Fracaso in english
Failure
pronunciation: feɪljɜr part of speech: noun
pronunciation: feɪljɜr part of speech: noun
In gestures
fracasar = flounder ; fail ; misfire ; founder ; be unsuccessful ; bite + the dust ; backfire ; go under ; give up + the ghost ; meet with + failure ; flop ; fall apart ; come + unstuck ; fall + flat ; go + pear-shaped ; fizzle ; come + a cropper ; fall through ; go + kaput ; go + haywire ; be up the spout ; be dead in the water ; have + no joy ; go + belly up ; go + tits up ; go for + a Burton ; go + flop ; hit + the buffers.
Example: I have noticed in many walks of life, people doing jobs, paid or unpaid, in which they are floundering because they do not have what I might call a job description.Example: This article suggests the steps that libraries might take during periods of instability to reduce their chances of being injured by a vendor that fails.Example: While project ALBIS was seen as an exercise in networking that misfired it did produce some positive results = While project ALBIS was seen as an exercise in networking that misfired it did produce some positive results.Example: It is that, without direction, the library craft may founder in the perpetual whitewater.Example: Alex Wilson sides with the librarians who say 'concentrate your book service first and foremost on existing users because expenditure on attracting those with a low motivation is much more costly and likely to be mostly unsuccessful'.Example: The article 'Interchange bites the dust' comments on the decision by AT&T to abandon the Interchange online service technology.Example: While this direct contact can backfire if the person is not knowledgeable about the product, it is also a golden opportunity to respond directly to customer questions and unique needs.Example: Many of them are likely to go under in the next wave of economic recession.Example: This article examines one such example, Cherrie Moraga's 'Giving Up the Ghost' where, for the first time, the issue of Chicana lesbian sexuality is addressed on the stage.Example: However, many attempts to actively involve the community in reducing its risks of becoming ill have met with failure.Example: This opera flopped at its premiere in 1819.Example: Most of the packaging for cassettes provided by commercial vendors that are known nationwide is lousy, falls apart, looks bad, and so on.Example: Bright people will always manage towork out the technology but it is the higher-level issues and processes that usually cause a project to come unstuck.Example: The performance nevertheless falls flat due to the singers' failure to create true exhilaration.Example: The test on the new machines went pear-shaped: nothing really worked properly and they had to install everything again.Example: Sure we can, but minus the original moment of sizzle, our excellent choice might very well fizzle.Example: He had years of experience and common sense and to the best of my knowledge never came a cropper.Example: The sale fell through recently, after the buyer was unable to come up with the money.Example: With oil at $76 a barrel, it won't be long until it all goes kaput!.Example: They left a trail of destruction in the wake of a plan gone haywire.Example: Their email system has been up the spout since Saturday preventing the staff from communicating everyday matters and causing extensive housekeeping delays.Example: Unfortunately the project is officially dead in the water.Example: I just like challenges, especially with problem-solving on vehicles when others have had a try but no joy.Example: Our ISP (Internet Service Provider) went belly up 10 days ago and we have been unable to send & receive emails since.Example: At least Justin will have his 100 million dollars to fall back on if things do go tits up = At least Justin will have his 100 million dollars to fall back on if things do go tits up.Example: The British economy has gone for a Burton.Example: Despite the presence of Raj Kapoor in the film, who already had a number of great films to his credit, the film went flop.Example: After an explosive couple of years, China's car market hit the buffers in 2004.more:
» esfuerzo + fracasar = effort + founder .
Example: Many outreach efforts foundered because they were primarily public relations gimmicks aimed at changing the public rather than the library.» fracasar debido a = fail out of .
Example: Generally speaking, however, what can paralyze some people is fear, creating the potential to fail out of sheer funk.» fracasar de manera lamentable = fail + miserably ; fail + dismally .
Example: However, in retrospect, the U.S. government's goal of eradicating Native American cultures failed miserably. Example: The essays in this volume fail dismally to contribute anything of value to our understanding of the topic.» fracasar en el intento = fail in + Posesivo + attempt .
