Menos in english

menos = least ; less ; minus ; but ; less so. 

Example: Service to the whole community implies positive discrimination towards those who through social or educational deprivation are least adept at using information tools.Example: The role of analytical entries in an online catalogue is less clear.Example: Copies of records created by the libraries, minus local data, are added to the pool of cataloguing information available to users.Example: Rotundas were widely used for all but the most formal texts in the fifteenth century, but fell out of fashion during the sixteenth century, surviving longest in Spain.Example: Vellum remained popular on the continent, less so in England; while goatskin (morocco), although well established by this time for fine work, was seldom used in trade binding except for prayer books.

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» algo menos de + Expresión Temporal = just under + Expresión Temporal .

Example: A new poll has revealed that just under a quarter of people aged 50 - 64 think there's no point in trying to save for their retirement.

» al menos = at least ; at the very least ; leastwise ; leastways .

Example: At least one reference or added entry is usually deemed to be necessary from each of the 'secondary' concepts in the preferred order.

Example: One very common and straightforward device for guaranteeing at the very least a standard format for abstracting contributions is the abstracting form.

Example: Leastwise, there were none we could locate in the few wooded acres we searched.

Example: Even though the trip got cancelled, leastways I'll be ready when they go again.

» al menos en + Posesivo + tierra = in + Posesivo + part of the world (at least) .

Example: Letters of resignation are just a formality, and not even required in many companies (in my part of the world at least).

» a menos que = unless ; short of .

Example: The future of the scheme is questionable unless more positive central management can be achieved.

Example: After days of contemplating the large number of variables I now believe that a leisure society is inevitable, short of global catastrophe.

» área menos favorecida = less favoured area .

Example: Prominent examples are again the structural measures, such as those covering the modernization of farms and the less favoured areas.

» cada vez menos = less and less .

Example: As continuing deterioration of postal services renders present methods of inter-library co-operation less and less effective, a radically different balance of cost-factors will emerge.

» cuando menos = at least ; let alone ; at best ; never (you) mind .

Example: At least one reference or added entry is usually deemed to be necessary from each of the 'secondary' concepts in the preferred order.

Example: Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.

Example: Facet analysis in UDC is, at best, inconsistent.

Example: But of its four sentences, the third was so determined to present a grammatically structured metaphor for its meaning that it dazzled my eye, never mind my already unsympathetic brain.

» cuando menos te lo esperes = on any given Sunday .

Example: They are the weak link in the playoffs, but they are good enough to beat any of their competitors on any given Sunday.

» cuanto menos se diga, mejor = the less said (about it), the better .

Example: In fact, when it comes to spying on employees Internet surfing behavior, perhaps the less said, the better.

» dar menos de lo debido = shortchange .

Example: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.

» de menos del 10 por ciento = single digit ; single figure .

Example: The year saw single digit percentage increases over 1996 prices for monographs and double digit increases for serials.

Example: In the non-fiction categories only one class, that of 'education', reached double figures, and all others were in single figures, so that it is difficult to say what is really important in people's non-fiction reading.

» dentro de lo malo lo menos malo = the best of a bad lot ; the best of a bad bunch .

Example: By eschewing politics, the film, like the book, lets Clinton off the hook, as the best of a bad lot in a context hopelessly debased by a dim and gullible electorate.

Example: Hiring a candidate just because they are the best of a bad bunch is a supremely costly mistake.

» echar de menos = miss [Tercera persona singular misses] ; be sickening for .

Example: He had been her assistant since she arrived, and she was going to miss him.

Example: But sometimes you could tell that she was sickening for the sun.

» echar muchísimo de menos = be sorely missed [Utilizado especialmente para dar el pésame] ; be sadly missed [Generalmente por defunción] .

Example: He will be sorely missed by all those who knew him and we pass our condolences to those closest to him.

Example: Langer is a great loss to Australia and will be sadly missed.

» echar mucho de menos = be sorely missed [Utilizado especialmente para dar el pésame] ; be sadly missed [Generalmente por defunción] ; miss + Nombre + a lot .

Example: He will be sorely missed by all those who knew him and we pass our condolences to those closest to him.

Example: Langer is a great loss to Australia and will be sadly missed.

Example: I don't know which is worse: the days I miss her a lot or the days I don't miss her at all.

