialized libraries, primarily the technical libraries, that were small but had the money and the power behind them to see that their view prevails.» contar con el visto bueno = meet with + approval .
Example: A number of more unusual arrangements have been tried, but none have met with wide approval.» contar con la aprobación = meet with + approval .
Example: A number of more unusual arrangements have been tried, but none have met with wide approval.» contar con la colaboración de = enjoy + cooperation with .
Example: Die Vereinigung Schweizerischer Archivare (Association of Swiss Archivists) has enjoyed close cooperation with the Vereinigung Schweizerischer Bibliothekare (Association of Swiss Librarians).» contar con la cooperación de = enjoy + cooperation with .
Example: Die Vereinigung Schweizerischer Archivare (Association of Swiss Archivists) has enjoyed close cooperation with the Vereinigung Schweizerischer Bibliothekare (Association of Swiss Librarians).» contar con + Posesivo + aprobación = meet + Posesivo + approval ; be a thumbs up for .
Example: The medical industry will go to any lengths to suppress drugs and methods that haven't met their approval, regardless of how effective they might be. Example: For the most part, this was a pleasant, enjoyable read -- so this is a thumbs up for me.» contar con + Posesivo + beneplácito = be a thumbs up for .
Example: For the most part, this was a pleasant, enjoyable read -- so this is a thumbs up for me.» contar con + Posesivo + visto bueno = meet + Posesivo + approval .
Example: The medical industry will go to any lengths to suppress drugs and methods that haven't met their approval, regardless of how effective they might be.» contar para nada = count + for nothing .
Example: That this is a statement of fact may count for nothing: in effect, the librarian may be obliged lay evidence before the enquirer, accompanied by a convincing explanation.» entre ellos contamos con los siguientes = numbered amongst these are .
Example: Numbered amongst these are: Euler circles, arrowgraphs, and the circular thesaurus.» no contar = be out of the picture ; be out of the frame .
Example: Saddam may be out of the picture, but his methods are living on just fine. Example: Robert may be out of the frame but there is plenty of new talent and eye candy to replace him.» no contar con = leave + Nombre + out of the picture ; drop + Nombre + out of the picture .
Example: Congress is being left out of the picture, and, more importantly, the American people are left in the dark once again. Example: My reading of Joel's comments was that he'd be willing to drop all the others out of the picture if one of you were willing to do the whole thing.» no contar con la aprobación = frown (up)on .
Example: This kind of transfer is usually frowned upon by budgeting authorities, however.» poder contar con = be there for + Pronombre .
Example: So, even if one of them falls off of the information food chain in some way, the others will be always there for us.» si eso cuenta para algo = if that counts in any way ; if that counts for anything .
Example: I do have a couple of nasty chafes on my feet from my new and ruinously expensive sandals, if that counts in any way. Example: I have done absolutely no studying tonight, but my kitchen is spotlessly clean if that counts for anything.» sin contar = not including ; excluding ; barring .
Example: According to this story, owning a horse can cost about $10000 a year, not including the horse = Según esta historia, poseer un caballo puede costar alrededor de $ 10000 al año, sin incluir el caballo. Example: Durable goods excluding transportation soared by 2.0% in June in the U.S. Example: All abstracts, barring possibly those of exceptional length, should consist of one paragraph only.» sin contar con = in the absence of .
Example: In the absence of, or in addition to, an ISADN an alternative number assigned by a regional or national agency may be given.