Devolver in english
pronunciation: gɪvbæk part of speech: verb
devolver1 = return ; send back ; hand + Nombre + over ; refund ; pay back ; give back.
Example: For example, when documents on hold are returned, their document number are placed in the held-document-available queue.Example: It has been estimated that computers 1000 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers will be needed by the late 1980s to process the amount of data sent back by surveillance satellites.Example: Eventually, teachers should be able to 'hand the chalk over to the students' and take a back seat.Example: The tax will be refunded but there will be a budgetary shortfall until the refund is received and extra funding will be needed to tide libraries over this period.Example: This way you do not get into a fix and land up with a debt which you do not have the capacity to pay back.Example: They even washed and vacuumed my car before giving it back!.more:
» buzón para devolver libros = book-drop .
Example: The outside book-drop is open 24 hours for patrons to return library books.» devolver a = take + Nombre + back to .
Example: If I take it back to the shop and say I dropped it accidentally, how likely are they to say they'll send it off for repair with no charge?.» devolver a la Edad de Piedra = take + Nombre + back to the Dark Ages .
Example: This decision is a threat to Yemen as a whole and will take Yemen back to the Dark Ages.» devolver a la Edad Media = take + Nombre + back to the Dark Ages .
Example: This decision is a threat to Yemen as a whole and will take Yemen back to the Dark Ages.» devolver al pasado = send + Nombre + back in time .
Example: His songs are gathering dust somewhere, waiting to be discovered by someone who will invent a time machine and send them back in time.» devolver el afecto = return + Posesivo + affection ; reciprocate + Posesivo + affection .
Example: The film centers on a non-white secretary who believes that her dusky skin and non-Nordic features prevent her boss from returning her affections. Example: He wanted someone who would reciprocate this affection and love him in return.» devolver el importe = refund + payment .
Example: If the application is received after all space is exhausted, the payment will be refunded.» devolver el sentido a la vida = put + meaning + back in + Posesivo + life .
Example: Through the study group I put some meaning back in my life - on Monday mornings it's easier to get out of bed.» devolver la confianza = give + Nombre + back + Posesivo + confidence .
Example: A boob job should have improved her figure and given her back her confidence but instead she has painful, lopsided boobs and an addiction to painkillers.» devolver la confianza en Uno mismo = give + Nombre + back + Posesivo + confidence .
Example: A boob job should have improved her figure and given her back her confidence but instead she has painful, lopsided boobs and an addiction to painkillers.» devolver la pelota = the ball is in + Posesivo + court .
Example: The article 'Looks like the ball is in our court -- library support services from vendors' describes how vendors have responded to cuts in library staff by offering more services, such as book processing, cataloguing, and acquisitions plans.» devolver la salud = restore + Nombre + to health .
Example: He hopes their sea holiday has restored them to health, as his has not.» devolver las esperanzas = a new lease of life .
Example: It is surely only right to modernise this package and thus ensure it has a new lease of life.» devolver la vida = bring + Nombre + back to life ; bring + Nombre + back from the dead .
Example: When some of the parrots got sick, he nursed them back to health, and they in turn brought him back to life. Example: As good as surgery and medicine will be in 100 years time, it will not be able to bring you back from the dead if you suffer a fatal accident.» devolver una llamada = call + Nombre + back .
Example: I called the company back but the offices were closed for the weekend = Le devolví la llamada a la compañía, pero las oficinas estaban cerradas el fin de semana.» devolver un favor = return + a favour .
Example: People tend to return favours, so the more you give, the more you are able to get back.» devolver un pago = refund + payment .
Example: If the application is received after all space is exhausted, the payment will be refunded.» no devolverse = be non-refundable .
Example: 75% of the total amount is non-refundable.» si no queda satisfecho, le devolvemos el dinero = satisfaction guaranteed or your money back .
Example: Customers were also attracted by the innovative and unprecedented company policy of 'satisfaction guaranteed or your money back'.devolver2 = puke ; throw up ; barf (up) ; yack (up) ; disgorge ; be sick ; toss + Posesivo + cookies ; vomit.
Example: Now imagine your day at the office was spent surrounded by sweaty, smelly people, and one of them proceeded to puke all over you while you were live on camera.Example: He fell so hard that it made him throw up and both his legs swelled and went black and blue.Example: I hate to say this but it's true -- she looked like something that a cat barfed up.Example: I had my head in the toilet yacking up my breakfast when I heard the doorbell ring.Example: Rattlers are easily frightened and will disgorge their food if handled after a meal, a habit well known to all zoo custodian.Example: They are there to study and knuckle down to academic work, not get drunk, be sick, miss lessons/lectures, and generally be a tax/soap dodger.Example: She hadn't actually tossed her cookies, but the dust of the road and the smell of the exhaust combined with the bumpy ride had nauseated her.Example: The author considers sources for two versions of a woodcut broadsheet showing Daniel in the lion's den and Jonah vomited out by the great fish.more:
» hacer devolver = make + Nombre + sick ; make + Nombre + feel sick in the stomach .
Example: I have a roommate who masturbates every night and it makes me sick. Example: If there's something that is making you nervous or anxious then this can definitely make you feel sick in the stomach, so much that you nearly vomit, or do vomit.