» el último pero no el menos importante = the last but by no means least .

Example: The last but by no means least element in personnel are the library assistants, or library technicians as they are known in American libraries.

» en menos de la mitad de(l) tiempo = in less than half the time .

Example: The weather improved on our way back to camp and so we made it back in less than half the time.

» en menos que canta un gallo = in two shakes (of a donkey's tail) ; in two shakes (of a duck's tail) ; in two shakes (of a lamb's tail) ; in two licks ; in a snap ; in the blink of an eye ; in the twinkling of an eye ; in a jiff(y) ; with the tip of a hat ; in next to no time .

Example: This quiche is ready in two shakes of a donkey's tail and literally takes no time at all to put together.

Example: After shaving the back of my neck, he sloshed a lather on my face and in two shakes of a duck's tail, my chin was as smooth as the bottom of a baby.

Example: He said something to them turned around and was gone in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

Example: I'm headed out to the barn to pull the buggy around -- I'll be back in two licks to give you a hand.

Example: Firefox installs in a snap, and it's free.

Example: Society has moved from micro to macro scale in almost the blink of an eye.

Example: You can send an email message from Boston to Addis Ababa in a twinkling of an eye, but that message may be expunged in a second twinkling.

Example: My son had his milk teeth removed and the doctor did it in a jiffy and my son didn't even realise.

Example: These people have absolutely no scruples, commiting genocide with the tip of a hat.

Example: What we call the universe, in short, came from almost nowhere in next to no time.

» en todos menos en = in all but .

Example: The position of deputy librarian or deputy director exists in all but the smallest libraries, and there is a measure of agreement as to what his duties should entail.

» en un futuro más o menos lejano = in the near future .

Example: In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.

» en un futuro más o menos cercano = in the near future .

Example: In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.

» en un período más o menos cercano = in the near future .

Example: In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.

» en un período más o menos lejano = in the near future .

Example: In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.

» es lo menos que + poder + hacer = it's/that's the least + Pronombre + could do .

Example: After all, it's the least I could do to pay you back for what you've done to me.

» estrella venida a menos = fallen star .

Example: From shooting stars to fallen stars, we look at the top 5 celebrites who've fallen out with fame.

» figura venida a menos = fallen star .

Example: From shooting stars to fallen stars, we look at the top 5 celebrites who've fallen out with fame.

» hacerlo todo menos = stop at + nothing short of .

Example: Special library practice implies special service, tailored to the reader's needs, and that such service stops at nothing short of participation in library research activities of readers by the librarian.

» hacer menos ruido = keep + the noise down .

Example: Please respect your neighbours and keep the noise down.

» hacer que Algo sea menos doloroso = take + the teeth out of .

Example: Sometimes making fun of something terrible helps to take the teeth out of it.

» horas de menos aglomeración = off-peak times .

Example: It also stores any messages which it cannot forward because the receiving terminal is busy or which can be sent at off-peak times.

» lo menos malo = the lesser of two evils .

Example: In this winner-take-all system, voters are left to choose between the lesser of two evils.

» lo menos posible = as little as possible .

Example: The average man is by nature indolent; he works as little as possible = El ciudadno medio es perezoso por naturaleza; trabaja lo menos posible.

» los menos locuaces = inarticulate, the [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo] .

Example: NACs see their role as champions of the inarticulate by either taking up their case or providing groups with the information weaponry to campaign for their rights.

» más o menos = more or less ; of a sort ; or so ; of sorts ; after a fashion ; round about ; roughly speaking ; give or take ; ballpark [Generalmente precedido de una cantidad] ; kinda [kind of] [Contracción coloquial similar a sorta [sort of]] ; sorta [sort of] [Contracción coloquial similar a kinda [kind of]] ; in the ballpark of .

Example: DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.

Example: True, the machine is sometimes controlled by a keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.

Example: For example, in a normal indexing service all the documents listed in the issue for a specific month will have been published in the last year or so.

Example: In summary, accountability has been perceived by some as a threat of sorts.

Example: Koenig had a flat-platen machine working after a fashion in 1811, and a prototype cylinder machine in 1812 = Koenig ya en 1811 tenía una máquina de presión plana que más o menos funcionaba y un prototipo de máquina rotativa en 1812.

