Estímulo in english
Stimulus
pronunciation: stɪmjələs part of speech: noun
pronunciation: stɪmjələs part of speech: noun
In gestures
estimular = encourage ; give + a boost ; prompt ; provide + a boost ; spur ; spur on ; stimulate ; whip up ; provide + an stimulus ; set + Nombre + off ; abet ; buoy ; prod ; egg on ; stir up ; nudge ; reawaken [re-awaken] ; kick-start [kickstart] ; pep up ; hearten ; incite ; light + the fire under ; bolster ; ginger up ; induce.
Example: A common catalogue encourages users to regard the different information carrying media as part of range of media.Example: CD-ROM has given the library a public relations boost but this has led to higher expectations of the library by users at a time of budgetary restraint.Example: An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.Example: Merely having the materials available will not provide the desired boost to the library's stature unless the collection is exceptional.Example: Spurred by press comments on dumping of withdrawn library books in rubbish skips, Birkerd Library requested the Ministry of Culture's permission to sell withdrawn materials.Example: The paper-makers, spurred on by the urgent need to increase their supply of raw material, eventually mastered the new technique.Example: An alertness to work in related fields may stimulate creativity in disseminating ideas from one field of study to another, for both the researcher and the manager.Example: The ALA and some of its members seem to have taken in upon themselves to whip up a frenzy of public relations style fantasy that market reality simply cannot match.Example: The effort involved in creating an hospitable niche is repaid by the stimulus such courses provide to staff members.Example: This local tale could have been used to set me and my classmates off on a search for other similar stories that litter the area up and down the east coast of Britain.Example: This article questions the pricing policies of some publishers for journals suggesting that librarians have inadvertently aided and abetted them in some cases.Example: 'Well,' recommenced the young librarian, buoyed up by the director's interest, 'I believe that everybody is a good employee until they prove differently to me'.Example: Science Citation Index (SCI) depends for intellectual content entirely on citations by authors, who are sometimes prodded by editors and referees.Example: In the novel, residents of the drought-plagued hamlet of Champaner, egged on by a salt-of-the-earth hothead leader, recklessly accept a sporting challenge thrown down by the commander of the local British troops.Example: The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.Example: By the 1980s, leftist philosophies had fallen into disfavor, & globalization & neoliberalism nudged the unions to seek other alliances.Example: The first weeks are vital, and after that the shop must be constantly on the lookout for ways of stimulating further interest and re-awakening those who lapse.Example: Shock tactics are sometimes necessary in order to expose injustice and kick-start the process of reform.Example: Soccer ace David Beckham has started wearing mystical hippy beads to pep up his sex life.Example: We are heartened by the fact that we are still so far a growth story in the midst of this global challenge.Example: It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.Example: Too bad it took a breast cancer diagnosis to light the fire under me.Example: Bibliometric studies used to bolster the subjective opinions of librarians are not always useful for specialized areas.Example: She does not strike me as the sort either who would frighten easily, or who would ginger up her story for effect.Example: Then, the reference librarian has better justification to buy and perhaps to induce others to contribute to the purchase.more:
» estimular el debate = provoke + discussion ; prompt + discussion ; pepper + the debate ; stimulate + the discussion .
Example: And let me stress yet again that I do not mean we should be constantly stopping in midstream during a reading to ask questions and provoke discussion. Example: E-mail reference also has prompted discussions in the literature about the relative advantages and disadvantages inherent in providing this service. Example: The manuscript and the printed papers reflect different phases of the controversies which peppered debates among company directors and proprietors at the turn of the century. Example: The seminar will bring together a wide range of experiences and practices in order to share these and stimulate the discussion.» estimular el desarrollo de = stimulate + the development of .
Example: The public library now has an opportunity to demonstrate its services in broadening individual horizons and stimulating development of community life.» estimular la economía = stimulate + the economy ; spur + the economy ; boost + the economy .
