Empollar in english
Hatch
pronunciation: hætʃ part of speech: noun, verb
pronunciation: hætʃ part of speech: noun, verb
In gestures
empollar1 = hatch ; brood.
Example: The article 'TEAL being hatched on Teeside' discusses Teeside Polytechnic Library's change of plan from its original intention to use a UNIVAC computer to its present system involving a PRIME computer.Example: The female incubates the eggs and is fed by the male while brooding.empollar2 = cram for ; swot ; bone up on ; cram ; swot up ; hit + the books ; pound + the books ; grind away.
Example: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.Example: Around the country schoolchildren and university students are swotting and sweating as they prepare to sit papers that could decide their future.Example: Gain a strategic advantage in pharmaceutical litigation by boning up on epidemiology.Example: He was before his time in teaching them to think for themselves rather than cram facts in order to pass exams.Example: I did the theory so long ago I will need to swot up again before I do the exam.Example: Plymouth's swimming superstar Ruta Meilutyte is hitting the books as well as the pool in a bid to safeguard her future.Example: Every student knows that studying is important, and that its hard to pass your test without pounding the books.Example: I don't want him to feel that he's just got to grind away and grind away and grind away and that his only purpose in life is to earn money to support this bunch of people.more:
» libro para empollar = crammer [Libro que presenta la información que el alumno necesita para aprobar un examen de una manera fácil de memorizar] .
Example: Obviously one must here distinguish between 'scholarly' texts, middle-range texts and what might be referred to derogatorily as 'crammers' (books intended to help students to pass examinations with the minimum amount of effort).