Example: Thus far she's failed in her attempts to amend the constitution, which bars her from standing for president because her children are citizens of another country.» fracasar en + Posesivo + intento = fail in + Posesivo + attempt .
Example: Thus far she's failed in her attempts to amend the constitution, which bars her from standing for president because her children are citizens of another country.» fracasar estrepitosamente = fall + flat on + Posesivo + face ; blow up on + Posesivo + face .
Example: Like the bear who could take it or could leave it alone, we may find that if we lean over too far backwards we might as well fall flat on our face. Example: She always tries to do what she thinks is right, but sometimes it blows up in her face.» fracasar miserablemente = fail + dismally ; fail + miserably ; come + a cropper .
Example: The essays in this volume fail dismally to contribute anything of value to our understanding of the topic. Example: However, in retrospect, the U.S. government's goal of eradicating Native American cultures failed miserably. Example: He had years of experience and common sense and to the best of my knowledge never came a cropper.» fracasar por = fail out of .
Example: Generally speaking, however, what can paralyze some people is fear, creating the potential to fail out of sheer funk.» hacer fracasar = foil ; derail ; put + the skids under ; scotch .
Example: The author considers the incidence of arson in US libraries and some ways of foiling arsonists through constant vigilance and observation of library users. Example: When organizational communication works well, every ofther facet of management is enhanced; if it derails, other aspects of directing falter as well = Cuando la comunicación dentro de una organización funciona bien, las demás facetas de la gestión mejoran; no obstante, si falla, los otros aspectos de la dirección flaquean también. Example: I can't go into details, but you seem to have stumbled across a plan by one gang to put the skids under another. Example: Any chance of doing that was scotched by the annihilation of the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.» planes + fracasar = plan + fall through .
Example: Her plans for the night fell through, none of her friends were around, and her husband was out with the guys.» prosperar o fracasar = sink or swim .
Example: The learning programs themselves can influence whether e-learners sink or swim.fracaso = flop ; failure ; underdog ; bust ; dog ; defeat ; fiasco ; flake out ; goof ; write-off [writeoff] ; foundering ; dud ; goof-up.
Example: And at worst, if the trip is a flop (it happens!), at least he is glad to get back to work.Example: DBMS systems aim to cope with system failure and generate restart procedures.Example: A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.Example: The article 'El Dorado or bust?' warns that the electronic market is changing.Example: 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog -- the digital media has made possible the leveling of the playing field.Example: Indeed, in larger libraries, there are those who regard a referral as tantamount to an admission of defeat.Example: The history of the British Library is presented with particular reference to the political and administrative fiascos that have punctuated its development.Example: The show was a real flake out.Example: The film's supple structure, surprisingly light touch, and bravura performances make it perhaps the most fully formed, half-hearted goof ever.Example: Gareth Jones's film makes a series of misjudgments so damaging that the whole thing is a virtual write-off.Example: The article is entitled 'Liberalism in a body bag: the foundering of the Middle East peace process'.Example: It may be tempting the weather gods just to point this out, but this has been a dud of a hurricane season so far.Example: The best way to avoid such goof-ups in the kitchen is to read the recipe at least twice before you start.more:
» abocado al fracaso = failing ; doomed ; destined to + failure .
Example: Rejuvenation of listless, stagnant, or failing library operations is possible through renewal methods dependent on strengthening the communication function. Example: Unlike in 1990 when the genre seemed doomed, it has become an increasingly robust and acceptable segment of American publishing. Example: The more we saw of the place the more I felt that it was destined to failure.» abocado al fracaso desde el comienzo = doomed from + the beginning ; doomed from + the outset ; doomed from + the start .
Example: Previous attemps to implement IT have been doomed from the beginning because one crucial component has been mismanaged: people. Example: The bureaucratic infrastructure of libraries may well ensure that work with teenagers is doomed from the outset. Example: The implementation of the Public Information Center (PIC) concept was agreed by the library administration in 1970 but seemed doomed from the start.» abocado al fracaso desde el principio = doomed from + the start ; doomed from + the outset ; doomed to + failure from its inception ; doomed to + failure ; doomed from + the beginning .