Example: Estimates of the books currently in print in Britain usually give a number of round about a quarter of a million titles.

Example: Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.

Example: President Bush estimated the Iraqi civilian death toll at 30,000; give or take a few thousand.

Example: In hindsight about 350k dollars (ballpark) turned out to be the magic number.

Example: This paper examines colloquial contractions (spelling variants such as 'kinda' and 'hafta') against a background of other variations in the English writing system.

Example: I feel sorta guilty for spending most of this beautiful afternoon bed.

Example: While many places charge a corkage fee in the ballpark of $20-$40, the fee can often be much more, which is why it's good to ask.

» más o menos + Adverbio = relatively + Adverbio .

Example: The solution is fine when the qualifying term that the user seeks is present, and is used relatively consistently.

» más o menos bien = fair to middling .

Example: So I fumble along as best I can, now good, now bad, and I hope generally fair-to-middling.

» más o menos cuadrado = squarish .

Example: The earlier of the two, the single lay, employed one large, squarish case for a fount of type, and it held about 34 kg.

» menos de + Cantidad = under + Cantidad  ; less than + Cantidad ; fewer than + Cantidad [Comparativo de few (poco)] .

Example: The cheapest of these machines costs under $100 and they can be bought in stores, supermarkets and by mail-order.

Example: Microcomputers with Winchester disks are now widely available for less than $5000.

Example: Those eligible normally include only companies with less than 45 million of net fixed assets and fewer than 500 employees.

» menos aún = let alone .

Example: Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.

» menos blandeces y más mano dura = less of the carrot, more of the stick ; less of the carrot, more of the stick .

Example: The article is entitled 'Information provision: less of the carrot, more of the stick'.

Example: The article is entitled 'Information provision: less of the carrot, more of the stick'.

» menos conocido = lesser known .

Example: The library possesses large quantities of the works of lesser known authors from all over Europe who were writing in the mid-nineteenth century.

» menos cultos, los = less literate, the .

Example: Hence, there is a need for organizations who can interpret the fine points of officialese and present them in a form the less literate can understand.

» menos de + Cantidad = under + Cantidad  ; less than + Cantidad ; fewer than + Cantidad [Comparativo de few (poco)] .

Example: The cheapest of these machines costs under $100 and they can be bought in stores, supermarkets and by mail-order.

Example: Microcomputers with Winchester disks are now widely available for less than $5000.

Example: Those eligible normally include only companies with less than 45 million of net fixed assets and fewer than 500 employees.

» menos de + Edad = on the right side of + Edad .

Example: On the contrary, those who are on the right side of forty know what their juniors do not, namely that life really does begin at forty!.

» menos desarrollado = less developed [less-developed] ; underdeveloped  .

Example: One of the challenges facing most less developed countries is that of raising the health conditions of their populations, particularly that of rural communities.

Example: Third World countries were labeled 'underdeveloped' until the United Nations deemed it appropriate to change that label to 'developing'.

» menos en = save in .

Example: Metcalfe has received little attention outside his adopted country, Australia, and can be considered to be a prophet without honour save in his own country.

» menos en el caso de que = except when .

Example: There is therefore no justification for repeating the author's name except when the name in the heading differs significantly from that following the title.

» menos favorecido = less-advantaged ; less favoured [less favored] .

Example: Indeed, one reason for the reluctance of librarians to donate weeded materials to less-advantaged groups may be that such donations raise the thorny question of intrinsic worth.

Example: Even with these problems Fiji has a functioning medical library service; other areas in the Pacific are much less favoured.

» menos hecho = rarer .

Example: 'Hey, I'm tired of this soapbox! how's your hamburger?' -- - 'Pretty good, although I tend to like mine rarer'.

» menos importante, el = least, the .

Example: They have many advantages, not the least of which is their low per copy cost.

» menos mal que = be just as well that ; be a good job that ; be a good thing that .

Example: Maybe it's just as well that it's night time: at least there won't be anything to distract me.

Example: It's a good job that we didn't put any money on the outcome, because we were quite wrong = Menos mal que no apostamos dinero por el resultado, porque estabamos completamente equivocados.

Example: It's a good thing that I have the type of job where your criminal record has no bearing on your success = Menos mal que tengo un tipo de trabajo en donde los antecedentes penales no inciden en el éxito.

