Firme in english
Firm
pronunciation: fɜrm part of speech: noun, adjective
pronunciation: fɜrm part of speech: noun, adjective
In gestures
firmar = sign ; autograph ; put + Posesivo + name to ; sign up.
Example: She then said 'Thanks for the offer, but I've signed a contract and made a deposit on an apartment'.Example: When the card catalogue was eliminated, those cards describing books by celebrities were posted to the celebrity with a request that it be autographed and returned so that they would be auctioned to raise funds for the library = When the card catalogue was eliminated, those cards describing books by celebrities were posted to the celebrity with a request that it be autographed and returned so that they would be auctioned to raise funds for the library.Example: After a series of meetings in Amsterdam, 10 European publishers and librarians have put their names in a personal capacity to a joint statement on the Impact of Electronic Technology.Example: One of the first publishers to sign up for the new service is Tower Publishing, UK.more:
» firmar la cesión = sign away .
Example: The article is entitled 'License agreements in lieu of copyright: are we signing away our rights?'.» firmar la sentencia de muerte a = sound + the death knell for .
Example: Terror threats have sounded the death knell for traditional Christmas festivities in Peshawar.» firmar un acuerdo = write + an agreement ; tie + the knot [Generalmente entre empresas] ; sign + an agreement ; sign + a deal ; seal + a deal .
Example: So, one vendor, now called Ovid Technologies, wrote agreements with publishers to get them to open up acess to their journals. Example: The article is entitled 'Oracle and Sun tie the knot'. Example: Ireland has signed an agreement with Brazil that will bring 4,000 undergraduate students to Irish universities over the next four years. Example: India has already signed a deal with Russia for the joint development of a fifth generation fighter aircraft. Example: Negotiations are happening at breakneck speed in an attempt to seal a deal before Wednesday, when the Scottish government shuts down before elections in early May.» firmar una sentencia de muerte = sign + a death warrant (for) .
Example: If libraries do not catalog as many electronic resources as possible, this may effectively sign the death warrant for the library OPAC.» firmar un contrato = issue + a contract ; sign + a contract ; make + a contract ; enter into + a contract .
Example: The library staff is not unionized; contracts, which take the form of salary agreements, are issued annually. Example: She then said 'Thanks for the offer, but I've signed a contract and made a deposit on an apartment'. Example: As a result of the tender procedure a contract was made to construct the new Library and Department of Library and Information Studies. Example: One of the basic tenets of contract law is that both parties must be capable of understanding that they are entering into a contract.» firmar un tratado = sign + a treaty .
Example: America won't sign a treaty banning cluster bombs.» sin firmar = unsigned .
Example: The first study did not require evaluators to sign their forms and the director found that signed forms had higher ratings than unsigned forms.firme1 = firm ; powerful ; sound ; strong ; uncompromising ; steadfast ; assertive ; adamant ; taut ; tight ; uncompromised ; staunch [stanch, -USA] ; rock solid ; unswerving ; toned ; stout .
Example: Full consideration of the above factors should form a firm basis for the design of an effective thesaurus or list of subject headings.Example: Because DOBIS/LIBIS integrates the authority files into the cataloguing process, it provides a unique and very powerful authority file facility.Example: Thus the scheme has a sound organisational backing.Example: In fact, the 1979 index figures show a strong contrast between the hardback and paperback turnovers, with the hardback market being down and the paperback market up.Example: What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.Example: He does admit, however, that 'this power is unusual, it is a gift which must be cultivated, an accomplishment which can only be acquired by vigorous and steadfast concentration'.Example: I tried to say at the very outset of my remarks that there probably has not been sufficient consumer-like and assertive leverage exerted upon our chief suppliers.Example: The point is that even our most adamant, conservative faculty members are slowly dribbling in and saying, 'Could you add our name to your selective dissemination of information service?'.Example: While the stencil is held taut, the cylinder is slowly rotated until the bottom edge of the wax sheet can be clamped in position.Example: The platen was lashed up tight to the toe of the spindle by cords which connected hooks at its four corners to another set of hooks at the four lower corners of the hose.Example: The Gazette advocated uncompromised racial equality and viewed the migration as a weapon against oppression.Example: This article reviews the work of Professor Kaula, the staunch crusader of librarianship in India.Example: The numbers in the ad, which are quite eye-opening, are rock-solid.Example: His mistaken assumption that cult heroes are supermen, and his unswerving devotion to an empirical testing of the play impose significant limitations on his account.Example: If you are shorter or have very nice toned legs without veins, scars or dark hair, I say take the skirt up a few inches if you want.Example: The guard (book) catalogue is a book form catalogue with several entries on each page, but each entry inserted by pasting slips on to the stout pages of the book.more:
» adoptar una postura firme ante una cuestión = take + position on + an issue .
Example: There are many sincere librarians who are alert to the dangers inherent when libraries take positions on issues.» alcanzar tierra firme = come + ashore ; go + ashore .