Example: The implementation of the Public Information Center (PIC) concept was agreed by the library administration in 1970 but seemed doomed from the start. Example: The bureaucratic infrastructure of libraries may well ensure that work with teenagers is doomed from the outset. Example: The first stratagem has been doomed to failure from its inception. Example: Cooperation is doomed to failure unless the importance of information for solving social and economic problems is realised = La cooperación está abocada al fracaso desde el principio a menos que se tenga en cuenta la importancia de la información para solucionar problemas sociales y económicos. Example: Previous attemps to implement IT have been doomed from the beginning because one crucial component has been mismanaged: people.» camino seguro al fracaso = blueprint for failure .
Example: Their culture is steeped in bitterness and nihilism, a culture that is a virtual blueprint for failure.» condenado al fracaso desde el comienzo = doomed from + the beginning ; doomed from + the outset ; doomed from + the start .
Example: Previous attemps to implement IT have been doomed from the beginning because one crucial component has been mismanaged: people. Example: The bureaucratic infrastructure of libraries may well ensure that work with teenagers is doomed from the outset. Example: The implementation of the Public Information Center (PIC) concept was agreed by the library administration in 1970 but seemed doomed from the start.» condenado al fracaso desde el principio = doomed from + the start ; doomed from + the outset ; doomed from + the beginning .
Example: The implementation of the Public Information Center (PIC) concept was agreed by the library administration in 1970 but seemed doomed from the start. Example: The bureaucratic infrastructure of libraries may well ensure that work with teenagers is doomed from the outset. Example: Previous attemps to implement IT have been doomed from the beginning because one crucial component has been mismanaged: people.» conseguir éxitos y fracasos = encounter + problems and successes .
Example: This article describes the problems and successes encountered in the use of an interactive video system for teaching basic library research skills.» destinado al fracaso = destined to + failure .
Example: The more we saw of the place the more I felt that it was destined to failure.» éxitos o fracasos = successes or failures .
Example: A questionnaire was developed and circulated to solicit information on current documentation, programmes, notable events, and successes or failures.» éxitos y fracasos = pitfalls and successes ; successes and failures .
Example: Techniques of searching including common pitfalls and successes are also discussed. Example: This article identifies system suppliers, currently active in the UK, and details their successes and failures over a 3 year period.» fórmula para el fracaso = blueprint for failure .
Example: Their culture is steeped in bitterness and nihilism, a culture that is a virtual blueprint for failure.» fracaso bochornoso = embarrassing failure .
Example: Others have said that the painting lacks proportion, perspective, a sense of decorum and that it has been 'an embarrassing failure'.» fracaso desde el principio = doomed failure .
Example: It is difficult to police or control any of these activities, and attempts at legislation to do so are probably doomed failure.» fracaso escolar = school failure ; failure at school .
Example: Irvine claims that black children are subject to school failure because of their culture, race, and social class. Example: Failure at school does not mean failure in life.» fracaso lamentable = embarrassing failure .
Example: Others have said that the painting lacks proportion, perspective, a sense of decorum and that it has been 'an embarrassing failure'.» fracaso (más) absoluto, el = abject failure .
Example: Yet one of the Pope's key initiatives stands out for its abject failure: his push for a peaceful resolution to Syria's civil war.» fracaso miserable = miserable failure .
Example: The history of networking technology is full of great triumphs and miserable failures.» fracaso renal = kidney failure .
Example: Kidney failure is a serious disease which can have a major impact on life, and can ultimately be fatal.» fracaso rotundo = resounding failure ; complete failure ; total write-off .
Example: How well it is done ulitmately represents the difference between conspicuous success and resounding failure. Example: The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it. Example: Not expecting much from a chain pizza restaurant, we thought the day was going to be total write-off.» fracaso total = complete failure ; total write-off ; resounding failure .
Example: The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it. Example: Not expecting much from a chain pizza restaurant, we thought the day was going to be total write-off. Example: How well it is done ulitmately represents the difference between conspicuous success and resounding failure.» fracaso vergonzoso = embarrassing failure .