» menos probable = least likely ; less likely .

Example: That is to say, class numbers were used in the first place to screen out parts of the data base which seemed least likely to contain relevant items.

Example: The same is not true, of course, of the humanities or social sciences, where the method is less likely to be successful.

» menos ... que ... = less ... than ... .

Example: So, syntactic relationships do arise in documents, but are less permanent than semantic relationships.

» menos rápidos, los = less fleet of foot, the [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo] .

Example: The new principle of open access was treating the working class with more dignity, even though stock shortages created another underprivileged minority in the less fleet of foot.

» menos sabido = lesser known .

Example: The library possesses large quantities of the works of lesser known authors from all over Europe who were writing in the mid-nineteenth century.

» menos usado = less used .

Example: The original objective was to promote interlibrary cooperation by arranging a national storage and interlending centre for less used library material.

» mucho menos = a great deal less ; let alone ; far less .

Example: Those systems using keywords taken from the text cost a great deal less than more sophisticated systems.

Example: Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.

Example: Further, print derived electronic resources are far less transient than their purely electronic counterparts.

» nada más y nada menos = as much as + Expresión Numérica .

Example: When I first joined the staff at Yale, I was told that sometime around 1980 or 1970 the library collected as much as five percent of the world's publication output = Cuando empecé a trabajar en Yale, me dijeron que en torno a 1980 ó 1970 la biblioteca contaba nada más y nada menos con el cinco porciento de todo lo publicado en el mundo.

» nada más y nada menos que = in the order of + Cantidad ; nothing less than .

Example: A backing store such as cassette tape might hold something in the order of 200K characters per '30 minutes' of tape.

Example: We had charged him with nothing less than outlining a national program for preserving millions of books in danger of deterioration = Le habíamos encargado nada más y nada menos que esbozara un programa nacional para la conservación de millones de libros en peligro de deterioro.

» nada más y (nada) menos que = none other than ; none less than .

Example: His heart leapt to his mouth, for this was none other than the great Brigham Young himself.

Example: The opening ceremony was attended by none less than Emperor Francis Joseph himself = A la ceremonia de apertura asistió nada más y nada menos que el mismo Emperador Francisco José.

» nada más y nada menos que de/por + Cantidad = to the tune of + Cantidad .

Example: The cheapness however is not primarily because the book is a paperback, it is because the book has been printed to the tune of perhaps hundreds of thousands of copies.

» nada más y nada menos que desde + Expresión Temporal = from as far back as + Expresión Temporal .

Example: In all types of libraries in Lesotho, shortage of, and the need for trained librarians has been felt from as far back as the mid-1970s.

» nada más y nada menos que + Número = as many as + Número .

Example: Plantin, who may have owned as many as 22 or 23 presses in the middle of his career, abruptly reduced the number in use to 3 in 1576.

» nada menos que + Nombre + tan + Adjetivo + como = no less + Adjetivo + Nombre + than .

Example: No less prestigious an authority than a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the charges brought against the man principally responsible for that volume.

» ni más ni menos = nothing more, nothing less ; no more, no less .

Example: The appropriate perspetive to take is to view a decision and its aftermath as data for the next decision to be make -- nothing more, nothing less.

Example: The motto of the paper was, 'A square deal and a fair chance -- no more, no less'.

» ni mucho menos = by any stretch (of the imagination) ; by any means ; not by a long shot .

Example: Hernandez soon discovered that Rolling Ridge was not, by any stretch of the imagination, anything like the suburban bedroom community of Colony Park.

Example: This is not a complete list by any means.

Example: But following the law is not enough to keep you safe, not by a long shot.

» Nombre + más o menos = Nombre + of sorts .

Example: In summary, accountability has been perceived by some as a threat of sorts.

» no ser menos que el vecino = keep up with + the Joneses .

Example: The article 'Keeping up with the Joneses' deals with the issue of charging fees for library services.

» no ser menos que los demás = keep up with + the Joneses .

Example: The article 'Keeping up with the Joneses' deals with the issue of charging fees for library services.

» o, por lo menos, eso dicen = or so they say .

Example: Love will always outshine hate or so they say.

» o, por lo menos, eso se dice = or so they say .

Example: Love will always outshine hate or so they say.