Example: Due to the effects of global warming, tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in Alaska. Example: He disguised himself as a girl to go ashore so no one would suspect his true identity.» con pie firme = sure-footed .
Example: It is our professional duty to help the reader, leading him from author to author, book to book, with enough sure-footed confidence that he is guided up the literary mountain and not left wandering in the viewless foothills because of one's own incompetence.» de manera firme = stoutly .
Example: The volumes are well printed on good paper and stoutly bound.» en tierra firme = on dry land ; on terra firma .
Example: In other words, Elian's real shipwreck was not on the open sea, but when he stepped on dry land in the United States. Example: The two women who were rescued after spending five months in a sailboat adrift in the Pacific set foot on terra firma Monday -- and promptly said they would like to try their voyage again next year.» firme compromiso = strong commitment .
Example: If you have a strong commitment to your goal and dreams, if you wake up everyday with a pasion to do your job, everything is possible.» llegar a tierra firme = come + ashore ; go + ashore .
Example: Due to the effects of global warming, tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in Alaska. Example: He disguised himself as a girl to go ashore so no one would suspect his true identity.» mantener Algo firme = hold + Nombre + steady .
Example: Hold the camera steady on a railing, the back of a chair, a table, against a door frame to prevent blurry pictures = Mantenga la cámara fija sobre una baranda, el respaldo de una silla, un mesa, contra el marco de una puerta para evitar que las fotografías salgan borrosas.» mantener firme = keep + steady ; hold + Nombre + in line ; hold + steady ; keep + Nombre + in check ; hold + Nombre + in check ; keep + Nombre + in line .
Example: Datto felt a wave of irritation engulf him, but he persevered, keeping his voice steady. Example: The library staff consists of 6 professional librarians and 11 clerical workers, all of whom are held firmly in line by the forceful personality of the director, a retired military colonel. Example: The article is entitled 'Public library circulation holds steady in 1988'. Example: The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud. Example: Inflation may be held in check or even reduced temporarily, but eventually industry must put up prices in order to recover these higher costs. Example: Queen bees use mind control to keep young workers in line by secreting a scent that prevents worker bees from learning, according to new research.» mantenerse firme = stand + Posesivo + ground ; stick to + Posesivo + guns ; stand + firm ; hold + Posesivo + ground .
Example: The most common coping strategies were to bury one's feelings, to concentrate on what to do next, to stand one's ground, and to talk to someone about the problem. Example: Bravo to writer/director Wayne Kramer for sticking to his guns and delivering one of the most uncompromising, memorable and downright brutal thrillers in recent memory. Example: Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Example: It's easier to play things down then hold your ground.» mantenerse firme como una roca = stand like + a rock .
Example: It was Thomas Jefferson who said: 'On matters of style, swim with the current; on matters of principle, stand like a rock'.» permanecer firm = stay in + place .
Example: A data base must respond to a dynamic reality in which terms, 'strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still'.» poco firme = tenuous ; rocky [rockier -comp., rockiest -sup.] .
Example: We have another possibility that is exciting, though still tenuous. Example: The English is a little rocky on this lovely web site but we have it on good word that the original French is très bien.» ponerse firme = stand to + attention ; spring to + attention ; square + Posesivo + shoulders ; stand at + attention ; jump to + attention .
Example: Gordon Brown foolishly goes to shake the hand of a soldier standing to attention in Afghanistan at the weekend. Example: Although the snake looks relaxed, the greater part of its body mass is made up of muscles that can spring to attention at a moment's notice. Example: He squared his shoulders, saluted and held out the book to the woman. Example: Anyone that hears is words becomes a soldier in the revolution and 'stands at attention' to join the fight.. Example: I jumped to attention and stared at them without the faintest clue what they were saying, but aware that something serious was afoot.» senos firmes y de punta = pert breasts .
Example: Breast tissue is very delicate and while you may have small and pert breasts now if you don't support them properly during exercise the ligaments that hold them up will elongate and you will end up with saggy boobs.» sobre suelo firme = on (a) firm footing ; on (a) sure footing .
Example: In order to deliver accurate fire on shore targets the amphibian tank must be stationary on a reef, or approach on smooth, firm footing. Example: In both instances, we immediately advanced them the money they needed to get back on a sure footing.» terreno firme = safe ground ; solid ground .
Example: Broder says 'there is no safe ground' in the news business anymore. Example: Before him was a morass over which a bridge had been thrown to the solid ground beyond.» tierra firme = solid ground ; terra firma .
Example: Before him was a morass over which a bridge had been thrown to the solid ground beyond. Example: I believe few persons could be found who would not prefer terra firma to the deceitful and treacherous gulf of Mexico.firme2 = road surface ; roadbed.
Example: Hot bitumen is sprayed on the prepared road surface and immediately covered with clean stone chips which are rolled in to ensure adhesion.Example: Drainage facilities under or immediately adjacent to the roadbed must be maintained and kept free of obstruction.