Example: If we really want to stimulate our economy, we should put money in the hands of the people most likely to spend it. Example: There are demands from various quarters for pruning interest rates to spur the economy. Example: Unfortunately, with budgets stretched to the bone, the focus is not on investments to boost the economy, but on fiscal retrenchment.» estimular la imaginación = spark + Posesivo + imagination ; stimulate + Posesivo + imagination ; catch + Posesivo + imagination ; capture + the imagination ; grip + the imagination ; fire + Posesivo + imagination .
Example: Given his seemingly wide-ranging interests, one might have expected her ideas to have sparked his imagination. Example: Age-appropriate toys are not only safer for your child, but they can also stimulate their imagination. Example: Thesaurofacet has caught the imagination of a number of other thesaurus constructors. Example: This paper describes how a middle grade school teacher uses a core list of books to capture the imagination of his students and to encourage them to write honestly about their lives. Example: Texting is a startling modern phenomenon, one that has gripped the imagination of the UK in a very short space of time. Example: These early years were her first encounter with the wonders of nature that continue to fire her imagination.estímulo = boost ; incentive ; leaven ; prodding ; spur ; stimulation ; stimulus [stimuli, -pl.] ; encouragement ; enhancer ; facilitator ; prod ; kick-start [kickstart] ; kick-start [kickstart] ; a word of encouragement ; nudge ; titillation ; driving force ; stimulant ; pick-me-up.
Example: Consequently, Leforte came to expect -- perhaps even take for granted -- the periodic boosts of ego and income that the evaluations provided.Example: This article considers the strengths of a pay scale as a work incentive.Example: But the leaven of the principles, promulgated by the International Federation, has not yet penetrated into more than half the lump of documentary material.Example: Computers are quite adroit at such simple yes/no response without much prodding.Example: This was a spur to several other London boroughs who set up shop-front consumer advice centres from 1972.Example: The reader of this work can relive with some degree of verisimilitude the excitement and stimulation created by these institutes and such colloquies as the Kilgour-Lubetzky exchange.Example: This was not intended as a criticism of their hard working colleagues but simply as an admission that they needed additional support and stimulus.Example: Nevertheless my debts are real, and I particularly want to thank David Foxon for his illuminating commentary on the final sections, and D. F. McKenzie for his encouragement throughout.Example: The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.Example: Information technology may have acted as a catalyst or facilitator for some of the changes which have occurred.Example: She sat back in her chair and considered her supervisor's gentle prods.Example: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.Example: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.Example: This he knew happens to employees who are not given a word of encouragement, some recognition.Example: Results showed that student teachers needed additional support, either via nudge or overt expectations, to actually apply what they had learned.Example: At heart, it is a smirkingly adolescent pursuit of cheap laughs and mild titillation, with a surfeit of jokes involving breasts and bums and with new extremes of scatological humiliation.Example: On-line services have been one of the most powerful driving forces moving information away from its traditional definition and towards the commodity view.Example: The system consequently retrieves any record in which the term 'stimulants' appears.Example: Maybe it's just a passing mood or maybe it's a particularly bad string of events, but sometimes in this hectic life we just need a pick-me-up.more:
» dar estímulo = provide + a boost .
Example: Merely having the materials available will not provide the desired boost to the library's stature unless the collection is exceptional.» estímulo excesivo = overstimulation .
Example: Overstimulation (ie, crowded quarters & loud noises) generally has negative effects on people.» estímulos visuales = visual stimuli .
Example: The article 'Ephemera and art libraries: archive or lucky dip' argues that ephemera are valuable for the historical perspectives, social insights and visual stimuli they can generate.» ofrecer estímulo = provide + an stimulus .
Example: The effort involved in creating an hospitable niche is repaid by the stimulus such courses provide to staff members.» recibir un estímulo = get + a boost .
Example: The war of terror also got a boost, with 73 percent of Americans saying that Bin Laden's assassination gave them more confidence in the fight.» ser un estímulo = be motivating .
Example: The prestige of working for a world-renowned abstracting organization and of having one's name carried in its publications is also motivating.