» pagar menos de lo que se debería = underpay  .

Example: Dialog is being injured and will continue to be injured if the American Chemical Society continues to assert falsely that Dialog is underpaying royalties.

» para no ser menos = not to be outdone .

Example: Not to be outdone, the Library Council of Ireland is broadcasting a series of half-hour lectures to mark the 100th Anniversary of the first Carnegie Libraries in Ireland.

» pasar en menos que canta un gallo = be a blip in time .

Example: No matter how grand or how dismal a situation is -- it's only one small blip in time.

» personaje venido a menos = fallen star .

Example: From shooting stars to fallen stars, we look at the top 5 celebrites who've fallen out with fame.

» por lo menos = leastwise ; leastways .

Example: Leastwise, there were none we could locate in the few wooded acres we searched.

Example: Even though the trip got cancelled, leastways I'll be ready when they go again.

» por último pero no menos importante = last but not least .

Example: Planning of national expenditure depends on number of vendors, on national serial output, and last but not least, on the amount of the yearly state budget allocation.

» región menos favorecida = less favoured region (LFR) .

Example: Broadly the Bank may grant loans for the financing of projects for stimulating development in the less favoured regions (LFRs).

» rendir por debajo de lo esperado = underperform  .

Example: To understand whether the employee is underperforming or just not qualified to do the job, you need to look at many factors, including their skills, their tools and their experience.

» salir de donde menos Uno se lo espera = come out of + the woodwork .

Example: And I'm sure there's plenty more unknowns or 'brand-news' yet to come out of the woodwork.

» ser de todo menos = be everything but .

Example: She was everything but ugly -- she had long red hair with the brightest emerald eyes you ever saw with golden-tan skin.

» ser menos + Adjetivo = be less of a(n) + Nombre .

Example: False drops are perhaps less of an annoyance in a computer-based system.

» ser nada más y nada menos que = be nothing less than .

Example: Frederick Holler claims that 'Information retrieval (ie, reference work) is nothing less than a full-fledged discipline and not simply a minor skill acquirable as a byproduct of other studies'.

» signo menos (-) = minus sign (-) ; negative sign (-) .

Example: The number entered is preceded by a minus sign to decrease the amount.

Example: The data are represented by a negative sign and as many 9's as will fit the column width (e.g., -999999).

» todo menos = everything except (for) .

Example: There is a remedy for everything except death.

» todos menos = everyone except ; everybody except .

Example: All in all, Drexler has produced a fascinating book that everyone (except perhaps. serious hypochondriacs) ought to read.

Example: These rail passes are available to everybody except Australian citizens.

» todos menos + Número = all but + Número .

Example: All but four of the laws are of a civil nature, three involving pupils with contraband in their school lockers and the other one concerning breach of the peace by college students.

» todos menos unos cuantos = all but a few .

Example: And, he plans to get rid of the Senate, all but a few, who will remain, according to his plans.

» todos menos unos pocos = all but a few .

Example: And, he plans to get rid of the Senate, all but a few, who will remain, according to his plans.

» trabajar por nada y menos = work for + next to nothing .

Example: There is a huge irony that talent spotters who work for next to nothing are looking to uncover young kids who could go on and play in the richest League in the world.

» último pero no el menos importante, el = final and not the least important, the [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo] .

Example: The final and not the least important part of the whole work is the Relative Index.

» venir a menos = retrench ; go to + the dogs ; come down in + the world ; go down in + the world ; be down at (the) heel .

Example: In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.

Example: Dictator Robert Mugabe has laid into Britain describing it as 'small in mind' and a nation that has 'gone to the dogs'.

Example: Since I came down in the world I've become a better person.

Example: If you were seen in anything but a good pair of belled denim jeans your social standing simply went down in the world.

Example: He might be down at heel and frayed around the edges, but when it comes to having a nose for a mystery, he's the smartest solicitor in Liverpool.

» y cuanto mucho menos = much less .

Example: Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y cuanto mucho menos conservadores.

» y mucho menos = much less ; least of all .

Example: Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y cuanto mucho menos conservadores.

Example: We have an armory of diminishing terms to apply which fool no one, least of all the children they label.

» zona menos favorecida = less favoured area .

Example: Prominent examples are again the structural measures, such as those covering the modernization of farms and the less favoured areas.