Ingenio in english
Ingenuity
pronunciation: ɪndʒənuəti part of speech: noun
pronunciation: ɪndʒənuəti part of speech: noun
In gestures
ingeniar = engineer.
Example: So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.more:
» cómo nos las ingeniamos para = how in the world... .
Example: How in the world do we teach our students the answers to questions that have not yet been asked?.» ingeniarse = contrive ; devise ; concoct ; dream up .
Example: Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance. Example: Special classification schemes are generally devised for an application in which no major general scheme is suitable. Example: To top off the scrumptious meal, she had concocted a banana pudding, which was served with piping hot coffee. Example: Scientists have created a liquid goo that turns into a rubbery solid when shaken and they are inviting the public to help dream up uses for it.» ingeniarse el modo de = dream up + ways to .
Example: Users who experience these situations might get the idea that librarians stay awake nights dreaming up ways to frustrate their efforts to find material in the library.» ingeniárselas = manage to ; finesse ; get by ; craft + a plan ; scrape by .
Example: Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up. Example: The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets. Example: A small book fair lasting only a day, such as might be held in a kindergarten or small elementary school, can get by with a couple of members of staff and a parent as the organizing committee. Example: But now, it seems the 15 months spent crafting a plan to lessen pilots' flying hours, thus reducing the dangers of pilot fatigue, are about to become a reality. Example: I am drowning in debt and barely scrape by every month.» ingeniárselas para = figure out how .
Example: As she tried to figure out how to change her and the library's image, she made some interesting observations.» ingeniárselas para escapar = contrive + an escape .
Example: As he recovers, he overhears a well-intentioned social worker murmuring soothingly about a juvenile facility, and contrives an escape.» ingeniárselas para sobrevivir = live by + Posesivo + wits .
Example: During the months that followed she had lived by her wits and refused to doubt -- even fleetingly -- that she would find him.» ingeniárselas solo = manage on + Posesivo + own ; fend for + Reflexivo ; get by on + Posesivo + own .
Example: Unfortunately, the arthritis was worsening to the point that she had trouble managing on her own at home. Example: We who run libraries are equally for this kind of emancipation, so that we feel that leaving readers to fend for themselves is to sterilise the idea of libraries. Example: Sickened by this parasitic femininity, she resolved to get by on her own and to see life for herself.ingenio = acumen ; invention ; wit ; genius ; ingeniousness ; finessing ; finesse.
Example: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.Example: Necessity mothers invention, and certainly invention in the presentation of books mothers surprised interest.Example: The tone of voice should suggest that the inquirer's interest demonstrates something positive about the person -- if not charm, wit, or intelligence, then perhaps earnestness.Example: Kipling and Shaw are both writers of genius.Example: But if, in the digital era, libraries must continue to compete, it will be about services -- the ingeniousness with which individual libraries tailor resource access to particular needs of their user communities.Example: He had expected more from his highly-strung dramatic finessing but the author rarely focused on personal influences or special affinities.Example: Having failed apparently with her trump card, she fell back on finesse.more:
» agudeza de ingenio = smartness .
Example: The reality that smartness isn't helping us now is profoundly threatening -- we're supposed to be successful because we're smart!.» agudizar el ingenio = sharpen + Posesivo + imagination .
Example: I wrote letters that would be fun and entertaining to her, included puzzles and games, cards that would make her laugh and stories that would sharpen her imagination.» la necesidad agudiza el ingenio = necessity mothers invention ; necessity is the mother of invention .
Example: Necessity mothers invention, and certainly invention in the presentation of books mothers surprised interest. Example: Necessity is the mother of invention, and the Internet, as the next big computer marketplace, has created an urgent need for low bandwidth multimedia.» lucha de ingenio = battle of wits .
Example: The article is entitled 'Cyberattack: a battle of wits'.