Cubo in english
pronunciation: kjub part of speech: noun
cubo1 = bucket ; bin ; pail ; scuttle.
Example: The title of his address is 'How many drops to fill the bucket?'.Example: The items to be humidified are placed inside the smaller bin and a cover put in place.Example: In Little Gidding T.S. Eliot gives us some lines that express what I mean not just by saying it but by demonstrating it too: Last season's fruit is eaten And the full-fed beast shall kick the empty pail.Example: Imagine having to bring in a scuttle full of coal (or more) each day just to have heat in the winter!.more:
» caer como un cubo de agua fría = come as + a (complete) shock .
Example: Obama's abrupt change of direction came as a shock to experts and allies alike.» cubo de la basura = waste bin ; trashcan [trash can] ; dustbin [dust bin] ; rubbish bin ; trash bin ; garbage can .
Example: This attitude is based on the waste bin decision process widely used in political and educational organisations, which tend to have open-ended goals, problematic preferences, hazy technology, and poor feeback. Example: The article 'You can never own too many trashcans' comments on the problems of finding enough space to house the University of California Division of Library Automation installations. Example: Databases which should be gold mines degenerate into dustbins, and inter-departmental strife tears apart the organization's commitments. Example: The bags may be used as an inner skin to a rubbish bin, to stop wet and noisome remains from sticking to the inside of the container. Example: In a trash bin, he found the inedibles: fragile little calf legs with tiny cleft hooves. Example: Two boys said they were shooting at a garbage can but ended up hitting a 61-year-old delivery driver instead, police say.» cubo de plástico = plastic pail ; plastic bucket .
Example: Tomatoes, cucumbers, and similar plants can be grown in pots about the size of 5-gallon plastic pails. Example: Store liquids, powders, or most anything safely in plastic buckets with lids that really make an airtight seal.» cubo de reciclado = recycling bin .
Example: Verbal commitment significantly increased participation in an experiment to encourage people to use recycling bins.» meter en un cubo = bucket .
Example: This blueberry jam is bursting with tiny, whole berries, reviving memories of picking blueberries with loved ones and eating more than we bucketed.» sacar a cubos = bucket out .
Example: We bucketed out the water, but it just came back in as the water table in the ground had risen so much.» sacar con un cubo = bucket out .
Example: We bucketed out the water, but it just came back in as the water table in the ground had risen so much.» un cubo de = a bucketful of ; a bucketload of .
Example: That was what that drill corporal himself thought, for he got really angry with those persons who had thrown the bucketful of water over me. Example: If reports are to be believed, the Moon may have bucketloads of water.cubo2 = cube.
Example: Theoretically travel distances will be reduced to a minimum if the building is a cube and on entry users are brought quickly to the centre of gravity.more:
» diseño de construcción en forma de cubo = deep plan .
Example: Books, staff and readers will need to move shorter distances in a cubic building than in a linear building or one extended by moving away from a deep plan.» edificio en forma de cubo = cubic building .
Example: Books, staff and readers will need to move shorter distances in a cubic building than in a linear building or one extended by moving away from a deep plan.» ley de relación exponencial inversa al cubo = inverse cube law [En bibliometría, ley utilizada para describir que la relación entre dos variables es inversa y va aumentando o disminuyendo al cubo] .
Example: The data was found to conform to an inverse cube law more closely than an inverse square law (i.e., Lotka's Law) = Se halló que los datos se ajustan mejor a una ley de relación exponencial inversa al cubo que una ley de relación exponencial inversa al cuadrado (es decir, la Ley de Lotka).