Example: Others have said that the painting lacks proportion, perspective, a sense of decorum and that it has been 'an embarrassing failure'.» índice de fracaso escolar = failure rate ; dropout rate .
Example: However, the failure rate in examinations at Sheffield does not seem to be at all high = No obstante, el número de suspensos en los exámenes de Sheffield no parece ser del todo alto. Example: A dropout and flunk-out rate of 50% during the freshman year is occurring in many large municipal institutions of higher education.» miedo al fracaso = fear of failure .
Example: These women have many things in common but the one that stood out the most was them overcoming their fear of failure.» obtener éxitos y fracasos = experience + problems and successes .
Example: This article describes the problems and successes experienced by the Central Library of the Miskolc Technical University for Heavy Industry, Hungary, in extending their sources of acquisitions.» posibilidades de fracaso = odds of failure .
Example: The higher the perceived odds of failure, the more people will be scared away.» predestinado al fracaso = doomed .
Example: Unlike in 1990 when the genre seemed doomed, it has become an increasingly robust and acceptable segment of American publishing.» predestinado al fracaso desde el comienzo = doomed to + failure from its inception ; doomed to + failure ; doomed to + failure .
Example: The first stratagem has been doomed to failure from its inception. Example: Cooperation is doomed to failure unless the importance of information for solving social and economic problems is realised = La cooperación está abocada al fracaso desde el principio a menos que se tenga en cuenta la importancia de la información para solucionar problemas sociales y económicos. Example: Cooperation is doomed to failure unless the importance of information for solving social and economic problems is realised = La cooperación está abocada al fracaso desde el principio a menos que se tenga en cuenta la importancia de la información para solucionar problemas sociales y económicos.» probabilidades de fracaso = odds of failure .
Example: The higher the perceived odds of failure, the more people will be scared away.» ser una invitación al fracaso = be a recipe for + disaster .
Example: If you've gotten to a place in your relationship where you feel like all is fair in love and war, that is a recipe for disaster.» ser un fracaso = nothing + come of ; prove + a failure ; go down like + a cup of cold sick .
Example: Nothing came of it, but the episode is a reminder that information is not intrinsically valuable but becomes so only when someone wants it. Example: Personnel policies instituted to combat absenteeism have generally proved a failure, because those measures attack the symptoms, not the cause. Example: He knew that what he was planning would have gone down like a cup of cold sick anyway, for all sorts of reasons, not least the time of year.» ser un fracaso rotundo = be singularly unsuccessful .
Example: Efforts at that time to reduce per capita alcohol consumption were singularly unsuccessful.» ser un fracaso total = be singularly unsuccessful .
Example: Efforts at that time to reduce per capita alcohol consumption were singularly unsuccessful.» significar el fracaso = spell + failure .
Example: The decisions to be made and the plans to be developed do not necessarily represent crisis or even spell success or failure for the library.» significar fracaso = signify + failure .
Example: This need cuts across all social classes and grows out of normal life; it does not signify failure in coping with life.» suponer fracaso = imply + defeat .
Example: To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life.» suponer la diferencia entre el éxito o el fracaso = make or break .
Example: The reviewer's place in citation chains is an important one because conceivably a carefully done critical review could make or break a line of enquiry or alter the direction of a chain of citations.» tasa de fracaso escolar = dropout rate ; failure rate .
Example: A dropout and flunk-out rate of 50% during the freshman year is occurring in many large municipal institutions of higher education. Example: However, the failure rate in examinations at Sheffield does not seem to be at all high = No obstante, el número de suspensos en los exámenes de Sheffield no parece ser del todo alto.» temor al fracaso = fear of failure .
Example: These women have many things in common but the one that stood out the most was them overcoming their fear of failure.» traer consigo el fracaso = spell + failure .
Example: The decisions to be made and the plans to be developed do not necessarily represent crisis or even spell success or failure for the library.» traer el fracaso = spell + failure .
Example: The decisions to be made and the plans to be developed do not necessarily represent crisis or even spell success or failure for the library.